This Is How Makeup Counters Could Work In A Post-Corona World

Thinking about how we’ll operate in a post-corona world can boggle the brain. Living our lives forever at a distance doesn’t seem possible, but many experts in their fields are figuring out how the things we take for granted could work.

Take makeup and in-store makeup counters, in particular. Testing a new eyeshadow; dipping your finger in and out of a face or lip palette to swipe different colours across the back of your hand; getting a full in-store makeover to see how a brand looks on you (or because you’ve got a fancy event that evening). They’re all part of the fun – but also a total germ-fest.

As early as March, makeup counters across the world rapidly changed their ways. One Jo Malone counter in the US told customers it had moved to a “touch-free beauty experience”. Is this the future face of make-up buying?

Joyce Connor, a professional makeup artist, tells HuffPost UK that even before UK lockdown, many makeup counters had removed their testers.

“I think this will be ongoing coming out of lockdown,” she says. “I personally never swatch testers on my face. You never know how many people have put their fingers into the products.”

The Cosmetic Toiletry & Perfumery Association (CTPA), which represents companies involved in making, supplying and selling cosmetics, says it’s working with counter staff to provide new guidance on makeup testers.

This will include a phased approach to the re-introduction of counter services, with sellers encouraged to embrace different, safer approaches to ensure shoppers don’t miss out, it says.

Connor predicts that sales assistants may swatch products on to customers using disposable applicators and that small samples could see a resurgence in popularity – despite the recent push against both in the fight against plastic.

“People may be able to ask at stores for guidance and take the samples to test at home,” she says, adding that these could be “more acceptable” for those worried about hygiene, even if it doesn’t answer environmental concerns.



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Trump Orders Flags To Half-Staff To Honor Coronavirus Victims

Flags on federal buildings and national monuments will be lowered over the Memorial Day weekend to honor nearly 95,00 Americans who have died of COVID-19.

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Man Who Filmed Ahmaud Arbery Killing Arrested On Murder Charges

A third suspect was arrested Thursday in connection with the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black Georgia man who was fatally shot while jogging.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., 50, on charges of felony murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment.

On Feb. 23, 25-year-old Arbery was killed after two white men — Gregory McMichael, 64, and Travis McMichael, 34 — confronted him with guns while he was out for a jog. Video of the incident taken by Bryan shows Arbery attempting to run past the car of the two men before he is shot by Travis McMichael.

The father and son said they believed him to be a burglar. S. Lee Merrit, attorney for Arbery’s family, said it was a “modern day lynching.”

Merrit also contends that Bryan played in equal role in the killing of Arbery when he decided to film the fatal encounter. Prior to Thursday’s arrest, protests ignited in Georgia calling for Bryan to be help accountable.

The McMichaels were arrested earlier this month. Though the killing took place months ago, the three suspects were able to walk free until recently. Multiple prosecutors had to recuse themselves from the case because of their relationship to Gregory McMichael, a former investigator in the Brunswick District Attorney’s office. Before that, the senior McMichael was a police officer for seven years.



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Health experts say it’s safe to fly in the middle seat on planes

Australia’s top medical experts say it is safe to sit in the middle seat on planes filled to capacity as aircrafts prepare to take to the skies across Australia once again.

Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Michael Kidd was asked on Today this morning if Australians should feel comfortable on planes, following Qantas’ announcement this week it would fill the middle seat.

“Given the measures that are in place, the answer to that is yes, but it does rely on the public and the travelling public,” Prof. Kidd said.

Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Michael Kidd. (Nine/Today)

“Anybody who has any symptoms, as we keep reiterating, needs to stay at home – these people if they get to the airport will be picked up by the screening processes which the airlines are putting in place.”

However, screening will not account for asymptomatic passengers.

“We have very low numbers of community transmission occurring in Australia, so the chances of sitting next to somebody who is asymptomatic is very, very low in Australia at this time,” Prof. Kidd said.

He confirmed aircrafts will be thoroughly disinfected between flights and passengers will be offered masks and hand sanitiser.

This comes as airlines undertake risk mitigation following guidance from the national COVID-19 Coordination Commission.

“The challenge here is, of course, if you maintain physical distancing of 1.5m between people on aeroplanes, we would not have any planes flying in Australia,” Prof. Kidd said.

Earlier this week, Qantas Chief Executive, Alan Joyce, told Today the carrier’s new “Fly Well” program includes a range of improvements on Qantas and Jetstar flights to ensure a safe coronavirus free travel environment when domestic travel restarts.

“Because the cabin’s pressurised, 99.9 per cent of all viruses, all bacteria, are filtered through medical-grade filters, they are usually in operating theatres and the air is extracted every five minutes from the cabin,” he said.

Qantas planes are parked on the tarmac at Sydney Airport. (Getty)

Other health safety measures include the offer of face masks to passengers, more cleaning on high-contact areas like seats, overhead lockers and seatbelts, with cleaning wipes offered to passengers if they want to clean areas themselves.

Qantas is preparing for the resumption of domestic travel in the next two months.

Mr Joyce said the airline hoped to resume domestic flights by July and has urged states to lift coronavirus border closures by then.

NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian is leading the way to reopen state borders for domestic travel. (Nine News)

Prof. Kidd said the differing stances between state premiers reflects how the pandemic is rolling out across the country.

“Obviously the epidemiology is different in different states with some states which now have had no new recorded cases for quite some days and other states where we continue to have very low levels of new cases being reported,” he said.

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Lana Del Rey Drags Beyoncé, Ariana Grande While Blasting Claims She ‘Glamorises Abuse’

Musician Lana Del Rey offered a fiery rebuke of her critics and several of her pop contemporaries this week while confirming plans for a new album, set to drop later this year.

In a lengthy note posted to Instagram on Wednesday, Del Rey took aim at those who claimed she’d “glamorised abuse” on albums like 2012’s “Born to Die” and 2014’s “Ultraviolence.” 

“Question for the culture,” she wrote. “Now that Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, fucking, cheating etc. — can I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money — or whatever I want — without being crucified or saying that I’m glamorising abuse??????” 

“I’m just fed up with female writers and alt singers saying that I glamorise abuse when in reality I’m just a glamorous person just singing about the realities of what we are all now seeing are all very prevalent emotionally-abusive relationships all over the world,” she continued. 

Describing herself as “not not a feminist,” Del Rey said she believes her work has made a lasting imprint on pop culture by encouraging female artists to express themselves authentically.  

“It’s been a long 10 years of bullshit reviews up until recently and I’ve learned a lot from them,” she wrote. “But I also feel it really paved the way for other women to stop ‘putting on a happy face’ and to just be able to say whatever the hell they wanted to in their music.”

She concluded the post by announcing plans to release two books of poetry as well as a new studio album. While she didn’t elaborate on the followup to 2019’s “Norman Fucking Rockwell!” she said the record would be unveiled Sept. 5. 

By Thursday morning, Del Rey’s post had received more than 1 million likes on Instagram. The response from fans, however, was decidedly mixed. Though some praised the frankness of her words, others accused her of unfairly criticising female artistsof colour. 

Of course, the six-time Grammy nominee is familiar with controversy on social media. Last year, she slammed NPR music journalist Ann Powers who ― in a mostly positive review of “Norman Fucking Rockwell!” ―  compared the singer unfavourably with artists like Joni Mitchell. 

“I don’t even relate to one observation you made about the music,” Del Rey tweeted at the time. “There’s nothing uncooked about me. To write about me is nothing like it is to be with me. Never had a persona. Never needed one. Never will.”

In a second tweet, she added: “So don’t call yourself a fan like you did in the article and don’t count your editor one either.” 



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Drake Apologises For Calling Kylie Jenner His ‘Side Piece’ In Unreleased Song

Someone get eyes on Kanye West, because Drake just took shots at his sister-in-law, Kylie Jenner, on an unreleased track. 

The Toronto-born rapper has presumably been spending quarantine in his $100 million eyesore of a mansion, where he’s kept busy combing through his archives of old songs and playing snippets on Instagram Live. 

During an impromptu streaming session on Wednesday night, a hookah-smoking Drake played an unreleased collaboration with Future, in which the duo name-drops the billionaire makeup mogul and sister of Kendall Jenner.

“Yeah, I’m a hater to society / Real shit, Kylie Jenner that’s a side piece,” Drake raps at one point. “Yeah, I got 20 motherfuckin’ Kylies.”

“Yeah, I got 20 damn Kendalls,” Drake continues in the song. “Young slim baddies and they in Vogue / Yeah, I got 20 fuckin’ Gigis.”

Future raps similar lyrics in his own verse on the song, which, as TMZ reports, was first teased years ago.  

The timeline is key here because Kylie Jenner and Drake were rumoured to be spending time romantically in 2019 after her split with Travis Scott, who worked with the “Degrassi” alum over the years, most notably on the song “Sicko Mode.”

The two were reportedly seen “attached at the hip” during his 33rd birthday bash and several other parties. 

“A song that mark ran last night on night owl sound live set shouldn’t have been played. It’s a song that leaked 3 years ago and got scrapped shortly after,” the rapper wrote. “He was just going too deep in the drake/future catalogue.”

Drake added: “Last thing I’d want to do is wake up having any friends of mine feeling disrespected so I just had to say that to start the day.”

See, while Kylie Jenner and Drake are on relatively good terms ― at least they were ― the “Tootsie Slide” rapper has clashed with Kylie’s brother-in-law, West, over the years.

As of 2018, the two were locked in a feud that spilled onto Twitter over a host of issues, but mostly West’s role in Pusha T’s revealing that Drake had fathered a secret child. 

Things, however, boiled over when the internet was convinced the Canadian rapper once carried on an affair with Kim Kardashian, who later denied the rumors in a tweet saying the tryst “never happened.”

This should all end well, right? 



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Jeffree Star’s ‘Cremated’ Palette Incites Massive Backlash

Jeffree Star, controversial YouTuber and founder of Jeffree Star Cosmetics, addressed the massive social media outcry over his latest makeup product, the Cremated Collection, on Wednesday.

Many have expressed outrage over the timing and troll-worthy nature of the gray-scale eyeshadow palette, considering that over 93,000 people in the US and more than 328,000 globally have died amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Some pointed out that the names of the shades in the palette ― like “Death Certificate,” “Pallbearer,” “Casket Ready” and “Embalmed” ― seemed especially insensitive.

Star responded to the backlash at the beginning of a YouTube video released on Wednesday, which also showed him using the makeup.

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Lori Loughlin Agrees To Prison Time For College Admissions Scandal

“Full House” actor Lori Loughlin and her husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, have agreed to plead guilty in connection with the college admissions bribery scandal.

Both will serve prison time and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines under their plea deals for “securing the fraudulent admission” of their two daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose, to the University of Southern California crew team “as purported athletic recruits,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts said in a statement Thursday.

Both daughters had never participated in the sport, according to court documents. The couple were accused of paying $500,000 to snag their places on the team so the girls would be admitted to the school.

Loughlin, 55, agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, according to the deal she signed on Wednesday, and will be sentenced to two months in prison, a $150,000 fine and two years of supervised release with 100 hours of community service.

Giannulli, 56, will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services wire and mail fraud, prosecutors said. He agreed to a sentence of five months in prison, a $250,000 fine and two years of supervised release with 250 hours of community service.

The couple will formally plead guilty and be sentenced at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton that hasn’t yet been scheduled, the statement added.

Loughlin and Giannulli are among dozens of prominent public figures charged in the scandal that erupted in March 2019. The FBI called it a nationwide conspiracy that exposed how well-heeled parents bribed their children’s way into the nation’s most elite colleges.

Former “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman served 11 days in a low-security prison after she was found to have paid $15,000 to boost her daughter Sophia Macy’s SAT score so that she could secure a spot at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.



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John Legend Explains The Moment That Convinced Him To Propose To Chrissy Teigen

John Legend has casually revealed the moment he knew he wanted to marry Chrissy Teigen.

Teigen, author of the “Cravings” cookbook, shared a throwback photograph of herself from 2011 on Instagram, writing in the caption that the image was taken at an Ed Hardy fashion show where she was starstruck by Jon Gosselin of “Jon & Kate Plus 8” fame.

In response, Legend offered a revelation: After seeing Teigen at the show, the “All of Me” singer realized he was smitten and knew she was the “woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.”

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A fan in the comments wrote that she thought the image was from when Teigen walked in the True Religion show, to which Teigen responded: “u are right!! I ran to Ed Hardy after.”

Regardless of which show the shot was taken at, anyone alive in the early aughts will find it incredible that Ed Hardy had any role in the couple’s story and/or their recollections.

The duo has talked previously, with less specificity, about the impetus behind the 2011 proposal, which happened as they vacationed in the Maldives.

In an appearance on “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” Legend had said that after several years of dating there wasn’t a particular moment when he knew he wanted to marry Teigen. But, he told Oprah, he knew during the vacation that he loved Teigen and that it was time to propose.

Legend and Teigen met in 2006 while shooting the music video for his song, “Stereo.” After their 2011 engagement, they got married on Sept. 14, 2013 in Lake Como, Italy. Together, they have two children: Luna and Miles.

While the Ed Hardy heyday may be over, time seems to be treating this couple well.



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‘Hero’ Costco Worker Hailed After Showdown With Irate Shopper Over Mask Policy

A worker at a Costco store is being praised on social media for calmly deescalating a battle with an angry customer who refused to wear a mask while shopping in the store.

Costco requires all employees and customers to wear a face covering while inside its retail locations. But the customer filmed himself waiting in the checkout line without a mask and berating a worker named Tison who asked him to put one on.

“I’m not doing it because I woke up in a free country,” the customer said after threatening to put the Costco worker on his “3,000-follower Instagram feed.”  Tison greeted the man’s Instagram followers, politely told him to have a great day and walked away ― taking the customer’s shopping cart of goods with him. 

“You’re no longer welcome here in our warehouse,” Tison said. “You need to leave, thank you very much.” 

Realising his error, the customer quickly suggested that his partner ― who was wearing a mask ― take his card to pay for the goods while he leaves the store. But was too late. Tison was gone and so was the shopping cart full of toilet paper, detergent and other items.

“He’s a pussy little bitch,” the customer ranted. “I’m not a fucking sheep.”  

TMZ found the customer’s feed, which featured another rant he posted after leaving the store. The booted customer said he was “not the fucking sheep” and boasted that he was one of the only people in the store without a mask.

Tison, on the other hand, won acclaim on social media for how he handled the situation:  

Tison replied from his own Twitter account. 

“People of Twitter thank you for all of the support,” he wrote. “I was just trying to protect our employees and our members.” 

And he shared an image:

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