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Darphin Color Now Available Online!

Tired of frantically searching for the nearly impossible to find Darphin cult favorite make-up collection? Available at Darphin.com for the first time, the Darphin Color Collection can be delivered to your doorstep at the click of a button. Here are few items:

Blush Sensation: This velvety-smooth textured blush delivers a tender bloom of naturally youthful color, $40.

Lip Balm: A comforting Darphin lip balm that enhances and nourishes the lips, $22.

How To Lighten Eyebrows

Finally my hair is straight after a weekend of sun and swimming…now I can breath. And thank god for Anastasia Beverly Hills Tinted Brow Gel in Blonde ($19.00), and Brow Wiz in Ash Blonde ($18.00). If your hair is highlighted in blonde than these two magic brow helpers by Anastasia Beverly Hills will lighten your eyebrows. It is a a great alternative if you don’t want to mess with a bleach to lighten your eyebrows. 

Tinted Brow Gel by Anastasia Bevely HillsBrow Wiz by Anastasia Beverly Hills

How to lighten your eye brows? Simply apply the Tinted Brow Gel in Blonde by Anastasia Beverly Hills on your brows. It is a mascara like application which tints your eyebrows and lightens them. Next use the Brow Wiz by Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz to fill in any gaps in the eyebrows and shape them. And there you have it, perfectly lighter eyebrows to match your new blonde hair.

Jolen Cream Bleach

If you like to get even more dramatic…

Dior Impression Cuir Leather Couture Eyeshadow

Dior Impression Cuir Leather Couture Eyeshadow is a trio of ultra-trendy, boyishly-brown pearl-powder eyeshadows artfully stamped in this season’s wildly popular ‘croc’ pattern.

Dior Impression Cuir Leather Couture Eyeshadow

Another Dior innovation: the luminous ‘base color’ is slightly raised in the pan to indicate its ‘primal’ importance in any look from soft and natural to all out ‘Dandy.’ Silky. Long-wearing. Feather-soft. Easy to blend. SRP: $55.

via: www.nordstrom.com

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Filler

If you want to get your eyebrows in shape you must check out Anastasia Beverly Hills products. The entire line is designed to perfect your eyebrows at home. I have tried many of Anastasia Beverly Hills products and I just can’t leave my house without using them.

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Filler

Here is one product I love: Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Filler which is spring-loaded powder-tipped sponge duo (blonde on one end and brunette on the other). This unique powder formula is long wearing and designed to be slightly damp so that it can adhere to the skin, versus the brow hair. This allows color to be in place… even when there is little or no brow hair!

I use the blonde side and it lightens my eyebrows perfectly to match my very highlighted blonde hair. SRP: $20.

Thevi Cosmetics

Thevi Cosmetics was founded by wife, mother and entrepreneur, Thevaki Thambirajah.

Thevaki Thambirajah
Thevi Cosmetics founder Thevaki Thambirajah.

With roots that reach deep into the Indian sub-continent, Thevi was born of Sri Lankan parents in New York State. As a young woman, beginning her career and enjoying a busy social life, Thevi could never find cosmetics in shades that suited her coloring. She felt a keen need for a prestige makeup brand with colors that were rich and vibrant without being harsh, and Thevi Cosmetics was born.

Thevi represents the New Ethnic Market: light-to-dark skinned woman of Asian, South Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean descent. And we think it’s brilliant! Because finding the right shade of foundation is a key to a flawless face. There is still a room for expanding the makeup color scheme, and thanks for visionaries like Thevaki Thambirajah for making it happen.

Talking Makeup tried few of Thevi products and we are impressed. The quality of ingredients is definitely there.

We particularly liked the following Thevi products:
Mineral Pressed Powder SPF 8, $30.
Liquid Powder Mineral Foundation SPF 15, $32.
Lush Mascara, $18.
Automatic Longlasting Lipliner (my favorite is in Heather, and I added it to my makeup bag), $16.50.

MAC Solar Field

The new MAC Solar Field collection will be available at all MAC locations from June 2008.

MAC Solar Field

This is how MAC Solar Field described by MAC Cosmetics:

Alternate sun power. Full-volt bronze. Glamour beams across the universe via solar bits: transforming free-formed clusters of rich pigment and pearl. Applies shine and sparkle to eyes, cheeks wherever you want highlights. Crush for full colour and sparkle effect: for a light shimmer, sweep your brush over the top of the clusters. Wear with skin made provocatively golden through bronzing powder in Solar Riche and Refined Golden. Apply with 168 and 239 application brushes. 

MAC Solar Field Solar Bits

Too Faced Mineral Water Eye Brightneing Pencil

Too Faced Mineral Water Eye Brightening Pencil is made with 35% actual mineral water. Cool to touch, this eye pencil adds light to dark circles and instantly give your eyes the appearance of having a good night sleep.

Too Faced Mineral Water Eye Brightneing Pencil

Too Faced Mineral Water Eye Brightening Pencil also de-puffs and improves skin firmness elasticity and circulation. Price: $18.

How Gina Brooke Created Madonna’s Eye Candy Look

Madonna’s new look “Eye Candy” created for her new album “HARD CANDY” was designed by shu uemura’s Artistic Director and Madonna makeup artist Gina Brooke.

Madonna

“It’s all about the eyes and we are both inspired by images taken in the sixties by photographer Sam Haskins (Cowboy Kate, Five Girls, and November Girls). I wanted to put a modern-day twist on these beautiful photographs of glamorous women from the sixties,” commented Brooke on Madonna’s new look that appears in the packaging on her new “HARD CANDY” CD, the current Elle Magazine featuring Madonna, as well as in Madonna’s “4 Minutes to Save the World” video with Justin Timberlake.  

Here’s how Gina designed the look using shu uemura products:

STEP 1: Prepare the face. Begin with prepping the eyes with the Moisture Eye Zone Mask. This will not only calm puffiness but it will give your eyes the ultimate hydration . Then apply Phyto Black Lift Firming Cream on the whole face-it’s an amazing moisturizer and also reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Lastly, apply Face Architect Smoothing Fluid Foundation beginning at the arch of your brow down to the middle of your eye, directly onto to the middle of of the cheekbone. Each time the sun reflects of your skin, it will create an illusion of glowing, dewy, healthy, radiant skin!

Madonna

STEP 2: Prime the eyelids. Using a Kolisky Brush II, apply Pressed Eye Shadow in M Beige 800 above the eyelids. Then, use Cover Crayon in 9YR Lightin the inner corner and water line of the eyes and make them apear larger. Using the Drawing Pencil in Black, begin at the inner corners extending the line out all the way to the end of the eyebrow.

STEP 3: Prep the lashes. Use the Eyelash Curler before applying Basic Black Mascara beginning at the base and rolling the brush through the tips of lashes. Apply Soft Cross Lashes to draw attention and enhance the shape of the eye.

STEP 4: Finish off with the lips. Since the focus is on the eyes, use Rouge Unlimited Crystal Shine in PK 301S layered with Gloss Unlimited in BG 930N for a soft, natural look.

For more details about Madonna’s Eye Candy look created by shu uemura’s makeup artist Gina Brooke as seen on Access Hollywood click here!

The Secret to SPINLASH

I must say, when I first introduced to SPINLASH I was a bit skeptical. But to my surprise, this little magic mascara called SPINLASH was able to separate and curl up my lashes perfectly!

SPINLASH is the first mascara that revolves around you with a brush that gently rotates 360 degrees in both directions to apply mascara on both the upper and lower lashes. SPINLASH comes in either black or brownish black, or you can use SPINLASH with your favorite brand.

SPINLASH Mascara

The gentle motion of the rotating brush removes clumps with every turn while it separates, coats, lengthens, and volumizes your lashes. Suitable for contact lens wearers and not tested on animals.

SPINLASH was founded by inventor/entrepreneur/author Barbara Carey. SPINLASH is part of the AKASHA line of interactive line of cosmetics coming soon to retailers near you.

SPINLASH is available since March 2008 at Target, CVS, Claire’s and other massive retailers nationwide, as well as at: www.SPINLASH.com 

Price around $14.

 

ColorOn Professional Signs With Sephora

Start-up cosmetic company ColorOn Professional announced a partnership with Sephora to create a unique “EyeEnvy” makeup collection. Available exclusively at Sephora, ColorOn’s EyeEnvy will debut on Sephora’s website in June, with a major launch across the U.S and Canada.

Irina Iosilevich is the inventor of the patented makeup applicator, professional makeup artist and President and Creative Director of ColorOn Professional

“This is one of the goals we’ve been working toward from the outset,” says Irina Iosilevich, inventor of the patented makeup applicator, professional makeup artist and President and Creative Director of ColorOn Professional. “Creating a new palette of colors exclusively for Sephora is an amazing reward for our dedication and belief that we could make this dream of mine a reality.”

ColorOn Professional

“Irina started with the belief that if she could invent a way for women to easily and quickly apply professional-quality, multi-tonal makeup, they would feel and look more beautiful,” says Edward Eberts, ColorOn Professional’s CEO and rainmaker. “I saw in her invention the potential to create a brand that would revolutionize the makeup industry. That looked like a very good investment!”  

The South Florida-based company debuted its eye shadow applicator line nationally last Fall, and sales have steadily increased as beauty bloggers and the glossy fashion magazines (InStyle, Glamour, Elle and Cosmopolitan) took notice of colorOn. Sixteen years after patenting her idea, Irina saw her colorOn product hit the “big time” this award season with appearances in the gift lounge at the SAG Awards, in the gift bags for the performers and presenters at The GRAMMY Awards, and featured in a red-carpet segment on E! Entertainment Television preceding the Academy Awards.

ColorOn Professional

What Irina dreamed and invented was a way for women to get ready to go in the blink of an eye shadow! The oval-shaped colorOn eye shadow appliqués feature the most diverse array of colors and designs, are hypo-allergenic, and made with pure minerals. In addition to the speed and ease of application, once the wearer sets the creamy, blendable shadow with the included setting powder, the colorOn makeup will wear all day and night without smudging or creasing.

Talking Makeup will keep you posted about the ColorOn Professional launch in Sephora this coming June.  

For more information about ColorOn…Professional visit their website here!