As the Holiday season approaches, my clean and crisp fragrances get pushed to the side, and I get in the mood for warm, sweet scents.

Luckily, LUSH has me covered… I recently received a box with the following products:

• Candy Fluff fragrance
• The Godmother soap
• Melting Marshmallow Moment bath melt
• Sugar Babe sugar scrub

Stay tuned for individual product reviews.

If you like sweet scents, you wont want to miss it

Camel – creamy opaque beige

Plum - rich bold purple

Mink – warm cocoa brown

I really wish I could see these in person, but unfortunately RGB isn’t sold anywhere in AZ. The promo photos don’t show Mink as being a warm brown color at all, in fact it looks to me like a neutral taupe, maybe even running on the cool side. Regardless, all three shades look gorgeous. Beautiful additions to the RGB lineup for Fall 2010 and all available now HERE,

for $14 each with complimentary shipping.

Essie Fall Into Fashion Collection for Fall 2010

For this collection, Essie drew inspiration from the range of elegant, sanguine hues and camouflage tones seen on Fall’s runways. Maybe a couple of these dusty camouflage tones can satisfy your expensive thirst for the CHANEL Khaki Collection? Let’s take a look…

In Stitches

Described by Essie as a cheeky blush pink, I see more of a rose blush creme.

I’m tempted to call this an affordable alternative to CHANEL Khaki Rose, although this is more pink.

This applied very well, plenty of coverage in two coats.

Limited Addiction

Described by Essie as a racy garnet red, this started out a fuschia pink-red with one coat.

It deepened with the second coat to a beautiful deep garnet.

One of my favorites from this collection.

Sew Psyched

Described by Essie as a cashmere-soft sage pewter, this will definitely be the most stand-out and talked about shade of the collection. Although they may not be exact dupes, this will be my affordable alternative to CHANEL Khaki Vert.

Merino Cool

Described by Essie as a sensuous autumn mulberry, I’m going to keep it simple and call it a cool taupe. I love these types of cool dusty taupes, another favorite for me.

Velvet Voyeur

Described by Essie as an intense chocolate amethyst, I’m going to call it an intense deep plum. It was difficult to capture the intensity of the plum tones on photograph, partially because I was running out of sunlight when I took these. It’s pretty much stunning and perfect for Fall.

Little Brown Dress

Described by Essie as a beguiling black coffee, which is a pretty good description for this color, it reminded me instantly of chocolate covered espresso beans. Mmmmm Yes Please!

Formula and application was excellent and all photos show two coats of polish.

Available NOW and just in time for Fall on Essie.com

MAC Fabulous Felines launched yesterday in stores and at counters.

Here are my top picks from the MAC Fabulous Felines Collection…

Of Royalty (cremesheen lipstick)

Of Royalty is a light creamy blue-pink. It is deeper than Viva Glam Gaga and more pink/less purple than Saint Germain. If Gaga and St. Germain were too cool-toned for you, you may do better with Of Royalty. Coverage is nice, easily buildable.

Kittenish (cremesheen lipstick)

Kittenish is a deep red berry color. Deep lips are always in trend for Fall. Kittenish is smooth and moisturizing. In my opinion it is the most standout lipstick in this collection.

Utterly Game (mineralize blush)

Utterly Game was my favorite of the three mineralize blushes, but I am partial to peach tone blushes. Utterly game has great color payoff. It has a tad of shimmer but nothing over the top. If you are more of a pink blush gal you should go for Pet Me mineralize blush. I passed on Pet Me because it is similar to Dainty mineralize blush, which I already have.

I honestly wasn’t that impressed with the majority of this collection. I like the idea of the new superslick liquid eyeliners but have heard bad things about stickiness and difficulty removing.

Have you or will you purchase anything from this collection?

FIEND Favorite, Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion is now available in a larger-than-life tube! The perfect size for makeup artists and Urban Decay junkies; forget the fact that this new pro size is 25 ml larger than the original, check out the new squeeze tube…

“Packaged in a professional-size, easy-to-use squeeze tube, the Eyeshadow Primer Potion is the ultimate eye prep for smoother, more vibrant shadow and all-day wear, with absolutely NO creasing. The new needle-nose tip makes application precise, quick, and hygienic.”

Faithful UDPP users KNOW how big of a deal this is!

Unfortunately this is limited edition, so stock up while you can.

Available now at Sephora.com for $29 ($45 value)

LES KHAKIS DE CHANEL – September 10, 2010

“Ultra sophisticated shades Khaki Brun, Khaki Rose, and Khaki Vert can be worn alone or combined for an urban chic camouflage effect. This collection will be available at CHANEL boutiques, CHANEL.com and select department stores for $25 each.”

Give my wallet a break CHANEL! Wear together for an urban chic camouflage effect??

As amazing as that sounds, that’s $75 (not including tax) to get all three bottles.

WILL YOU?

Who am I kidding… You know I will

MAC lipglass versions of Viva Glam Gaga and Viva Glam Cyndi will be hitting stores in September. These will retail for $14.50 each and will only be available for a six month period.

As always, 100% profits will go to the MAC AIDS Fund.

In other MAC news… the Rodarte Collection was pulled and will not ship after all. MAC Cosmetics will still donate the collection’s projected global profits to a charity that benefits the women and children of Juarez, Mexico.

Coming to you September 1st, Betsey Johnson has teamed up with Tweezerman to introduce her rendition of the iconic Slant Tweezer. Available at BJ boutiques and Sephora, these little gals will retail for around $25.

Source: WWD

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UD Hearts NYC – Book of Shadows Vol. III – for Holiday 2010

Look for this amazing limited-edition palette to hit shelves in October. If you will be in the NYC area on August 28th, you can try to purchase one of the 1,000 pieces that will be available for sale exclusively at the Times Square Sephora starting at 1pm.