Hey Dallas-area shoppers, if you'd like to celebrate the start of summer with a bang, you might want to put Saks (Galleria) on your calendar. On Saturday, April 16, the Saks Chanel counter is throwing a summer launch party, offering a variety of indulgent services. You can:
I was reading this month's Lucky Magazine, when I came across (p. 123) a feature on new, blue cosmetics. One of the items featured was an Estee Lauder nail polish and I was captivated.
As you already know, famed makeup artist Tom Pecheux is now the creative director for Estee Lauder — and Tom loves color. Estee
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Last time I was in Sephora, Urban Decay's display of new creme blushes caught my eye. Afterglow Glide-On Cheek Tints are $24 each, and Urban Decay promises "they're not your grandmother's cream blush" (meaning, I think, that they're not heavy or opaque).
The colors look pretty wild in the pan — fortunately, they apply more sheerly, so you can
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When Dior launched their spring collection, it contained one grey nail polish, Gris Montaigne. But Gris Montaigne was also part of a capsule collection: Dior made three "grey" nail polishes, one for each of three fashion capitals. Gris Montaigne represents Paris; Bond Street represents London; and NY 57th (obviously) represents New York.
Bond Street and NY 57th are sold
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It's almost summer, which means you have a plethora of new lipsticks to choose from. One of the most hotly anticipated formulas is Chanel's Rouge Coco Shine, the sheer counterpart to last summer's Rouge Coco. Rouge Coco Shines are $32 each. Each offers a sheer wash of color, and the formula has a good amount of "slip" — it
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Building on the success of last year's Orgasm Illuminator (a liquid highlighter), NARS is bringing three new shades into the fold: Copacabana, Super Orgasm, and Laguna ($29 each).
Here are heavier swatches:
The Illuminators are all sparkly, but Copacabana and Super Orgasm kick that sparkle up a notch.
Tarte has recently released a number of products containing "Amazonian Clay" (potted eyeliner, shimmering pressed powder, translucent loose powder, concealer, illuminating serum, eyeshadow, and blush). The clay is supposed to be nutrient-rich and "skin balancing:" mattifying, hydrating, and clarifying.
Sephora has eight colors of the Amazonian Clay blush for individual sale. They're $25 each, and the clay's balancing properties
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Cosmetics technology advances at an incredible rate. I know you guys have heard of acrylic nails. You've probably also heard of gel manicures (like Calgel) and — the latest breakthrough — gel-polish hybrids (like Shellac by CND). These options are tougher (longer lasting), more expensive, and not as DIY as regular polish. But in addition to their
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Lancome recently released 10 new eyeshadow quints (Color Design Eye Brightening All-In-One Five Shadow & Liner Palette, if you must know). I have to say, these palettes are fantastic. Texture and pigmentation are wonderful — and best of all, the palettes are permanent to the collection.
Each palette is $48.
100 Taupe Craze features a matte
Releasing concurrently with Zoya's summer collections, Sunshine and Summertime, is Mod Matte, a three-piece limited edition collection.
These three mattes are 90s bright, and even without a themed party to attend, I'm visualizing a funky two-tone manicure (I'm thinking zig-zags, using scotch tape to make my stencil).
Phoebe is intense, electric blue. Mitzi is chartreuse (yellow-green.
Tons of exciting summer news from Zoya. First, the brand has released two complementary six-piece summer collections: Sunshine (microglitters!) and Summertime (cremes!). Then, there's a limited edition three-piece "mod mattes" (zingy-bright) summer collection. And finally, Zoya is running a fabulous promotion on the fifteen new shades.
Let's get down to brass tacks. Microglitter is one of my favorite nail polish
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Cake eyeliner is a dry, pressed (cake of) powder. To use it correctly, you dampen your eyeshadow brush and muddle it on the cake until you achieve a mixture the consistency of shoepolish. In my mind, it's an eyeliner that's as precise as liquid, but easier to use. And of course, you don't have to worry about your product drying
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Readers, this makeup news item almost escaped me (but better late than never, I hope). When Chanel introduced its Rouge Allure Extrait de Gloss, they very discreetly gave Saks an exclusive — and absolutely gorgeous — shade: Liberte.
And then — oh, the humanity — Chanel withdrew the color. It was probably meant to be
This past Sunday my Chanel Saks associate Michael offered to do my makeup (and who would say no to that?). Michael has known me forever, and he enjoys creating looks that I would never do myself.
This time, he gave me a fierce winged liner, and though the chances of my successfully recreating the look are low,
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