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Welcome to Beauty Wire, where we round up the day's biggest beauty news.
Axe body spray has been banned from a Pennsylvania high school after a kid inhaled some of it and had a massive allergic reaction. The school posted a message on their website: "My request to all Freedom Family members is that we take into consideration this student's allergy to Axe Body Spray and refrain from using it as your cologne or fragrance of choice while attending Freedom High School." Luckily, the student is OK, but hopefully we've all learned a valuable lesson about the importance of never buying Axe products ever again. [Jezebel]
Martha Stewart's beauty regimen is about as OCD as you would expect. Among the highlights: Mario Badescu soap, Creme de la Mer (of course), a major hate for hairspray, weekly hand massages, and the admission that she hasn't had plastic surgery on her face "yet." Also: Martha loves her Clarisonic, even though it's too noisy. [Allure]
Net-a-porter recently announced they would be adding high-end beauty products to their offerings, and they were not messing around. The e-tailer kicked off their beauty shop with a $715 face serum from the Spanish brand Natura Bisse. At least those Alexander Wang boots look positively affordable by comparison. [Lucky]
Fergie is expanding her longstanding collaboration with Wet 'N' Wild: in addition to fronting several product lines, she partly created a lipstick whose proceeds will partly go to amFAR. The color is called Perfect Pout V.I. Pink and was inspired by her previous work with MAC's Viva Glam campaign (whose proceeds also go to amFAR). [WWD]
Apparently Balmain has secretly had its own line of hair products for years, available only for their We didn't either, but the products are now available for non-supermodels to buy at the UK's Harvey Nichols department store chain. The line is being sold under the name Balmain Backstage and includes shampoo, hairspray, and a hair perfume. [Vogue UK]
Little BU, a new line of nontoxic temporary nail polishes that wash off with soap and water, made its debut at Kids' Fashion Week in London. The website says their polishes are for little girls, though, so nobody tell Kingston Rossdale or Jenna Lyons' son. [Daily Beast]