TheSwedeLife   
The Face Stockholm Winter 2000 makeup range is meant to evoke “snow and ice”, but it combines “Dignity” highlighter’s translucent white cream, with eyeshadows in olive-green “Power" and dusky, coffee-colored “Liberty." Sounds like one crazy-colored Christmas. Kohl “Gra” eyeliner  lends a beaten, broken, Helena Bonham-Carter in Fight Club look, and “Tio” Galaxy glitter adds a layer of Ziggy Stardust. Top it off with the "Desert" lipstick in matronly coral and you’ll fit in anywhere.     
   
UrbanOutfitter   
Like you need another reason to wear Urban Decay make-up? Please, with colors like “Gangrene” and “Toxin”, what’s not to love? Their new "Sparkle Shimmer Kits" come in the cutest keepsake box, filled with two multi-purpose loose powders you can sprinkle on anywhere—for eyes, shoulders, cheeks, even above the belly-button ring—as well as a soft puff to dab it on with, and a matching scented glitter candle. The "Girls Who Rock Mini Lip Gunk Set" celebrates the debut of five new rocker girls with smallish, but not tiny, versions of their ever-popular "Lip Gunk” (not quite lipstick, but not quite lipgloss either). It looks best slightly smudged. Colors include "Area 51", "Big Bang" and "YDK." Definitely not for the lipliner neurotic.   

LitGloss   
Stila is for Hollywood starlet types with a penchant for inspirational quotes from Emily Dickinson and Amelia Earhart. Its newest products include Flaunt Body Glitter, a nod to the current obsession with all things glimmery, as well as the Convertible Color in Poppy compact which can be applied on cheeks and lips. Lip Polish in Varnish and Sheen has the same effect. And super-sheer not-quite-pink Lip Gloss in Blush is just the thing to go with old standbys "Barefoot Contessa" (purple-and-gold-flecked) and "Irma La Douce" (moss green with gold). The Stila concept is to "take fashion colors and make them wearable." Like, didn't Edith Wharton say that first?    
   
Fete,Don’tFailMeNow  
Coffee for your face? Lendemain de Fete (“After the Party”) is made of caffeine and menthol and miraculously erases the results of a full night's work (marathon drinks, chain-smoking, fatigue brought on by non-committal men) so that you don't scare your colleagues the next day. Dubbed "shock treatment” for “mornings when waking up is tough", its natural wheat and soybean-based proteins stretch and firm puffy, sagging skin. Louis Vuittons under your eyes? No fear, a plant extract decongests, preventing circles and pouches from forming. Let the next party begin!  

(Note: We've sung the praises of this must-have product before, and will continue to do so until the company sends us a free caseload to last our party-weary asses well into the next millennium!) 
  
SuiGenerous  
Now that Anna Sui has expanded from the catwalk to the cosmetics counter, she has graced us with a make-up line to complement her Goth-girl-hippie designs. There are mix-and-match mascara colors, groovy "eye gloss" in deep berry shades, as well as her signature purple and lavender palette, and face powder packaged in an antique-looking snuff box. Everything would look at right at home on a vampire's vanity table. 
 

LipPlumpbyBeneFit 
So you’re not Esther Canadas, and collagen treatments aren’t quite in this year’s budget. Opt for BeneFit’s Lip Plump instead. At $15, the flesh colored lip “primer” will give you a full, smoldering pout without turning you into Goldie Hawn. 

StilaLipGloss  
Matte lips are so out your grandmother can’t remember them. For dewy, flirty, shiny and deliciously smackable “wet” lips, Stila is the grown-up girlie’s answer to yesterday’s Bonnie Bell. With just a hint of color, it appears translucent. Lips go so light they glow in the dark—just the thing your honey needs to find you in those dark bars and clubs. 

Kiehl’sLipBalm#1 
Before tucking in, slather on Kiehl’s Lip Balm Numero Uno. Lose the gnarly menthol drugstore brand and switch to this yummy, clean-smelling solution. This balm is the bomb. 

MoistickbyBlissSpa 
From the label: “A solid moistick is quite unlikely to explode all over everything else in your suitcase. So not only is it practical, but it decreases the occurrence of ‘angry brow furrow’ (an unglamorous precursor to facial wrinkling, most often caused by the discovery of leaking cosmetic ingredients in travel bags).” You heard the lady.