Back in October we gave you a sneak peek at the Lancôme Holiday Collection but there’s two items we didn’t mention:

Three super sparkly Color Fever Gloss in Heatstroke, Up in Smoke and limited edition Precious Light make up the Makeup Artist Shimmering Lips Set—a gift we’d like to have for ourself.

And this Holiday Mascara Set with several best-selling Lancôme eye essentials and a sweet cheek color thrown in for good measure.

Includes full-sizes of Définicils High Definition Mascara in Black, Cils Booster XL Super-Enhancing Mascara Base, Courbe Virtuôse Divine Lasting Curves Mascara in Black, Le Crayon Khôl Waterproof Eyeliner in Raisin Noir and Color Design Blush in Freeze Frame. Bat your eyes at that!

Avoiding eye-makeup-meltdown in triple digit heat is a breeze with Make Up For Ever Aqua Essential Waterproof Eye Set.

Included in this $85 value is Eye Seal (a cult favorite formula that transforms any powder into a waterproof liquid liner), Sens’Eyes waterproof makeup remover, Waterproof Lengthening Mascara, Waterproof Eyeliner, and Aqua Eyes Waterproof Eyeliner Pencil.

For only $45, these essentials will take your eyes through summer and beyond without smudging, running or melting.

A definite must-have!

We love us some Lancôme mascara, and Courbe Virtuôse is no exception.

With a unique curved brush that grasps the tiniest of lashes to lengthen, thicken and curl– this non-waterproof formula is remarkably long-lasting and smudge-free.

Our lashes looked perfect at 1:30 this morning when we woke up and realized we had fallen asleep on the couch while watching a movie a few hours earlier. (This rarely happens to us, but we’ve been run ragged this week watching our girls play in a volleyball tournament for hours and hours and hours each day.) (When we say hours– we mean a minimum of TWELVE HOURS each day since Monday. No joke.)

Courbe Virtuôse means “curving genius” and that is precisely what this luxurious mascara is. Tested amongst consumers, Courbe Virtuôse received the highest rating ever in the history of Lancôme consumer testing of a mascara.

Courbe Virtuôse is available at lancome-usa.com and Lancôme boutiques and counters nationwide for $23.

You all know that we’re part Japanese, right?

One-quarter to be exact.

While some people can instantly see the asian in us, many people have no idea. That is, until they see our eyelashes. We’ve whined about them before, and we’ll most certainly whine about them again, but waaaaah! our lashes suck.

This morning we finally tried Japan’s number one selling mascara, Imju Fiberwig, that claims to create “false eyelash-like” results with its fiber-filled formula.

Hmmmm. If it’s good enough for the Japanese girls, it has to be good enough for us, no?

NO.

We are sadly disappointed in this mascara. While it does slightly lengthen lashes with its tiny fibers, they point off our natural lash tips in different directions giving us a look we’re not particularly keen on sporting.

After 4 coats of this, our lashes were slightly longer with no volume whatsoever. Also, it did not hold the curl we had crimped into our lashes with our new Shu Uemura eyelash curler, leaving us with our normal stick-straight lashes.

With no time to remove and re-apply our makeup, we turned to our favorite pair of Brown Cross lashes and we’re now good to go.

Our cousin, Cindi, just moved to Japan last month and we’re going to ask her to scoop this out for us. Is it really the must-have mascara in Japan? Because, really, we find it hard to believe.