Beauty Squared Round-Up - September 1, 2013

Here are your beauty links for this week. Click, click, click and enjoy (and maybe learn something)!

• Lena Dunham looking sexy and glam on the cover of Marie Claire UK. 
• Karen of the Makeup and Beauty Blog looks at the new Retro Matte, Pro Longwear Paint Pots and Pro Longwear Eyeliners collections. 
• What are lip oils and why do you need them? 
• A step-by-step gif tutorial on how to get IT Girl supermodel Cara Delevigne eyebrows.
• Beauty sleep: Not such a myth afterall...
• How can you fight frizzy hair? You know you need to know.
• A DIY toner recipe featuring vodka!
• A genius method for applying mascara to lower lashes. 

Beauty Squared Round-Up - January 6, 2013

We missed last week's Round Up so there's lots to share with you this week!

Dig in.

Israel has passed a law banning models with a BMI under 18.5.

Lena Dunham, Miley Cyrus's hair, real-life Barbies - a look back at beauty in 2012.

Wash your face every night, try a BB cream - a guide to beauty resolutions for 2013.

Dispelling an eyebrow myth - this can change your whole face!

In a long-overdue first, Vogue Italia has an Asian model, posing alone, on its cover. Her name is Fei Fei Sun. Here's a look at some other fashion magazine milestones.

Eau de large pepperoni? Yes, there's a Pizza Hut fragrance and here are some other questionable perfume options.

Organic beauty products are no longer just found in health food stores and farmer's markets. They've made a leap to the mainstream market.

 Society increasingly demands perfection in appearance from those who work in the fashion and beauty industries, like model Kate Upton, above. Fashion blogger Beca Alexander is learning "the art of the fatty-fatty-fat face".

Location-based nail art inspiration, such as this London one above. I love it but I'm nowhere near talented enough to create it.

Jenn of www.SpicedBeauty.com names her favourite beauty products of 2012.

Salma Hayek shares her 5 makeup rules. Clever and practical!

Inspiring 1920s images.

Want false eyelashes that look like octopus tentacles?

One of my beauty idols, the elegant, seductive and androgynous Marlene Dietrich in a selection of photos.