How I spent my Labor Day weekend

General news roundup, because I've spent my weekend alternately working on the site or curled up with a headache. Yes, PAX was fun…but I apparently brought home a wee tiny dose of ConSARS.

BareMinerals’ Love Bird kit

Part of a 2006/7 TSV / autodelivery-series from QVC that included the Peacock kit, this kit, the Hummingbird kit, and the Bird of Paradise kit. While this kit is no longer available, the individual components are (except the roll-bag, which periodically shows up in kits…in different colors.)

Site news: some new toys for folks to play with

A few changes to the blog, some will affect folks and some won't. After I rebuilt the site I started browsing plugin sites and thinking about what other functionality I might like to add…and I found a few toys. There are still a few kinks to be worked out;...

Zoya’s Casey

I bought this color after I managed to snag two bottles of the much-coveted Sally Hansen's Hidden Treasure. That polish would look best over dark matte or creme colors, and I didn't have many of those (plenty of shimmers and metallics, but not many cremes.)

BareMinerals’ Hummingbird kit

A few - very few - sites out there list this as the Maribou kit. Part of a 2006/7 TSV / autodelivery-series from QVC that included Peacock kit, Love Bird kit, this kit, Bird of Paradise kit. While this kit is no longer available, the individual components are (except the bag).

BareMinerals’ Bird of Paradise kit

Part of a 2006/7 autodelivery-series from QVC that included Peacock kit, Love Bird kit, Hummingbird kit, and this final kit. While this kit is no longer available, the individual components are (except the roll-bag, which periodically shows up in kits…in different colors.)

Everyday Minerals’ Boardwalk

Zoya’s Extreme collection

Zoya’s “black-and-white ball” trio of polishes. All three are still available as of May 2012.

And now, a musical interlude: Dreamside feat. Rogue “Open Your Eyes”

This is one of the songs I've been listening to constantly for the past week. The band is the Dreamside, a goth/electronica band from the Netherlands. I found it because this song featured Rogue, the lead singer from the Crüxshadows. This video is on YouTube a couple of...

August 2010 Favorite Products

This morning on Twitter, Sarah of Glossicious asked: “Monthly favorites video or Eid look tutorial ? help me decide”. I told her I'd do a monthly favorites post if she would. I didn't register the “video” portion of the request…er. Bad week, the brain's still about half a lap behind....