Holiday 2010 Beauty Trend: A Palette Affair (plus a great GIVEAWAY)
It’s official: this is the season of the palette. We’ve seen red lips, sparkling eyes and now, the beauty of structured palettes that ooze the elegance of a Dita Von Teese performance yet have the structure and clean lines of a work by Frank Lloyd Wright.
The uses of the palette are versatile: put one in your stylish bag; gift one as a stocking stuffer; pack several in beautifully printed wrapping paper and leave them in glistening piles under a tree. Convenient yet stylish and the perfect size for that new hand bag Santa may leave under your tree. Remember that these are limited edition, so take advantage while you can!
Shiseido is introducing its first makeup palette for the face just in time for the holiday season. Created by Artistic Director Dick Page, this simple yet elegant palette includes seven shades for lips, eyes and cheeks. The Limited Edition palette, Essential Elegance, provides the right shades to take you from casual wear to stunning evening wear. According to Page, “Perfect Beauty is now created with one makeup palette.” Available November 2010 ( www.sca.shiseido.com) $50.
You can now travel in style with Dior’s red patent deluxe travel palette. This palette includes a mini Diorshow Extase Mascara, a mini pink Ultra-Gloss, a medium pressed powder, a blush and six eyeshadows.Available October 2010 (Saks, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, Sephora) $75.
Dior also has created a chic travel lip palette which is a perfect accessory for those holiday parties. This palette features burgundy and berry shades and a light pink gloss. These colors make it easy to go from day to night. Available October 2010 (www.nordstrom.com) $44.
I am personally completely in love with the Dior Minaudiere. Details include a vintage kiss clasp, a gold plaque engraved with the Dior logo, and a black patent leather finish embossed in the iconic Dior houndstooth pattern. Christian Dior says, “Black is the most elegant and surprising color, mixed with gold, it brings life to the most outrageous creations.” This palette is available in two color harmonies; grey or pink tones. This is one palette I hope to see in my own stocking this year. Available October 2010 (Grey Golds, www.saks.com Pink Golds at all Dior counters) $80.
In celebration of their 15 years of bringing us modern yet classic beauty, NARS has created three Holiday palettes for 2010 including Day and Night, Wild at Heart and Everlasting Love. From bold and sultry to elegant and sophisticated, these palettes embody the beauty NARS has given us over the years.
Day and Night Palette (www.narscosmetics.com) $50.
Everlasting Love Palette (www.narscosmetics.com) $75
Wild at Heart Palette (www.narscosmetics.com) $75.
Fantasy and luxury were the inspiration for Estee Lauder’s holiday collection created by Tom Pecheux, Creative Makeup Director. The limited edition, Pure Color Extravagant includes golds and deep reds for an “extravagant indulgence” preparing us all for the festivities of the holiday season. What I really love about this collection is the beautiful gold packaging which is unique yet stylish and oh so fitting for the holidays. Available October 2010 (www.esteelauder.com). Palette is $42.
Inspired by Manhattan’s legendary Stork Club, a favorite spot of iconic beauties like Grace Kelly and Lena Horne, Bobbi Brown has introduced a Holiday Collection of Classic yet Modern eye and lip palettes. This ultimate Holiday Collection fit for the Classic Beauty in your life, provides shades that will create lovely soft colors to dramatic yet glamarous colors preparing your special lady for her own silver screen.
Day to Night-Warm. Available October 2010 (www.bobbibrown.com) $45
Day to Night-Cool. Available October 2010 (www.bobbibrown.com) $45
Pink and Gold Lip Palette. Available October 2010 (www.bobbibrown.com) $45
Modern Classic Lip and Eye Palette. Available October 2010 (www.bobbibrown.com)
Sparkle Glamour Quad. Available October 2010 (www.bobbibrown.com)
Clinique’s Strawberry Fudge Collection for 2010 was inspired by the Clinique favorite, Colour Surge Eye Shadow Duos. This Holiday treat for the eyes and cheeks comes in a beautifully designed compact. Available November 2010 (www.clinique.com) $36
For those eco-conscious loves of your life, Origins has the perfect stocking stuffer. Good to Glow includes everything needed for gorgeous eyes and lips. Packaged in an eco-friendly cosmetics case, Good to Glow includes eye cream, mascara and lip color (www.origins.com) $29.50.
Whether you’ve been naughty or nice in 2010, Santa will be able to find a little shimmer and luxury for your stocking this year, but only for a limited time.
AND THE WINNER IS (chosen by random number generator):
Savannah
Savannah – please email us at Info@beautystat.com and give us your mailing address details so that we can ship the Dior palette to you.
In honor of all our amazing BeautyStat.com fans and readers, we are giving away ONE DIOR MINAUDIERE (yes, you can all gasp now) to one lucky winner. Just enter a comment below to let us know why you should win one. Winners will be picked within a week.
- Amelia Keith, author and editor of PrettyintheQueenCity.com
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OMG! So many pretty palettes!! Guess I better start saving my $$ now!
I think I should win the fab Dior Minaudiere for this reason: my wallet says it would like a little break from the beauty shopping sprees. Please consider me, for my wallet’s sake.
Love the fall colors. I’m going to try them out as soon as I can
Have never tried any of these products. Excited to review them if I can!!
I don’t own any high-end makeup or a palette of any brand. I’ve been going through my 2nd round of chemotherapy for stage 3 breast cancer. Putting makeup on everyday makes me feel better in that it makes me feel “normal”. Chemo does a number on your hair,skin & nails…just once I ‘d like to put something luxurious on my face.
Thanks <3
I love love love these palettes!
Sooo many pretty pallettes to choose from – this holiday season will be very pretty for me and all my girlfriends !!
FIngers crossed that I win – J’Adore Dior !!
Love these products and would certainly like to win some!
I should win because I love everything Dior!!!!
I think I should be one of the winners because I love makeup. Makeup to me is something that enhances your looks. Makeup can get your creative juices going. You can create a whole bunch of looks from neutral to glittery. With this palette you can create a whole bunch of looks. But winning this palette would be great cause I can’t really afford high end makeup I do the best I can with drug store makeup also Dior is the best of the best.
I would love to win this because i love to have palettes because they are easy to travel and i go out of town alot.
I so desperately need a makeover, or at the minimum a makeup update. I’d love to win it.
I should win a palette because every woman’s beauty deserves a chance to shine, and I’d love to shine during the Holiday season with these colors!
I would be enthralled and and absolutely honored to win the Dior Minaudiere! The pallete is so timeless and classic and I’m just jubilant that its tucked in away in such a sexy black clutch! A woman must never reveal her secrets, and Dior certainly assists by disguising this pallete for a late night touch up to keep the mood intense and the fabulously fashionable woman vivacious! “The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.”-Christian Dior
Feel good Ter–do you know about the Look Good Feel Better program? Many cosmetic companies donate cosmetics and skin care for women going through chemo/radiation. It is a wonderful program.
I would love to win this. I am always up to trying new colors/companies as the seasons change.
I think I should win because I have never owned anything this Fabulous! I love the smokey eye look!
Thank you for this giveaway!
Love anything Dior! ANYTHING!!!!
OMG!! OMG!!! OMG!!!! I want Want WAnt WANt WANT THIS!!!!!!!!!
ONE OF EACH, PLEASE!!!!
Wow! Great giveaway! I’d LOVE to win the dior palette! I think I should win just because I’ve never owned anything Dior…
I absolutely LOVE these colors and brands and i would love to win them because i am a makeup fanatic and have never won anything in my life! But it dont keep me from trying anyways!!!
I should win because I looove this palette and Im a makeup addict! I especially love creating dramatic eyes and really emphasising my eyes
They are all so beautiful!! It would be great if I was lucky enough to win one of them! I am a single mom
To a handsome nine month old little boy and there is never room in the wallet for luxury on myself…
Oh my gracious! How gorgeous! I so need to win this! My 2 girls would totally love to share this with me:-))
I would absolutely love to win this palette! I love trying new makeup products and reviewing them – thanks for the chance to win such a chic and elegant prize!
My husband just caught me staring at these palettes while saying out loud:
Ah, that’s pretty!
Gorgeous! Enough said…
I Shold Win Because Im Going Through A Tough Time With Being Unemployed, We Barely Have A Source Of Income Because Of The Economy. Even If I Had A Job I Wouldnt Ever Be able To Afford Designer Makeup. It Would Mean Alot To Me If I Won This.
LOVE ALL THE NEW COLORS…. it would be hard to choose!!! Debby
……….so many pretty colors!!!!
I just can’t wait to play with a few of these holiday colors. Winning would be fabulous!!!!!
This is the most beautiful & iconic palette to come along in a long, long time—so classy and elegant! I would love to win one, especially since I don’t have access to this in my little town.
Wow amazing shades! I don’t have any Dior eye shadows right now. It would be so much for fun to get to try the new holiday colors. Good luck to who ever gets to win it.. Going to have start saving my $$ to treat myself to one of these goodies seen today.
oh these are just beautiful! I’d love to have them for the holidays & I will sparkle!Winning would be fabulous!
LIKED & SHARED!!
i wanna win cause i have a feeling that this palette was made in Dior heaven for me
I would like any one of these palettes!
I am loving the purse- like Dior!
It would be just like Christmas…early!!! (and I get just like a kid in a candy shop!)
wowww so many pretty colors . I Have never tried any of these products.
I Love anything Dior! ANYTHING
Um, I should win because I want it the mostest?
(works for my son, thought I’d try it out!)
Thank you!
tattgiff at centurytel dot net
You should pick me !! because well firstly I don’t own anything Dior because I’m a student and can’t afford it
secondly the colors are so lovely I can mix and match them with almost all my outfits.
thirdly the travel kit has all the necessary things required like eyeshadows, mascara, pressed powder, blush & gloss. 5 essential things which i use dailyy !!! so I don’t need to carry extra stuff
fourthly the size is soo small and convenient that I can take it out with me & use it while driving too especially to university, since in the morning I usually don’t get enough time to do makeup so this would be just the best thing to use
I would love to win a beauty kit because I love make-up.
I would love to win this because I would love to have a wonderful treat for my upcoming birthday. Thanks!
I am already hunting for christmas gifts for my girls. My oldest daughter is obsessed with Dior makeup. Currently looking for work, so enough said! This would be the Perfect Christmas gift for her!
Love Dior. Love to win:)
Makeup artistry is one of my favorite creative outlets. I am always so amazed at the things I can do with color, texture, light…the face is my favorite canvas! Yesterday, I had a biopsy done on a very suspicious spot–on my face. It hurts to even look at my brushes. I believe that should I be awarded this gift from you, it would be encouraging to me to pick up my beloved color once more, despite the lurking anxiety about what the tests might say. Help me overcome this fear of what I love so much, Beautystat! Thank you for listening.
I have to say just looking at the beauty kits made me smile, I love makeup!! My Mom is critically ill in ICU so thanks for making me smile.
i love them all!!!!!! and ter, the breast cancer survivor if you havent already please contact your local chapter of the american cancer society they do a program called look good feel better it comes with wonderful designer makeup and a class on how to use it as well as wigs and scarves its free for you and a great way for you to get some great makeup and tips and also to make you feel better….good luck with your treatment!
Loving the CD & Bobbi Brown Palettes. Plz consider me the winner. I could really use some high end beauty products 2 jazz up the already gorgeous ME…LOL
I would love to win this because, as a college student, it’s hard to find high-quality makeup that I can afford. I’ll be graduating in December, and this palette would be an easy and compact way to achieve a put-together face for job interviews!
I would love to win this because it’s on my friend’s wish list and it would be such a nice surprise for all her help this year!
I have had to place indulgent beauty purchases on hold for a bit in order to save money for proper Christmas gifts but this would make a great treat to share with my sister. Thank you kindly for the chance!
PrettyintheQueenCity, where evah have you been awl my Internet life? Do you always have fabby giveaways like this?
I’ m soooooo glad I found your site and hope to get lucky with this sweet Dior!!!!
I would love to win the DIOR MINAUDIERE because I love experimenting with eye shadows and this would do the trick!
Oh Em Gee I think I should win because I’d truly truly TRULY appreciate it and the fact that I have never ever tried a high end product because I can’t afford it! Every time I try and save money to treat myself something ALWAYS come up and I have a “fml” moment!
My palette is a few years old and it’s definitely time for a change and upgrade. Love the look of the Dior Minaudiere. Perfect shades for me, too!
i love make-up and just trying new combinations and looks out….i can put on an outfit that isn’t as wow but with some great make-up and great techniques it can bring someone’s look up 10x!
I want the “Pink and Gold Lip Palette”. Available October 2010 (www.bobbibrown.com) $45; Wild at Heart Palette (www.narscosmetics.com) $75; Day to Night-Warm. Available October 2010 (www.bobbibrown.com) $45; and Sparkle Glamour Quad. Available October 2010 (www.bobbibrown.com). I love the colors for the Fall/Winter seasons, holiday paerties….here I come!!
Tis the season for Dior!
The colors are really pretty! I am going through a tough time right now me and my children are having to stay with friends and family because i am out of work and can’t afford our own place. i t would really be nice to win something this beautiful!!
I wont say I should win, but I’d give anything to win. why? because I need it so badly.I used to spend tons of money on beauty products.then I lost my job,ive had to pawn my engagement ring and wedding band after 21 years to pay the electric for my famiy.I havent had any new makeup in 3 years,and I need to look nice to find a new job.This is so beautiful,and sure would help.my birthday is Nov 11, Im turning 50 and need all the help and luck I can hope for.Please pick me?
thank you beauty Stat.
vikki
Love the Dior! I should win because ….I’m a great Mom and a great student and a fantastic cook, and because winning this Dior would light up my day!
Gasp gasp double gasp.
Please count me in!
katch05 at gmail dot com
Such a very generous giveaway!
My friends hasn’t seen me for like 5 months already! This will be perfect for my comeback this November! ^_^
I could use a makeover!!!!!
I’d love to win one because the palette is gorgeous both the packaging AND the colors inside and i think the colors would be great with my skintone! Thanks so much!!
ooohhh!! Love this beautiful palette!! Colors are gorgeous as is the lovely packaging!!
WANT THAT DIOR PALETTE.
It’s a fun palette to create festive looks. Everyone wants to look pretty for the holiday
I should win because it’s so stunning that I’d be thrilled to own something this gorgeous!
they are so pretty I would hate to use them – But I would!
Awesome giveaways!I love makeup!!!Would love to win and try it.
Thank you!
I’d love to win this to wear at a relative’s destination wedding in December. I’ll be getting ready with the other bridesmaids and would be very happy to pull out this beautiful compact!. I’d bring extra brushes because they’d probably want to try it too
J’dore dior eyeshadows!!!!!! so does my 1-year-old daughter wen she gets into my makeup bag
I would love to win the Dior palette to give my mother this Christmas! I’m unemployed and can’t afford to gift her something so gorgeous (and expensive, lol!), and she looooooooves makeup palettes!
I would love to win this to have something to perk myself up. I have lost my job in the education field as there was not enough money in the budget to keep my position, and I was the one with least seniority. I have been trying to find work and am battling depression because of my lack of work. I can not spend money on myself since I need to save it, and I would love to have some new makeup to look nice for the holidays and to look nice on any job interviews.
Aloha: I’d love to have the Dior Minaudiere to look great for the holidays. I’ve been out of work for 3 weeks, and applying for jobs, so this would help me look my best for the interviews I’m hoping to be called for! Mahalo.
Ooo pick me! Pick me!
I don’t own anything by Dior, so help this fashionista with a budget’s dream come true
Dior was always this kind of brand that I could not easily afford. I would love to get this product and be swept away from my feet:).
I have never had the chance to experience makeup luxury like this. I would love to have that chance, so pick me (smile).
1prizewinner(at)gmail(dot)com
I should win because I would pass it on to my hardworking Momma. She never spends money on herself, but she definitely deserves the best. Plus, she would totally freak because she’s never had anything so luxe. Me either for that matter!
Fingers crossed pretty hard.
XOXO
WOW…I have never won anything and any of these amazing palettes would be a Winner for sure.
I would be in heaven winning any of them because I Love makeup and I love putting it on not just on me but making up other people too.
I would love to win the Dior pallette because although I had a recent birthday, this would be such a special treat to me!!
I’d love to find this in my Christmas stocking. Palettes are great for convenience.
I would have the most glamorous holidays ever with a Dior Minauderie in my bag!
As a stay at home mother of two little ones, I don’t have a personal income & my husband is not very fond of makeup. Especially spending his hard earned money on it. (what husband is, right?! Lol!) Therefore, it’s not very often that I’m able to purchase makeup for myself. Definitely nothing as exquisite as this Dior palette, unless it was a gift. I love the look of gray shadows. I’ve yet to ever wear them, but I feel they’d look great with my grayish green eyes. It would be a wonderful blessing to win. Thank you so much for this fabulous opportunity! I wish everyone the best of luck! Happy Halloween!
I love the elegance of the sets! I’ve never had an eyeshadow palette before – but I think it would give me incentive to clear out my makeup bag and start wearing more quality makeup! Love it! I am due with my second baby in January, and an eyeshadow would be a fabulous pick-me-up as my life will soon be running after two little ones instead of just one.
i should win the palette because i never owned anything Dior except perfume. I adore J’Adore and Miss Dior Cherie, so I am sure i will love Dior’s makeup too
I have would love to try this palette. Dior is out of my budget but would love to get this one.
Because I will be beautiful wearing these gorgeous colors! Thanks!
How many times shall or can I enter?!
I adore Dior &would love to win this beautiful palette!
I love the Dior Compact! although they all are pretty nice! I wonder if its refillable (total bonus if it is) or maybe it could be used to hold id/credit cards once makeup is gone if not refillable. I’d love one because its a totally classic and elegant piece that its meant to be showed off and loved!
Can we say “to die for” in my BEST Rachel Zoe voice! lol Gorgeous colors that i should be rockin !!! *****raises hand and dances in her seat as if she was back in highschool “oooo pick me , pick me ****
As an aspiring Fashion Student @ FIT, (Fashion Institute of Technology, in NYC) as well as Self-Made Accessory Designer looking to score a position with high-end luxury retailer or fashion publication this giveaway would afford me at least one GREAT FALL staple item to complete my Fall 2010 Wardrobe (not to mention match my black bomber jacket & riding pants)! As a student one of my greatest lessons was to NETWORK, OPEN MY MOUTH, Fill my NEED TO ACT AS IF, or DRESS THE PART, in doing what it takes to walk away successful in a look-driven industry. With this eccentric yet classic piece I can walk into interviews like I already ACED them! Feeling, dressing and looking confident are KEY in my industry. This rare collectible prize would allow me the “look for less”,(FREE!!!) & what more could a struggling-student/full-time fashionista ask for?!?! My entry is my chance to MAKE it HAPPEN; To do WHATEVER IT TAKES to carry top-notch designer cosmetics in rich earth tones inside an exclusive compact that exhibits polished hardware and superior quality as well as everlasting durability taking me from Fall 2010 into the future of FASHION! “The only thing constant in fashion is CHANGE” I find Dior a muse for my own vintage inspired accessories, combining avant garde designs and eclectic oddities (all shapes, silhouettes and colors) w/ clean lines and impeccable craftsmanship: ENOUGH TO MAKE ANY FASHION GURU or ON-LOOKER SWOON AND DROOL!
This would make my day if I won this giveaway! So beautiful and so needed at this time of year!
I need some new fall shades to spark up my trip to Las Vegas and get into the fall feeling.
I should win because I love to experiment with new brands and colors, but could never afford Dior. Thanks for the opportunity!
Cynthia.Richardson@azbar.org
I have no extra money to spend on makeup right now. I’d love to win this
great look palettes I would love to win this because I have never tried Dior and this would be a great way to try it:)
I think I should win the palette so that I can put it into the pack of christmas presents to give to my mum, as she’s had quite a hard year and we want to treat the best mum in the world
I would like to win the palette because I have a friend who just moved to my town and she, while just moving away from home, found out her mother has cancer and needs a blood transfusion. She is spending all of her money on airfare to go home and barely has any money for a treat for herself. I would love to give this to her so that she can have something nice, and to tell her how much I appreciate her.
hmmm I should win because my christmas list is already much to long and my husband refuses to buy me another beauty palette. Can you believe him, I must have this one so please pick poor me…
These palettes are just beautiful! Shiseido always has lovely, high quality makeup. I’ve applied it on others, but have never had the pleasure of owning any. Dior is such a luxurious product. I love the silkiness and blendability of the shadows. I hope to gift myself the Minaudiere palette for my birthday!
I’m a fan of Nars because he has a beautiful selection of high quality color product that doesn’t exclude any skin tones! The shadows can be a bit tricky to blend but for the amazing color and long-wear, its completely worth it! I’m dying to own some YSL, but it still eludes me! The Bobbi Brown palettes are very “smart.” The color selection is right on target because its so wearable, but the colors are still exciting! I’d love to own some of it!
Most women can be so hard on themselves when it comes to our looks, me included, but I love my eyes and I live to decorate them !
I love dior and its makeup but can never afford it.. i would love love love to win!
I would love to win because I love Dior products, but I can’t always afford to buy them.
I definitely LOVE the Day to Night-Warm palette from Bobbi Brown. The colors are beautiful and I know those colors would look great on my skin because I am a dark complected woman. Definitely keeping my fingers crossed on winning !
Well, aside from the fact that I could never afford to buy this for myself but would absolutely love to have it, I guess I would just say that I’ve had a really hard year this year and it would be great to have something like this to make me smile and perk up my year.
Love you guys! 
It’s my birthday next month, this would be a great birthday present to me!
Thanks for the fun giveaway!
I would love to win this because I just had a birthday in October and this would be a fabulous, belated present!!
So how many times can we enter!!?