Get the perfect flush with the perfect blush from Stellar!

Stellar Cosmic Blush - $30 - in 3 shades: Beam - bright pink, Eclipse - burnished coppery peach and Flare - coral pink - that offer a translucent wash of pigment with incandescent glimmer and a long-wearing, natural flush of colour and glow that glides on smoothly, builds easily and offers long wear to enlivens every skin tone.

I can't begin to tell you how much I am loving it - I don't normally even bother with blush in the summer because I've never found one before that had the perfect amount of glow without being too shiny or sparkly - but this one is perfect - think of it as an illuminating blush!

Flare is my favourite but let's face it, they are all really nice shades, no doubt I will end up with all three before long...

Available at Sephora and sephora.ca.

- Lisamarie -

Stellar Haze Cosmic Face Powder

Stellar Haze Cosmic Face Powder - $36 - a universal, translucent, loose super-powder with powerful blurring and perfecting properties.

It can be used as a setting or finishing powder or both for a mattified, yet radiant finish that results in an airbrushed, poreless look that is water-resistant and looks flawless.

My best tip, even though it appears to completely disappear on skin,  don't overuse it if you are going to be taking pictures or you will get the dreaded flashback - which we all know from celebrity photos is not a pretty look!

Available at select Sephora stores across Canada and online at sephora.ca.

- Lisamarie -

Mascara Monday - Stellar Absolute Mascara

Stellar Absolute Mascara - $26 - in Dark Horse - black - an all-in-one mascara for volume, length and drama in an instant.

With a glossy black, vegan formula that wraps lashes in rich pigment one layer at a time without smearing, smudging or clumping. One coat gives you length and coverage. Two coats bring serious drama. Three coats have a lash extending effect - and it won't flake or fall as the day goes on.

Just as nice is what's not in the formula including: oil, fragrance, parabens, sulfates or phthalates

This is 3 coats - and while it did build without clumping there was a tiny bit of smearing along the lashline, it's a very liquid formula!

Available now at Sephora and sephora.ca.

- Lisamarie -

Introducing Stellar - high performance makeup with a focus on medium skin tones!

With 25 years spent in front of the camera, it's no wonder that Indian-born, Canadian-raised television host, actress and model Monika Deol has an opinion or two about makeup - she's had enough of it slapped on her face over the years and was constantly running into challenges with it.

Whether it was concealers that didn’t conceal dark circles, foundations that had to be mixed to match or powders that were too ashy she certainly became well aware that the market wasn't catering to the medium skin tones of Hispanic, Latino, Aboriginal, Chinese, Filipino, Middle-Eastern and Indian women.

And while it may seem that many beauty brands have broadened their shade horizons to include more skin shades in recent years, Deol laments that makeup diversity often gets distilled down to the very dark and very light, ignoring the many shades in-between.

Therein lies the inspiration to Monika's Stellar line and the star product: Limitless Foundation - which features an array of universal colors for all skin tones - focusing on medium-toned skin - with well-calibrated and extensive shades in the medium range (17 of them in fact) at a very reasonable price point.


Stellar Limitless Foundation - 30ml - $45 - in 22 shades: S01 - alabaster with yellow undertones, S02 - alabaster with pink undertones, S03 - cream with beige undertones, S04 - cream with yellow undertones, S05 - light medium with yellow undertones, S06 - light medium with peach undertones, S07 - light medium with dark peach undertones, S08 - medium with peach undertones, S09 - medium with yellow undertones, S10 - medium with dark peach undertones, S11 - medium with butterscotch undertones, S12 - medium with caramel undertones, S13 - wheat with peach undertones, S14 - wheat with yellow undertones, S15 - almond, S16 - caramel, S18 - caramel with red undertones, S19 - dark almond, S20 - walnut with yellow undertones, S21 - walnut with red undertones, S22 - light chocolate - with an oil-free, lightweight, highly pigmented, medium coverage formula that smooths on like a second skin, concealer discolouration and hyper-pigmentation, that can also be built to full coverage where it’s needed - for all-day wear with a natural looking, radiant finish.

I have an appreciation for the issue, it wasn't until very recent years that brands started coming out with fair foundations - through my teens and twenties I did the best I could with the very pink shades on the market and it wasn't until I started making decent money that I could get a fair, non-pink shade custom blended at Prescriptives (something Monika also had to do to find a match). Stellar's lightest shade isn't an exact match for me, but it was close enough that I've been taking it for a test drive for the past week and I do love how super light the formula is and how it really can be built to offer more coverage in problem areas yet still look very natural.

Also available in the Stellar line are concealers, loose powders, blushers, lipsticks and mascara.

Available now at select Sephora stores across Canada and online at sephora.ca.

- Lisamarie -