Beauty Squared Round-Up - May 25, 2014

Hello lovelies!

Time again for our weekly round-up of beaut-astic links to inspire you and make you think.

• Arianne AKA The Glitter Geek, test drives the Tria Beauty Hair Removal Laser 4X - a home hair removal system that uses lasers.
  
• Annnd speaking of hair, but the stuff on your head that you want to keep, here are the best and worst hair styles for round faces.
  
• A test drive of those new one-use nail polish pods from Sephora.
  
• We've all over-tweezed our eyebrows at one point or another. Here are some tips on how to grow them back.
  
• LOOK at this gorgeous coral-red lipstick. Wowza!
  
• Worried about sun damage, now that summer has rolled around (in the northern hemisphere)? Here are some foods you can eat that might help you.
  
• And since food isn't enough to protect you from sunburn and sun damage, here is a list of beauty editor approved sunscreens, in a range of price points.
  
• A great round-up of celebrity-inspired make-up looks. It helps of course to resemble the celeb you're trying to mimic, but you may find your new favourite vlogger in this list too.
  
• Haircare brands are starting to market hair products designed specifically for women who wear veils. 

Beauty Squared Round-Up - July 7, 2013

Here are some interesting and helpful beauty links we've stumbled across this past week and want to share with you. Let's dig in!

• Glamour magazine did a reader survey and found that young women recorded an average of 13 negative thoughts about their bodies every day.
  
• CityTV MUA Tracy Peart has some tips for keeping cool while applying makeup.
  
• Have you every wondered why some beauty products are so pricey?
  
• What beauty products and treatments do beauty editors spend their money on?
  
• Fashion Magazine's Beauty Panel has their tips for hair and makeup for job interviews. These would work well for a daily work look too. Polished and professional!
  
• Skin is drier in the summertime so Elle Canada has a round-up of their favourite hydrating skin care products.
  
• It's good to get some sunshine, some fresh air and some vitamin D. But it's not good to sit out and soak up the rays like you used to. Here are some tips for tanning safely.
  
• Sunburn, chlorine-damage, dry skin - here are ten ways to repair summer damage to your hair and skin.
  
• Did Coronation Street stars Brooke Vincent and Catherine Tyldesley break marketing rules by publicising fictitious beauty products on Twitter? An investigative UK TV series claims to have created a cosmetics firm and gotten the actresses to tweet about them. 

Beauty Squared Round-Up - February 10, 2013

Lots to share with you in this week's Beauty Squared Round-Up, so let's dig in.

Textured pussywillow nails at the Creatures of Comfort S/S 2013 runway show. 

I feel like I might pick at them if I wore this.

BB creams - what is a BB cream? Much ado about BB creams.

Never mind BB creams, what the heck are CC creams and DD creams?

If you like to suntan, you may not want to click on this link. On the other hand, you probably should. 14 years of sunbed use revealed by a UV skin scan.

Moisturize, moisturize, exfoliate and moisturize! 

Samantha Chapman of Pixiwoo and Real Techniques offers her cold weather must-haves.

Sephora is now carrying butter LONDON! Not all of the shades, sadly, but it's a start.

butter LONDON's Sweetie Shop Spring 2013 collection is all about the candy-coloured pastels.

Beauty tips for when you're sick. Trust me, at least some of these will be useful to you.

Historical films struggle to get the details right, but increasingly the physical perfection of today's actors (perfect teeth, facial symmetry, gym bodies) are subverting the accuracy of historical characters.

Benefit Cosmetics has new packaging for its Creaseless Cream Eyeshadows (photo from Temptalia).

3D-printed jewellery made an appearance on the runway during the Kimberly Ovitz Fall/Winter 2013 runway show. 

Check out this GORGEOUS smoky eye tutorial from the Glitter Geek.

Are you practicing good fragrance behaviour?

Great advice on how to buy make-up brushes.

Another great video from MAC on contouring and highlighting.

Beauty Squared Round-Up - September 2, 2012

Happy September! Here are the links we have for you this week.

The stunning Dita von Teese has a makeup collection out. Here is the awesome Karen of Makeup and Beauty Blog reviewing and wearing it!

Beautylish takes a look at some of the best nail polish removers out there. 

It's September, which means in North America, summer is drawing to a close. Here are some tips to transition your summertime glow smoothly into autumn. 

Here's a very simple undereye concealer tip from Trish McEvoy that you may not have heard before. Worth a try, no?

Teenage skin can have a mind of its own. Beautylish has some tips and simple rules to get you started caring for your skin.

If you're a sun worshipper, I'm not sure how much you'll want to read this. A Superdrug smartphone app can show you how you'll look in a five years by calculating your suncare routine. 

Beauty Squared Round-Up - June 3, 2012

Here are the stories that caught our attention this week:





This is a great makeup tutorial video for anyone with acne. The beautiful, brave girl in it suffers from cystic acne and you can hear the emotion in her voice when she's barefaced in front of the camera. And look at the beautiful finished product when she's finished!

Un-photoshopped, photoshopped.

German Vogue's June issue is running an 11-page spread featuring Peter Lindbergh's un-Photoshopped portraits of prominent German women including supermodels, actors and Vogue's editor-in-chief. 

The New England Journal of Medicine published a study of a 69 year old man who worked as a trucker for most of his life. As a result of spending so much time driving a truck, the left side of his face received much more sun exposure than the right and the results are startling. Doesn't this make you want to wear sunscreen?

Can yoga help prevent wrinkles and sagging in the skin on your face? 

Real Beauty has a list of the best highlighters to make your skin luminous and glowing this summer. 

Also for summer, here are some tips on how to detangle wet hair. You know, for after jumping in the pool, lake or ocean on those hot, hot days. 

Bloxsun makes sunscreen fabrics in the form of hats, scarves and gloves to protect you from the sun's damaging rays. 

InStyle offers 11 Hair Rules You Need To Break (some may surprise you)!

Florence and Machine's new video, directed by David LaChapelle is just as over-the-top, dramatic, glamourous and spectacular as you might expect and Florence is pushing the beauty and fashion envelopes again. Florence looks absolutely stunning and I kind of love her hair.