Concrete Minerals’ Frost

Concrete Minerals’ Prude

Soft pastel pink - would pair up well with Daydream, Croma, and Detox if you were looking to build the “perfect pastels” set. This is vaguely similar to some other pinks I have from other companies; but this is one of the better values out there - seeing how much...

BareMinerals’ Greenhouse

This color doesn't do all that much for me. It's a bit greyed, not very pigmented, and it fades rather quickly. Bare Escentuals gave us three lovely colors in Pretty Wild: the lip color, the blush, and the blue-black mascara. Neither of the eyecolors (this one, or Violetta) are all...

BareMinerals’ Violetta

Does it seem like you've seen this color before? Possibly under the name Joeli? What about Hugs or Embrace, the “shimmer” versions of this shadow? It's a pretty enough shade, but it's hardly unique - not even to BE's lineup, where it's got close kin in circulation. It's a tiny...

Sparklecrack Central Goes to Atlanta: Pt I

Planning started over a year ago. I hadn't been to D*C for a few years, and wanted to go. Sirvinya and I were chatting on Twitter, and somehow we came to the conclusion that she'd fly over. (I don't remember if I sent her the guest list, or exactly...

BareMinerals’ Floret blush

I think this is my second-favorite piece from the Pretty Wild collection (the first being the mascara, because…it's blue!!!) The color is lovely, it looks great on me, and there's the faint-but-not-invisible gold shimmer. It's not as sheer as all of BE's blushes - but it's definitely not heavily...

BareMinerals’ The Perfect Gift kit

I tend to be leery of the AD-series kits. I won’t like some of the whole kits, or I’ll vastly prefer to cherrypick this and that item rather than purchase an entire kit or series of kits. (If nothing else, I then have to figure out how to...

BareMinerals’ Insider: Color Shifting Eyecolor kit

I was initially interested in this kit because of the colorshifting shadow, and the liner shade. BE’s liners come in the traditional dark colors, but there wasn’t a blackened teal, and I really wanted that one! I found that I like the blush, am not wild about the...

Zoya’s Drama collection

I held off purchasing from this set for the same reason I hesitated to purchase any of the Uptown colors: they were a bunch of reds, and I wanted to build out my non-red collection first. I initially bought Angelina, looking for a dark brown to go under Sally Hansenâ€...

China Glaze’s Hi-tek

This color isn't quite like any that had been released previously - the colors in the Romantique collection were soft pinks, purples, greens, golds, a blue, but no copper or orange. The consistency is excellent, it doesn't show brushstrokes.