BareMinerals’ Sweet Sensations kit review with swatches

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  • Manufacturer: bareMinerals/Bare Escentuals
  • Availability: beginning January 2009 through QVC
  • Description: three eyecolors
  • Cost/Amount: USD$36
  • Would you purchase again: yes
BareMinerals’ Sweet Sensations kit

This kit was wildly popular (and sold out quickly) when it was available solely for one color: Rio. This color was on collectors’ most-wanted lists, it was rarely available on Ebay, and when it was available it sold for upwards of $80. Both of the other colors are, and have long been, available singly through BE boutiques and webstore.

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BareMinerals’ Sweet Sensations kit

I would get this kit again, but only for Rio and the quickstick. While the colors are all of the same luminosity, and in the pots they look well matched, Lemonade and Flamenco are both such sheer colors that they’re all but invisible on their own. Even applied wet, they’re not too strong. Rio is a lovely color; and I was glad of the chance to try out one of the quicksticks (even though I ended up not using it very much.) Still, knowing what I know now, I would not try to get on the waitlist, nor put myself into debt buying this kit. (I was pleasantly surprised at the fill levels on these colors. Flamenco and Lemonade had the old-style labels; but Rio had the new-style labels - and those pots were not brimfull, but nearly so. It was nice to see.)

This kit contained:

  • Flamenco — light violet sheen
  • Lemonade — sheer buttercream sheen
  • Rio — deep sapphire shimmer
  • Essential Rose quickstick

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