Love that we are starting to see a steady stream of earth-friendly products hitting beauty counters. Especially when their packaging is also both cute and multi-purpose, like Cargo’s new PlantLove Botanical Lipsticks.

The compostable lipstick tube is made out of corn and emits less greenhouse gases; the outer carton is made of flower paper embedded with real flower seeds that you can plant later on. CARGO also donates two dollars from the sale of every lipstick to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Nifty! I checked these out at Sephora the other day and unfortunately didn’t find any colors that suited me. But I hope this is a sign of things to come from the beauty industry.

MAC recently sent me a postcard promoting their latest collection, Barbie Loves MAC, and I absolutely love the photographs. Though most of the colors are too, uhhh, Barbie doll for me (not to mention a few of the products are already sold out), the concept is awesome and MAC couldn’t have done a better job. Why didn’t anyone think of this before? They managed to capture the Barbie look in a sophisticated and high-fashion way while staying true to our girlhood icon.

The postcard I received is a full version of the bottom one. I love it! It’s currently the first item to decorate my desk.