Safe Brands (Pt 2: Tentative - Mainstream Brands)

Part one here.

Mainstream/bigger brands are harder to figure out.

Obviously any company gobbled up by Lauder and L'Oreal, is now instantly out of the question.
NYX? Gross. MAC? I love you, but no. Stila? Cute but not worth it.
Clinique? Bai bai. Michael Kors? Nice 'fume but I can find a dupe.
The Body Shop? Turrah.  

Technically irrelevant; I thought this was funny. From here

(The more I read about Mr Lauder's double-edged political activism, the more my tube of GWP Sumptuous mascara begins to resemble a missile.)

 But for brands under LVMH? Well their associations are less clear. For instance, I have yet to read something as incriminating as this, about LVMH:
"L'Oreal has also awarded a $100,000 "lifetime achievement" award to a scientist at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science in July 2008. The Weizmann Institute has been a major centre for clandestine research and development of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on behalf of Israel's military with which it has close ties."


After reading as much as I could find about Japanese/Korean brands owned by KAO/AmorePacific/etc, I figured they're all clean of blood and shoved 'em all onto the list.
This be unknown territory for many buut usually they come out with the purdiest packaging, and innovations (like tubing 'scaras) that the rest of the world takes a while to catch up on. Here is a good post detailing some good Asian brands and products.

I'd be grateful, if anyone would ascertain whether these brands are absolutely not associated with Zionist proponents. Or if something doth/dothn't belong here, please do leave a comment.
Really, the only method I employed to get this out was hours of internet research fueled by soy milk coffee (a foul concoction indeed).

Highlighted are those brands which don't engage in animal testing either.

• Addiction link
• Annabelle link
• Barry M link
• Bare Escentuals link
• Boots No 7 link
• Cargo Cosmetics link
• Cover FX link
• Elizabeth Arden link
• Etude link
• GOSH Cosmetics link
• Guerlain link
• Givenchy
• Hakansson link (for US) link (for Canada)
• Inglot link
• Jemma Kidd link
• Julie Hewett link
• Kanebo link
• Kryolan link  link
• Laneige link
• Laura Mercier link
• Lavshuca link 
• Lipstick Queen link
• Lise Watier link
• Lunasol link
• LUSH link
• Make Up For Ever link
• Makeup Revolution link
• Marcelle link
• NARS link
• Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics link
• Paula’s Choice link
• PUPA Milano link
• purMinerals link
• RMK Beauty link
• Rouge Bunny Rouge link
• Shiseido link
• Sleek Makeup link
• SUQQU link
• Tarina Tarantino link
• Tarte Cosmetics link
• theBalm link
• THREE link
• Too Faced link
• Vasanti link

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News: The missiles Israel is launching (link about how they just hit a hospital), apparently contain radioactive uranium (illegal) - confirmed by Palestinian Interior Ministry - the air gets polluted with it, and the survivors breathe it in -- so indirectly, they die still, just years later, from cancer. Bravo. Are they going to deny it as they did the phosphorus bombs? You betcha.
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Ground invasion of Gaza has begun. Soldiers in tanks, against civilians. This is how war is conducted now. 

A Violet Tinge

Ah, my burnt little crumpets!

My scathed scones, blameless though you are, and seething with the unjustice of it all, forgive me! I may have left you too long in the oven! I was lost, my dears, lost to your piteous bleats! For I was admiring my latest acquisition, as it shone with a potent lustre! Almost as potent as this third cup of coffee.

Revlon Icy Violet! 

Lookit!

Checkit!
Get yo' own, homie G dawg shiggity diggity boom boom!

(Coffee--in this town, we blame...ze...coffee).

Giggity (doesn't the stupid headband make me look like someone from Mortal Kombat?)
LUSH Sophisticated cream shadow, Smashbox Icon cream shadow, Dior Extase Pinks, MAC Tilt/Star Violet

Understated 'violet'...it mutes down the lips so they gently complement the cool-toned eyes.

A great formula, better than the regular line I think, because it is that bit more balm-y and hydrating. Frost-frightened little lambs need not refrain... Tis not frosty in the least, the 'icy' in the name refers only to a subtle dusting of splendour. Although the doctor has been nudging me to get my eyesight evaluated... 

Background: ze company, zey were kind enough to re-release five previously discontinued lipsticks, voted for by ze peoples. 

Mais...un petit probleme.. zey are of ze limited edition variety. Alackaday! (More informative, less annoying post here)

I refuse to get so attached to les ojets zat I indulge in 49 backups. Although...c'est une possibilite, n'est-ce pas?

In any case, Icy Violet...when thou dost finally drop, plippity plop, from the market stands, and when the last little stub bids us adieu, you shall be missed. You are like MAC Fluid refined, less ostentatious, less deadening. You are like a Clinique Plum Perfect, but less greasy, a softened gleam, less out-of-this-nebula metallic. 

Violet, plum, withered prune colours, zey are my favourite! 

And so I shall share, in this same post, oui, in this very one (it must be your lucky day!), ANOTHER GOOD VIOLET-ISH PLUM-ISH LIPSTICK!

Zut alors! I see you sway...clasp your walking stick for support. My dear! You must not faint with the excitement of it all! Smelling salts, Marie! Bring the smelling salts! 

Anyway... I give you...Dior Prune Daisy...

Lise Watier Les Cuivres palette on eyes, over Smashbox Icon cream e/s

No lipliner used, believe it or not. This guy is so tenacious, vibrant, and awesome. I wrote a (coffee-charged) post on him somewhere here, bemoaning the reformulation, condemning it. 

I WAS A FOOL!