In the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, Clinique is the number one prestige brand in both the foundation and face categories. Today, Clinique's makeup does double duty. Everything the brand knows about skin care is incorporated into its makeup products. With Supermoisture Makeup, super-intense humectants are combined with a lightweight, modern crème-gel formula to help provide intense hydration and impart a radiant, healthy glow. It's an ideal solution for dry to combination-skinned women. The new Almost Powder Makeup SPF 15, which launched in the United States on QVC and in the United Kingdom, combines the benefits of minerals with antioxidants and SPF in a lightweight, long-wearing formula that protects while it perfects.

Clinique Long Last Glosswear SPF 15 was a top seller in prestige department stores across the United States as it outshone the competition. The popular lip gloss provides long-lasting, high shine with the added benefit of SPF 15. Thanks to powerful film-formers that create a "seal" holding the gloss to lips throughout the day, Long Last Glosswear SPF 15 stays put for up to eight hours.

Several of our brands created products inspired by the trend in mineral-based makeup. The most extensive of these lines, M·A·C's "Mineralize" collection, has a full range of face, cheek and eye products. Four other brands-Prescriptives, American Beauty, Aveda and Origins-also introduced mineral products in response to consumer demand.