Beauty from the Earth’s Sweetgum

Saturday Soundtrack: A Distant Sadness (Bear McCreary)

This past week I've been rewatching the rebooted Battlestar Galactica series, and listening to the soundtrack at work.

Beauty from the Earth’s Sinister Instincts

Almost a less blue version of BFTE's Meteor Shower: same finish, similar color payoff. This is another shade that would work well with BE's Velvet Blueberry, because then the matte blue looks like an extension of this shade's underlying color. I definitely have to wear this foiled, or over a...

BareMinerals’ Velvet Blueberry

An attractive “china” blue with a decent color payoff. It's a little on the softer side, like all the “velvet” finish colors from this collection; but it isn't quite as sheer as some other loose-powder mattes from BE. I can pair this with midrange neutrals for a softer “bold” look;...

Meow Cosmetics’ Hopeless

This is one of the most striking eyeshadows I've seen this year. The dry application is a bit straightforward, but foil this shadow and you really see how amazing it is! It's almost a duochrome and a duotone at the same time: blue-green that morphs to a turquoise-navy with a...

Speciallità‘s Unconventional

OPI’s Sparkling Personality

This is the only color I got from the Sephora by OPI Betsey Johnson series. It was released shortly before Betsey Johnson's company declared bankruptcy; and I picked up several jars of Sparkling Personality when it was on discount-sale at Sephora. This is like the coloring of Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous...

Speciallità‘s Artsy

Viewed straight-on, this polish looks like a fairly straightfoward blue with purple shimmers at the edge. It does veer toward a cabernet-red at different angles, though. I'm so used to duochromes having a more pronounced shift - gold into blue, green into orange, what have you - that these gradient-duochromes...

Beauty from the Earth’s Miss Conduct kit

One of two holiday collections from Beauty from the Earth - and, in my opinion, the colors in this kit are easier to use for a look, since there’s a fairly obvious highlighter, accent color, and liner shade. (The Miss Behavior colors are all a bit too close to...

Speciallità‘s Mari Moon Multigirl collection

Mari Moon is some kind of MTV veejay down in Brazil. I am oh so very out of that age demographic…that even if she were a veejay (or whatever the term is these days) in the US I wouldn’t know who she is. But she brings us multichrome...