Pink Chocolates - Clinique's Holiday Colour Collection..

How 'bout a little pink chocolate to go with your hot toddie this holiday season? I am so excited to have tried this fabulous new collection from Clinique, that I just had to share it with you - way before the holidays!

Eyes
The highlight of the collection just has to be the Pink Chocolate Color Surge Eyeshadow Quad ($25). This limited edition wardrobe of shadows take your sweetie pie eyes from day to evening in a cinch. The colors included are a pale pink, nude blush, dark chocolate, and milk chocolate. And I have to say that these are the softest feeling shadows I have used in a long time.

I topped the shadow with their new Brush-on Cream Liner ($14.50) in Chocolate Lustre. This is a creamy gel liner, that almost dries instantly. With their eyeliner brush, application is simple - and it can be applied with the thin side and then blended out with the thicker side of the brush. You just have to be careful to blend it rather quickly, as like I said, it is quick-drying. And be sure you only use a teeny-tiny bit of the cream, as a bit goes so very far.

Onto the mascara - Chocolate Lustre is the name again, but this is their High Definition Lashes ($13.50). This mascara provides extreme length and definition with it's double-sided brush/comb applicator.

Face
Shimmering Tones Powder ($28.50) in Pink Chocolate, is a checkered palette of illuminating powders in an array of pale and medium pink tones, mixed with chocolate tones. The look? Swept over the face leaves skin radiant and elegantly sheen.

Lips
Liner first. Quickliner for Lips ($13.50), a twist up creamy lip pencil, comes in two new shades in this collection - Beige Plum and Pink Truffle.

Long Last Lipstick ($14.00). Clinique's all-time best selling lipstick - it won't feather, stain, or dry out, has added a few new shades for the Pink Chocolate collection. The shades: Pink Chocolate, Sunlit Copper, Sugared Maple, Violet Berry, Beauty, and Night Flower.

My fave for the lips are Pink Truffle Quickliner to line, then Pink Chocolate or Violet Berry on top - depending on the look you want. Pink Chocolate is a beautiful pinky bronzed brown, while Violet Berry is a sheer berry - very pretty.

Look for The Clinique Pink Chocolates Holiday Colour Collection at the counter or online starting in November.

Not having used Clinique for a long while, I forgot just how great the products are and how much I really like them. It was the first makeup counter I visited with my Mom when I was a young teenager, by the way. For years, Clinique was all that I was "allowed" to use on my face. Glad to see that their best selling original 3 step system is still the core of their skin care product line. Look for my new review of that coming up soon!

As soon as I get my card reader working or break down and get a new one, I will definitely post you some pictures.

In the Pink - AGAIN!

Clinique has joined in the BCA campaign again this year. For October, they have created In the Pink Colour Surge Butter Shine Lipstick.

To make it even more collectible, In the Pink is featured in an eye-catching pink bamboo-inspired case and matching pink carton. This award winning formula delivers the shine of a gloss with the comfort of a lipstick.

In the Pink lets you have a chance to not only look good - but to do good too.

$10 from every lipstick sold goes to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

In the Pink is available at select Clinique counters nationwide and clinique.com.

Officially Fall.

Well, my friends - Fall has officially arrived. And it seems that I am in the minority because I hate the fall. I hate the cooler temperatures, the days getting shorter, all the leaves and acorns - just about everything about it. The only bright spot in the shorter, darker days is that I am able to start wearing new Fall makeup. And new Fall makeup means darker shades, browns, and berry's.  I turned over a new leaf this week and started with the Fall multiple seasonings of color.

On my eyes, I have been loving all the three brown shades in Benefit's Weather Girl Palette.  They are a bit frosty, but just perfect for my hazel colored eyes.  And topping that is Bourjois Metallic Eyeliner Pencil in a beautiful copper called Feuille De Cuivre. I use the eyeliner, which is just so easy to smooth on, over the shadow and it highlights the  frostiness in the shadows with the metallics in the eyeliner.  Stunning.

On my cheeks I have been loving Tarte's Mineral Powder Bronzer in Hotel Heiress. It is not too bronzy, just a bit of bronze with a hint of a ruddy pink it in. It does not look that way at all in the compact, but that is what it does to my cheeks - and it is just perfect. If I am looking for more color, I have just discovered MAX Factors Satin Blush in Peach Spice. If NARS Orgasm Blush is a tad too light for you, try this shade. It is just a tone deeper, and perfect for even my now pale complexion.

Okay - the lips. I swear I have been trying a new color everyday. A few of my favorites so far are DuWops Anti-Venom Satin Lipstick in Bamboo, a sheer wash of berry; MAC's newest Viva Glam VI, a plum with a pearl finish; Bobbi Brown's Lip Shimmer in Candlelight, the perfect gold to simply wear along or over one of Fall's berry lip shades; Clinique's Full Potential Lips (their lip plumping lipgloss entry) in Blackberry Bloom, a sheer yet rich berry shade; and Benefit's Color Plump in Hey Sailor, a glazed berry with their Big Magic 2 Lip Gloss over it.

That is all I have gotten to so far this Fall. What are some of your new Fall favorites?