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If you’re trying to enhance your look this year, why not start with the feature people notice first – your eyes. Celebrity makeup artist Carmindy from TLC’s “What Not to Wear” recently filmed makeup tips videos for AIR OPTIX® AQUA’s “Surprise Your Eyes” contest.

The videos highlight exclusive eye makeup tips to keep your eyes healthy looking and beautiful. Consumers can submit their own tips online at airoptixcontest.com until April 30. Two grand prize winners will be selected by Carmindy and a panel of eye care professional judges to win a $5,000 cash prize and spa day with a friend.

Please, in the name of everything that is holy, please don’t let this whole hot pink lipstick thing turn into a trend. We saw it a few days ago on Sandra Bullock at the Oscars and it looked great on her, and it looked cool on the models at Yves Saint Laurent, but for the average woman, it’s just too much look.

I could see, possibly, if the lipstick was paired with a cat eye look and an all-black outfit; it would be an interesting pop of color that would get everyone looking at your face. Other than that, it’s not something we should be encouraging, since many women won’t have a clue what to pair it with or how to wear it, leading to many Fashion Don’ts.

Ok, I promise you this is the LAST nail polish post this week. I hope.

China Glaze have set the tone for this year’s summer with their Poolside Collection. This hasn’t been released as yet but, my god, these are beautiful neons.

I’m hyperventiating.

This may sound odd to say, but it’s not often that we see models styled in a “pretty” way on fashion’s major runways. In the past decade or so, it has become much more common to see models made “interesting” or “unconventional” or even “ugly” than traditionally pretty, but it seems as though the look has come back with a fashion-wide vengeance.

Perhaps the most obvious example of this phenomenon on the Paris runways was at the Louis Vuitton runway show. All of the models had dewy skin and slick, minimally styled ponytails, evoking a midcentury French farm girl with a luxurious Parisian twist.

Colors were neutral and pretty and hair was similarly natural - just proving that, once again, a girl’s best beauty secrets are a good moisturizer and conditioner.

Whenever I need makeup, All Cosmetics Wholesale is the site I visit before all others.

Some MAC products are half their retail price, whilst the Stila range is phenomenal. And the customer service is out of sight - responsive, fast and always polite and friendly. Everything I want in an etailer!

There’s a reason why I’m all about nail polishes this week, and that’s because there are so many gorgeous collections out there.

The NARS Spring Collection is here and, with it, the amazing Purple Rain.

This is my must have for 2010. If I don’t get it…. well, the tears will flow. Put it that way. PURPLE RAIN TEARS.

Purple Rain

$16 - NARS

I’ve had a few of you ask if you really need a lip primer.

Personally, I use a lip primer but, then, I’m getting old and more prone to feathering and bleeding.

However, if you want to save some cash, a good concealer will do a similar job. Exfoliate your lips, moisturise and then dab some concealer on. The concealer will attract the lipstick like a magnet and hold it in place.