Bigger, Brighter Eyes in an instant from the Clinique Fall 2010 Colour Collection!

It's all about the eyes this fall at Clinique and they have added a couple of new, limited edition products as well as reintroduced you to some old favourites to make your peepers as bright and noticeable as possible!

High Impact Mascara - $18 - Limited Edition in Brightening Black - clinically proven to make eyes appear three times brighter by creating the necessary contrast against the whites of your eyes to create a youthful, vibrant look.  In the hopes of becoming a line from my favourite Bonnie Tyler song, I gave this mascara a try and it really does work - I looked super awake and alive!  This is my new secret weapon for Monday mornings!

Quickliner for Eyes Intense - $19.50 - Limited Edition in Intense Coffee, Intense Chocolate, Intense Plum and Intense Black - a more dramatic version of the original, it has an extra creamy new formulation and glides on smoothly for up to 12 hour wear.

There are also some collection suggestions to help you pair up the new with the old and get some great looks!

Like Mink - pair sparkling beiges with deep golden browns for a dramatic take on neutrals

High Impact Mascara in Brightening Black

Quickliner for Eyes Intense in Intense Coffee

Colour Surge Eye Shadow Duo in Like Mink

Quick Eyes Cream Shadow in Sparkling Nude

High Impact Lip Colour SPF 15 in Go Fig

Instant Lift for Brows in Soft Blonde and Soft Brown

Strawberry Fudge - brightens things up with golden pinks and blushing browns

High Impact Mascara in Brightening Black

Quickliner for Eyes Intense in Intense Chocolate

Colour Surge Eye Shadow Duo in Strawberry Fudge

Quick Eyes Cream Shadow in Starlit Pink

Butter Shine Lipstick in Pink A Boo

Instant Lift for Brows in Soft Blonde and Soft Brown

Beach Plum - pairs shimmering golds with deep, warm purples for a bright new look

High Impact Mascara in Brightening Black

Quickliner for Eyes Intense in Intense Plum

Colour Surge Eye Shadow Duo in Beach Plum

Quick Eyes Cream Shadow in Rock Violet

High Impact Lip Colour SPF 15 in Peach Pop

Instant Lift for Brows in Soft Blonde and Soft Brown

Blackberry Frost - amps up the intensity with silvery lilacs and deep violets

High Impact Mascara in Brightening Black

Quickliner for Eyes Intense in Intense Black

Colour Surge Eye Shadow Duo in Blackberry Frost

Quick Eyes Cream Shadow in Truffle

Different Lipstick in A Different Grape

Instant Lift for Brows in Soft Blonde and Soft Brown



You can check it out how to make your eyes fabulous for fall at your local Clinique counter now!

- Lisamarie -

Lanvin Loves H&M: Coming This Fall!

A Elbaz/Picture: Paolo Reversi for H&M

We got the confirmation this morning from H&M: the next H&M collaboration will be with Lanvin!  Lanvin’s artistic director Alber Elbaz and menswear designer Lucas Ossendrijver created both womenswear and menswear collections for fall. The collection will go on sale in around 200 H&M stores. It will be launched on November 20th in North America and on November 23rd in the rest of the world, but the collection will be revealed to the world on November 2nd, just three weeks before the clothes hit the store. This means three weeks to sharpen your nails and stilettos, ladies! You know the drill by now...this is going to be a hell of a fight to get into that H&M store! 

I'm very curious to see what Lanvin is going to come up with - because this is one of the top, most respected luxury brand - and Elbaz has been credited for Lanvin's revival, so that should be interesting. Watch this space, I will post the pictures as soon as I get them!

-Christelle-

Neutrogena takes some of the stress out of going back to school! Contest!

Do you remember when you were little and going back to school was majorly exciting because it meant you got a new pencil case and spent all day with your friends?  Those were the days!  Now it's more about endless homework and assignments, navigating the social minefield and dealing with breakouts!  Can't help with the first two, but Neutrogena can help you out with that last one with their Acne Stress Control line!

Available in the line is:  Power-Foam Wash - 177ml - $8.50, Power-Clear Scrub - 125ml - $8.50, Power-Cream Body Wash - 250ml - $8.50 - to help treat body breakouts - all the products are oil-free and contain salcylic acid as the active ingredient.  Sound like something you want to try?

Before you run out and buy them, how would you feel about winning them?!  And we can't just make your face pretty, the rest of you will get jealous, so let's add a $50 gift card for Joe Fresh - Christelle will be jealous!  and because it's not back to school without the already mentioned pencil case, how about a super cute one from Tory Burch!  Keep your pencils in it if you must or really important school supplies like makeup!

It's super easy to enter!  This contest is open to all our lovely Canadian readers (even ones not going back to school). All you have to do is join Beauty Crazed as a follower if you aren't one already.  You can either do it through Google or through Networked Blogs on Facebook - you can find both signups on the right hand side of the Beauty Crazed site.  Once you belong to our crazy family just leave a reply to this post letting us know what stresses you out the most.   If you give the contest link a tweet and/or post it on your blog, there's an extra entry in it for you! Including an e-mail address would be extra helpful and you can write it like this - info(at)beautycrazed(dot)ca - so the bots can't find you but we can.  If you prefer not to leave your info on a public post, please leave a post saying you want to enter and then e-mail us your info - info@beautycrazed.ca, please put "Neutrogena Contest" in the subject line.  Winner to be decided by random drawing and you have until September 17th to enter. 

- Lisamarie -

Jacob leads the charge in adopting a no re-touching policy for model photos!

The models in the Jacob and Jacob Lingerie campaigns are going to be a little less perfect starting this fall - Jacob has committed to no longer digitally altering the bodies of its models in images for both brands.  Why they doing this - feelings of social responsibility to promote a healthy image of the female body, is their reasoning and the feeling that digital photo manipulation has become excessive in the industry.  This makes them the first Canadian fashion retailer to take this stand.

Of course that doesn't mean that no retouching will be done, colours will still need to be calibrated for better product representation and to even out skin tone or erase tattoos and scars.

The advertising campaign that is in the store windows now is interesting - the first one is the actual photo taken, the second is the image they would now be using in the campaign and the third is what they would have done in the past before the new policy.  I look at the first picture and think that she is gorgeous and what could you possibly need to do to fix her - but look how much skinnier her legs are between the first and third pictures, and of course her boobs look bigger and her waist looks smaller.  The differences are very subtle but really if advertisers are doing this kind of crap to an already skinny, perfect looking model, it's no wonder the rest of the female population has body image issues!  To be honest, I like to look at clothes on slim, attractive models, but an untouched model is still plenty perfect enough!

Good for you Jacob, this is certainly a step in the right direction!

- Lisamarie -

Make Up For Ever makes finding your perfect shade easy with the Rouge Artist Lipstick Collection!

If fall means a new lipstick to you then you are in luck!  Make Up For Ever has launched a new collection of 50 lipsticks - Rouge Artist Intense - $22 - their claim to fame is that they are highly pigmented, in fact, they contain 50% more pigment then the average formula!  In three finishes: matte, pearly and satin - the colours range from 11 different shades of reds to pinks to nudes to more artistic colours like black, orange, gold and purple

Of course with that much choice in colour it becomes difficult to find the colour best suited to you so they have also come up with something to help women find the shade that is perfect for them by also creating a special lipstick shade finder tool that helps you find your perfect colour. Match up your hair and skintone colours and the wheel finds you the perfect reds, pinks and nudes just for you!  So I asked the wheel what it thought I should try and of course I never argue with scientific devices so I did what it said -

#46 - satin bordeaux red and #11 - pearly rosewood - I was a little worried about the texture as I have read that some people are finding them quite dry (especially the pearl) but I didn't have that experience at all, they went on easy and lasted all day!  To be fair, they might not be the creamiest "wettest" lipstick I've ever tried, but they were by no means dry and I'm sure being less creamy is what gives them such good staying power!

I didn't use lipliner, lip balm or anything on top.  Interesting how the frost makes my lips look so much fuller!

Get yourself to Sephora and check out this new line and let the magic wheel decide your (lipstick) life for you!  I'm also going to be asking it for lottery numbers and to predict the weather from now on!

- Lisamarie -

Introducing The Phone Dress and LED Fashion: You Too Can Be Cool like an Azeri Pop Star!

Forget getting high, I have a much better option - albeit probably as expensive - get a LED garment! The London based company Cute Circuit designs T-shirts and dresses incorporating LED technology and crystals to make you glow and sparkle in the dark! The best part? It reacts to your movements so you can dance all night and make other people feel sick too. You could even look like your favorite pop tart Katy Perry (I wish I could insert a barfing emoticon here) or this Azeri (from Azerbaijan) pop star. Joke aside, you can order these crazy T-shirts online and they could be yours within a few weeks!

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The "Hug Shirt" has sensors that feel the strength of the touch, the skin warmth and the heartbeat rate of the sender and actuators that recreate the sensation of touch, warmth and emotion of the hug to the shirt of the distant loved one.

As for the black phone dress also called M-dress it will accept a standard SIM card and allow the wearer to receive and make calls without carrying a cellular phone in their pocket or purse. Watch out iPhone, I'm going to make phone calls with my clothes!
I can sense this company is targeting the club goers: this should solve the "lost" phones issues after a night out...

-Christelle-

The Lippmann Collection goes to the Emmys with Lea Michele!

Celebrity manicurist Deborah Lippmann was on hand at the Emmys to polish off some of the star's looks including one of my faves - Lea Michele from Glee.  I may not have loved the dress she chose but I did like the deep blue colour and the polish that Deborah chose for her nails went beautifully!

Her colour came from the All That Jazz trio, a limited edition set which includes:
Razzle Dazzle - darkened raspberry sizzle (glitter)
Some Enchanted Evening - pink salmon shimmer (glitter)
Lady Sings The Blues - silver sparkled blue (glitter) - the colour that was used for Lea's manicure!

Get one for yourself online at www.lippmanncollection.com or instore at Murale, Holt Renfrew or Donato Spas.

- Lisamarie -

Bourjois Paris wants to know what makes you blush!

Want a chance to win $1863 cash (1863 is the year in which Bourjois Paris Little Round Pots were born) plus a selection of products?  Just go to www.bourjois.ca/contest and share your best "What Makes You Blush" moment!  In addition, the 10 best submissions will be panel-judged to win $100 in Bourjois Paris products.  The contest runs from September 1 to September 30, 2010.

The Little Round Pot of Blush - 2.5g - $19 - comes in 8 shades.  Finely-milled powders are "baked-dry" for versatility and enriched with fine pearlescent particles for a radiant finish.  What's really fun and smart is that the package colour is the same colour as the blush inside which makes it really easy to find the colour you are looking for at 6:30 in the morning in a drawer full of blushers!  It also has a tiny little brush that is curved to fit inside the compact which I don't recommend for everyday use but is perfect if you have a small purse and want to take a blush with you!  The texture is soft and it has a soft rose scent.

Available at selected Shoppers Drug Mart / Pharmaprix stores and now also at selected Murale stores across Canada.  Check out www.bourjois.ca to find a location near you.

- Lisamarie -