This was another customer-named collection, with customers contributing their favorite “summer pleasures” on the company forum. I hadn’t been on the forum in quite a while, so wasn’t aware that they were holding a contest. (The name I contributed was chosen for last year’s “Simple Pleasures” collection.) I liked the looks of about half the shades, wasn’t too sure on the other half, and was interested in the blushes the instant I read that they were iridescent. I loved that quality about the Lost Rainforest blushes and glow powders! Canna is still one of my favorite blushes, though Anana and Heliconia (which I bought last year) are pretty close. Two of the blushes in the Joys of Summer collection are more sheer, so they might work better as layers over a bolder wash of matte color.

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This collection contained:

• A/C — medium light silvered blue shimmer
• Azure Sky — teal-blue with lilac shimmer
• Bare Legs — soft gilded copper shimmer
• Beach Bonfire — copper-cinnamon shimmer
• Beachcombing — semisheer pale silvered gold shimmer
• Brazilian — coppery vanilla pearl
• Cannonball!!! — medium-dark periwinkle blue shimmer
• Cat Days of Summer — metallic olive-gold shimmer
• Conch — medium gilded pink copper shimmer
• Cricket Serenade — soft medium green sheen
• Dragonfly — soft light green with blue-green sheen
• Endless Nights — medium muted lilac shimmer
• Flaming Marshmallows — dark brown copper shimmer
• Heat Lightning — intense tangerine-gold shimmer
• Heat Wave — gilded copper-berry shimmer
• Iced Coffee — soft rosy tan pearl
• Lazy Days — gilded mauved lilac shimmer
• Lime in the Coconut — medium-light green-yellow shimmer
• Marco Polo — lilac-periwinkle pearl
• Midnight Sun — medium bright indigo pearl
• Oasis — clear medium cool blue shimmer
• Sea Glass — semisheer silvered aqua green shimmer
• Skee Ball — gilded soft olive shimmer
• Sleeping Naked — pale glowing gold pearl

Marco Polo has more depth than appears on the vendor's photo. It's not a deep dark periwinkle, I just don't see as much silvering as appears on the vendor photos. Iced Coffee and Conch are both neutrals-with-a-twist (a bit like Jamba Fruit Dove, from the Lost Rainforest collection.)

• Chilled Cherry — sheer soft translucent pink iridescent shimmer
• Frosted Berry — sheer cool palest mauve-pink iridescent shimmer
• Frozen Grapefruit — sheer soft coral-peach iridescent shimmer
• Iced Watermelon — sheer coral-pink iridescent shimmer
• Solar Rhapsody — sheer light brown shimmer
• Sun Worship — sheer light gold-brown shimmer

I have not ever really been fond of bronzers. I don't like how I look with a tan: since my hair is a light blond-brown, any kind of a tan makes me look a bit Cheshire-cat-like. My hair and face blend and merge, and all that's left are my eyes. The blushes, though...I love Iced Watermelon and Frosted Berry better than the other two. Frozen Grapefruit was a little too soft, and Frosted Berry has the cool tones that I prefer.

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