Holy Moly! Tony Moly Makes the Cutest Products EVER.

While I was browsing through Urban Outfitters the other day, I happened upon a new (to me) beauty brand that simply HAD to come home with me. I speak, of course, about the South Korean import Tony Moly.

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The New Zoya Summer 2012 Collections: Beach and Surf

I've got some super fantastic news to share with you today ... Zoya is launching two utterly fabulous nail polish collections for Summer 2012! Two collections are coming down the pike -- Beach, with 6 creamy shades, and Surf, with 6 shimmering sea foils. As the names might suggest, they are inspired by sea and sand. Here's what you have to look forward to:


Zoya Beach Collection
Reagan (deep cerise pink cream)
Lara (vivid cerise pink cream)
Shelby (soft pinky pink cream)
Arizona (soft coral orange cream)
Tracie (sea grass metallic)
Wednesday (soft aqua cream)

Zoya Surf Collection
Rory (lotus pink foil metallic)
Carly (thalia purple foil metallic)
Kimber (magenta pink foil metallic)
Myrta (coral orange foil metallic)
Meg (mermaid green foil metallic)
Zuza (aquamarine foil metallic)

The Zoya Summer 2012 collections will be available on April 1 at zoya.com. Each bottle will retail for $8.

My New Favorite Beauty Launch: Miss Piggy for M.A.C

Icon. Actress. Supermodel. Chanteuse. Muse. Frog-o-phile. Cinema and television superstar nonpareil.

Who better to create a limited-edition collection with M.A.C than the one and only Miss Piggy? I'm totally loving this new collection, which launches on November 14 at maccosmetics.com. Check out all the products the superstar swine created after the jump!


Penultimate Eye Liner in Rapidblack ($17.50)

Miss Piggy Pink Eye Shadow ($15)

Lash 36 ($15)

My New Favorite Beauty Launch: M.A.C Quite Cute

I'm a fan of the word "cute." Truth be told, I probably overuse it in everyday life! So the new collection from M.A.C -- the appropriately named Quite Cute -- is right up my alley. Pastel shades for eye quads, lipstick, Plushglass and nail polish are -- you guessed it -- quite cute! Check out my favorite products from the new collection after the jump.


Nail Lacquer in Mischievous Mint ($14)
Since I'm a fan of green nail polish in all forms, it's no wonder I immediately gravitated toward this marvelous minty shade.




Mineralize Blush in (from top) Sakura, Miss Behave and Giggly ($23 each)
I already love everything Mineralize, so these gorgeous new blushes -- complete with adorable little hearts in the center -- definitely have my heart all aflutter.


Nail Lacquer in Little Girl Type ($14)
A creamy pale lavender nail polish? Just say yes.


Lipstick in Quite Cute ($14.50)
This lavender lipstick brings me right back to the 90s -- I used to wear purple lipstick all the time. Luckily, this one is a bit more understated.

The M.A.C Quite Cute Collection will be available on April 7 at maccosmetics.com and M.A.C counters nationwide.

Beauty Launch: Zoya Intimate Spring 2011 Nail Polish Collection

It's a nails-heavy week here at The Beauty of Life! Every brand seems to be announcing its newest collections this week, and I have another beautiful one for you today -- Zoya Intimate. The Spring 2011 collection is inspired by the feeling of intimacy -- temptations, whispers, dreams, secrets, illusions, liaisons, trysts ... even kisses and lingerie.

The collection of six nail polishes is designed to recreate the custom looks developed for the Spring 2011 runway shows. Each is a gorgeous metallic. The collection includes:

Marley (lavender pink with a whisper of metallic)
Dove (delicate, pale gray cream)
Caitlin (misty, moody grey violet cream)
Dannii (sparkling, enchanted orchid metallic)
Jules (soft, glimmering gold kiss metallic)
Gemma (mysterious green/purple duotone metallic)

Each nail polish will retail for $7. The collection will be available on January 15 at zoya.com.

Beauty Launch: Sephora by OPI's Glee Nail Polish Collection!

Glee fans, take note -- Sephora by OPI is launching a nail polish collection just for you! Coming this February, the collection will include 7 shades inspired by the hit TV show.

The colors included in this collection are:

Slushied (opaque blue)
Hell to the No (bold purple)
Gleek Out (glittery lime green)
Diva-in-Training (poppy pink)
Who Let the Dorks Out (peacock green)
Miss Bossy Pants (rich raspberry)
Mash-Up (pearlescent greenish grey)

Each nail polish will retail for $9.50. You can also pick up a mini set of 6 polishes for $22 that includes Miss Bossy Pants, Gleek Out and Slushied in addition to Celibacy Club (diamond top coat), Express Yourself to Yourself (shimmery coral) and Sue Vs Shue (navy blue).

There will even be Chic Prints for Nails Design Appliqués (pre-cut strips of dry nail polish) in three different Glee-inspired designs, including Showstopper (gold stars), Berry Special (polka dots) and One Hit Wonder (music notes). Each Chic Prints will retail for $15.

Beauty Launch: M.A.C Cham Pale

A collection inspired by champagne? Sign this beauty chick up! The newest launch from M.A.C, Cham Pale, is inspired by the bubbly drink that I, for one, don't think should just be reserved for New Year's Eve. Get all the info and see photos of the collection after the jump!

Only the finest will do for a M∙A∙C toast to the New Year! Cham Pale is a cuvée color collection that’s cause for celebration -- a Champagne smash, shimmering with all the bubbly optimism and golden glow of the best that’s yet to be. All, for every skin tone. To us!

Special Reserve Highlighter Powder ($28)
Chez Chez Lame (soft gold with silver shimmer)
Rose Ole (soft pink with gold shimmer)

Eye Kohl ($14.50)
I Get No Kick (metallic nude)

Kohl Power ($14.50)
Feline (rich black)

Chromagraphic Pencil ($14.50)
NC15/NW20 NC15
NW25/NC30 NC25

Paint Pot ($16.50)
Chilled on Ice (frosted white gold)
Let Me Pop (frosted light copper)
Vintage Selection (frosted dirty peach)
Dangerous Cuvee (frosted cool grey)

Nail Lacquer ($13)
Soiree Sparkly (light bronze gold)
Very Important Platinum (dirty platinum)

Lipstick ($14.50)
Tanarama (pale beige with golden shimmer)
Quiet, Please (frosted pink champagne)
Flustered (frosted pale bronze)
Gel (sheer metallic beige)

Lipgelee ($14.50)
Bubble Lounge (sparkly pink peach)
Sin-tillation (sparkly pale icy pink)
Straight to the Head (sparkly bronze brown)
Luxure (off-white with pink pearl)

Caviar Dreams Eyeshadow Quad ($36)
Brule (soft creamy beige)
Et tu, Bouquet? (frosted pale pink)
Caviar Dreams (dirty frosted pewter)
Retrospeck (beached blonde)

Studio Fix Lash ($14)
Black Fix

Complete Comfort Creme ($32)

Fix+ Lavender ($18)

Lip Conditioner SPF 15 + Lavender ($14.50)

Tinted Lip Conditioner SPF 15 + Lavender ($14.50)
Calm Mode (light neutral beige)

M.A.C Cham Pale is available now at M.A.C counters nationwide and at maccosmetics.com.

Citizen of Womanity: Thierry Mugler Womanity

It takes a lot for me to really love a fragrance. But the second I smelled Thierry Mugler Womanity, I was hooked.

Let's begin with how gorgeous the bottle is, shall we? I'm always looking for products worthy of display, and this definitely fits the bill. The angular, rectangular-shaped pink bottle is capped by a structural silver topper ... and, if that's not enough, the hanging chain detail gives it such a downtown rocker feel.

Notes of fig and caviar create a sensually intriguing scent that at once feels spicy, girly, feminine, sexy, sweet ... it's perfect whether you're going out to a movie with your girlfriends or you have a hot date with your current Mr. Right.

On a side note, I've been most attracted to the shower gel -- it's a wonderfully fiery, zesty start to the day.

Thierry Mugler Womanity retails for $58-$78 at sephora.com.

Beauty Launch: NARS Holiday 2009 Collection

Exciting news, fellow beauty chicks -- the Holiday 2009 gift collection from NARS has just been announced! Check out all the amazing offerings after the jump.



15TH ANNIVERSARY PALETTES ($75 each):
NARS introduces two palettes to celebrate 15 years of color innovation. Everlasting Love contains intense eye hues to create the perfect smoky eye. Wild at Heart features bold lip shades for a deeply pigmented pout.

PLEIN ETÈ MINI MULTIPLE SET ($45):
An exclusive set of mini Multiples boasting three best-selling shades.

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS MINI NAIL KIT ($30):
The perfect gift for any stocking, this miniature collection includes four glamorously festive shades: Arabesque, Chinatown, Candy Darling and Saratoga.

D. LOVELY LIP GLOSS DUO SET ($45):
Four smaller versions of the successful Duo Lip Gloss in a variety of mix and match shades: Misbehave/All Night Long, Pillow Talk/Sandpiper, Orgasm/Chihuahua, and Greek Holiday/Stolen Kisses.

Beauty Launch: M.A.C Nail Trend FW 09 by Jin Soon

Exciting news, fellow beauty chicks! Manicurist extraordinaire Jin Soon is launching an exclusive collection with M.A.C this August. Titled Nail Trend FW 09, the collection includes six nail polishes that are inspired by the Fall 2009 collections and upcoming fashion trends. I had the fortune to sit down with Jin backstage at the Doo.Ri Fall 2009 show, where she divulged her inspiration for the collection and showed me one of the colors used on the models at the show, Beyond Jealous.

"This one looks good on every skin tone," Jin told me. "Lots of people go for very daring edge ... that will be more trendy. People didn’t want to get this kind of color before, but now more and more people are into that editorial look."

Jin added, "The designer chose the green. Her line is very strong and tough statement, yet very chic. So she wants to show that. And this color is perfect for her line."

When I asked Jin how she came up with the colors for the collection, she told me, "We checked all the trend forecasts, all the books and everything. Also my favorites that I was into. So we combined ideas. I had been doing all the editorial work, I know what’s gonna be popular, what’s gonna be out there. Also a lot of fashion shoots. So I get all the ideas from shows."

Each of the six polishes is a creme -- no shimmer at all. The colors include:

Cool Reserve (dirty grey lavender)
For Fun (rich clean purple)
Dance All Night (brick red)
Dry Martini (khaki olive green)
Rich, Dark, Delicious (rich blackened brown)
Beyond Jealous (blackened blue green)

The nail polishes in the M.A.C Nail Trend FW 09 by Jin Soon Collection retail for $12 each. They will be available on August 27 at M.A.C counters nationwide.

Beauty Launch: M.A.C Colour Craft Collection

Every artist must be daring if she wants to hone her Craft, and post-summer 2009 color was conceived with that kind of creativity in mind. Colour Craft is all about making it your own ... perfection as The Muse intended.

Discover the gorgeous new M.A.C Colour Craft collection -- complete with tons of product photos -- after the jump!

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Beauty Launch: Prescriptives All Skins Mineral Makeup 16-Hour Wear/SPF 10

If you're still debating getting in on the mineral makeup craze, this is one way to do it. Prescriptives has just launched All Skins Mineral Makeup 16-Hour Wear/SPF 10, an easy to apply liquid mineral makeup infused with vitamins and minerals. It also contains the line's exclusive R.E.C. (Radiance Emitting Crystals), a unique complex of amethyst, rose quartz and calcite, to give skin extra luminosity. Plus the formula is lightweight and transfer-resistant, so it stays in place without feeling heavy or cakey for hours on end! It's available in 18 shades, so you're sure to find your match. And let's not forget the fact that it has SPF 10 to protect against harmful UVA and UVB rays!

Prescriptives All Skins Mineral Makeup 16-Hour Wear/SPF 10 is available now at Prescriptives counters nationwide.

Beauty Launch: M.A.C Naked Honey Collection

Bees do it ... now M.A.C does it! Honey that is! As ancient and exotic as Kohl, great beauties have long revered the natural restorative powers of the Golden Elixir.

Following the example of their fabled Queen, Cleopatra, Egyptians bathed in honey and milk. Queen Anne of England used it to silken her hair; from the Ancient Greeks to the Roman Empire, honey has never lost its regal, ever-amber luster. Introducing the limited-edition Naked Honey collection: three aspects of golden warmth and sun-made sweetness for the body, layered with two decidedly different honeycomb-derived fragrances -- celebrating the secret lives of Queen Bees.

Get more info and see all the products after the jump.

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Beauty Launch: M.A.C Style Warrior Collection

Emerging from every corner of the glamorous globe, a new style warrior. Made to celebrate the cross-cultural sophistication of the modern Amazon Princess, African Queen, Crouching Tigress...

Never before have we seen the "Wild Things" of the world come together in quite so many bold new combinations. Introducing a dramatically different and deliberately diverse color story, an eclectic and expressive way to exalt and amire the strength and solidarity of beauty with no barriers. A selection of allover summer bronzing shades ... all exotically packaged in stylized zebra and leopard prints to keep it WILD AND FREE -- THE WAY IT ALWAYS OUGHT TO BE.

Check out all the details on the fabulous M.A.C Style Warrior Collection after the jump!

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Beauty Launch: M.A.C Rose Romance Collection

A tradition in haute-couture, an enduring Icon of Love and certainly the only flower acceptable to throw on stage at the Met or clench between teeth in a Buenos Aires tango salon, the rose remains beyond reproach. M.A.C creates a very modern Rose Romance, our lovely new color collection for the summer season. Spring buds blush in fragrant new hues when Just A Pinch Gel Blush debuts; Fix + Rose refreshes; and our bring-back favorite fragrance, Creations Hue: Dejarose, whispers anew ... BUT WITH GREAT BEAUTY THERE IS ALWAYS PASSION AND PERIL ... MIND THE THORNS!

The new Rose Romance collection from M.A.C certainly has romance on the brain. The collection of pink lipcolors, eyeshadows, nail lacquer and more really hammers home how wonderfully beautiful and romantic the rose truly is. I'm absolutely loving this collection, as I'm a romantic at heart. I know you will, too -- get all the details after the jump.

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Beauty Launch: M.A.C Double Dazzle Lipgloss Collection

Double Dazzle will daze the closest competition with color-changing, light-reflecting pearl-shine lips; paired with a new formula for the ultimate in voluptuous lashes, et voila! Lips lead: seven new Dazzleglass shades bring the scintillating selection up to 18! The flotilla-of-lights formula imparts the pearl combination with mega-glisten shine, creamy comfort and the subtle sensation of vanilla. Lashes follow: multiplied, volumized, utterly glorified by our newest eye innovation ... this sly new small-and-mighty brush has been developed to capture and emphasize each and every lash. LIPS, LASHES, LOVERS ... LOOK OUT!

Most of my loyal readers know by now how addicted I am to lipgloss. And M.A.C Dazzleglass tops the list for its intense sparkle, shine and ability to change up any existing lipcolor. Last year, I literally went to four different M.A.C stores all up and down the East Coast and kept buying up every shade! So when I heard about the new Double Dazzle Collection, I literally squealed and jumped for joy.

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Beauty Launch: NARS Summer 2009 Collection

Whether your vision of perfect summer conjures up images of Morocco’s kaleidoscopic bazaars, the pristine Art Deco structures of Ocean Drive or the endless white sand beaches and cerulean waters of a Caribbean island, this season’s vivid yet versatile color palette is the perfect complement.

Coveted beauty brand NARS turns 15 this year, and the brand’s commitment to creating products that defy convention remains unwavering. The NARS woman has never been content to fade into the background, and this summer is no exception.

“The look for the Summer 2009 collection is sophisticated, but colorful,” said François Nars, Founder and Creative Director of NARS Cosmetics.

Find out all the details for Summer 2009 after the jump.



NARS Tropic Single Eyeshadow ($22)
For the latest eye shadow, there was only one blue François Nars had in mind. “The tropics are always inspiring for me,” Nars said. This lush, silver-flecked teal is a precise image of the ocean’s reflective, rolling waves.

NARS Scorching Sun Duo Eyeshadow ($32)
The glazed apricot and radiant orange duo is designed “to imitate the effect of the burning sun,” Nars said. The sun-drenched colors allow for surprising wearability. The pair can be blended together to form a rich, burnt orange, or worn in tandem.

NARS Irresistiblement Bronzing Powder ($30)

NARS Falbala Lipstick ($24)

NARS Outsider Lipstick ($24)

NARS Belize Lip Gloss ($24)

NARS Tonga Lipliner Pencil ($20)

NARS Adelita Nail Polish ($16)

The NARS Summer 2009 Collection is available at NARS counters nationwide.