Spring Beauty Tips on Access Hollywood!

Our pal Daneen over at the delightful Spoiled Pretty blog kindly informed us that Khloe Kardashian is a big fan of our Hypnose mascara. (Check out Daneen’s fun video interview with Khloe and her makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic above.) Lots of celebs like our products, but I was particularly happy to hear about this because the Kardashian girls are a big influence in the makeup world today.

Sandy Linter told me a few months ago that all of her young clients were asking to look like Kim Kardashian. When a celeb really loves wearing makeup and wears it well, it can change what’s popular in the beauty biz. Just look at Jennifer Lopez. When she was out and about all those time a few years back, wearing that amazingly glowy makeup by the brilliant makeup artist Scott Barnes, it made everyone who cares about stuff like this rethink foundation, powder, blush and highlighting products. (I really wish Jennifer and Scott would write a beauty book. Don’t you?)

While tons of people watch YouTube at work while they’re supposed to be doing something else, I kind of get paid to watch YouTube. (Note to Le Boss: I don’t spend my entire day watching. I swear.) So I was really excited to come across a Declaring Indigo “Indigo Charm” shadow how-to on YouTube. It’s by a makeup artist named Jessie and she’s really got a way with eye makeup. You’ll definitely pick up a few tips from her. I love the angled brush she used for the pot liner. (Our new gel Ink Artliner is very similar to the pot liner she used.) I also loved how she put the gold eyeshadow on the outside and how she smudged the liner from the lower waterline into the lashline.

Jessie also has a blog. She needs some followers, so check out her blog and give her some love.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Some business to take care of today: contest winners!!

–Kathemc won the Gwen Stefani/Elle magazine cover makeup. Great suggestion about Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart in their Runaways look for an upcoming Elle cover.
–BeautyChick101 of The Beauty of Life blog (one of our faves!) won the chat with celeb mua Andrew Sotomayor, which also includes a selection of Lancome products that Andrew will choose for her. Lucky girl!
–TT won the red, white and blue makeup from the Fourth of July giveaway. TT had to work on the Fourth so it’s only fair that she wins. (Although we did pick her name at random!)
–Cadence won the signed copy of Jen Weiner’s “Best Friends Forever,” which just hit #1 on The New York Times best-seller list. Way to go, Jen. Cadence, we don’t have an email address for you, so please get in touch with us.

Thanks to everyone who voted in the Chris Benz lipstick naming contest. We have a winner! We will announce your name at Chris’s show in September. And no surprise here, it’s a super cute name.

We hung out with the superbloggers from the Beauty Bloggerati yesterday and today. We know so many of the bloggers by their blog names (”Did you talk to Beauty Blogging Junkie today?”) so it was really nice to put names to faces.

Lastly, I was going through some Declaring Indigo posts and I came upon KarlaSugar’s. Karla is clearly one of the best bloggers when it comes to makeup swatches. If you’re curious about what the Declaring Indigo colors look like on light skin tones, check out this post.

Anyone else doing a great job with makeup swatches? Let us know. We’d love to see! Have a great weekend.

If you follow the Lancome Blog, you know we’re big Michelle Phan fans around here. For those of you who don’t know Michelle, she’s a fantastic young video makeup artist with a big following on YouTube. We had the pleasure of seeing Michelle last week and learning more about what inspires her, what products she loves and how she makes her videos. We were excited to see that she recently posted a few videos featuring Oscillation vibrating mascara. The video above is definitely advanced makeup artistry, but I thought you would enjoy seeing Michelle in action. You’ll definitely pick up some tips, even if you never plan to wear leopard eyes.

If you love this video, definitely check out Michelle’s YouTube channel for more inspiring makeup videos.

A few months ago, we shot a series of how-to videos with our gorgeous spokesmodel Arlenis Sosa and makeup artist Alex Sanchez. We’ll be debuting these videos on lancome-usa.com very soon, but we’ll give you a sneak peek here on the blog. (Truth be told, the quality is better on YouTube! Our editor/director might be happier if you jump over there to watch it on a bigger screen. We quietly set up a Lancome Studio channel recently that we’ll be adding to and improving upon over the next few weeks.)

Leave a post telling us what you think about the video and what how-to videos you’d like to see in the future. We’ll pick one post at random to win the blushes and brushes that Alex uses in the video. (Alex will pick colors specifically for the winner.) Please post by Sunday.

I couldn’t help put notice the delightful Amy Adams wearing pink eyeshadow on the cover of the new issue of Allure. That’s a brave choice! Especially on a redhead. I’m sure there are tons of old beauty books and magazine articles out there telling redheads to steer clear of pink eyeshadow. Lancome did pink this spring with our Pink Irreverence collection by Aaron De Mey and it was well received, probably because we paired it with black. Pink and black are such a great combo. We also have two best-selling pink Color Design Eyeshadows, Off the Rack and Makeover, which are easy-to-wear, shimmery versions of the shade.

Maybe if Sandy Linter and Andrew Sotomayor read this post, they can weigh in on how to wear pink eyeshadow. In the meantime, tell us what you think about pink. Would you ever? Or never?

P.S. Speaking of Amy Adams, I’m really looking forward to “Julie & Julia.” The book was a fun read, so I’m curious to see how it translates to film.