I am working hard today editing some of the videos that we did while we were in New York for Fashion Week (yeah, a week or two behind – but its worth the wait, methinks…lol), and watching the video we did with 3 Custom Color Specialists.  It has been quite a long time since I have talked about them, but they have been a real favorite for me for a long time, since I discovered them in a long defunct, and still sorely missed, cosmetics boutique in this tiny little town o mine. 

So while 3CC is on my mind, I wanted to tell you about a couple of essentials from their product line that never leave my side, and a couple of goodies that are new favorites:

1.  Clarifier Pencils – this is a nude colored soft pencil (available in light or dark) that is absolutely perfect for your waterline and the interior corner of your eye.  This will make your eyes look so much bigger and brighter.  This is really a big trend now, but 3CC has been doing this for a long time, and doing it right.  This can be used as a spot concealer, and and under brow highlighter as well.  Get one of these pencils and keep it with you always, you won’t regret it.

2. I really love my concealer palette from 3CC, but I think a wiser choice for the masses (and for me probably), is their concealer trio.  This comes in light-medium, and medium-dark, and this will carry you through the whole year.  One interesting thing about the 3CC line is that their concealer is also their foundation.  It takes a little getting used to when you first use it, as it has a different feel than most other foundations.  You are tempted to use WAY more than you actually need, a little goes a very, very long way.  I own the concealer palette, and my two favorite shades separately, but when I’m ready to re-order, the light-medium trio it is.

3.  I am ordering this very soon, as I sure lusted after it when I was in their NY store a couple of weeks ago.  This is the Perfectly Pink Lip Gloss Palette (they have other amazing palette colors too).  Like I need more lip gloss, I know.  But this has every shade under the sun that you might need if you love pink and have a cool skin tone.  Honestly it is gorgeous.  And $53.50, but I will wear each and every color in this palette until it is gone gone gone.

4.  Cool bronzer - I never knew I could find a bronzer for cool skin.  This was the coolest find from our meeting (no pun intended).  I have never been a big bronzer fan because they are all warm and orangey, but this one is absolutely perfect for me.  I use it for contouring and for quick blush, it is a new favorite, definitely.  It comes in a pressed or loose version, but I love their little round compacts so much, pressed is the only option for me.

If you have never had the opportunity to check out 3 Custom Color Specialists, please take a little while to browse their web site.  As I said before, I fell in love with them at my local boutique, a precursor to Sephora where they had testers for everything and it was a girly wonderland.  One of the things that they do that enchanted me from my first interaction with 3CC is their custom blending.  You can send in a chip of a color that you love, and that you might not be able to find anymore, and they will duplicate it for you.  That is an awesome service!  Their web site is complete, informative and educational (check out their page on Cool vs. Warm), and it was a genuine pleasure to get to meet the charming people behind the brand that I have loved for so long and get to see where they create all of their wonderful goodies.  This 38 minutes of video I am working on now (well, will be working on in another minute) is so full of little tips and tricks.  I am going to be dividing it up into a bunch of parts, as I know 38 minutes is quite a bit too long, but I will try to keep all of Chad’s wonderful advice and knowledge intact.  Stay tuned – hopefully its coming very soon. 

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