Shimmer Stick Recipe: New Year’s Holiday Party Makeup Highlighter for Skin

Add some sparkle to your New Year’s Eve party look with these easy DIY shimmer sticks. This easy shimmer stick recipe is the perfect holiday party makeup highlighter for skin. And it’s super easy to make!

Make Fun Beauty Highlighter Shimmer Sticks for New Year’s

Celebrate the New Year with lots of sparkle and shine by crafting your own DIY Gala Shimmer Sticks! These sparkling beauty sticks can be applied to your face, lips and body for a shimmering effect wherever you want! Keep them simple or “dress” them up with fragrance and even a hint of color!

This beauty recipe was created using the DIY Shimmer Stick Kit from Wholesale Supplies Plus with a few additional fun ingredients. As I chose to add fragrance – and even color! – to mine, you’ll need a few additional ingredients in addition to the kit if you also wish to add a scent and/or color. I also created cute labels that you can print for your own shimmer sticks.

Pink Champagne New Year Gala Shimmer Stick Recipe

Adapted from the Wholesale Supplies Plus

Ingredients:

2 oz. Refined Shea Butter
2 oz. Smooth & Creamy Lotion Bar Additive (Cera Bellina Wax)
2 ml Pink Champagne Fragrance Oil
2 Tablespoons Iridescent Super Sparkle Glitter
Red Orange Oil Locking Mica Shimmer (to suit, optional)

Instructions:

In a double boiler melt the smooth and creamy lotion bar additive, then add the shea butter and continue to heat until all ingredients are fully melted. If you don’t have a double boiler, you can use a microwave. Simply melt the lotion bar additive in a glass Pyrex measuring cup at reduced power until it has melted about half way, then add the shea butter and continue heating at reduced power until fully melted. Carefully remove from heat source.

Using a plastic transfer pipette, measure out 2 ml of the fragrance oil and stir into the shimmer stick base. Then measure out the glitter and stir in as well. Allow to sit for several minutes, then stir again to thoroughly incorporate glitter, then pour evenly into four 1 oz. clear push up sticks.

To tint your shimmer sticks pink that won’t leave color behind, add 1/2 teaspoon to base and mix well before pouring. For a lightly tinted shimmer stick that gives just a hint of color to lips and cheeks, add 2 teaspoons. For richer lipstick like color use four teaspoons of red orange oil locking mica shimmer. (Note that if you plan to use shimmer sticks on lips, only use lip safe flavor fragrances.)

Once your shimmer sticks have cooled, screw on the lids and add your labels! For this project I decorated my shimmer stick containers with my Printable Gala Shimmer Stick Sticker Labels {download labels here} as well as Pink Cherry Blossom Snowflake and Peach & Gold Corner Japanese Washi Tapes from Cute Tape.

Shimmer Stick Recipe Tips & Tricks

When making this shimmer stick recipe, be sure to allow the product to cool at room temp. A sharp temperature change, such as putting your shimmer sticks in the refrigerator to hasten cooling times, will cause the product to sink and crack in the middle.

The smooth & creamy lotion bar additive is actually cera bellina wax. A beeswax derivative that can actually create a gel when mixed at certain ratios with oil. It’s what gives this shimmer stick recipe it’s smooth glide. You can try substituting beeswax at a slightly lower ratio, however, your shimmer stick will have more a salve like consistency if you make this swap.

More Beauty Recipes with Cera Bellina Wax

I love the smooth & creamy lotion additive also known as cera bellina wax. In fact, I love it so much I’ve used it often over the years. Here are a few of my favorite beauty recipes that call for cera bellina wax if you have extra wax left over after making my shimmer stick recipe.

• Homemade Tinted Lip Gloss Recipe
• Bacuri Butter Body Balm Recipe
• Rose Lemonade Glitter Lip Gloss Recipe
• Unicorn Glitter Butter Recipe
• Matcha Green Tea Hard Lotion Bar Recipe

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