Tom Ford Beauty spring 2012 Nail Lacquers, $30 each. Available now at Neiman Marcus stores and online.
I seriously can’t wait to paint my nails!
Lacquer Lust
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Be a Tom Ford Beauty Now at Select Neiman Marcus Stores
Neiman Marcus, meet Tom Ford…Beauty. As in the new Tom Ford Beauty line. 🙂 The highly anticipated collection recently launched in select Neiman Marcus stores (call ahead to check, in the U.S. at 1.888.888.4757), and with the San Francisco Union Square joint being one of them, I zipped over there yesterday to take a closer look.
You might remember when we sneaked a peek at a couple of pieces from the line back in October. Most of us liked the direction Tom was taking, but we weren’t totally on board with the high prices.
The new counter seems to fit the products well. Like the packaging, it’s sleek, elegant and somewhat masculine, with welcoming dark chocolate brown backgrounds and accents in gold. It looks to me like someone wanted people to get in there in play, as everything’s laid out in clear, easy-to-access displays, so you won’t have to go digging through trays.
A high price on beauty
If you’re a BOGO babe who lives for bargains, well, this sure ain’t no discount line. Products range from $30 apiece for glosses and nail polishes to — brace yourself — $250 for a skin care serum (OUCH!).
The line’s a fairly comprehensive compilation of skin care, brushes, makeup and nail polishes all aimed at achieving a very specific Tom Ford Beauty look, a look characterized by dewy skin, a sculpted face, strong brows and a focus on the eyes. It’s bold, sensual and glamorous, and feels kinda tropical to me, like NARS on a disco holiday in the South of France.
Nudes feature prominently in the color collection — a smart decision, I’d say, especially considering the prices. Seriously, if you’re gonna throw down dozens of dollars on a single product, you want it to be something you can wear every day. Very few gals will spend $75 for a palette they can only take out once a year.
Making me over
Last night at the store, Tom Ford Account Executive Alberto Mayoral sat me down for a makeover, what he called “the complete Tom Ford experience!” 🙂
“Alberto,” I said, “I’m not afraid of color.”
He must have taken me to heart because he went with a purple eye using the Eye Colour Quad in Violet Dusk ($75), a neutral cheek with Cheek Color in Ravish ($55) and a reddish burgundy lip with the Lip Color in Crimson Noir ($48).
I like how it turned out — colorful, but at the same time, not all up in yer grill.
Where to start?
A good question. Alberto suggested starting with universally flattering shades, like with some of the colors in the Eye Color Quads in Silvered Topaz and Titanium Smoke, both great for smokey looks, and Coca Mirage for something more neutral ($75 each).
For cheeks, look to the Cheek Color in Flush, Frantic Pink or Love Lust ($55 each).
For lips, the nude Lip Colors in brownish pink Deep Mink, yellowish pink Coco Ravish and peachy Pink Adobe ($48 each).
Looking at some of the products…
Tom Ford Beauty: Nail Lacquer
The new Tom Ford Beauty Nail Lacquers, $30 each.
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If You Could Only Wear One Lip Product for the Next Month, Which One Would It Be?
I had a lot of fun reading your answers to the eyeshadow version of this question (and borrowing some of your ideas!) a few weeks ago and figured I’d also pick your brain about lips.
My lip love as of late has been Tom Ford’s Violet Fatale lipstick, a moisturizing, long-wearing lippie in a fabulous shade for fall. I think it’s just dramatic enough to be noticeable without going overboard.
If you could only wear one lip product for the next month, which one would you choose and why?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Tom Ford Beauty Violet Fatale Lipstick Calls for a Celebration
I’m a firm believer in the motivational might of makeup as a reward for a job well done, and drugstore mini-hauls after a hard day’s work are a favorite of mine, but sometimes, like after a really monumental achievement — graduation, a new job, reaching a long-term goal — you might want to go even bigger than that.
Big like Tom Ford Beauty’s pricey princess, Violet Fatale Lip Color ($48).
A vivid purplish pink, it makes me feel like a superhero version of myself — bolder, brighter, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!
Okay, well, maybe not that last one…but I do feel a lot better with it on. 🙂
The Tom Ford Beauty Sahara Haze Eye Color Quad Would Catch Any Sultan’s Eye
Today, like wavering rays of light on a distant desert dune, the Tom Ford Eye Color Quad in Sahara Haze made me doubt what I was seeing.
“Is it a mirage?” I wondered, sweeping the taupe shade into my crease. “Could it really be this good?”
At one point this afternoon I think my heart, which was booming like a timpani at both the beautiful quad and its exorbitant $78 price, actually did skip a beat. Few things in this world ever make me feel that way. Great makeup is one of them; glazed doughnuts are another.
Flawless, I tell you. Like a Krispy Kreme Original Glazed. So glowy. So pigmented. So melty and delicious…
Never mind that for $78 one could get 132 Krispy Kreme doughnuts at $0.59 each (or 78 sticks of $0.99 Wet ‘n’ Wild #666 Brandywine).
Sahara Haze is about a million miles from budget — it’s even costlier than the most expensive Chanel palette I can think of, last spring’s $65 Ombres Perlees de Chanel — but I still find it and the other color products, nail polishes, skin care and makeup brushes in the new Tom Ford Beauty line very, very hard to resist.
I want to gobble it up!
Everything about this stunning mother trucker — from the clean, contemporary packaging (
the dark chocolate and gold), to the featherweight, pigmented powders that fill the pans — spells l-u-x-u-r-y.
The quad’s cool lemony beige feels so soft that I almost thought it was a cream (but it’s not), the cool grayish taupe has a delicious finish perfectly perched between matte and shimmer, and the forest green and charcoal shades sparkle with flecks of golden glitter that glimmer like fireflies in the light.
Tom Ford Beauty: Swatches and Pics!
Just a quick sneak peek at a couple of pieces from the new Tom Ford Beauty makeup collection, babe.
The entire collection, which includes makeup, nail polish, skin care and brushes, is available now for pre-order online at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman.
If you’re traveling across the pond, you can also currently find it at the London Heathrow airport in Terminals 3 and 5.
