BareMinerals’ Berry Glace lipstick

I bought this color from someone else who'd received it as a gift, but didn't like the shade. (This same person sold me Magical, which is one of my favorite purple eyeshadows.)

Morgana Cryptoria’s Chivalry

I was hoping for this to be one of the more pigmented shades. It's not supersheer, so that's good; but it's not as pigmented as some of the other Morgana colors I have (Lapiz Lazuli, Druscilla's Sister, Agincourt). It is a nice duotone, though. I like that.

Morgana Cryptoria’s Lapis Lazuli

An incredibly pigmented blue. This is actually among the more pigmented shades I tried from the Get Medieval collection. If you liked the base color of Bluespark or Destinationunknown but didn't want all the sparkle, this may be a good match.

Eyeshadow Swatch Project: Oranges

My favorite peach/orange eyeshadow colors, alphabetically by manufacturer and then by color name, are: Aromaleigh v1's Brazen and Bitter — a bright deep orange with a gold duotone? Definitely sign me up for that!! This orange has some color depth, but it's not "rust" orange. It's also got...

BareMinerals’ Get The Look: Spring On It kit

If you bought this when it originally was released, you got the three eyecolors for a slight discount. If you buy it now, you get the three eyecolors, and Eye Defining Brush…and you pay $50. If you like the brush, this is still a better deal than buying all of...

BareMinerals’ Get The Look: Bronze Tigress kit

One of the first wave of “get the look” kits released - buy three colors, get a slight discount - this one wasn’t reconfigured like some of the others, where they added a single brush and upped the kit cost by $11. (This strategy might have worked better to move...

Beauty Blogger Challenge: week four

Shatteredshards kicked off 2011 with a weekly beauty bloggers' writing prompt/challenge…now in its fourth week. It's a bit like Beauty Blogs' Backstage, in that it gets us to share a bit about ourselves and our blog…but all the questions come from one source, they're available in advance (if...

OPI’s Sahara Sapphire

This color is the only other shade I have from the Painted Desert collection - and I bought both of them without realizing that they were part of that collection! I think I was able to find this because it was re-released so recently in the Colorcopia collection. The color...

Morgana Cryptoria’s Alchemy

Morgana Cryptoria’s Agincourt

This is a gorgeous highly-pigmented red, slightly similar to Strawberry Despair with a little (very little) less of a sparkle-factor. The color depth doesn't look much different when patted dry over primer versus foiled…which is how I've found many of my more pigmented shades to behave. (The other colors...