I love Bobbi Brown’s eye and lip palettes. The colors are suit so many different skin tones and the textures are wonderful. For spring 2010, Bobbi Brown does a palette that is much more colorful than her usual neutral tones.

Eye shades include:
Ivory Eye Shadow, Bermuda Pink Metallic Eye Shadow, Seashell Metallic Eye Shadow, Bonfire [...]

Spring 2010 Makeup Picks by Esme Vos on Polyvore.com
Items in this set:
LES QUATRE OMBRES DE CHANEL QUADRA EYE SHADOW – CHANEL -…, $56
Yves Saint Laurent Ombres 5 Lumières – Powder – Bloomingdales.com, $56
Yves Saint Laurent Complexion Palette Collectors Edition – Beauty -…, $65
Armani White Contrast Palette For Eyes – New Arrivals -…, $58
Lancôme Color [...]

MAC is best known for its flamboyant, dazzling ads showing models with lots of bright, sparkly makeup. But occasionally, the cosmetics company brings out color collections that are more suitable to daytime wear. MAC’s latest – All Ages, All Races, All Sexes – is one of those. In a way, it’s misleading because MAC already [...]

When it’s cold and gray outside and winter seems to last forever, I cheer myself up by looking at the beautiful new spring makeup colors that we will soon be seeing in the shops. Here is my initial selection of spring makeup favorites from Dior, Guerlain and Clinique. I love the gorgeous packaging and the [...]

It’s that time of the year when we have to attend a lot of holiday parties and galas. We’re tired, have too much to drink and not enough sleep, and our skin may not look as bright and cheerful as the holiday decorations around us. My skin rescue secret is none other than Clarins’s brilliant [...]

Fans of Bobbi Brown cosmetics have an extra incentive to get the new holiday palettes now and to stock up on items they use regularly: 20 percent off all orders from the Bobbi Brown website between November 30 and December 2. The savings are quite significant given that there is no shipping charge if you [...]

Giorgio Armani makeup favorites by Esme Vos on Polyvore.com

By now, you have seen the holiday makeup kits stacked up on cosmetics counters in department stores. For some reason, cosmetics companies believe that our faces should be as decked out as Christmas trees: that means lots of sparkly eye shadows, heavy blush, glittery powders in lurid [...]

You can tell the Great Recession has not receded judging from the uninspiring holiday makeup palettes this year. Compared to previous years, I did not see anything that I really had to have. If this is the maximum that cosmetics companies can do to get us to spend money, heaven help us all. The best [...]

I know it’s a bit too early to be talking about Christmas but I have to start reviewing the holiday makeup kits and palettes right now because they run out quickly. Many of these palettes are limited editions and they do fly out the door. So here goes.
The Bobbi Brown Chrome Palette is, in my [...]

One of my favorite cosmetics brands, Prescriptives, won’t be around much longer. The Estee Lauder Group, which owns the brand, has decided to kill it. I have been suspecting for many months now that Prescriptives was on the list of soon to be dead brands because they have not had product launches in a while, [...]

It seems a bit early to be thinking about autumn makeup colors, especially if you’re still baking in the sun. But August is the month when we get the much awaited September issues of our favorite fashion magazines and they’re filled with clothes and accessories, as well as makeup suggestions, for the upcoming season.
This year [...]

Looking at the Fall/Winter fashion shows, one of the beauty trends that came out was the return of facial shaping using makeup. The contoured faces at Marc Jacobs and Chloe may seem extreme, but they give direction to new trends in make-up.
When you think of contouring your face with make-up images of 1980s style warpaint [...]

Every year, the US department store Nordstrom holds an Anniversary Sale (July 17 to August 2, 2009). This is the best of all their sales and it has brought hundreds of shoppers to their stores, despite (or maybe because of) the financial crisis.
Unlike their other sales, Nordstrom lowers prices dramatically on upcoming season items. So, [...]

For many women, the days of spending $40 on a bottle of foundation or $25 on blush are over, at least temporarily. Many of us are discovering the joys or horrors of shopping for cosmetics in the local drugstore. Unfortunately, the average American drugstore is hopeless: the choices are bewildering and the displays are utterly [...]

Space NK, one of my favorite beauty stores in London, has just opened a mini-shop in Bloomingdales’s downtown San Francisco location. Space NK was founded by Nicky Kinnaird in the mid-1990s in London. They specialize in hard-to-find skin care products and fragrances (including candles).
I’ve been to Space NK’s lovely Nottinghill Gate spa many times for [...]