MAKEUP
• Maybelline’s 2012 calendar features a gussied-up weather girl, a crossing guard, and a presidential candidate. [Refinery 29]
• British pop star Cheryl Cole has teamed up with L’Oréal to create a lipstick. [Daily Mail UK]
• Beauty stores saw a 30.6 percent increase in shopping visits during the week ending December 26 — more than any other kind of store. [WWD]
• Kate Middleton has been voted the top beauty icon of 2011 in a poll taken by British chain Superdrug; Pippa came in second. [Daily Mail UK]
• Anna Sui taps Swedish model Frida Gustavsson to star in her makeup ads for the fourth season in a row. [Modelinia]
HAIR
• Demi Lovato tweeted a picture of herself in a cropped wig. [HuffPo]
• See Katy Perry’s 2011 hair evolution (revolution?). [StyleList]
• Here are some out-there fake eyelashes. [StyleCaster]
NAILS
• A new coffee-table book, Nailed, chronicles nail art and culture. [HuffPo]
COSMETIC SURGERY
• Apparently, the FDA issued a warning to the French company giving women faulty breast implants back in 2000, though it seems there was never any follow through. [Jezebel]