Katherine Lalancette

1 week ago | ellecanada.com | Katherine Lalancette

Over a decade ago, Parisian makeup artist Violette Serrat burst onto the beauty scene like a breath of fresh air. At a time when vloggers were posting umpteen-step tutorials from their ring-lit studios, she made makeup feel fun and easy with videos showing her smudging Yves Klein blue liner on her lids while sitting in a café or doing a daytime smoky eye in the back of an Uber.

1 week ago | ellecanada.com | Katherine Lalancette

We did it, guys: We survived another winter in Canada! Brighter days are now upon us, and they call for an equally vibrant you. Here are the spring glow makeup, skincare and hair care products we’re adding to our carts. This luscious oil floods lips with nourishing honey, healing even the driest, most-winter-weary pouts while also topping them with a kiss of colour. No wonder so many have raved about it on social media.

3 weeks ago | ellecanada.com | Katherine Lalancette

Back in her early 20s, when she was working as a bottle-service waitress in Toronto, Shay Mitchell put up a vision board in her apartment kitchen. Plastered on it were images of what the aspiring actor hoped her life would someday resemble: palm trees, a Teen Choice Awards surfboard, a Maybelline ad starring model Adriana Lima… Shortly after, she sent in an audition tape for a teen mystery drama called Pretty Little Liars, got the part and moved to L.A. to film the series.

3 weeks ago | ellecanada.com | Katherine Lalancette

She may have played the provocative and ever glamourous Chloe on season three of The White Lotus (who could forget that pink custom Jacquemus look on the yacht?), but in real life, Canadian actor, artist and director Charlotte Le Bon is happiest being surrounded by trees, not a scrap of makeup on her face. “I feel like when I wear a bunch of artifice, I lose a bit of myself,” she explains. That’s partly the reason why she’s shied away from beauty brand deals in the past.

3 weeks ago | ellecanada.com | Katherine Lalancette

Designer Amy Smilovic wrote the book on style. Literally: It’s called The Creative Pragmatist and it is a veritable manual on how to flesh out and express your personal style. The original tome, a collector’s item of which only 3,000 copies were produced, quickly sold out and has been impossible to find on resale sites. “No one’s letting go of it,” says the Tibi founder/creative director.