Dolce & Gabbana

What a Beautiful Bouquet: It’s Summer in Italy, Circa 1950, and the Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2012 Bouquet Collection Is in Bloom

March 15th, 2012 by Karen 39 Comments

Dolce & Gabbana Bouquet Collection

Someone’s a very sleepy sheepy out here (that would be me)…

I’m actually so beat right now that these pieces from the new Dolce & Gabbana Bouquet collection are barely speeding up my heartbeat at all.

And that’s freaky weird because I’m all over these rainbow shades and the mix of shimmers and creams.

The 18-piece release for spring/summer has some fun, flirty bits for eyes, lips and nails. The theme: 1950s Italian summers.

Okay, I’m down. I like the ’50s, Italy and summers, so it sounds like a win to me. 🙂

What do ya think? And how about those pastel nail lacquers? Even exhausted, I think my heart just skipped a beat.

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Smooth Eye Color Quad in Bouquet 152 (new), $59

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Crayon Intense Eyeliners in Shimmer (repromote), Lilac (repromote), Agave (repromote), Lemon (new), Acqua (new) and Mint (new), $29 each

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Lipglosses from the top to bottom: Acqua (repromote), Raspberry (new), Innocence (repromote), Shimmer (repromote) and Pink Diamond (repromote), $29 each
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Hone Your Tough Girl Edge With Dolce & Gabbana’s Intense Khol Eye Crayons

February 24th, 2012 by Karen 13 Comments

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The sweet pastel colors currently cavorting across makeup counters had better make room. Dolce & Gabbana’s new $29 Intense Khol Eye Crayons recently roared into town, and they are not messing around.

In a season of soft pinks, peaches and greens, these mostly jewel-toned eyeliners, part of Dolce & Gabbana’s new Khol collection, might as well be wearing motorcycle jackets and riding Harleys way too fast, because for spring, that’s how edgy and rebellious they look.

Add one of these rich, intensely pigmented pencils into your spring makeup mix and BAM! — you’re born to be wild. 🙂

All five fierce shades are swimming in pigment — a nice offset for the hefty price — with some of the strongest colors I’ve ever seen from the brand.

And the texture? Oh, the texture… Smoother than a tub of organic cream cheese.

Mmm… bagels and cream cheese.

I’m sorry, where was I? Oh, yeah! — the texture. Absolutely no tugging whatsoever.

Yesterday, I felt like trying something a little different, so I wore all five shades in a single look. I slipped the liners along my lash and water lines in the morning, and 10 hours later, they were still going strong, with nary a smudge and very little fading.

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Intense Khol Eye Crayon swatches from the left to the right: Peacock, True Black, True White, Chocolate and Dahlia
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Dolce & Gabbana’s New Brood of Bold Eyeliners Look Pretty Khol to Me: The Dolce & Gabbana Khol Collection

February 8th, 2012 by Karen 45 Comments

Is it just me, or is it getting khol in here? 🙂

Must be the new 11-piece Dolce & Gabbana Khol Collection for eyes and nails, available now at Saks Fifth Avenue stores and saksfifthavenue.com.

Five brand new eyeliners headline the launch. Promising potent pigments and a soft texture, the five $29 Intense Khol Eye Crayons are designed to handle fancier effects like flicks and wings just as well as they tackle clean lines and smudging.

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Nail Lacquers from the left: Wild Green, Peacock, Chocolate, Dahlia and True White, $20 each

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Khol Pencils in True White, Chocolate, True Black, Peacock and Dahlia, $29 each

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Smooth Eye Colour Quad in Femme Fatale, $59
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Another Great Stromboli Recipe! This One’s an Eyeliner From Dolce & Gabbana

January 19th, 2012 by Karen 19 Comments

Quick shout-out to my current eyeliner crush (that’s it up there, in all its glittery grayish black glory), Dolce & Gabbana Eyeliner in Stromboli ($30).

We’d actually been acquainted for some time, as the shade has been part of the brand’s permanent collection for a while, but it was only with the recent launch of the Dolce & Gabbana Charm Collection that we got to know each other better.

When I wear Stromboli along my upper lash line (I don’t use it on my water line because of the glitter), its little flecks of golden glitter shimmer in the light.

Fun! 🙂

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Dolce & Gabbana Charm Eye Pencils from the left: Stromboli, Coffee, Black and Platinum
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Charmed, I’m Sure, by the Dolce & Gabbana Charm Pencil Collection

January 9th, 2012 by Karen 25 Comments

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One of the reasons why Dolce & Gabbana rules: they dangle tiny charms from their makeup JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN.

Never you mind that the charms enchanting the eight-piece limited edition Charm Pencil collection don’t really serve a purpose beyond looking cute as they swing from their respective lip and eye liners. If we have the right to accessorize, so should our makeup! Viva la cuteness for us all! 🙂

Every time I catch a glimpse of the dainty golden envelopes, high heels, hearts and horns hanging from these pencils, which arrive next month (just in time for Valentine’s Day!), while I attend to my lips or eyes, I’m transported back to the kinder, gentler days of my youth, when a trip to the Hello Kitty store to buy a $4 mechanical pencil with a charm swinging on the end was one of the highlights of my week.

Of course, because these pencils are from Dolce & Gabbana, they cost somewhat more than that — like $29 more, to be exact.

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Eye Pencils from the left: Stromboli, Coffee, Black and Platinum
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