My take on Sephora Brand makeup

Sephora is a place where it's very easy for the makeup-obsessed to spend a lot of money. Sephora tends to focus on midrange and higher-end brands like Dior, Smashbox, Anastasia, Bare Escentals, Urban Decay, Make Up For Ever, Tokidoki, and OPI. Generally (but not exclusively) if you can regularly find...

Poll: what’s on tap for the weekend?

Wandered over to Vampy Varnish this morning, and saw...a poll. Cool! I'm working on scheduling posts quite far into the future; but didn't have anything for today. (I know. How sad is that?) At any rate, on with the show: How was your week? Busy. Busy, busy, busy. The...

Kelly Brennan, content thief - repeat offender

I started to write a response to a post over on MissChievous' blog about Luuux and some of their content providers...namely, the copyright thieves. My response started to get a little long, and I passed the point where I was commenting. I was getting a bit ranty. So I...

BareMinerals’ Kaleidescope kit

In previous years, BE has released different versions of their kits for different channels: the kit makeup is similar, the price is the same, but the exact colors / items / brushes are different (ie, Bare Crystals/Bare Ruby/Bare Topaz, Siren of the Sea/Sea Yourself). The Kaleidescope kit seems to...

BareMinerals’ Women of BE kit

This is a good kit for people who don’t have many BE eyecolors and want them, or for people who missed the Girlfriends, Beautiful Susan, and the various Starlets when they hit the outlets. I am fortunate in that…I already own all but one of these colors. I’...

Aromaleigh v1’s Kareena

Color requested by Angel Kareena as part of the Aromaleigh Angels / DonorsChoose.org charity event.

Zoya’s Irene

With one coat, this color is a little light and streaky. Two coats evens things out nicely. Three coats deepens the color…but interestingly enough, two coats gave me a more “autumnal” green. And since I'm wearing this in autumn, I stuck with two coats.

BareMinerals’ Most Wanted Volume I kit

The first of BE’s “most wanted” kits, bringing back four colors that had been pulled from rotation in boutiques and channel partners. Since this kit predated my BE collection-mania, I had to acquire the colors elsewhere, in dribs and drabs.

Aromaleigh v1’s Aries

Zoya’s Spa Essentials collection

I am only guessing here…but the Spa Essentials must have been among the first polishes Zoya released, and if they had a name or a grouping, it was only evident to the outside world when, during the site redesign of 2009, the company began listing the collection in which each...