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Makeup refills from the brands you already know and love - Euronews English

Makeup refills from the brands you already know and love - Euronews English

Posted: 20 Jun 2019 10:44 AM PDT

If like us, you're addicted to your reusable water bottle and buy your shopping with a trusty canvas tote bag, perhaps it's time to inject some sustainability into your beauty regime.

Makeup is a plastic heavy industry. Single-use plastic coats almost every cosmetic product on the market and the low-price point and accessibility means we're tempted into buying, but damaging our planet in the process. Many will admit they have wandered into a highstreet pharmacy, picked up a cheap lipstick for under five euros and never even used it. However, finally the cosmetic world seems to have got the hint - with new biodegradable and aluminium packaging options available, brands are taking the initiative to go clean and green.

Here at Living, we have worked out that every key item in your make-up bag can be replaced with a re-fillable alternative. What's more, it will benefit the environment and your wallet, since most brands sell their refills for a fraction of the original product's price. Conducting a round-up of all your make-up bag essentials, we can show you how to clear your cosmetic conscience.

Foundation

Foundation is one of the hardest beauty products to choose - matching your skin tone, finding the right coverage and avoiding brands that make you break out is no easy feat. Luckily, we've selected 2 trusted brands you'll already have heard of, that boast refillable options.

Clarins

Clarins' easy to apply 'Everlasting Cushion Foundation', requires a light sweep across the face for glowy, fresh skin. It's buildable, for those who desire a bit more coverage, and water-based, for a soothing, hydrated finish. The applicator allows easy on-the-go usage and most importantly, when it's finished, the foundation sponge and cushion are re-fillable and a new set can be purchased to sit in your white and gold compact. With "triple protection against pollution" and high SPF, Clarins' foundation helps you stay protected from the effects of global warming, whilst allowing you to be more eco-conscious with its nifty re-fillable packing.

YSL

Another environmentally conscious foundation compact is the 'Fusion Ink Cushion Foundation', from YSL, which is another firm favourite of ours.

Concealer

Whether it's for under eye bags or unwelcome blemishes, we've found 2 conscious alternatives for you to invest in.

Stila

Yet another brand looking to reduce single-use plastic, Stila is our new favourite concealer. Much like Clarins, Stila's concealer compact is reusable, meaning customers can hold on to their containers and buy refills at a fraction of the cost.

From persistent under-eye bags to blemishes and age spots, it's a perfect cover up for all imperfections, blending seamlessly for a flawless finish. With antioxidants and Vitamins A, C and E, this skin nurturing concealer will be sure to neutralise any discolourations.

Zao

Being kind to the environment is at the very heart of the make-up brand, Zao, which draws on the Asian philosophy of respect towards nature. The company uses eco-friendly, organic ingredients, and reusable packaging, incorporating bamboo into the casing as well as the formulas of its products. Because trees absorb carbon, Zao's prolific use of the material means that the company sustains a negative carbon footprint.

Their organic vegan certified concealer is a make-up bag essential. Made with castor oil, imbued with soothing and healing properties, this refillable concealer acts much like a lipstick, slotting into the reusable bamboo holder.

Mascara

An eco-alternative to make your eyes pop.

Kjaer Weis

Danish make-up artist, Kirsten Kjaer Weis, had the vision of creating a refillable make-up brand with beautiful sleek design that lasts. Not wishing to compromise her creative design, the containers you initially buy are not made from recycled metal, however the packaging for each new refill can be recycled. On her website there is a clear step by step guide with images on how to insert the refills to make it as simple as possible.

The lengthening mascara is a particularly popular product, infused with Jojoba and caster seed oil. The mascara promotes moisture, and healthy skin and hair, through its antibacterial and antioxidant properties. Giving a natural but lengthened lash with anti-clumping formula, this brand is a fantastic eco alternative.

Bronzer

Our top summer essential for a tan that doesn't damage your skin.

Eco Bella

For that all year round summer glow, opt for the 'Ecco Bella Bronzer powder', a formula imbued with what the brand call "Flower Cutins", minerals and reinforced with aloe, green tea and Vitamin E. Ecco Bella aims to protect the beauty of its customers and the planet - they are cruelty free, anti-microbeads, and use recyclable packaging. The company even support eco-friendly initiatives such as planting trees with American Forests.

The bronzer comes in a 100% paper pulp, cardboard compact, which comes with a puff and inbuilt mirror for on-the-go application. It's gluten and fragrance free, naturally preserved and vegan.

Blush

M.A.C

The cult favourite make-up brand M.A.C, backed by huge female celebrities such as Rihanna and Lady Gaga, has been selling refills for some time now. Concealers, powders and eyeshadow products can be re-bought in their magnetic metal pan without you having to repurchase the plastic container - it's cheaper and more sustainable too! What's more, if you don't want a refill, M.A.C offers a free new lipstick on the return of 6 of its original packaging containers - at no charge.

Our favourite is blush "peachy keen", a subtle peachy palette for a cheeky glow.

NARS

M.A.C isn't alone in selling magnetic refillable packaging, NARS' powder based products can also be bought in a containerless state and added to the NARS Pro Palette, which comes in small and large. In this way you can customise your own palette with all of your favourite eyeshadows and blushes without ignoring your conscience and wasting money in the process.

Lipstick

Every make-up bag needs a daring red.

Hourglass

Luxury cosmetics brand Hourglass is known for its commitment to innovating and reinventing beauty. Also famed for its Vegan and strict anti-animal cruelty support, the brand is helping the world go green through its refillable lipsticks. The product comes in a slim sexy gold casing, fine and bullet-shaped, it ensures precise and easy application.

Our favourite shade is "My Icon Is", a bright and chic glossy red with serious staying power.

Eyebrow pencil

Perfect eyebrows are the current obsession so we've rummaged around for a sustainable fix.

Decorté

Our pick for rainproof brows is the eyebrow pencil from luxury Japanese cosmetics company, Decorté. The narrow bodied twist pencil is great for precision with the 'spoolie' (brush) on the reverse for blending and shaping. Available in 4 shades, the tool is easy to refill when finished.

Liquid Eyeliner

Zao

Perhaps the most unlikely of refillable makeup tools is the liquid eyeliner. A product that is often frequently replaced from drying out, the liquid eye-liner is screaming for an eco make-over. We've found another Zao alternative.

Offering the usual black and brown tones, for those who are fairer skinned, Zao has also made an electric blue, emerald green and plum colour to compliment every eye colour. Enriched with anti-infection remedies, the soothing formula claims to comfort your skin with a whole host of natural goodies, including UV protection! Like their concealer, mascara and powders, the liquid eyeliner sits in a handy bamboo casing, making your makeup bag natural in more ways than one.

Other ZERO waste cosmetics companies you might be interested in: Axiology, Antonym Cosmetics, Elate Cosmetics, RMS Beauty, Tata Harper, Keeping it Natural.

Words: Kiltie De Cleyn

Selfie love causes surge in surgeries to recreate perfect filtered look - AZ Big Media

Posted: 20 Jun 2019 08:41 PM PDT

Friday is National Selfie Day and with the rise of social media usage, it should come as no surprise that our society has become obsessed with physical perfection. Social media has played a major role in creating an unrealistic expectation of beauty — and users on those platforms run the risk of losing touch with reality. On average, Millennials will spend an hour a week on selfies and are expected to take 25,700 selfies in their lifetime. With those selfies, they will then spend hours self-critiquing and picking apart each imperfection that they see in the image. This process creates a sense of low self-esteem and a rise in depression among U.S young adults aged 19 to 32, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

This downside to social media and selfies is due to the heavy use of photoshop and facial filters, which alter a person's natural appearance to emulate the "ideal" body or facial features. Surgeons have experienced a steady increase in patients wanting to recreate their filtered selves with flawless wrinkle-free skin, symmetrically contoured face, larger eyes, plumper lips, and a slimmer face. 

The majority of individuals requesting these revisions are Millennials aged between 22-37 years old. The American Academy of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery's 2018 annual survey revealed that the number of cosmetic procedures has gone up 47 percent since 2013. Experts are breaking down the influence that selfies and social media have over users, and are explaining the correlation between the increase of selfies and plastic surgery.

Dr. Pablo Prichard, chief of plastic surgery at John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix, has some interesting insight on these current plastic surgery trends due to the rise of the selfie and social media, and the impact they have on today's beauty standards.

Pablo Prichard, MD, is the chief of plastic surgery at John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix.

AZ Big Media: How does the changing social media landscape impact people's perceptions of their appearance?

Pablo Prichard: I think there's two layers to that. The first layer is because of social media and how prevalent it is. People are taking massive amounts of selfies and because one generation ago, or even a couple years ago, people didn't have phones that took photos. Or the photos that were on the phones were very poor quality so you really couldn't see a whole lot of detail. Now we've got these phones that take these HD quality photos and we're constantly taking these photos of ourselves we are noticing every flaw in our faces and our bodies. That's one layer; the massive amount of photos were taking of ourselves, and then self-critiquing.

The other layer is all of the enhancements that are available through Snapchat or other photo editing software like Photoshop. You've got filters that make your nose and face slimmer, reduces a double neck or chin, that perfect the skin so that the skin is completely flawless. You also have all these Instagram "models," who also Photoshop their bodies to make their waist look slimmer, and project their breasts and their butts. All of these different things make the average social media consumer really look at themselves and they see anything that they could change, they want to change.

ABM: What kind of requests are you now getting due to these enhancements that are being shown via social media, and in what frequency?

PP: The most popular ones are easy– fuller lips, enhanced facial features, change in the eye shape, smoother nose– all of which can be done in the office. Nowadays fillers can be an in and out procedure, patients are totally awake with just a little bit of numbing. You can get fuller lips, that's obviously one of the common things, but you can also enhance the face. You can get a fuller cheek, or reduce the bag underneath the eye to make you look more vibrant. There is actually filler that can make your nose look better. You can't make anything smaller with filler because you are just adding material, but you can proportionally make things more in line with facial harmony.

In addition to that, more permanent changes that are requested like rhinoplasty (a nose job), or in the body. The face is probably the most common thing, but in the body getting "mommy makeovers" with a thinner waist, larger breasts, injections in the buttock area to make that curvier. All those enhancements or requests are things that people see on social media. Or get filtered in themselves and want that change later on.

ABM: Have you noticed that after a patient receives these procedures that it could actually negatively impact their self-esteem?

PP: It totally depends on the reason why they are making the changes. Whenever I see somebody come in and request a change I try to decipher, "Ok what is the reason they want the change?" If it is something to do with "My boyfriend wants this done," "My friends think I should have this done," "I think it will save my marriage or my relationship," or something like that, then that is the wrong reason for doing any kind of change.

If it's just something that somebody has lived with, like a large nose and it just kind of bothered them and they want to change it for themselves then I think that is an appropriate reason to change something. I always tell patients never change something because somebody else wants you to do it, or even worse because it's some kind of trend. If you see a social media trend and something is a fad, and is just in right now, that's another thing I think is the wrong reason to change something. I think it really has to come from within.

ABM: Do you feel like some of these trends are leading people into trying to achieve unrealistic beauty standards?

PP: Oh absolutely! The reason why some of these trends make people think they can attain something that's really not possible is because of how highly Photoshopped some of the Instagram models are. They get unrealistic looking waistlines, and then huge butt areas to maximize an hourglass shape; which is totally unrealistic. They see that and they don't understand that some of these images are Photoshopped. I can't say that all of them are of course, but a lot of them are, and if they are buying into this is "natural" then they can have unrealistic expectations in themselves.

When they don't achieve those expectations then they can be depressed about it, or unhappy about it. So I also always go over with patients what their expectations are and make sure that I can actually achieve that expectation if we are doing surgery. I make sure that it is a realistic expectation, and if it is an unrealistic expectation then I don't do surgery because nothing is going to make that patient happy, and why put that patient under that surgical procedure when it's not going to make them happy.

ABM: How would you describe your average patient?

PP: I work with patients who want something done, have wanted it done for years, and saved up for the procedure. It's not a spur of the moment reaction of, "Today I woke up and I want something." These people think about what they want, and it's something for themselves only.

ABM: What are some statistics you can share regarding average patient age?

PP: Ages vary quite a bit, but it depends on what people are having done. I notice a lot of small, what we call, "tweaks" to the face in general tends to be the younger millennials. So it tends to be people in their 20s who again have massive amounts of filtered images that they are looking at. They are constantly looking at one small spot on their face that they really dislike. A small amount of filler can go a long way, and then they never have to think about that spot again.

Somebody after kids who is in their 30s- 40s, tend to be the "mommy makeovers." Where their bodies have changed after pregnancy and they don't like those changes. Maybe some black skin in their belly or breasts that aren't as perky as they were when they were 20; those things tend to come in their 30s and 40s. Then the crowd in the 50s and up tends to be more of facelifts and eyelid lifts.

ABM: What do you recommend to patients who reveal social media and the selfie culture contributed to wanting a certain procedure?

PP: I think it's really important for a plastic surgeon to be completely honest with a patient. If they say they want something done and I feel like it's going to negatively impact their face, or if they feel like there is a defect and I don't see that defect, that's what we call body dysmorphic disorder. Where there is something that the patient imagines is there, but is not really there. I let the patient know my honest opinion about what I feel like is something that is actually there, or not. If it's something that I don't see, then I don't offer any kind of services. It has to be something that I actually observe. Then if they say that "This is because of some photos that I have taken," that itself is kind of common because it is amazing to me that when we look at ourselves in the mirror our brain changes our perception of ourselves because we know that we are looking at ourselves.

Our brains kind of make us look better. A lot of people will say, "I'm not photogenic. I don't take good pictures." Part of that, not all of it, is when they are looking at themselves in the mirror, the brain gives them the best image of themselves. When they look at themselves in a photo, all of a sudden, they become more objective about their face or their body, and they can actually see things in the photo that they couldn't actually see in the mirror. And so just because they see something in a photo it definitely doesn't amount to doing a procedure.

Are Korean cosmetics losing their allure for Chinese consumers? - Warc

Posted: 19 Jun 2019 04:05 PM PDT

Chinese consumers may be falling out of love with Korean beauty products, as local brands and Japanese products make in-roads into the sector.

Until recently, South Korea's so-called K-beauty products were the go-to brands for top quality skincare in a market forecast to be worth some $62bn by 2020, the South China Morning Post noted.

But the rate of growth of exports of South Korean cosmetics to China has slowed dramatically, rising just 20% to $1.3bn in the first nine months of 2018 – a far cry from the annual growth of 66% over the previous five years.

Meanwhile, home-grown brands such as Pechoin, with its use of traditional Chinese herbal ingredients, are on the rise, according to analysts. In fact, Pechoin was ranked China's most used skincare and make-up brand last year by research consultancy Kantar.

Data from research firm Gartner L2 indicates that 72% of Chinese beauty brands incorporated the tag "Made in China" into their profiles on online retailer Tmall last year, up 50% from 2017. The reason, says Gartner, is a growing sense of cultural pride among Chinese consumers.

And research carried out by Kantar and Tencent Holdings suggests 2019 could be the breakout year for Chinese beauty products: brands are "climbing the value chain, moving from producing low-cost items to high-end goods. Because of this, they're now seeing their client base increasingly overlap with those of international luxury beauty brands."

That survey, reported by Jing Daily, found that three out of four Chinese consumers had bought Chinese beauty products in the past six months, and for 50% of these consumers this was their first time buying a "C-beauty" product.

It's not just bigger brands, either, that are finding their market share growing. There is increasing appetite from consumers to try smaller, niche brands. According to China Insight Report, The New Face of Beauty in China, produced by Reuter Intelligence, 60% of consumers in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou are "very curious" about trying small, specialised beauty brands, such as Diptyque, Jo Malone, AHAVA and BABOR.

And if none of these products work, there are always more drastic measures. Chinese consumers, like those elsewhere, are increasingly willing to resort to cosmetic surgery: domestic market is valued at $7.1 billion, with the number of new clinics opening in 2018 up by 10% on the previous year.

And, worryingly for many, clients are getting younger. The same report found that of the 22 million Chinese who went under the knife last year, those under the age of 28 made up 54% of the total. The reason for the trend, experts say, is the pressure of social media selfies.

Sourced from South China Morning Post, Jing Daily, Quartz; additional content by WARC staff

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