Look: All Together Now…

Creating today's rainbow-eye look, I managed to use one color from every brand I regularly use. I wasn't aware of this pattern until I got down to choosing my purple color - where I had to go looking for the light lavender from a brand I didn't already have on...

EoTD: Endless Reveries

I was using several items for the first time in this look: Ever After, Morocco, and Rich Ground are all recent acquisitions. Ever After lent weight to Demure, and deepened it just a bit - not too much, because Ever After is a mid-weight lavender rather than a full purple....

BareMinerals’ Beautiful at 40 kit

It’s interesting to compare the various at-any-age kits BE assembled and see how the color range changes as the decades progress: 20s get pinks and lavender, 30s get purples, 40s get orange and brown, 50s get soft browns and a golden, 60s get two “soft focus” colors. So apparently...

BareMinerals’ Smoky ‘V’ Eye kit

One of BE’s tutorial kits (Smoky Eye, Get Cheeky, Foiled Eye, Rocker Eye, Eye Lining, et cetera). I think this kit was simultaneously released through multiple channels: Sephora, BE webstore, BE boutiques, et cetera (though I never saw this kit available through QVC). I had acquired the colors separately,...

BareMinerals’ Crash Course kit

I initially bought this kit for the eye color; but found that I liked the mascara, as well. (I knew I wouldn’t like the lip gloss much, even if it was a pretty color - the texture just puts me off.) It was eventually available through all channel partners;...

BareMinerals’ Destination: Bali kit

One of BE’s destination-themed kits (Destination Key West, Wish You Were Here, Destination Morocco, et cetera). Bali was Ulta-exclusive for a while, and Sunkissed wasn’t available by itself anywhere, while Tan Lines was available as a single and in the Nude Beach collection. This kit had a relatively...

SuperWear Cream Shadows and Luxe Cream Liners

Last week I received some cream shadows that I purchased from an indie MMU company. Today, I found the supply house. Unfortunately, it seems that the supply-house only sells to cosmetic companies, and only in bulk - they’re definitely a wholesaler, not a retail distributor. But I now know...

BareMinerals’ Starlight kit

Two neutral eyecolors, two face powders, a lip color, mascara, and a brush. This isn’t quite the composition of one of BE’s “grand” QVC kits, but it’s about on par with some of its TSVs. The colors have been available in other kits (the Renegade Chic kit...

Pure Luxe’s Shameless

BareMinerals’ Beautiful at 30 kit

One of five decade-targeted makeup kits from QVC. This is purples and a soft black - a simple, nice enough color combination that wouldn’t necessarily work too well if you had overtly warm skintones. (Especially since Devotion is a rose-purple.)