After watching a few of Rhona's "average" miracles (brows,

The Princess and the Frog was a 2009 Disney release, a story set in 1926 New Orleans (and featuring Disney's first African American princess). I confess, I haven't seen the movie, so I don't have the same feelings for Dr. Facilier as I do for the other villains.

This collection does include a lot of repromotes. Slick

Many of you have probably already shopped from All Cosmetics Wholesale, a cosmetics resale e-tailer. They carry MAC, Chanel, and Bobbi Brown, as well as Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics, Sigma brushes, and Stars Makeup Haven. Things that you can't find anymore (because they're discontinued, because they're not readily available in your country), you can often find on ACW.

Well because ACW

It's interesting attending fashion week from backstage. You see the makeup and hair first, you hear it explained in terms of the designer's collection — but you only see the clothes later (and probably online). While Cynthia Rowley is a household name, my understanding of her work is limited to what I've seen in Target. It really

Just before I left for New York, I was so worried about Chanel's new releases. Would I have time to swatch them while I was there? Probably not, and the distribution is so limited!

Thankfully I was able to call on the brilliant guest swatching of Estelle and Soaper1 — and as usual, they make everything look too good.

When MAC creates a multi-part collection, each section usually includes a similar offering with a different color story. Venomous Villains is unusual in that each "villain" has her own unique products.

Maleficent was the evil fairy in Sleeping Beauty, and her collection seems to be a 70-30 split between evil and good. I mean, for a collection

Essie's fall collection more or less coincided with New York Fashion Week this year, and the sartorially inspired release left me certain that Tim Gunn himself blessed the shades.

If you've been watching Project Runway this season — or if you have a natural instinct for fashion — you've already heard that military is in for fall

The makeup look at Nicole Miller was minimalist but pretty. James Kaliardos (superstar, total charmer, makeup genius) said he visualized a modern Catherine Deneuve, using elements from the 60s to create a look that wasn't dated. He gave his models a luminous champagne-silvery-gold lid with a grey crease (the line was very soft). There was no liner, and very little

I had grand swatching plans for this weekend... but they all went out the window when I found Venomous Villains testers had arrived early at my counter. (Don't worry, folks! The other stuff will still get swatched!)

Venomous Villains releases September 30 in North America, and the collection is broken into four parts. Today I have swatches

There's been an explosion of lash enhancing products on the market, and this week's prize is Talika Lipocils Expert ($55).

Talika has been an eye brand since 1948. Their first product was a salve for burn victims... which reportedly had the side effect of regrowing eyelashes. That original formula is the basis of all of Talika's "regrowth" products.

Lipocils Expert

Val Garland was the key artist for MAC at the Ports 1961 show. She said her makeup look was that of "a nomadic gypsy jetsetter on holiday."  (The clothing collection was inspired by southern Tunisia and the Sahara desert.)  Basically, she gave the models a gorgeous, glamorous, shimmery, softly smoky eye in bronze, copper, and grey. Cheeks

I fell in love with Lancome's Rose Divine the moment I swatched it. No, the moment I saw the promo photo for their French Coquettes collection — but the swatch confirmed the attraction.

Needless to say, I've been wearing this color a LOT. I'm not usually a girl for "it" bags or seasonal shades (I wear my peach-pink year-round)...

That backstage calm I described at the Kimberly Ovitz show? That was a fluke. Or possibly it was the calm of an off-site show. Edition Georges Chakra was my first Lincoln Center show, and backstage was chaos. The situation was made even funnier by the fact that tech guys were building the set (drills, nailguns and all)

So while Zoya was doing nails at the Peter Som show, they said, "hey, want to see a sneak peek of our upcoming collection? It'll be out in October." What kind of a question is that?!?

The collection is called Fire & Ice, and it offers three sparkly multi-tone microglitters (damn, I love microglitter) and three tone-on-tone microglitters. (Click

I learned several things from following Tom Pecheux around at fashion week, and I thought they were valuable enough to deserve their own post (rather than a mention in one of the designer recaps).

First, Tom said, of course it's hard to get your eyeliner to look the same on both eyes. Almost no one has identical, symmetrical eyes, so