Bare Escentuals’ Pretty Amazing Lip Color in Allure

Bare Escentuals' Allure
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• Manufacturer: Bare Escentuals
• Availability: part of the Pretty Amazing Lip Color collection
• Color Range: tanned peach creme
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4
• Cost/Amount: $16 for .13 ounces
• Would you purchase again: yes

Not my favorite color ever. It's not an orange-red, which looks absolutely horrid on me; but it is orange...which doesn't look good on me. I think I picked this one up in the Pretty Alluring kit I got at Ulta, during my Atlanta trip. I might be able to make this work by minimizing how much I use, and by going over it with some darker buxoms, like Brandy, that I can't normally wear easily because they're too dark.

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Bare Escentuals' Allure

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A little spot of retail therapy

I have been jobsearching (this time around) for just over two months. I’ve read more books, taken an advanced programming class, applied to several dozen jobs, gone on four interviews, and been passed by for three of the positions I interviewed for. Intellectually, I know that in this economy, the fact that I’ve actually gone on four interviews (and been shortlisted for a few more positions where I didn’t actually make it all the way to the interview stage) is pretty darn amazing. But…it can really be dispiriting to keep hearing “Thanks, but no.” So yesterday, while waiting for feedback from a fourth interview and enjoying some of the first appreciable sun we’ve had in two weeks and trying not to pester the living daylights out of the recruiter who sent me to Interview #4, I was in serious need of distraction. Swatching things would have been one option, but since I really did need to be away from the computer (no feedback expected until today,) I did what just about any beauty blogger would do.

I went shopping. (Huzzah for coupons, BOGOF sales, and store reward systems!)

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Meow Cosmetics’ Nudity blush

Meow's Nudity blush

• Manufacturer: Meow Cosmetics
• Availability: available as part of the Taboo collection
• Color Range: sheer rose-red sheen
• Staying Power: 3 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: $12 for 4 grams, $8.00 for 2 grams, $1 for a sample baggie
• Would you purchase again: yes
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4/5, based on 1 review

Milani’s Digital

Milani's Digital
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• Manufacturer: Milani
• Availability: originally released as part of the 3D Holographic collection
• Color Range: pink scattered-holographic sparkle
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: $4.99 for 14 ml / .5 fl oz
• Would you purchase again: yes
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4/5, based on 1 review

Sally Hansen’s Rockin’ Hard

Sally Hansen's Rockin' Hard
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• Manufacturer: Sally Hansen
• Availability: part of the Hard as Nails collection
• Color Range: medium-deep rose glass fleck shimmer
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: $1.99 for 13.3 ml / .45 fl oz
• Would you purchase again: yes
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3/5, based on 1 review

Zoya’s Glimmer

Zoya's Glimmer
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• Manufacturer: Zoya/Art of Beauty
• Availability: originally released as part of Zoya's Classics collection
• Color Range: semisheer warm pale gold with gold and silver glitter
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: $8 for 14 ml / .5 fl oz
• Would you purchase again: yes
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3/5, based on 1 review

Bare Escentuals’ Stike It Rich Primer Shadow kit

Bare Escentuals' Stike It Rich Primer Shadows
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• Manufacturer: Bare Escentuals
• Availability: webstore, boutiques, and select channel partners
• Contains: 5 primer shadows
• Cost/Amount: $2818
• Would you purchase again: yes

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4/5, based on 1 review

Meow Cosmetics’ Crystalline Cat Glow Powder collection

Meow's Crystalline Cat Glow Powder collection
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• Manufacturer: Meow Cosmetics
• Availability: permanent
• Availability: from the company's webstore
• Contains: 10 glow powders
• Cost/Amount: $13.95 for 4 grams (20 gram jar); $9.95 for 2 grams (10 gram jar); $1 for a sample baggie
• Would you purchase again: yes

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2/5, based on 1 review

Pure Luxe’s Front Row

Pure Luxe's Front Row

• Manufacturer: Pure Luxe Cosmetics
• Availability: from their webstore as part of the regular line (released in fall 2009)
• Color Range: teal-green shimmer
• Staying Power: 2 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: full 10-gram jar with sifter for $9.50
• Would you purchase again: yes
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5/5, based on 1 review

Meow Cosmetics’ Infection

Meow Cosmetics' Infection

• Manufacturer: Meow Cosmetics
• Availability: available as part of the Zombie Apocalypse collection
• Color Range: metallic medium-deep gilded olive shimmer
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: $8 for 1.2 grams
• Would you purchase again: yes
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