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Solve Two New Year’s Resolutions With One Move: Monthly Beauty Samples From Birchbox
Do your 2012 New Year’s resolutions seem way too daunting? Start small with Birchbox—sample luxury-brand make-up and beauty products delivered to you every month for only $10. (They also make great gifts for your friends, sisters, and moms if you feel like you didn’t do a good job with your Christmas presents.) More »
Introducing Birchbox: Beauty Samples Delivered To You
If you’re anything like us, your life is a constant struggle between the impulse to be a lazy slug watching TV on the couch and the one that tells you it’s time to get dolled up and hit the town. Which means that if you’re anything like us, the idea of specially-curated beauty products delivered straight to your door sounds just about perfect.
That’s what you’ll get with Birchbox — for $10 a month, the company will send you a selection of high end beauty product samples so you can figure out what works for you without actually having to leave that couch. More »
Gallery: The Most Bizarre Non-Surgical Face Improvement Ideas
Whether you stay up late watching infomercials or find yourself googling botched plastic surgeries, you’ve probably heard of non-surgical face improvement tools. I’m not talking about dermal fillers for instant nose jobs or any of that fancy stuff. I’m talking about something you can buy and do yourself. After all, who knows how to give a better face-lift, eye-lift, or nose job than you? People have been messing around with their own faces for years. Reportedly, Joan Crawford used to sleep with a face full of tape and wash her mug in ice cold water. Now, you can try out your favorite face enhancement ideas on yourself! Take a look at our pics of the strangest non-plastic surgery tools we’ve ever seen. More »
What Is Wrong With Claire Danes’ Face? - Apparently that new eyelash-enhancing chemical product Latisse that Claire Danes has been shilling is also slowly necrotizing her eyelids. We knew there was some weird reason she kept crying during the Emmy’s! (The Hairpin)
101: Tron Makeup, Ghetto Sparkles Edition
Last week, we had the opportunity to talk to Tron:Legacy’s makeup artist Rosalina da Silva about how to achieve the effects from the movie. This week, I went to Sephora makeup and tried to recreate the look myself. It didn’t go quite as planned. More »
The Double-Beauty Standard In The Workplace (Or: Reasons To Be Ugly) – What do you know? Sending in a resume with your pretty little face might actually hurt your chances of getting a job, while attractive men who add their pics have a higher chance of scoring an interview. Of course, if you’re applying to be some creepy guy’s secretary, just ignore this advice. (Lemondrop)
Kimora Lee Simmons Wants You!
Kimora Lee Simmons is looking for the face for her new skincare line, and if you live in Los Angeles area and have a radiant face, it might be you! Says the model:
This new skincare line is very important to me. This is my newest venture with all the amazing women that have supported me throughout the years. They, like myself, come from a diverse background. This new line speaks to the evolution that is this new fabulous, chic woman. I’m looking for REAL women who can show off their fabulosity to make this launch the huge success I know it will be! Please be my next Ultimate Goddess!”
Fabulosity? Sure. For more details on how to enter, head over to Celebuzz. More »
The Daily WTF: Make Your Ugly Daughter Beautiful!
“I swear to god Tiffany if you don’t smile for the judges this year while doing your routine, I’m going to force one of these little Japanese inserts into your mouth and make you wear it until you’re old enough to learn that boys don’t like little girls who scowl.” More »
Today is your last chance to enter to win this Philosophy fragrance and skin care gift pack. One of our lucky Facebook fans will take it home, and all you have to do to enter is become a fan of Crushable by Wednesday September 15 at 5 p.m. EST. Click here and hit the “Like” button to enter!
Being a Facebook fan of Crushable has its perks. Like the chance to win this Philosophy fragrance and skin care gift pack. One of our lucky Facebook fans will take it home, and all you have to do to enter is become a fan of Crushable by tomorrow September 15 at 5 p.m. EST. Click here and hit the “Like” button to enter!
Free stuff! Now that we have your attention, you might want to check out this Philosophy fragrance and skin care gift pack. One of our lucky Facebook fans will take it home, and all you have to do to enter is become a fan of Crushable by Wednesday September 15 at 5 p.m. EST. Click here and hit the “Like” button to enter!
Being a Facebook fan of Crushable has its perks. Like the chance to win this Philosophy fragrance and skin care gift pack. One of our lucky Facebook fans will take it home, and all you have to do to enter is become a fan of Crushable by Wednesday September 15 at 5 p.m. EST. Click here and hit the “Like” button to enter!
Wouldn’t you love this Philosophy fragrance and skin care gift pack? One of our lucky Facebook fans will take it home, and all you have to do to enter is become a fan of Crushable by Wednesday September 15 at 5 p.m. EST. Click here and hit the “Like” button to enter!
Free stuff! Now that we have your attention, you might want to check out this Philosophy fragrance and skin care gift pack. One of our lucky Facebook fans will take it home, and all you have to do to enter is become a fan of Crushable by Wednesday September 15 at 5 p.m. EST. Click here and hit the “Like” button to enter!
‘Hook-Up Hair’ Is A New Term
Crushable’s pals at Beauty Blogging Junkie have coined a new phrase: Hook-Up Hair. As defined in the site’s Fictionary column:
“Pretty self-explanatory, it’s the state of aff-hairs your mane takes on after a major makeout tryst. It’s a little bit of self-teasing from friction on a pillowcase, a little of mussing.” More »
TheGloss’s Top Five Posts
Crushable’s second sibling TheGloss covers fashion, beauty, sex and culture, with a deliciously sardonic twist. The past week’s top Gloss-y posts that we loved include an especially sexy Allie Brosh illustration, a gallery of 10 travel-friendly things (for under $10) and some wedding-related finds from the eBabes. Check it! More »
Blisstree’s Top 5 Posts
Crushable’s sibling site Blisstree proves it’s possible to be both “Zen” and “relatable” – we’re not falling off the grid to an Ashram anytime soon, OK? This past week, Blisstree offered a mix of service-y groundedness with excellent posts on Eat Pray Love‘s not-so-original theme, the travails of hoop dancing and the 10 best energy bars (because we cannot solely subsist on Lunas). More »
What lipstick brands have the highest lead counts? – Ugh, do you really want know?? Can you resist NOT KNOWING?? (Huffington Post)
Pink Nipples All the Rage In Japan
I have never given much thought to the color of my areolae, and neither have you. I mean, thought about your nipples, not my nipples. Yikes. Now are you? Don’t. Stop it. Because apparently while I’ve been walking around thinking that the problem most women have is either with the size of their baby-feeders, or the chance that they can be inverted (not a big deal, but I know some people are self-conscious about that), Japanese women have been dying… More »