Entries for Saturday September 18

Zoya’s Austine

• Manufacturer: Zoya/Art of Beauty
• Availability: originally released in October 2007 as part of Zoya's Utopia collection
• Color Range: metallic peach-gold shimmer
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: USD$6 for 15 ml / .5 fl oz
• Would you purchase again: yes
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BareMinerals’ All Dolled Up kit

• Manufacturer: bareMinerals/Bare Escentuals
• Availability: beginning spring 2010 through Ulta (exclusive)
• Contains: 2 mini eye colors, 1 blush, and 1 lip color
• Cost/Amount: USD$20.00
• Would you purchase again: yes

A nicely inexpensive kit...which included a much-sought-after, hard-to-find color (1960s). However, it was a mini-size jar, and was combined with a not-so-loved color (Mystic). That said, the brush by itself retails for $16, and the eye primer is fairly expensive; so even though the primer and the eye colors are minis, this kit was a decent value. (Not fantastic, but decent.) And is it just me, or did it seem like Ulta was getting a lot of highly-sought-after exclusives this year? Heaven blush, 1960s eyecolor, the Cast Away kit with two utterly colors...