The eyeshadow palette of my dreams?

When I saw this eyeshadow palette on Vex in the City, I thought that my heart skipped a beat. You have no idea for how long I have been longing to find a neutral everyday eyeshadow palette containing only matte shadows, and 'in the know' from Stila might finally be the answer to my prayers. Please don't remind me of the pigmentation fiasco of the Sleek 'au naturel' palette whose bottom row might as well had been left blank as the shadows on that row were struggling to show on skin. The legendary Urban Decay naked palette, its amazing dupe by MUA and even 'In the light' from Stila contained decent matte shadows but they were lost in a sea of shimmers.







What's wrong with shimmery shadows? Shimmery shadows are beautiful, and they usually blend more easily than matte shadows but I have got a hooded eye shape. Hooded eye shaped gals can use whatever eyeshadow finish they wish but when you have a hooded eye it's considered best to use matte makeup on and above the crease area. Put shimmer on the hooded part of your eye and it will highlight it and make it more prominent. So I'd rather keep my shimmery eyeshadow for the part of my eye which is just above the lash line and use a matte everywhere else.


According to Yinka, 'In the know' will be released from 2 August, for £25 in selected Boot stores (definitely not my local store *sobs*) and Selfridges but I am hoping the bloggosphere will be able to share some swatches before then.


How Stila designed it:

Stila's original matte shades are back in this beautiful collection of eye shadows in universally flattering shades. The In the Know eye shadow palette contains 10 matte shades of Stila's award-winning eye shadows that flatter every skin tone and can be worn wet or dry. The palette also includes an exclusive Smudge Stick Waterproof Eye Liner in Halfmoon, a matte charcoal grey shade, plus an eight-page look book with detailed application tips and tricks.

and a description of the shades:

• air - matte beige
• driftwood - mid tone brown
• wind - soft matte peach
• fire - matte brick
• desert - soft matte tan w/warm undertones
• rain -matte brown
• clay - matte warm light brown
• smoke - matte charcoal grey
• earth - deep matte chocolate brown
• ebony - matte black

I cannot wait to see swatches of this and then I'll be in a better position to make a purchase decision.


Do you know own any Stila palettes? What are they like?
I had not seen before today the 'in the moment'. It's annoyingly pretty. grr ...





credit:
Photo of  Stila 'in the light' palette was taken from Sophie from melovemakeup.com.  Montage of three palettes was made by me. Read Yinka's impressions on Stila 'in the know' palette here.

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If it's good enough for Victoria...

You may be forgiven for thinking, looking at my rough photo montage below that Stila Cosmetics may have launched a makeup line with Victoria Beckham. They haven’t. However, during her recent interview in the May 2012 issue of Harper's Bazaar, Victoria Beckham shared some of her beauty secrets and declared her love for Stila cosmetics, particularly the brighten and correct concealer and the perfecting concealer. I can't obviously check whether Victoria does indeed carry these on her handbag, but it made me very curious about the products.




 


So what makes these concealers different?

Brighten and Correct Concealer (£18)
They say: This Multi-purpose under eye brightener, illuminator and correcting concealer in s enriched with Haloxyl, to help to reduce the appearance of dark circles, Zinc which acts as an antioxidant, Magnesium to help maintain the skin’s barrier, Chlorine to maintain mineral concentrations, plus Sodium and Potassium which are key electrolytes. This concealer is swirled with two shades, one for brightening and the other to correct imperfections.    


Stila Perfecting Concealer (£15)
They say: This high performance concealer is ideal for covering blemishes, scars, redness, dark circles. It can even be used as a full coverage foundation.



To say that I have not found my holy grail foundation is an understatement and If my local Boots was big enough to store Stila products, I would have been definitely tempted to swatch the perfecting concealer and test it for coverage /cakiness. For now, I'll just have to lust for it.




Disclosure: I heard from Stila and Victoria Beckham by email and didn’t receive any incentive whatsoever to write about it. Credit: Montage on the first picture was made from stock product photos from Beautybay.com. The picture from Victoria Beckham dates from yesterday (15 April 2012) and was published on zimbio.com.

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Twitter Giveaway: The winners and Massive Mea Culpa

I could tell you that I have been incredibly busy, that I've been looking after a sick grandmother, or that my last twitter giveaway has been very popular and hard to keep track of. I won't . Truth is that I've messed up big time and it has taken all this time to draw the winners for my Stila/Eylure twitter giveaway.






So, with great shame and profuse apologies, the entries have been verified (better have been for all the time it took me) and the winners are no. 247 and no. 122






Congratulations to @TinadeWert and @Cleggy23






Thank you so so so much everyone who entered and for your patience. If you want to check your lucky number, all the entries have been recorded here. 
I am so sorry again for the massive delay :( xxx
liloo/@tsunimee

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CLOSED ::: Twitter Giveaway ::: Stila Montmartre Palette & Eylure Starlight Lashes

My, my, my, the girl can tweet. How can someone tweet more than 55,000 times? I mean, this is scary. How have I reached 55,000 tweets? I have no idea. But as usual,  to  mark my chatterboxiness, to thank you for following me on twitter, and to put up with my flood of tweets, I wanted to do a twitter giveaway. To take part, it’s easy peasy:

What to win: 2 prizes, 2 winners. I am giving away 2 prizes. Details below
Who can enter: Open to all my twitter followers , the giveaway is international
Duration: Starts Tuesday 7 December 2010 and ends Friday10 December 2010, 23.59 GMT (UK Time)
How to Enter:  Follow me on twitter (http://www.twitter.com/tsunimee)  and tweet the following message:


RT & Follow @tsunimee to win Stila Montmartre e/s Palette & Eylure Starlight Lashes #liloo55K - Info: http://bit.ly/stilite

Details about the prizes:

First, I am giving away this gorgeous eyeshadow quad palette from Stila Cosmetics, called ‘Montmartre’, featuring 3 shades of purple and 1 shade of light pink.





 


 



And a pair of gorgeous lashes from my favourite brand of eyelashes, ever, which is Eylure. These are thick black party lashes interspersed with glitter. They say:
“The finishing touch to a gorgeous outfit, Party Perfect have been designed to complement after dark fashion. From elegant dinners to cool clubs, great gigs to A-list parties- these eight exquisitely designed lashes could be the only accessory required. Evening wear lashes for beautiful eyes after dark. Reusable. Easy to apply. Glittering like the clear night sky- the light will catch this style in the loveliest way. The bias cut lashes have been adorned with subtle sparkles on a full, even base.”


 






Rules & Other Boring Information:

- Must be a follower of @tsunimee on twitter (http://www.twitter.com/tsunimee)
- You can enter as many times as you wish. Multiple entries are accepted. (Please note that twitter has introduced a rule against exact carbon copy duplicate tweets. If you want to tweet more than once, you might need to trick Twitter and an extra character or two, so feel free to a smiley in there, or add a comma, full stop/period in the tweet or something like that)
- Winners will be chosen randomly thanks to random.org, like on my previous twitter giveaway)
- This giveaway is first and foremost for my twitter followers: you can naturally comment on this blogpost, but they won’t count as entries for the twitter giveaway
- Tweets posted after to Friday10 December 23.59 GMT (UK time) won’t be counted in the giveaway
- Both prizes were purchased by me. Brand New and never been swatched or used.

Good Luck
Liloo/@Tsunimee xx

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