Lancôme April Beauty Indulgence

April showers bring Lancôme color to life with this beautiful collection, beginning with renewing moisture and SPF protection in one. Receive FREE SHIPPING plus deluxe samples in this great little set from Lancôme with any $45 Lancôme online purchase.

Here is the incentive you've wanted to grab yourself a bottle of their already famous Youth Activating Concentrate - GÉNIFIQUE! Oh my gosh, this stuff is just fantastic. I've been using it for over a month now and I'm telling you the results really are noticeable. My skin is smoother, softer, more radiant, even textured for sure, and my lines and wrinkles (especially the "11" lines between my eyes which NEVER have responded to any other product) are visibly diminished leaving a younger complexion. You can read my review of Génifique here. You really have to see for yourself how good this product is to believe it. One bottle yields three months (about 90 days) worth of treatment, morning and night application.

The Lancôme Beauty Indulgence Set includes the following:

• Color Design Eyeshadow Mini Palette in Daylight, Waif, Pose and Couture
• Definicils High Definition Mascara Mini in Black
• Color Design Sensational Effects Lipcolor in Work It!
• Bi-Facil Double-Action Eye Makeup Remover Mini
• Primodiale Skin Recharge Visibility Smoothing & Renewing Moisturizer SPF15 Mini

Click link for the offer and enter code: APRILDELUXE at checkout

For more information and to shop Lancôme, please visit them online. The Beauty Indulgence offer ends 4/19/09 or while supplies last.

Celebrate Easter with a Peace Egg

The Peace Egg - A work of profound significance, inspired by artist Clara Halter's wall installation dedicated to the hope for universal harmony in the new millennium. This collectible stone - with its message of peace - features the word hand-stamped in fifteen languages across its surface. A favorite choice for conveying the spirit of love, optimism and generosity. In Christofle silver.

Measures 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches.

The Peace Egg retails for $170. View this and more pieces by Christofle at Vivre online.

Shu Uemura: The PINK Collection

If you like pink (me, me, me), this is a lip collection you'll drool over!

Introducing Shu Uemura's Pink Collection. Pink hybrid pigment creates a revolution in color lipsticks and glosses made of never-before-seen pinks. Uh huh, yep, that's what I said, never-before-seen.

Sounds exciting? Well it is.
As the leader in color and science, Shu Uemura breaks the boundaries of conventional color with this collection, a series of lipsticks and glosses made with a Pink Hybrid Pigment, one of the purest pink pigments ever discovered and patented by the cult Japanese beauty company. Thanks to this breakthrough, this lip collection boasts the most vibrant hues available, creating new and unique shades of pink (never seen before).

THE TECHNOLOGY
Until now, pink’s color palette was limited due to the conventional way in which shades were processed and created. This standard method mixes red and white pigments, which create irregular shaped and sized particles that produce dull, muddy pinks. The Pink Hybrid Pigment, which was discovered by Shu Uemura laboratories, is made up of a fusion between a mineral core and an organic shell, which produces particles that are perfectly round and regular in shape. This consistency is what makes the hues of the lipstick so bright and pure. This is what creates the new and unique hues of pink seen in the collection with shades that range from never before seen light, yellowish, dark and bluish pinks.

The Pink Collection is comprised of nine new Rouge Unlimited lipsticks, shades in a range of pink colors designed to flatter the complexion and five new shades of Gloss Unlimited formulas delivering unprecedented pureness of the color pink. Lipstick and gloss pairings (the duos) are also available.

Rouge Unlimited lipsticks retail for $23 each, Gloss Unlimited for $22 each and the paired duo sets go for $45. Available April 2009 at shuuemura-usa.com, Shu Uemura boutiques and counters nationwide.

MAC Colour Ready ~ Prep, Prime and Colour to Perfection

Prep, prime and get colour ready. Fill in the blanks with your choice of perfect MAC shades. Voila! There you are in beautiful colors that stay rich and true. Get increased mileage from makeup. A start-to-finish collection that revs up Prep + Prime, three new products plus the essential colour palette. Everything you need to be picture perfect.

Seeking alternative energy, increased mileage from makeup, MAC Colour Ready revs up the Prep + Prime idea, a true hybrid formula between science and beauty. New Transparent Finishing Powder and Line Filler are our lightest yet, in fact invisible when applied, but their silky colourless polymers set and stabilize makeup instantly. The only way to start when you sit down in front of the mirror. Prep + Prime Skin Refined Zone is your stay-put fit on skin that minimizes the appearance of pores without clogging, and visibly diminishes them over time.

View the collection here.

Exclusive MAC online offer, receive FREE STANDARD SHIPPING with any purchase. Enter code: COLOUR9 at checkout. Offer good through 4/5/09.

Spring into Spring with Three Custom Color Specialists Gorgeous Lip & Cheek Stains

Adored by beauty editors, makeup artists, beauty addicts, and, well, who doesn't have love for Three Custom Color Specialist? No one I know for sure.

It’s time to banish those winter doldrums and reclaim the healthy glow that goes hand-in-hand with springtime. The Three Custom Woman, at any age, glows from within like she’s fresh off the slopes, just out of her yoga class, or after a day at the beach.

Here's how to get a healthy glow (without working out - ha). Three Custom Color Specialists Lip & Cheek Stain - their array of beautiful, wearable shades are designed for all skin tones. Better yet, these two-in-one gems are easy to apply, portable and give a dewey, long-lasting glow to lips and cheeks. These are truly richly pigmented, gorgeously textured products that take the multi-tasker to a whole new level. Retailing for $22.50 a compact and in six deliciously flattering shades, there's one to enhance every skin tone.

Shop with them now, and enjoy their Crème Concealer sample fest. This unique and versatile formulation is a favorite of makeup artists and consumers alike. Use it full coverage to conceal redness or dark circles, apply with a wet sponge to use as a foundation or blend with your favorite face cream to create the perfect tinted moisturizer. Three Custom Color invites you to request samples of up to three different shades with any online order. Just indicate which shades you would like to try in Customer Notes during checkout and get flawless!

For more information or to shop Three Custom Color Specialists, where tips, products and goodness reign, visit them online anytime.

Nordstrom: Ruben Toledo Beauty Gift With Purchase Event

Receive a fabulous Nordstrom-exclusive Ruben Toledo cosmetics bag filled with 13 samples from your favorite beauty brands with your $100 beauty or fragrance purchase.

Includes:

• Origins Modern Friction™ Nature's Gentle Dermabrasion (0.17 oz.)
• L'Occitane Almond Milk Concentrate (0.28 oz.)
• Clarins High Definition Body Lift (0.35 oz.)
• Laura Mercier Mini Foundation Primer - Oil-Free (0.5 oz.)
• Smashbox 'Sheer Focus' Tinted Moisturizer in Luminous (0.17 oz.)
• Chloé Natural Spray Eau de Parfum (0.04 oz.)
• Bare Escentuals® RareMinerals™ Purely Nourishing Facial Moisturizer (0.06 oz.)
• Shiseido Bio-Performance Super Refining Essence (0.14 oz.)
• Kate Somerville™ ExfoliKate™ Intensive Exfoliating Treatment (0.16 oz.)
• Anastasia Brow Gel - Clear (0.02 oz.)
• philosophy 'the present' clear makeup skin perfector (0.5 oz.)
• Leaf & Rusher Rapid Resurface (0.10 oz.)
• Bvlgari Jasmin Noir Eau de Parfum Natural Spray (0.05 oz.)

Couldn't help but give some suggestions and items to consider to get that gorgeous bag and deluxe beauty samples - and there are some good'uns in there for sure. Brand spanking new for spring and your beauty pleasure:

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MAC SS09 Hydraluminous Looks

MAC Spring/Summer 2009 Hydraluminous is play on light, minimal without being austere, it's texture that takes the lead above color. it's pearl highlight, abundant gloss with consideration on where it is applied - cheeks, lids, brows. The bare essentials for the look are MAC Strobe Cream, Clear Brow Set, Gloss, Coal Black Pro Lash Mascara and Bare Slimshine.



THE UNBARE LIP
Perfect the lip with a neutral lip pencil, such as Oak or Subculture, if necessary. Use Slimshine in Bare to create a soft, nude emollient lip. Finish by using 242 Shader Brush to apply Clear Lipglass over Bare for a super, high-shine effect.



LUMINOUSLY RICH
Use a firm brush, such as 252 Shader Brush, to blend Antiqued Gold Cream Colour Base over the eyelid, through the crease, up to the browbone. Follow up by blending All That Glitters Eye Shadow over Antiqued Gold to create a luminescent finish over eyes. Groom brows with Clear Brow Set for a polished effect.



BARE & GLOSSY
Groom brows with brow set in Girl Boy to add a warmth and subtle shine. Use a lash curler to open up eyes first before applying a generous coat of Coal Black Pro Lash Mascara. Finish by using 252 Shader Brush to apply a thin layer of Gloss over the eyelid for a sophisticated, but high powered shine.



GLOSS ON GLOSS
Hydrate skin with Strobe Cream for a soft luminescent sheen on skin. Use clean fingers with a neutral Blushcreme, such as Ladyblush or Uncommon, to apply a soft contour on cheeks. Apply a generous coat of Plush Glass in Ample Pink to moisturize and plump the lips, while boosting the natural rosy color as well.


For more info on MAC Hydraluminous looks and products used to create them, please visit MAC online.

W Magazine's Spring Beauty Fix Giveaway

Enter for a chance to win these seven luxurious new products, featured in W magazine's April beauty story, "Smooth Sailing".

Lancome Genifique Youth Activating Concentrate

Narciso Rodriguez Essence

Diptyque Huile Precieuse

Guerlain Kajal Mineral kohl Eyeliner

Rodial Skinny Beach SPF15

Bond No. 9 Astor Place

Umi Fix Hairspray

Click HERE to enter.

Ulta Spring Beauty Event

Ulta announces their Spring Beauty Event going on now through April 11th. Spectacular in-store events, new brands and exclusive kits are all planned for the event.

Your choice of five free samples (that's two more than usual) is also yours during this event. take a gander at some of them above. There are many more to choose from too. Don't know about you, but I'm a sucker for free samples - love them!

There are so many exclusive kits, gifts with purchase and other goodies to go on about I simply must just direct you to the site for more information. You'll find great finds and configurations from brands like Stila, Urban Decay (an exclusive Shadow Book for one), Bare Escentuals, Korres, Smashbox, Lorac, Go Smile, Pop Beauty and more.

Click here for a coupon of $3.50 off your Ulta purchase of $10 or more with coupon code: 25149 - (some exclusions apply)

For more information and to take advantage of these delicious deals, please visit Ulta.com. Again, the event runs through 4/11/09 so catch it b efore it's gone!

Be Good to Your Mother (Earth) with Tarte's New Limited Edition Set

Celebrate your Mother Earth every day with Tarte’s reusable, eco-friendly tote and three natural lip sheers.

Shades are: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. 24/7 lip sheers with SPF 15 are wrapped in post-consumer recycled aluminum which helps reduce environmental waste. Set includes a reusable natural cotton tote that can be used to carry groceries or just to let the world know how environmentally chic you are!


skinvigorating™ ingredients

• beeswax: as an alternative to synthetic waxes, natural beeswax is used as a waterproofing agent, a protective barrier between the skin and the environment and it has also been know to naturally stimulate collagen production which plumps the skin and decreases the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
• coconut oil: non-irritating emulsifier with anti-microbial and moisturizing properties
• mango butter: extracted from fruit kernels this mango derivative has emollient and regenerative benefits
• peppermint oil: cools and soothes inflammed or irritated skin
• SPF: protects skin against harmful UVA/ UVB rays
• vitamin E: natural preservative that also acts as an anti-inflammatory emollient and protects against free radical damage

skinvigorating™ benefits

• butylene glycol free
• dermatologist tested
• mineral oil free
• paraben free
• phthalate free
• natural fragrance
• gluten free
• preservative free
• propylene glycol free
• sulfate free

Tarte's Limited-Edition Be Good to Your Mother (Earth) set retails for $35 and is available at Tarte online. Shop now and you can save 25% off Tarte's Spring Greening Palette when you use code: GREEN at checkout. Offer expires 3/20/09.

LipFusion Spring

Spring into full, juicy, kissable lips! Introducing a Spring Awakening of New Color Shines!

Spring's palette gets a vibrant pop of color and an infusion of gold with three new LipFusion Color Shine shades. Burst onto the scene in flushed pink Crave, juicy tangerine Boca Babe, and decadent golden bronze Goddess. $38 each

Micro-Injected Collagen - LipFusion® Color Shine - The next generation of lip plumpers. LipFusion is a moisturizing treatment gloss infused with revolutionary technology to plump lips instantly – no kidding. Tiny, dehydrated, marine collagen microspheres are instantly absorbed by the lips, and seek out the body’s natural moisture. As soon as the spheres become re-hydrated, they plump and hold onto the moisture they’ve collected, creating a mild "swelling" of the lip tissue. The result is fuller, smoother, perfectly plumped lips in seconds. Results can last for up to 48 hours.

LipFusion has been a staple lip plumper of mine for years. It's my go-to product for hydration and lip plumping effect. I've always got several LipFusions on hand - just can't be without them.. The XL is my favorite for night time treatment, and the colored shines are fabulous for during the day. LipFusion stands leaps and bounds over similar type products. They've earned the Good Housekeeping Seal due to their committment to quality.

Going on now, LipFusion will give you a complimentary deluxe miniature LipFusion Color Shine in their new shade of Crave with the purchase of any other LipFusion Color Shine. Offer ends 3/31/09. Click image about more more information and to order your LipFusion products now.

MAC for Ungaro Fall 2009 Paris

Makeup artist extraordinaire Tom Pecheux, using MAC products, chose to focus on the mouth, plumping for a two-tone pout. He gave upper lips a slick of reddish-orange MAC Morange. Lower lips were painted with Violetta, a dark fuchsia. A sweep of MAC Prep & Prime Transparent Finishing Powder - which will bow this fall - added a satin sheen.

Eyes and cheeks went bare, while foundation was kept super-light, or not used at all. “It’s a clean, modern take on the Eighties,” said Pecheux backstage. “The look is kept fresh by focusing on just one feature, not all of them at once.”

Hair was more Noughties than Eighties - ha ha. Stylist Jimmy Paul tamed models’ locks into a nonchalant chignon. “Think Kate Moss, with her easy chic style,” Paul explained. To get the look, he used tons of Thickening Spray by his sponsor Bumble & bumble. After pulling long tresses into a rough ponytail, he rolled it into a croissant shape and pinned the bun unevenly, leaving some loose hairs for that extra home-made look.

If there’s a formula Esteban Cortazar has established for himself at Emanuel Ungaro in his brief tenure there, it’s that he likes his girls young, sexy and with a cocktail in hand. Emphasis is on the word “girls,” because there are few clothing options here for those not hitting the club circuit on a nightly basis. Thus, fall amounted to a parade of thigh-grazing and body-conscious party frocks, with some puffy-skirted numbers thrown in. Throughout, he worked in a relentless polkadot motif to dizzying effect. Cortazar spliced together bands of spots on a bustier dress worn over a dotted blouse, and covered other garments with prints of spots within spots. An added styling measure fell flat: the variety of spotted tights, which were kitsch veering on ridiculous.

The designer also dabbled a bit in tailoring — slouchy blazers; a leisurely smoking combo — but it felt like a forced attempt to keep the lineup from being too one-note. And when he tried to be edgy, with chained fringe on an angora pullover, or architectural, as in the finale dress with angled hips, the results just looked out of sync with the rest of the collection.

~ excerpted from WWD

source: wwd