Preview: tarte Holiday Collection

Every year around this time I love scouring the beauty stores for holiday gift sets. I love variety in my everyday routine and holiday collections always include huge palettes of eyeshadow, blush and lip gloss and some fabulous embellishments on the packaging. tarte's holiday 09 collection is probably the best I've seen in awhile. 

The standout product is definitely the Treasure Chest, a limited edition palette exclusive to Sephora. This thing is huge and contains 16 new shimmering shadows, 16 new matte shadows, 16 new lip glosses, the best-selling mineral powder bronzer in park avenue princess, new soft pink luminizer and four new powder blushes. What I love most is that every shade in this kit is completely wearable and it literally will be the only thing you use everyday. I travel a lot and instead of packing a huge makeup bag, I just take this and I have everything I need to create a multitude of looks. Plus the outside is decorated with pretty jewels that scream holiday. And at $52, it's a no brainer.

I'm the girl who always has at least 20 lip glosses in her purse because I can never choose just one lip look per day. Crown Jewels lip gloss multi-gift set is the solution to lip gloss split personalities. The set can be given as one gift, or broken up into three (or you can be like me and keep it all for yourself). The glosses are broken up into categories: Glittering Green Goddesses, which contain sheer, natural everyday wear shades like sheer nude-peach, Dazzling Divas, which contain high shine glittery glosses that are great for a night out, and Twinkling Trendsetters, which contain more pigmented glosses for a more dramatic dose of color in shades like twinkling brick-red and sheer raspberry. So many options for $39.

tarte is known for their amazing cheek stains. They look so natural, like the flush is coming from within, which is what every girl wants her blush to look like. Three Carats, tarte's mini cheek stain set contains three shimmery, everyday shades including brilliant, a shimmering champagne, princess, shimmering rose and cushion, deep, shimmering apricot, all blinged out for the holidays. Get your glow on for only $25.

And because it's tarte, all products are free of parabens, sulfates, gluten, preservatives and a ton of other bad stuff, but they're chock full of good ingredients like tarte's t5 superfruit complex, mineral pigments, vitamin E, and goji berry extract. Available now at Sephora, and should be available any day now on the tarte website.