Have to say: Elizabeth Arden is killing it with the packaging design lately. First came the 1950s throwback Rose Aurora Collection, and now this new collection for Spring/Summer 2013: New York in Bloom. Pretty flowers on the lid, even prettier colors inside.

My favorite piece from the collection: the Eye Shadow Trio in Violet. It's rare that I see a palette in which I'd use all three shades equally, and this one is straight-up stunning. Try lightening up your lids with the pink shadow (I start with a pale nude or pink shade every single time I apply eyeshadow), then apply the taupe shade for daytime and darken up the creases with the deeper color for evening.

Every once in awhile I come across a new product that's truly phenomenal, and that immediately goes into heavy rotation. I've been using Pevonia Botanica's Enzymo-Spherides Peeling Cream ($43.50) twice a week for about a year now, and let me tell you: phenomenal.

It's basically just a deep exfoliating cream, but every single time I use it I see and feel an immediate difference in the texture of my skin. You apply it with wet fingers (avoiding the eye area), leave it on for two minutes (fast!) and rinse it off, and the pineapple and papaya-infused cream eliminates impurities, blackheads, and toxins, leaving your skin looking bright and feeling nice and smooth. Big, enthusiastic recommendation.

I cannot tell you how much I would like to own this.

The collection is pretty enormous, but to me the lipsticks are the must-owns.

The only question (the Eternal Question, really):