Light Up the Night with Stila's Holiday 2012 Holiday Collection

 

 By Laura Medina

Hunting for that last-minute Christmas gift?  Panicking that your makeup will pass through TSA x-ray and pray to God, it will not be stolen?  You made it to your destination...good for you...but where is my foundation, blush, eyeshadow...you know,...the basics...and my lips are bare and chapping.

Yes, you're thankful you got your holiday makeup collection palette going on but why put on the glitter when you're the girl-next-door and you want special makeup that is approachable and warm as you? And, you don't want to flash like a mirrored disco ball when you see grandma (save that for New Year's Eve).

 Stila Cosmetic's makeup artist, Sarah Lucero is here for the holiday help.

For her, this current holiday look is classy, not flashy; approachable, not bare.  Simple but not everyday.  The general look for these holidays is a classic, soften matte skin with lustrous eyes and lips.  Iridescent texture and color defining the eyes as the focal point.

It's built upon the current trend of healthy skin where you can use a creamy blush (think Convertible Color) for both cheeks and lips in a moist, suede-like texture, matte berry.  For the eyes, a simple swipe of Smudge Stick in Stargazer (black with gold and silver pearl), Tetra (deep shimmery purple), and Oscar Fish (warm brown with gold pearl) softened by #4 smudger/liner brush.  It's a smokey eye look with the full-on, complex, eyeshadow over-load.  Speaking of overloading, Stila's Holiday 2012 Light Up the Night Collection is TSA safe and light on the back and shoulder. 

Now, let's look at the collection!...

This compact powdered 18 adjustable wet and dry eye shadows and 12 blushes collection with a deluxe size Stay All Day™ Waterproof Volumizing Mascara in Snow Angel Color Palette comes with a Step-by-Step Artistry Look Book.  The 18 Eye Shadows are the collection of the top-selling shadows, all in one package,: peace, love, gold, sleigh, cookie, dashing, eggnog, icicle, dance, merry, kitten (use it as a highlighter), jingle, gingerbread, truffle, chestnut, cool, clove, and fairy.  The 12 Cheek Colors are the new blushes: shimmery snow angel, shimmery coral, shimmery apricot, shimmery peach, shimmery pink, shimmery plum, matte pink, matte plum, matte berry, matte melon, matte clay, and matte bronze.  There is one trick that lightens the load off your hand, shoulders, back, and carry-on/tote, wipe lips with a multi-purpose moisturizing balm, use a fluffy eye/lip brush to any of blushes, get a generous amount of the blush then either brush or pat the blush onto lips and top it off with the balm or a gooey, lip gloss.

Written in the Stars Eye Shadow Palette doesn't come with a mascara or an additional palette of blushes but this 12 gorgeous, neutral eye shadow shades that can be mixed and matched for countless looks and can be worn both wet and dry.  Don't you noticed that these rosy-fleshed toned eye shadows are blush and lip color friendly.  Instead of disco glitter drama, Stila's Holiday 2012 Collection palettes give you a lively, not dead, rosy glow.  Healthy and alive with a flush.  Since these eye shadows can be used wet, smear the wet eyeshadow for a deeper sheen of a smokey look or really deepen as an eyeliner.  Again, use the lip balm and gloss with the pinker/rosier eye shadows as an emergency lip color.

 

 If you are a "Bold Minimalist" because you want to look fabulous yet traveling light, Stila "Light Up the Night" Seeing Stars Smudge Stick Set and Long Wear Liquid Lip Set got you covered.

Seeing Stars Smudge Stick Set is a stick eyeshadow and eyeliner in one.  This set of Stila’s best-selling smudge stick waterproof eye liners in five shimmery metallic shades gives you definition and glow where you need it, on the rims of your eyelids and crease...not all over. 

 

This is her #1 favorite set, next to the Long Wear Liquid Lip Set.  According to Sarah, you'll get a luxury and sophisticated appearance in multitude of looks.  With Seeing Stars Smudge Stick Set, the smudge sticks' texture set and stay all day and night.

 

Sarah suggests you can a full-eyeshadow look with the Seeing Stars Smudge Sticks.  First, layer Angelfish (metallic pewter or what Sarah calls "shimmering champagne) all over the lid as a cream eyeshadow and brow bone highlighter.  She says it makes a great eyeshadow base. Sarah used it in the Holiday campaign photo shoot.

With shimmering champagne Angelfish as the base, you can layer Tetra (deep shimmery purple) over Stargazer (black with gold and silver pearl) then define the brow with Moray (golden olive shimmer) for that iridescent look while opening up the eyes and shape.  To glide the lily, you can swipe mascara for that extra oomph!  

The general idea is layer the paler smudge stick over the deeper smudge stick for that full eye shadow look.

   

  Long Wear Liquid Lip Set, left.  "Light Up the Night" Holiday 2012 Lip Glaze Set, right.

 Sarah Lucero says the "Light Up the Night" Holiday 2012 Lip Glaze Set contains all new colors.  Sarah describes the Long Wear Liquid Lip Set's texture as luxurious, glossy and satin, plus the colors are more opaque, basically they're liquid lipsticks.  The texture is wearable, comfortable but modern.  What she calls "velvety."  The colors are: Caprice (hot pink), Petal (pale pink),  Coral (peach pink), and Muse (natural mauve).

 

 For an extra luxurious gift, here's the Holiday 2012 Brush Set, a collection of five essential best-selling brushes for only $28.

Sarah likes the Seeing Stars Smudge Stick and Long Wear Liquid Lip Sets and the Holiday 2012 Brush Set because they're time-savers, space-savers, and money-savers.  Especially with the Long Wear Liquid Lip Set, she suggested you can break it up into 2 liquid lipsticks to give to two people or give each one individually to four people as a stocking stuffer.

For the guy panicking right now what to buy for his love, he can't go wrong with Stila's "Light Up the Night" Holiday 2012 Collection.