Season's greetings for luxury look

Christmas comes earlier each year. Stephanie Smith checks out the limited edition festive make-up ranges lining up on counters now.

Luxury and drama are the watchwords when it comes to the new Este Lauder Pure Color Extravagant make-up collection by Tom Pecheux. It's sophisticated and very contemporary, in luscious reds and opulent golds in gleaming rich texture. The Eyeshadow Palette in Extravagant Gold offers copper, gold and silver in matte, shimmer and metallics, and costs 34, while the Five Color Lip Palette in Extravagant has two shimmering glosses in glistening gold and iridescent nude, two sparkling lipsticks in crimson coral and ruby bronze and one perfect satin red lipstick for lots of options in mixing and combining shade and texture (also 34).

On the Este Lauder counters now and online at www.esteelauder.co.uk.

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Vichy has launched Dermablend Ultra Corrective Foundation Cream-Stick, a corrective foundation in seven shades for a natural high-cover finish, which can be used as an all-over foundation and as on-the-spot concealer, correcting minor flaws such as pimples or under eye bags, through to birth marks. It lasts for up to 12 hours and has twice as many corrective pigments as the traditional Vichy foundation plus naturally derived carnauba micro-waxes, enriched with an oil that dissolves on contact with the skin's heat and a texture that is non-greasy or sticky. It costs 18.50, from stockists on: 0800 169 6193.

Topshop's autumn/winter make-up collection has some fabulous Powder Foundation (9) to create the perfect matte finish, in three shades of nude. Look out too for the new Coloured Mascara (8) in this season's shades, Blast, Nettle and Rustle. Tonight there will be a special student night at the Topshop Briggate store in Leeds and anybody with a valid student card can receive a 20 per cent discount. It's 6pm-10pm, DJ Baby Drum.

Boots No 7 has introduced Exceptional Definition Mascara in black and brown/black with a magic wand that makes sure the mascara goes exactly where you want it to for perfect clump-free definition and a conditioning formula with cashmere. It costs 12.50 at Boots.

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Neal's Yard Remedies is hosting a Colour Party to celebrate the launch of its new NYR Colour make-up range, at its Leeds Victoria Quarter store tomorrow, from 5.30pm. Customers can book a free mini facial, see and experience the new range of NYR colour products and have a free glass of organic wine. NYR Colour make-up range is the only cosmetics range with an eye colour collection to be certified organic by the Soil Association.