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Spring 2010 Beauty Trend: Garden Party

These freshly picked offerings include extracts and inspirations from the flowers and plants found in a blossoming garden.

These freshly picked offerings include extracts and inspirations from the flowers and plants found in a blossoming garden.

 

 

Bobbi Brown Orchid Color Strips Palette


These ladylike shades of lilacs, pinks and reds can be used on eyes, lips and cheeks for a fanciful, flower-inspired spring color statement. $90 (Bobbi Brown counters, bobbibrown.com)

 

 

Jo Malone London The Red Roses Fragrance Chronicle


First introduced on Valentine’s Day in 1996, the original Red Roses fragrance is updated in a set that pairs it with complementary scents to reveal its various facets. $95 (Saks)

 

 

Chloé Eau de Fleurs in Néroli and Capucine

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These two eaux, inspired by the balance between romanticism and androgyny, contain the essences of wild flowers. Capucine is blended with rose absolute, jasmine and lily of the valley; Néroli stars bitter orange and sage. $135 each (Saks)

 

 

MAC Give Me Liberty of London


MAC partners with Liberty, whose floral fabrics are a favorite of fashionistas everywhere, for its spring collection. Colorful, garden-inspired patterns add a chic edge to the makeup brand’s classic packaging. $14.50 to $25 (MAC counters and boutiques, maccosmetics.com)


 

Tarte Flower Child Limited-Edition Best-Selling Eyeshadow Palette


Within the violet, flower-filled packaging is a wardrobe of muted bright shadows inspired by vintage flowers. A double-ended brush and two liners, in jade and brown, ensure eyes pop. $44 (Sephora)

 

 

Bond No. 9 High Line


Taking inspiration from New York City’s High Line park, which houses meadows, wetlands and wildflowers, this lively floral-marine bouquet blends red-leaf rose, Lady Jane tulips and grape hyacinth with tall grass and fuchsia tulip buds. $220 (Saks)

 

 

Artdeco Beauty Box Quatro Art Design 10


The thin, butterfly-bedecked compact can be fitted with whichever of the brand’s spring gilded natureinspired eye shadow hues you choose. $12.80 (artdeco.de)

 

 

Annick Goutal Ninfeo Mio


For their latest effort, perfumers Camille Goutal and Isabelle Doyen took as their inspiration the gardens of Ninfa, near Rome, home to medieval ruins, lush evergreens, ripe citrus, fig trees and the picturesque Ninfeo River.
$120 (annickgoutal.com)

 

 

Guerlain Orchidée Impériale Cream


Drawing on 10 years of research, Guerlain has updated its classic cream with an orchid molecular extract derived from three new species grown in the brand’s facilities in France and China. $410 (Bloomingdale’s)

 

 

Dior Hydra Life Pro-Youth Protective Creme SPF 15


Dior’s exclusive gardens are home to a wide variety of exotic plants including jisten, centella and Christmas rose, all included here to help protect skin against environmental stresses. $56 (Dior counters)

 

 

Tweezerman In The Garden Special Edition 2010 Mini Slant Tweezers


Adorned with bees, butterflies and flowers, these miniature tweezers grab even tiny hairs with ease. $15 each (tweezerman.com)

 

 

Boots Botanics Nourishing Cleanser


Created in conjunction with the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, this moisturizing face wash features olive oil and skin-replenishing oleic acid. $7.99 (Target)

 

 

L’Occitane En Provence Peony Makeup


L’Occitane’s first makeup collection features a fresh, natural shade palette inspired by the peony. In eco-friendly packaging, reminiscent of a pack of seeds, come eye, face and lip products infused with the flower’s softening extract. $12 to $28 (L’Occitane)

 

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