It’s That Sweet Time of the Year, Essie: Essie Winter 2009

“This season, I wanted to create a new set of classic, yet fun colors that are wearable on every skin tone.” – Essie Weingarten, Founder and President YOU GO, E-Money, with your “I’m every woman” approach to nail color. The shades in Essie’s Sweet Time of the Year Collection for Winter 2009 ($8 each) should flatter a rainbow of skin tones and appeal to a range of colorful personalities. Which ones suit you? Classic dames: If pearls, little black dresses and patent leather pumps s

Dior Sculpt Lifting Smoothing Concealer HATES Dark Circles

No joke, $31 DiorSkin Sculpt Lifting Smoothing Concealer is expensive, but daaaaym , it works miracles on my Frankensteiny dark circles. It’s a liquid concealer that’s been part of Dior’s product lineup for a while now and comes in three shades (see colors below; Ivory 001, Beige 002 and Honey 003), each one packaged in a convenient easy-to-carry tube with a doe-foot applicator. Texture-wise, Dior Sculpt feels slightly thicker and less runny than other liquid concealers I’ve trie

Two Ways to Win MAC Style Black Baby Goth Girl Nail Lacquer

Girlfriend, don’t be scurred! There’s more to MAC’s new Style Black collection than dark black lipstick and smoldering smokey eyes. And even if you aren’t on board with the lip and eye products in purple, black, blue and gray, what about trying a dark shade on your nails instead? Fingertips and toes in deep shades like Style Black’s Nail Lacquer in Baby Goth Girl (one of three nail polishes in the release) look hella chic and modern. Are you ready for this jelly? I think it’s time fo

BLUSH: Make that product work for you.

Nothing worse than a blush that just doesn’t look right. Try these makeup artist tricks that I use to get that product working, instead of tossed: Blush: Too dark? Tap your blush brush into your pressed powder or baby powder first, then your color. Apply for shades lighter blush. Too light? Tap into your bronzer shade first. Too muddy a color? Use instead as eye shadow. Too shimmery? Use on body instead of face. Too blueish? Tap into a warm peachy shadow of blush first, the

Streamline Your Makeup Bag with NARS Powder Foundation

The holidays coming! The holidays are coming! I can hardly believe it’s mid-September already, and that means the holiday travel season isn’t far away. One of my biggest travel challenges is packing light. I think I’m naturally predisposed to overpack, as if I biologically need 10 different shades of pink lipgloss; maybe it’s a primitive urge to gather? But after a traumatic airport incident a few years back (a TSA agent almost confiscated a baggie filled with Chanel and MAC, NOOOO!), I’

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