If this doesn't make you wish for long, hot Summer days, I don't know what will. The Lancôme Summer Collection, which doesn't hit counters until next month, is simply beautiful. Let me introduce you to Cabana Bronze.

The star products include the Star Bronzer Sun Cherub Compact and the Color Design Cabana Bronze Eye Shadow Palette.

The Sun Cherub Compact ($50) is a cherub embedded large bronzer. Loved by celebrities and makeup artists, this très grand palette showcases the original Lancôme cherub embossed in a sea of light and dark bronze shades.

Select from one of the two new shadow palettes. Color Design Cabana Bronze Eye Shadow Palette ($43) in Cabana Sunrise, with its pinks, lilacs and browns, will awaken your senses, while Cabana Sunset with its sultry golds and deep browns will set the mood for the evening ahead.

I am rocking the Cabana Sunset eye look today with the newest Color Fever Gloss from the collection, in a beautiful sheer and sparkling bronze. Now, I just need the bronze tan to match (coming soon!).

I cannot wait until the entire collection is launched in April. 

Simply to covet, to admire, or to use until your hearts content, this CHANEL limited edition is a must-have.

4 Fleurs e CHANEL Yeux-Eyes, is a beautiful creation with the four eye shadows each shaped in the CHANEL signature Camellia. With a very light iridescence, each shade is pretty enough for Spring, yet each true to it's pigment. Silky, long-lasting, never cakey or creasing, CHANEL shadows are one of my signature products.

The quad contains the four (perfect for your best Easter bonnet) shades: Robin's Egg Blue, Pearlized White, Sunrise Pink, and Tender Lilac.

Beautiful! Just look at her eyes...

... if I could only recreate that perfect eye liner swoop. 

4 Fleurs e CHANEL Yeux-Eyes is a pricey $65, but so worth it, for all of the reasons listed above. It seems like this stunner is selling out and is in fact sold-out at SAKS and Nordies online, but it was in stock at my local Nordstrom over the weekend, and a friend of mine just scooped one up at Macy's, so you may just luck out.

From the NARS Spring Collection Shanghai Lily, the highlight of the collection is definitely the eyeshadow duo in Alhambra.

On the left is a beautiful golden champagne shade, while on the right is the most gorgeous metallic rose shade. Both shades are a bit shimmery, with the pink shade shimmering a little bit more.

I like using both shades together with the gold shade used all over my eye, and then the pink dabbed right under my brow in the center, and then swept across my lid. I make it a bit darker as I extend it outward, concentrating the darkest power at the outer part of my lid and up into the crease.

The end result is pale, soft and shimmery eye - a much needed change from the heavy and darker browns and grays I have been wearing of late. Beautiful! 

A bit away from the runways, all of the makeup artists were all about the Lilac Eye for Spring. I am not even going to go back to see if this is what came out of the Spring shows last season.  Leo at Lancome, Chad at Three Custom Color Specialists, and Raymond at Trish McEvoy, they were all about the soft Lilac shades on the eye.

Christina and Raymond Nieves, Regional Artist for Trish McEvoy

Raymond from Trish used Lavender and Pink Tangerine Eye Shadow's placed over the Shimmer Shadow Base in Gold on Christina. The look was lovely. While I usually cannot wear Lilac on my eye as it immediately turns too blue and purple on me, Raymond said that by layering it over the Gold, it will neutralize itself making it wearable on someone with my pinkish skin tone.

Have you seen these beauties yet? The Royal Assets eye palettes from MAC, just one of the MAC Cosmetics Holiday Collections this year, are stunning. Not only are these palettes a great way to try out the MAC shadows, it is a great way to play and learn to experiment with colors you would otherwise not use.

There are 4 different palettes. One in a warm collection, one in a cool collection, a metallic palette, and a smokey eye palette. Each palette contains 6 eye shadows, for $36 each.

Royal Assets: 6 Smokey Eyes

Shades are: Rondelle, a light silver with white pearl (frost); Courtly Grey, a cement grey (matte); Knight, a deep grey with silver pearl (veluxe pearl); Maid of Honor, a creamy beige (Satin); Palatial a taupe brown (satin) and Majestic, a neutral grey brown with silver sparkle (lustre). 

Royal Assets: 6 Metallic Eyes

Shades are:  Honeylust, a bronze dipped peach (lustre); Silver Fog, a. intense frosted silver with silver pearl (frost), Stately Black, a rich blue with silver sparkle (lustre); Velvet Lady, a deep black with gold sparkle (velvet); Crème Royale a yellow wheat gold (veluxe pearl) and Manor, a warm brown with green pearl (frost).

Royal Assets: 6 Cool Eyes

Shades are: Shadowy Lady, a darkly veiled plum (matte); Silverwear, a lilac grey (frost); Modern Heir, a grape purple with white pearl (frost); Queen's Jewel, a rich blue with blue pearl (veluxe pearl); Medallion, a frosted light pink (frost) and Trophy Pink, a rich red magenta (frost).

Royal Assets: 6 Warm Eyes 

 Shades are: Sunday Best, an ivory with frost (frost); Star Violet, a eath-touched pinky-brown plum fusion (veluxe pearl); Retrospeck, a beached blonde (lustre); Club, a muted reddish brown duochrome with freen opalescent shimmer (satin); Showstopper, a neutral dark brown and Nobility, a light pink taupe (satin).

Each palette comes with it's own brush, a 213SE Eye Brush. Also, the shadows are enclosed in either a gold or silver antique-inspired compact with a beautiful cream porcelain plaque and royal crown motif. Gorgeous! I told you the packaging was pretty!

I know it is hard to decide on which palette you want and which one(s) you want to give. I say buy them all, glance over each one more than a few times, and then make your decision. And if you are like me, you will probably need to go back to buy more because you won't be able to resist playing with them all.

These limited edition beauties are available now, so you need to get yours and quick.
 

If you have never tried an Urban Decay Eyeshadow, now is definitely the time. UD shadows are such a popular item that many of the shades are often sold out when I am in Sephora. If you use them, you will know why.

Urban Decay took their eyeshadow to the next level and recently launched their Matte Eyeshadow. Still encased in their signature subway token, the only difference here is that the case is a bronze instead of silver, making it simple to tell the types of shadow apart. The shadows are still full of pigment, of course, and the finish is definitely matte, yet has a silky feel to it. These shadows are never chalky, trust me. I have tested a few with various brush types, and the end result is always the same - full color that looks beautiful and lasts all through the day.

Right now, there are a dozen new shades, with some more in the making, I bet. They really have a winner here, as with all of their other 52 shadows. Here are the shadows and their shade description:

ABC Gum - matte light peach
Cult - matte muted purple
Chronic Matte - matte bright green
Foxy - matte ivory
Illegal - matte plum brown (my favorite that I use as an eyeliner. I just wet an eyeliner brush, dip my brush in the shadow, and stroke on - beautiful!)
Naked - matte taupe
Narcotic - matte teal blue
Perversion - matte black
Purple Haze - matte bright purple (pictured)
Secret Service - matte warm brown
Revolver - matte light grey
Yeyo - matte white

Each Urban Decay Matte Eyeshadow retails for $16 and is available at sephora.com.
 

Shiseido Cosmetics is giving back by donating $5, which is over 20% of the retail price for every Shiseido Hydro Powder Eye Shadow in Bare Pink that is sold throughout the month of October. Shiseido is making it's contribution to Cancer and Careers, a resource for working women who are battling cancer.

It doesn't get more gorgeous than this. This powder shadow is one of the most silky formulas available, and the bare pink shade is perfect for a base, all-ver everyday color, or used on your brow-bone as a pretty pink highlighter.

Shiseido Hydro Powder Eye Shadow in Bare Pink retails for $23 and can be easily purchased at Sephora.com.
 

Not just one pink product, but a small collection. Yay for Prescriptives'!

Prescriptives’ limited edition Pink Ahead Colorscope Eye Color combines good looks and good works. Three shimmering shades pressed into one pan highlight, define and contour eyes — wear each shade alone or blend them together to create your own customized look. The longwearing formula glides on and blends evenly for an incredibly silky feel. Supporting the cause never looked — or felt — so good.

This special edition item is part of an easy-to-wear collection that includes Colorscope Cheek Color in Highlighter Cool Light, Colorscope Lipcolor in Juliette’s Kiss and San Diego Sunset and Colorscope Refillable Custom Compact in Medium.
Colorscope Eye Color in Pink Ahead $17.50
Colorscope Cheek Color in Highlighter Cool Light $17.50
Colorscope Lipcolor in Juliette’s Kiss $17.50
Colorscope Lipcolor in San Diego Sunset  $17.50
Colorscope Refillable Custom Compact: Medium $6.00

By purchasing a product from this collection you are helping Prescriptives donate $40,000 to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation to fund innovative clinical and genetic research in North America.

Products are available at Prescriptives counters and prescriptives.com.