
The Aqualumiere Water Palette comes in eight shades, ranging from a pinky gold and a sheer lilac to bronze, rose and Bellini peach. The star product at Chanel invites a painterly approach for lips, cheeks and eyes. Sebastian Trucco turned the eyelids into artist's palettes with an incredible pair of sea-splash shades called Manhattan Mermaid - sultry aqua blue coupled with iridescent chartreuse.

Look for Diet Rose, Spicy Rose and Pink Crystal to sizzle up your toenails in preparation for spring's sexiest sandals. Makeup artist Fred Faruggia's Pinksplash collection for Lancme includes a fusillade of delicious pink lipsticks ranging from bubble-gum blush (Marshmallow) and flaunting fuchsia (Paradise) to passionate purple (Flamingo Rose). All bets are off with spring's offerings. Usually, after winter's vivid red lips and smoky black eyes, cosmetics become predictably virginal, coy and delicate. Not in recent memory have makeup colors been so obvious and froufrou. A candy jar celebration of color, of child-like enthusiasm, which invite experimentation and play.

Echoing the nearly neon intensities of the spring chiffons, geometric prints and buttery leathers, these are bold, vivid hues not so much found in nature but radiating like a sweet, punchy rainbow from apothecary jars filled with penny candy, licorice whips, bubble gum balls, Jelly Bellys, Dots, Skittles and Jujubes. And bold greens, royals and fuchsias on eyelids at Cynthia Rowley. Marigold eyelids at Diane von Furstenberg and shimmery Mermaid pink lips by Paula Dorf at Carolina Herrera.

Extraordinary makeup colors found their way onto the spring 2001 runways.
