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Stila has rolled out some amazing new products for summer to keep you looking pretty even in the heat. Click to see what our favorite products are!

We know what L’Oréal Paris products you need to achieve three lovely looks worn by Natasha Poly and Milla Jovovich at the Cannes Film Festival. Click to find out just what you need to get their looks!

Ilia is releasing three new types of organic makeup products. Find out how to beautify yourself after the jump!

THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED. We have selected a lucky winner. Click after the jump to see what the lucky girl will get!

With the bright and bold colors on clothes and accessories this season, the next step is nail color. Chanel’s Spring 2012 Le Vernis trio has everything you need for a formal dinner party, a picnic in a park, and a summer vacation at the beach. Read on for the latest nail colors of the season, viable alternatives, and tips to perfecting a manicure at home.

It’s a recession, remember? We’re all looking for a way to watch what we spend, but we don’t want our beauty to suffer because of it. JK Jemma Kidd is here to make it easy on you.

Cuteness. It can be an addiction. If you’ve watched the Sneezing Baby Panda viral video at least 5 times, then you should check out Pixi Cosmetics. See some favorites from their new Long Lasting Color Collection!

Whether it be a lip stick, lip stain, or lip gloss, the best of two, or even three, worlds has always been very difficult to achieve. YSL’s newest innovation, the Vernis À Lèvres Glossy Stain seeks to be a solution to all your lip color troubles you once had. A hybrid of three traditional lip color products, Vernis À Lèvres Glossy Stain seeks to leave your lips fabulous with lasting, intense lip color and a glossy finish all at one go.

If you don’t think you can wear a cream eyeshadow, think again. Shiseido’s Shimmering Cream Eye Color will prove you wrong. See why we’re loving this product, and find out our favorite shade that’s universally flattering!

There is simply not enough time in the morning, so half the time you end up applying your makeup during your morning subway commute. Looking for solutions to downsize the amount of makeup you cart around in your bag? Estée Lauder has the answers. Check out some of our faves from their new Two Tone Collection!

We know what you want.  We know because we want the same thing: long, flawless lashes, without clumps, and volume for days.  And we know how to get it naturally. Check out this amazing beauty find!

Photographer, Amanda Bruns, has teamed up with hair and makeup artist, Belinda Zollo, to bring us a selection of bright eyes using Mac Cosmetics.

Timeless makeup is epitomized in Estée Lauder’s new Mad Men Collection. The limited edition lipstick and blush are bound to make any man mad for your chic and classic makeup. The collection is available beginning March 2012. Check out the pieces here!

You wake up in the morning, and you know that today will be one of those days. A million thoughts race through your head as the steaming water from the shower tries to calm your already panicked body. You’ll be done with work at 7, but the cocktail party to celebrate your friend’s engagement is at 7:30, and you can’t be late. You can change into your dress in the third floor ladies’ room, but you won’t have time to redo your makeup; and, thanks to Rimmel London’s new spring collection, you won’t need to.

One good reason to avoid the temptation of winter hibernation is this year’s holiday makeup collection from Chanel. With warm blends of chocolates and pops of vivacious fuchsias, they’re anything but December drab—in fact, with a name like Les Tentations de Chanel, they’re downright decadent. The Les Tissages de Chanel Blush Duo Tweed Effect is just as classic as a Chanel tweed suit (even looks like one), and the special edition Les 4 Ombres Quadra Eye Shadow in Tentation Cuivré is the ideal mix of dramatic browns and subtle pinks. Take a look after the jump for a few more reasons as to why we’re already counting down the days until Christmas—or at least until we make it to Chanel boutiques and department stores when the collection hits the stands this month.

While being called catty isn’t exactly a compliment, cat-like eyeliner is certainly attractive. This Fall, walk the catwalk with MAC’s Fabulous Felines line, which celebrates the daring, mysterious and unpredictable side of the fairer sex. The collection draws inspiration from the eyes, coats and personalities of three distinguished breeds—the wild leopard, the captivating Russian Blue and the sleek Burmese. Depending on your mood, choose from a selection that includes glamorous golds and royal purples or subdued olive greens, and finish the look with the aforementioned swooped cat eye (the Superslick Liquid Eye Liner should do the job). And the MAC nail colors we were raving about yesterday? We’d say definitely the perfect complement.

Paying homage to Coco Chanel’s mixture of black and white hues and masculine and feminine undertones, Chanel’s Fall 2010 makeup collection makes skin and lips a soft, neutral palette for bold, dramatically dark eyes. Light pinks and corals on lips play background to a quartet of shadows in peach, deep eggplant and smokey greys. The Ombre Essentielle shadow sets the Autumn feel with a chocolate grey and khaki green, while Chanel’s pick for the ultimate Fall nail color is Paradoxal, a deep grey lavender. Top off the look with smokey eyeliner in Cassis, a dark plum, and you’ve got an Autumn look dramatic enough for the theater.

Even though it isn’t even officially summer yet, (though we are very grateful for the recent shorts weather we’ve had in New York) we can’t help but get a bit excited for December and January—for the 2010-2011 Chanel Resort Collection, that is. And though we obviously can’t wait for those free-flowing florals and bright blues, pinks and greens to hit stores come winter, we’re equally anticipating the makeup used at the show in Saint-Tropez. After all, they looked pretty good on our girls Heidi, Natasha, Jacquelyn and Karolina.

The last thing you want to do before a trip to the beach is powder up and apply some bronze and a dab of lipstick. Well, at least if you want to hit the waves – and on a hot sunny day, why wouldn’t you? By the time the sun sets, your skin should be a-glowing. But if it’s not, the MAC To The Beach summer collection, available through July 2010, provides a sun-kissed alternative. The bronzers and body oils hint a touch of the sun, while the bright-colored nail polishes, eye shadows and lipsticks are eye-catching and can easily go from day to night.

MAC, apparently, has no problem sourcing mainstream or obscure subject matter for beauty fodder. Now, they have a whole line inspired by, of all things, paper. So if you’d like to look like a porcelain figurine or some relic of ragtime piano parlors gone-by, then Prêt-à-Papier is for you.

MAC’s creative team decided to challenge itself by using this unconventional object for inspiration, and the result is a line of lipsticks, blushes and pencils in petals and nudes.

Sleek glass design? Flashy LED screens broadcasting images? Must be Time Square. Or, better yet, a MAC store in Time Square. The wild makeup retailer, known for its ostentatious storefronts, will be opening a 1,700-square foot flagship next Thursday—hoping to catch the eyes of MAC junkies and open-jawed Time Square tourists alike.

For those who consider make-up an art, MAC is providing some new markers, pencils and paints for your palette—in the form of eyeliners, lip stains and a use-anywhere “greasepaint stick.”

Available starting next month in MAC stores, Art Supplies (ranging from about $14 to $17) comes in electric shades of emerald green, lavender and bright berry pink.

Just in time for summer comes the only accessory you ever really need: a light, yet high-impact, lip-gloss from Estée Lauder. The Pure Color Glosses will hit counters in June, and will dazzle in 34 different shades, three different finishes, plus a custom collection of six glosses by Tom Pecheux, world-renowned makeup artist and Estée Lauder’s creative makeup director. With colors ranging from nudes to berries to plums, pick up everything from Opulent Opal, Peach Sizzle or Raspberry Pop, toss in your bag, and hit the beach.

Beauty wonderland Sephora is a playground for cosmetic enthusiasts and an unruly jungle to the uninitiated. Into this midst of beauty products in all shapes, colors and sizes emerges Tarina Tarantino’s eponymous new line, a collection of whimsical, sparkly products seeking to stand out from the pack. With any luck, Tarantino’s cited influences of 60s psychedelic art, glam rock and the Japanese “culture of cute” will help her do just that. The line covers the spectrum of beauty products from eye shadows and liners to lip glosses and powder. Each playfully titled cosmetic (Sparklicity Shimmer Dust, Dollskin Powder) comes in pale pink and silver packaging, further advancing Tarantino’s concept of “makeup-as-accessories.” For beauty obsessives of the girly persuasion, we’d say anything produced in The Sparkle Factory (Tarantino’s Los Angeles headquarters) will be sure to please.