The Dog Ate My Blog!

Hi, everybody. So sorry I disappeared. I celebrated the blog's birthday and fell into a big black hole! Here are a few things that are going on:

--Our new matte lipsticks have launched on macys.com. Chrisitine at Temptalia raved about them and Michelle Phan, who loves them, has already used them in a few of her videos. If you're a red lipstick fan or a matte lipstick fan, you definitely need to check these out. It's not your mother's matte. It's a very modern matte formula.
--Speaking of Michelle, she was in the Lancome offices this afternoon. We always love when Michelle stops by. She was invited to speak at the Teen Vogue beauty awards breakfast tomorrow morning and we'll all be there to cheer her on. Michelle's next Lancome video is coming soon. Maybe as early as next week!
--We just received the new Juicy Tubes 100% Natural Origin glosses. Very exciting. We'll do a giveaway in the weeks ahead. The 10-year anniversary of Juicy Tubes is next month, so lots of celebrating to do.
--Did you see the new Marie Claire? Star stylist Rachel Zoe shares the contents of her handbag and Genifique Eye Cream is in there! Rachel has access to EVERY beauty product on the planet, so we're glad she likes some of ours.
--You also need to check out the new InStyle. There's a whole page on our fab m.u.a. Sandy Linter! She shares her fave products and a few of her secrets. Congrats to Sandy on a great article.

(The picture above is of a fabulous Jeff Koons balloon dog sculpture that was part of an exhibit on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art last summer. I took it one Friday afternoon. Jeff's work always makes me smile!)

That's all for now. The Teen Vogue breakfast is early so I need to get to bed. Talk to you soon!

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.