MAC Novel Twist is the latest fall collection to have us tripping over ourself.

Rich, bold fall colors along with coordinating brush/makeup bags set this collection apart.

Novel Twist eye and lip palettes come in both warm and cool hues and sport three (lip) or five (eye) shades of complementary colors in each compact.

Novel Twist: 5 Warm Eyes

Vanilla/ Folie/ Club/ Unwind/ Adlib

Novel Twist: 5 Cool Eyes

Phloop!/ Beauty Marked/ Deep Truth/ Novel Twist/ Twirl Twirl

Novel Twist: 3 Tan Lips

Fetish/ Frenzy/ Spunlight

Novel Twist: 3 Coral Lips

Ramblini Rose/ Sway/ Rambling

Novel Twist: 3 Pink Lips

High Strung/ Sway/ Rambling

Novel Twist: 3 Plum Lips

Darkside/ New York Apple/ Scribbles

In our opinion, the highlight of this collection is the new Paint Pots, a cream eyeshadow formula with skin-like adhesion for superior blendability and long-lasting, crease-free wear.

Paint Pots are available in the following colors:

• Stray Gray Grey mauve (cream)
• Pinterly Nude beige (cream)
• Delft Deep teal with gold pearl (frost)
• Stringalong Warm mid-tone brown (cream)
• Artifact Dark burgundy with red pearl (frost)
• Indianwood Metallic antique bronze (frost)

Also in this collection is:

Lipglass

• Springy Freshwater oyster pink (frost)
• Gadabout Mid-tone yellow pink with white pearl (frost)
• Spree Pink champagned taupe (cream)
• Wander Sheer chocolate brown (cream)

Powder Blush

• Whim Bluish soiree pink (satin)
• Out of Bounds Neutral mid-tone brown (satin)

Beauty Powder

• Softdew Neutral brown rose
• Sun Twist Warm peach

Novel Twist is exclusive to Nordstrom and will be available beginning July 20, 2007.

Everyone loves a beauty secret.

Givenchy Fall 2007 Collection has a secret or two, inspired by the eternally gorgeous Audrey Hepburn, in the form of a hidden message inscribed into their compacts this season.

Shade 54 Cache-Cache (limited edition)

Prismissime Eyes , a 9-color eyeshadow collection, cleverly holds an array of camouflage inspired colors along with Audrey Hepburn’s personal philosophy engraved on the mirror: Style for Life.

Shade 10 Secret Rose (limited edition)

Prisme Again! Secret Blush, a powder blush quartet, beautifully displays the Givenchy 4G logo on the squares of fuschia, peach, mauve, and yellow powder blush designed to light up the face with a natural glow. This exclusive quartet offers more words of wisdom from Audrey Hepburn engraved on the mirror: Laugh Often.

Balancing out the bold eyes of the Prismissime Eye palette are two nude hues of Rouge Interdit, Givenchy’s star lipstick, in 25 Rose Caprice and 26 Voluptuous Nude.

New to the Givenchy makeup brand this season is Prisme Foundation, a palette of complementary powder foundation colors to create a flawless finish for every complexion. Swirled together, the four colors blend all over the face to camouflage flaws and enhance features. Individual hues can also be used to highlight and contour.

Prisme Foundation Shaping Powder Makeup is available in 7 versatile shades:

• Shaping Ivory-1
• Shaping Rose-2
• Shaping Beige-3
• Shaping Amber-4
• Shaping Honey-5
• Shaping Brown-6
• Shaping Copper-7

Givenchy Fall 2007 Collection is available beginning August 2007 at select Saks Fifth Avenue and Sephora stores.

We can always count on Bobbi Brown to deliver a palette we can’t live without. These sunkissed neutrals are all you need to look fabulous on the beach or in the office this summer.

With two of our favorite Bobbi Brown eyeshadows — Bone and Chocolate Brown — along with a blush in Bahama Brown and two Lip Shines in Bikini Pink and Bronzed Pink this Sun Kissed Face Palette will take you all the way through summer.

We just arrived home from a one-day business trip to Salt Lake City that began at 3:30 this morning.

Sort of.

Our alarm was set for 3:30 a.m. but since we were up until well after midnight last night trying to get our photo-banner-thingy on our new site to work (we were unsuccessful, but it’s finally working now — yay!) we lingered in bed for half a second before getting up.

Sort of.

When we opened our eyes, it was 4:22 a.m — meaning, we had precisely 8 minutes to get ourself ready and out the door.

After screaming a few expletives to no one in particular while turning circles of confusion in our dark bedroom, we realized nothing would change the fact that the airport is 30 miles away and we needed to be there by 5:00 a.m.

We quickly pulled our hair into a messy-chic ponytail (our favorite day-two-hair look), threw some makeup into our tote bag with the intention of applying it after we made it safely through the security line, and slipped on the worst shoes we could have possibly selected for travelling. (What can we say, we hadn’t had our coffee yet.)

Where we were lacking in shoe-choosing abilities, we totally made up for in our Makeup Bag. After just ten minutes in the airport bathroom we showed no evidence of having less than 4 hours of sleep and actually felt confident and ready to take on our busy day.

Our must-have beauty items? (We thought you’d never ask.)

TheBalm Hot Mama, a multi-tasking peachy pink highlighting blush that instantly flatters and illuminates a sub-par complexion, giving the fresh-faced illusion of well rested skin.

Prescriptives Site Unseen, a brand new concealer from Prescriptives that has SPF 15, helps to visibly firm skin, and comes in a convenient mess-free pen that’s perfect for girls on the go.

Brown Cross Lashes, a Makeup Bag quick-fix for days when we need a little extra help. We love how these give our lashes fullness without being over the top.

Aside from having to walk six blocks in three-inch pumps, our day in Salt Lake City turned out better than we imagined. We caught up with an old friend, Melissa, over lunch and dished about our favorite beauty products and some SECRETS (because what are friends for if not a little hot gossip?) before heading off to our meeting.

Now we’re finally home and laughing to ourself because Melissa just left us a message that she stopped by the cosmetics counter on her way home and threw down $200 on some of our product recommendations.

Now, that’s what friends are for.