Ladies, sometimes extreme weather conditions, and time constrictions are partly to blame for your beauty flaws. Don’t worry, with this mini beautifier kit ‘Just In Case,’ like the name suggests, will refresh your look when need be. The kit contains:

• For a bright smile and minty breath:- California kissin’: 2.50 g Net wt. 0.09 oz
• For fading action day or night:- eyecon: 2.50 g Net wt. 0.09 oz
• For rosy lips and cheeks:- benetint: 2.50 ml / 0.08 US fl oz
• For that flawless complexion:- some kind-a gorgeous: 2.20 g Net wt. 0.08 oz

After you pick up the mini beautifier kit, you might as well get the mini fake it kit ‘realness of concealness.’ Voted favorite timesaver by Child Magazine in 2006, the fake it kit contains:

• lemon aid 1.0g / net wt. 0.03oz- To fix your discoloration on your eyelids.
• boi-ing 1.20g / net wt. 0.04oz- To hide even the darkest under eye circles.
• ooh la lift 2.5 g / net wt. 0.09oz- To brighten, lighten and tighten the eye area.
• lip plump 2.5g / net wt 0.09oz- To prime, smooth, and plump lips.
• high beam 2.5g / net wt.0.09 oz- To give your skin an ethereal glow.

After topping the fashion industry as a trend forecaster before he could legally drink espresso-tinis,  Ben Bennett fell for the world of beauty.  The co-founder of WELOVEBEAUTY.com—a beauty blog and community stocked with tips from his A-list stylist friends—between Ben’s sharing his in-the-know-how on WELOVEBEAUTY.com, he’s developing it while consulting the best brands, from the drugstore staple that makes your fav mascara to that worth-its-weight-in-oil scent you love. We don’t like math, but crunch numbers on Ben’s product development for big brands, and he’s influenced more than $1 billion in beautilicious sales. Mhmm.  So we had to play Q&A with Mr. Professionally Handsome for a fall forecast.

TN: What are the hottest looks for Fall, and the easiest ways to get them?
BB: This Fall there is a real return to makeup, which I find a refreshing change from the undone look that everyone has sporting for several years. There is a focus on the eyes, primarily “cat” lined eyes (thank you Amy Winehouse). In the past, liquid eyeliner was the only option to achieving the dark sharply drawn lines, but today gel eyeliners are easier to use and can create the same dramatic effect as liquid. Some of my favorites are MAC’s Fluidline, Bobbi Brown’s Longwear Gel Eyeliners, and Smashbox’s Decadence Waterproof Gel Eyeliner. Apply these with a Japonesque Professional Flat Eyeliner Brush for precision lining. It’s the best.

There’s also a huge emphasis on lips. Red lips have been on celebs on the red carpet for a couple of seasons now, and women are finally getting comfortable wearing lipstick again. I really love the Giorgio Armani Red Lipstick Collection. They are daring, but the shades are beautiful. My favorite is the Armanisilk Lipstick in Shade 12. It’s a phenomenal red. We’re finally starting to see berry and wine shades in lipstick approaching, which can be so chic. The secret to pulling off dramatic lip color is to keep the rest of the face very neutral. A beautifully finished complexion and some mascara is all you need. Don’t forget the lip liner. Darker lipstick color calls for sharp definition and a beautiful lip shape.

...continued: Who is Ben Bennett?

During the summer I love camping—

Out at a cafe in Hollywood, observing artificially beautiful people in their natural environment, grazing on organic lattes and raw sugar pastries.

Armed with my MacBook and Paul Frank’s boss camping kit  — stuffed with over a buck-twenty-five in Urban Decay cosmetics — I dust on its included Baked Bronzer to camouflage in the fake-baked city, I slip on the kit’s limited-edition Paul Frank glammy glasses to go undetected.

If the natives get wild after realizing after somehow sensing I still use plastic grocery bags, I’ll toss XXX Shine Lip Gloss for them to chase and fight after while I get away.

Though I don’t even know what marijuana smells like—

I kept my DARE promise like a good girl, forgetting my cigar phase and a few gin and tonics while covering media events when I was underage and I thought cocktails as chic as their same-named dresses.

—I’m sure my guitarist dad does.

 And while eLUXURY is sure Fresh’s made-in-France Cannabis Santal gift set scents like “Brazilian orange and black plum,” with “heart notes including patchouli, cannabis accord, and rose,” and “base includes chocolate, vetiver, and vanilla musks,” I wonder if the cannabis soap might really vibe like remembering sweating in the South as a teen, practicing guitar for hours, scheming to get to Hollywood—

While now sitting comfy on an acre in the ‘burbs of LA, with a full-grown daughter named Kristopher.

Probably so, though that’s just less saleable copy. 

Catty chat about our lack of gun control, national healthcare, and Prince Williams—with Mr. Posh Spice and Kate Moss for Topshop in the States now, it’s all bull bullocks that they’ve got it better over the pond.

Excepting Beautiful Vending’s hair-straightening vending machines installed in 200+ British pubs, gyms, and clubs.

Though New York Sun says we should be seeing them in NYC soon, currently largely London ladies can trade £1 for 90 seconds of  hot-ironing hair frizzies. Though some question the genius of garnishing your Bicardi-diet with scorching metal, I smell brilliance underneath that burning hair—

Club cover prices can be upped for the chance to see crunk kitties catfighting  to decrinkle their curls.

[Via Kiss and Makeup]

Priced less than leftover fancy plants lazing at your local Ralphs, and tagged twelve bucks at Target, Boots Botanicals Face Pamper Kit is your quick gift for Mom’s Day.

Though of course you didn’t forget what this 13^th is.

Beauty blog Beauty Snob-approved — “I tried a few of its products and was impressed with the quality at such reasonable prices,” blogs Tina — pick up two of the kits. With its Skin Brightening Toner, Quenching Face Mask, Day Moisture Lotion, Skin Brightening Deep Clean Gel, and Night Moisture Cream designed to lessen lines and wash away wrinkles —

You’ll need one too after your brows knit with exasperation, when the lady of the house asks if you think she’s getting old, gifting her something like this.

Yep, I’m with you:  a “Thank you” would have been nice. 

I’m sure your mamma doesn’t need another bottle of Liz Taylor’s licensed liquid cluttering her cluster of cosmetics, nor more No. 5.

Kenzo Kenzo’s Amour is pretty sure too, dolls.

Though I’m not sure how this bottled beauty scents, only I hear its notes hit “frangipani blossoms from Bali or Borobudur, cherry blossoms from Japan, Tanakha wood, incense, Thai rice steam, vanilla of La Réunion, white tea from China” (thank you, Sephora.com copywriter).

And while such Conde Nasty Traveler prose is poetic, it’s that the perfume is pretty plastic, it’s the how the bottle would vibe on your vanity that’s sold your K on selling this to you for a haute Mamma’s Day.

All sleeky chic, your ma will love it.

Clean lines are so much easier to dust. 

Because, all grown up into two full decades, you’d like to be one for your mamma for once. 

Because your mamma’s always been one.

Because you’re sure she won’t mind if, after gifting your girl A-list manicurist Deborah Lippmann’s Helping Hand Scrub System, you help yourself to it.

Like Ma, the set’s Helping Hand warms-to-your-touch exfoliator gently scrubs away your rough edges, leaving you scented fresh (like Mandarin oranges), and its Some Like It Hot easy, self-heating moisturizer seals in your smoothness. 

And, just like your mom, even when you get your hands dirty twice and even thrice, the set’ll let you begin again.

Though your K’s daily recipe for face — for years — has been porcelain skin, a quick brush of blush, a smudge of pink gloss, and piles of black eyeshadow and pounds of midnight mascara for a smoky eye, I’m up for upgrading my look.

I.e., I’m considering buying so mignon makeup artist Carmindy’s The 5-Minute Face to figure out how to smoke out my eyes in a record five minutes instead of my usual 10.

Less the stale beauty gospel of “though shalt love thy flaws, ladies” — though I’m sure there’s a few choruses throughout — the beautilicious bible vibes a more grounded, gracious how-to, after checking beauty blog  Delush’s snippets: 

Smoky Eyes Color Tip, page 138:

“You don’t have to wear black, charcoal, or brown eye shadow to achieve a smoky look; all kinds of hues, from plums to greens to blues, will work. The key is to keep the liners and the shadows in the same color family.”

Gotcha, gorgeous.  It’s just like when you’re styling right for p.m. play — your too-tall heels ought to complement your frock, which ought to rock right with your arm candy.

‘Tis terrible when your boy rocks navy against all your best black. 

Because it’s not even funny any more to buy your mamma a robe for Mom’s Day.

Because it was cute for your mom to lock your pic up in a heart-shaped pendant when you were two.

Because your mamma is a woman. 

Gift her gorgeous this May 13^th, a la by Terry’s VIP gift pouch.

Its Baume de Rose and Multicare Lip Definer will gloss her smile more grand, and its Light Expert Foundation Brush’ll smooth her skin dewy like it looked when her eyes first ate you up.

Though your K’s not sure it’ll erase those wrinkles you worried her into.

Heavy into April, it’s time to lighten up, dolls:

Clean out your Blackberry of any old boys and girls; for future, you’ll only enter people who bring you profit or pleasure.

Trash Al Green’s romantic cheese on your iTunes; you’ll make more room for Jay-Z’s carpe diem chorus of cash, money, hoes on your playlist.

Evict any lazy grooming product from your vanity (i.e., anything other than black eyeshadow and extra-thick blackest mascara); only invest in beauty booty that plays double duty and hustles hard as you, like SHISEIDO’s Accentuating Color Stick.

One stick’ll slick on a kiss-me pout, swirl and twirl for a blooming blush, two swipes and you’ll highlight your peepers, and spring forward a few minutes —

 And you’re pretty in pink, outside sunning, getting double checked by a possible playmate.

[Via Kiss and Makeup]

Candy is dandy, but not everyone’s all about the Easter day sugar saturation. For a pastel-hued pleasure that will appeal more to the natural-beauty buff than the sweet tooth, fill up a basket with One With Nature soaps. The first and only bars to blend skin-soothing shea butter with minerals straight from the Dead Sea, the soaps are as creamy and decadent as the finest milk chocolate.

With a concentration of 21 healing minerals, Dead Sea salts are so nourishing to the skin that Cleopatra herself demanded that they be used in her beauty regimes. One With Nature retains the salts’ purity by adding no artificial colors or synthetic fragrances: The lavender, lemonade, and rose petal bars are all scented with essential oils and flower petals and other such naturally fragrant ingredients.

And there’s an eco-benefit to the soaps as well. In addition to incorporating biodegradable plastic wrap and recycled labels into their packaging, One With Nature is partnering with a group that’s working to preserve the environmental heritage of the Middle East and its natural resources.

Walking dolls for Tara Subkoff’s Imitation of Christ showing at L.A. Fashion Week Fall 2007 runwayed with porcelain pale skin, midnight-shaded hair, and jet black lips, playing up the collection’s glammy goth vibe.

And you thought La La Land was all 24K fake and bake tans, faux platinum locks, and pearly pink lip slicks.

Though your K’ll stick to her smoky eye, check your right for the fresh evolution of last season’s red lip.

The thought of black lipstick too much the stuff of your April Fooling your mamma during high school?

Check the limited-edition Smashbox for Imitation of Christ lipstick, which hung out in Imitation of Christ show’s goody bags. A sheer, deep grape, slick it on for a quick face update.

And top it with a black lipliner for dinner with your boy, to get him back for his buzzing his head bald last April 1^st. 

[Via OfftheRack.People.com]

With an early daylight savings, you’ve sprung forward to an extra hour of hustling. So between your French-tipped digits flying across your keyboard, digitally dealing, negotiating numbers from nine to five (or six or seven), with a power lunch sandwiched somewhere in between, capped with champagne martinis with your BFF, pre your jetsetting off to work-greets-play p.m. fun —

You’ve all the hours in the world to make up your face flawless, to re-puff powder on your nose, to re-gloss your lips…

Or not.

Which means —

You’re playing with your K, which is why I’ve long been a fan of Cover Girl’s Outlast, which sticks to your lips through drinking up your boy and kissing soy lattes. But according to Melissa of beauty blog DeLush, it’s times for me to break up with Outlast and go glossy a la Almay, the Wholefoods of drugstore makeup: “Of all the long-last lip colors of this type, [Almay Truly Lasting™ Color] now stands out to me as a frontrunner.”

I’m on it faster than I break in a pair of vintage platforms, I’m ready to face change quicker than I’m switching my no-water soy chai latte to a double soy cappucino.

But you’re not getting me out of my Stila charcoal eyeshadow, ladies.

Because a fresh spring is all about work meets play —

Like p.m. to a.m. fun that burns calories with your boy.

Why those slightly wide eyes?

Your K is talking walking, running, frolicking in Central Park, pretty dirty lady.

Because spring is all about form greets function —

Like what plays hard along with you, keeping up with you during that p.m. to a.m. fun that burns calories with your boy.

Excuse you, doll?

Your K is talking Physicians Formula felt-tip eyeliner.

Its felt marker isn’t just kiddy, kiss-behind-the-gymnasium fun, it’s an easy way to line your peepers into S-E-X-y, adult cat eyes. 

‘Cause a smoked-out eye is a fashion must when you’re, hmm, jogging with your honey.

(Via Beauty Addict)

You nor your boy nor your BFF nor your BFF’s toyfriend know how many creme de menth martinis you sipped in honor of St. Patty.

And neither should anyone else.

So slip on some Boots — just as those forest green, suede four-inch boots you rocked last night were not made for walking, neither were these Boots, a Brit beauty line soon to arrive at Target.  

Perfect for your morning after playing hard or hustling harder, Boots “Instant Eye Reviver” will perk up your peepers, the —

“— pale pink hued eye reviver under my eyes and it made me look more awake (I think the pink light diffusing particles counteracts the black circles),” writes beauty blog Beauty Snob. “There are extracts of ginseng and apple mixed with vitamins A & C help reduce dark circles and under-eye puffiness… For a quick fix over your make up, it’s a winner.” 

Unlike that barfly that was checking you until your gorgeous guy rolled back ‘round. 

Though I know tomorrow’s St. Patty’s Day, why go green only to avoid getting pinched?

Call your K green, but that springs another Q —

Considering how your hautie selection at your a.m. Starbucks is almost as broadly, solidly quality as the chain’s selection of $7 soy lattes, why would you want to avoid getting pinched, period?

Scrap that March madness, and go green-eyed just to have the other ladies follow, a la Springtime Skipper eyeshadow, part of Barbie Loves M·A·C collection.

Best for hazel or chocolate peepers, dust the shadow over your lid for a soft shimmer, or wet a brush and line your eyes to highlight those windows to your sole-loving soul, and —

Go get yourself a Ken as gorgeous. 

20-something-years-old and  still able to play “barely old enough to drink champagne martinis” in her press bio, you’d think your K would break hustling hard with lounging in La La Land’s glammy sands, soaking up sun’s shine, fake-baking in Hollywood salons for a gloriously golden tan.

You’d think.

But I prefer my skin porcelain, I like my pretty face’s light vanilla framed against the black chocolate of my hair, I dig —

Not weathering wrinkles come my next decades on earth.

Though I’ve traded my daily rocking Neutrogena Healthy Defense Oil-Free Sunblock Lotion, SPF 45  for Paul & Joe Protective Dual Powder Foundation SPF 25, I’m considering slipping back into liquid sun protection for more seeimingly solid coverage, I’m considering something like Clarins UV Plus SPF 40, though it’s —

“Not cheap, but it goes on like silk and great under make up,” says beauty artist Nikkole Otani, “not like regular sunscreen.” 

 Shiseido Sun Protection Liquid Foundation SPF 42 is less regular and more luxe, too.

...continued: forever 21

While our Sean gets his e-grub on at least three times a day, your K is busy virtually voguing and devouring fashion and beauty blogs—

Instead of eating.

Though my questionable (non-)eating habits are mostly due to my self-imposed diet of soy lattes and a mini fridge full of vintage fur, versus food, I’m considering passing the buck and maybe blaming steady consumption of Vogue and glammy glossies for my breaking up with myself if I grow past a size two. ‘Cause it can’t be your K’s fav fashion and beauty blogs, as they’re hardly shrines to twiggy, super duper models.

Chat with Shiny Shiny’s Catwalk Queen, and instead of worshipping at the altar of Kate Moss, or daily dishing Prada Pucci Gucci gear—ahem—the Oprah of fashion blogs is talking to you like your BFF. ‘Cause—

“If you’re like me, then exercising can be a real drag,” blogs Catwalk Queen’s Helen Lee.

...continued: Virtually Vogue

Get your gym body all hot and bothered as you get your spring training on. You’re shaping your hourglass to be summer haute, you’re hustling hard, ladies, but—

But.

You ought to never stink of effort. 

And, so says fashion e-bible Style.com, your K ought not trade her years-long crush on Givenchy’s Organza for fast flirting with a scent by a certain American heiress.

This spring double-oh-seven, you and I ought to vibe fresh a la floral fragrance. Style.com’s five favs? Try…

...continued: Spring Training: Session Deux