BareMinerals’ Ultimate Luxe kit review with swatches

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  • Manufacturer: bareMinerals/Bare Escentuals
  • Availability: beginning May 2010 exclusive to QVC
  • Description: 16 eyeshadows, 3 eyeliners, 5 face and body colors, 2 mineral veils, 1 concealer, 4 lip polishes, 7 lip sticks, 2 lip glosses, 2 mascaras, 10 brushes, 2 primers, and a leather train case
  • Cost/Amount: USD$750.00
  • Would you purchase again: no
BareMinerals’ Ultimate Luxe kit

No, that isn’t a typo. This kit is indeed $750. It’s a re-release from May 2010. The official copy says that it has 60 items. Since one of those items is the train case, 2 are primers, 2 are mineral veils, 2 are mascaras, 10 are brushes, and 1 is a compact, one could argue that this kit has 37 color-pieces and 23 additional items. All of the items are fullsize - no minis or “petite” or “x-small” jars in this kit. But still…is it worth the $750? Especially when QVC didn’t list which colors were in the kit, and it’s still all but impossible to find a list of the colors the kit does include? By leveling up in Google-fu, I was able to find a definite list of the eyecolors, and was able to take a fairly good guess at the brushes by examining the photography. I can only positively identify one of the Buxom colors - Krystal - and am not all that confident about my guessing abilities for the lipstick shades. I think I can guess two of the eyeliner colors, but QVC’s site doesn’t list the individual color names of anything. The kit contents listing also does not list any blushes; but the photos on QVC seem to show that there are blushes included in the kit (once you account for the two mineral veils, the AOFCs, the Well Rested and the bisque, there are still four blush-sized jars whose contents cannot be identified. So really, who knows what’s in this kit?

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BareMinerals’ Ultimate Luxe kit

This kit contained:

  • Big Easy — medium red-orange sparkle
  • Captivate — light pumpkin shimmer
  • Champagne — golden lavender shimmer
  • Elegance — deep violet pearl
  • Faith — pale mint sheen
  • Fearless — blackened blue-green shimmer
  • Kudos — light golden sand sheen
  • Mai Tai — medium golden-orange sheen
  • Motivate —
  • Oz — dark emerald green shimmer
  • Pond — cool medium-green matte
  • Rebel — jade espresso sheen
  • Sex Kitten — deep chestnut shimmer
  • Skinny Dip — light iridescent pink shimmer
  • Take Me — light ballerina pink sheen
  • Vintage Ruby — rose-tan shimmer
  • 3 eyeliner colors (in the photos, it looks like Turquoise Sea, Blaze, and a dark brown color)
  • Well Rested
  • Tropical Radiance
  • Jade body minerals
  • Two AOFCs (all-over face colors)
  • Tinted mineral veil
  • Regular mineral veil
  • Bisque
  • Krystal buxom
  • 3 other buxom lip polishes (one looks like it may be Kanani; can't definitely identify the other two colors)
  • 7 100% natural lip colors
  • 2 100% natural lip glosses
  • Big Tease mascara
  • Flawless Definition mascara
  • Prime Time Eye Primer
  • bareVitamins foundation primer
  • 10 brushes: face-shaping "V" brush; hydrate and brighten brush; double-ended contour and shading eye brush; lash comb; concealer brush; angled blending brush; wet/dry shadow brush; baby buki brush; eyeliner brush; full shadow brush
  • Leather train case

Because they include so many staples that seem to pop up in many BE-released kits (most of the brushes, the various types of mineral veil, the AOFCs), this never really interested me. The fact that I owned all but one of the eye colors also contributed to my personal lack of enthusiasm for this kit.

If you have someone in your life who absolutely adores Bare Escentuals, and you want to surprise the heck out of them and have nearly $1,000 to spend on their gift...this might be a wonderful surprise. Or you might get them several smaller kits and a great big whopping gift card and let them choose the rest of the items they want - most of the items I've been able to identify are available through the webstore or boutiques, so with very few exceptions (Motivate, Champagne, Elegance, and Big Easy) they can be easily purchased singly. And even the "rare" ones will be back through boutiques in a few years' time, they always are.

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