How to Get a Fresh Beauty Look for the Holidays.
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The Smashbox WISH Holiday Collection 2009.
/Grant a colorful wish this holiday season with these WISH sets of beauty from Smashbox Cosmetics. The collection is a charitable one that allows you to grant wishes while looking gorgeous. You see, for each purchase from this years WISH collection, Smashbox will donate $1 to the Children's Miracle Network. This is such a beautiful way to give back and celebrate the true meaning of the season.
The WISH Holiday Collection:
WISH For The Stars - $20.00
This set is full of Smashbox's superstar products, all in convenient travel sizes. Each glam item fits perfectly in a holiday clutch or carry-on tote.
- Lash DNA Mascara in Jet Black
- Lip Enhancing Gloss in Illume
- Fusion Soft Lights in Dusk
WISH For The Perfect Pout - $29.00
This is a gorgeous set of glosses in Smashbox's best selling shades along with exclusive holiday colors. It also includes 2 full size lip glosses for the first time ever in a set.
- Pout (baby doll pink)
- Luster (sheer golden pink)
- Tease (juicy raspberry)
- Candy (cotton candy pink)
- Aura (shimmering pink nude)
- Radiant (shimmering pink plum)
WISH For A Flawless Complexion - $39.00
This set contains the famed Photo Finish Primer in both full and travel sizes, allowing you to create your flawless face, anytime and anywhere.
WISH For The Perfect Tools - $49.00
This set features five travel sized brushes including four designed exclusively for this kit. All of the brushes are housed in a shimmering on-the-go travel case to help protect and care for your brushes.
- Angled Blush Brush
- Blending Brush
- Crease Brush
- Shadow Liner Brush
- Angled Precision Liner Brush
Eye WISH - $44.00
This mega eye palette creates and endless array of party-perfect eye looks. Each set inclused a Get-the-Look insert with easy to follow instructions on getting the prettiest holiday looks.
This set contains:
- Mini Photo Finish Lid Primer
- 12 Eyeshadows
- 4 Cream Eye Liners
WISH For The Perfect Pencils - $32.00
This set contains five of Smashbox's long-wearing eye pencils in stunning shades.
- Celebrate (Silver)
- Wish (Peacock)
- Dream (Black)
- Hope (Purple)
- Love (Bronze)
These limited edition sets are available now at Smashbox.com, Sephora, Nordstrom, Beauty.com and select Macy's.
Tarte Cosmetics Holiday 2009.
/From great gifts for yourself and some to give, Tarte has you covered in gorgeous colors filled with natural goodness. Ingenious, Tarte even has some sets for you to break up - so while you gift one to someone else, you can gift (keep) one to yourself.
Treasure Chest - $52.00
This best seller is bigger and better and back, exclusive to Sephora this season. Packed with 32 new and full-sized eyeshadows, 16 new lipglosses, the best-selling Park Ave Princess mineral powder bronzer, a new shimmering highlighter, and four new powder blushes, this bejeweled palette is sure to be at the top of everyone's gift list. It is on mine.
Three Carats Mini Cheek Stain Set - $25.00
A limited-edition set of three best-selling and award-winning t5 infused mini cheek stains. The cases are gorgeous as they are all blinged-out with their brand new, shimmering shades, created just for this holiday season!
Deluxe Brush Set - $50.00
This essential brush set includes tarte's smudger brush; brush with greatness: a double-ended eyeshadow brush with shorter handle for easier application; double-duty eyeliner brush; lash and mascara comb, and large powder brush.
Crown Jewels Lipgloss Multi-Gift Set - $39.00
Three gifts in one! The ultimate in one-stop shopping, this lipgloss set can be given as one deluxe gift, broken apart for three individual gifts or better yet, two gifts to give and one to keep! Each individual gift set includes 5 glosses.
Glittering Green Goddesses
Sheer nude-peach, sheer beige, sheer sweet pink, sheer cotton candy pink, sheer shimmering cinnamon
Dazzling Divas
Dazzling warm sand, dazzling gold, dazzling orchid, dazzling violet, dazzling coral-pink
Twinkling Trendsetters
Twinkling strawberry, twinkling melon-pink, twinkling fuschia, twinkling brick-red, sheer raspberry
Shop all of these limited edition beauties now at Tarte Cosmetics as well as Sephora.
