Well, where halfway through beautiful people, and 2020 has unravelled to be something we all could never expect. But I’m here to keep you up-to-date with some of the newness in the beauty world. Even with the world in bad shape, there seems to still be new beauty launches everywhere I look or at less every time I walk into Sephora! It seems every celebrity has a beauty line, it’s getting a bit much!
January
Kicking it off with surprising news from one of the first youtube beauty creators, beloved Nikkie de Jager aka Nikki Tutorials with her “I’m coming out” Video where she unveils news that she has been blackmailed. Deciding to share the news herself that she is a transgender woman. With 11 years of being on Youtube and over 13 million subscribers, her fans send an overwhelmingly positive response of love.
January also brought a new CNY collection from every makeup and skincare brand around, and there was a lot. Brands like Becca, Color Pop, Hourglass, M.A.C, Make Up For Ever, and more, had their take on the holiday vibes.
February
Olay vow’s to stop retouching all advertising by 2021 in the U.S and Canada. They are joining the ever-growing list of brands like Dove, American CVS pharmacy and Fenty saying NO to retouching.
Selena Gomez is to launch a beauty line called Rare Beauty it will retail exclusively with Sephora in the U.S, Canada and Mexico. With their own web site, she hopes to go global next year.
March
Hermes launched its first beauty product starting with a chic line of lipsticks there’s 24 shades in the line and a variety of finishes. This is the first permanent beauty line for the Heritage brand Hermes with 180 years of fashion history behind them.
Complete innovators at Dyson have done it again with the launch of the Corrale, Dyson’s take on the hair strainer. Seven years in the making they truly have come out with something completely new to the market. The manganese copper alloy plates are like nothing you have seen before, they move and bend to hug the hair as you glide it through, the Corrale creating even heat distribution and tension. This means you don’t go over each section as much and in return, you get less hair damage. That’s not all… it can be used cordless which is a complete game-changer for the hairstylist working out on location!
April
The new eyeliner trend the ‘fox eye’ made its way into the makeup scene, a way to enhance your eye shape for that, Bella Hadid almond eye look we love. Essentially a new take on the cat-eye, by going in more on the inner corners of the eye. YouTuber with a very fitting last name, Brianna Fox has an in-depth tutorial here.
The Chanel Beauty cult classic is formerly known as Soleil Tan de Chanel, but now has a new name and sits within the Chanel’s Les Beige range. Now named Les Beiges Healthy Glow Bronzing Cream it’s mostly the same cream to powder bronzer we have all love, but with a few ingredient swaps to comply with new EU regulations. It now has coconut oil listed in the ingredients, that has had a few people online ‘up in arms’ but Chanel has addressed the issue people have with the ingredient, ensuring them the concentration of the oil has been rigorously tested to ensure it is non-comedogenic.
May
Giant Johnson & Johnson are to end all sales of talc-based baby powder in North America. After years of receiving thousands of lawsuits for consumers claiming the talc baby powder they sold has caused their cancer. The company will still continue to sell the alternative cornstarch powder.
In time for summer Nars launched a big new Bronzing Collection, with 6 products in varying shades, and stunning new packaging, what’s not to love here!
The new range consisting of:
- Bronzing Powder in four shades
- Matte Bronzing Powder in three shades
- Paradise Found Bronzing Powder one shade
- Powerchrome Loose Eye Pigments four shades
- Oil Infused Lip Tints two shades
- Mini Laguna Bronzing Powder
June
KKW Beauty, Three-year-old beauty line by Kim Kardashian West has sold a 20 percent share of the company to U.S giant Coty for the cool 200 million USD. Kim said; “This relationship will allow me to focus on the creative elements that I’m so passionate about while benefiting from the incredible resources of Coty, and launching my products around the world,”.
An interesting site for scent lovers just launched called Wikiparfum and just like it’s name suggests it’s a place to discover new fragrances, search your favourite perfume or ingredient and it will give similar recommendations. I searched for my beloved Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille for a similar and maybe more adorable option.
