BareMinerals’ Princess for a Day kit

I’m going to assume that this kit was available through QVC. I’m unsure of the original release date - I don’t have a premium Delphi membership and wasn’t able to find the mention of the kit by manually trolling the forum archives at BEA. (If someone...

BareMinerals’ Take Me By Surprise kit

I bought this kit from QVC. It was one of the less wise purchases I’ve ever made: for $26 at my local boutique, I could have bought both eye colors. I could have even bought the eyecolors directly from BE, had I been willing to put up with their shipping...

BareMinerals’ Bronze and Beyond kit

This is another of those kits that I don’t need to purchase because I already own all of the colors…and I don’t want the clutch. The colors are all neutral-warm colors, and can work when worn together. They work equally well when mixed with other shades, though.

BareMinerals’ Nostalgic Beauty kit

All of these are darker, monochromatic shades of black and grey…good for creating a smoky eye look, or for daily contouring. I bought the eyecolor components separately, which is arguably the better way to acquire these shades…unless you’ve really got a thing for Bare Escentuals’ vanity boxes...

BareMinerals’ Natural Exotic kit

Another set where I acquired all the pieces separately. Several softer neutrals and one ultra-sheer “eye quickie” (though they don’t call it that…trust me. Peacock is an eye quickie, just like Masquerade and Mystery. It’s pretty, but it doesn’t have substantial coloration on its own.)

BareMinerals’ A Bare Affair kit

A lovely, changeable, gently textured set that can look subdued and elegant, or a bit more vamped up (foil the eye colors and use a heavier hand with the blush). This is another of the (many) BE kits I acquired piecemeal from Ebay - it was released before I bought...

Interesting statistics

I've been spending my days filling in my catalogue of kits, colors, blushes, and tools that I own. (Everyone's got a hobby. Mine is organization.) I've been concentrating lately on the BE items, since they make up just over a third of my total collection.

BareMinerals’ Be Balanced kit

Slightly similar to another three-color kit BE assembled for QVC back in 2003, even though only one of the colors is re-used (Yoga.)

Simply Naturals’ Amber

Pay no attention to the elves behind the CMS…

I'm doing a whole lot of cataloging-content: the kits I own, the colors I have, et cetera. I still have to photograph about half of my purples and add them to the color gallery. I've managed to get most of the July-featured kits entered into the system, and all nicely...