Easy-to-apply makeup: it's simple to make the most of your looks with these innovations - LookGreat News

Shape, March, 2004 by Jody Buffalo

Mary Quant Color Crayons ($37; 800-924-9221) can be used to color, shade or highlight lips, cheeks or eyes. Choose from two different palettes, each with eight multipurpose crayons: bright colors for your wild side, or soft pastels for a more natural you.

Almay Whipped Gloss ($7; at drugstores) blends together botanicals such as avocado and sunflower extract to create a gorgeous shine that also nourishes lips without being sticky. It comes with a brush applicator to help you apply the gloss.

Lauren Hutton's Good Stuff Face Disc ($50; laurenhutton.com) has nearly every type of makeup you need for your face--from foundation to eye shadow--and is available in four skin-tone combinations. Each product is color-coded to correspond to the appropriate makeup brush in the supermodel's 7-Piece Brush Kit ($60). Follow Hutton's easy instructions (drawn from decades of her own experience working with cosmetics), and you'll be a makeup pro before you know it.

this just out ...

Following up on the success of his hair-care line for blondes, John Frieda has launched new products for the 60 percent of American women who are natural brunettes. His Brilliant Brunette line ($5.50-$6.50; at drugstores) of shampoos, conditioners and styling products adds shine to enhance the rich tones in brown hair. Our favorite product: the Satin Shine finishing creme ($5.50), at right, which creates texture and definition when smoothed over dry, flyaway hair.

the perfect foundations?

No woman has naturally flawless skin, but these just-on-the-market base coats easily correct inherent skintone variations, making "perfect" skin possible. Try:

* Cover Girl TruBlend Makeup ($8.50; at drug-stores) is an oil-free formula.

* Max Factor Colour Adapt ($11; at drugstores) applies just the right amount of coverage, where necessary.

* Clarins True Radiance Foundation ($35; clarins.com) reflects light, helping to illuminate skin dulled by fatigue and stress.

eye creams that actually work ...

* aura science activate eye cream for wrinkle reduction ($35; 866-287-2777) with vitamins A and E

* Lancome Resolution Eye D-Contraxol Intensive Anti-Wrinkle Eye Treatment ($49; lancome.com), which helps combat the effects of daily eye movements and the loss of skin elasticity

* Olay Total Effects Eye Transforming Cream ($19; at drugstores) with a blend of vitamins [B.sub.3], [B.sub.5] and E to decrease hyperpigmentation