I am very curious about these palettes, even more so now that Julia from All About the Pretty raved about them so much when I saw her last week. Bobbi Brown knows palettes, and I think she has another winner on her hands with her newly designed Custom Palettes.

You select from a three pan or a four pan palette, both of which are mirrored, and you select from Eye Shadow, Shimmer Wash Eye Shadow, Blush or Shimmer Blush - or a combo of any - and fill up the palette.

First, I want to know where are the lip shades? Surely they are in development, as we need our Bobbi Brown Lip Color and Lip Gloss.

Another product I think that needs to be made in pan palette size is a bronzer - oh, and a concealer and powder too. That would be perfect.

Next, as I am looking to come up with my mix of shades, I notice my favorite Bobbi shades are not there. Agh - I cannot live without my Smoke shadow as I use it as my eye liner almost daily! But I suppose I could throw my single pan in separately - if I must;).

Really, this palette system is a fabulous idea as it brings us back to the basics of Bobbi Brown.   I would fill up a four pan palette with shadows and a three pan palette with the blush. Each empty palette costs $10, the shadows sell for $20 each and the blush for $22 each.

I cannot wait to see what more becomes available, because if I know Bobbi, she will have all of her regular shades available and add more products for the ultimate customization.

Shop BobbiBrown.com. 

No one quite does a lipgloss like MAC. Their lipglass' rank amongst some of my favorite glosses, ever. Their newest collection is a brand new collection of gloss called Dazzleglass. Like the names says, these glosses will dazzle your lips with super duper shine and a pop of color.

"High-shine + large particle quartz and opal crystal captured in a great new formula with light-reflecting, crystalline iridescence." I am sure these beauties are on the list (and soon to be lips) of many.

Sixteen shades in all:
Comet Blue
Funtabulous
Ms. Fizz
Like Venus
Baby Sparks
Money Honey
Rags to Riches
Date Night
Spanking Rich
Get Rich Quick
Bare Necessity
Steppin' Out
Glamour O.D.
Sugarrimmed
Pleasure Principal
Love Alert

These are limited edition glosses, I repeat, limited edition so grab one or two, or all of them, while you can. 

Finding the perfect shade of mineral makeup just got easier!

Introducing two new products from the Avon Mineral Makeup Collection – Ideal Shade Smooth Mineral Makeup and Mineral Eyeshadow Shimmers. No matter where your day takes you, Ideal Shade Smooth Mineral Makeup leaves skin looking natural morning, noon and night.

This lightweight powder foundation comes in twelve shades and blends perfectly with all skin types for sheer coverage and a flawless finish. Created with PreciseLight Technology, the formula contains light-adjusting pigments so skin looks natural in any light.

Also new to the collection are the Mineral Eyeshadow Shimmers. These shimmers come in four shades and have a soft, natural consistency that glides on effortlessly and blends seamlessly, letting you take your look
from day to night in the blink of an eye. 

Ideal Shade Smooth Mineral Makeup sells for $10 and the Mineral Eye Shadow Shimmers sell for $8. These will be available soon in May.

My favorite MAC is back with a pre-summer collection called Naughty Nauticals. Look how gorgeous it looks with deep shades or blue and red.

Get ready for this new collection, as it launches May 1st, online and on counter. I can't wait, as the only time I can wear a red lippie is in the Summer with my more golden (faux-tanned) skin. 

Lipstick ($14)
Buoy-o-Buoy Creamy neutral pink brown (lustre)
Port Red Clean yellow red with gold pearl (frost)
Party Mate Sheer mid-tone pink (lustre)
Ahoy, there! Sheer light dirty pink with multi-dimensional pearl (glaze)

Lustreglass ($14)
Hey Sailor Blue plum pink with white pearl flecks (lustre)
Love Knot Sheer pink with blue & white duo chrome (lustre)
Bateaux Neutral brown peach with white frost (lustre)
Ensign Peachy pink with white and gold pearl (lustre)

Small Eye Shadow ($14)
Shore Leave Pale frosty cream (veluxe pearl)
Illegal Cargo Mid-tone frosty grayed plum (frost)
Meet the Fleet Matte midnight blue (matte)
Pandamonium Frosty gunmetal with white pearl (lustre)
Submarine Mid-tone frosty clear blue (frost)

Pigment ($19.50)
Lark About Sheer frosty white blue (frost)
Mutiny Clean sky blue with gold pearl (frost)
Bell-Bottom Blue Frosty blue with white pearl (frost)
Lovely Lily Dirty lilac with red pearl

Technakohl ($13.50)
Smoothblue Ocean blue with frost
Greyprint Rich pewter grey with frost

Pro Lash ($11)
Coal Black Honest-to-goodness-black

Nail Lacquer ($10)
Naughty Nauticals Dark royal blue (frost)
Shirelle Classic “she’s a dame” red (cream)

Is there anything special from the collection you are looking forward to? 

With a few hours down time during my jam packed schedule with Glam last week, Christina and I made our way to Space.NK Soho. I was so glad to have finally paid the beautiful space a visit.

Being beauty bloggers, we were in heaven with the entire boutique.. The staff could not have been more helpful suggesting new things to try, application techniques and more. This awesome sales associate (cannot find his card!) filled my bag with some awesome samples that I cannot wait to try.

The overall feel of the space is very uptown, yet light and friendly. The shelves are not overcrowded so I could  reach for and smell anything. The Space.NK brand itself contained a great array of fragrant body washes, balms, perfumes, candles and more. They smelled so good.

I needed a new concealer, so I headed on over to one of the many elite makeup brands they carry. I checked out By Terry, Susan Posnick, NARS, Chantecaille, Laura Mercier, and Lipstick Queen. (They are getting Shu Uemura in a few weeks!)

I ultimately decided on the Chantecaille Total Concealer. I selected the shade Ivory as I want a concealer that could take me through my bit of a faux tan that I should be sporting soon, and Alabaster, the shade I would have normally selected, might have been to light. It has a very nice light creamy-gel like feel that leaves a wonderful finish. And a little dab is all I need. This is not just an ordinary concealer I quickly learned either. It contains a special blend of olive oil, tamanu nut oil, light-reflecting particles, chamomile, green tea, orchid, and wild rose. Now that is something your average concealer does not contain. I really love it.

I also scooped up a gorgeous lip gloss in the shade Mimosa. It is a gorgeous golden peachy-pink shade. It is so moisturizing. I need to find a specific brush to use with it as I am afraid I am dipping my finger into the compact too often and using too much.  

I am so thrilled to have discovered Chantecaille, and Space.NK was the perfect place to discover it. If you are ever in the NYC area, you need to make it to one of their two stores in the city. There is the one we went to in Soho at 99 Greene Street, and the other is on Columbus Ave. at 69th. I know you will love it as much as we did.
 

Another Summer collection to debut next month (yeah - April is almost here, I cannot wait!), this is the Clinique Long-Last Bronze Summer Collection.

This model looks beautiful, doesn't she? I love her eye makeup. Thanks to the new Quick Eye Cream Shadow, we will all be able to duplicate the look.

The entire collection consists of:

Long Last Glosswear SPF15 in 18 beautiful shades
Limited Edition Shimmering Tones Powder Quad (bronzer palette)
Touch of Bronze Moisturizing Body Lotion
Quick Eyes Cream Shadow
Brush-On Cream Liner
Lash Power Mascara

 
Look for Long-Last Bronze to debut next month at your local Clinique counter and on clinique.com.

Meet another line of mineral based makeup, this is Everyday Minerals. "Real Makeup for Real Women... Everyday".  It is true, and could not be more simple. At price points that are affordable for the uncompromised quality, this is a complete makeup line.

Everyday Minerals makeup is all-natural, organic, and non-comedogenic. The line is free from all plastics, oils, fillers, talc, and other chemicals that are normally found  in cosmetics. If this is important to you, you should really look at Everyday Minerals.

The line boasts very pretty lilac and brown, simple packaging, with a large assortment of products. The best way to get a feel for the line is with one of their Custom Mineral Makeup Kits.

The kit pictured above is the Everything Kit, which sells for $75. You get to customize the kit by choosing your own colors for the following products: 2 Makeup Brushes & Accessories, 3 Foundations, 4 Blushes & Face Colors, 1 Concealer, 6 Eye Colors, and 1 Finishing Powder.

For more information on Everyday Minerals and to order, please visit their website.

Looking online simply does not do many of the Heatherette shades justice. In person the Heatherette for MAC Collection has exceeded my expectations. From the hot hot-pink to the metallic fuchsia along with the holographic foil decoration of the packaging, to the beautiful shades inside the palettes, compacts and tubes.

My favorite piece of the collection is the Eye Shadow Trio 1.

The shades in this palette:
Hoppin’ Clean Pastel Peach (frost)
Mood Ring Pastel Mint Green (veluxe pearl)
Cloudburst True Black with Subtle Green Pearl (velvet)

When looking at the photo of this  trio on MAC, I thought it was too bright. But I was wrong. The shades are simply gorgeous and appear much softer in real light. 

I am using the peachy/pink shade all over my brow bone and eye lid with the teal shade (really, it is much more of a teal than a mint green) on  the outer two-thirds of my lid. I then take my MAC 211 Brush and use the darkest black shade that has sparkles of the teal shade in it, as an upper and lower liner. It is beautiful. The sparkle is subtle, but it softens the black and brings the teal shade out more.

The Heatherette Trio's (which are back in stock over at maccosmetics.com) retail for $32.50. And if you are a gal that loves the pink and lilac shades, then you will want to check out the other eye palette, Trio 2. 

April cannot get here soon enough. Making me long for warmer days and a little bit of a golden glow (fake), are the Summer collections being announced. And this one is another beauty.

The CHANEL Summer 2008 Summer Collection is a definite must-have for the season. 

The heat-baked sands, golden browns, and beautiful sunset bronzes have me heading off somewhere tropical.

FACE: For a summer face based on the ultimate bronze, CHANEL offers the new SOLEIL TAN DE CHANEL Moisturizing Bronzing Powder in five versatile shades, plus BRONZE UNIVERSEL DE CHANEL Sun Illuminator.

EYES: Complement this sun-kissed skin tone with OMBRE ESSENTIELLE Soft Touch Eyeshadow in Tigre (bronze), Nomade (pink rose), Khaki (khaki green), and Safari (stone brown); amp up the shine with LUMIÈRES FACETTES Iridescent Effects Eyes in Oasis, a quad containing khaki, bronze, coral, and pink shimmer, or OMBRE D’EAU Fluid Iridescent Eyeshadow in Atoll (golden sand). For long-lasting definition, STYLO YEUX WATERPROOF Long-Lasting Eyeliner comes in an exotic new shade, Vert Bronze (green bronze), while INIMITABLE WATERPROOF Mascara Multi-Dimensionnel is now available in Emeraude, a shimmering, jade-green.

LIPS: For warm-weather lips, ROUGE HYDRABASE Creme Lipstick arrives in Leopard (golden coral) and Rose Flamingo (a flamingo pink); ROUGE ALLURE Luminous Satin Lip Colour keeps things soft with Naïve (pinkish nude) and Curious (nude brown). AQUALUMIÈRE Sheer Colour Lipshine SPF15 adds a sheer shot of colour in Zanzibar (soft peach) and Mauritius (bronzed coral).

NAILS: For a final touch, LE VERNIS Nail Colour arrives in Antilope, a frosted golden-brown, and Flamingo, a bright tropical pink.

Look for this beautiful collection next month at your favorite CHANEL counter, specialty store or online, of course, at chanel.com.

Just two short days away, and I cannot wait. March 20th marks the first day of Spring! Are you ready? If not, look to Tarte and their new Health Couture collection out, just in time for the warmer, even if only a bit, weather.

With the newest natural cheek stain, lip glosses, rejuvelash, and the star product of the collection, the infinite glow bestsellers palette, you will be ready to ring in Spring in no time.

Full Blossom Cheek Stain ($28) - Two flattering shades swirled together to give your cheeks a natural and flushed glow. enriched with Tarte's exclusive t5 Super Fruit Complex for a makeup that has it's  own special benefits.

Double Dose Berry Boost & Gloss ($21) - With full color pigment in the center of the tube, surrounded by clear gloss, this innovation squeezes out the perfect amount of each to give lips a beautiful glossy finish. Also enriched with their inner berry boost (the t5 complex) to moisturize, soothe, and condition lips. I love the peppermint flavor. This gloss comes in 4 shades: Acai Boost, a shimmery berry pink;  Acerola Rush, a shimmery peach with gold; Go Go Goji, a shimmery natural pure pink; and Pomegranate Punch, a shimmery, yet sheer, red.

Rejuvelash ($16) - A conditioning mascara primer that helps mascara to glide on easier, look better, and protect lashes from the harsher chemical in mascara that day out lashes.

Infinite Glow Bestsellers Palette ($30) - Three of Tarte's best selling product that can have you glowing for Spring, or any time of year. The trio includes the Mineral Powder Bronzer in Park Avenue Princess  Cheek Stain in Tipsy, which is a sheer coral pink, and one of Tarte's very moisturizing 24/7 Lip Sheers in May Flowers, a beautiful sheer rose.