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Quick Pick Lips – Clinique Lips in Bamboo Pink

CLINIQUE Butter Shine Lipstick ($14 @ clinique.com) is such a smooooth feeling gel-formulated, feels-like-a-gloss-but-wears-like-a-lipstick, lipstick and this Bamboo Pink is so YLBB w/ a kick of pink shimmer, I can’t stand it!

Bobbi Brown Makes Nude So Cool

You can’t go wrong with nude, can you? Maybe you can but definitely not when it comes to BOBBI BROWN’s new limited edition Nude Eye Shadow Palette ($60 @ bobbibrown.com) form the Nude Collection. Such great colors and this palette will last you a looong time! Go as light or as accented as you want with these three color duos: Navajo/Pebble, Chino/Beige Linen Wash and Maple Sugar/Caviar. And these cover three different finishes – matte, lightly pearlized and high shimmer/metallic. Highly recommended.

Per-fekt Knows Skin

We wrote about PER-FEKT’s Skin Perfection Gel when it came out many moons ago and I was very excited to recently come across their new Eye Perfection Gel ($45/.3oz @ sephora.com). Unlike other beauty products, I have to go super easy on the amount used, as you read correctly, the tube is a meer .3oz, but it does double, really, triple duty:

• makeup primer for lids
• eye treatment product for doing away with puffy eyes, shadows and fine lines (it contains cucumber extract, antioxidants, hyaluronic microspheres and those all important peptides)
• concealer for under the eyes as it comes in 4 tinted colors – Awake, Bright, Refreshed and Vibrant.

So when you weigh all the products out you use for all three of those, the price doesn’t seem so steep, right?

And I have to point out how useful the metal tip is. It is called a palladium tip applicator and it feels so cooling on the skin when applying the mousse-gel. I can't think of an eye treatment gel or cream that dispenses this way or is meant to be placed directly on the skin when dispensing. Big recommendation.

CoverGirl & Olay Wants You to Highlight Your Cheekbones, Not Your Age

I’m the overdue-it-queen when it comes to any kind of blush – powder, cream, gel. I usually end up wiping half of it off. Such a waste! At least with COVERGIRL & OLAY Simply Ageless Sculpting Blush ($10.99 @   mass-market outlets) I feel like I am apply my usual of too much but I’m really not. This big glass pop top (with sponge under the cap) combines CoverGirl blush with Olay’s Regenerist Serum, so not only do you get a nice flush, your skin gets the vitamins, conditioners and anti-oxidants. And this one has a SPF 22! Choose from 4 shades: Plush Peach, Rich Cinnamon, Royal Plum and Lush Berry.

Best of Summer Beauty Part II

Ooo, this my favorite time of year and a lot of the brands are celebrating it too with NEW products. Here some more good ones we are loving right now. From L to R clockwise:

UVSunSENSE Wristband 7 Pack ($10 @ uvsunsense.com)
CLINIQUE Colour Surge Eye Shadow Quad in Bamboo Pink ($25 @ clinique.com)
PRESCRiPTIVES Calyx Sheer Exhilaration ($38.50/1.7oz @ prescriptives.com)
ISADORA Crystal Gloss Stick in Coral Rose ($12 @ amazon.com)
THEBALM Mary-Lou Manizer ($22 @ sephora.com)
ORLY Nail Lacquer in Teeny Bikini ($7.50 @ orlybeauty.com) from the Tiki Time Collection.
T!NTALIZE The Premier Concealer for Feet ($15/7 packettes @ tintalize.com)

Pixi Beauty Gives Your Face Radiance

This is turning out to be love at first sight with PIXI BEAUTY’s Brightening Primer in No.1 Pearl Essence ($33/1.06oz @ target.com). You’re probably familiar with the different face primers out there and we’ve featured one with a tint but this one goes the other direction with the tint. It has a pink pearl powder in it and while that might raise your, whah? flag, it really does give your skin just a hint of oomph and luminescence. And when I say hint, I mean hint so a little mineral foundation over it and your face is ready to go. It has vitamin E, amino acids and proteins inside and what they call, 3-D holographic pigments to enhance radiance. So maybe that’s the smoothness I was seeing as nothing on my face looked 3-D, just slightly glowing but in a very natural looking way.

Quick Pick Eyes – Stript Makeup

Check out this STRiPT Crushed Mineral Eye Shadow in the color Skye ($18/1.5g @ striptmakeup.com). Isn’t it really cool? It looks matte in the container but it has a slight shimmer to it. It can be worn wet or dry for different looks and I really think that the name of this iridescent gray/blue should have called blue jeans. It just looks like a pair of nicely worn jeans.

Ahhhh, Honey! Naked Honey from MAC

Not a lot of makeup products in the new Naked Honey collection from MAC but that’s fine by me! I am simply in love with these:

Naked Honey Skin Salve ($18.50)
Lipglass in Buzz ($14)
High-Light Powder in Golden Nectar ($24.50)
Moisturizing Body Wash ($19.50/3.4oz)

Get' em @ maccosmetics.com.

Laura Geller and Tarte Have Two Winning Foundations

Trying to cut corners? Save pennies? Who isn’t? Shopping definitely is not like it used to be so why don’t you try combining two of your makeup products in one. Very popular these days are the combo moisturizer and foundation with the tinted moisturizer. LAURA GELLER just came out with Barely There Tinted Moisturizer with SPF 20 ($30/1.25oz @ sephora.com) and it contains those light-diffusing mineral pigments that lessen the appearance of lines and wrinkles. If you are in a hurry like I seem to be every morning, this will save you a smidgen of time. And even though this one has a SPF 20, I would still use an additional SPF on your face. Available in Fair, Light, Medium or Deep.

If a tint ain’t your thang, TARTE just put out ReCreate Anti-Aging Foundation With Wrinkle Rewind Technology SPF 15 ($37/1oz @ sephora.com) and it has a lot of things I look for in a good foundation as in free of a lot of the bad things found in some foundations like sulfates, parabens, and petro-chemicals. If I can avoid these in any product, I want to. And this one has something new in the formula called Wrinkle Rewind technology, which is a complex works on, you guessed it, wrinkles and also the skin’s tone and firmness. Like the above, this one too contains a SPF but again, I would add wear an additional SPF on your face. This one comes in 12 shades.

New Beauty Products For Summer

Now that schools are pretty much out for the summer, we can get into our summer recommendations full time! Shimmer, pastels, flowers, the ocean and bright colors scream, “let’s have fun,” and so do these new products.

GiVENCHY Prisme Again! Compact Powder Quartet in Sun Cinnamon ($43 @ sephora.com) from the Summer 2009 Collection.
ESTEE LAUDER Pure White Linen Pink Coral ($39.50/1oz @ esteelauder.com)
ISADORA Eye Shadow Palette in Blooming Spring ($19 @ amazon.com)
AVON Spectra Color Lipstick in The Raisins ($7.99 @ avon.com)
SUMMERSOLES Stay-Dry Liners in Dragonfly Suede ($8/1 pair @ summersoles.com) from the limited edition Artist's Prints.
PEACEKEEPER “Perfect As Is” Lip Balm ($7 @ iamapeacekeeper.com)
URBAN DECAY Liquid Liner in Minx ($18 @ sephora.com)

We'll be picking out our favorite new summer products in the coming weeks so be sure to check back.