BareMinerals’ Crème de la Crème

BareMinerals’ Jasmine Tea

This is a very faint color - more of a blending shade, or for use when you want a slight pink iridescence but don't want something too pink. Its pigmentation level is only a little higher than BE's Faith. The color occasionally shows up at boutiques, but is more frequently...

MAC’s Treasure Hunt paint pot

Brighter than Soft Ochre, but not garish. A faint frost finish…and this color didn't want to adhere to my lids too well. This paint pot was very very soft, compared to my other paint pots, both older purchases and others from the Posh Paradise collection. I don't know if...

Meow Cosmetics’ Soka blush

In the pot (and in product photos) it looked very…pinkish-orange. I had some more nightmares of Oompa Loompa makeovers, and passed this product by. It was three years before I even sampled it! It still looks very pinkish-orange, but when applied it reads as a sheer pink-melon iridescence. This...

MAC’s Pure Creation paint pot

Yes, you read that description right. There's a dark undertone to this color, but the top notes are pure sapphire blue. It's gorgeous!! I don't know if I can get away with using it as an all-over shade, even if I use a blending shade atop it. I can use...

BareMinerals’ Boost blush

The ‘cantaloupe' bit of this color description initially made me worry - whenever I've allowed a BE SA to put makeup on me they end up making me look like an oompa loompa - but it's a very cool orange, with undertones of pink. I personally don't match this blush...

BareMinerals’ Enjoy kit

Third in the Perfect Gift kit series, released in July/August 2011. These are all warm-toned shades…even the green is a yellow-green. I like the blush and the eyeliner from this collection, but the lip color was a bit too orange for me. The blush is borderline on the edge...

Meow Cosmetics’ Zombie Apocalypse collection

Just in time for the premiere of The Walking Dead, season two! Or, you know…Halloween. I was instantly attracted to six of the colors in this collection, and bought them full-size straightaway. Brains over Beauty and Living Dead are almost warm/cool compliments of each other: a mauved grey ...

OPI’s Painted Desert collection

Even over a decade after the release of this collection, I was still able to pick up a few shades. Nomad’s Dream has pretty much been made part of the regular line now. I can find that color at several big-box retailers that carry OPI. Sahara Sapphire wasn’t...

China Glaze’s Delight

There's more brown than red in this shade - the color reminds me of cinnamon with chocolate and caramel. The spreadability problem is very much in evidence, as with all of the Romantique polishes. (Robotika, released over a year later, keeps most of the base color and ditches the streakiness...