All the best of chocolate without the calories from Too Faced, Clinique, Bobbi Brown and Demeter!

Too Faced Melted Chocolate Liquified Metallic Lipstick - $25 - in 6 cocoa-powder infused shades: Chocolate Milkshake, Chocolate Honey, Chocolate Cherries, Metallic Chocolate Diamonds, Metallic Frozen Hot Chocolate, Metallic Candy Bar - that comfortably coats lips with bursts of high-impact, saturated colour and rich shine, while an innovative, angled velvet tip allows for precise application.  Infused with antioxidant-rich cocoa powder and a mood-boosting chocolate scent, these lipsticks leave lips saturated with color while offering comfortable, flexible and cushiony wear.

Available at Sephora and sephora.ca.

Clinique All About Shadow Quad in Pink Chocolate - $35 - in four complimentary colors that allows you to create a variety of looks, from natural to dramatic with crease and fade resistant shades that are ophthalmologist tested for contact lens wearers and those with sensitive eyes. The set includes a mirrored compact with illustrated instructions plus two sponge-tip applicators.

Available at Clinique counters across Canada.

Bobbi Brown Dark Chocolate Eye Set - $70 - includes Truffle Long-Wear Cream Shadow Stick - glides on tug free and won't crease, flake or fade; Black Chocolate Long-Wear Eye Pencil - creases a rich, precise, long-lasting line and Black Chocolate Extreme Party Mascara - for high-volume lashes that remain flexible through eight hours of comfortable, conditioning, flake-free wear - to help you create subtle-to-sultry eye looks in deep brown shades.

Available exclusively at sephora.ca.

Demeter Chocolate Covered Cherries - 30ml EDT - $20 - with all the sweet-deliciousness of the real thing that will have you smelling good enough to nibble on!

Available at www.demeterfragrance.com.

- Lisamarie -

Eye Love Wednesday - simple smokey eyes from Rodial, L'Oréal and Bobbi Brown!

Rodial Smokey Eye Pen - $21 - in Black and Brown - enhances the eyes with super-rich pigment and long-lasting soft gel formula that easily blends for a buildable smokey eye effect with all day hold.

Using a gel instead of a powder for a smokey eye has a very different feel which you're going to love - no bits of powder everywhere but a very clean line that easily blends out for a smokey look - just don't wait too long to blend, after a couple of minutes the gel sets and then doesn't budge!

Available now at Murale and murale.ca.

Enhance the eyes with super-rich pigment and gel-effect definition with this black smokey eye pen. This long-lasting soft formula easily blends for a buildable smokey eye effect with all day hold. Great for use to re-create the smouldering eye look.

Features and Benefits

-Gel Formula gives a buildable, blendable Smokey Eye effect. - Long lasting - Super rich pigment

- See more at: http://www.murale.ca/15607-Rodial_Smokey-Eye-Pen.aspx#sthash.HBBhkbFb.dpuf

L'Oréal Infallible Smokissime Powder Eyeliner Pen - $12.99 - in 4 shades: Black Smoke, Brown Smoke, Taupe Smoke and Purple Smoke - an eyeliner-eyeshadow hybrid with 14 hour wear thanks to an  infallible loose pigment formula that is wax-free which makes it resist melting or smudging along with a precise sponge-tip applicator that blends as it applies - for a deep, dark smoky eye look - no extra blending required!

Available now at drug and mass retailers across Canada.

Bobbi Brown Smokey Eye Kajal Liner - $29 - in 6 shades: Jade - army green, Pacific - deep emerald green, Deep Amethyst - dark eggplant purple, Noir - black, Black Coffee - dark chocolate brown, Storm - slate grey -  water-resistant, highly pigmented and incredibly blendable so it can be applied to the inner eye and lash waterline without tugging or pulling. While its uniquely soft texture makes it easy to create a dramatic smoky eye in seconds with the help of the convenient smudger included on the other end..

Available at Sephora, Murale and Holt Renfrew stores across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

30 Days of BCA - Day 11 - Bobbi Brown Pretty Pink Ribbon Lip Gloss Collection

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month when all our favourite brands will be coming out with special edition products that in some way, will benefit charities associated with the disease.

A great thing all on its own - add in that many of the products will be pink and you've got something well worth talking about!

Be sure to come back everyday at 11:30am when we will be featuring a new BCA product!

Bobbi Brown Pretty Pink Ribbon Lip Gloss Collection - 4 x 4ml - $70 - featuring 4 glosses in varying pops of pink.

Bobbi Brown will donate $12 from the sale of each gloss set to The Breast cancer Research Foundation.

Available exclusively at Bobbi Brown Cosmetic counters and online at www.bobbibrowncosmetics.ca until the end of March 2015 while supplies last.  

- Lisamarie - 

And don't miss out on the other great days:

Day 1 - Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair
Day 2 - Sephora Together In Pink Hair Ties
Day 3 - eos 2014 Breast Cancer Awareness Collection

Day 4 - Tweezerman Precision In Pink BCA Slant Tweezer

Day 5 - Estée Lauder Evelyn Lauder Dream Pin

Day 6 - Clinique Pink With A Purpose Long Last Lipstick - Power With Pink 

Day 7 - Aveda Hand Relief with Shampure aroma

Day 8 - WonderBra Breast Cancer Awareness Limited Edition Bra 

Day 9 - Darphin Intral Redness Relief Soothing Serum
Day 10 - Marc Coblen Pink Ribbon Watch

Pretty in pink lips from the Bobbi Brown Uber Pinks collection - with swatches!

If you love pink as much as I do then you've already been drooling over the Bobbi Brown Uber Pink collection and thinking that the light pink lip colours look like the perfect spring shade and you've right - lipstick or gloss, you can't go wrong with this shade!

Pink Kiss Lip Color

Baby Pink Lip Gloss

- Lisamarie -

Bobbi Brown Uber Pinks Collection

Bobbi knows I love everything pink so was kind enough to come up with the Valentine’s Day inspired Uber Pinks Collection, featuring products for lip, cheek and nails in a range of tone-flattering and fun pinks. Bobbi believes that there is a perfect shade of pink for everyone and it's a shade that's not only girly but also sexy and sophisticated!

Available in the collection:

Illuminating Bronzing Powder - Be Pretty Antigua or Be Bold Pink Peony - $44 -  ultra-soft and smooth pressed formula packs a blend of sheer powder and micro pearls - for a seamlessly glowing finish of light pink bronze - as much as they are calling this a bronzer, it looks like more of a blush to me - but awfully pretty ones!

Lip Color - $29 - in Neon Pink and Pink Kiss

Lip Gloss - $29 - in Popsicle and Baby Pink - light pastel pink

Nail Polish - $17.50 - in Pink Cloud - creamy pale pink and Pink Peony - bright blue pink

Available now at Bobbi Brown counters across Canada and online at www.bobbibrown.ca.

- Lisamarie -

Bobbi Brown Old Hollywood Holiday 2013 Collection

This holiday season, Bobbi Borwn introduces Old Hollywood, a collection that celebrates the glitz and glam of iconic American screen sirens - ensuring that every women can be red carpet worthy for the holidays!

Old Hollywood Eye Palette - $75 - a limited edition compact featuring 9 shadows: Ivory, Beige, Gold Sparkle, Opal Sparkle, Fog, Golden Pink Metallic, Chocolate Bronze Sparkle, Candlelight Gold Metallic and Eclipse - complete with mirror and mini dual-ended eye shadow and eye liner brush.

Ink Liner - $27 - in Blackest Black - with an improved formula and easy to use felt tip that delivers a perfect line, every time.

Long-Wear Cream Shadow Stick - $28 - in new shade Tuxedo Black and 2 limited edition shades: 24 Karat and Bronze -  easy to use shadows that you just swipe onto the eye and blend with fingers for intense colour that lasts.

Old Hollywood Lip Color - $28 - in a limited edition leading lady retro red shade housed in an elegant gold case.

Lip Gloss in Siren Red - $24 - a limited edition shade of red that lets your smile take center stage with a brilliant, high-shine look. Contains avocado oil, Vitamins A, C & E and jojoba oil to keep lips supple and soft.

High Shimmer Lip Gloss - $24 - in 3 limited edition shades: Candlelight, Rose and Pure Gold - that add light-catching glimmer on bare lips or added dimension over your favourite lipstick.

Nail Polish - $18 - in 2 limited edition shades: Tuxedo Black and Siren Red.

Glitter Nail Polish - $18 - in 2 limited edition shades: Solid Gold and Chrome - that add a pretty touch of colour on their own or can be layered over solid shades for added drama.

Available at Bobbi Bown counters across Canada.

- Lisamarie -

Beauty heaven awaits at Hudson's Bay Yorkdale!

Months of construction at the Yorkdale Bay store have resulted in 23,300 square feet of cosmetic wonderfulness that you are going to have to see to believe!

Now you may be thinking - "Why do I need department store cosmetics when I can get all the same brands at Sephora or Murale?" - and being the first to admit what a Sephora-whore I am, I'm in the perfect, un-biased position to say that the problem with Sephora is that while they do have everything, it's all so crowded in together that it's hard to really experience the brand or just wander it and browse. And of course while Sephora beauty advisors can be lovely and very helpful, it's impossible to know everything about every brand, whereas when you go to any of the brands at The Bay, you are getting an advisor for just that company who will know everything about it!

Now come take a tour of some of the counters:

Anna Sui has an exclusive partnership with The Bay and here's the first new concept counter in North America inspired by Anna's own apartment - the whimsical decor ties in nicely with the uniqueness of the product packaging!

Now a little easier to get your hands on now that Bobbi Brown has opened at both Yorkdale and Queen Street Hudson's Bay stores!

Chanel - well do I really need to say anymore than that? I'm especially taken with the gold couch you can see in the right hand corner, I'm going back specifically to sit on it!

Clinique brings you a shopping experience like no other, letting you choose exactly the level of service you want...

Just grab a bracelet and the consultants will know whether you want help or just want to browse - brilliant!

The Elizabeth Arden counter features a custom designed colour wall to display the Beautiful Colour eye shadow shades, available only at Hudson's Bay as well as a "Best Sellers" wall making it easy to find their best performing products!

Estée Lauder makes it easy to shop for foundation with the Beautiful Skin Studio - if you're ever bought foundation only to realize that it's the wrong shade when you see it in different lighting, you are really going to appreciate this!

The Guerlain fragrance display is amazing and the bottles look like works of art, not just perfume!

Remember when British brand Illamasqua was hard to get your hands on in Canada? Not anymore!

No longer will you have to deal with the massive crush that is normally the MAC counter - this one is huge and can be approached on all sides!

The NARS counter is new to the Yorkdale location and has arrived with a bang with a huge sleek and modern looking space - my favourite part is the interactive iPad station with How-To wardrobe tutorials and face charts by NARS Lead Makeup artists.

Origins has a brand new design - "Nature's Laboratory" - with easier access to sampling...

and a sink area make it much easier to give everything a try!

My beloved Philosphy has a beautiful new space with sections for skincare, fragrance and gifting - I especially like the Peel Bar where you can experience the benefits of a micro-exfoliating treatment!

The Shiseido counter offers an interactive 55" multi-touch Discovery Centre as well as a hidden treatment room where you can relax and have a specialized service (or a nap)!

Yves Saint Laurent is looking glamourous in black and gold!

Other counters include: Lancome, Shu Uemura, Armani, Dior and Clarins and other brands available at the Yorkdale Bay are: Tanda, butter London, Ciate, Clarisonic, Decleor, 3 Lab, St. Tropez, Bliss, T3, Hermes Fragrance, Cartier Fragrance, Tom Ford Fragrance and Michael Kors France and Beauty.

Also fun is the fragrance section - where you'll find the 9 most popular fragrance houses with their own little stores each designed to highlight their special nature of their brand - Narciso Rodriguez is dark and sleek...

While Viktor & Rolf is pink and airy -

Other houses included are: Armani, Chanel, gucci, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Mugler and Givenchy.

Time to get shopping!

 

- Lisamarie -

30 Days of BCA - Day 1 - Bobbi Brown French Pink Set

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month when all our favourite brands will be coming out with special edition products that in some way, will benefit charities associated with the disease.

A great thing all on its own - add in that many of the products will be pink and you've got something well worth talking about!

Be sure to come back everyday at 11:30am when we will be featuring a new BCA product!

Bobbi Brown French Pink Set - $52 - this limited edition set includes a pink-ribbon embossed french pink blush and mini face blender brush.

$10 from the purchase price of this set will be donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Available exclusively at Bobbi Brown counters at Holt Renfrew, Murale and The Bay as well as online at www.bobbibrowncosmetics.ca until the end of March 2014 while supplies last.

- Lisamarie -

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month when all our favourite brands will be coming out with special edition products that in some way, will benefit charities associated with the disease. Which is a great thing all on its own so when you add in that many of the products will be pink - well that's something well worth talking about!

Be sure to come back everyday at 11:30am when we will be featuring a new BCA product! - See more at: http://www.beautycrazed.ca/2012/09/30-days-of-bca-day-1-it-cosmetics-brow.html#sthash.GNYASVem.dpuf

Bobbi Brown Navy & Nude collection lip gloss - with swatches!

With all the pretty items in the Bobbi Brown Navy & Nude Summer 2013 collection it would be easy to overlook the soft and subtle glosses but as you can see from the swatches, that would be a mistake as they are perfect compliment to a smoky or colourful eye!

Sailor - sheer pink

Honey - nude

- Lisamarie -

Eye Love Wednesday - metallic summer eyes from Givenchy, Bobbi Brown, Sephora and Avon!

Guerlain Fard Métal - $38 - in 01 Cuivre Ora - warm and sensual gold and 02 Bronze Ora - timeless iridescent brown - an iridescent eyeshadow with metallic effects that instantly adheres to the eyelid - one sweep is all it takes to illuminate the eyes in a wealth of sparkling shimmer for hours.

It has a self-contained sponge tip applicator which makes for quick application and blends easily so the look can be as heavy or as sheer as you like - I recommend putting it on before your foundation so you can easily wipe away any fallout that happens while applying!

Available at Guerlain counters across Canada for a limited time.

Bobbi Brown Metallic Long-Wear Cream Shadow in Goldstone - $29 - offers gold sparkle in a formula that uses new polymer technology to provide superior adhesion to eyelids. It dries down to a sparkling veil of color that won't budge, smudge, or crease and can be used as an allover color or highlighter and layered for extra intensity.

Available at Bobbi Brown counters, bobbibrown.ca and sephora.ca.

Sephora Long-Lasting 12HR Wear Eye Liner in Grey Black - $14 - a metallic dark chrome that I particularly like because the colour is dramatic without being as harsh as a full on black and provides a blast of color that stays put for 12-hours. The formulation is packed with a highly concentrated of pigments and the brush has a flocked tip that is incredibly easy to use, allowing you to draw a line of color that's precise, consistent, and intense—all in a single step.

Available at Sephora and sephora.ca.

Avon Glazewear Diamonds Eye Color in Bronze Shine - $7.99 - a luminous shadow that flows on like liquid metal, cools to a shimmer and keeps its luster all day for eyes that sparkle! You're going to have to hunt for this one a bit as it came out last summer and no longer seems to be on the Avon website - Amazon and eBay are your best friend for this kind of thing!

- Lisamarie -

Bobbi Brown Navy & Nude Summer 2013 Collection

If you're looking for a summer look that's always cool, even when the temperature rises you'll love Bobbi Brown summer - Navy & Nude...

Navy & Nude Eye Palette - $70 - Limited Edition - with two shelves of 4 shadows each with shades ranging from creamy white to nude to deep royal blue: Ivory - creamy white, Cement - grey beige, Blazing Star Sparkle - pale beige sparkle, Beige Shimmer Wash - shimmery nude, Twilight Pink Metallic - light golden pink,Naked - warm nude, Slate - medium grey and Rich Navy - deep royal blue - all housed in a blue tortoise-shell compact.

Brightening Brick - $49 - Limited Edition - featuring pale to warm pink shades to add a soft, pearlized glow to the cheeks for the effect of subtly sun-kissed skin.

Long-Wear Cream Shadow in Suede - $29 - a velvety-smooth tan shadow that lends a soft matte finish to lids and works beautifully with shades from the Navy & Nude Eye Palette.

Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner in Steel Ink - $27 - in a black-infused navy that features flecks of silver for a modern take on classic black that gives you the look of a liquid liner with all the ease of a gel formula.

The Suede Cream Shadow as a wash paired with the Steel Ink Eyeliner is my favourite and easy summer look right now - I thought the hot weather would make them melty but they have been very budgeproof!

Lip Gloss - $28 - in Sailor - sheer pink and Honey - nude beige - Limited Edition

All Over Bronzing Gel SPF 15 in Joe Brown - $50 - Limited Edition - with a unique gel-based formula that delivers an instant, healthy, natural-looking glow to the face and body with the added benefit of sun protection.

Nail Polish in Navy - $21 - the perfect accent for glowing summer skin.

Available this week at Bobbi Brown counters across Canada and www.bobbibrown.ca.

- Lisamarie -