Entries for Tuesday July 03
Meow Cosmetics’ Joys of Summer collection
- Vendor: Meow Cosmetics
- Availability: beginning June 2012 (and subsequent summers) from the company's webstore
- Contains: 24 eyeshadows, 4 blushes and 2 bronzers
- Cost/Amount: eheshadows: $8 for 1.6 grams; $1 for a sample baggie; blush: 20 g jar, $15.95; 10 g jar, $10.25; sample baggie, $1; bronzer: 20 g jar, $16.25; 10 g jar, $10.55, sample baggie, $1
- Would you purchase again: yes
This was another customer-named collection, with customers contributing their favorite “summer pleasures” on the company forum. I hadn’t been on the forum in quite a while, so wasn’t aware that they were holding a contest. (The name I contributed was chosen for last year’s “Simple Pleasures” collection.) I liked the looks of about half the shades, wasn’t too sure on the other half, and was interested in the blushes the instant I read that they were iridescent. I loved that quality about the Lost Rainforest blushes and glow powders! Canna is still one of my favorite blushes, though Anana and Heliconia (which I bought last year) are pretty close. Two of the blushes in the Joys of Summer collection are more sheer, so they might work better as layers over a bolder wash of matte color.
OPI’s Holland collection
- Manufacturer: OPI
- Availability: beginning February 2012 through salons, retailers, and some etailers
- Contains: 12 nail colors
- Cost/Amount: USD$8.99 for 14 ml / .5 fl oz each
- Would you purchase again: yes
OPI’s Spring/Summer collection for 2012 looks…vaguely familiar. The base colors look similar to recently-released shades from Zoya, but with the addition of gold and silver flakies - actual flakies, not the cheap mylar strips that some companies think we’ll be satisfied with. (Glancing at some other reviews around the web, others noticed this too…) It took me a while, but I eventually did fall for this collection…and ended up getting all but three of the colors. Yes, even with the color similarities. (There was a sale at Ulta, buy two get one free.)