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Secret Saturday free gift event by Bloom Circle is from Stila today and it's a doozy of a goodun!  Just stopping by to share the goodness real quickly as couldn't keep this one all to myself.  It's the Stila Red Carpet Limited Edition Palette, which contains six gorgeous Stila eyeshadows, a shimmer powder, cheek color and lip glaze plus seven extra Stila Lip Glazes - FREE - with any purchase of $70 or more at Bloom Circle.

Bloom Circle offers fabulous products from our favorite beauty brands including CARGO, Clarisonic, Jane Iredale, Ole Henriksen, Kinerase, Redken, REN Skincare (Wow! really? fabulous!), Sircuit Cosmeceuticals, Tigi, Stila and many more! You'll be blown away by what they offer and how discounted the pricing is.  It's an idea that's catching on very quickly.

You must be a Bloom Circle member to take advantage of their special pricing and free gift offers, however membership is completely free and includes vouchers for future purchases. (How can you lose?) I love this place.  Is a beauty lovers paradise.

Created in 1994 by a top celebrity makeup artist, Stila is known for its modern, sophisticated, non-intimidating approach to beauty. The brand's innovative, multi-tasking formulas, eco-friendly packaging, and fashion-forward colors have cemented its place on must-have lists of top beauty editors around the world. The prestige color brand is a regular on the pages of magazines like Allure and InStyle, and frequents the runways of top designers during New York fashion week. Stila's goal is to help every woman celebrate her own unique beauty; to look and feel like the best version of herself; and to have fun doing it.



This has been a much beloved brand of mine for years.  My favorite of all eyeliners, Stila Smudgesticks, are always is my makeup bag, a drawer or two at the office and in my handbag. Of course their Kitten eyeshadow is iconic and blends beautifully on the lid, flattering all eye colors. Loooove 'em!

Enjoy the Stila sale today at Hautelook beginning at 8 am PT.  Click the link below to sign up (membership is FREE) and buy your goodies!

Oh Stila travel palette ... fourth in the series of $10 mini product treasures ... where for art though, travel palette?  And why art Roxy gettin' the scoop before the rest of us?

Well, truth be told, Roxy ... ahem ... I ... didn't.  This post is inspired by an anonymous reader who wanted to know how I got a sneak preview of the Stila Make an Impression in Moscow Travel Palette highlighted in my last post.  The "Moscow" palette is fourth in Stila's series of travel minis set to be released in mid-September. It offers four scrumptious Stila eyeshadows (that shimmery light baby blue is particularly gorg) and a Convertible Color cheek and lip cream in a peachy-blushy rose hue.

Did I have the inside scoop from a savvy source? Was I given top secret clearance to the world of Stila? Did Stila's PR and press agents slide the news to me in a wisely transmitted email? Did I somehow sneakily steal into the Stila labs late one night and snap a picture of the next travel palette with my trusty cameraphone.  Newsflash: Roxy ain't that ambitious!


Allow me to introduce you to the fantastically fun and informative MSN site Glo.  Ladies and fellas, if you've not been clued into Glo yet and learning all about what they have to share on topics such as Beauty, Style, Relationships and Living then you're in for a treat!  Glo is fun, it's interactive, it's visually appealing and right on trend.  Glo is who turned me on to a preview of Stila's Make an Impression in Moscow Travel Palette as well as other multi-tasking palettes (which I reproduced in an abbreviated effort in my last post below).

Enjoy! xo

images: Stila, Glo

Multitask much? Well if you're Type-A, or just enjoy a good buy and  lots of bang for your buck, these newly launched palettes are sure to please.  These lovelies are clueing in on the desire for a perfectly organized makeup bag and great for on-the-go to boot.  These great palettes give us plenty of fun, chic ways to keep it together in richly hued products great for Fall.

Hint: Click on images to enlarge for better product detail.



BLUE JEAN BABY
Housed in a cute zip-around denim case, Bobbi Brown’s new palette is packed with classic colors for the entire face. There are shimmering pigments for eyes, a peachy-pink cheek color and rose-toned lip colors and glosses for a perfect pout. Bobbi Brown Denim Rose Palette, $60


ANIMAL FRIENDLY
With its colorful and surreal packaging, Urban Decay’s Vegan Palette will beautify your eyes and your vanity. Inside, there are six vegan eye shadows and a smudge-able black eye pencil. A travel size of their primer comes with the palette, giving you everything you need to achieve smoldering eyes. Urban Decay Vegan Palette, $34



TOP TEN
To celebrate ten years in the beauty biz, Tarte created a limited edition product. The refillable gold-studded palette contains ten eye shadows, a double-ended eyeliner and an eye shadow brush. And because it comes with a free Tarte mascara, it’s all the eye makeup you’ll need this fall. Hello - just look at the depth of pigment and gorgeous-ness in these shadows. Absolutely stunning! Tarte Ten Limited Edition Collector's Palette, $44



AWAY WE GO
Stila’s new palettes — each named for a fictional girl living in a geographical location — include four eye shadow shades and a convertible color that can be used anywhere on the face. Above is a sneak peek for you of Make an Impression in Moscow, set for mid-September launch. Stila Travel Girl Palettes, $10





RUNWAY READY
Ok, my darlings, are you ready for this one?  Drumroll please ..... NARS has gathered a handful of its most fashion-forward colors for fall into one compact. Featuring four luxe eye shadows — a deep brown, black, light pink and intense purple — and two cheek colors (including the brand’s famous Orgasm blush), this is a palette for edgy girls on the go. FYI - There's another version of a NARS zippered palette for lips and cheeks too - yumm! NARS Only You Eye & Cheek Palette, $65


SIMPLY FLAWLESS
Get flawless skin with Lorac’s Evening Out Complexion Kit, a one-stop compact for covering blemishes and refining skin’s texture. Featuring two creamy concealers and a powder foundation (all free of parabens), this slick gunmetal-toned compact will help you fake fall’s “bare-faced” beauty looks. LORAC Evening Out Complexion Kit, $38 (Ulta)


PACK & PLAY
Weekend jaunts just got a whole lot easier to pack for. Jouer’s newest palette, features everything you need (save mascara) to create a pretty-as-a-picture visage ... and it clicks together. Jouer The Weekender, $58 (Available in September at Henri Bendel and Jouer Cosmetics) 

source: msn glo

Considering the pigmentation power, the blendable creamy formulas and the bang for the buck, how does one pass on a Stila Travel Palette? As much as I've tried to resist, I've just not been able to. I bought the first one, and I'm waiting for the second to arrive now!

Those who haven't seen these little palettes of goodness first-hand should be warned they truly are bitty in size.  The images we receive in email, on the Stila site, and even here give the impression that the "palettes" are larger in actual size than they are.  They're about the size of an index card.  However, don't let that make you think you're not getting a lot of product.  As with most Stila items, a little goes a long way due to the quality of the pigmentation.  I'm enjoying collecting these, and certainly enjoying wearing the shadows and their famous convertible color duo of creamy blush/lip multi-tasker.

Limited-edition Pretty in Paris travel palette captures the joie de vive of the city of lights. You get 4 distinct-yet-complementary eye shadows and a harmonizing, dual lip-and-cheek cream that will have you looking très manifique!

• Crepe (pale pink)
• Cherie (reddish brown)
• Jolie (brownish pink)
• Chocolat (brown)

• Rosebud

 
 
Available for a limited time exclusively at Stila for $10!

So here's a new product from Stila that's so visually pleasing to the eye you might just be tempted to pick one up for the "coolness" factor.  But this little bottle of goodness has lots to offer beyond its candy colored swirling helixes suspended in clear gel.



Stila One Step Correct is a primer, color corrector, brightener and anti-aging skincare serum that does it all with the help of Stila's Youth Revival Bio-Available Mineral Complex.



 

The weightless, creamy formula blends imperceptibly into skin and won't clog pores or settle into fine lines. There's no funny looking tint as with some colored enhancers as this product blends colorlessly to compliment your skin tone leaving a smooth, even, flawless complexion.  The formula incorporates fabulous botanical ingredients like panax ginseng root extract, ginkgo biloba leaf extract, camelia leaf extract, arclay minerals, retinyl palmitate (vitamin A/retinol), anthemis nobilis flower extract and kaolin clay.



 
Stila One Step Correct Skin Tone Correcting Brigthening Serum retails for $36 a 1 oz pump bottle and is available at Ulta.

Oh, you're not going to believe this one, Stila Girls.  A Stila palette of colors for $10, are you kidding?  

Stila Girl Travel Palettes! Follow the five Stila girls as they travel across the world and get five complete looks (launching each month June through December). Now, these aren't huge, they're more like the size of an index card, but each contains plenty of product for many looks of fun. As a green-eyed girl, I truly adore the colors in this one - those purples, mauves, plummy shimmers. All destined to make a green eye pop!

The first of the series is Road to Radiance Across the USA inspired by Kylie's road trip across the US!

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  Snow Bunny (shimmery pink-champagne)
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  Southern Belle (mauve)
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  Valley Girl (pink)
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  City Chick (alloy)

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  Hibiscus

Each palette is ONLY $10, a $65 VALUE! Collect all five (check back next month for the new palette!) Absolutely gorgeous.  I've already ordered mine. Click here to learn more about the travel palettes and Kylie's trip!

For more information or to purchase this fab little limited edition palette, visit Stila online today! There is one downer, shipping is $7.95. Whew ... come on, Stila, you gotta fix that!

Adorned with a genuine handmade Indian bindi, this glimmering gloss can be worn alone for a natural shine or over your favorite lipstick for a dazzling effect.

Stila's new Luxe Lip Gloss is infused with genuine 24kt gold, a non-sticky formula that gives you a vibrant, glistening, gorgeous grin. The smooth texture is loaded with moisture-locking ingredients including Vitamin E to nourish and condition and Vitamins A & C to provide anti-oxidant protection and keep the lips hydrated. The 24kt gold powder nourishes and protects the lips, and gives you a beautiful golden shimmer.

Available in five shades: Brilliant Pink, Golden Charm, Precious Coral, Radiant Sunset and Vintage Merlot. Each sells for $22. Available online at Stila.

What a great idea! Sephora has a new sampler kit that allows us to try all the fab, best-selling mascaras to see which we like best. It contains seven travel-size black mascaras from our favorite brands, for the longest, lushest, most-volumized lashes ever. Here's what is included:

• Benefit - A Little Bit BADgal Lash in Black
• Blinc - Kiss Me Mascara in Black
• LORAC - Publicity Stunt Lashes in Black
• Smashbox - Bionic Mascara in Black
• Stila - Multi-Effect Mascara in Black
• Sephora Brand Lash Plumper in Black
• Too Faced - Lash Injection in Black

The kit is selling for $28. For more information or to make a purchase, visit Sephora.

STILA BACKSTAGE BEAUTY EYE SHADOW PALETTE - FRONT ROW LOOK (LE) - $40
See it before in launches! This is an exclusive peek for Sephora Beauty Insiders (and you). It's new, limited edition and only at Sephora. These glam greys from Stila were inspired by Marchesa's fall fashion show. Here's the scoop:

• A three-pan, softly smoky eyeshadow palette with a Kajal Eye Liner


• Stila takes Backstage Beauty front and center this fall with a couture-inspired eyeshadow palette. Inspired by Marchesa's fall 2008 fashion show, this luxe collection is high class all the way. The three-pan palette includes both matte and shimmer shades and a Smokey Quartz Kajal Liner defines and completes your sultry stare.


• The limited-edition, faux-patent-leather palette is wrapped with a chic rosette accessory that can be worn in your hair, or around your neck or wrist--the perfect accent for your fabulous fall look.

Want more info? Sign up to be a Sephora Beauty Insider, or login at Sephora if you are one already.

fashion photo: Marchesa Fall 2008 RTW elle.com

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We've seen it happen before - Lancome + Peter Som; Lancome + Thakoon; MAC + Ungaro to name but a few.

Once again, beauty and fashion are teaming up to create a market frenzy by launching a collaborative makeup product, this time an eye collection, for Fall 2008 distribution.

The pairing is no huge surprise as the Marchesa team has long since utilized the creative expertise of beauty fave Stila Cosmetics backstage for their runway shows.

Why an eye collection? Well, who wouldn't want to jump on the Stila eyeshadow bandwagon, 'tis the product they are famous for. The shades will reflect runway looks with three (3) eyeshadow and eyeliner limited-edition palettes contained in faux-leather rosette clasped compacts ($40 each). Also in the works? Three additional lipstick shades for the permanent collection.

source: WWD

Stila is introducing some new shades to their Resort Collection this year. Among the newbies, Champagne Glow Eyeshadow Trio and Rose Gold Illuminating Finishing Powder.

Here is what Stila has to say about these products:

Champagne Glow Eyeshadow Trio - In honor of golden goddesses everywhere, we bring you a new shade to the resort collection. The shades are fresh and bright and boast a high pearl content for gorgeous sheer shimmer. The trio features soft pink, cool taupe and rich brown shades. Packaged in new aluminum compacts, champagne glow can be applied wet or dry. $24


Rose Gold Illuminating Finishing Powder - Achieve that finished modern shimmer and warmth to you look with our illuminating finishing powders. Uniquely hand-milled and then baked, the powder provides a beautiful smooth silky application. Each rich shade is developed to be worn on all skin types, however the rose gold (a peachy pink) is perfectly suited to warm up any yellow undertones. Simply sweep over your favorite foundation or just on its own for a gorgeous glow. Destined to become your go-to product every morning and a must-have for mid-day touchups! $32


Also introducing ~ Cherry Crush Lip & Cheek Stain

This is the product that I'm probably (well, definitely) most interested in of the new items. It retails for $24 at Stila Cosmetics. Done in the now wonderfully popular click-pen style applicator, the stain promises to moisturize and protect skin with its anti-oxidant rich ingredients (pomegranate and cherry extracts, vitamins A, C and E). Also on the, "Oh, my product customizes with your ph level to create a personalized shade" bandwagon that seems to be so popular this season (see prior posts), it is sweetly scented and lightly flavored (I love Stila's gloss, glaze flavors - yum).

As an extra incentive, Stila.com is offering FREE SHIPPING for a limited time on any order that includes Cherry Crush by entering coupon code CHERRYCRUSH during checkout! They've also got another free shipping deal if you want to check that out by clicking here (limited time).

photos and information: stilacosmetics.com