Our morning ritual now includes swiping on a layer of elf’s Main Stain Lip Marker in “Rose Macaron.” Because when a lip product can deliver the ease of a marker, the colour payoff of a tint and the comfort of a balm, it earns a permanent spot in our beauty bag.

Lightweight and long-wearing, the lip tint is designed to add natural-looking colour that stays put on our lips through coffee runs, meetings, errands and everything in between. Unlike traditional lipsticks that can feel heavy or quickly wear off on our water glass or with a kiss with our cutie, this clever pen creates a soft wash of buildable pigment. 

Powered by a trio of moisture-loving ingredients, the formula includes glycerin, which acts as a hydration hero by attracting water to the lips, helping soften dry patches and create a smoother surface. Methylpropanediol boosts moisture levels, helping other ingredients absorb more effectively while leaving behind a silky, lightweight feel. And Pentylene glycol works as a conditioning ingredient to help draw in hydration, maintain softness and support our lips’ natural moisture barrier without leaving behind a sticky finish.

The markers are available in eight great shades too. “Hotvine” delivers a deep berry tint. “Molten Chocolate” gives off gooey dark chocolate vibes. “Chai Me” offers a warm brown-toned wash. “Beigebait” is a soft nude beige. “Gone Garnet” is lovely sheer red. “Mauvelous” is a pretty mauve hue. “Balletcore” provides a light baby pink, while our current favourite “Rose Macaron” is a sweet rosy pink that gives lips a fresh flush. 

Each marker’s precision felt-tip applicator makes the colours easy to apply, outline, shape and fill in lips, giving you the control of a lip liner with the simplicity of a swipe.

Simply start with clean, dry lips. Use the thin side of the felt tip to trace and define your lip shape, then flip to the flat side to fill in colour. Add another layer for extra intensity or top with gloss if you want more shine. The result? Effortless colour that looks polished, feels comfortable and lasts all day.

e.l.f. Cosmetics Main Stain Lip Marker in “Hotvine,” “Molten Chocolate,” “Chai Me,” “Beigebait,” “Gone Garnet,” “Mauvelous,” “Balletcore” and “Rose Macaron,” $5.99 each, available at Shoppers Drug Mart and online at www.elfcosmetics.com. 

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Jayden James is stepping further into the spotlight.

The 19-year-old son of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline is making his move into the beauty world with a new modelling gig for MAC Cosmetics.

On Tuesday, August 25, Jayden was unveiled as the latest cover star of MACzine, the beauty brand’s recently relaunched digital publication. He follows names including Doja Cat and Love Island USA star Olandria Carthen, who have previously appeared in the publication.

For his cover, Jayden poses holding a bottle of the brand’s iconic MAC Fix+ Setting Spray alongside a rather direct introduction: “Who the f–k is Jayden James?”

The accompanying interview gives readers a little more of an answer, with Jayden opening up about everything from his “perfect day” to the secret behind his skin.

“Hydration always, but my girlfriend does my whole routine for me, so she’s really the expert,” he shared when asked about his beauty routine.

MAC Global Creative Director Nicola Formichetti said Jayden’s emerging creative identity made him a natural choice for the cover.

“At MAC, we celebrate emerging talent and love following their creative journeys,” Formichetti said in a statement. “Jayden’s unique sensibility makes him the perfect MACzine cover star. He’s also an incredible pianist, and I’m so excited to see what he does next.”

The MAC moment comes just months after Jayden and his older brother, Sean Preston, 20, made their runway debuts during Paris Men’s Fashion Week, walking in Vetements’ Spring/Summer 2027 show in June.

For Jayden, the experience appears to have sparked an interest in pursuing modelling more seriously.

“I feel like I could do better, since this was my first fashion show and everything,” he told Vogue in July. “I could master my walk better—I was definitely stiff because I was nervous.”

Britney didn’t attend the show, but Jayden revealed that his famous mom was very much involved from afar.

“Oh my god, she was so nervous for us. She was just looking out for us and making sure that this was what we wanted to do,” he told Vogue. “[S]he sent us flowers to our hotel as a good luck thing, and called and texted us so many times. It was good to have that and to carry that with us before we went out there.”

According to Jayden, Spears never doubted that her sons could handle their first trip down the runway.

“I feel like she knew we had it,” he recalled. “She was like, ‘Yeah, you guys are my sons. You’ve got this.’”

With a Paris Fashion Week debut now followed by a MAC cover just a few months later, Jayden appears to be wasting little time carving out a place for himself in the fashion and beauty worlds.

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By Christopher Turner

Following Dolly Parton’s death at age 80 on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, after a brief battle with cancer, fans around the world are looking back at the countless moments that helped make her one of the most recognizable—and beloved—entertainers of all time.

Over a career spanning more than six decades, Parton became as famous for her larger-than-life image as she was for her music. There were the rhinestones, towering blonde hair, sky-high heels, sequined jumpsuits and unapologetically glamorous stage costumes. But search through the archives and few images of Parton remain as instantly recognizable as the one she created for Playboy nearly five decades ago.

Parton made history when she appeared on the cover of the magazine’s October 1978 issue. Wearing Playboy’s signature black bunny ears, bow tie and cuffs with a strapless black bustier, the then-32-year-old singer became the first country music star to pose for the magazine.

It was a provocative move for a country singer in the late 1970s, but Parton did it entirely on her own terms. She agreed to appear in Playboy under very specific parameters: there would be no nudity. Inside, the issue featured an extensive interview with the superstar rather than the nude pictorial readers might have expected.

Years later, Parton explained that appearing in the magazine had also been a savvy career move. By 1978, she was already a major country star, but she was increasingly looking beyond Nashville and attempting to introduce herself to a much wider audience. The Playboy cover was another way to do exactly that.

“That was just another way I was trying to market myself, at that time, to kinda get in the mainstream,” Parton later recalled of the appearance.

It worked. The resulting image became one of the most memorable magazine covers of Parton’s career and perfectly captured the balancing act she would continue to pull off for decades: sexy but playful, provocative without taking herself too seriously, and always firmly in control of her own image.

In retrospect, it also feels unmistakably Dolly. Parton spent her career refusing to let other people dictate what a country singer—or a woman—was supposed to look or act like. The Playboy cover allowed her to flirt with one of the era’s most recognizable symbols of sexuality without abandoning the boundaries she had established for herself.

Nearly half a century later, the image remains so closely associated with Parton that it has continued to appear on official merchandise, from T-shirts to tote bags and collectibles.

Dolly Parton recreated her Playboy cover decades later

More than four decades after the original cover hit newsstands, Parton revisited the famous image—with a very personal twist.

In 2021, at age 75, Parton recreated her Playboy Bunny look as a birthday surprise for her longtime husband, Carl Dean. In a video shared on social media, she appeared in an updated version of the costume, complete with bunny ears, bow tie and cuffs, and explained that fans had long wondered whether she would ever pose for the magazine again.

“Well, I’m 75, and they don’t have a magazine anymore,” she joked. “But my husband always loved the original cover of Playboy, so I was trying to think of something to do to make him happy.”

Parton had the new photograph framed alongside the original 1978 cover and presented it to Dean, who turned 79 that year.

It was an appropriately playful second act for an image that had followed Parton throughout her career—and a reminder that behind one of pop culture’s most famous public personas was a remarkably private relationship. Parton and Dean married in 1966 and remained together for nearly six decades, until his death in Nashville on March 3, 2025, at the age of 82.

The original Playboy cover, meanwhile, never really went away. Almost 50 years after Parton first put on those bunny ears, the photograph remains an enduring piece of her visual legacy: glamorous, cheeky, instantly recognizable and, above all, completely Dolly.

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Whitney Houston is officially a Barbie.

Mattel has unveiled its first-ever Whitney Houston Barbie doll, celebrating the late superstar with a recreation of one of her most recognizable looks: the purple mini dress, colourful earrings and larger-than-life glamour she wore in the 1987 music video for “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”

The Barbie Signature Whitney Houston Doll comes dressed in a replica of Houston’s purple tank dress, complete with colourful drop earrings, vibrant eye makeup and her signature voluminous curls. Naturally, there’s also a microphone and stand, ready for Barbie-sized performances.

According to Mattel, the doll celebrates Houston’s “record-breaking career, legacy and timeless music that inspired generations of artists and continues to resonate with fans around the world.”

The release was created in collaboration with The Estate of Whitney E. Houston and Pat Houston, Whitney’s sister-in-law and executor of her estate. But according to Pat, the idea of turning Whitney into a doll actually dates back decades.

“Whitney had never really endorsed anything, and we started having conversations about her brand … we talked about a Mattel doll 20 years ago,” Pat told People.

Houston, who died in 2012 at the age of 48, was initially interested in a doll inspired by her role in the blockbuster 1992 film The Bodyguard and its massively successful soundtrack. That version never came to fruition, but Pat says Whitney remained interested in the idea.

“She really wanted to invest the time in doing a doll,” she said.

Now, more than a decade after Houston’s death, the project has finally become a reality.

“I’m just really happy that we’re seeing this doll come to fruition, and it’s going to be a lasting influence across generations,” Pat said. “I’m just honored to be in this place at this time, and we’re actually doing it.”

Rather than revisit The Bodyguard, Mattel and the Houston estate ultimately landed on a defining moment from earlier in her career: “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”

Released as the lead single from Houston’s second studio album, Whitney, in 1987, the euphoric pop anthem became one of the singer’s signature songs and one of the defining hits of the decade. It topped charts around the world, including the Billboard Hot 100, and earned Houston the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

The accompanying music video was just as memorable. Filled with bold colours, high-energy choreography and quintessentially ’80s fashion and beauty, it captured Houston at the height of her early superstardom. Her purple dress, colourful accessories, dramatic makeup and gravity-defying curls helped make the clip an enduring piece of pop-culture imagery.

For Pat, choosing that particular Whitney era was a “no-brainer,” especially given the emotional connection generations of fans continue to have with the song.

Recreating such a familiar look also meant getting the smallest details right. Pat says Mattel carefully considered everything “down to the earrings, to the color of the hair, to the color of the dress, to the details on the shoes.”

“It was incredible to be a part of all that, even to walk through their showroom,” she said. “Everyone was so involved in every aspect of creating such an amazing doll.”

For Pat, that attention to detail made the collaboration particularly meaningful.

“I witnessed the care, I witnessed the creativity, and the commitment behind celebrating Whitney’s legacy,” she said. “I’m just very grateful to have been a part of a project that honors her artistry, her elegance, and her impact that she still has on the world.”

More than three decades after “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” first had the world dancing, Houston’s influence remains unmistakable. Now one of pop music’s most enduring icons has been immortalized in another form — as Barbie.

The Barbie Signature Whitney Houston Doll is available in stores across the country now.

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If you’ve ever fallen hopelessly in love with a nail polish shade only to discover it has been discontinued, OPI has some very good news for you.

To celebrate 45 years of iconic nail moments, OPI is opening up its extensive colour vault and bringing back some of the shades fans have spent years asking to see again. And considering the brand has released hundreds of memorable colours over the past four-and-a-half decades, there was plenty to choose from.

OPI’s “Fall 2026 Most Requested Collection” is essentially a greatest-hits tour for your fingertips, mixing 12 resurrected cult classics with new shades inspired by some of the brand’s most recognizable colours.

For longtime OPI devotees, the returning polishes are likely to inspire some serious nostalgia. The lineup reaches back into the brand’s archives to revive colours that disappeared from shelves but never completely disappeared from fans’ wish lists.

Among the shades making a comeback is Every Month Is Oktoberfest, a moody deep violet with red shimmer that feels practically made for sweater weather. There’s also Louvre Me Louvre Me Not, a rich, inky purple, and Route Beer Float, a deep brown with mauve undertones and subtle shimmer.

And those aren’t the only familiar bottles returning to nail polish racks.

The vault has also been cracked open for Mod About You Pastel, a soft, cool-toned pink; Lincoln Park After Midnight, OPI’s famously dramatic near-black purple; Vodka & Caviar, a sophisticated classic red; and Mrs. O’Leary’s BBQ, a rich burgundy that has long had its own devoted following.

The timing couldn’t be better. Beauty’s ongoing obsession with the ’90s and Y2K has made archival colours feel surprisingly fresh again, while the return of deeper reds, browns, plums and vampy shades makes many of OPI’s old favourites perfectly suited to Fall 2026. What once felt trendy suddenly feels timeless. (Even bedazzling is back!)

Of course, OPI isn’t relying entirely on nostalgia. Alongside the returning vault shades, the anniversary collection introduces new colours that riff on some of the company’s best-known polishes, giving longtime favourites a 2026 update.

It’s a fitting way for the brand to mark its 45th anniversary. Since launching in 1981, OPI has become almost as famous for its cheeky shade names as it has for the colours themselves. Over the years, those tiny bottles have served as miniature beauty time capsules, capturing everything from the pale-pink manicure eras to the dark, vampy nails of the ’90s and the glitter-heavy experimentation of the early 2000s.

And while beauty trends have a habit of disappearing and eventually coming back around, OPI’s latest collection proves that sometimes the easiest way to find the next must-have manicure is simply to look into the vault.

For anyone who has been hoarding the last few drops of a discontinued favourite, consider this permission to finally use them.

OPI’s Fall 2026 Most Requested Collection is rolling out now for fall 2026.

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