Purple is not only the hottest hue on the runway, it’s dominating the season’s makeup collections, too, especially in the eye category. So how can you sport eggplant-colored eyes without looking like you were in a bar brawl? Pair plum shadow with another dark, muted shade (like deep emerald or charcoal) to dramatically line both lids and then blend like crazy with a smudge brush. Finish with dots of silver in the inner corners. As for lips, fall’s runways called for a variety of looks, including wine stains, matted pomegranate lipsticks and simple lavender-laced gloss. Stash your new shades in a new metallic-purple makeup bags, and serve up your fiercest fashion strut.

Urban Decay - Matte Eyeshadow

By popular demand, Urban Decay created new Matte Eyeshadows that are sexy, sophisticated, and never dull. Formulated without shimmer or glitter, these completely matte shades have an incredible silky texture because they are low in binders, so the color payoff is amazing and never chalky!

Sephora Metallic Bag Collection

A collection of go-everywhere travel bags in rich plum metallic faux leather. Each of these durable bags are covered in of-the-moment soft metallic material.

Too Faced Glamour Gloss

An ultra glittering lip gloss. This explosion of iridescent shimmer and sparkle adds just the right amount of glamour to lips, whether you’re strutting down the street or the red carpet. The lipstick-like applicator has a flocked tip to distribute the color evenly. They’re like fireworks for your lips!

It’s not just you that needs the perfume and scents, but also your home.

Just in time for the Fall season. They claim it’s the best Pumpkin fragrance ever. Created by the world renowned home fragrance designer Harry Slatkin, The Perfect Autumn scents round out a perfect season of soul-pleasing warmth. These scents are pumpkin, apple and pear.

The Perfect Autumn - Concentrated Room Spray (Pumpkin)

The perfect blend of fresh pumpkin, ground cinnamon, brown sugar and vanilla cream. A fall favorite for everyone. It creates a fragrant ambiance in an instant. With a lasting scent, it’s perfect for your home, office or anywhere that you want to add the fragrant charm.

The Perfect Autumn - Scented Candle (Apple)

The perfect blend of juicy McIntosh apple, crisp applewood, white lotus and white oak. Embrace the season and create a fragrant, sensory delight. It has a delicious scent that is truly irresistible.

The Perfect Autumn - Home Fragrance Oil (Pear)

The perfect blend of juicy Bartlett pear, ripe mandarin, fresh cedarwood and star fruit. Treat yourself and your surroundings to the ultimate fragrant, sensory bliss. It contains the maximum concentration of the finest quality scent oils.

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As an answer to Cookie’s question on my previous blog entry. Here’s a product that can help people with thinning hair. I doubt if this product will be of any help for extremely bald people though.

There’s a specific System for each hair type. There are eight different NIOXIN Scalp and Hair Care Systems designed to help improve the appearance of thinning hair. In order to create and maintain an optimal scalp environment, each System is formulated to achieve maximum results for your specific hair type.

Each System is complete with 3-parts:

NIOXIN Cleanser

NIOXIN Scalp Therapy

NIOXIN Scalp Treatment

So many women (even men) have undergone a lot of hair treatments like straightening, cellophane, color dye, etc. These treatments may make hair beautiful but it can also strip off the natural beauty and health of ones hair and can also affect the scalp.

Here’s an interesting product that can help improve damaged or unbalanced hair and scalps.

The perfect solution for over-porous hair damaged from chemical services, hair without elasticity, and dull and dry hair. This repair serum affects change at the surface cuticle, the inner cortex, and the core medulla levels of the hair shaft, bringing both oily and dry scalps back into balance. The Ted Gibson Complex - a unique blend of amino acids - conditions and strengthens the hair shaft by bonding to and filling in damaged areas.

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Prada.  The name evokes fashion, simplicity and luxury.  Prada, the Italian fashion powerhouse, has made its foray into the world of beauty.  Miuccia Prada created her skin care line to be potent, pure and personal.  Meaning that the ingredients had to work efficiently, the products had to be hygienic and the products had to travel well.  Hence, the skin care products are packaged in it’s own unique, individual capsules and tubes.

Besides the skin care line, they also came up with their own fragrance. Prada brings its unique fusion of tradition and innovation to the world of fragrance, reinventing the ancient art of perfumery by creating a fragrance of yesterday and tomorrow, a scent inspired by the past, that embodies the future. It is a fragrance that intertwines memory, reality, and possibility.

With their pricey clothes, bags and shoes, expect the beauty products to very expensive as well. No longer focused on just clothing and accessories, Prada has transformed into an all-around luxury brand. 

1. Perfect Skin Regimen: Always wash your face before bed, or the dirt and oil will get into pores and cause zits.

2. Keep your hands off your face.

3. Apply moisturizer only where you’re dry. Choose a non-comedogenic formula (won’t clog pores).

4. Wear oil-free make-ups.

5. Eat protein (like salmon or tofu) and nutrient-rich green veggies everyday. And the vitamin C in citrus can actually help pimples heal faster.

6. Water works! At least eight cups of water a day and more if you exercise, it helps detoxify and hydrate your skin from inside out.

7. Aside from water, juice from apples, carrots, cucumbers and pineapple are also recommended.

8.  Avoid cigarettes! When you take a puff, the nicotine constricts blood vessels, slowing the flow of oxygen and blood your skin needs to be healthy.

9. Getting plenty of beauty sleep, about eight hours is ideal for most people.

10. Change pillow case often.

Presenting more Best of 2007! Thanks again to www.sephora.com.

Best Tinted Moisturizer - Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer

This sheer, lightweight moisturizer contains a protective SPF 20 sunscreen and a hint of color that can be used in place of foundation for a natural finish that adds a healthy glow to your complexion.

Best Skin Treatment - Bare Escentuals RareMinerals Skin Revival Treatment

This Bare Escentual’s groundbreaking, minerals-based nighttime treatment is the first of its kind with clinically proven skin-renewing benefits. The exclusive blend of 100% pure RareMinerals, derived from untouched virgin soil and in potent powder form, is the perfect nutrient carrier for vitamins A and C and a host of botanical extracts.

Best Eyeshadow - Smashbox Eye Shadow Trio

These versatile, perfectly coordinated shadow trios take the guesswork out of the picture-perfect, three-color eye.

Best Tool - Sephora Professional Bronzer Brush #44

A bronzing brush made of high grade goat hair. Perfect for applying and blending loose or pressed powder, the domed shape applies color just where you want it. High grade goat hair is soft and allows for an even application.

Best Fragrance for Her - Philosophy Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace fragrance for women is an uniquely feminine blend of soft, floral blossoms accented by a hint of light musk.

Biggest Beauty Breakthrough - GoSMILE Advanced Formula Tooth Whitening on the Go

Whitens natural teeth optimally and safely lifts stains from porcelain crowns and veneers too. This advanced formula’s unique gel polymer increases in potency upon contact with teeth and remains on for 20 minutes for optimal results. The soft brush tip lets you gently target specific teeth to customize your whitening. Proven not to damage tooth enamel.

Best Eyebrow Enhancer - Anastasia All About Brows Kit

Everything you need to create the perfect brow, start to finish. Six specialized tools used by brow artists - all in one deluxe kit.

Set includes: Tweezers, Brow Powder Duo, four Brow Stencils, Duo Angle/Spooley Brush, Brow Gel, and an Eye Lights highlighting pencil.

Best Fragrance for Men - Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gio Pour Homme

A resolutely masculine fragrance born from the sea, the sun, the earth, and the breeze of a Mediterranean island. Transparent, aromatic, and woody in nature Acqua Di Gio Pour Homme is a contemporary expression of masculinity, in an aura of marine notes, fruits, herbs, and woods.

I like food! I may be a beauty buff, but I also like to eat good food! Of course I still choose what I eat and always consider the health benefits. 

As much as possible, I avoid food that have empty calories, especially chips and snacks. I noticed that every time I eat, my skin breaks out. As for oily food, my stomach hurts. I thinks it’s the body’s way of saying that what I’m eating is bad.

Why did I suddenly talk about food? Hehe. I found this interesting entry at Kuchiki Rukia’s blog. Here’s her question: What is the one food item you absolutely refuse to eat?

Absolutely refuse? Hmm..liver! I know there are a lot of nutrients that one can get from eating liver. But, I never really liked the texture. Even if the sauce or the way it’s cooked is ok…it’s still the texture of liver that I don’t like. 

Since the 1930s Acqua di Parma has been a symbol of Italian refinement, class, and timeless elegance. Fashion and silver screen icons were among the first to recognize and enjoy the allure of the label’s premier fragrance, Colonia, a scent that seduces both men and women. Bright yellow boxes are the cornerstone to the prestigious Parma-based brand, as are crest-embossed labels and exquisite mélanges of scents, all of which are dedicated to the care and pampering of the most discerning clientele.

Colonia

An elegant timeless scent filled with a fresh, luminous blend of natural ingredients like Bulgarian rose, Sicilian citrus fruits, lavender, and verbena.

Fragrance notes include: Bergamot, Citrus, Lemon, Bitter Orange, Sweet Orange, English Lavender, Bulgarian or Damascene Rose, Verbena, Clary Sage, Rosemary, Cedarwood, Patchouli, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Oakmoss.

Live the ultra-luxe life with this glamorous set of seven full-sized professional brushes, including exclusive new Buffer Brush #24 and Angled Blush Brush #23, all uniquely finished with stunning chrome handles and packed in a luxurious faux fur brush roll.

Set includes:

Buffer Brush #24 (brand new - exclusive!), Angled Blush Brush #23 (exclusive!), Foundation Brush #13, Arced Liner Brush #21, Angle Brow Brush #12, Blending Brush #3, Definer Brush #15, and a Faux Fur Brush Roll.