MAKEUP
• The European cosmetics retail store Inglot will open its first outpost in the States in Times Square. The company rented the space for ten years. So, Sephora, meet your match. [NYP]
• Women are buying more beauty products on the Internet. The online retail arena is the only beauty channel seeing solid sales growth right now. [NPD Group]
HAIR
• Hollywood is obsessed with spiky hair right now. Everyone from Rihanna to Robert Pattinson to Adam Lambert of American Idol is into it. [Daily Beauty Reporter/Allure]
FRAGRANCE
• Perfumer Christophe Laudamiel will debut a “scent opera” on May 31 at the Guggenheim Museum called Green Aria. The performance has been five years in the making and will pair music with a sequence of smells. [WSJ]
• Cacharel will launch a new perfume named Scarlett, named after the actress Scarlett Johansson and the heroine from Gone With the Wind. [Now Smell This]