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We’ve seen classic holiday sets, extravagant golds, and now finally, a make up collection that will bring out your inner Joan Jett.

Make Up For Ever’s Rock Forever palette ($42) is inspired by the crazy, live-dangerously people behind the genre. A must have? A limited-edition eyeshadow palette that has two of their Diamond Shadows (shimmering beige and black) and two of their basic Eye Shadows (silver and shimmering white). Along with these shades, you’ll get simple, easy tips for creating different rock-star-worthy looks, like “Sweet Rock” and “Smoky Rock.”

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THE TREND: BRONZED SKIN, MASCARA AND PINKY-CORAL LIPS
Daniella Kallmeyer (1st runner up of Bravo TV’s The Fashion Show last season) created the Poor Little Rich Girl Collection for her Spring/Summer 2011 Fashion Week show, but Orlando Santiago, the lead make-up artist for the show, gave the model’s faces just the right amount of punchy color with his parallel concept of “South of France Pretty Little Rich Girl.”

Santiago’s premise of a beachy girl who uses a few basic products on the fly to look great relied heavily on bronzer, specifically Make …

Lights, camera .. ROUGE ARTIST INTENSE.
Nothing says daring like the latest lip colors from Make Up For Ever’s Rouge Artist Intense collection. The intense, richly-pigmented shades of these eleven lipsticks are designed to suit every skin tone, and every hair color (the folks at MUFE have even developed a handy-dandy color wheel to help you identify your perfect shade).

You can find the color wheel at Sephora.

Click on the picture ABOVE or the link here to get the scoop on our freshly-created video by vlogger Nat Neagle. Oh, and here …

Each year, the Makeup Show in New York brings together the best and brightest of makeup artists and makeup products under one terrific roof. This year, the quality of the participants was beyond stellar, with brands that included Mac Pro, Temptu, Alison Raffaele Cosmetics, Mehron, Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics and Makeup Forever.
As we expected, Makeup Forever’s new waterproof Aqua Creams stole the show. These are versatile WATERPROOF colors that are so multipurpose that they’ll transform your entire face single handedly. We’re talking color for the eyes, lips and cheeks!

The pigments are …

One of the interesting products I saw at the Makeup Show was the new HD Exilir from Makeup For Ever that’s not even on the market yet (it launches this Fall).

The Elixir is basically a hydrating serum that increases moisture in the skin by up to 528%. You can also use it as a primer and you need just a smidgen of it to make it do its Willy Wonka-esque magic.
And you can’t beat the price. At $38, this is a hydrating masterpiece, sure to sell out in stores and …

Lights. Camera. Makeup Show!
 
(The Temptu Booth)
Some lucky beauty bloggers got a taste of what the 4th Annual Makeup Show NYC holds during its two day expose on May 17th and 18th at the Metropolitan Pavilion.

(James Vincent at the Mehron Booth– Mehron is known for its body paint)
We were pretty excited to hear The Makeup Show’s Directory of Artistry, James Vincent’s favorite products and exhibitors as he took us around the booths (most of them were still setting up) and talked about some great keynote speakers who will be present over …