CHANEL Summer 2016 Makeup Collection: Danis La Lumière de L’été.

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CHANEL Summer 2016 Makeup Collection: Danis La Lumière de L’été.

When CHANEL does a makeup collection, they look for inspiration. For this years summer makeup collection, Danis La Lumière de L’été, they not only looked at the desert adventure (another nod to the music festival culture?), they looked at the desert and shimmering sand itself. One glance at the beautiful Quadra eyeshadow palette and you will see what I mean.

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Urban Decay Summer 2016 Collection.

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The Urban Decay Summer 2016 Makeup Collection is here and it's all about flawless, radiant, bronzed skin. With new products like bronzers and highlighters and shade extensions to their Naked Skin line up (more Foundation and Concealer) along with a Color-Correcting Fluid to conceal flaws perfectly, these are products you want in your summer makeup bag.

Urban Decay Summer 2016 Collection

A must-have for warm-weather months is the new NAKED Skin One & Done. This is a hybrid complexion perfector that comes in six shades. This very lightly tinted complexion perfector feels like a primer on the skin but has some tint to it, just not as much as a tinted moisturizer. It smoothed and blurred away my imperfections, giving my skin an airbrushed, perfected look, without looking made up. It's a true no-makeup look. It offers very little to no coverage — just perfecting.

I suggest using NAKED Skin One & Done after color-correcting and perfecting the skin with the new Color-Correcting Fluid. The Color-Correcting Fluid comes in five shades to neutralize different skin flaws. If you have redness or blemishes, pick green; if your skin is dull, pick yellow; if your skin is really sallow or has yellow undertones that need cancelling out, pick lavender; if your skin has blue undereye circles pick pink; if your skin had sunspots and really dark undereye circles, pick peach.

I use the green Color-Correcting Fluid under my eyes as my undereye area gets very red and irritated this time of year because of allergies and the shade targets and corrects the redness with ease. I've also tested the peach on sunspots and it works like a charm.

No summer look is ever complete without a bronzer and this collection offers two new shades in Beached Bronzer. I love how this silky powder bronzer warms up the skin in either Sun-Kissed for more fair skin or Bronzed for medium or darker skin tones. It leaves such a perfect bronzed glow that radiates the look of the real sun.

To finish the face, you will want to add this seasons must have gorgeous glow with Afterglow 8-Hour Powder Highlighter. With three gorgeous shades to choose from, skin is glowing and radiant in a flash. I love how soft yet creamy the texture is, it really is hard to choose just one — that's why I have two of the three. I have Fireball (peach with pink shift) and Sin (champagne), there is also Aura (iridescent light pink) available.

Eyes are not left out of the collection with two 24/7 Pencils. There is a 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Heartless and 24/7 Waterline Eye Pencil in Walk of Shame. Heartless is a perfect light frosted pink that is great for highlighting the inner corner of the eye and brow bone. And Walk of Shame is a brand new water liner that is the perfect nude shade to brighten the eyes by lining the inner rim. This is a waterproof, all-day wear pencil.

Shop for the Urban Decay Summer 2016 Collection now at urbandecay.com, Sephora, Ulta Beauty, select Macy's stores, beauty.com and Nordstrom.

NARS Summer 2016 Color Collection.

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I don't know about you, but I have had it with this wishy-washing spring weather and just need summer to be here already. I long for longer days filled with warmth and sunny skies. If the NARS summer 2016 Color Collection doesn't rep summer in a more perfect way with its French Riveria look and feel, I don't know what will.

To bring the NARS Summer 2016 color collection to life, François Nars’ partnered with contemporary artist Konstantin Kakanias to bring the glamorous, vintage and whimsical look to the pieces. Just look!

NARS Summer 2016 Color Collection

With this collection comes a new lip product in NARS Lip Cover. Lip Cover is a full coverage, creamy feeling lip color that offers a lot of pigment and satin look to the lips. I find it on par with a lot of the creamy-matte liquid gloss products that have been released lately. I tried Get Dirty which is a dusky peachy rose shade that leaves a satin-matte finish to the lips. It wore for about four hours before starting to fade on my lips. I am hoping they make this product a permanent addition to the line; it's really nice.

NARS Lip Cover Get Dirty
NARS Summer 2016 Color Collection

The entire NARS Summer 2016 collection:

Lip Cover - $28

  • Overheated - Deep Dusty Rose
  • Do Not Disturb - Vivid Orange-Red
  • Get Dirty - Desert Rose
  • Members Only (a NARS exclusive) - Crimson

Dual-Intensity Eyeshadow - $29

  • Deep End - Shimmering Tel Green
  • Tan Lines - Rich Hazelnut
  • Topless - Seashell Pink
  • Pool Shark - Iridescent Periwinkle

Dual-Intensity Blush - $45

  • Liberation - Shimmering Light Pink/Caramel Rose
  • Sexual Content - Sandy Peach/Soft Raspberry

Shop for the NARS summer collection beginning April 15th at NARS boutiques and online at narscosmetics.com. It will then be available at Sephora, department and specialty stores beginning May 1st.