Matte Bronzed Skin: See Gisele Bunchen in the latest Missoni ads? Kiss the glitters of the past seasons goodbye and go for brilliance. Use highlighters for an iridescent sheen.
Shu Uemura TTL Defender. Experts in skincare and makeup always say that the best skincare routine is to cleanse, tone, moisturize, and protect! Fight dark spots, wrinkles, dryness, roughness, excess oxidation and sagging with this skin protective base. With SPF 25, TTL Defender provides UVA and UVB protection, moisture, smoothness, and skin transparency. You’ll love it because it absorbs the excess oil and helps your foundation last looooooong. Now you’re ready for the battle.
L’Oreal Ideal Balance Unifying and Balancing Foundation (compact: SRP P783, liquid: SRP P748). The first foundation made for combination skin absorbs oil from the T-zone and hydrates the dry zones of your face. The compact contains SPF 18 while the liquid foundation has SPF 10. Avoid a flat cakey matte look by giving your face a light to medium translucent coverage. The result? A matte but fresh, satin-smooth complexion all day long.
Human Loose Powder. The perfect tool to make both face and body radiate. With its minute sparkling powder, you have brilliance at its sheerest.
Shu Uemura Boutique 20th birthday, Aura Nude Face Powder. Shu Uemura’s Omotesando Boutique in Japan celebrates 20 years with limited edition products that take aura and glow in a festive mood. The Aura Nude Face Powder lends a gold pearl effect. Dust it on your upper cheek bone or use it on your body to celebrate that matte bronzed look of the season.
Nude Lips: Heavily inked eyes and nude lips are the ingredients to that hot mod look. Stick to natural tones with a creamy texture. Adding a touch of gloss will make it look so now.
Bloom Lipstick in Angel (P595). A neutral brown in a creamy satin finish. Not only do you get lip color but lip care as well. Jojoba oil, evening primrose oil, and beeswax moisturize and condition the lips. It also contains Bloom’s trademark "lip" flavor – vanilla and mandarin oils to provide a natural fragrance. Mmm... Be the angel that even Lucifer can’t resist!
MAC Lipstick in Cherish and Twig. I’m rarely partial to nudes but these two shades are my personal favorites. Glide it over your lips to punctuate that Courreges-inspired outfit. Perfect with or without gloss.
Shu Uemura Boutique 20th Birthday, Aura Nude Liquid Lip. This caramel-colored gloss puts nude lips at their sexiest. Even when on your lips, it doesn’t just look nude, it feels nude. So smooth and lightweight, makes your lips so kissable. Watch out.
Pink Lips: Perfectly goes with the pretty woman trend of soft shapes and pastel shades. For your lips, don’t go too bold. Stick to sexy, soft tones.
Lancome Juicy Tube Juice Bar, Limited Edition. Tinted, ultra-shiny and fragrant promising that sophisticated lacquered effect on your lips. Every woman’s favorite gloss now comes in a smaller 8ml size in a set of four irresistible flavors. Fits perfectly into that little purse bag.
Shu Uemura Boutique 20th Birthday, Aura Spectra Liquid Lip. Mr. Shu Uemura certainly knows how to celebrate! His Boutique 20th Birthday makeup gives women a second palette: the Aura Spectrum collection. "I sincerely hope that the female faces light up even more on this occasion," he said. With his Aura Spectra pink lip gloss, they will.
Inky Eyes: Eyeliner is the key this season and black is your best bet. The thick eyeliner of the ’60s was seen on the ramps of Prada and Blumarine. But to give it a modern edge, don’t forget that important "flick" at the tip.
Prestige Eyeliners. Pencils allow more room for mistakes. Their Classic Pencils go on smooth with an easy one-stroke application. No tugging or pulling. You can also get yourself their Mechanical Stylist Pencils that offer a unique swivel-up color that never needs sharpening. The rounded tip applies color smoothly and evenly. And for those who party hard, it’s 100 percent waterproof.
Prestige Liquid Eyeliner. This gives a bolder line and color. Although liquid liners are less forgiving when it comes to mistakes, you have control with the help of its unique fiber tipped applicator. Drama and definition was never this easy.
Three Custom Color Clarifying Pencil. To alleviate the look of red, hazy tired eyes, this nude color eye pencil applied to the inner rim of the eyes is an instant pick-me-up. Unlike stark white pencils, the Clarifier comes in two natural shades of nude – one for fair to medium complexions and one for medium to dark complexions. This also doubles as a sleek concealer for small touch-ups and is perfect for reshaping the lip line. A next must-have in any makeup bag.
Lancome Mascaras. When it comes to the eyes, let’s not forget the lashes. Before you flutter them, consider what your lashes need. Lancome offers a range of mascaras. Flextencils for endless length and shapely curves (a favorite of model Jodie Kidd!), Definicils for long separated and defined lashes, Amplicils for immensely thick and glamorous lashes, Magnificils for naturally full, precisely defined lashes, and Extencils for natural-looking curled defined lashes. Perfect lashes as quick as a wink!
Toned Legs: The rise of hemlines to hot micro minis means it’s time to show some legs! But not your orange peels! Here are some tools to transform your legs from flab to fab.
L’Oreal Body Expertise Nutrilift (P536). The body skin contains less sebaceous glands so dry body skin loses firmness over time especially when exposed to hard water, the sun, or even stress. This anti-dryness and firming moisturizer ensures elasticity and firmness.
L’Oreal Body Expertise Perfect Slim (P632). Changes in weight, an unbalanced diet, phases in life (adolescence, pregnancy, menopause), and genetics are all culprits for cellulite and that unwanted orange peel effect! Perfect Slim is a fresh non-greasy gel that penetrates instantly. It contains caffeine, a potent lipo-reducer, to eliminate the orange-peel effect. It also smoothes and gradually stretches the skin again making your skin firmer and toned by the eighth day. That’s a firm commitment.
The Body Collection Body Balm. Make those legs look longer and sexier. This creamy body balm is moisture-rich and contains shea butter to soothe and soften the skin. A subtle shimmer will leave your skin glowing and the guys looking! It comes in three luscious scents: wild strawberry and lily, jamaican lime and frangipani, and tropical coconut and jasmine.
MAC is located in Glorietta Makati (in front of Bon Appetit Rustan’s).
Lancome is available in all Rustan’s department stores.
L’Oreal Ideal Balance Foundation and L’Oreal Body Expertise line is available in department stores in key cities and provinces.
Human Loose Powder is available in all Human stores nationwide.
Bloom Cosmetics, Three Custom Color, Prestige, and The Body Collection is available at all Beauty Bar shops located in Glorietta 2, Greenbelt 3, PowerPlant Mall, Shangri-La Plaza Mall, The Podium, Alabang Town Center, Festival Supermall and Katipunan.