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tarte lip couture Fall 2008

beauty blog, tarte, lipstick, fall 2008, lip couture Last Fall, chatter about the "return of lipstick" abounded, but when the holiday season rolled around, it was gloss set after endless gloss set… with nary a lipstick to be seen.

This year, the lipstick truly has returned to the spotlight… and tarte has introduced a set of four lipsticks and a lipliner infused with the famous t5 super fruit complex for Fall called lip couture that retail for a mere $32 (that’s only $8 per lipstick!). Haven’t tried them yet myself, but you can be sure they’ve made my short list of must-haves for the Fall!

These lipsticks are free of parabens, phthalate, mineral oil, sulfate, propylene glycol and fragrance. The set even comes with a mini lip pencil, to achieve pout perfection!

Lipstick Shades include:
• aura: deep brick red
• eden: nude beige
• paradise: sheer peachy-nude
• utopia: warm mauve berry

Click HERE to buy Tarte Lip Couture from Sephora.com

Click HERE to snag tarte Lip Couture t5 Super Fruit Infused Lipstick Set at Beauty.com

Click HERE to check it out at the tarte Cosmetics website!

Pink PedEgg For Breast Cancer Awareness Month!

BCA, Breast Cancer Awareness, Pink, PedEgg, Ped Egg October 1 (today!) begins Breast Cancer Awareness month. In honor of this great cause, I’ll be mentioning and reviewing many beauty products that donate proceeds to Breast Cancer Awareness.

After having baby #2, there were certain things I was immediately able to do again… one of which was easily see my feet. Horrified, I realized my nail technician hadn’t been doing a very good job taking care of my tootsies while I couldn’t. The dark callouses on my feet looked as if I’d been training for a marathon by running barefoot on asphalt. Yuck!

I went to town on my hideous feet with the Pink PedEgg. The ergonomic shape of this file makes it incredibly easy to hold and use (unlike many other foot files that are perched at the end of a very long awkward stick). The file is used on clean dry feet, making it an easy task to fit into even the busiest schedule. The PedEgg also comes with adhesive "finishing pads" to buff the skin to a smooth finish.

I felt a certain strange satisfaction upon opening the PedEgg to reveal the shavings of callous removed from my heels. But if a pedicure well done isn’t satisfying enough, you’ll be happy to read that $50,000 of the proceeds for the Pink PedEgg will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. If you’ve ever wanted to try this product… now is a great time to grab one!

Retail price is $10. Click HERE to buy it from PinkPedEgg.com. Pink PedEgg can also be found in drugstores like CVS and Walgreens. I even saw it at Bed, Bath & Beyond!

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MAC Fall 2008: Cult Of Cherry Collection, Mattene in Bing

Mattene, MAC, Cult of Cherry, Bing

I recently confessed to a friend that while my favorite season for weather is Summer, my favorite season for makeup is Fall.

Rich, elegant colors and warm, inviting hues always catch my eye. Lovers of Fall makeup are most certainly snapping up products from MAC Cosmetics Cult of Cherry collection, a limited-edition to be sold only through October.

Looking for the perfect lip-color to pair with MAC's "Illegal Purple" nail lacquer? Look no further– this sleek matte lip color named "Bing" is a deep eggplant shade that both Marilyn Monroe and Marilyn Manson would find appealing.

Bonus: The incredibly dark shade of this lipstick made my teeth appear shockingly white!

Retails for $14.50 at MAC Cosmetics online, macys.com and Nordstrom.com. Also available in Kirsch, Chock-ful and Rapturous.

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tarte Lash Hugger Mascara

Over a year ago, I raved about Pout Plump Lash mascara. I immediately loved the enormous fluffy applicator brush as much as the pitch black mascara it applied. Only months after my review, Pout announced they would cease operations by January 2008. Since then, I’ve been hunting for a mascara that offered the incredible applicator brush I raved about in 2007.

Finally, this Fall, tarte has launched Lash Hugger Mascara. Voila! The void has been filled. Not only is the wand incredibly fluffy, but this naturally-formulated mascara strives to be environmentally friendly! The mascara tube itself is an ultra-sleek post-consumer recycled aluminum.

Lash Hugger mascara is paraben, phthalate, sulfate mineral-oil, propylene glycol, fragrance and synthetic dye free. It also contains skinvigorating ingredients to keep your lashes healthy and conditioned while imparting the most incredible volume and pitch-black color.

Click the link below to be taken to this product at Sephora, where a close-up of the incredible applicator wand is featured for your viewing pleasure!

Retail price is $18.

Click HERE to buy Tarte Lash Hugger Natural Mascara at Sephora

Cargo PlantLove Line Expanded!

Cargo Cosmetics, PlantLove, Beauty Blog On September 22, CARGO Cosmetics officially expanded their beloved PlantLove brand, originally a collection of eco-friendly botanical lipsticks (in compostable tubes), into first-ever line of ECOCERT Cosmetics!

Organized into collections named after the elements, PlantLove offers colors to suit all complexions… with the added bonus that all product, process and packaging meet the strictest standards for natural, organic and environmentally friendly content!

I’ll be posting reviews of some of these great products soon, including blush, shadow and eye pencils! Stay tuned!

Click HERE to head over to Cargo’s website.

Click HERE to shop Sephora for the full range of Cargo products!