I think we all go through a phase of stupid rebellion. I mean stupid rebellion, like being too cool to wear a bicycle/motorcycle helmet, or not wearing sunscreen.

I went through my stupid phase in college, and got a couple of sunburns I regret. I got a fascinating gradient sunburn while watching a mid-morning soccer game from

YSL recently added two exciting new products to their lineup: Chromatic wet/dry eyeshadow quads and waterproof eyeliners (innocuous name, awesome product).

I swatched the eyeshadow quads dry, with sponge-tipped applicators. Even in a dry swatch I found them pretty dramatic, but for a more intense effect on the eyes, just wet your brush with water. The testers I swatched had

When I declared Lancome's L'Absolu Nu the fifth and final new lipstick of spring/summer 2011, a reader wrote to correct me: I'd neglected to mention YSL's new lipstick offering.

I believe Volupte Sheer Candy is set to replace YSL's other sheer lipstick formula, skinny-tube Gloss Volupte. Sheer Candy comes in a wider, silver lipstick tube

In July of 2008, MAC released a color collection called Cool Heat, and it just blew me away. I was surprised to love basically the whole collection, despite not being the sort of person who wears turquoise eyeshadow on a regular basis.

I thought that this summer's Surf Baby collection might remind me of Cool Heat, and

I got to play with the coolest new product yesterday: Make Up For Ever's new liquid eyeliners. They're waterproof (really waterproof. Like synchronized swimming, water ballet, in the ocean waterproof), with a screwtop close and an ultra-fine conical sponge applicator — dead ringers for Lancome's Artliners, actually. And they come in a dazzling array of colors.

If you want

Le Metier's Mediterranean-inspired summer collection is now on counters!: a new limited edition Kaleidoscope palette and four nail polishes.

Penelope's shades are a shimmery, muted-but-very-yellow (almost brown) sheer antique gold; a satin lavender; a shimmery bronze; and a very blackened green shimmer. I lightly layered the first three shades to simulate Le Metier's couches de

Many thanks to Adina from KraseyBeauty, who's back today with guest swatches of her personal Make Up For Ever eyeshadow collection. Make Up For Ever's pressed eyeshadows have been on my to-swatch list for a while now. They just have SO MANY colors (and Sephora carries only a selection).

I believe MUFE's eyeshadows also do double duty as

We're still operating under heavy cloud cover in Dallas; luckily Adina from KraseyBeauty is picking up the slack, volunteering these guest swatches of her personal NARS eyeshadow collection — including a few shades that are no longer available. (I am looking forward to swatching NARS' complete eyeshadow collection one of these days, so I can finally complete my

I was so impressed and excited about Lancome's two limited edition summer Artliners, I broke down and swatched the whole gang.

Artliners are Lancome's ("pen style") liquid liners. They're famous for their incredibly thin, precise, conical sponge tip — and as I learned from this swatching experiment, their staying power. The top screws on/off (which means you're less likely

Lancome's summer collection actually comes in two parts. Yesterday we looked at Bronze Azure, but there's a second display on the counter (featuring some new products and a number of repromotes).

Most prominent are the Star Bronzers, which come in three "Natural Matte" shades (Lancome's first ever matte bronzer! Particularly good for contouring) and three "Natural

MAC's Magically Cool Liquid Powder first debuted in the Venomous Villains collection (and most people were reminded of Prescriptives’ Magic Liquid Powder). Now Magically Cool Liquid Powder is back on a permanent basis.

The water-based, cooling loose powder comes in three shades: white/pink highlight Truth and Light (though my photo didn't capture the pink shine), light

I just had a chance to check out Lancome's summer collection, and I have to say: well done, Lancome. My summer fantasy (tropical island, breezy summer night, cotton dress, evening party out on a wooden dock decorated with globe lights and tiki torches) is complete: this collection is hot.

First up: the two Color Design eyeshadow quads

There are three MAC collections currently on counters. We've already talked about Fashionflower, so I thought we could move on to Flighty.

Flighty features a new product, a very liquidy gel eyeshadow in a screw-top pot called "Big Bounce" ($16.50 each). This collection also repromotes the 242 brush (a flat, dense brush, $24.50; especially good for

I haven't yet made it over to Saks to check out Dior's summer nail polishes, Aloha and Paradise (Paradise is exclusive to Saks, and somehow my Nordstrom didn't get a tester of Aloha). As I mentioned in my Dior Summer post, these polishes are not only ridiculously sexy for summer, they're also a great buy, because Dior has packaged

I wasn't planning to do any swatching in Dubai. I didn't want to subject my husband and mother-in-law to hours of waiting around a mall; I wasn't planning on trekking around the city looking for brands; I didn't know if a new set of sales associates would let me have free rein with their testers. So I