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Welcome to BeautyWire, where we round up the day's biggest beauty news.
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Sounding a lot like a cross between the Spice Girls and a TLC album, Michael Kors' new "sporty, sexy, glam" interactive campaign has landed on Facebook. It's basically a choose-your-own video adventure of MK beauty, clothes and fragrances. As Kors explained to WWD, "I think those three things—sexy, sporty and glam—have always been the DNA of Michael Kors, and in a strange way, the Michael Kors woman really is all three of those things. It's just that she feels more strongly about one of them at certain given times." And if you feel strongly, you can check out the whole just-launched collection at Macy's. [Facebook]
Following the mop chops of Coco Rocha and Beyoncé, The Cut investigated what short hair means for non-celebs, finding among other things that men "bid about 40 percent less on women with hair above their shoulders than on women with hair below their shoulders" on WhatsYourPrice.com (where people basically buy a date with you). [The Cut]
Right on the heels of her Sephora nail collection, Deborah Lippman is launching a new six-piece "holographic Jewel Heist" line. FYI: according to Lippman, texture is the huge trend for fall. [Elle ]
If jewels aren't your thing, JINSoon and Tibi have come together for a Fall/Winter nail collab which includes five shimmer shades and a matte topcoat to create "layering effects." [Racked Inbox]
A new product testing the skin elasticity of astronauts is going to be used May 29 aboard the Soyuz rocket to see if "a six month period in space increases the aging rate of skin." No words as to its on-Earth applications. [Refinery29]
And in other weird news, if you're ever wondered what Anna Wintour's forehead might look like under her signature helmet hair, Man Repeller gave it a guess while switching the signature do with Grace Coddington's. [ManRepeller]
—Alyssa Carroll