August 2009's New Beauty Products

Artful Shading

If there's an art to making up your eyes (and who would say there isn't?), these three handsome eyeshadow palettes—Jungle Love, Beach Babe, and Ocean Hues (Mark, $7 each, MeetMark.com )—are a fitting inspiration. The texture is silky, and though the pigment is dense enough to leave a rich swath of color, it can also be sheered out with an eyeshadow brush for a subtler look. ("Sheered out"—that's an artist's term...well, a makeup artist's.) Moisten a fine-point brush so you can use the center square for liner. Then look stunning while the rave reviews roll in.