This week I am pleased to bring you my review of the new Stila Cabana Girls spring color collection. Enjoy!

Cabana Girl Eye Shadow Trios ($30 each)
After trying and seriously disliking Stila's last collection, Resort (for winter), I was a little apprehensive about this new set. I normally like Stila shadows, making the winter colors even more of a disappointment. Well, I can say that Stila has redeemed themselves to me with Cabana Girls! These are soft, wearable shades in choices for every skin tone. The colors are both highly pigmented and blendable, so a little goes a long way but you can blend and soften the colors to get the just the look you want. I also found them to resist creasing and fading for at least 8 hours.

Banana Daiquiri is the most versatile, with a medium taupe as the base shade, a deep chocolate brown for liner, and a pale, slightly shimmery banana cream for highlighting.

Peach Daiquiri is a warmer set, best suited to warm skin tones but soft and wearable that cool skin tones can pull it off, too. The base shade is a warm fleshy peach (think skintone, not pastel), the chocolate brown liner shade looks practically identical to the Banana one, and then you can highlight with a pale shimmery peach (also more fleshy than a cotton candy color).

Strawberry Daiquiri is my personal favorite of the collection as I really favor these shades for my cool skin tone. Unlike the other two sets where I have set shades that I use on the lid, browbone, and as liner, with Strawberry Daiquiri I can play a little more. The highlight shade is still shimmery - a pale, sheer candy pink - but the other two are really interchangeable. You can use either the medium rose shade or the plum purple on the lid; the plum also doubles as a liner or crease shade (it's not as dark as the brown liner shades in the other sets, so you have more flexibility).

Lip Polish ($24)
Cabana Girls introduces three new shades of Lip Polish: Lacquer (cool nude pinky beige), Spangle (warm peachy nude), and Garnish (cool rose pink). While you don't have to spend $24 to get this type of lip gloss in a twist-up pen, it's still a nice formula that's not too sticky or goopy, with a nice amount of color and shine. These new shades go really nicely with the eye trios, and they are a nice transition from winter to spring as they aren't overly pastel or cotton candy sweet.

The Cabana Girls collection also has two new Convertible Color shades (Lilium and Gerbera, $28 each) that I didn't get to try, so if you are checking out the rest of the collection, see what you think of these, too. All in all this is a lovely collection with some very pretty and wearable shades that I think will make a nice addition to anyone's makeup bag. As for myself, I'll definitely be wearing all the eye trios, plus the Lacquer and Garnish Lip Polishes.

I hope you enjoyed this issue of The Cosmetic Report!