The birthday actually happened this past weekend. I spent time with my parents, and mom and I hit Sephora. (Yep. Economy deeply in recession, both of us concerned about long-term savings…and we hit Sephora.) Things with us are a bit reversed: Mom never really taught me how to apply...
This collection was originally to be released later — possibly in early 2009 — but the winter hit early, hard, and thorough…so Heather released this collection of icy sheers and satin pearl colors in late-late December 2009, after Christmas but before the closing of the year.
Even though these were all blues and blue-greens, they were closer to “ocean” blue - green-blue - than my personal favored true/navy/red-blue.
This collection came out after the Something Twinkling This Way Comes collection - hard on its heels, as a matter of fact. The colors were still multilayered, but a less bright palette than previous collections - not quite echoing the overall industry’s trend towards neutral colors. Like all TSS...
By the time this collection had come out, the economy had had its first visible faltering. When it came time for me to make my purchase, I had just bought a house - so didn’t have lots of spare money. I ended up buying just over half of the...
Brown: Wild Woman Melissa (dark), Grace (light) Wild Woman Melissa is a dark, rich brown with high shimmer. It was available as part of the Fan Club collection, so it's not likely you'll find this color in your local boutique. You can find it on Ebay for outrageous amounts of...
Fleeced by Fairies isn't quite a purple…isn't quite a blue. It's right in between the two. (I had fewer jars of blue pigments, so this one got filed with the blues.) It isn't easy to apply this color heavily so even though this is a blue/purple/ish, it...
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