Femme Fatale Cosmetics’ Hallowed Ground

In the pot, and in certain lights when foiled, there's the faintest hint of a pinkish shimmer - but it's very faint. The base color is similar to BareMinerals' Jasmine Tea, but with a bit more pigmentation.

Orly’s Steel Your Heart

Orly’s Steel Your Heart

Zoya’s Rekha

Color Club’s Berry and Bright

BBAC 2013, Day 25: Favorite holiday recipes

The winter holidays have already come and gone (well, in the northern hemisphere they're the "winter" holidays) so these recipes will be useful either five months from now, or eleven. I'd imagine that everyone's tired, stuffed, happy, and Done With Cooking for the year. (Until next week we'll all keep...

Sleek Makeup’s Sparkle 2 i-Divine Palette

This is kind of, but not quite, a “sequel” to the Sparkle palette. 2/3 of the colors are sparkle-finish, the other four shades are metallic…and six of the colors are actually repromotes from the first Sparkle palette. The formula seems to be similar, but the color payoff and texture in...

BareMinerals’ Buxom Full-Bodied Lip Gloss collection

Buxoms in shimmer and gloss finish…without the tingle. (And the bottles are slightly different shape and height than either the original Buxoms, or the Lip Creams.) Again, as with the Lip Creams, I don’t have many of these (only two), and probably won’t be getting many more....

Urban Decay’s Black Market 24-7 Glide On Pencil kit

I love Urban Decay’s 24-7 pencils. I usually love their pencil sets, whether fullsize or travel size. But…this one kind of shocked me. I didn’t love it. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say that I would not re-buy it. Well, this is a...

BBAC 2013, Day 24: My beauty backlog is down by two thirds

Part of that drop is because I bought less - so as I photographed items, I was adding to the backlog…but I wasn't adding as quickly as in 2010, 2011, or 2012. (Being unemployed for just over a quarter will do that to you. Well…that, and already owning the majority of...