The Paint Pots are here, girls. We’ve been waiting all year for these. No joke.

A lighter formula than the original Paints, these cream eye shadows practically adhere to the skin, creating light coverage that is waterproof, crease-proof, and lasts for hours and hours.

Our life will not be complete until we have each and every color:

• Greenstroke Frosted mint green with gold pearl (Frost)
• Blackground Frosted smoky black grey with multi-coloured pearl (Frost)
• Moss Scape Green with gold pearl (Frost)
• Bare Study Champagne with gold and white pearl (Frost)
• Groundwork Mid-tone neutral taupe (Satin)
• Rubenesque Mid-tone frosted golden peach with gold and pink pearl (Frost)
• Indianwood Metallic antique bronze (Frost)
• Constructivist Metallic dark brown with subtle red pearl (Frost)
• Artifact Dark burgundy with red pearl (Frost)
• Fesco Rose Mid-tone pink with matching pearl (Frost)
• Delft Deep teal with gold pearl (Frost)
• Painterly Nude beige (Cream)

Painterly also brings us Technakohl Liners, a new mechanical-style eye liner pencil:

• Photogravure Soft black with brown undertone
• Plank Milk chocolate brown with brown pearl
• Antiquity Rich olive green with green pearl
• Archival Faded royal blue
• Foxtail Metallic plum with red pearl
• Steelpoint Charcoal with silver pearl

Painterly joins IN 3D on Thursday at all MAC locations and maccosmetics.com.

We’re about to board a plane, but wanted to show you images of MAC’s newest collection set to launch this week, IN 3D.

We’ll tell you more about it when we arrive home later this evening!

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Update: We made it home. Whew! It’s been a long day, but we can’t wait to tell you about this new collection.

3D Glass is a non-sticky, lightweight lipgloss that’s super shiny and long-lasting. Applied with a brush, the formula of Xirona pearls and extreme glass shine give lips a three dimensional look.

With TWELVE shades to choose from, we’re in three dimensional heaven:

• Racy Sheer cherry red with pink and red pearl
• IN 3D Sheer peachy pink with blue pearl
• Optical Warm caramel brown with pink pearl
• Synched Up Creamy tan with pink and white pearl
• Energy Sheer baby pink with white and pink pearl
• Algorithm Sheer dusty rose with light pink pearl
• Touchpoint Sheer blue mid-tone pink with blue pearl
• Lightswitch Sheer metallic pink with white pearl
• Backlit Soft white gold with yellow and white pearl
• Wondershine Warm tangerine with gold and red pearl
• Apex Sheer orange with green pearl
• Boundless Intense pinky red with soft blue pearl

Along with 3D Glass, this collection also features Lipglass Pencil, a unique glossy lip pencil that defines with a hint of transparent pigment. Formulated to enhance lipgloss and lipstick, this super blendable Lipglass Pencil keeps feathering in check and leaves you with sexy, ultra glossy lips. Available in nine colors:

• Red Stroke Sheer cherry red
• Pink Edge Sheer soft mid-tone pink with white pearl
• Fuchsia Lining Sheer pink berry
• Brickmate Rich bronze brown with gold pearl
• Part Nude Sheer dirty plum-brown
• Neutralzone Warm caramel with gold pearl
• Coral Craze Sheer mid-tone orange
• Plum Mate Sheer plum
• Rosebound Sheer soft neutral pink with gold pearl

IN 3D is available at all MAC locations beginning this Thursday, August 2nd.

Our friend, Stacy, has gorgeous skin that seems to glow from within.

Her secret? Kevyn Aucoin Celestial Powder in Candlelight (along with a healthy dose of good genes).

This is currently unavailable on the Kevyn Aucoin website, but we found it at drugstore.com (go figure!).

This week we’ve been visiting our sister in Dallas, Texas and are thoroughly enjoying our time in her bathroom.

Where a normal shower takes us 11 minutes– we’re spending, like, TWENTY checking out and trying all the products in Sister’s shower. (Because our sister is single and doesn’t have to share space with anyone, her beauty products occupy every drawer, shelf, cabinet, nook and cranny in her bathroom entire house.) (This makes us laugh because our mother is a makeup minimalist: moisturizer, mascara, lip balm, Shalimar. Done. How she produced two product junkies, we’ll never know.)

Here’s some of the goodies from Sister’s bathroom we’ve been enjoying this week:

We had no idea that our favorite Bath & Body Works scent (Cherry Blossom) came in a shampoo & conditioner. A VOLUMIZING shampoo & conditioner. Our sister picked these up for $5 each while on an extended business trip and not only do they smell divine, they work great.

We’re a sucker for eye cream and this Philosophy Hope In A Tube Eye & Lip Cream is extra rich and firming. After only a few days, our eyes are already looking better.

At home we rarely have time for masks, but this week we gave The Body Shop Wise Woman Intensive Firming Mask a whirl and found our skin feeling smooth and moisturized. (Added bonus: a few moments of spa-like bliss). (Sister doesn’t know this, but this one is going home with us).

We want to tell you about all her makeup–but we’ll have to save that for another day (when we have three hours to spare!).

In the meantime, we’re enjoying the summer thunderstorms and 85% humidity here in Dallas.

While tons of our girlfriends swear by Maybelline Great Lash mascara, we just haven’t been able to feel its love.

It weighs down our perfectly crimped curl and straightens out our lashes instantly, which is sort of a bummer because we really want to love this mascara.

But not to worry, as Maybelline has plenty other stars on their shelf, like this Shiny-Licious Lip Gloss in Pink Bikini, a limited edition color in their Solar Power collection.

Cool, casual and slightly flirty– this shiny pale pink is the perfect weekend shade.

(Also, at only $6 bucks, it doesn’t hurt as much when it ‘disappears’ at the hands of the teenagers.)

While every upcoming collection brings us excitement and anticipation, there’s always one or two products that grab ahold of us and WON’T LET GO.

These are the items that keep us awake at night, worrying that the stores will sell out before we can get our hands on them.

So we might as well just tell you now that we will not rest easy until Black Plum, an intense black-violet Eye Colour from the Laura Mercier Fall 2007: Indian Summer collection is safely tucked in our Makeup Bag.

We’re captivated.

Mystery Game Fall 2007 is now available at Lancôme counters nationwide and lancome-usa.com.

Lancôme Beauty School has detailed several new looks from this collection, including this sultry “Charisma” look with deep plums for the eyes and soft pinks for the lips.

In addition to the enthralling looks from Mystery Game Fall 2007, Lancôme Beauty School can help you create almost any Lancôme look you’ve seen in a magazine– or discover techniques for creating your own custom look.

Whether you get your Mystery on, or try something totally unique, the expert tips from Lancôme Beauty School’s National Makeup Artists will prove invaluable.

Keeping our feet sandal-ready all summer without spending the equivalent of our car payment on weekly salon pedicures can be tricky. (Besides, weekly pedicures are for wimps!) (Rich wimps–but wimps, still.)

Hot summer air wreaks havoc on our exposed feet, leaving us with dry heels and ratty cuticles in no time at all. Even with perfectly polished toes, we find ourself opting for ballet flats over sandals to save our neighbors from the horror that lies beneath.

Because we’re no wimp (and definitely not rich) we found a quick, easy solution for our summer-feet woes. Just minutes of daily maintenance helps our feet stay sandal-worthy without breaking the bank:

Lamisilk Cleanse Exfoliating Scrub removes dry, rough skin and leaves our feet soft and smooth. Used in the shower, this corn meal based scrub with a yummy almond scent keeps our heels exfoliated and looking fresh.

After we step out of the shower, we slather our feet in Cetaphil Moisturizing Lotion, a fragrance free moisturizer with super-human powers. This fast absorbing lotion was formulated for extremely dry skin and is our go-to guy for skin issues. The key to this product is its ability to lock in moisture without leaving us feeling greasy. (Read: no sliding around in our slip-on sandals!)

Finally, we’ve told you this trick before, but we always apply a little cuticle oil to keep our cuticles looking salon-perfect.

Add a weekly trim and polish job, and everyone thinks we’ve spent the last hour in a pedicure chair reading US Weekly and dishing about Britney’s extensions.

Follow our three steps and you’ll have them fooled, too.

*Read our tips for hassle-free summer nails here.