How to Fake a Good Nights Sleep with YSL's Touche Éclat.

Does anyone get a good nights sleep anymore? I swear, it is the way we are programmed in today's society. Go, go go, with our minds constantly spinning. Even as we sleep. We can fake our attitude easy enough (thank you, coffee) and our hair and clothes certainly cannot look tired. It's the face. It can tell all signs of sleep deprivation. I recently discovered a handy trick and a fantastic product that has me looking bright eyed, even though I am totally faking my good nights sleep. Thank you YSL and Touche Éclat.

Touch Éclat is a magic wand that illuminates light and radiance, just where we need it. This is not a concealer. It is a highlighting pen for the face. It can banish all signs of fatigue and light up the eyes and areas of the face with just a few simple swipes of the brush that is built right into the end of the wand.

The long-lasting highlighter itself is silky smooth and blends out with ease. I use it on the very inside corner areas between my eyes and nose, blending it up onto my brow-bone. I also blend it down, under and away from my eyes, to almost the top of my cheekbones. I apply Touche Éclat after my concealer and foundation, before any eye primer or other products. It makes me look awake and overall more radiant and younger. Like I had that good nights sleep. And the radiance lasts all day.

I use Touche Éclat in No. 1 Luminous Radiance most often, but also have No. 3, the Light Peach shade in my arsenal for when I am sporting more of a faux glow.

To see Touche Éclat in action and just where and how to apply, check out this quick video clip from YSL.

Touche Éclat is an award winner, justifiably so and is a must-have in my book. Pick it up at YSL Beauty or at Sephora. It is worth the $40.00 price tag, and then some.

YSL's Opium Has a New Look.

YSL's Opium was my first high end designer fragrance. It is an iconic perfume and I can always pick up the scent when even a passer-by is wearing it. Opium is Yves Saint Laurent's masterpiece.

"Drawing on the contemporaneity, strength and refinement at the origins of the myth, the new Opium bottle symbolizes the passage to an imaginary world of fantasy."

 

The Eau de parfum and Eau de toilette open on a wave of mandarin and bergamot, revealing an opulent brew of jasmine enlivened by spicy carnation. These are warmed by a carnal and thrilling wake fevered by vanilla, amber and patchouli. Sensual in the extreme, the Eau de parfum is enriched with lily of the valley, Sambac jasmine absolute and myrrh. On the skin, the fusion is spellbinding.

Sizes and prices:

.5 oz. Parfum $175

1 oz. Eau de Toilette $50

1.6 oz. Eau de Toilette $70

3 oz. Eau de Toilette $90

1.6 oz. Eau de Parfum, $80

3 oz. Eau de Parfum, $104

6.6 oz. Body Moisturizer, $51

6.6 oz. Shower Gel, $43

6.6 oz. Body Crème, $75

5.2 oz. Satin Dusting Powder, $57

Available at www.yslbeautyus.com starting in May.

What do you think of the new bottle?