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Sugarpill Fun Size Mini Color Palette Now at Ulta

Christine — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:37:20 +0000

Release Date + Collection Info

Level up your makeup! Unlock nine powered-up matte shades in SUGARPILL’s portable Fun Size Mini Color Palette that you can play anywhere, anytime! Super bold pressed pigments offer superior pay-off and blendability.

Now online

Ulta Custom

Products Available

Fun Size Mini Color Palette, $28.00 (Permanent)

Cheat Code Seafoam
8-Bit Periwinkle
Player One Red-toned lilac
Twitch Mint green
Level Up Vibrant pink-toned coral
Rage Quit Deep magenta rose
Continue Mustard yellow
High Score Blazing marigold
Game Over Vivid orange-toned red

Sugarpill Fun Size Mini Color Palette Now at Ulta

Too Faced Palm Springs Dreams Eyeshadow Palette Coming Soon!

Christine — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:57:01 +0000

Release Date + Collection Info

Make it a girls’ trip to remember with this Palm Springs Dreams-inspired palette of fresh cocktail colors and dazzling party-ready finishes. The soft, velvety formula delivers extreme color payoff in one swipe, blends easily, and comes in matte, shimmer, and glitter shades for incredible dimension. Plus, it smells like a party in a palette.

Coming soon

Sephora

Products Available

Palm Springs Dreams Eyeshadow Palette, $45.00 (Limited Edition, Sephora Exclusive)

TFTI Metallic peachy gold with champagne pearl
Last Call Warm metallic copper
Saucy & Bossy Soft peachy-brown
BYOB Deep warm chocolate brown
Dirty Martini Shimmery gold pearl
She’s Lit Soft peach
Rumtiki Soft beige brown
Cabana Time Soft beige nude
Swizzle Stick Magenta pink, fuchsia, and icy pink shimmer
Buzz Kill Soft pink shimmer with icy blue pearl
Swank Deep opal blue duo chrome with teal shimmer
Mocktail Soft muted orange

Too Faced Palm Springs Dreams Eyeshadow Palette Coming Soon!

Beautylish x Chikuhodo Sakura Makie Travel Set Arrives Today!

Christine — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:25:12 +0000

Release Date + Collection Info

For our 2019 release, we wanted a travel-friendly collection that covers the most essential needs of your makeup application, while delivering the highest performance and exquisite designs. The result is the 3-piece Sakura Makie Travel Set. The Sakura Makie Travel Set by Beautylish x Chikuhodo features 3 essential brushes for makeup application: the Powder Brush, the Cheek Brush and the Shadow Brush. Each brush is handcrafted from the stunning makie print to the brush head by Japanese artisans.. The production took almost one year to make and once it sells out, it won’t come back.

July 30th at 10AM PT

Beautylish

Products Available

Sakura Makie Travel Set, $155.00 (Limited Edition)

Powder Brush Disperse powder for an even, natural-looking finish (Grey squirrel/sokoho goat)
Cheek Brush For contouring, blushing, highlighting ((grey squirrel/horse)
Shadow Brush Defines and sculpts the eye (grey squirrel/fitch)

Beautylish x Chikuhodo Sakura Makie Travel Set Arrives Today!

MAC Love Me Lipstick | Early Access Now at Nordstrom, Official Launch August 1st

Christine — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:00:56 +0000

Release Date + Collection Info

The new M·A·C Love Me Lipstick Collection is made to express the love and respect you have for yourself – and it will sweep you off your feet. The revolutionary cream formula Lipstick is the next step beyond the iconic M·A·C mattes – representing a stunning innovation in sensation, application and wear. With a lighter-than-air texture that redefines comfort, Love Me Lipstick delivers intense colour and soft shine, along with all-day moisturization in one swipe.

Nourishing lychee fruit extract and argan oil impart immediate and long-term suppleness to lips, while the collection’s game-changing True-Colour Gelled System enables ultra-refined pigments to disperse evenly in a translucent gel matrix, yielding bright and smooth colour with high-impact payoff.

“This season, the backstage lip was nothing but lush. To get there, it’s no longer about just a single lip swipe, but rather a crafted lip – emboldening the feature by using pencils and even glosses to amplify contrast,” says Chantel Miller, New York-based M·A·C Director of Senior Artists. “Love Me lips are the colours we have lust for – its single-swipe sex appeal plays a critical role in the lip of the season. Best used straight from the tube, on top of Prep + Prime Lip (to build that coverage in double time) and then perfectly lined and glossed.”

Early access for Nordy's Club Members July 29th; August 1st at other retailers

MAC Cosmetics Nordstrom Macy's Ulta

Products Available

Love Me Lipstick, $19.00 (Permanent)

The launch of Love Me Lipstick is supported by six sensational, powerfully expressive individuals who embody the self-empowerment, joy and zest for life that M·A·C celebrates with this collection. By sharing their most unexpected and intriguing self-love stories in the campaign, these ambassadors will spread the Love Me message to their followers, throughout the M·A·C makeup lovers’ universe and far beyond.

AMBER WAGNER @jstlbby (2.1 million followers) California body-positive Insta-influencer and founder of her own Just Livin’ Baby clothing line, Wagner is known for her dazzling, ultra-long fingernails and impassioned, motivating messages of empowerment.
HARPER WATTERS @theharperwatters (156K followers) A soloist dancer for the Houston Ballet, Wagner’s addictive YouTube channel – featuring videos in which he does ballet in stilettos – has made him a role model for authentic self-expression.
MAXINE ASHLEY @maxineashley (52K followers) A Puerto-Rican, Bronx-based, genre-bending artist signed to Pharrell’s label, Ashley writes her own music and directs her own videos.
RINA SAWAYAMA @rinasonline (110K followers) Sawayama is a critically acclaimed Japanese-British pop singer, songwriter and model.
FRANCES O’SULLIVAN @beautyspock (344K followers) A beauty influencer and transformation artist, O’Sullivan has been called a “millennial Cindy Sherman.”
HALIMA @halima (923K followers) Halima, who first shot to fame as the first model to wear a hijab in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant, has appeared on the covers of Allure and British Vogue. She recently became the first model to appear in a burkini in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

The shades:

Vanity Bonfire Vibrant hot pink
French Silk Light pinky nude
Daddy’s Girl Soft, light pink
Tres Blase Light peachy beige
Under the Covers Dusty rose pink
As If I Care Deep mauvey pink
DGAF Chocolate
Coffee & Cigs Greyish brown
My Little Secret Bright pink coral
You’re So Vain Fuchsia pink
Nine Lives Deep magenta
Shamelessly Vain Bright orange
Give Me Fever Vivid true red
Joie de Vivre Deep plum
E for Effortless Burnt deep red
Maison Rouge Burgundy red
Laissez-Faire Muted greyish pink
Pure Nonchalance Lavender
Mon Coeur Deep rosy pink
Hey, Frenchie! Deep mauvey nude
Bated Breath Warm pinky brown
Killing Me Softly Mauvey plum
La Femme Deep eggplant purple
Let Them Eat Cake! Electric lavender

MAC Love Me Lipstick | Early Access Now at Nordstrom, Official Launch August 1st

NABLA Cosmetics Now at Ulta!

Christine — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:34:03 +0000

In my morning perusal of Ulta (while sipping my morning latte, duh), I noticed that NABLA Cosmetics is now carried at Ulta! It’s a very limited selection of products but includes their two more recently-released eyeshadow palettes for ($39.00, which is a nice conversion for US customers, as Beauty Bay sells the same palettes for $50.00).

Poison Palette ($39.00) — Review/Swatches
Secret Palette ($39.00) — Review/Swatches
Dreamy Liquid Lipstick ($19.00)
Serial Liner ($18.00)
Brow Divine ($15.00)
Major Pressure Mascara ($19.00)

I hope we’ll see more products from NABLA carried at Ulta in the future, like the Soul Blooming and Dreamy Palettes. I think it might be too much to hope to see their single eyeshadow range available, but I’ll put it out into the universe in case Ulta’s looking to me for a hot tip.

NABLA Cosmetics Secret Eyeshadow Palette

NABLA Cosmetics Secret | Look Details

NABLA Cosmetics Secret Eyeshadow Palette

NABLA Cosmetics Secret | Look Details

Pat McGrath Sublime Perfection Foundation, Primer, Setting Powder Launches Today

Christine — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:30:49 +0000

Release Date + Collection Info

Indulge like an icon with a breakthrough Skin Perfecting System three decades in the making. A trio of simple steps unlock the Queen of Beauty’s game-changing approach to the ultimate No-Filter necessary skin ritual for Runway, Red Carpet and Editorial. Whether your fantasy is the minimal majorness of Mother’s iconic “No Makeup” Makeup or you love to lavish yourself in luxurious layers of seductive skinspiration, all you need to remember are three little words – Prime. Perfect. Set.

July 26th, 9AM PT; early access at 6AM PT + 10% off Sublime Perfection products with code SUBLIME10

Pat McGrath Sephora

Products Available

Sublime Perfection Primer, $60.00 (Permanent)

Makeup meets skincare in the ultimate smoothing, skin-refining Primer. The first step in McGrath’s iconic system primes, smoothes, hydrates and renews with a sublime silken effect that instantly turns back time on your complexion by preventing transepidermal moisture loss. Infused with hydrating hyaluronic acid, this major moisture magnet helps preserve its most youthful qualities, including suppleness, elasticity and tone. The luxe, water-based formulation awakens and refreshes for visibly smooth skin with a velvety matte finish.

Sublime Perfection Foundation, $68.00 (Permanent)

Silky, luxurious and weightless, Mother’s first-ever foundation feels serum-soft to the touch while delivering controlled, easily buildable coverage. Infused with a lush Vita-Serum Complex, this nourishing formulation is designed to help fight the formation of wrinkles by preserving the hydrolipidic film barrier of the skin and boost hydration by activating the natural production of hyaluronic acid and ceramides. Diamond Core Powder Technology improves skin texture, optically smoothing and blurring the appearance of fine lines and imperfections. 36 perfect color choices – in 5 shade levels ranging from lavishly light to devastatingly deep hues – elevate every skin tone.

Every shade of SKIN FETISH: Sublime Perfection Foundation is individually fine-tuned to project seductively smooth balanced colour for all skin types, skin tones and undertones while working synergistically with the Primer and Powder. Each haute hue in the Foundation and Powder collections is tested on set, backstage, on runways and in real life under studio flash photography, runway lights and daylight.

Light 1 Very light with red/pink undertones
Light 2 Very light with peach undertones
Light 3 Light with neutral undertones
Light 4 Light with peachy neutral undertones
Light 5 Light with yellow undertones
Light 6 Light with red undertones
Light 7 Light with yellow undertones
Light Medium 8 Light Medium with peach undertones
Light Medium 9 Light Medium with pink neutral undertones
Light Medium 10 Light Medium with peach neutral undertones
Light Medium 11 Light Medium with red/pink undertones
Light Medium 12 Light Medium with red undertones
Light Medium 13 Light Medium with yellow undertones
Light Medium 14 Light Medium with neutral/olive undertones
Medium 15 Medium with neutral yellow undertones
Medium 16 Medium with red undertones
Medium 17 Medium with neutral yellow undertones
Medium 18 Medium with neutral/olive undertones
Medium 19 Medium with peach undertones
Medium 20 Medium with red undertones
Medium 21 Medium with neutral/olive undertones
Medium Deep 22 Medium Deep with reddish neutral undertones
Medium Deep 23 Medium Deep with yellow undertones
Medium Deep 24 Medium Deep with red undertones
Medium Deep 25 Medium Deep with red neutral undertones
Medium Deep 26 Medium Deep with yellow undertones
Medium Deep 27 Medium Deep with neutral undertones
Medium Deep 28 Medium Deep with red undertones
Deep 29 Deep with golden undertones
Deep 30 Deep with neutral yellow undertones
Deep 31 Deep with neutral undertones
Deep 32 Deep with neutral golden undertones
Deep 33 Deep with red undertones
Deep 34 Very deep with neutral yellow undertones
Deep 35 Very deep with red neutral undertones
Deep 36 Very deep with neutral undertones

Sublime Perfection Setting Powder, $55.00 (Permanent)

Mother’s proprietary Flex Form Matrix powder blend gives a barely there feel with soft focus effects that visibly blur fine lines and imperfections. Micronized Amino Acid Treated Pigments in geometric shapes ensure flexible skin adherence with colour-true performance. This luxury, lighter-than-air Loose Powder delivers imperceptibly buildable coverage to take your look from divine to sublime. Formulated to complement Sublime Perfection Foundation, each of the five shades is individually calibrated to complement a corresponding Sublime Perfection Foundation shade group. Silky soft and super blendable, the velvety powder veils skin with a modern, natural finish, setting makeup for lasting wear while minimizing the appearance of imperfections.

Pat McGrath Sublime Perfection Foundation, Primer, Setting Powder Launches Today

bareMinerals Bounce & Blur Collection for Summer 2019

Christine — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:56:30 +0000

About the Launch

Meet our breakthrough new bouncy powder! Express yourself with the new blendable, buildable BOUNCE & BLUR collection, available July 25 on bareMinerals.com.

Where to Buy / Launch Date

Where can I buy this collection? bareMinerals, Sephora
When is the collection available? July 25th at bareMinerals
Is this launch limited edition? It appears to be a new, permanent range of products.

Products Available

Dusk Bounce & Blur Eyeshadow Palette, $29.00 (Permanent)

This weightless, cream-powder eyeshadow resists creasing and fallout, and blends like a dream—no brush needed. Each five-pan palette is inspired by the natural beauty of the sunlit sky, in a range of finishes from satin to shimmer.

Evening Stark Creamy beige satin
Harvest Moon Burnt amber metallic
Crimson Sunset Deep crimson satin
Sepia Sky Darkened sepia satin
Purple Twilight Rich plum satin

Dawn Bounce & Blur Eyeshadow Palette, $29.00 (Permanent)

Aurora Light Holographic white shimmer
Pink Cloud Blush pink satin
Misty Morning Soft rose satin
Hazy Taupe Cool taupe satin
Stormy Sky Deep charcoal satin

Bounce & Blur Blush, $29.00 (Permanent)

This weightless, cream-powder blush blends like a dream—no brush needed. The good-for-skin formula blurs the look of pores and imperfections for a diffused look with no harsh lines, caking, or uneven color. Each shade is inspired by the gorgeous tones of the sunrise and sunset.

Blurred Buff Bronzed rose
Coral Cloud Fresh peach
Pink Sky Poppy pink
Mauve Sunrise Rosy mauve

bareMinerals Bounce & Blur Collection for Summer 2019

Nordstrom Anniversary Sale Beauty Exclusives 2019

Christine — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 19:30:19 +0000

Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale is right around the corner for non-cardholders–it starts tomorrow, July 19th. Anniversary Sale products and pricing is good through August 4th (unless something sells out).

If you’re unfamiliar with the Anniversary Sale, it’s an event where new products are on sale ahead of the fall season, and many brands create exclusive product offerings for the sale. In beauty, this often means bundling products together or putting together exclusive sets (like a lipstick set) or palette (MAC usually has quite the number of offerings). I’ve highlighted some of key offerings in beauty below, and each slideshow includes a few more that I didn’t list specifically–you can click “shop” to be taken directly to the product page for full details (the products are live, though buried!).

There are also “Glam-Up Days,” which are events in-store that range from gift with purchases to larger sampling programs (like “Scent Sunday” designed to help find a new scent). I’ll be reaching out to brands directly in hopes of getting more details since the catalog this year is super light on details!

Beauty Exclusives – Eyes

Anastasia Brow Duo ($25.00, $43 value) Clear Brow Gel (full-size), Brow Wiz (full-size), available in five shades
Bobbi Brown The Eessential Deluxe Eyeshadow & Face Palette ($85.00, $267 value) 6 eyeshadows, 3 highlight/bronzer shades, mascara
Charlotte Tilbury The Easy Smokey Eye Palette ($55.00) Six-pan eyeshadow palette (REVIEW)
Dior Layering Lashes Set ($58, $80 value) 3-piece mascara layering set with pouch
Lancome Must-Haves Set ($59.50, $98 value) 2 full-sized mascaras, full-sized primer, travel-sized Bi-Facil
Laura Mercier Signature Eye Palette ($59, $135 value) 9-pan eyeshadow palette
Tom Ford Nordstrom Exclusive Eyeshadow Quad & Mini Lip Set ($88, $126 value) Includes full-sized eyeshadow quad and deluxe-sized lip colors in Autoerotique and Paper Doll (REVIEW)

Beauty Exclusives – Cheeks/Face

Laura Mercier Tres Chic Palette ($52, $86 value) Two highlighters, two bronzers, two blushes
MAC Cool & Warm Eye & Face Kits ($45.00 each, $82 value)
NARS Moto Tane / Motu Tapu Face Palettes ($42.00 each, $56 value) Highlighter, blush, and bronzer trios (REVIEW / REVIEW)
Tom Ford Soleil Color Collection Set ($115, $163 value) Includes Golden Peach Cream & powder Eye Shadow, Soleil Sheer Highlighting Duo, Paradiso Mini Lip Sheer
Urban Decay All Day, All Night Sponge & Spray Set ($48.00, $94 value) Jumbo-size and travel-sized All Nighter Setting Spray
Trish McEvoy Power of Makeup Heart Planner ($250, $575 value) Eleven must-have essentials for face, eyes and lips

Beauty Exclusives – Lips

Bobbi Brown Instant Glow & Lip Set ($35.00, $69 value) Includes Pink Gold Glow, Bare Sparkle Gloss
Charlotte Tilbury The Pillow Talk Lip Kit ($60, $78 value) Pillow Talk Lip Cheat Liner, Lip Lustre Lip Gloss, Matte Revolution Lipstick
Clinique Chubby Color Set ($22.50, $35 value) Includes five travel-sized shades
Dior Addicted to Glow Light Glow / Deep Glow Lip Set ($70 each, $93 value) Available in Light and Deep
Giorgio Armani Lip Maestro Travel Set ($45, $79 value) Shades 202, 400, 514
Hourglass Eyes & Lips Duo ($48.00, $59 value) Caution Extreme Mascara and Spark Lip Gloss
Lancome Color Design Lip Set ($42.00, $125 value) Color Design Lipsticks in Natural Beauty, Lucky Kiss, Inconspicuous, Trendy Mauve, Love It
MAC Go Get Nude / Pink It Over Lip Kits ($36.50 each, $54 value) Includes a lipstick, lipgloss, lip pencil
MAC Lip Haul Lip Kit ($59.50, $108 value) Includes Zenith, Dahhlinggg!; Care to Share Lipsticks, Shhh!, Indoor Voices, Lust glosses
MAC On the Go Nude / On the Go Pink Mini Lip Kits ($20.00 each, $36 value)
NARS Hot Tropic Lip Gloss Set ($39.00, $96 value) Tua Motu, Marquesas, Tetiaroa, Huahine (REVIEW)
NARS Naked Paradise Lip Pencil Set ($39, $108 value) Tahaa, Vahine, Morea, Raiatea (REVIEW)
Tom Ford Lips & Girls Trio ($88, $110 value) Whitney, Philippa, Antonia (REVIEW)
YSL Pink / Nude Lip Set ($60 to $79.00, $90 to $115 value) Three-piece lip sets

Beauty Exclusives – Skincare

Fresh Rose Hydration Rush Ritual Set ($69, $101 value) Soy Facial Cleanser (1.7 oz.), Rose Deep Hydration Facial Toner (3.4 oz.), Rose Face Mask (1 oz.), Rose Deep Hydration Cream (1 oz.)
Kate Somerville ExfoliKate ($120.00, $175 value) Jumbo size
Kiehl’s Creme de Corps ($49, $78 value) Jumbo size
La Mer Mini Miracles ($90, $122 value) The Treatment Lotion (0.17 fl. oz.), The Eye Concentrate (0.1 oz.), The Moisturizing Cream (0.5 oz.)
La Mer The Soothing Collection ($360.00, $475 value) Eye Concentrate (0.17 oz.), Lifting Eye Serum (0.17 oz.), Moisturizing Cream (1 oz.), The Concentrate (0.5 oz.)
Paula’s Choice 2% BHA Duo ($36.00, $59 value)
philosophy Purity Trio Set ($55.00, $87 value) Includes 32 fl. oz. Purity Made Simple, 8 fl. oz. Purity Made Simple, 2 fl. oz. Microdelivery Wash
Sunday Riley Essentials Set ($99.00, $148 value)
Supergoop Sunscreen Mist Trio ($38.00, $57 value)
Too Faced Dive Into Hydration Set ($45.00, $84 value) Hangover Primer (travel-size), Hangover 3-in-1 Spray (full-size), Hangover Good in Bed Serum (full-size)

Beauty Exclusives – Tools

beautyblender Sponge Set ($35.00, $54 value) Two sponges plus one travel case
DIPTYQUE Five-Candle Set ($55, $75 value) Baies, Feu de Bois, Figuier, Roses and Mimosa (1.2 oz. each)
Jo Malone Fragrance Collection ($92, $115 value) Wood Sage & Sea Salt, Nectarine Blossom & Honey, Peony & Blush Suede, English Pear & Freesia, Wild Bluebell
Le Labo Duo ($98) Another 13, Santal 33
Le Labo Discovery Set ($85.00) Bergamote 22, Santal 33, Rose 31, The Noir
simplehuman Round Sensor Mirror Pro ($150, $250 after sale)
simplehuman Pro Wide View Mirror ($250, $400 value)
T3 Grey & Rose Gold Cura Hair Dryer ($155, $235 after sale)

Charlotte Tilbury Smoky Eye Palette for $55.00 | Shop Now

Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Kit for $60.00 ($78 value) | Shop Now

Laura Mercier Tres Chic Face Palette for $52.00 ($86 value) | Shop Now

Laura Mercier Signature Eye Palette for $59.00 ($135 value) | Shop Now

MAC Lip Haul Set for $59.50 ($108 value) | Shop Now

NARS Motu Tapu Face Palette for $42.00 | Shop Now

Tom Ford Soleil Set for $115.00 ($167 value) | Shop Now

simplehuman Round Sensor Mirror Pro for $150 (regularly $200) | Shop Now

Tom Ford Boys & Girls Clutch Trio for $88.00 ($110 value) | Shop Now

Charlotte Tilbury Smoky Eye Palette for $55.00 | Shop Now

Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Kit for $60.00 ($78 value) | Shop Now

Laura Mercier Tres Chic Face Palette for $52.00 ($86 value) | Shop Now

Laura Mercier Signature Eye Palette for $59.00 ($135 value) | Shop Now

MAC Lip Haul Set for $59.50 ($108 value) | Shop Now

NARS Motu Tapu Face Palette for $42.00 | Shop Now

Tom Ford Soleil Set for $115.00 ($167 value) | Shop Now

simplehuman Round Sensor Mirror Pro for $150 (regularly $200) | Shop Now

Tom Ford Boys & Girls Clutch Trio for $88.00 ($110 value) | Shop Now