Entries for Thursday May 28

BareMinerals’ Girlfriend Tina

• Manufacturer: bareMinerals/Bare Escentuals
• Availability: through the webstore and boutiques (occasionally); was also available as part of the Girlfriends kit
• Color Range: teal green matte
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4
• Cost/Amount: $13 for .28 grams
• Would you purchase again: yes
• Similar shades:

Entries for Wednesday May 27

The SheSpace’s Astrology - Gemini Collection

• Manufacturer: The She Space / About Face Cosmetics
• Availability: beginning May 27, 2009 through TSS' online storefront
• Contains: 12 mineral eyeshadow colors
• Cost/Amount: individual samples $.50, individual colors $4.50 for a full 3-gram jar (no sifter)
• Would you purchase again: no

Entries for Monday May 25

The SheSpace’s Go Glam or Go Home collection

• Manufacturer: The She Space / About Face Cosmetics
• Availability: through TSS' online storefront - part of their permanent line
• Contains: 45 shimmering, sparkling pigments
• Cost/Amount: USD$.50 for a sample baggie (5-7 uses) or $4 for a 3-gram jar
• Would you purchase again: Yes

These colors are part of Heather’s “regular” line - they’ll only be unavailable if she’s between batches at the moment. The colors are mostly richer and more vibrant than the Sprinkles of Twinkles collection, and have more shimmer and sparkle as opposed to pearl or light shimmer-finishes. I own just over half of these colors, and there aren’t too many others I’ve considered getting - while I like glitz and shimmer, and LOVE vibrant colors, too much sparkle draws more attention to my makeup than to me (that’s most definitely my personal opinion, YMMV.)

The SheSpace’s Sprinkles of Twinkles collection

• Manufacturer: The She Space / About Face Cosmetics
• Availability: through TSS' online storefront - part of their permanent line
• Contains: over 100 pearlized and shimmering pigments
• Cost/Amount: USD$.50 for a sample baggie (5-7 uses) or $4 for a 3-gram jar
• Would you purchase again: Yes

These colors are part of Heather's "regular" line - they'll only be unavailable if she's between batches at the moment. These colors' finish varies from pearl to frost to sheen to light shimmer - good midrange shimmer, no matte colors, no duochromes, but you don't necessarily have to wear these colors with sealant to not get "fallout" on your cheeks. The shiny finishes can be minimized by buffing, or by applying a light layer of Cashmere Kisses over the shadows. I like these colors because there are some richer hues than among the Velvets, there are a wide variety of bases, and they look equally good for evening, daytime wear, fantasy looks, or softer combinations. I own just under half of these colors - the other half either wouldn't work with my coloring, didn't appeal to me, or looked too close to something that was already in my collection.

The SheSpace’s Diamond Dust collection

• Manufacturer: The She Space / About Face Cosmetics
• Availability: through TSS' online storefront - part of their permanent line
• Contains: 6 black-based sparkling pigments
• Cost/Amount: USD$4 for a 3-gram jar
• Would you purchase again: Yes

This collection’s colors are a bit more limited than most - but they make excellent liners. When you use them as contour shades, the sparkle is all buffed away, so that doesn’t work quite as well unless you also use a sealant. There have been requests for Heather to create diamond-dust colors with a white or cream base; but as of May 2009, this has not come to fruition.

The SheSpace’s Velvets

• Manufacturer: The She Space / About Face Cosmetics
• Availability: through TSS' online storefront - part of their permanent line
• Contains: over 100 matte pigment powders
• Cost/Amount: USD$4 for a 3-gram jar; $4.50 per jar if you add one additive from the custom pigment bar
• Would you purchase again: yes

While most of The SheSpace’s colors include multicolored layers of sparkle and flash, Heather does provide a large array of matte colors for those days when sparkle isn’t what you want or need…or looks that need some color without more twinkle. The colors are medium to light-intensity, for the most part, though there are a few darker shades. All of the velvets can be combined with any of TSS’ additives to form your own pigment. The creator insists on not calling these “matte” shades - but as I define matte (that is, no sparkle or twinkle just the color) they’re matte. (So there.) There were never very many truly rich or vivid colors among the matte collection.

Entries for Saturday May 23

Benefit Cosmetics’ Girls’ Night In kit

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Entries for Wednesday May 20

The SheSpace’s Hope Quest

• Manufacturer: The She Space / About Face Cosmetics
• Availability: beginning May 2009 through TSS' online storefront
• Contains: 4 mineral eyeshadow colors
• Cost/Amount: USD$14 for the four jars (3-gram jar, no sifter)
• Would you purchase again: yes

In late April 2009, a longtime client of The SheSpace, who had been suffering from depression, took her own life. In response to that tragic event, Heather created this quad. Each quad comes with two free additional jars of Hope No Matter What along with two small cards with uplifting, affirming messages printed on them - to be given away to a friend, a family member, even a casual acquaintance who needs to be reminded that they do matter.

Entries for Tuesday May 19

BareMinerals’ Blendable Eye: Tahitian Sunset kit

• Manufacturer: bareMinerals/Bare Escentuals
• Availability: was part of the regular line up until fall 2009 (individual colors available in boutiques as of May 2009); available through the webstore, boutiques, and channel partners
• Contains: three eyecolors
• Cost/Amount: USD$36 for three .57 gram colors
• Would you purchase again: yes

Entries for Friday May 15

Aromaleigh v1’s Opulent Lustres collection

• Vendor: Aromaleigh v1
• Availability: part of the regular line beginning January 2009 from the company's webstore
• Contains: 18 metallic eye colors
• Cost/Amount: USD$7.75 for 1.2 grams. Sample baggies also available.
• Would you purchase again: yes

This collection was created using the same metallic-finish as Aromaleigh v1's Elemental Lustres, but without the sootiness that I've found in many metallic collections and colors (both from Aromaleigh and from other manufacturers). This collection includes:

• Azalea — metallic heathered pink-lilac shimmer
• Bamboo — metallic golden tan shimmer
• Butterfly — metallic greyed indigo-blue shimmer
• Camellia — metallic muted antique rose shimmer
• Cloud — metallic light indigo blue shimmer
• Cypress — metallic warm muted green shimmer
• Dragonfly — metallic light turquoise-green shimmer
• Fig — metallic warm red-brown shimmer
• Ginger — metallic beige-orange shimmer
• Ginko — metallic yellow-green shimmer
• Imperial — metallic medium-light purple shimmer
• Jasmine — metallic peach-mauve shimmer
• Lotus — metallic light blue-silver shimmer
• Lychee — metallic dusty-mauve-rose shimmer
• Mandarin — metallic true-green shimmer
• Tamarind — metallic mauve-purple shimmer
• Tapestry — metallic frosted black shimmer
• Tea — metallic pale green shimmer