China Glaze’s Chiaroscuro

On so many of the sites and color charts, China Glaze's Chiaroscuro is listed as a “pink” or maybe a “coral”. Its sample doesn't seem all that interesting. Seen in person, in the bottle, there's just the slightest green-gold duochrome effect. I spotted this at my local Sally store and...

BareMinerals’ Teamed Up: Coral Reef kit

This kit and the Teamed Up: Down to Earth kits were both released in 2003, and still widely available in 2008. I’m not entirely sure, but I think that makes them among the longest-standing available eyecolor kits from BE (or possibly, kits of any kind. Aside from their Try Me foundation-and-mineral-veil...

Zoya’s Austine

BareMinerals’ All Dolled Up kit

A nicely inexpensive kit…which included a much-sought-after, hard-to-find color (1960s). However, it was a mini-size jar, and was combined with a not-so-loved color (Mystic). That said, the brush by itself retails for $16, and the eye primer is fairly expensive; so even though the primer and the eye colors are...

Zoya’s Angel

Just brainstorming: blog contest rules?

I haven't had many contests - actually, I've only held four, and probably won't hold too many more simply because that's not my blog's focus - but anyone who has run a contest on their blog knows: these things aren't easy. You've got to get the prizes, you've got to...

BareMinerals’ The Sure Thing kit

I already owned all of these colors by the time the kit came out, so didn’t purchase. It’s a good deal, though, since the eyecolors by themselves would cost $39 if purchased invidually.

Happy Third Anniversary, Purely Cosmetics!!

On September 18th, Purely Cosmetics celebrates its third year with a choose-your-own-discount anniversary sale. You get either free shipping worldwide with a minimum $15 order; or 15% off with no minimum order. Full details and coupon codes are available on this video, and will be available on the blog.

Zoya’s Serendipity collection

This collection was assembled for Zoya’s spring release in 2007, so contained paler colors. With the exception of Marilyn (a frost), these are all metallics of varying opacity. They’re also mostly neutrals - all lighter beiges, peaches, or pinks.

BareMinerals’ Carnevale kit

I originally held off on getting this kit for quite a while because its color palette just looked too orange. Then I looked at my collection again…and realized that except for Sunkissed blush, I already had all of the colors.