Finding the images of the new MAC Beauty Powder in our inbox was the highlight of our day. These loose shimmer powders highlight and define and can be used as blush for a glamorous shimmering effect.

The new Beauty Powders along with five new Studio Lights make up MAC Of Beauty collection.

Beauty Powder/Loose
Dancing Light  Creamy gold with white gold reflect
Drizzlegold  Fleshy beige with copper and gold reflect
Natural Flare  Peachy champagne with white and gold reflect
Sunspill  Coral Peach with white and gold reflect
Tenderdusk  Soft pink with red and gold reflect
Soft Flame  Rich plum with reddish copper reflect
Suggested Retail Price: $21.00 U.S./$25.00 CDN

Studio Lights
Skin Lure  Soft creamy beige
Ideal Pink  Palest pinkish beige
Smoothspice  Caramel
Frangipan  Pale golden yellow
Sand  Soft peachy beige
Suggested Retail Price: $14.50 U.S./$17.50 CDN

MAC Of Beauty is available beginning November 15, 2007 at all M·A·C locations and online at maccosmetics.com.

This Platinum Illuminator loose shimmer powder from the Estée Lauder Into the Night holiday collection is so incredibly gorgeous.

(We say that a lot about shimmer powders, don’t we? Because of this, you have every reason to not believe us, but we are NOT KIDDING.)

With tiny gold flecks so fine they practically melt into our skin, this shimmer powder makes every occasion special. We’ve been applying it to our shoulders and collarbone and fantasizing about dancing the night away at a trendy club wearing this dress—while, really, we’re sitting here ref-ing a fight between one girl that claims she didn’t take the eyeliner and another girl who claims she did. (Funny how a little tiff about eyeliner suddenly brings up every instance of injustice in their entire lives—causing an thunderous explosion of words that rivals a boatload of unhappy sailors.)

Maybe, instead of this shimmer powder, we need a stiff drink.

This Missoni Colori Gold Face Highlighter Compact leaves us speechless.

Really, all we can do is bask in its loveliness.

Longtime readers know we have a little thing for shimmer powders (okay, a BIG thing) and this luxurious highlighter, with complementary shades of shimmering bronze, champagne and dusty rose, is the shimmer powder of our dreams.

It doesn’t get any better than this, friends.

The Body Shop has been a longtime favorite of ours for their Body Butters (Mango and Almond are the ones we can’t live without) — but we’re now seeing The Body Shop in a whole new light with their new Hot Tropics Collection, a limited edition color collection for Summer 2007.

The Crystal Sparkle Gloss is so fun and sparkly and smells good enough to eat. In two sheer shades of pink (Santiago Pink and Acapulco Golden Pink) our summer beach bag won’t be without it.

Also, the Duo Glow loose shimmering powder in Salvador Blush and Brasilia Bronze will make any pair of shoulders glow in the sunset.

Here comes another gorgeous golden color collection for summer. This one is from False Eyelash King Shu Uemura.

With bronze and gold liquid highlighters,  a warm bronzing powder, and an array of lipcolors from their Rouge Unlimited Beige Collection, this summer with Shu will be golden indeed.

See the entire Golden Summer Collection here.

Our sister was visiting from Texas this weekend and had fun raiding our Makeup Bag. In addition to about THIRTY other items, she left with our Pink Shimmer Brick. We haven’t used it in over a year so we shouldn’t be sad about seeing it go, but we totally are. In fact, we’re feeling rather guilty that we didn’t spend more time with it.

When we woke up this morning and saw the new Sandstone Shimmer Brick on the Bobbi Brown website, we knew that all would be well in the world.

This newest color of shimmer powder by Bobbi Brown is perfect for giving fair skin like ours a warm bronzy glow, and just what we need to forget about Pink and move on with our life.

(If Sandstone is not the color for you, there’s surely another Shimmer Brick to make you happy. And pretty.)

See Bobbi Brown’s entire Make Up & Go Collection here.

It’s no secret that we adore us some shimmer. If it highlights or makes us glow, there’s a good chance it’s in our Makeup Bag.

Bourjois Pastel Teint Essential Pressed Powder is a peachy-pink shade of pressed powder that flatters all complexions with a sheer veil of shimmer.

This is the perfect shade of shimmer for spring and wearing it makes us feel like slipping on a sundress and sandals (even though there’s a storm brewing here in the Sierras and we doubt it’s even 40 degrees outside).

A girl can hope, no?

Bourjois Pastel Teint Essential Pressed Powder, $20

Oh boy! The moon is ascending and aligning itself for a solar eclipse in glamour with MAC’s next collection: Moonbathe.

Are you ready?

Lipstick

Sunmetal Warm bronze with silver pearl
Honey Moon Warm pink bronze with gold pearl
Solar Plum Berry with red and gold pearl
Eclipse Deep rust with gold pearl

Lipglass

Crescent Soft maple with gold pearl
Moonbathe Sheer tangerine with white and gold pearl
Dark Flower Warm plum pink and gold pearl
Elaborate Soft low karat gold with pearl

Small Eyeshadow

Cosmic Warm yellow gold with gold pearl
Saturnal Deep olive with gold pearl
Firespot Intense orange with gold pearl
Cranberry Reddish plum with pink shimmer
Claire de Lune Soft cream with pink pearl
Liquidlast Liner

Molten Sol Rich gold with intense metallic pearl
Point Black True black

Sheertone Shimmer Blush

Afterdusk Sheer neutral pink with gold pearl
Other Wordly Warm yellow gold with gold pearl

Glimmershimmer

Astral Rays Sheer gold with white pearl
Ritzy Peachy bronze with gold pearl

Nail Lacquer

Fireball Intense tangerine with gold and orange pearl
Golded Soft peach with gold lay down

And how about those lashes?! Sunsational Lashes in a red metallic color will be ours for sure.

Moonbathe will be available at MAC counters everywhere beginning in June 2007.