I'm kicking off summer with a very sweet smackdown! Because it involves macarons (or as MM staff calls them, "fancy French cookies"), I've selected the Museum's education specialist, Cookie Dreamer Babo, to serve as referee. I also needed to keep... Read more →

Lancôme has teamed up with a number of fashion designers in the past and this fall they're giving one of their previous partners another collaboration. You might remember French designer Olympia Le-Tan's beautiful, but largely unaffordable, lipstick book set from... Read more →

I was searching for swatches of Lancôme's new cushion blushes when I stumbled across these delightful versions of the brand's Miracle Cushion foundation. (image from instagram.com) Unfortunately for me, these were exclusive to Indonesia to celebrate the product's launch back... Read more →

Two French brands wanted to go up, up and away this spring with some balloon-themed offerings...but only one will make it to the stratosphere. Let's get ready to rummmmbbbblllllle! *ding ding* On one side of the ring we have Lancôme... Read more →

In honor of the birthday of Edouard Manet (1832-1883), today I thought I'd share this 1949 Lancôme ad that refers to one of the artist's most famous works. It looks like Lancôme released a lip color inspired by Manet's 1863... Read more →

I thought I'd offer a palate cleanser today after yesterday's somewhat depressing post. Let's take a peek at some pretty little watercolor illustrations from Australian artist Kerrie Hess. While the two collections I'll be focusing on were released way back... Read more →

Via Beautezine, a few months ago I discovered that Sephora Canada was holding a nationwide contest for its makeup artists to create illustrations for Lancôme using only their products around the theme of their holiday collection, called Parisian Lights. The... Read more →

(image from loreal.com) Lancôme has quite the history of teaming up with top designers, including Alber Elbaz, Olympia Le-Tan and Jason Wu. This summer the company collaborated with three rising Paris-based designers: Jacquemus, Alexandre Vauthier and Yiqing Yin, who were... Read more →

As I noted yesterday, I am defenseless in the face of glittering, glimmering makeup items come holiday season. Well, to be honest I can't resist sparkly makeup at any time of the year, but the holidays make me even weaker.... Read more →

The much-hyped Lancôme collection dreamed up by Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz has finally arrived! Fortunately, much has been written about the collaboration and Elbaz's vision for it. Here's the scoop: Elbaz was approached by his close friend and Lancôme president... Read more →