The Fortune Cookie Soap Fall 2016 Soap Box takes on the ultimate fandom, Princess Bride! I’m not even going to get into the amount of times I’ve watched and rewatched and watched again the Princess Bride. I can recite every single line of that film and possibly play the part of Inigo Montoya.

This year we get to relive our love of the film and the characters with the Fortune Cookie Soap Fall 2016 Collection! On August 26th at 6PM CST you’ll be able to join Fortune Cookie Soap’s Fall launch party and purchase the As You Wish Collection.

Until that time, I have a little sneak peek of the Fall 2016 Soap Box. What’s a Soap Box? It’s a sampler box filled with 8 to 10 mini size bath and body goodies from limited edition seasonal collections that Fortune Cookie Soap launches. Each box is $19.99 (shipping included) and includes a selection of seasonal products as well as a $10 Gift Code that can be used on your next purchase at fortunecookiesoap.com. The Fall 2016 Box is shipping shortly but I get an early preview of it to share with you!

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Charlotte Tilbury Scent of a Dream Perfume is upcoming on August 15th and one of the greatest tag click bait lines that I’m seeing with this fragrance is, “You can smell like Kate Moss”.

I don’t know why but this made me laugh. It also kind of had me raising a brow because it implies that we were about to journey into another celebrity fragrance when that’s simply not the case at all.

Scent of a Dream is actually Charlotte’s first fragrance and I expect big, big things from it. The scent is inspired by her own blend of scented oils purchased from Ibiza’s hippie markets that she’s been using for over 30 years. She had Francois Robert (he’s the nose behind the iconic Chanel Cristalle fragrance as well as other Chanel fragrances) aid her in creating the fragrance. It is for the most part a floral blend but there’s also depth added to the fragrance from Chypre. Chypre adds complexity but not heaviness or darkness to the fragrance according to the brand.

Kate Moss is indeed the face of the fragrance. She was chosen by Charlotte because she felt she fit the ethereal and powerful inspiration of the fragrance.

The fragrance has fruit top notes such as lemon, peach, and mandarin with a floral heart of tuberose, violet, and jasmine. There’s patchouli as a middle note as well. But most interesting, are the base notes of hedione (pheromone), ambroxan (sage), and poinciana tree (fire tree). It sounds terribly complex and quite unique. I’m very eager to try it for this reason.

Charlotte Tilbury is well known for her luxurious cosmetics and I have hopes her fragrance will be just as unique as some of her makeup products.

Charlotte Tilbury Scent of a Dream launches on August 15th and will be available at www.charlottetilbury.com.

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Jerome Flynn.

I’ll leave this right here:

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Fall isn’t here as of yet but the Holiday 2016 Makeup Collections and even Spring 2017 ones are popping up everywhere. Last week, we got wind of the new Too Faced Peach Glow Palette that I speculated would release for Spring 2017. Some of that is confirmed with the release sneak peek that Jerrod Blandino, co-founder of Too Faced Cosmetics, teased on his Instagram account.

He posted a picture of a model at a photo shoot wearing, what appeared to be, the Sweet Peach Eyeshadow Palette and mentioned Spring 2017 arriving as soon as November/December. In recent years, Too Faced Spring Collections arrive a week or two before Christmas so, I suspect that the Sweet Peach Palette will hopefully be back in stock along with that new Peach Glow Highlighter Palette that broke the Internet last week!

Sssshhhhhh… #prettyasapeach #toofaced #spring 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 available Nov-Dec

A photo posted by Jerrod Blandino (@jerrodblandino) on Jul 26, 2016 at 3:13pm PDT

I’m honestly just happy to see more peach for Spring. I remember a time that coral was such a hit for Spring/Summer Collections. But for some reason that really hasn’t been a top trend in a very long time. I hope that the introduction of Too Faced’s Spring Peach Collection might be incentive for more brands to do glow-y peach shades like NARS Orgasm for Spring and Summer looks.

Le sigh! Wishful thinking?

Why am I even discussing Spring 2017/Summer 2017 makeup trends when we haven’t even finished off Summer 2016 yet?

Funny story, I was listening to Howard Stern a few days ago and Nick Cannon mentioned he wouldn’t be voting and even felt like his vote didn’t count because the Presidential Election was per-determined. I scoffed at that opinion. Now if I were Nick, I’d turn my eye to the makeup industry as I swear trends are totally predetermined years in advance before they happen. Like, they have some secret society creating trends on the fly twenty years into the future. It’s all Winchester/Men of Letters/Secret Hideaway type thing up in there….!

Mmmhmmm…

But anyway, I just hope that peach will be a trend soon because I’m tired of liquid lipstick, contouring, and highlighter!

Are you looking forward to seeing what Too Faced Spring 2017 brings?

Too Faced Spring 2016 will likely arrive early December at toofaced.com and soon after at Sephora.com, Ulta.com, and in stores.

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Jerrod’s busy teasing us with Too Faced Holiday 2016 goodies on his Instagram account. Too Faced Holiday 2016 isn’t far off either if they plan on keeping with tradition and launching in September. Last year the Holiday Collection arrived the first week of September! Crazy? For sure! But you know all the makeup addicts out there are like, “Imma stop you for a minute and grab my credit card BRB!”

Although Too Faced is a West Coast brand, this year’s collection is all about the East and inspired by Christmas in New York. As a native New Yorker, I’ll be completely vain and terribly ignorant arrogant in saying that there’s no place like New York during the Holidays 🙂

Christmas In NY! #Ulta #toofaced ☃#sneakypeek

A photo posted by Jerrod Blandino (@jerrodblandino) on Jul 23, 2016 at 12:42pm PDT

See more after the jump!

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