Shu Uemura’s Painting Gel Liner Collection.

Shu Uemura’s ultra-smooth, highly pigmented, long lasting gel eyeliners are just what this wanna-be makeup artist longs for. The new Painting Gel Liner Collection is a variety of artistically selected shades and textures, making it fun to mix and match colors for unlimited possibilities.

The colors are all beautiful. Nine shades range from the darkest shades we normally expect, plus some vivid accent colors, and some with glitter and full wattage shine.

The liners apply beautifully and glide on without tugging. You have about a minute or so to play with the liner once applies. After that, the line is there and there to stay, as my favorite part about these gel liners is just how resistant they are to sweat and tears. The formula does not allow for fading, flaking, chipping or smudging.

The Painting Gel Liner shade lineup:

• Black
• Night Blue
• Brown
• White - which I use to soften the darker or brighter colors for my own custom look
• Vivid Blue
• Green
• Purple
• Gold
• Silver

The Painting Gel Liners are available now on counters, Shu Uemura boutiques as well as online.

Estée Lauder Introduces Double Wear Stay In Place ShadowCreme and Eye Pencil.

Perfect for the long days of summer, Estée Lauder just released Double Wear Stay In Place ShadowCreme and Eye Pencil. These beauties last all day, up to 15 hours.

These two additions are the latest in Estée's renowned Double Wear makeup collection. These are the ultimate in longwearing, stay-in-place products. These rich and creamy eye products deliver brilliant color to eyes, for an alluring look that lasts all day!

Double Wear Stay-In-Place ShadowCreme is a sophisticated, long-wearing, ultra creamy eyeshadow that delivers long-wearing, brilliant stay-true color to eyes. Double Wear Stay-In-Place Eye Pencil is a technologically advanced eye pencil that glides on smoothly, delivering a smooth, even line that won’t smudge or budge all day.

Packaged in an airtight elegant glass jar with a luxurious golden cap, each of Double Wear Stay-In-Place ShadowCreme’s ultra-pigmented shades is soft in application, yet buildable. Ranging from subtle, creamy mattes to richly textured semi-pearl, you can choose from up to 10 unique shades - Pink Blush, Vintage Violet, Antique Gold, Ivory Lace, Precious Jade, Golden Apricot, Silver Leaf, Blue Velvet, Sea Mist and Lilac Petals - to create your perfect eye look. Each shadow sells for $17.50.

From a perfect line to a smudgy smoky eye, Double Wear Stay-in-Place Eye Pencil makes any eye look easy. Available in seven, rich, jewel-toned shades consisting of mattes and shimmers - deepest black Onyx, richest Coffee, and pearlized jeweled hues of Forest, Midnight Blue, Black Plum, Graphite and Bronze. Each beautifully long-wearing eye pencil is sharpenable and includes a flexible foam tip applicator for easy smudging and blending. The foam is soft and flexible to provide comfort on the eyes and the barrel of the pencil is matched to show the pencil’s color shade. The pencils sell for $19 each.

When ready, remove the long-lasting products easily with Estée Lauder’s Take it Away Total Makeup Remover, Long Wear Makeup Remover Towelettes or any oil-based makeup remover.

These new products will be available this month at Estée Lauder counters as well esteelauder.com.

Lancôme Laque Liner in Pure Sparkle.

This gorgeous eye liner from the Lancôme Spring Pink Irreverence collection is one product you should not pass up. Especially if you like to glam it up and add a little sparkle to your eye look. Pure Sparkle Laque Liner is then for you.

The sparkle can be soft when used on its own over a bit of soft color and blended out before it dries. Or you can go all out and swipe a harsh line over a dark shade of eyeliner. That is how I used it over the weekend when heading out for a night at the casino and a fancy dinner with some friends. The end result was gorgeous and I received many the compliment.

My favorite part about La Laque Liner is Pure Sparkle is that the sparkle stays where you put it. I do not have to worry about sparkles flying here, there and everywhere. This sparkle stays right where you draw it on and it lasts. No smudging or moving out of line - ever.

Like I said, do not let this one pass you by. Check it out online or at your favorite Lancôme counter soon.