Bobbi's inspiration for her beautiful new Fall Collection:

“These shades were inspired by the covers of beautiful vintage books. Infused with hints of purple, grey and brown, mauve makeup is a cool neutral that’s very wearable.”

The new Mauve collection is gorgeous. Of course, the star product of the new line-up is the Mauve Face Palette. On counters today, the palette contains three Eye Shadows, one Blush, a Creamy Lip Color, a Lip Sheer and a Lip Color. The shades are all new, exclusives, only to the palette:  Navajo Eye Shadow, Vintage Eye Shadow, Chocolate Mauve Eye Shadow, Mauve Blush, Dusty Mauve Creamy Lip Color, Mauve Lip Sheer and Vintage Mauve Lip Color.

The rest of the Bobbi Brown Fall Mauve Collection:
Lip Color - Heather Mauve and Pale Mauve
Shimmer Lip Gloss - Black Pearl and Iced Mauve
Lip Gloss - Mauve
Long-Wear Gel Eye Liner - Black Mauve Shimmer Ink
Mini Brush Set - a must-have to apply the Face Palette products, the case includes blush, shadow and liner brushes

Though only July 1st and I am getting my Summer makeup routine down, I cannot wait to play with all the new Fall shades. These look especially beautiful. I am not so much of a purple person (it looks so wrong on me), but being more muted with gray and taupe, I am sure I can wear this collection well.
 

Yet another great palette, this one to give you a gorgeous, summery, bronzed look. From Elizabeth Arden is this COLOR INTRIGUE Bronzing Beauty Kit for Face and Eyes.

Who doesn't love a palette that you can tuck into your bag for the beach to spruce up with before going out to dinner. This palette has it all. Four bronze inspired eye shadows and blush/bronzer duo, along with the perfect applicators will have you glowing in minutes. Finish up with a little lip gloss (which sadly, this does not contain) and you are ready to go. Even the beautiful case will turn heads when you pull it out of your bag.

Shop online or at your favorite Elizabeth Arden counter for this beauty.

Pop Beauty’s Smokey Rose Wallet was one of my picks for Mother's Day as this beauty is definitely a multi-taker. But as I have been going to it more and more, I thought I would write more about it.

The classy crock wallet is really a full face kit with all you need to create a soft smokey rose look. The cheek and lip colors are coordinated to work flawlessly with the 12 select eye shades, making anything you pick work. And if you might have a hard time, the back of the wallet contains detailed instructions on how to create a foolproof smokey rose look.

The kit contains 12 eye shades, 4 cheek glows, 1 berry stain and 1 baby pink lip glow. Plus a full size pro duo eye brush for making the shades glide on beautifully.

Pop Beauty’s founder Sara Strand even gave me some application tips and tricks to make this wallet and the shades work together seamlessly.

Use any of the 4 eyeliners to line and define eye shape
Apply medium toned color onto lid and blend into crease with brush that is included
Sweep light color over brow bone, in the corner of the eye and dot in the middle of the eye to open up eye
Apply nude cheek color all over cheekbone and the pink color on the apples of the cheeks only
Finally stain lips with cranberry stain and dot pastel pink in the middle of top and bottom lip for a plumper look

Smokey Rose Wallet is exclusively sold in Sephora and online at sephora.com.

I am very curious about these palettes, even more so now that Julia from All About the Pretty raved about them so much when I saw her last week. Bobbi Brown knows palettes, and I think she has another winner on her hands with her newly designed Custom Palettes.

You select from a three pan or a four pan palette, both of which are mirrored, and you select from Eye Shadow, Shimmer Wash Eye Shadow, Blush or Shimmer Blush - or a combo of any - and fill up the palette.

First, I want to know where are the lip shades? Surely they are in development, as we need our Bobbi Brown Lip Color and Lip Gloss.

Another product I think that needs to be made in pan palette size is a bronzer - oh, and a concealer and powder too. That would be perfect.

Next, as I am looking to come up with my mix of shades, I notice my favorite Bobbi shades are not there. Agh - I cannot live without my Smoke shadow as I use it as my eye liner almost daily! But I suppose I could throw my single pan in separately - if I must;).

Really, this palette system is a fabulous idea as it brings us back to the basics of Bobbi Brown.   I would fill up a four pan palette with shadows and a three pan palette with the blush. Each empty palette costs $10, the shadows sell for $20 each and the blush for $22 each.

I cannot wait to see what more becomes available, because if I know Bobbi, she will have all of her regular shades available and add more products for the ultimate customization.

Shop BobbiBrown.com. 

Mother's like to multi-task. Many of them need to multi-task. What a better way then with great makeup compacts and palettes that offer this. And more bang for the buck too.

Smashbox Shockwave Fusion Eye & Cheek Palette 

A pretty palette with four fused shadows and complimentary cheek colors, this palette helps to apply the eyes and cheek colors a cinch. The palette includes eyeshadow in golden brown, beige, sage green, and turquoise and a cheek color in warm pink and rosy pink. $39 at Sephora.com.

NARS Dolce Vita Set 

The Dolce Vita lipstick shade is a bestseller for NARS, and this inspired them to put together this great little set. This is a Blush Duo in Albatross (sheer light golden sheen) and Lovejoy (shimmering bronzed rose) along with a the new Lip Gloss in Dolce Vita. $50 at Sephora.com.

Pop Beauty Smokey Rose Wallet

With eye colors, liners, lips and cheek shades, this wallet has it all - in pretty pink and rosey shades. 12 Eyeshades in Silver Black liner, Deep Wine liner, Silver Grey liner/crease, True Plum liner, Antique Pink lid color, Taupe lid/crease, Perfect Pink lid/crease, Light Silver lid color, Powdery Pink highlight, Warm Pink highlight, Salmon highlight, Cream White highlight, four Cheek Colors in Pink Glow, Pink Highlight, Vintage Rose and Salmon Pink Highlight, two Lip Glosses in Cranberry Tint and Baby Pink Glow. $42 at Sephora.com.

Sephora Brand Mother's Day Blockbuster Palette

WOW! Look at the ultimate makeup palette. This is a box that has sliding trays and stacks different shades for endless and creative looks. The palette contains 12 eyeshadow shades, four blush shades, two powder shades, five lip gloss shades, and a mascara. $30 at Sephora.com.

The Illuminator All Over Face Color Powder from Prescriptives saved me this weekend. With so much, really too much going on, I barely had time for makeup, and using The Illuminator made my makeup a cinch.

I used the powder not only on my cheeks as a bronzer with the two darkest colors and then topping that with the pink and gold color, I highlighted them also with the two shades in the middle, a real light shimmery gold mix.  Then I used the darker bronzed colors on my eyelid, and the golds on my brow bone. I even dabbed a bit of the gold color on the bottom of my lower lip after applying some gloss.

The colors blended so easily and felt like satin on my skin.

Here is what Prescriptives says what The Illuminator is:
"This ultra-luxurious all over face color is like candlelight in a compact. Bask in the glow as you sweep The Illuminator All Over Face Color over face and cheeks to highlight, contour, illuminate and customize any look with golden warmth. Three complementary shades impart a luminous 3-D effect that is strikingly beautiful and flattering to all skin tones. Perfect for touch-ups throughout the day, it can be worn as a sheer wash of color, layered for depth and dimension or swirled together to create a customized shade. Plus, the sleek gunmetal compact with crystal-studded metal charm has show-off appeal."

I love it, and know you will too. The Illuminator All Over Face Color is $35 at your Prescriptives counter and on their website, of course.

Have you seen these beauties yet? The Royal Assets eye palettes from MAC, just one of the MAC Cosmetics Holiday Collections this year, are stunning. Not only are these palettes a great way to try out the MAC shadows, it is a great way to play and learn to experiment with colors you would otherwise not use.

There are 4 different palettes. One in a warm collection, one in a cool collection, a metallic palette, and a smokey eye palette. Each palette contains 6 eye shadows, for $36 each.

Royal Assets: 6 Smokey Eyes

Shades are: Rondelle, a light silver with white pearl (frost); Courtly Grey, a cement grey (matte); Knight, a deep grey with silver pearl (veluxe pearl); Maid of Honor, a creamy beige (Satin); Palatial a taupe brown (satin) and Majestic, a neutral grey brown with silver sparkle (lustre). 

Royal Assets: 6 Metallic Eyes

Shades are:  Honeylust, a bronze dipped peach (lustre); Silver Fog, a. intense frosted silver with silver pearl (frost), Stately Black, a rich blue with silver sparkle (lustre); Velvet Lady, a deep black with gold sparkle (velvet); Crème Royale a yellow wheat gold (veluxe pearl) and Manor, a warm brown with green pearl (frost).

Royal Assets: 6 Cool Eyes

Shades are: Shadowy Lady, a darkly veiled plum (matte); Silverwear, a lilac grey (frost); Modern Heir, a grape purple with white pearl (frost); Queen's Jewel, a rich blue with blue pearl (veluxe pearl); Medallion, a frosted light pink (frost) and Trophy Pink, a rich red magenta (frost).

Royal Assets: 6 Warm Eyes 

 Shades are: Sunday Best, an ivory with frost (frost); Star Violet, a eath-touched pinky-brown plum fusion (veluxe pearl); Retrospeck, a beached blonde (lustre); Club, a muted reddish brown duochrome with freen opalescent shimmer (satin); Showstopper, a neutral dark brown and Nobility, a light pink taupe (satin).

Each palette comes with it's own brush, a 213SE Eye Brush. Also, the shadows are enclosed in either a gold or silver antique-inspired compact with a beautiful cream porcelain plaque and royal crown motif. Gorgeous! I told you the packaging was pretty!

I know it is hard to decide on which palette you want and which one(s) you want to give. I say buy them all, glance over each one more than a few times, and then make your decision. And if you are like me, you will probably need to go back to buy more because you won't be able to resist playing with them all.

These limited edition beauties are available now, so you need to get yours and quick.