Beauty from the Earth’s Promises

BareMinerals’ Peach Surprise

More of a faintly-rose highlight shade than anything else. Reminds me of some of the core TSS colors, like Powder Burn. Coverage can be pretty substantial (a major plus with any BareMinerals shadow, as so many were so faint) so if you want a subtler highlight, use a less dense...

My Pretty Zombie’s Kidney Punch

Not quite as dark as I was expecting, but that's kind of a good thing. It accents my eyes well, but I have to watch how I apply it or the eye just ends up looking week-after-facepunch, instead of just…a nicely set off blue-grey.

Aromaleigh v2’s Elfrydah

Depending on the lighting, this color can look almost like a purplish mauve with blue shimmer.

Sally Hansen’s Copperhead

Attractive enough, easy application…but it takes quite a few coats for full opacity, and the duochrome effects are fairly minimal on the nail (they're barely more visible in the bottle.) Still, it is nice to see an attempt at a brown-red duochrome, since so many “duochrome” collections have come...

Mon Ennui’s Redrum

After seeing a few raves about duochrome colors over at Mon Ennui, I placed an order. Then, not a week later, the owner was…a bit of a cow to another MMU vendor. So I was glad that a) these colors are nice, but not all are dreadfully unique; and...

Maybelline’s Sandy Shores Color Tattoo cream shadow

It's sheer enough that it can be used on its own as a subtle accent - and it's not so yellow that it makes me look jaundiced. I have some problems with application, and like most of the other frost-finish cream shadows, I get better results if I don't try...

Saturday Soundtrack: Come To Me (Vangelis)

Music from Vangelis' 1996 album Voices. It isn't one of my favorite albums by him - I like his soundtracks more - but there are some lovely songs on this one. Come To Me is composed by Caroline LaVelle. The images in the video are all shots of the Grand Canyon,...

Friday Miscellany: The Re-shoot Project

For those who also have an inner vestigial statistician-gnome who delights in knowing such things: the breakdown is roughly 15 cases of the entire collection is in the Shiny New Format, 8 cases of the collection needs to be put into the Shiny New Format, and 8 cases of the collection is as...

Beauty from the Earth’s Very Vanilla