Eyeshadow duos are back, though they’re $27.50 now. As with last summer’s duos, MAC doesn’t identify individual shade names or finishes.

Dynamic Duo 1 features a warm candy pink with gold duochrome shimmer, paired with a slightly chalky matte magenta berry (really the only shade that disappointed me at all in terms of smooth delivery of pigment). Dynamic Duo 2 includes a softly shimmery blue-silver and a vibrant matte cerulean.

Dynamic Duo 3 offers a shimmery blue-purple-steel grey and a matte teal (yowsers). Dynamic Duo 4 has a matte Pepto/Barbie pale blue-pink and a super-dark matte eggplant purple. All in all, the texture and color payoff of the duos is excellent.

The collection also features a few face powders. Pink Cult blush (repromoted from Jeanius) is a dusty bubblegum pink (Matte). I thought — from its name — that Magenta, a matte red-violet, process magenta, was a permanent, pro color (products with simple color names are often pro shades)… but I was mistaken; it’s limited edition. The blushes are $20 each.

Lightscapade Mineralize Skinfinish was originally released in 2006; recently repromoted in the Cindy Sherman collection of fall 2011. It’s a pearly warm-white shimmery highlight, $29.

I swatched the powders first lightly, then heavily.

The collection also includes three nail polishes (each $16). Vivid Effect is a red-pink coral, an intense hibiscus creme. In the Dark… Purple is grape. Screening Room is a green teal.

There are also four Eye Kohl (non-mechanical pencil) eyeliners ($15 each). Heirloom is a shimmery metallic dishwater blue-purple silver grey. Hyacinth is a satin (low shimmer) justice blue. Resort is a satin grape. Smolder (a permanent shade) is black.

The lips are probably my favorite part of the collection. I’d been vaguely regretting not buying Watch Me Simmer from February’s Shop MAC Cook MAC collection, but it’s already being repromoted, so I got my second chance.

Reel Sexy is a light coral pink Amplified Creme. Watch Me Simmer is a deeper warm pink. Pink Popcorn (Lustre) looks really lavender in the tube, but swatches on surprisingly pink. It’s a very sheer pink lilac with microscopic blue shimmers.

Wag of the finger to MAC for naming the fourth lipstick in this collection Heroine. MAC fans surely remember that there was a Heroine lipstick in MAC’s recent Wonder Woman collection. It was a Frost finish, and a completely different color (frosty red-brown). This Heroine is a grape creme Matte. The lipsticks are each $14.50.

There are also four Cremesheen Glass lipglosses ($19.50). Private Screening is a light warm pink. Star Quality is a bright red-pink coral, a color that J.Crew would probably call “melon.” Cinestyle is periwinkle, pale blue-purple. Colour Saturation is berry.

Reel Sexy is available on Nordstrom.com, Dillards.com, Bloomingdales.com, and MACcosmetics.com — happy shopping!

Pantone was a commercial printing company that became famous for their color standards. To make a long story short, they created books of color swatches and a system by which any of these colors could be consistently created. Some colors are created with the standard printing mix of CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). Others are “spot” colors, created from some combination of Pantone’s 13 inks plus white and black. What this means is a graphic designer in Phoenix can create a corporate logo in PMS 78 (Pantone Matching System), and it can be printed correctly in Iceland, India, or New Zealand, without calibrating it to another printed sample. The system is so pervasive that even national flags are described by PMS color.

And since 2000, for the prestige of the brand, Pantone has named a “color of the year.” I don’t always agree with their predictions; I wasn’t feeling “Honeysuckle” last year. Orange was pretty hot last summer — I think it hasn’t yet gone out of vogue. Regardless, I love orange, so I was very excited about the collaboration.

I originally expected to buy the collector’s set, $68. It includes everything I thought I would want: eyeshadow quad, lipstick, the blush duo, and single blush. The lipgloss and eyeliner were just a bonus! But the eyeshadow quad kind of talked me out of it. The texture was nice, but not, as Camel cigarettes used to say, pure swatching pleasure. The shades are all a little sheer (I built them up).

Scallop Shell is a sheer, satin, beige ballet pink. Carnelian is a satin coral with a few pink-gold shimmers. Sparrow is a cool, matte, slightly purpled bark-brown. Pavement is a sheer black satin with a few tiny sparkles. The eyeshadow quad is $28, if you buy it individually.

Tangerine Tango Cream lipstick ($18) is the flagship piece of the collection, and Sephora, you got me good. I love it. It’s a semi-sheer coral orange — and because it’s sheer, it goes completely warm-strawberry red-pink on me. Also because it’s sheer, it doesn’t last THAT long on my lips. The texture is glossy-jelly, not drying at all. It also has a sweet scent (gummi bears?) that I notice only when I’m applying.

Then there’s the lipgloss set, $20 (which is nothing when you consider you’re getting 4 glosses). But in what will become a recurring theme for this collection, I kind of wish they’d done individual products instead of a set.

The lipglosses are a nod to Pantone’s different finishes. Vivid is probably the truest representation of what “Tangerine Tango” is supposed to be. It’s the most opaque and the most red. Tangerine Tango Luminous is a little lighter, a little more sheer, and has gold sparkles. Tangerine Tango Opal is a little more sheer and a little lighter, with dense pink sparkles. But as you can see from the swatches, it almost seems like you’re buying three tubes of the same gloss. Tangerine Tango Glaze is a nice surprise. It’s a sheer, warm, grapefruit pink with pink and gold sparkles.

There are two blush options, a blush duo ($26) and a Prisma Chrome Blush ($16). The blush duo consists of Desert Flower (a matte, warm guava pink) and Coral (a deeper, more intense, watermelon pink with gold shimmer). The Prisma Chrome Blush was REALLY sparkly; I felt like there was nearly as much sparkle as color/pigment. It’s apricot with dense gold sparkles.

Not loving Apricot Brandy confirmed my decision not to buy the collector’s set.

I found the Tangerine Tango nail polishes to be surprisingly nifty… but I wished I could buy just one of them for $6, rather than all four for $24. Like the lipglosses, the nail polishes are an exploration of finish. The set contains Tangerine Tango Matte, Creme, Shimmer (sheer with tiny orange and pink shimmers), and Glitter (intense, autumn-leaf orange glitter in a clear base).

There’s also a trio of mechanical eyeliners ($22). Though these pencils were very soft and creamy, I was concerned about staying power. (Anyone own these and care to weigh in?) Meteorite is black, Tangerine Tango Twist is a sheeny satin bittersweet red-orange with pink and silver shimmers. Chestnut is dark brown.

The collection also contains a number of makeup accessories: “Tangerine Tango” brush sets ($68), false lashes ($28), eyelash curlers ($18), a makeup bag ($28). None of these made my have-to-have list.

Also, I do have to ding Sephora for their packaging on this collection: the outer packaging is absurdly wasteful (perhaps to discourage in-store shoplifting of what was sure to be a popular collection). I also disliked the translucent, non-attaching, magnetized lids on the eyeshadow quad and blush duo.

Are you an orange-lover? A Pantone-groupie? What did you love (and not love) about this collection?

I tried 240 Pamplelune on at the counter and it’s much less sparkly on the lips than it looks on your hand. The formula feels marvelous, and the colors are fairly subtle. I think of these as an easy, effortless, brightening, single-product summer lip. Like their Rouge Automatique counterparts, Shine Automatiques are $35 each.

200 Sous Le Vent is a muted, warm, browned rose with a few, tiny, multicolored sparkles. 201 Vague Souvenir is a warm apricot-brown. “Vague Souvenir” sounded so funny in English I looked up what it meant in French. Souvenir is memory. Well that makes sense.

202 Mi-Mai is a soft, muted warm pink (lighter than Sous Le Vent) with silver sparkles. 220 Pour Troubler is a cherry pink-red with gold sparkles. 221 Rouge de Damas is a warm red-rose-pink with blue-silver sparkles. 240 Pamplelune is a sheer, warm, strawberry-candy jelly-pink with gold sparkles. 260 Jardin de Bagatelle is a very sheer pale grapefruit-pink with gold sparkles. 261 Rose Imperial is a sweet, cool, rose-candy pink with pink sparkles. 262 Extrait de Rose is a cooler, more vibrant, blue-pink (a gentle fuchsia) with silver sparkles. 263 A La Parisienne is a warm strawberry red-pink with pink and gold sparkles.

I couldn’t fit all 12 shades on my arm, so here are the 260s all together:

264 Rose Pompon is a sheer (purple) wine with pink and silver sparkles. 265 Pao Rosa is a red-berry-wine with pink sparkles.

The last few Chantecaille collections have centered around a four-pan palette, so let’s start with that. The limited edition Coral Reefs palette is $79, and includes three full-sized eyeshadows and a blush. When you finish a shade, there’s a pinhole in the back of the compact to help you push out the pan, so you can pop something else in there (which is nice, because empty palettes from Chantecaille are pretty expensive).

For the past several years the Chantecailles have donated a portion of the proceeds of these palettes to various environmental charities. When you buy a Coral Reefs palette, 5% ($3.95) will go to the Marine Conservation Institute. I guess 5% is better than nothing, but I think you buy a Chantecaille palette because their powders are exquisite and you love the colors, not because they’re making a donation.

The powders feature a gold overspray (which disappears quickly) and the embossed image of coral. The first shade (Pink Pearl) is a soft satin beige-pink with a very subtle, pearly tinge of gold shimmer. The second shade (Reef, also referred to as Sand on Chantecaille’s website) is a satin warm fawn-sand with very subtle, tiny gold shimmers. The third shade (Driftwood) is a satin, warm brown, redwood, mulch color with a few tiny bronze shimmers.

The blush is simply called Coral, and it’s a beautiful satin warm pink with tiny, subtle, glowy sparkles. Oh how I love a warm/coral blush.

There are three lip products in the collection, which I thought were all permanent additions to the line… though NeimanMarcus.com designates the Lip Chic and Gloss as limited edition.

Sunrise Lip Chic is a warm, tropical guava pink ($33). Lucky Brilliant Lip Gloss is a light, warm, sheer pink with gold shimmers ($32). Coral Lip Definer is a bright coral, a very orange pink ($24).

There’s one new Gel Liner Pencil, Espresso. But I was pretty sure I hadn’t yet swatched Hematite (which launched this past fall), so I did that one, too. These eyeliner pencils are $32 each. I believe Espresso is limited edition (but why?). It’s a dark cool brown, pretty much my perfect color for an eyeliner. Hematite is a sheeny, Batman-charcoal black-grey.

If you’re shopping online, this collection is available on NeimanMarcus.com (free shipping with code SPRINGFS), Nordstrom.com (free shipping), and Chantecaille.com (free shipping at $75).

I’m glad they did. From the preliminary (at-counter) testing I’ve done so far, Addict Extreme seems fantastic… though the word ”extreme” is a bit misleading. Actually, ignore Dior’s official description of this product altogether.

I tried on 339 Silhouette, and found it to be nearly the color of my lips, with a very soft, natural (low-shine) finish — a beautiful balm. I tried on a mid-level color (either Riviera or Lucky), and found it also to be more muted than I expected — but very pretty. These lipsticks also feel so good, I’m thinking “Addict who? I’m an Extreme girl now.”

If you were a little disappointed by YSL’s Volupte Sheer Candy lipsticks (because most of them were SO sheer, because they didn’t last that long), you are going to LOVE the look and feel of Dior Addict Extreme. If you’re a fan of the Revlon Lip Butters, I’d also recommend giving these a whirl.

Kate Moss is wearing 536 Lucky in the promo photo.

316 Incognito is a slightly mauvey grey pink. 339 Silhouette is peach. 356 Cherie Bow is a petal-pink/soft blush-pink. 667 Avenue is a soft rose pink. 476 Plaza is a happy cool pink (like jelly sandals!). 639 Riviera is coral pink. 536 Lucky is bright warm pink. 756 Fireworks is a warm red. 789 Bellissima is a red-violet rose. 866 Paparazzi is a soft wine rose.

I reswatched Bellissima and Paparazzi for visual reference (I just couldn’t fit all 12 of the available-everywhere shades on one arm). 829 Sunset Blvd is a bricky, warm, rose-red. 987 Black Tie is plum-violet.

The next four shades are Sephora exclusives. 336 Saint Tropez is a sheer peach pink. 479 Holiday is a sheer, cool, bubblegum pink. 486 Cruise is a slightly deeper, warmer pink. 366 Pink Icon is a light, sheer, warm pink.

There’s also one exclusive Saks shade: 857 Princess, which I’ve heard is cherry red. It’s limited at Saks, but will be permanently available on Dior.com. I’ll get that one swatched as soon as possible.

Dior also created four nail polishes to correspond to the four star lipstick shades — I love them all. 257 Incognito is a dusty grey pink-purple. 537 Riviera is a bright (coral) orange. 579 Plaza is a bright cool pink. 659 Lucky is “hot red,” a bright, warm, saturated coral-pink-red. All four are permanent to the line.

Dior Addict Extreme lipsticks are $30 each (available at NeimanMarcus.com [free shipping with code FSMAR], Nordstrom.com, and — through April 6th — Sephora.com is offering 15% off for VIBs with code CHICVIB).

The nail polishes are $23 each (NeimanMarcus.com, Nordstrom.com, Sephora.com).

Anyway, Estee Lauder’s summer collection (which gives me a bit of a 70s vibe) is on counters. The timing feels right — I think (in Texas) February was our spring.

For the past few years, Lauder has used the summer collection to reimagine a seasonal ideal they call “Bronze Goddess.” This year’s goddess is inspired by the Italian isle of Capri.

Estee Lauder is definitely still exploring the possibilities of their powder gelee formula: the summer collection contains an “all-gelee” eyeshadow quint called Bronze Sands ($45).

If this collection, as a whole, is meant to evoke the mountains, sandy beaches, and water of Capri, the eyeshadow palette does it very succinctly. The quint includes a frosty, shimmery, intense, carroty copper; a warm, iridescent, shimmery golden pearl white; a muted green-blue ocean shimmer; a tawny safari-gold shimmer/frost with a few silver sparkles; and a warm, sparkling satin rich-rust red-brown.

They say you can use the Illuminating Gelee formula wet or dry, but the pigments are already so potent, dry… does anyone use them wet?

Building on the success of the Intense Kajal Eye Crayons from the spring/Topaz collection, Capri contains one dual-ended Intense Kajal Eye Crayon Duo: Molten Lava/White Sands. I was excited to see a dark brown option in this formula, but in my limited testing thus far, the brown seems to produce more fallout than the black. The eye crayon duo is $24.

There’s also a Molten Lava nail polish ($19). It’s a deep, dark brown with tiny, subtle warm shimmers.

There’s a new Illuminating Powder Gelee for face, and I have to think this one is intended as cheek color (what do you think? How are you wearing it?). Shimmering Sands is $42, a bronze-rose with multicolored shimmer and tiny silver sparkles.

There are two Pure Color lipsticks ($25), both repromotes from the permanent line. Urban Auburn is a wine-red-brown. Tiger Eye is a shimmery, frosty, metallic, warm, iridescent bronze rose (similar to a heavy swatch of the Shimmering Sands powder, actually).

These lip colors seemed very “fall” to me, but didn’t Tom Ford also see spring/summer 2012 with a similar lip palette? Maybe we’re saying goodbye to “traditional” lip seasons. Maybe deeper hues look better on the deep (hopefully faux) tans of summer in Capri.

There’s also a new lipgloss: Shimmering Mirage ($22.50). It’s a super pale sheer yellow with gold shimmer and silver sparkles.

The return of Bronze Goddess also means the annual re-release of Bronze Goddess fragrance, as well as the launch of a new and limited edition Bronze Goddess incarnation.

Bronze Goddess smells like 70s coconut oil tanning lotion. Though it has been lovingly reviewed by many a fragrance blogger, it’s not my cup of tea. Robin of Now Smell This wrote a really excellent review and explanation of the history of this scent: in a nutshell, it was released as a body oil in 2006, then as an eau fraiche in 2007 when Mr. Ford did his infamous collaboration with the brand. It has been making an appearance every year since then, accompanied by “companion fragrance” since 2011.

I really do like Bronze Goddess Capri, though. Estee Lauder fragrances often have a very blended quality that makes it difficult for me to pick out individual notes, so all I can really say is that Capri smells very warm to me. I think it could lend an air of leisurely European-riviera-vacation to even a summer spent at home, so I’m really looking forward to making it one of my scents of this summer.

The notes of Capri, according to Estee Lauder, are cassis, mandarin, and lemon leaves (top notes), jasmine sambac, muguet, and peony (heart), and vanilla, amberwood, patchouli, and musk (base).

Both fragrances are $57 and should be considered limited. (The original Bronze Goddess won’t be back until next summer, and you never know when it might be permanently retired.)

The summer collection also repromotes Estee Lauder’s excellent (and under-appreciated, in my opinion) powder bronzers. Forgive me for not reswatching them, but you can see last year’s swatches of Soft Matte Bronzer, Soft Shimmer Bronzer, and Soft Duo Bronzer here. They are each $32. Bronze Goddess Luminous Liquid Bronzer is also back; it is $28.50.

The Bronze Goddess collection is available everywhere, but if you’re shopping online, you can get free shipping from NeimanMarcus.com (code FSMAR), Nordstrom.com, and EsteeLauder.com.

The packaging is really pretty (and not terribly heavy). My only complaint is that the labels on the bottom have only the number (no letter, no name). And I’m really bad with numbers.

The Rouge in Love formula is rose-scented, really lightweight, and surprisingly pigmented. They wear quite comfortably for several hours, and can stand up to coffee (and maybe a light breakfast). They do leave some pigment behind, so even after the lipstick is basically gone, people are still saying “pretty lipcolor.” (If you don’t like it, you can wipe it off with a napkin — it’s not a stain. The shades do get more pigmented as you progress from Matins to Boudoir to Night, and, as always, the brighter the lipcolor, the more color it leaves behind.)

128M Ever So Sweet is pinky coral with tiny, subtle gold sparkles. 322M Corail in Love is light, warm, springy pink. 106M Jolis Matins is a muted, slightly browned orange (persimmon). 217M  Delicate Lace is a greyed rose-mauve with a faint gold shimmer. 230M Rouge Rendez-vous is rose-pink. 275M Jolie Rosalie is a mauve-berry. 353M Roses in Love is a cool rose-pink with gold sparkles.

200B Lasting Kiss is a fairly opaque beige-pink nude. 307B Sweet Embrace is an opaque dusty bubblegum blue-pink. 146B Miss Coquelicot (ADORE the color, can’t pronounce the name) is a tropical-fruit coral. 340B Rose Boudoir is a hot, hibiscus bright pink. 156B Madame Tulip is a deeper orange-red with gold sparkles. 381B Violette Coquette is bright grape purple with a few purple sparkles (I’ve come to think of this color as “Afrobella purple”). 278B Divine Seduction is a warm red-brown. As if that quick red fox and the lazy brown dog had a baby.

170N Sequence of Love is a warm red. 181N Rouge Saint Honore is a cooler cherry red. 185N Rouge Valentine is a cool cherry pink-red. 292N Cocoa Couture is a chestnut, rum-raisin, red-chocolate brown. 287N Sultry Simplicity is a more sheer, less-red brown with a few gold sparkles. 391N Fiery Attitude is a magenta grape violet. 377N Midnight Rose is a saturated fuchsia pink.

The Rouge in Love lipsticks are $25 each, available everywhere.

Use code FSMAR to get free shipping at any price from NeimanMarcus.com. Spend $50 to get free shipping at Sephora.com.

Through March 21st, Lancome-USA.com is offering free shipping (plus deluxe samples of Creme Mousse Confort and Tonique Confort) on any purchase, no code required. Or, if you spend $45, use code LANMARCH to receive deluxe samples of Genifique Concentrate, Renergie Lift Volumetry SPF 15, Renergie Lift Volumetry Eye, and Hypnose Doll Lashes.

Nordstrom also offers free shipping at any price, and they are currently in gift in-store and online. Spend $39.50 on Lancome, you can choose one of two GWP options.

Use code EYE to receive deluxe samples of:

• Absolue Premium ßx Absolute Replenishing Cream SPF 15
• Visionnaire Advanced Skin Corrector
• La Base Pro Perfecting Makeup Primer
• Hypnose Doll Lashes Mascara
• Color Design Eyeshadow Quad in Pink Pearls, It List, Zip Me Up, and Fashion Admirer
• Color Design Lipcolor in Fashion Icon
• Black cosmetics bag

Or use code CHEEK to receive deluxe samples of:

• Renergie Lift Volumetry Volumetric Lifting and Reshaping Cream for Normal to Combination Skin
• Visionnaire Advanced Skin Corrector
• Creme Douceur Cream-to-Oil Massage Cleanser
• Hypnose Doll Lashes Mascara
• Blush Subtil Shimmer Delicate Oil-Free Powder Blush in Mocha Havana
• Bi-Facil Double-Action Eye Makeup Remover
• Green or black cosmetics bag

Happy shopping!

I fell in love with the idea of this collection, and now that I have the products in hand, the shades are even more beautiful than I had imagined. But we should talk about what to expect when you open the box.

The Creme Rouge ($40) is a little smaller than you might expect for a product of its type — though I don’t really think I have cause to complain. The blush is a reasonable size, the case feels solid (even heavy), and the catch to open and close the compact is satisfying.

The lipstick, however, is small. Very small. When you pull it out of its leatherette bag, you may be tempted to compare it to GWP lipsticks from Guerlain, Chanel, or Dior. And that makes the $25 price tag feel steep.

On the left: Estee Lauder for Mad Men Cherry lipstick, .07 oz. On the right: Estee Lauder Signature Lipstick, .13 oz.

Larger than a GWP but smaller than a breadbox. Left: Guerlain Rouge Automatique GWP. Center: Estee Lauder Mad Men lipstick in Cherry. Right: Chanel GWP.

I can think of two plausible reasons for the size of these products — and the truth may be some combination of the two: (1) Estee Lauder might have had to pay major licensing fees to AMC for the rights to create a Mad Men collection, and (2) vintage cosmetics are sometimes on the small side (e.g., Besame), so maybe they were going for accuracy.

Evening Rose is a fabulous watermelon-rose-pink cream blush that delivers sheer, buildable, dewy color. Cherry lipstick is a bright, saturated, watermelon red-pink.

I was a little bit worried (based on the names, based on the preview images of the products) that these colors might prove too cool for my tastes, but I really like them both — and I think they’d suit a wide variety of skintones.

These products were provided for swatching purposes.

That’s probably an overly dramatic way of putting it. They’re changing the formula, tweaking the packaging, changing the colors, and giving the lipstick a new name. But the essence of Extra Silky will remain. As national artist Matthew Arbogast put it, “this is an upgrade.”

The Extra Silky Lipsticks were known for their “slip,” the almost-liquid, sheer, glossy, lightweight, Moroccan-oil formula. The Enriched Lip Luminizers still have that lush feel, but they’re not QUITE as slippy. It’s a small difference, but I think it gives the product better wear time.

I also think the Enriched Lip Luminizers come in a more logical range of colors — and there are more shades with more pigment.

The new lipsticks come in new, refillable packaging. The outer case is $25, and each shade is sold as a $35 click-in “refill” (Cle de Peau’s blushes and eyeshadow quads are already sold in this compact + refill way). The refill also has a little “window” so you can see when you’re running out of product.

My only complaint is that the shade number of the refill is printed on the part of the tube that’s covered by the outer case. And there’s no way to see the shade when the case is closed (in case you own more than one).

201 is a sheer, greyed beige-pink with some silver and a few gold sparkles (I’ll mention which shades have sparkles, though I don’t think you’ll see them on the lip — they’re too subtle). 202 is a sheer rosewood, a warm, lovely, earthy, browned, natural rose with a few gold sparkles. 203 is a warm, barely rosy brown. 204 is a sheer peach with a few silver and pink sparkles. 205 is a slightly deeper than 202, and a bit more berry. 206 is bright, warm, sheer (coral) pink. 207 is sensational, and I want everyone to have one. It’s a bright, pigmented, strawberry-red with gold sparkles — a total win. 208 is a cool pink with silver sparkles. 209 is a deeper, warmer, red-violet, strawberry-candy-pink with silver sparkles. 210 is a sheer, warm petal-pink.

211 is warm red. 212 is a sheer purple-berry-wine. 213 is a tiny bit more berry than 211 (the raspberry to 211′s red). 214 is a warm, medium rose-pink. 215 is a sheer lilac-orchid (pink-purple). 216 is rose-mauve. 217 is rum-raisin red-brown. 218 is tawny honey brown (almost amber) with gold and pink sparkles. 219 is a sheer, barely red-/purpled- (but comparatively cooler) brown with gold and pink sparkles. 220 is a honeyed, golden yellow (and a great shade to put on top of another lipstick, to modify the color).

My favorites? 202, 207, and 211 for sure. Maybe 206 as well, though it will be more sheer.

The Extra Silky Lipsticks are still on-counter (and online) for now, and I expect they’ll be there until they sell through their current stock. (The counter at Neiman Marcus Northpark has a full complement of shades, so if there’s something you can’t find, give them a call at 214-363-8311). Click here to see swatches of the Extra Silky Lipsticks.

The Enriched Lip Luminizers are available everywhere Cle de Peau is sold (and Neiman Marcus is currently in gift. Free shipping with code SHIPNM).

The stars of this release are two limited edition Shimmer Bricks (five-shade compacts which can be worn as eyeshadow, or blended together as highlighter). They are $39 each.

Swatched individually, the shades of Rose Gold are a shimmery peony pink, a beige shimmer with super-strong, pale, iridescent pink duochrome (you can see the beige in the photo, but the swatch looked almost totally pink in person), a shimmery rose-pink/rose-gold pink, a frosty rose-bronze, and a red-rose-copper frost.

Blended together, Rose Gold makes a very shimmery cheek color/highlighter. It builds to a surprisingly peachy/beigey sparkly pink. Here’s the light swatch of the blended shade:

And here’s a heavy swatch:

Wild Rose Shimmerbrick is more pink. The individual shades are shimmery lilac-mauve (with silver shimmer), warm (peachy) shimmery pink, a sparkly rose-violet pink, a shimmery violet-pink, and a shimmery cotton-candy-pink. They combine to create a surprisingly warm pink. Here’s the light swatch of the blended color:

And here’s a heavy swatch:

This collection also brings Rich Lip Color SPF 12 back into the spotlight. This “soft matte” lipstick formula debuted in spring 2011 and I’ve been loving it ever since. Of the six shades shown here, all are new except Lilac (which made a limited appearance a year ago), and all are permanent except Miami Coral (you know how Bobbi feels about corals). They are $23 each.

29 Beige Gold is a sheer beige pink. 30 Miami Coral is a light peach-pink. 28 Pink Peony is rose-pink. 27 Nude Rose is brown-pink. 26 Wild Rose is a cool violet-pink. 17 Lilac is a mauve pink.

The lipglosses are all the Rich Color Gloss formula ($23). Rose Gold is a repromote; the rest are new and permanent.

16 Pink Gold is a chewing-gum pink with gold shimmer. 9 Pink Sorbet is a slightly mauvey, blue pink with deep/subtle silver shimmer/sparkles. 10 Angel Pink is brighter and warmer, without shimmer or sparkle. 11 Rose Gold is a shimmery golden caramel. 12 Pink Cocoa is a brown/rose-purple duochrome with a subtle shimmer.

This collection repromotes Rose Gold shimmer wash eyeshadow and Caviar gel eyeliner (example 2), and though I’ve swatched them before, I thought I might as well swatch them again.

Rose Gold is a metallic rose shimmer. I may have previously described Caviar Ink liner as a very dark brown-black, but I think it’s almost more accurate to call it a “soft black.” It goes on dark, so if you don’t usually wear black eyeliner, this one may take you by surprise.

Bobbi eyeshadows are $24, her gel eyeliners are $22.

Bobbi’s Rose Gold collection is available everywhere, but BobbiBrown.com has a pretty nice GWP with $100 purchase: a little eyeshadow palette containing Navajo, Slate, Heather Mauve shimmerwash, Steel, and Caviar, plus a deluxe bottle of Instant Long-Wear Makeup Remover (valid Feb. 28 – Mar. 2) with code BBTOGO1.

Neiman Marcus is also in gift, and you can get the department gift with $100 purchase; the Bobbi gift with $150 purchase. Free shipping can be had at Neiman Marcus (at any price) with code SHIPNM.