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FACE Stockholm Summer 2012 Makeup Collection — A Midsummer Tale

FACE Stockholm founder Gun Nowak looked to her native Sweden when musing about the colors she’d integrate into the Summer 2012 collection.

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Guerlain Terracotta Blush Sun Shimmer Highlighter — Off You Glow!

This season, powder blushes, bronzers,  sculpting powders,  and illuminating beauty powders are taking a backseat, allowing their creamy counterparts to take the wheel and spearhead the mission of providing women with a natural-looking, Jennifer Lopez-esque glow that seems to radiate from within, luring onlookers as efficiently as fireflies do when they woo their insect mates by flaunting their bioluminescent lower abdomens.

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Napoleon Perdis Nude Bar Collection — Beauty in the Buff

Celebrity coverage has always centered on fantasy, with movie stars and musicians being depicted as virtually flawless, trouble-free creatures cavorting from one Hollywood hot spot to the next, lounging on yachts in Saint- Tropez, and vacationing in Hawaii or Turks & Caicos.

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MAC Fashion Sets Collection — Global Favorites Tripled

Taste, as we all know, is subjective — and yet there do tend to be commonalities in the aesthetic values and norms of specific regions, notions of beauty or style dictated by everything from climate to historical minutiae and cultural phenomena.

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Maybelline Eye Studio Color Tattoo 24HR Cream Gel Shadows — On the Brink of Ink-sanity

Back in the late ’80s, my Miami-based tío’s wife decided she wanted to have her eyeliner permanently tattooed onto her lids.

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LORAC Spring 2012 Unzipped Collection Gives Serious Nude ‘Tude

I generally think of nude eye shadow palettes as being as bland and unexciting as white button-down blouses, V-neck cardigans, and ecru paint jobs.

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Experience Heavenly Hues with Tarte Maracuja Divine Shine Lip Gloss Collection

 

After introducing us to the skin-nourishing properties of Amazonian Clay, eco-friendly makeup brand Tarte Cosmetics has moved on to another as-yet-untapped natural resource with astounding beauty benefits: the maracuja, a species of passion fruit native to Brazil, Paraguay, and northern Argentina, commonly harvested in late August.

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Give Soft, Butterfly Kisses with Make Up For Ever’s Rouge Artist Natural Lipsticks

If you read my boisterous, effervescent, praise-loaded review of the Make Up For Ever Rouge Artist Intense lipstick collection back in Fall 2010, you can imagine the pinch-me-now brand of excitement I experienced when I heard that the geniuses at Make Up For Ever had launched the Rouge Artist Natural lipstick collection ($19 per lipstick at Sephora.com), a range of creamy lip products meant to deliver sheer, unintimidating color and to keep your pout soft and moisturized.

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Smashbox Camera Ready BB Cream SPF 35 — The Queen BB

BB Creams are putting the “b” in buzz-y this season, with everyone from Dior, Dr Brandt, Dr.

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Clinique Age Defense BB Cream SPF 30 Review

As their name implies, beauty balms are designed to make skin appear dewier, to smooth the skin’s surface and boost overall radiance via a combination of nourishing ingredients, light-reflecting particles, and pigments that deliver enough coverage to conceal minor imperfections.

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