L’Oréal Heiress Declared Mentally Unfit to Handle Her Money

Liliane Bettencourt, the 89-year-old heiress to the L’Oréal fortune and richest woman in France, has been ensconced in legal battles with her own daughter, Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers, over the family’s money for the past two years. Françoise began vying for control of her mother’s financial affairs after discovering that her mom had given away over $1.3 … Read more

Printemps Paris to became a benchmark of luxury and niche fragrances

Printemps Paris became La Belle Parfumerie du Printemps Printemps or “le grand magasin de la parfumerie à la française” Parisian Printemps Haussmann beauty store has a new look, a new name and it is repositioning itself on the luxury and niche perfume houses such as Les Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, Serge Lutens Perfumes and … Read more

Kate Winslet launches Golden Hat charity makeup range with Lancôme

Kate Winslet collaborates on a limited edition makeup collection with Lancôme to raise funds for her charity, The Golden Hat Foundation. In aid of her charity, the Golden Hat Foundation, which helps improve the lives of autistic children, Hollywood actress  has released a small beauty collection, including the face-illuminating Lancôme Poudre Lumière, a Lancôme L’Absolu … Read more

Strange things happen in the Netherlands: Swallowable perfume will emit fragrance from the skin

Applying perfume to our skin? It may seem almost old-fashioned Created by Amsterdam-based artist Lucy McRae along with synthetic biologist Sheref Mansy, Swallowable Parfum is essentially a capsule containing synthetic fragrant lipid molecules that mimic the structure of the fat molecules naturally found in the body. When those lipids get metabolized by the body’s enzymes, … Read more

Beauty is fun: Tetris game with new Dior beauty collections

Retro gaming with Dior After Chanel’s “Beauty Robot” and the “Shade Parade”, here comes a new game-inspired movie from Dior Cosmetic House. “Dior Games” is a short film inspired by the legendary games of the 70s and 80s: Tetris, Pac-Man, Pong. Set against the musical background of La Roux’s “Tigerlily,” the Dior lipsticks, gloss, eye … Read more

Michelle Yeoh Becomes a Guerlain Ambassador

Michelle Yeoh has been named an ambassador to Guerlain French beauty house Guerlain announced that Hong Kong-based actress Michelle Yeoh became an ambassador for the cosmetic and perfume brand.  Michelle was crowned Miss Malaysia at the age of 21 and became a symbolof the “Girls with Guns” movie genre. For a while now, Michelle  Yeoh … Read more