It’s Macaron Day! Celebrate With These Beauty Picks
Full disclosure: I’m snobbier about macarons than I am about almost anything else (and that’s saying a lot). I’m a Pierre Hermé and Ladurée purist, and even then there are only a handful of flavors I’ll consume: rose, pistache (pistachio), and ispahan (a blend of rose, raspberry, and lychee). Macaron ice-cream sandwiches are blasphemous in my book (the ratio is all wrong!), and don’t get me started on people who pronounce macarOHn as macarOOn (they’re two different cookies). Unless I’m in Paris, picking up a box of the cookies myself, I won’t eat them.
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So when Macaron Day rolls around each year, I steer very clear of the many macaron shops around New York City, pretty as they may be. Instead, I stick to beauty products to get my macaron kicks.
Clinique Sweet Pot Sugar Scrub & Lip Balm has lip scrub on one side, and salve on the other. Not only are the balms shaped just like macarons — you’d find the same colors in Ladurée, and the smells bring you straight to Paris. They’re almost as good as the real thing.
A Korean beauty brand isn’t the first place I’d look for macaron products, but It’s Skin Macaron Lip Balm is pretty adorable. The scents — strawberry, grape, and apple — aren’t what I’d expect to find in a patisserie, but the subtly tinted and Vitamin A-, C-, and E-rich balm more than makes up for it.
Want to look like you smeared macaron filling on your lips? You’re in luck! NYX Macaron Lippies come in shades you’d expect to find in Pierre Hermé (pistachio, rose, citron, and black sesame, among others), and lay on thick. The texture is matte and heavily pigmented. Not for everyday wear, but on Macaron Day we’d expect nothing less.
If you want to smell like a macaron, that’s no problem either — you can do it on the cheap with Urban Outfitters’ Gourmand EDP Fragrance in Macaron Rose. At $19, it’s less than a box of macarons and much longer-lasting.
Remember that old tip to avoid boredom eating — instead of reaching for a cookie, paint your nails? The same applies here. If I’m tempted by a macaron I know will be sub-par, I reach for nail polish. And Deborah Lippmann’s Sweets For My Sweet set’s pastel polishes do the trick.
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