Thought that the first black supermodel was Naomi Campbell? Not so. Halston cited Naomi Sims as the first black supermodel in 1974. Naomi Sims sadly died of cancer, aged 61 last weekend. Initially Sims’ career was rocky as she was turned away from agency after agency, but after convincing Gosta Peterson to capture her for [...]

The Liberal Democrats have announced that people who appear in advertisements aimed at under-16s should not be airbrushed or enhanced to make them look more attractive. They have also suggested that The Advertising Standards Authority should also create new rules so that advertisements aimed at adults should indicate if images have been airbrushed. Jo Swinson, [...]

Here’s another crazy story from across the pond. A Detroit city employee hired a lawyer to file a lawsuit claiming she couldn’t work because of her colleagues strong perfume. Susan McBride said she’s severely sensitive to perfumes and cosmetics and the perfume worn by a co-worker in the Planning Department made it difficult to breathe. [...]

Which? has come under fire after it’s report questioning the reliability of SPF values on sun protection products was found to be misleading. Which? tested the products following international SPF testing methods, several cases resulted in different values to those the manufacturers had stated on the label. A number of industry insiders have taken issue [...]

French cosmetics giant L’Oreal, which owns brands such as Maybelline, Shu Uemura, Kiehl’s, Lancome, and Garnier, was found guilty of racial discrimination by La Cour de Cassation, this week. Court documents show that Garnier sales staff should be “bleu, blanc, rouge” — which describes the colors of the French flag but is coded shorthand for [...]

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse than DIY botox, this little kit comes along. Containing needles, syringes, Emla cream (anaesthetic) and some scary sounding substances – Tiratricol and Procaine – along with Lipostable, this is an Injection Lipolysis Lipostabil Fat Dissolving Injection set. You can buy it from numerous suspicious websites for [...]

Remember the teenager who tried to sue her tattoo artist? It turns out that the star-faced teenager has confessed she made the whole story up. Previously, Kimberley Vlaminck claimed that she’d fallen asleep while a tattoo artist inked 56 stars on her face, ignoring the requested three stars. As details of her story began to [...]

A Belgian father has gone to the police after his daughter wrongly had 56 stars tattooed on her face. The girl, Kimberley Vlaminck, 18, claimed that she asked for three stars to be tattooed near her left eye as a present from her father, Diego, who was upholding a family tradition of tattoos. She claims [...]

An audit, commissioned by anti-ageing brand Roc, has revealed that women are continuously changing their minds about how well they believe they are ageing, and cannot see their true appearance. This state of mind is being referred to as ‘ageing dysmorphia’. More than half (55%) of the women in the survey said they looked younger [...]

The word on the beauty grapevine is that A-list Hollywood actress Reese Witherspoon is turning into a parfumer. Rumours are flying that Witherspoon is using her partnership with Avon to create a fragrance for the range. The scent will be called ‘In Bloom’. Is anyone else bored by the celebrity fragrance boom?