Winter Pick-Me-Up: A Pop of Color Only Chanel Can Give

This time of year, I start craving warm weather, beaches, cocktails with umbrellas in them. Pretty much everything you can't get in Chicago this time of year.

My pick-me-up? A bright, fun lip gloss in a color that just screams summer.

RIP, Sirop :(

My go-to brand is usually Chanel. For me, no one else does lip gloss quite like Chanel.  Scratch that ... no one does anything quite like Chanel. Their Glossimer line offers just enough color with none of the stickiness that I hate - and, without drying my lips out!

Sadly, my favorite I-belong-on-a-beach-not-in-a-snowstorm Glossimer shade, Sirop, was discontinued a while back. I easily went through three tubes of this between the day I discovered it and the day I went to the Chanel counter only to have my heart broken upon learning its fate.

Nakkar

Last year, I discovered a new fave in the 2011 Spring Collection - Nakkar. This is a beautiful strawberry-meets-coral shade with subtle gold shimmer. It instantly brightens my look, regardless of how gloomy the day is.

This year, I'm eyeing up Bagatelle, a bubble-gum pink shade with gold shimmer (love me some gold shimmer, apparently). Check it out at this site, Miss Natty's Beauty Diary, a fellow Chicago blogger.

In fact, I think I know what I'm doing this weekend. Because there are still 53 days until spring (and that's debatable in Chicago, for sure) and this girl needs a little pick-me-up!

What about you? What's your favorite winter pick-me-up product?