Special thanks to guest swatcher Rina, who knows everything there is to know about Besame lipstick. Besame lipsticks are normally $18 each, but through Sunday, August 10th (at 11:59 pm), they're on sale on their website for $6 a pop. I've heard Besame is redesigning their packaging and the sale is an effort to clear old stock.

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Chantecaille Aquablush is a cooling, lightweight, cream, stick blush ($42). According to the Neiman Marcus website, it provides SPF 8. Radiance and Brilliance are highlighters — Radiance is a lighter, champagne gold, and Brilliance is more coppery.

Aquablush cream stick blush: Radiance, Luminous, Daring, Enchanting, Frivolous, Brilliance, Charming

Armani Shine Lipstick is $25. Armani's other lipstick formulas are Sheer and Silk; the Mania formula is being discontinued, and all Mania colors will be remade as "armanisilk."

I assume this laidback attitude toward product naming comes from Armani's corporate belief that you should never buy the same lipstick twice.

Bobbi Brown's Metallic Eyeshadows are $20, and, according to the sales associate, unusually packable for dense, rich color. I found pigmentation to be variable: Forest is extremely pigmented, but I had to really work to get Rockstar to this color intensity. I made no less effort with Navajo, Pink Pearl, Golden Peach, Iced Blue, Gold Dust,

Sweetmystique brought up an excellent point last week: I keep using MAC as a reference, and I haven't shown you what Face & Body actually looks like. I sheered them out to the best of my ability with a Q-tip, then added a drop so you could see what it looks like when it comes out of

I should have known that a picture is worth a thousand words, and I'm afraid my last post might have caused some confusion. So I thought I'd try to set the record straight with another picture. This is Chantecaille Real Skin, blended. Unfortunately it blended so well, my camera had nothing to focus on. I tried using my

Chantecaille's Real Skin Foundation is the most unbelievably blendable cream foundation, available in SPF 15 ($58) and SPF 30 ($62).

Because the product is so blendable, it can be difficult to determine your shade. On first application (with a sponge, under indoor lighting), it looked like I might match more than one shade. In