In previous years, BE has released different versions of their kits for different channels: the kit makeup is similar, the price is the same, but the exact colors / items / brushes are different (ie, Bare Crystals/Bare Ruby/Bare Topaz, Siren of the Sea/Sea Yourself). The Kaleidescope kit seems to be the BE-boutique-counterpart to the QVC-exclusive Women of BE kit. It contains 20 mini eyecolors, and costs $89. Both have a similar color range. This kit has three new colors (Cha-Cha, Iced, Maraschino) as well as several older colors (Blue-black, Blueberry, Grape) and a mixture of colors that had been “in the vault” for a little while (Sun) or only released previously in one kit (Kir Royale, Starfish, Wildcat). Like the Women of BE kit, you could buy this kit, break it apart, and make smaller “stocking stuffer” packets out of the colors you already have. At $89 for 20 .28-gram jars, that breaks down to $4.45 a jar.

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This kit contained:

• A Bucc-an-ear — medium purple wisteria sheen
• Adventure — mauve rose matte
• Alley Cat — medium canary yellow sheen
• Blue Black — blue black matte
• Blue Moon — silvery sky-blue sheen
• Blueberry — bright indigo matte
• Cha-Cha — strawberry pink glimmer (new release)
• Disco — silvered lavender sparkle
• Grape — royal purple matte
• Grasshopper — medium golden olive sheen
• Iced — velvet meringue matte (new release)
• Jade — blue-emerald shimmer
• Kir Royale — deep plum shimmer
• Maraschino — raspberry matte (new release)
• Sand Dollar — neutral greyed-green shimmer
• Smoke — smoky taupe matte
• Starfish — iridescent apricot pink shimmer
• Sun — medium tangerine matte
• Tiramisu — soft taupe sheen
• Wildcat — pale golden sparkle

I have fewer of these colors than I did of the Women of BE kit; but I do have almost half of them. I also don't much care for the others (Alley Cat, Grasshopper, Kir Royale, Smoke, Starfish), even though they do have their staunch fans. This is another kit I personally can pass up.

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