I'll attempt to keep this brief as I'm battling a headache from most likely napping too much. Boo. Who knew too much of a good thing would be a bad thing.

Regardless, this is my first actual Stila haul and I kept myself quite tame because I have hauled a fair bit this month and will share about those soon. It's like the haul-monster in me has been surpressed for a good while and is all of a sudden unleashed. Only not so dramatic...

My humble venture into Stila would be these two items!

In my earlier Stila entry (about the makeover at Sephora), I mentioned how we were captivated by the beauty of the Jewel Eyeshadows so of course I came home with one.

The quest was really about choosing one, just one, shade that I really wanted. I was hung up on the bronze-y shade initially (Citrine) but was detered to a lighter tone - Rose Quartz.

The product appears to be a mauvey rose-pink in the pan but depending on your usage, you can dab it on lightly for a subtle highlight (like I did in this LOTD) or pile it on for full color intensity.

I will post a swatch at the end but first, the next item! This is a finger pointing purchase and I 'blame' Mag for it. Though I mean blame in the most affectionate manner :)

I didn't have these Lip & Cheek Stains in my radar till Mag swatched the Pomegranate shade and I was quite swayed with it. Chantana also had it on (from the makeover) and even after wiping her lips, the pink tint of Yumberry was still apparent.

To date I don't think I own any proper lip staining product, not a long-wear one but a staining one, so now's a good time to pick it up!

The Crush stains (shortened name) come with a brush applicator and you click to dispense the product, much like their Lipglazes.

I think I clicked about a hundred times before I saw some product seeping up the bristles.

I picked Acai Crush, probably the reddest of the lot, because I was drawn to how intense and vivid the color was. I did veer towards the nude-ish beige shade as well (Mango Crush I think?) but wasn't exceptionally drawn to how it swatched.

It looks like a delicious blood red but when swatched (on my skin) it stains a pinkish tone. I'm assuming it could lean more red on the lips, due to the pigmentation we have there but I haven't tried it out to see.

Here's a swatch of everything, the Crush stain and Jewel Eyeshadow!

The Jewel Eyeshadow in Rose Quartz is such a lovely dispersion of glitter with a dusty rose base! I think this and Opal are good ones to look into for neutral fanatics. Blue Sapphire is another lovely silver-blue shade I can't seem to get out of my mind.

After snapping the swatches, I tried wiping them off and of course, the stain refused to budge.

(ignore that random liner)

I actually swatched all these before the Hen Night and I scrubbed with all my might but had to attend the Hen Night with 2 pink blotches (partially muted by then, thankfully) on the back of my hand...

I will give the Crush stain a go and report on how staining it actually is, and of course share lip swatches!

For long time users of Stila, what's your favorite item(s)? Or maybe it's best I not know...

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Thanks for reading!

Alas, I'm rolling out the winners for the Lancôme Giveaway where you 'doll' yourself up, via an app, to take part!

Thank you everyone for taking time out to doll-ify yourself and I hope you had fun with the process! I can't give a prize to everyone so... with random.org I generated the winning 3 numbers. p.s. I only counted the entries where I was able to see the finished doll.

*drum roll*

What do these numbers mean? Well... maybe the dolls may be familiar to the winners!

Congratulations to icefrost, Shi Li and eevon respectively!

I will be sending out an email shortly on how you will be able to collect your prize!

In the mean time... I kinda did the boyfriend up as a doll. Or rather I used his image with the app to see what the final outcome would be. I do disclaim that it's not entirely my doing! Boyfriend randomly remarked that the app was cool and that he "wanted to try" so... here it is!

I didn't screenshot the whole doll because it's a dress but here's the face!

I think it sort of resembles him, minus the feminine face shape and flush. The glasses aren't photoshopped in either and were included after much (very very much) tweaking.

Here's how the shapes and all look like, overlapping all over the face.

If you didn't see this chaos it would look fairly normal aye?

But anyway, that's that! Congrats again to the winners and thank you everyone else who have taken part, help spread the word and all!

Thanks for looking!