Kudos to Shiseido makeup director Dick Page for his Fall 2009 Color Collection. We’re especially fixated on several great new eye products, starting with the Luminizing Satin Eye Color range. The eye colors were previewed on the FW Fall 2009 runways for leading designers including Michael Kors and Narciso Rodriguez.

The dazzling mono-eyeshadow palettes come in 15 shades of neutrals, pastels and brights. Cavern and Alchemy are two color options that flatter all skin tones. At $25, the formulation contains dual-optimizing powder and satin smooth pearl to deliver a luminous, silky finish, and “super hydro-wrap vitalizing DE” to provide continuous moisture.

We never had any luck with eyeliners until we drew a perfect line on our first try with Shiseido’s Smoothing Eyeliner Pencil ($20). It comes in black and brown and has a smudge applicator on the other end for blending or creating a smoky eye.

The Natural Eyebrow Pencil ($20) is our absolute favorite. The pencil, which comes in four shades, doesn’t deposit any detectable color but rather melds into the natural color of our brows. Without looking like we’ve applied any product, we can quickly make our eyebrows appear full and symmetrical. A smoothing brush is attached to finish the look.

From now through the end of October, Shiseido will donate $5 from every sale of Luminizing Satin Eye Color in Peony to Cancer and Careers, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting working women living with cancer. So we can do some good while looking great.

The complete collection is available at Shiseido counters everywhere and on sca.shiseido.com

Since we don’t work for AIG and haven’t received a seven-figure screw-up bonus, we’re cutting back on discretionary spending. No more Starbucks double skim lattes. We’ll pass on those Jimmy Choo gladiators. Our personal trainer will have to be put on hold. Why take a cab when a five-mile hike would do us good?

This mindset also applies to buying beauty products. We’re only allowing ourselves one makeup purchase for spring, and the winner is Shiseido Perfect Rouge lipstick in Rose Bronze. The 20-sku lipstick range is the full first color cosmetics line by Shiseido artistic director Dick Page, who honed his craft as a makeup artist for Calvin Klein, Alexander Wang, and Narciso Rodriguez, to name a few.

The collection delivers true intense color and all-day hydration in an ultra-smoothing formula. Shiseido’s proprietary Super Hydro-Wrap Vitalizing DE supplies and holds moisture in the lips, while its Dual Optimizing Powder works with available light and adjusts the color accordingly. The payoff is continuous comfort and a depth of color that appears on the lips exactly as it does in the tube.

We put that intriguing claim to the test with the Rose Bronze lippie. Sure enough, the color in the tube-a deep rose with subtle blue undertones and a bronze pearl finish-was true to the beautiful hue that appeared on our mouth. Without screaming “lipstick,” the color had just the right amount of presence and made our lips look and feel plump, smooth and luminous. Does it get any better than that? The 19 other lipstick shades range from Baby-a gentle, classic nude color-to blood-red Dragon. Forget what we said about making only one beauty purchase for spring. We’ll take one of each.

Seven coordinating lip pencils ($20), which we didn’t get to test but are said to be smooth-spreading and smudge-proof, round out the collection. Perfect Rouge Rose Bronze ($25) is a limited-edition offer only at Nordstorm’s or nordstrom.com through June. The other 19 lipsticks (also $25) are available at Shiseido counters everywhere. Be on the lookout for Page’s second color cosmetics collection-this time eyeshadows-that Shiseido will launch in the fall.