Dior Books the Ideal Travel Companion

Ticket bought? Bags packed? Don’t forget the luggage tag that upgrades you to first-class style. The Addicted to Dior Luggage Tag ($60, shown here), claims star status in the Addicted to Dior-Summer Look 2010 collection. Just flip open the jeweled case—featuring the iconic 30 Avenue Montaigne address of Dior’s Paris boutique—and apply Dior glosses in shades of sun-kissed bronze and fresh pink. Complement the look with an instant summer flush with the collection’s steamy pinks, ambers and golds inspired by the glamorous globetrotter style of Dior ($58). A pop of sheer color coats lips with Dior’s new Crystal Gloss  ($26.50), while shimmering shades for eyes add subtle luminosity. The Diorskin Nude Glow complexion enhancer ($46) creates a dewy-fresh glow to complete the look.

More info: Dior counters worldwide except Sephora

Perfect Formula Creates Perfect Nail Color

While running her family nail polish business, Cosmetic Coatings Corporation, Shari Gottesman created nail color collections for some of the beauty industry’s top names.  Now as the founder of her own luxury nail care brand, Perfect Formula, Shari introduces Perfect Color ($15 each). Known for its “suit of armor” strengthening base coats, Perfect Color offers a unique strengthening formula in a sumptuous color palette. The custom-designed brush helps ensure a smooth, even application, and the edgy, deco-inspired glass bottles mimic tiny objets d’art for the vanity. Unlike most nail polishes, these come in Deco-inspired cutaway boxes, which reveal the distinct angular shape of the bottle and the shade of the lacquer. The Spring/ Summer collection evokes the pretty pastel watercolors of Monet’s Water Lilies, with names such as Jardin, Nympheas, L’Orangerie and Giverny.

More info: www.perfectformulas.com

Tarte Cheeks Glow on 10th Anniversary

This Fall marks Tarte’s 10th anniversary and to celebrate, the prestige naturals innovator has introduced several new products including a limited edition of the product that launched the company—Ten Natural Cheek Stain ($30)—and Ten Collector’s Shadow Palette ($44, exclusively at Sephora), as well as a Radiant & Rested Luminous Complexion Collection (Sephora). Tarte’s bestseller cheek stain, a shimmering bright pink blush shade that enhances all complexions, looks radiant at age 10, decked out in a limited-edition sleek, gold-studded paperboard tube in Tarte’s signature dark purple. Tarte has also developed a matte version of its LipSurgence natural lip stains and extended its emphasEYES category with aqua-gel eyeliners in eight shades. Tarte thanks its customers for a successful decade and offers a toast to the next 10!
    
More info: www.tartecosmetics.com

First Aid Beauty Rescues Skin with New Treatments

First Aid Beauty (FAB) hired design pro Deborah Adler, then dove in to fill a niche in skin care with both products and packaging. Now FAB has launched a Body Moisturizer ($18) and a Body Wash ($14) in equally arresting packaging. The HDPE cylinders and silver laminated film highlight a sea-foam green, which allows the consumer to readily distinguish products in the line based on background color. The green designates body products, while blue identifies core products, and pink denotes age-delay offerings. FAB says it chose the green hue “because it is fresh, for men and women, complements colors in the line and stands out from other body products on the market.” The Body Moisturizer nourishes and restores all skin types, while the moisturizing Body Wash is infused with a blend of botanical antioxidants to combat free radicals and prevent photo-aging.
    
More info: www.firstaidbeauty.com

Rollerball Lip Glaze Delivers Shine and Flavor

Mode Cosmetics’ Spring/Summer 2010 Lip Glaze collection ($4 each) draws raves on a variety of fronts: nine flavors, recycled packaging and an affordable price—and all made in the USA. Thanks to Mode’s proprietary formula of Potent Naturals, the glide-on wet shine gloss imparts a see-through shine enriched with sweet almond and essential oils. The retro roller application system has been transformed into a sleek, sophisticated work of art, with Lip Glaze housed in a recyclable crystal-like vial topped with a smooth rollerball applicator that delivers a hydrating shine and delicious taste. Fruity flavors, such as mandarin, raspberry and grapefruit, are all preceded by the word sheer, to emphasize the transparent quality of the shades.
    
More info: www.modecosmetics.com

Guerlain Perfumers Continue Tradition

For the four successive generations of Guerlain perfumers, creating an Eau de Cologne was almost a rite of passage on the way to joining the line of truly great perfumers. Pierre-François-Pascal, Aimé, Jacques and Jean-Paul Guerlain each captured the essence of their time for posterity. The founder of Guerlain began the tradition, composing Eau de Cologne Impériale for Her Majesty Empress Eugénie in 1853; the Empress approved, and bestowed upon him the coveted title of Official Perfumer. To house his composition, Pierre-François-Pascal commissioned his glassmaker to produce the celebrated flacon decorated with bees, a symbol of the Empire, which would subsequently become the model for all Guerlain Eaux de Cologne. Today, Thierry Wasser, the successor of Jean-Paul Guerlain, offers a highly personal version of his cologne. La Cologne du Parfumeur ($96/100ml) is a green-citrus unisex composition.
    
More info: Available at Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Saks.com