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The article presents a comparison of skin care cosmetics including products from Origins, Clarins SA, Estee Lauder Cos. Inc., Biotherm, Clinique, and offers information on their use and prices.

Presents information on various perfumes for women.

Profiles Leslie Blodgett, CEO and president of Bare Escentuals. Business strategy of Blodgett; Beauty products offered by Bare Escentuals; Characteristics of Blodgett.

Examines the influence of celebrities on the revival of market for fragrances in the U.S. Success of the Jennifer Lopez perfume brand Glow; Plan of Salma Hayek to appear in the global launch for Avon; Selection of Scarlett Johansson to promote the Eternity Moment for Calvin Klein; Business risks of depending on celebrities to promote cosmetic products.

Presents answers from women executives in the luxury beauty product industry to questions on beauty products. Reason why women continue to buy luxury beauty products even as they cut back in other ways; What women want from beauty products; Make-up colors that most women do not like; Differences between a low-priced and a higher priced lipstick.

This article offers tips on using highlighters to have a glowing skin. According to makeup guru Mally Roncal, people with fair or medium skin tone should use a highlighter with a silver shade. Tim Quinn, celebrity makeup professional for Giorgio Armani Beauty, advises individuals to avoid the forehead when applying a highlighter.

The article presents several cosmetics to be used while on a beach honeymoon in the Caribbean including perfume from Lavanila Laboratories, sunscreen from Vichy, and a facial cleanser.

The article offers information on several wedding-worthy fragrances including Elie Saab Le Parfum eau de toilette, Stella McCartney L.I.L.Y. eau de parfum and Victoria's Secret Beauty Love Is Heavenly eau de parfum.

The article offers information on several skin care products including Tata Harper Resurfacing Mask, Lancôme Visionnaire Advanced Skin Corrector and REN Glycol Lactic Radiance Renewal Mask.

The article shares hair and makeup tips for brides. For a texturized, downtown hairstyle, the hair should be air-dried after prepping it with mousse and a texturizer. Braided hair extensions could be used to make old-school Dutch coronet braids. For a power brows look, the eyebrow should be groomed but natural-looking.

A few high-heeled titans went missing at a recent Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) board meeting, but that's probably a blessing at least from an elbow-room perspective. In the sparkling Victoria's Secret Beauty conference room and after parking coats and briefcases on the window ledge, the female movers and shakers of the beauty industry squeezed into their tightly jammed seats to hammer out the 2004 agenda. In the beginning, CEW wasn't for executive women at all primarily because there really weren't any at that time, recalled Annette Green, president emeritus of the Fragrance Foundation.

The article reports that fusing color cosmetics and skin care, the ever-evolving hybrid category, is redefining the way a new generation of consumers in the U.S. thinks about beauty. Tom Mammone, executive director of Clinique Laboratories LLC research and development worldwide, states that they are going into the route of incorporating treatment into their makeup. The author states that hybrids are important trend in the market since there is certain ease of use attached to them.

Presents information on several beauty products launched in the U.S. which adopted the antineedle strategy to cosmetic procedures. Regenerist from Olay Co.; No Surgetics lines from Givenchy; Spa brands.

Reports on the launch of the All Day All Year Essential Day Care skin care cream by Sisley in New York in February 2005. Price of the cream; Statement of Sisley General Manager Phillipe d'Ornano about the product; Uses of the cream.

Presents news briefs related to beauty products as of November 2004. Introduction of Gas Fragrance for Men by Italian jeans brand Gas; Plan of Eurocosmesi to invest in a print advertising campaign in Italy and Middle East countries for Gas fragrance; Plan of Kérastase Paris to donate part of the profit of Gelée de Soin treatment gel to nonprofit organization Dress for Success.

Reports on the launch of a perfume for men from Guerlain in 2004. Goal of the company for the perfume; Distribution lineup for the fragrance; Comments of Gilles Dougoud, general manager of Guerlain, on the advertisement for the perfume.

Reports on an event organized by Cover Girl for the display of artifacts and images for the last 50 years and launching of cosmetics products in the U.S. in October 2004. Price of the TruBlend Pressed Powder; Characteristics of the Outlast Liquid Makeup; Statement given by Anne Martin, vice president of global cosmetics and beauty marketing for Procter & Gamble on the products.

Reports on the preparation of cosmetics retailer Maybelline New York for the launch of a number of new products in January 2005. Information on the products; Estimates on retail volume for all new products.

Reports on the launch of the Sabon store of Avi Piatok and Sharon Hasson in New York City in October 2004. Interior design of the store; Beauty products sold at the store; Expansion focus of the company.

Given the influence and visibility attached to the role, moving on from the position of a beauty director is notoriously tricky. On a recent afternoon smack dab in the middle of Fashion Week, Carlotta Jacobson, who is president of Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) and her team are quietly going about their business. Though the warren of offices they occupy is just a few blocks from the tents at Bryant Park, this is a decidedly fabulous-free zone. Warm and engaging, turned out in an orchid twinset and black pants, it's instantly clear how Jacobson is able to coax some of the most powerful women in beauty to carve out time to help execute the CEW mandate.