Want to brighten up your face without looking like you're wearing too much makeup? Use shades that warm up your skin, like peach, coral, and earthy green.
A judge placed France's richest woman, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, under the guardianship of her grandson on Monday, her lawyer said.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government came under increasing pressure Friday after Paris daily newspaper Le Monde said a judge had evidence that French secret services had illegally spied on a journalist to find out his sources.
From smoothing skin and erasing wrinkles to enlarging muscles and slimming waists, airbrushing, or "photoshopping," men and women to so-called perfection is the norm in advertising. These images don't reflect reality, yet from a younger and younger age, people are aspiring to these biologically impossible ideals.
In a brave and noble move, the United Kingdom's Advertising Standards Agency this week issued a ban on two makeup advertisements. What horrific ethics violations prompted such a decisive crackdown by the national regulatory body? Did the advertisements utilize hate speech against minorities? Did they advocate recreational heroin use? Did they display a Margaret Thatcher upskirt shot?
Make-up advertisements featuring actor Julia Roberts and supermodel Christy Turlington have been banned in the UK because of their controversial use of 'airbrushing'.
Can beauty be defined by age, gender, color, body shape or size? Who gets to decide?
Paris' boulevards and Shanghai's streets have been the canvas for "JR", the French TED Prize-winning street artist.
France's top national newspaper is filing a legal complaint against President Nicolas Sarkozy's administration for allegedly violating a law protecting journalistic sources.
French police raided the Paris home of L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt on Wednesday, a local prosecutor told CNN.
Police questioned a financial adviser to L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt on Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into his client's finances.
French Labor Minister Eric Woerth is being questioned by police in connection with their investigation into the finances of L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, the prosecutor's office in Nanterre, France, said Thursday.
French police are searching the home of the daughter of L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, a spokeswoman from the prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre told CNN Wednesday.
Police are questioning France's richest woman, her lawyer told CNN Monday, as they investigate claims one of her advisers gave envelopes of cash to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Labor Minister Eric Woerth.
French Labor Minister Eric Woerth will be questioned by police as part of an investigation into the finances of France's richest woman, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office said Wednesday.
French police were questioning four men Thursday as part of the widening investigation into the finances of France's richest woman, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
French police on Friday raided two locations linked to L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt as part of an investigation into allegations she secretly funded President Nicolas Sarkozy's election campaign.
British pop star Cheryl Cole has been stricken with a disease rare in the developed world
The trial of a photographer accused of scamming the heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune has been delayed while officials review new evidence that has emerged in the case.
The daughter of France's wealthiest woman takes on a celebrity photographer in court.
Producers are casting the next 007 flick - vote for your dream Bond beauty
Guests at the show will get a $500 goody bag
Gisele Bündchen is famous for her rumpled yet sexy hairstyle. Now, you can be too. Follow these 10 steps to snag her look.
The actress recommends a "Shorkie" to her friends, Michelle and Barack Obama
Cosmetics giant L'Oreal is denying it lightened BeyoncÉ's skin tone in an ad in the current edition of Elle magazine
Fortune: Global starsupdated: Mon Mar 03 2008 07:59:00
Rivals are often the first to take notice of failures and the least likely to praise successes. Which is why securing a top spot on the World's Most Admired list is a distinction worth celebrating. It means a company's toughest critics - their peers - consider them the best representatives of the industry.
After 11 years at the helm, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe will soon step down as chief executive of Nestlé, the world's largest food company, whose brands include Nescafé, Jenny Craig, Gerber and Poland Spring, San Pellegrino, Stouffer's and Maggi. It hasn't all been plain sailing, as the world economy has had to deal with the Asia crisis, the bursting of the tech bubble and 9/11.
The edo-ko, the natives of Tokyo, have a special gift: an ability to push the envelope, to innovate, to pioneer. That was certainly true of Shu Uemura, who went from being the only man in his Tokyo beauty school class to Hollywood makeup legend to international entrepreneur. In convention-worshiping Japan, he defied convention -- and made his name and fortune by doing so.
As an aspiring ballerina, 9-year-old Brooke Burns took an aggressive approach to makeup. "I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!" she says.
A significant proportion of lipstick manufactured in the United States and used by millions of American women contains surprisingly high levels of lead, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics said Thursday.
In the last week of trading, shares of French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis have jumped 5.5% on rumors that U.S. pharma giant Pfizer is pondering the purchase of a significant share of its business. There are two hypothetical scenarios now circulating the markets. One of them makes sense for Pfizer. The other? Not so much.
A day after they married in a low-key civil ceremony in a Paris City Hall, Eva Longoria and Tony Parker have done it again - this time in a church.
Henkel KGaA ranks no. 456 on FORTUNE's Global 500 this year, with $14.9 billion in revenues, up 12.9% from the previous year. The Düsseldorf, Germany-based company was ranked no. 470 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $0.9 billion, down 56.4% from a year earlier.
Look up "retire" in Webster's and the first definition is "to withdraw, as for rest or seclusion" - or maybe for just going fishing. But more and more, people bowing out of long corporate careers a...
Business 2.0: The Nanotech Makeoverupdated: Tue Nov 01 2005 00:01:00
To create natural-looking makeup, L'Oréal is borrowing a concept from nature. Next year the Paris-based cosmetics powerhouse will unveil a line of nanotechnology makeup that gets its color not from...
In February, Nike launched a national TV campaign for the Air Jordan XX--a shoe that celebrates the 20th anniversary of Nike's marketing partnership with Michael Jordan. The four spots feature dire...
Fortune: Smells Like Moneyupdated: Mon Sep 06 2004 00:01:00
Forget the color of money--now you can smell like it. This fall New York City boutique perfumery Bond No. 9 will introduce the latest in its string of city-inspired scents, a fragrance appropriate...
That's what Samsung CEO Jong-Yong Yun, whose company prizes technology, says about understanding local markets. Going global has always been a tricky business. For many people, the emergence of a g...
FSB: Look Who's Talkingupdated: Tue Jun 01 2004 00:01:00
Leave it to the guy who created the online game for the original Matrix movie to come up with Site Pal, software that allows businesses to create online conversational characters. Since launching S...
Sliding technology and media stocks knocked European blue-chips to three-week lows on Wednesday, amid concern that company profits have reached a plateau.
At one time African-American hair care was of interest only to African Americans. Today conglomerates like L'Oréal and Alberto-Culver have purchased most of the companies competing in the black hai...
Oleg Chabanov can't disguise his frustration. On a warm afternoon in Moscow, the local manager for L'Oreal is stuck in a dingy store a few blocks from the Kremlin, trying to drum the basics of bran...
FSB: Live Wireupdated: Thu Mar 01 2001 00:01:00
It's a proud parent's nightmare: son leaves promising career at Microsoft to design...well, a board game. "My dad was like, 'You left Microsoft to do what?'" recalls Richard Tait. Pop had no reason...
The hardest part was telling her daughter. There were disappointed customers, weeping employees, and her own sense of loss. But when Jami Morse Heidegger decided to sell Kiehl's, the company she'd ...
The hardest part was telling her daughter. There were disappointed customers, weeping employees, and her own sense of loss. But when Jami Morse Heidegger decided to sell Kiehl's, the company she'd ...
Roger Enrico is known for bold strokes. In 1984, when he was head of PepsiCo's beverage division, he made a splash by paying Michael Jackson $5 million to moonwalk for Pepsi-Cola, strengthening the...
In Benjamin Cheever's novel The Plagiarist, a marketing executive becomes an industry legend by adding one word to shampoo bottles: REPEAT. He doubles shampoo sales overnight.
Sony (No. 43) topped the money losers this year. Main reason: a painful $2.7 billion write-off in its movie division.
After gobbling up a slew of cosmetics companies during a five-year buying binge, the newest giants of the beauty industry, Procter & Gamble and Unilever, are in a digestive mode. Can firms hitherto...
Fortune: WINNERS AND SNOOZERS updated: Mon Nov 15 1993 00:01:00
Chiat/Day Venice, Calif.: $620 million Energizer, Nissan, Nynex ''The industry's in turmoil,'' says President Bob Kuperman. So is Chiat/Day. American Express and Reebok walked since Chiat/Day can't...
NIOSOME FACE CREAM to fight wrinkles is sold in exclusive, upscale beauty shops. Plenitude cream, for the same purpose, sells for one-sixth as much in supermarkets and discount stores. Both are bas...
POLITICS & POLICY/COVER STORIES 30 CLINTONOMICS AND YOU First, higher taxes for the rich and big corporations. Then health care reform. Needed: tougher spending cuts. by Ann Reilly Dowd
As youth fades from the faces of the 78 million baby-boomers, sales of creams that supposedly help skin look younger have skyrocketed. Since 1985, skin-care sales have surged 50%, to $3.7 billion, ...
AMONG the billionaires, women make up a baker's dozen -- there are four Americans and nine Europeans. These billionairesses are hard to comprehend. Not only are their names unfamiliar for the most ...
JAYNE BUXTON, 26, was bumping along as a $25,000-a-year media buyer in her hometown of Montreal. Then she went to business school and turned into a hot property. Her best offer among six came from ...
For minting ten-figure treasures, France -- with one billionairess and a single billionaire clan -- has long been the industrial world's poor cousin. Among the disincentives: sky-high taxes, state ...
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