The Beauty Bloggers Hit Paris for the Launch of Spring's Ô My Rose Collection by Aaron De Mey!

Reading Bjooti's post from last night made me realize we don't cover the international beauty bloggers quite enough on this blog. Sorry if we tend to be too US-centric sometimes! This is a good excuse to write about the intimate blogger conference hosted by my Paris colleagues in November. The occassion was the launch of Ô My Rose, the spring color collection created by Aaron De Mey, Lancôme's amazing artistic director for makeup.

Ô My Rose is a beautiful collection that's launching very soon. The star product will no doubt be Pop N' Cheeks in Coral Flirt, a gorgeous coral-peach color with hints of gold. It looks like a rose as interpreted by Picasso. (MUA Daniel Martin used the blush at the Chris Benz show, fyi.) Baby Kiss, the very cool pastel lip stick above, won't be available in the U.S.! Neither will the petrol green nail polish. So to everyone mad that Chris & Tell isn't launching outside the U.S., there you go. We don't get everything either. :(

The bloggers were lucky enough to meet Aaron and hear about his inspiration first hand. (Some, like Miss Whoever You Are, got to see Paris for the first time!) I thought you'd like to see a few of their posts. You might not be able to read half of them, but you'll get the idea!

Bjooti
Miss Whoever You Are
Beaut.ie
FrizziFrizzi
El Fashionista
Les Mads
My Fashion Life

Any international bloggers you love? Let us know about them.

What's New in Beauty Blogland?

Big news in beauty blogland this week. Tia Williams, one of my favorite beauty colleagues, has shut down her Shake Your Beauty blog and become the beauty director of Essence.com. I hope all of you know Tia. She's been a beauty editor at several magazines, maintained a full-time blog, written a few books, given birth to one of the most beautiful children on the planet, etc., etc. Make sure to bookmark the Essence.com beauty section and follow Tia's latest chapter.

Miss Whoever You Are, one of our favorite bloggers, attended a little Lancome International blogger get-together in Paris recently. MWYA blogs, goes to school, interns and works at a bank. She's clearly a multi-tasker like Tia. She got a sneak peek at Lancome's spring collection and she promises she's going to do some more posts on Paris in general since it was her first trip there EVER and she loved it.

Speaking of fave bloggers, Temptalia reviewed some of our holiday products. If you follow Temptalia, you know she's a tough cookie when it comes to reviews, so we were thrilled to get an A for our Plum Tease Ink Artliner. "Easy to wear, easy to use, and really excellent results make this one a slam dunk for me!" she wrote. Thanks, T! Temptalia also is doing "The Scarlet Season," an on-going series about finding the perfect red lipstick. If you're searching--and really, what beauty junkie isn't--check it out. Those are Temptalia's lips above, wearing our Red and Sensual Java shade. That's some shade name, no? :)

Lastly, Annie over at Blogdorf Goodman did a write-up on our holiday brush set, which is cute, practical and totally giftable. How many things can you say that about? Annie said this "must-have purchase" would make a "killer stocking stuffer." We couldn't agree more. (Annie also references Diana Vreeland, one of my heros. I hope you know who Diana is!)

Any great blogs or blog posts you've seen lately? Feel free to share below.