Le Metier has several exciting new lip colors on the horizon — and one that's exclusive to Dallas.

Regulars at Northpark have probably shopped with longtime superstar Carol Andersen — a 26-year veteran of Neiman Marcus. For her stellar contributions to the field of makeup (and in recognition of thousands of

Urban Decay just released their fourth Book of Shadows palette — and this one really has all the bells and whistles. You get 16 shadows (10 of which are new shades), a mini Supercurl mascara, a mini Primer Potion eyeshadow base, and a full-sized waterproof liquid liner in Perversion (black). But wait, there's more!

Instead of diagrams

Lancome is celebrating their second annual "Genes Day" on October 21st. For every bottle of Genifique Youth Activating Concentrate sold that day — any size, at any counter, Lancome boutique, or online — Lancome will donate $7 to St. Jude's Children's Hospital (up to a donation of $300,000).

No one's expecting you to buy Genifique JUST to

We've already talked about Kate Somerville's range of moisturizers, and I might have mentioned in passing how utterly brilliant her packaging is. Of course you would never buy skincare just for the packaging, but once you experience Kate's jars, you'll be mad at your other skincare for not being packaged the same way.

People sometimes

Congratulations, MAC, you've made a product so beautiful I don't want to use it — I just want to hang it on my wall as tiny art. It's even framed — with its black square compact and protective clear lid.

MAC's final collection before the deluge of holiday is a trio of artistry powders, available only

If you're familiar with French brand L'Occitane (which I pronounce l'-oxi-tahn or loxi-tahn), then you probably already know that one of the products they're most proud of is their hand cream.

Well, (1) they want everybody to try it, and (2) they want more Facebook fans, so they're doing a very simple giveaway.

Fan them on Facebook,

Huge thanks to total all-star Nicole (the blogger behind Beauty-Free, which tracks Duty-Free beauty finds). English brand Sleek continues to get a lot of love from the beauty community, and Nicole is helping me pick my favorites with her tireless swatches of their famous eyeshadow palettes.

Sparkle was limited edition, part of Sleek's 2010 holiday collection. Nicole says, "as

I LOVE going backstage at Mara Hoffman; she never lets me down. Mara's aesthetic is often colorful, usually tribal, and always bohemian, and I feel like her hair and makeup teams really push themselves to add an extra dimension to her clothes. This season, Mara was inspired by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.

DJ Riggs for Tigi wanted

Poppy King is having quite a moment. In addition to her own successful line (Lipstick Queen), she's recently launched collaborations with Kate Spade, J.Crew, and Boots.

Meanwhile, J.Crew catalogs have long featured fantastic, easy, happy, preppy-chic, life-is-good makeup (and I've often wished that they would provide credits/makeup breakdowns). I think the company finally realized that they

Avon has a new skincare product on the market, Anew Genics Treatment Cream. It's an anti-aging night moisturizer, and I thought — while we were discussing it — we could also talk about what makes a skincare product "anti-aging," and clarify a few possibly confusing terms.

Why do we get wrinkles? There are two basic reasons. First,

Dior just released six permanent eyeshadow trios, and they are both practical and fabulous. Each compact slides open (and a mirror folds out) to reveal a large base color (the third swatch in each trio) and two accent colors — one more demure, the other a little flashier. The first shade (the first swatch/the top left color of each trio)

Chanel just launched a new formula of foundation: Perfection Lumiere (the modern replacement for Pro Lumiere). Perfection Lumiere is a lightweight, long-wear, medium-to-full coverage foundation with a "matte luminous" (or "natural matte") finish. According to my trusty sales associate, it feels lighter and stays on longer than Pro Lumiere. It also provides more coverage than Vitalumiere

Guerlain's holiday collection is here, and it is glorious — what a beautiful and romantic way to imagine those long winter nights.

This collection was inspired by the 1933 Guerlain fragrance Vol de Nuit (Night Flight) — which, in turn, was inspired by a book of the same name by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (author of The Little

I don't know if you've seen them yet, but I am totally charmed by Sally Hansen's limited edition Halloween nail stickers. They come in five designs: silver and black spiderwebs, green and black barbed wire, little orange and white ghosts, skull and crossbones on a white background, and pink-and-black fishnet.

I've tried these stickers once before,

Thanks to DKNY, I recently enjoyed a "Golden Moment" — an incredible experience coupled with a beautiful fragrance.

DKNY would like to give you guys the opportunity to create your own golden moment as well. They have graciously provided three 1.7-oz bottles of DKNY Golden Delicious (and three golden clutch purses) for me to give away.

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