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Butter London Fall 2012 Nail Lacquer Collection — Metallic Finishes, Holographic Effects, and Glitter-Packed Formulations

While there will be some nail color trends throughout the Fall/Winter 2012 season, expect to see a greater emphasis placed on texture – whether it’s velvet manicures that look so fuzzy you’ll be tempted to pet your nails, caviar manicures attained by adhering tiny beads and pearls to nails, real gold flecks infused into top coats and lacquers,  mind-bending holographic finishes, or polishes saturated with enough chunky sequins to recreate a Vegas showgirl act.

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MAC Styleseeker Collection — A Global Beauty Excursion

Nomadic beauties inspired the new MAC Styleseeker Collection, a grouping of vivid colors that reveals a Bohemian charm, creating a veritable patchwork quilt with its rich earthy eye shadow pairings, jewel-toned nail lacquers, and long-lasting matte lip colors.

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Mrs Meyer’s Celebrates Founder Thelma Meyer’s 80th Birthday with Limited-Edition Peony Hand Care Set

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Caudalie Divine Oil Delivers You From Dryness (And Numerous Skin Care Evils)

Typically, I would strongly advise beauty companies to refrain from using words like “heavenly,” “divine,” “celestial,” and “idyllic” when naming their latest products — after all, relying on such hyperbolic terms automatically raises customers’ expectations so that, anything short of perfection will feel like a let-down of burst balloon, spilled milk, and melted ice cream cone proportions.

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Get a Radiant Nude Eyeshadow Look with Pixi’s Shade Quartette and Eye Bright Pencil

I admit: understated is not an adjective often used to describe me (or my style).

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Hourglass Veil Fluid Makeup Oil Free SPF 15 — Silky Smooth Coverage

Though I’ve tried every type of foundation imaginable — pressed powder, cream-to-powder, loose powder, cream, roll-on stick, airbrush, and so on — I still tend to gravitate towards liquid foundations since, in my opinion, they’re easier to apply than most cream foundations (and, in turn, less prone to streaking and to overall unevenness) plus they generally offer greater coverage than powder variations.

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Hot Off The Presses — bareMinerals READY SPF 20 Foundation

It may have coined the phrase “Swirl, tap, buff,” but bareMinerals is moving away from this motto with its latest complexion-perfecting offering: the Sephora.com ($29 at Sephora.com).

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Win the New Laura Geller Fresh Brewed Beauty Baked Collection!

If you follow me on Twitter (@sickathanavg), then you might have spotted a few of the photos I shared during a Laura Geller press preview held last week in her makeup studio, located in New York City’s Upper East Side.

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Backstage at Chris Benz Spring 2013 — Makeup Inspired By Japanese Horror Films

Admittedly, as a seasoned cinematic scaredy cat, I’ve never watched a Japanese horror film — heck, I’ve barely watched some of the classic American scary flicks that have become synonymous with the genre on a national scale (and yes, that includes Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist).

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Backstage at Chadwick Bell Spring 2013 — Makeup Inspired By Cubist Art

After depicting a nearly deranged, disheveled but somehow still fabulous woman  last season, designer Chadwick Bell decided to show a more composed female persona for his Spring 2013 show — albeit in a non-traditional manner that steered away from conventional notions of beauty.

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