A New Cream Blush to Lust Over - Lancome Color Design Blush.

To be quite honest, I have yet to jump on the cream blush bandwagon. I have always had a problem with both proper placement and blending. Well folks, things have changed and I think I am addicted. Why? Lancôme has designed a perfectly creamy, easily blendable cream blushes.

Lancôme's Color Design Blush is a new blush, that blends on smooth as silk - almost as if rubbing a silk cloth over your cheek. And I am being serious. I really love the way this blush feels and looks.

Color Design Blush comes in 3 finishes and 7 beautiful shades.

• Creme Couture
• Model Mocha
• Petticoat Pink
• Pret a Plum
• Chic Cassis
• Freeze Frame
• Retro Rouge

I think I even found my perfect look. I use Creme Couture, which is a sheer, and layer Freeze Frame, which has a very sheer shimmer over it. The end result is beautiful I can't believe how much fun I am having with this.

Each Color Design Blush retails for $26 and is available at your Lancôme counter or Lancôme.com.

Urban Decay Matte Eyeshadow.

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.
 

Mascara Monday - LORAC Publicity Stunt Lashes

Another Monday, another mascara. Today I want to share with you my thoughts on a fairly new mascara. This is LORAC's Publicity Stunt Lashes.

Publicity Stunt Lashes is a gentle, lightweight, long-wearing mascara made to be waterproof, flake-proof, smudge-proof - and really budge-proof. This mascara lasts and lasts all through the day.

I find this mascara to be very similar to Prescriptives Here to Stay that I wrote about a few weeks back. The real difference is in the brush. The brush is taped in the middle with the shortest bristles there, so application is designed to help curl the lashes, especially in the inner and outer corners, while just coloring in the center of the lashes. The handle is actually a similar shaped comb that you can use to separate lashes after application, if need be. I have not used the comb, as I found the mascara to glide on and coat my lashes in just a few strokes.

 

Usually the longer the lasting the mascara, the more brittle my lashes feel, but this is not the case with Publicity Stunt. I think I have found another winner in the long-lasting mascara category.

Publicity Stunt Lashes comes in your basic black and brown, and sells for $18.50 at Sephora.