MAC Cosmetics | Baby Bloom: Available July 30th, 2009

MAC Cosmetics Baby Bloom for Fall 2009

BECOME A FORCE OF NATURE… Introducing Baby Bloom, the newest and simplest way to combat hot and cold extremes, air-conditioning and outrageous heat, with our next generation collection of Studio Moisture Tint treatments…makes the sunny side of the street the place to meet! Five neutral skin-tone shades, all SPF 15, to drench skin in healing emollients, give it glow, rescue it from future damage. And fresh new Suntints SPF 20 Liquid Lip Balm in five sheer colour shades, from Pink Tinge to Moist Plum, are the big news we’ve been tight-lipped about…until now!

Studio Moisture Tint SPF15 ($29.50 U.S. / $38.00 CDN)
Light Soft pale beige
Medium Warm beige
Medium Dark Caramel beige
Dark Deep caramel
Deep Dark Rich golden bronze


Suntints SPF20 Liquid Lip Balm ($14.50 U.S. / $17.50 CDN)
Just A Smidge Soft, pastel yellow with multi-coloured pearl
Lilt of Lily Soft, creamy pale pink
Pink Tinge Clean bright yellow-pink with gold pearl
Full of Grace Soft, sheer rose
Moist Plum Light lilac with very fine pearl

Launch Date: July 30th, 2009
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Prescriptives Summer 2009: Best Colors of the Season

My favorite products of the collection are the Exhilarating Lip Glosses. They’re guava flavored and come in three flattering shades: Mango, Pink Grapefruit and Guava.

Check out the entire Prescriptives Summer 2009 Color Collection at prescriptives.com.

Shu Uemura: Limited Edition Moyoco Anno Cleansing Oil Bottles

Shu Uemura has collaborated with renowned manga artist and beauty expert Moyoco Anno to create the playful new packaging on the shu uemura cleansing oils.

For a limited time, the bottles will display Moyoco’s “Tokyo Kamon Girls” and traditional Japanese family crest themes.

Available in this collection are all my favorite shu uemura cleansing oils in the same formulas:

Cleansing Beauty Oil Premium A/O
Brightening Cleansing Oil
High Performance Cleansing Oil Fresh
High Performance Cleansing Oil Enriched
High Performance Cleansing Oil Classic
The shu uemura Moyoco Anno Cleansing Oil Bottles are available for a limited time online at shu-uemurausa.com.

Summer Travel: Makeup Bag Ideas

Keeping organized while on the go is easy with these super cute makeup bags. From storing nail essentials to special occasion makeup to travel-size haircare products, I couldn’t live without the cosmetic bags I use for organizing my “stuff.”

Here are a few cute ones that recently caught my eye and would be perfect for summer travel:

Stephanie Johnson Gidget Compact Brush Case: I have several Stephanie Johnson cosmetic bags and I love them all. However, I do find that the brush cases are the most handy. I can keep my essential brushes and favorite everyday makeup all in one compact, pretty case.

Dior Patent Leather Cosmetics Pouch: I doubt that I would ever spend $220 on a teeny little makeup bag, but that doesn’t stop me from loving the sleek design and bright white leather of this Dior Leather Cosmetics Pouch.

Sonia Kashuk Tribal Sonia Weekender: There are currently THREE Sonia Kashuk makeup bags (in different prints, and stuffed full to the brim with makeup) in my bathroom cabinet. I love how they’re huge, and zip way open to easily see the contents. You can easily find a print to suit your style and your budget!

Contents Metallic Dot Weekender: Much like the Sonia Kashuk weekender bags, this Contents Metallic Dot Weekender seems extra roomy and has an adorable print. It’s also available at Target, too!

Stephanie Johnson Jumbo Zip Case: This clear plastic zip case is perfect for the sunscreens and lip balms I take with me to the beach. No need to fish around my huge beach bag trying to find a Chapstick! And aren’t the seahorses so cute?

Kate Spade Bloomington Large Colin: Kate Spade can do no wrong in my eyes. This daisy print train case has a removable interior bag that’s perfect for tossing into your handbag with on-the-go essentials. Also? It’s on sale!
Because I’m a Makeup Bag junkie, I’m dying to know what your makeup bag looks like (and what’s in it!).

Send me a picture of your Makeup Bag and its contents and you’ll be entered into the Summer Travel Makeup Bag Contest.

This feature will run through the month of July and participating readers will have an opportunity to win $350 worth of summer beauty products.

Please send photos, along with your name and details on the contents of your makeup bag, to beautyeditor {at} makeupbag {dot} net, with the subject line: Summer Travel Makeup Bag Contest. This contest is open to all readers, regardless of location.

Clinique Summer 2009: Bamboo Pink Collection

Clinique Bamboo Pink Collection is a gorgeous array of warm browns and muted pinks inspired by best-selling Clinique lipstick shade: Bamboo Pink.

Select pieces feature the beautifully crafted ‘bamboo’ packaging, making these a must-have summer Makeup Bag item:

Limited Edition Fresh Bloom Allover Colour in Bamboo Pink

This beautifully pressed floral powder compact combines three powder shades to creat a soft, luminous glow.

Limited Edition Colour Surge Eye Shadow Quad in Bamboo Pink

A limited edition eye shadow quad which offers soft and shimmery shades to create both sexy and sophisticated looks.

Limited Edition Butter Shine Lipstick in Bamboo Pink

One of Clinique’s best-selling lipstick shades is now available in a revolutionary gel formula that delivers the shine of a gloss and the comfort of a lipstick.

Limited Edition Powder Brush

A luxurious natural-hair brush designed with a large dome for easy application of pressed and loose powder.

Clinique Summer 2009: Bamboo Pink Collection is currently available at Clinique counters nationwide and online at Clinique.com.

MAC Cosmetics | MAC Euristocrats II: Available: July 2nd, 2009

MAC Euristocrats II for Fall 2009


While “a kiss on the hand can be quite continental,” a modern girl does the kissing now, knowing she has the drop-dead drama of these hot new Dazzleglass shades. In the very latest violet, coral and pink passion hues, to add the sheen, the sparkle, and the ooh-la-la that never fails to entertain. They’re the “something extra” we’ve added to the lipstick and dazzleglass collection Euristocrats can’t get enough of. More, More, More!
MAC Euristocrats II for Fall 2009


Dazzleglass ($18.00 U.S. / $21.50 CDN)
Date Night Soft blue purple with pearl
Euro Beat Peach coral with gold pearl
Internationalist Yellow pink with blue pearl
Local Colour Neutral yellow pink with gold pearl
Roman Holiday Medium brown coral with pink pearl
Rue d’Rouge Light red with pink pearl
Via Veneto Light violet with blue pearl

Lip Pencil ($13.00 U.S. / $15.50 CDN)
Magenta Vivid pinkish-purple
Cherry Vivid bright bluish-red
Subculture Underground pink
Whirl Dirty rose

Lipstick ($14.00 U.S. / $16.50 CDN)
Costa Chic Frosty light coral
Naked Paris Sheer pink brown with multi-dimensional pearl
Patisserie Sheer creamy neutral pink
Milan Mode Sheer deep pink with multi-dimensional pearl
London Life Sheer deep berry with multi-dimensional pearl
Saint Germain Clean pastel pink
Cockney Sheer yellow red with multi-dimensional pearl


Launch Date: July 2nd, 2009
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MAC Cosmetics | Graphic Garden: Available: July 2009

Dior Fall 2009: Jazz Club

So, I know that summer has barely started and all, but I just had to share this new Jazz Club eye shadow palette in Smoky Jazz from the Dior Fall 2009 collection: Jazz Club.

I have a thing for taupe eye shadow so this palette is like a dream come true for someone like me. With everything you need for eyes, including eyeliner, eyebrow powder and eye shadows, you’ll have everything you need to swiftly move from day to night on the go.

If you’re more into purples than taupes, Purple Jazz will be available as a Nordstrom exclusive beginning in August 2009.

Also in this collection:

1-Colour Extreme

Trendy Taupe ($27.50)
Argentic ($27.50)
Brow Styler in Universal Brown ($28.00)

5-Colour Eyeshadow in Night Butterfly ($56.00)
2-Colour Eyeshadow in Cocktail Look ($35.00)
Diorliner in Plum ($31.00)
Ultra-Gloss Reflect ($25.50)


Taffeta Plum
Draped Burgundy
Dior Addict Lipcolor ($26.00)

Neglige Pink
Decadent Plum
Crème de Gloss in Sweet Praline ($26.00)
Dior Contour in Thrilling Plum ($26.00)
Dior Vernis ($20.00)


Red Dahlia (Sephora Only)
Black Plum (Not Sephora)
Dior Fall 2009: Jazz Club is available beginning August 2009 at Dior Beauty counters nationwide and online at dior.com.

Chanel Summer 2009: Tokyo Happening Collection

For the opening of the new CHANEL Fragrance and Beauté boutique in Japan’s artistic and trendy Aoyama area, Peter Philips, Global Creative Makeup Director for CHANEL, has created the limited-edition Tokyo Happening collection.

These iridescent pastels are sweet and light—perfect for easy summer days. Here’s what you’ll find in this collection:

Highlighter Powder, $65

Les Tendres
Glossimer, $27

Wish
Lune
Libellule
Galactic (repromote)
Le Vernis, $23

Blue Wish
Lune d’Argent
Rose Libellule
Galactic Touch
CHANEL Tokyo Happening Collection is currently available online at Chanel.com and will be available in CHANEL Makeup Studios and Boutiques starting in July.

M.A.C Cosmetics Friends & Family Sale June 16 - 18

From June 16-18, 2009, MAC Cosmetics will be hosting a Friends & Family sale!!!! Take 25% off all products when you purchase online.

Start making your lists (and checking them twice) NOW, girls. These products are going to fly off of virtual shelves come June 16th at the stroke of midnight...so mark your calendar.

Promotion is only available on the U.S. and Canadian MAC websites. Enter coupon code SUMO at checkout.

MAC Cosmetics | Naked Honey: Available: June 11, 2009

As ancient and exotic as Kohl, great beauties have long revered the natural restorative powers of the Golden Elixir.



Following the example of their fabled Queen, Cleopatra, Egyptians bathed in honey and milk. Queen Anne of England used it to silken her hair; from the Ancient Greeks to the Roman Empire, honey has never lost its regal, ever-amber lustre. We love the luxury of its sensual essence…but we also know that it’s a highly efficient and wholesome humectant and healer. Introducing our limited edition Naked Honey collection – three aspects of golden warmth and sun-made sweetness for the body, layered with two decidedly different honeycomb-derived fragrances – celebrating the secret lives of Queen Bees. Complementary shade of High-Light Powder, Eye Shadow and Lipglass are all the buzz for summer.


LIPGLASS ($14)
She’s a Star: Light neutral gold
Queen Bee: Mid-tone apricot with multi-dimensional pearl




EYE SHADOW ($14.50)
Crème de Miel :Frosty light yellow gold
Pollinator: Mid-tone warm reddened peach with pearl
Buckwheat: Dark copper brown with multi-dimensional pearl
Buzz: Dark copper brown with multi-dimensional pearl



HIGH-LIGHT POWDER ($24.50): A high-light powder specially created for the Naked Honey Collection . Features an embossed honeycomb pattern. Super fine, impeccably pearlized, it creates soft high lights. On cheek, brow, shoulders – anywhere on the body.

Honey: Light A light peachy gold with shimmer
Golden Nectar: Muted golden tan with gold shimmer


NAKED HONEY SKIN SALVE ($18.50): Formulated from honey, organic beeswax, sunflower oil and other natural ingredients, this rich honey-scented and flavored salve instantly moisturizes and helps recondition dry skin. Multi-purpose. Use everywhere.


NAKED HONEY HAND AND BODY CREAM ($22.50): A sensuous cream made from bio-converted honey, shea butter, and vitamins C and E derivatives. Absorbs quickly for skin-softening moisture. Conditions, nourishes, protects. Use on all areas where ultra-moisture is called for.


NAKED HONEY BODY WASH ($19.50): Formulated from bio-converted honey, this body wash cleanses the skin while providing the soothing and moisturizing benefits of lavender, narcissus, jasmine flower and blue agave extracts. Provides a sensual, calming, cleansing experience.

Available: June 11, 2009

Shu Uemura: The Pink Collection

Last month, shu uemura launched The Pink Collection, an assortment of Rouge Unlimited lipsticks and Gloss Unlimited lip glosses made with a pink hybrid pigment (one of the purest pink pigments ever discovered and patented by shu uemura), giving us vibrant and unique shades of pink never seen before.

With nine new shades of Rouge Unlimited and five new shades of Gloss Unlimited, there’s a perfect pink hue for any skin tone.

MAC Cosmetics | Style Warriors Available: May 20th, 2009

Launch Date: May 28th, 2009 (North America), June 2009 (International).

Emerging from every corner of the glamorous globe, a new Style Warrior. Made to celebrate the cross-cultural sophistication of the modern Amazon Princess, African Queen, Crouching Tigress… Never before have we seen the “Wild Things” of the world come together in quite so many bold new combinations. Introducing a dramatically different and deliberately diverse colour story, an eclectic and expressive way to exalt and admire the strength and solidarity of beauty with no barriers. A selection of all-over summer bronzing shades for Lips, Cheeks, Eyes, Nails, featuring the innovation of Impassioned, Bronzescape and Scatterrays Solar Bits – sunbursts to unleash the animal in every woman. All exotically packaged in stylized zebra and leopard prints to keep it wild and free – the way it always ought to be.

MAC Cosmetics | A Rose Romance

M·A·C A Rose Romance launch today..

A tradition in haute-couture, an enduring Icon of Love and certainly the only flower acceptable to throw on stage at the Met or clench between teeth in a Buenos Aires tango salon, the rose remains beyond reproach. M·A·C creates a very modern Rose Romance, our lovely new colour collection for the summer season. Spring buds blush in fragrant new hues when Just A Pinch Gel Blush debuts; Fix + Rose refreshes; and our bring-back favourite fragrance, Creations Hue: Dejarose, whispers anew… But with great beauty there is always passion and peril… mind the thorns!