Entries for Friday July 13

BareMinerals’ Pretty Amazing Lip Gloss in Perky

• Vendor: Bare Escentuals
• Availability: part of the Putting on the Glitz collection
• Color Range: semisheer peach-rose creme
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4
• Cost/Amount: USD$16 for .13 ounces
• Would you purchase again: yes

When I first saw this color I thought I wouldn’t like it at all. It’s one of the glosses - semisheer, truly a gloss - and I don’t like those nearly as much as I like the full-color Pretty Amazing lip cremes. I was pretty sure that this would be a “pitch-it” portion of the kit. Then one day I was in kind of a hurry, grabbed the wrong tube as I headed out the door, and decided to see just how this looked on me, anyway.

It’s sheer color, and I’m still less than thrilled with that aspect of it. Still, it isn’t too orange, and it actually looks incredibly natural on me. I’m not going to scour Ebay looking for others, but I do kind of wish that I hadn’t thrown out my other two tubes before I actually gave the color a fair shot!

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