Lancôme Color Ideal Pressed Powder is a silky pressed powder that is so micro-fine, it “precisely adapts to your skin’s own tone and texture.”

Sounds crazy, we know, but it seems to be true. We sampled this in Medium 10N (on the lighter side of the 11 shade spectrum) and the fine powder gave us a nice sheer coverage that looked super natural—even with the puff—and kept our shine at bay for hours.

With the option of either a brush or puff, plus eleven versatile shades to choose from, Lancôme Color Ideal Pressed Powder could be just what your Makeup Bag needs.

Our friend, Stacy, has gorgeous skin that seems to glow from within.

Her secret? Kevyn Aucoin Celestial Powder in Candlelight (along with a healthy dose of good genes).

This is currently unavailable on the Kevyn Aucoin website, but we found it at drugstore.com (go figure!).

MAC’s newest collections, Flashtronic and Rushmetal are hitting counters today!

The baked Mineralize Eye Shadow and Mineralize Skinfinish powders of the Flashtronic Collection are little works of art, with several shades swirled together in marble perfection. Our favorites are By Jupiter, a light taupe (imagine!) with beige and deep brown veining, and Ether, a deep aqua with silver, black, and gold veining. (Athough Mercurial, yellow gold with lilac and chestnut veining, came very close to making the cut.)

Full of shimmer and shine, the rich, metallic Pigments of the Rushmetal Collection are the perfect accessory to sun-kissed summer skin. We couldn’t do without Mauvement (surprise–taupe, again!) and Cocomotion, a dirty gold with olive undertone and gold sparkle.

Rushmetal also brings a lipstick to die for: Fastlane (mauve with silver pearl).

Check out both collections at maccosmetics.com and then tell us your Flashtronic and Rushmetal must-haves!

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.