Oooh, glittery goodness! A few of the new glittery NYX Slim Eye Pencils ($3.50 each).
NYX Glitter Eye Pencils
Archives for August 2010
Jemma Kidd Make Up School Blushwear Creme Cheek Colour: A Perfect Fit for Booty Call Kits
If you can’t remember the last time you awoke to a fresh-faced flush (when was that again? 1998?), recapture those cherubic cheeks of yore with Jemma Kid Make Up School Blushwear Creme Cheek Colour ($23).
Swept and blended onto bare skin or layered atop foundation, this cream-to-powder blush delivers fast, flushed cheeks in a long-wearing formula. Available in three shades (Pomegranate, Guava and Paw Paw) and packed with vitamins A, C and E, the velvety powder finish hangs on for hours.
NARS Beautiful Life Lip and Cheek Palette
I love the colors in the new NARS Beautiful Life Lip and Cheek Palette ($55).
Swatches and review coming soon. 🙂
Is Stila Custom Color Blush a Karma Chameleon?
Makeup resolve weakening…
Stila resistance futile…
I went to bed last night thinking about Stila’s lovely hot pink Custom Color Blush ($20). I heard it calling to me from Sephora (I live just five minutes away).
“Karen,” it whispered in my ear.
“Karen, come play with me.”
Um, okay. 🙂
Like a mood ring for cheeks, Custom Color Blush reacts with skin pH (a measure of acidity or basicity), changing color based on the wearer’s body chemistry.
Part of the company’s fall collection, it’s one of the more sci-fi products I’ve seen in a while. With what Stila calls a “spherical silicone elastomer treated powder,” it supposedly also diffuses incoming light, resulting in a soft-focus effect that, according to Stila, softens the look of fine lines and wrinkles.
Hmm…
Swatch of Stila Custom Color on NC35 skin
[Continue reading…]
Let’s Go Backstage with Stila’s Latest Eye Palette!
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like some Stila in the sky!
Like the brightest stars 
on a crystal clear night, the shadows in the new Stila Backstage Eye Palette twinkle just a little brighter than every other fall product that crossed my path at Sephora yesterday.
Affordable ($28), and filled with fun colors, Backstage looks lovely in its pretty purple packaging.
NYX Studio Liquid Liner
A few tubes of NYX Studio Liquid Liner (available in 12 shades, $4.50 each).
NYX Winter in Moscow Palette
NYX Winter in Moscow Silver Gray Smokey Look Palette, $20.
What did you think of the colors?
Comment to Win Cargo Multi-Mix Bronzer [10 WINNERS]
Looking for a flexible bronzer to bestow a natural glow? Take a gander at Cargo’s liquid Multi-Mix Bronzer ($28).
The universally flattering shimmery golden brown comes in a handy travel-friendly tube. Mixed with your favorite foundation, face moisturizer or tinted moisturizer, Multi-Mix’s benefits go beyond simply giving a healthy glow to your mug. Cargo added Vitamin E to the formula to condition and nourish the skin, but they left out oils and paraben.
If you think you might like to give Cargo Multi-Mix a try, keep reading because it’s giveaway time! 🙂
THE PRIZE
(Winners randomly selected)
TEN lucky ladies (or gents) will each win one (1) Cargo Multi-Mix Bronzer, a flexible shimmery liquid bronzer suitable for all skin types (a $28 value).
Swatches of Cargo Multi-Mix on NC35 skin: unblended (left) and blended (right)
Wearing Cargo Multi-Mix Bronzer
TO ENTER
Entering is easy. Just answer the following question in the comments (no worries; there are no right or wrong answers):
“How do you feel about bronzer?”
My answer: I can’t live without it! I use it almost every day to add a warm glow to my skin and to contour my cheeks.
RULES
The giveaway is open to US and international readers. 🙂 Please, one entry per person, and don’t forget to leave a valid email address in the comment form so I can reach you if you’ve won.
I’ll choose the winners at random from the entries received by 11:59 p.m. PST on Friday, August 6, 2010.
Good luck! 
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen