Bobbi Brown Holiday 2009 Collection - Chrome Collection

The newest collection from Bobbi Brown is all about parties and lighting up the night. Called the Chrome Collection, the promo picture is all about shades of silver and frosty makeup. The whole makeup look is on the cooler side and may leave out those with warmer toned complexions but once we look at the products, we may find some warmer toned shades. Frosty shades can be way too much when done wrong but Bobbi manages to balance out her collection in such a way that will make it very hard for the user to overdo and create a bad 1970s disco queen look.

I love this collection at first glance and let's look at it without further delay...

Chrome Palette - Bobbi's cool, contemporary take on holiday beauty. Icy, shimmering accents on eyes and lips cast an iridescent glow on the face. Inside this chrome-accented fold-out palette, you'll find everything you need to deck yourself out for the season: 10 Eye Shadows, 4 Lip Shades, a Mini Eye Shadow Brush, and a Mini Lip Brush.

Extreme Party Mascara - Our boldest mascara ever. Unbelivable volume. Endless build. Exceptional separation. Pliable formula stays flexible even after it dries, so each coat goes on as a fresh as the first - immediately or hours later -with zero dragging, clumping or flaking. Tapered brush grabs even the smallest, hard-to-reach lashes. Now that's beautiful.

Metallic Lip Color - Shimmer like you've never seen - or felt - before. Metallic Lip Color features a unique combination of high-shine emollients and light-reflective pearls. This creamy lipstick feels soft and comfortable on lips, and offers medium coverage. Just for the Holidays, Bobbi has created two NEW shades, Chrome (a pale silver) and Plum Pearl (a golden plum) for a quick and easy way to look party-perfect. Black lipstick case features metallic chrome detailing.

- Chrome - pale silver

- Plum Pearl - golden plum

Lip Color - This creamy, semi-matte lipstick gives lip instant polish with rich, full coverage. Just for the Holidays, Bobbi has created a NEW shade, Port (a deep plum) for a quick and easy way to look party-perfect. Black lipstick case features metallic chrome detailing.

- Port - deep plum

Long - Wear Gel Eyeliner - This award-winning liner offers the precision of a liquid liner and the ease of a gel-based formula.

- Black Ink - jet black

Chrome Eye Shadow - Nothing says Holiday glamour like eyes all dressed up in new chrome Eye Shadow. Developed with highly reflective pearls, this opulent formula looks like liquid metal on lids and reflects light beautifully. Featured in our signature Eye Shadow compact, customized for the season with a luxe chrome finish.

- Gold - gold metallic

- Pewter - cool bronze metallic

- Silver - silver metallic

Chrome Mini Brush Set - When space is premium, downsize with the Chrome Mini Brush Set. Offers three of Bobbi's must have brushes - Mini Face Blender, our new Mini Angle Eye Shadow, and Mini Eye Liner - in palm-of-your-hand sizes. A chrome faux-leather zip-around case protects brushes for years of use.

Chrome Beauty Kit - Like a portable vanity table. Roomy enough to organize all your beauty essentials at home; sleek and luxe to satisfy your wildest travel-in-style fantasy. Our Chrome Beauty Kit has two large zip-around compartments for every last moisturizer, foundation, and gloss-plus pockets for all your brushes and a detachable mirror.

The Chrome Eye Shadows I have wanted ever since I saw them on the Muse's blog and hopefully they will not disappoint when I try them out next time that I get to the counter. I love how this collection just screams "Holiday" and getting dressed up and going out. From this collection, I want all three of the shadows, the palette, and the Beauty Kit. I want to try the Extreme Party Mascara but I have heard very mixed reviews on it from other bloggers so I will try it out for myself and keep an open mind. None of the lip colors look like anything that I would like so I doubt that I will be picking any of them up.

photo courtesy of Bobbi Brown

Most Wanted December 2009

Beauty products to the tune of the 12 Days of Christmas...and no I will not do the entire song (I don't know who would have the patience to listen to the whole song).

On the first day of Christmas, my true sent to me
Prescriptives Lustre Baked Eye Color Quad Cool

On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Laura Mercier Lip Glace in After Hours


On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
LUSH Snow Fairy Solid Perfume


On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Shu Uemura Tsumori Chisato Limited Edition Planet Cat Couture Palette

On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
NARS Pleasures of Paris Eye Shadow Palette


On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Dior Boreale Crystal Lip Balm Pendant


On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Dior Vernis Nail Polish in Silver Purple

On the eighth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Bobbi Brown Chrome Eye Shadow in Silver


On the nineth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Giorgio Armnai Rouge d'Armani in No. 400


On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Essie Mint Candy Apple Nail Polish


On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Illamasqua Liquid Metal in Solstice


On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
LUSH Snowshowers Body Wash

Merry Shopping!

Bath and Body Works Holiday Temptations

Yay! Bath and Body Works has finally made a smart move and brought some of their Temptations fragrances back, even if only for a limited time this Holiday season. Twisted Peppermint returns with this collection, which is a very smart move for the company. Honestly, many people would riot if Twisted Peppermint wasn't available every single year at the same time. This year, in additon to Twisted Peppermint, Bath and Body Works released four fragrances in this limited edition collection.

The first fragrance is Twisted Peppermint. For those of you who are living under a rock and don't already know all about this fragrance, I will go into a quick description of the fragrance. Bath and Body Works describes this fragrance as "a crisp holiday blend of cool peppermint, white sugar, and vanilla". I have loved this fragrance ever since it was first released in 2006 and already have a quite a collection of it in my product bins.

The second fragrance is called I Love Licorice and is described as a "sweet and satisfying scent of highly addictive red licorice. This scent is very similar to one from Dylan's Candy Bar and is one that I am glad that Bath and Body Works is releasing. They do very well when making their candy-type scents and this one if no exception.

The third fragrance is called Nutcracker Sweet and this was my least favorite of the bunch. This fragrance is described as "a fresh, nutty blend that captures the festive scents of the Holidays". This was just a bland sweet scent with a funky base fragrance. I will have to say that this a more unique fragrance in the Temptations line but one that I am not partial to.

The last fragrance is Spiced Gingersnap and is one that smells nice in the bottle but turns funky on my skin. This one is described as "a delicious blend of warm ginger, white icing, and rich spices". This one wasn't for me in that I don't love spicy fragrances after I apply them and can't stand them for any long period of time.

Bath and Body Works has changed around the fragrance forms that this collection is offered. They still offer the traditional 3 in 1, I doubt that will ever change. However, for this year, they have released a body lotion, a shapable soap that more resembles a child's product than one made for an adult, and a body spray loaded with shimmer. I wish they would get over loading up the products with shimmer, it really makes them look cheap and I know that I am not alone in not wanting to purchase anything with glitter in it even I do like the actual fragrance.

I am not really excited about what is offered this year in this line. I like the Licorice fragrance and while I will always adore Twisted Peppermint, I don't need to purchase any of it this year. Maybe I will wait for Semi - Annual Sale and see if there is anything left after the Christmas rush.

photo courtesy of Bath and Body Works

Essie Holiday 2009 Collection

I feel that it has been ages since I have talked about nail polish on this blog and I need a bit of a break from all the festive Holiday makeup for a day. This collection is quite small and actually only consists of three new shades. However, all three shades are very crave-worthy so I will not blow of this collection because of its small size.

The first shade is called Lollipop. This color is a bright candy cane red and it is most Holiday like of the three shades. This one is actually my least favorite of the collection but I don't hate it, I just find it very generic and the usual Holiday nail polish shade offering.

The second shade from the collection is that one that was love at first sight for myself. It is called Mint Candy Apple and it is described as "creme de menthe mint". In reality, it is a very pale yet beautiful shade of mint green. This shade is very unique and is love in a bottle for me.

The last shade is called Rock Candy and it is my second favorite shade of the three. It is a pale pink that is described as "sweet treat pink". I find it to be a pale pink with a hint of violet in it, it is cool toned.

Love the Mint Candy Apple shade to pieces. I also like the other two shades and wouldn't mind having either of them but I have my heart set on the mint shade. Which I bet will sell out the fastest because of how unique it is.

photo courtesy of Essie

Stila Holiday 2009 Collection

Stila is another company that is not releasing any new single items this Holiday season and is just releasing giftsets that are more gift oriented. I don't really have a preference either way for if a company releases more sets or more loose products since I usually tend by buy a bunch of both every year. I am finding four new sets in total on the Sephora webstie so that it what we will look at.

Holiday Color Collection and Clutch - A limited-edition black clutch featuring four best-selling Stila-star products. Celebrate the season in best-selling Stila style with the Holiday Color Collection and Clutch. The set features four best-selling beauties to give you a complete and completely gorgeous signature Stila look. Contains the following: Convertible Color Duo in Marigold, Smudge Pot in Golden Noir, Mini Lip Glaze in Palm Peach, and Eye Shadow in Oasis

Lip Glaze Collection - A collection of eight mini Lip Glazes give non-stop shimmer and shine! Back and bigger than ever, Stila's ultra-popular mini Lip Glaze collection features EIGHT shades - four bestsellers and four brand new. Find the flavor to match your every look and mood in this must-have set that delivers lips with unprecedented high-wattage color and shine.

- Starfruit - neutral pink

- Kitten - caramel with gold pearl

- Cranberry - deep red

- Blackberry - deep warm brown red

- Marmalade -sheer peach with pink and white pearl

- Pinkle Twinkle - sheer pink with pink and multicolor sparkle

- Plum Fairy - sheer plum with pink pearl

- Candy - sheer pinky coral with subtle rainbow sparkle

Smudge Pot Collection - A quartet of shimmering mini Smudge Pots and a mini Smudge Pot Brush. This stunning set of Smudge Pots - the cult-favorite, gel-based shadow and liner in one - features four shimmering shades (two bestsellers and two exclusive new Holiday hues!) the transfer- and smudge-resistant formula is easy to apply for lining, blending, and lash-thickening. The perfectly portable size and mini eye liner brush make them great for travel and on-the-go glam. You'll be able to create countless subtle-y, shimmery eye looks for the holidays and everyday!

- Black - intense black

- Kitten - the eye-conic, universally flattering shimmering nude champage

- Violet - bright shimmering ultraviolet

- Starry Night - deep shimmering navy

Kitten Collection - A set featuring an Eye Shadow and Lip Glaze in the number one selling, champagne-pink shade, Kitten. Get a double dose of the award-winning shimmering pink champagne shade in this stunning set featuring Eye Shadow and Lip Glaze. The best-selling Eye Shadow shade is now available in Stila's legendaey high-shine Lip Glaze formula - so now you can have a complete Kitten look that will have you smitten! The moisture-rich gloss contains ultra-fine pearl shimmer that provides amazing shine. It's also enriched with Vitamins A, C, and E for additional skincare benefits. And the Kitten Eye Shadow - Stila's original, award-winning formula that can be worn wet or dry - stays on all day without creasing or smudging.

The only set that I want is the Lip Glaze collection, I actually don't own any Stila Lip Glazes and this would be a great way to start a collection of them. Also, I have been on a lip gloss kick recently and this kit will continue to feed that obsession.

photo courtesy of Sephora

Dior Holiday 2009 Collection - Cristal Boreale

For the past weeks, I have been seeing tempting little hints of Dior has released for us this Holiday. One of the 5 Colour Eye Shadow sets will be the biggest hit of the season and it made my November Most Wanted list after viewing it only once. Finally, last week, I was able to get to Macy's and see their display of it and review all the products on the Nordstrom website. And let me say that this collection is beautiful and exciting and sparked so much excitement from me that I will have to restrain myself next time I go near one of the counters. The promo pic from this collection shows off the beautiful eye palette that I talked about above and is at the heart of this Holiday look.

Nordstrom describes the overall collection right here, "Luxurious accents. Festive sparkle. A night filled with stars. Dazzle for the holidays with a jewel-toned collection of shimmering pinks, violets, and silvers inspired by Dior's own legendary jewel designs". The collection is very appropriately named Cristal Boreale. I had to use both the Nordstrom site and the Sephora site to get this collection figured out since the Dior site has decided that it hates me right now. So I apologize for anything that is not 100% correct since I am trying to go between two different sites to get my needed info.

Here is it...

Dior Mini Brush Set - Treat yourself or a loved one this Holiday season with a luxurious mini brush set from Dior. Inspired by Dior's ready-to-wear accessories, this limited-edition, black patent clutch features signature cannage stitching and silver "D" hardware along with four travel-size versions of Dior's best-selling brushes (foundation, powder foundation, eye shadow, and lip). Limited edition.

Dior Deluxe Travel Palette - The hottest shades of the season are inside this limited-edition, black patent clutch! Inspired by Dior's ready-to-wear accessories, this must-have palette features signature cannage stitching and the silver "D" hardware along with a wardrobe of Dior's best travel essentials: six eye shadows, a DiorBlush, an allover face highlighter and deluxe miniatures of Dior Addict Ultra-Gloss Reflect in Organdi Pink 257, and Diorshow Iconic Mascara in Black 090. The perfect gift for your loved ones - or you! Limited edition.

Dior Holiday Lip Palette - The hottest shades of the season for lips are inside this limited-edition, black patent palette! Inspired by Dior's ready-to-wear accessories, Dior Holiday Lip Palette features signature cannage stitching and silver "D" hardware, along with four perfectly coordinated shades of lip color. The perfect gift for your loved ones - or you! Limited edition. Included are shades of mauve, wine, deep brown, and nude.

Dior Boreale Crystal Lip Pendant - A luxurious crystal pendant, inspired by the Aurore Boreale Crystal - a Swarovski crystal created exclusively for Christian Dior in 1955. Contains a petal-pink lip balm with a hint of shimmer.

Dior Holiday Eye Palette - The hottest shades of the season for eyes are inside the limited-edition, black patent palette! Inspired by Dior's ready-to-wear accessories, Dior Holiday Eye Palette features signature cannage stitching and silver "D" hardware, along with four perfectly coordinated shades of eye color. The perfect gift for your loved one - or you! Limited edition. Included are shades of silvers and greys.

Dior 5 - Colour Iridescent Eye Shadow - Your eyes have never beheld such brillance. Shimmering palettes created with Dior's phenomenal new "Wet Reflect" technology. Ultra-reflective. Ultra-luminous. Ultra-incredible. Five metallic-rich shades in each palette. Silky-smooth and weightless. So blendable, the colors virtually fuse with the skin for looks that defy creasing, smudging, or fading.

- 089 Smoky Crystal - two warmer shades of grey/two cooler shades of grey/lavender

Dior Style Liner - Intensify your eyes with this rich, creamy liner created especially for the runway. Now you can get that model-esque "femme fatale" look on your own - in seconds flat.

- 174 Sparkling Purple - violet

Dior Vernis - Black Sequins - A black nail lacquer with silver flecks. Dior Dior Vernis - Black Sequins gives nails a celestial shimmer. The raven black lacquer contains silver flecks that make your nails look like a starry night - they glitter. Dior's fast-drying, diamond-hard, chip-resistant formula makes sure this limited-edition varnish lasts.

Dior Vernis - Silver Purple - A luminous silver-purple nail polish. Dior Vernis Nail Polish will add a splash of luminous color to any look. The long-lasting, chip-resistant formula goes on silky smooth; and the vibrant color puts a tantalizing touch on finger tips and toes.

Dior Complete Makeup Palette - Deluxe Palette for Eyes, Cheeks, and Lips- A silver cannage deluxe makeup palette for eyes, cheeks, and lips. Get a perfect look on the go with this Complete Makeup Palette for the eyes, cheeks, and lips. This palette contains DiorBlush in English Rose, 2 - Colour Eye Shadow in Nude Look, Lip Gloss in 483, Cheek Brush, and Lip and Eye Applicator.

Ok, that was semi-painful and took several hours in total. But after all that, I am still so happy that I got to see every piece of the new Dior collection. Two products are exclusive to Sephora, the Complete Makeup Palette and the Black Sequins Nail Polish, everything else should be available at all Dior counters. The two items that I want the most from this collection (in addition to the Smoky Crystal palette that we already went over) are the Silver Purple Nail Polish and the simply breathtaking Boreale Crystal Lip Pendant. The Pendant and the Silver Purple polish are both already totally sold out on the Nordstrom site, so I will also get the thrill of the hunt on this collection. I would also like to get all of the palettes, overall this is just a great collection.

This Holiday has been amazing for me so far, there is not one collection where I do not want most of the items in it and some collections like this make me want every new product that is out there at the counter.

photo courtesy of Nordstrom

MAC Baroque Boudoir

MAC has just released their newest color collection this week for Holiday, called Baroque Boudoir. This collection has been eagerly awaited by many of the writers of the beauty blogs, even more so than Magic, Mirth, and Mischief's color collection. This collection is considered to look very Dita Von Teese and that has sparked everyone's interest. At first glance, this collection appears to be more geared toward night parties and getting really dressed up to go out. Let's check this long-awaited collection out and see if it was worth the wait and the hype.

MAC describes the collection as follows, "Decadent, luxurious...liaisons get even more dangerous with formulas for lips and face, and the haute-style clutch of this baroque-inspired collection. Sate your taste for something modern, yet ornate".

Here we are...

Baroque Boudoir Lipstick - A Lipstick designed exclusively for the Baroque Boudoir collection. A polished silver case features two belle epoque-style motifs - one black and one frosted. The luxurious formula provides medium-to-full coverage for a look that's soft, rich, and lustrous. Wear alone or pair with Baroque Boudoir Lip Gloss. Limited Edition.

- Prive - creamy light blue pink (Cremesheen)

- Treasured - creamy warm nude beige (Cremesheen)

- Baroque Boudoir - creamy dark plum (Cremesheen)

Baroque Boudoir Lip Gloss - A Lip Gloss designed exclusively for the Baroque Boudior collection. A glass vial with a round, polished silver cap features two belle epoque-style motifs - one black and one frosted. Provides a soft, comfortable, and lustrous look. Wear alone or pair with Baroque boudior Lipstick. Limited Edition.

- Preciousness - sheer metallic pink with white pearl (Frost)

- The Lap of Luxury - sheer baby pink with white & pink pearl (Frost)

- D'nouveau - sheer dusty rose with light pink pearl (Frost)

Baroque Boudoir Compact Sheer Mystery Powder - A Sheer Mystery Powder making its appearance as part of the Baroque Boudoir collection. Designed as a special keepsake collectable, this luxurious, round polished silver-finished compact features two belle-epoque style motifs - one black, one frosted - that create a unique and coveted look. An ideal complement to the silky soft, velvety, and slightly luminous finish of the Sheer Mystery Powder. Limited Edition. Product packaged with pressed powder in compact and one refill.

- Light Medium - pale ivory

- Medium Plus - tan beige

Boudoir Clutch - A makeup-evening style clutch designed to reflect the style and chic of the Baroque Boudoir collection. Lavish in appearance, the shiny, fashionably crinkled pewter-grey fabric is gathered into its silver metal clasp, creating a look of high elegance. Limited Edition.

This is one MAC collection that utterly lives up to all the hype surrounding it, this is amazing both in colors and in packaging. The containers that house this makeup are among the most amazing that I have come across in years and will attract crowds of people to the MAC counters. I want all of the Lip Gloss shades and the Light Medium Sheer Mystery Powder. I would also like to get the Prive Lipstick but not quite as much as a I want the Lip Glosses. I added the official collection picture in the upper corner becasue this packaging simply must be seen, I can't fully put it into words.

A hit from MAC!

photo courtesy of Nordstrom