Tarte's 24/7 Natural Lip Sheers in 3 New Shades.

One must not forget to wear an SPF on the lips (as well as all over!). Not only are lips very delicate, they are common place for skin cancer. Being that May is Melanoma Awareness Month, Tarte Cosmetics just launched three new shades in their best selling 24/7 Natural Lip Sheer line up.


Each 24/7 Lip Sheer contains a hint of color with an SPF of 15. The formula is quite moisturizing and looks beautiful on bare lips or even used as a base for gloss.

The new shades:

Dawn - a shimmering golden nude

Twilight -a shimmering peach nude

Sunday -a shimmering deep pink

These new beauties join the rest of the six shades and are available right now at tarte.com, Sephora, beauty.com for $16 each.

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.

A Fresh & Flawless Face with Tarte.

My sister called me in a panic last weekend. "I am out of foundation". Well, she knew who to call. She soon came over to go through a few of my makeup drawers, in which one is full of foundation. She wanted a liquid foundation as she felt her skin was becoming overly dry with her normal summertime mineral powders. So, liquid it was.

Finding the perfect finish and the perfect shade when I am sent varying shades of color, is not as easy as it sounds. First, we needed to find a suitable shade. We did the trick of going to a large window with lot's of natural light and swatch many foundations on her jaw line. A few of the shades disappeared into her skin, and that is how I know we hit pay dirt in the shade area. Now, we needed to remove all of the swatches and we started applying two foundations at a time, one to the left side and one to the right side of her face. We only had four foundations, so it did not take that long. One foundation stood out in a big way, and when we decided on it and applied it to her entier face, we were both in awe.

What was this foundation? The one giving off the most beautiful, semi-matte yet luminous finish? Making Cindi's face appear ten years younger than it is?

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