New Makeup Tips

New Makeup Tips

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 (love 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.