BareMinerals’ Escentual 4-piece Summer kit

Another unconfirmed kit price…but I feel safe at guesstimating this one at or near USD$38. A neutral-warm, softer palette with three colors that work well on me and one that’s mildly problematic. (Summer is a bit too warm for me to wear easily, and is fairly lightweight, so...

BareMinerals’ Cocoa Diamond

I think that, for these “Diamond” kits, BEHQ took certain pre-existing colors in their lineup and added some shimmer. Exquisite Diamond and Elegant Diamond both looked similar enough to Exquisite and Elegance, respectively. Cocoa Diamond is another one - though there's a little bit more depth to the brown than...

Meow Cosmetics’ Marilyn M.

Applied wet it's a brick-red with lots of sparkle. Applied dry, and under two daybulbs, it's more of a coral-pink sparklebomb. Either way, the base color works well on me. (The sparkle is a bit much, though. If I do use this, I tend to buff away as much of...

BareMinerals’ Glam Collection kit

Four interesting eyeshadows that could work as a coordinated look. Possibly. If you’re a fan of super-soft looks. I prefer to have at least one stronger color in there, either as a liner or as an accent shade. Queen Marie is the deepest color in here, and it does...

BareMinerals’ Pure Platinum kit

I remember seeing this when I first started looking at BE on Ebay in early 2008 - it was all over! I think I remember that I bought one kit, then extras of the pieces when I fell in love with Posh blush and with Twilight. The colors were pretty well...

BareMinerals’ Round the Clock Eyeliner in 10am

This is a bit more green and less golden than Moray or Snakeskin Dress. This pencil is also more of a satin finish. It has some of the “uneven-application” problems that some shimmer pencils have, but not as many. Like all of the other Round the Clock pencils, this liner...

BareMinerals’ Round The Clock Eyeliner in 10am

Sephora’s Contour Eye Pencil in Love Affair

I think this color was supposed to be a metallic - or at least a shimmer - finish. It's instead semisheer, and more of a satin finish than anything else. It applies evenly, just…badly-evenly. For a purple that swatches this dark, I'd expect more color payoff on the lid....

Persephone Minerals’ Sagitta Mystical highlighter

A long-discontinued product from a long-defunct company. Sometimes, huge backlogs can mean that you kick yourself repeatedly for not buying backups when the company (or product) was still purchasable. I was fortunate, in that my instincts got me to buy multiples of this product so that I had my “standard” 2...

Wet n Wild’s Megaslicks Balm Stain in Festival Fashionista

This is the pinker of the two shades in the summer 2014 LE collection. I'm kicking myself because I only got one…Coral of the Story, which was recently added to the regular lineup, is very similar…but leans a bit more red.