So I was surfing the web and I found something really cool that I had to share with all of you! Around this time of year, everyone’s house somehow is full of pumpkins. You’ve got your jack-o-lanterns for Halloween, and for some reason it’s festive for Thanksgiving to have pumpkins decorating the table and scattered all around the house. But what the heck do you do with all of them when the holiday is over? Well girls, I have discovered a solution!

Since pumpkins are a fruit (because they have seeds), they have awesome ingredients that make them great for your skin including beta-carotene, vitamin c, and antioxidants. L.A. celeb skin expert, Narine Nikogosian has written a new book Return to Beauty: Old-World Recipes for Great Radiant Skin that includes a lot of skin-soothing recipes using pumpkin. Here is one of them:

Pumpkin Eye Mask

Good for: Anyone

Ingredients: 1 pumpkin slice, 1 teaspoon honey

Preparation: Peel and seed a slice of pumpkin. Cook it in 2 cups of water until soft, then mash it and add 1 teaspoon of honey.

Application: Put the mixture inside clean gauze, then place over your eyes and relax for 20 minutes.

Pick the book up a copy of the book to get more great pumpkin-themed recipes, and gives thanks to these big orange fruits for all that they do.

superstar stila intern lauren schlessinger with a fall trend report:

fall is here and just when you thought it was all about neutral fall colors, classic red lipstick shows up everywhere! it was seen all over the runways of the 2010 spring fashion week in paris, and although they say paris is always ahead of us in trends, it looks like we’re riding right alongside them this time.

it’s all about that ruby red look, and contrary to popular belief, everyone can pull off red lipstick, it just has to have the right undertone for your skin.

how to determine your undertone:

in a natural light, hold a white piece of paper behind your wrist and if your skin looks golden or orange you have a warm undertone. if your skin looks pink or blue then you have a cool undertone.

when looking for a red lipstick, you have to find one with the same undertone as you. test shades on the inside of your wrist and pick the one that looks the nicest. then, voila, you are sporting that classic red lip look!

these stila star products will give you your perfect red:

lip color in dominique ($10 – a $17 value)
SPF 20 shine lip color in pam ($22)
convertible color in poppy ($25)

what do you use to create your perfect red?

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sarah lucero and her team of pro artists introduced the barbie loves stila collection at ulta northgate in seattle last weekend. over 120 clients came out to learn tips and tricks from stila's pro team.

thank you to all the stila girls that came out to get their "glam" on. we were so happy to meet each and everyone of you!

hollywood report from our fab stila intern, karen lim:

last week, i was privileged to go to katsuya’s 2 year anniversary party hosted by SBE! if you all aren’t familiar with katsuya, get familiar. located right smack in the middle of hollywood, this contemporary restaurant serves exquisite traditional japanese dishes that will knock you off your feet – the crispy spicy tuna roll is to DIE for!

i had the opportunity to share a few words with the manager there and guess what she was raving about? stila of course! she was telling me about how she absolutely adores our products and uses them everyday! yay!

here we are celebrating it stila style!

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lynn tilton (ceo of patriarch partners, stila owner and ultimate stila girl) was recently on fox business talking about how she came up for the concept for the revolutionary new stila makeup player.  love it! watch now...

http://bit.ly/2idIWb

check out our new stila girl of the week - johana from michigan! not only does johana receive $100 in stila bucks plus instant fame - now every stila girl gets a value set of favorite products created in her honor - and available to you for one week only!

check out johana's stila girl of the week set featuring four fab faves for only $29 (a $66.50 value):

 this exclusive set includes:
- lip glaze – starfruit
- major lash mascara – black
- long wear lip color - coquette
- eye shadow pan - chinois

find out how you can be the next stila girl of the week and win $100 in stila bucks now!

are you going to be in NYC this weekend? swing by the jenni kayne pop-up store in soho and get a stila makeover and free gift! get more details and rsvp HERE

the stila makeup player debuted on the today show...TODAY! so exciting! missed it?
watch here:

pro tips from NYC stila star dom briguglio...

two multi-taskers - sheer color tinted moisturizer & perfecting concealer - give you a glowing, flawless complexion:

"for the day apply the tinted moisturizer for sheer coverage, spf 15 and moisture then apply the perfecting concealer where needed.

for the night just squeeze a little tinted moisturizer on your hand then squeeze a dab of perfecting concealer into it. mix the two together and you now have a full coverage foundation to give you that polished look for a night out on the town. no need for a second foundation formula."

our first entry. what to say! so much good, exciting stuff going on in the stila world and so much coming! as everyone probably knows, we have an amazing new owner - super star stila girl - lynn tilton, ceo of patriarch partners. she is seated below - under the stila 'i.' learn more about lynn on her blog here: http://patriarchpartners.com/dust2diamonds/



we are hoping this blog will become your go-to place for all things stila and all things cool. we will feature lots of stila stars and they will be talking makeup, non-makeup...the possibilities are endless!

and, of course, we want YOU to tell US what you want to know, see, etc. so, leave a comment and let us know!