Friday really crept up on me — and that means we've reached the end of Stars Makeup Haven week. Though I don't usually post on Saturdays, tomorrow I'll make a roundup post of these five pictures and put a link in Hot Topics (in the right-hand navigation) so you can find it easily later.

I also got a question yesterday

Blue eyeshadow lovers, I really think Stars Makeup Haven is your brand. (Don't worry, neutral lovers: I've saved a little something for you tomorrow.)

For those of you just joining us, this week we're admiring all 50 shades of a relatively new makeup line. SMH got its start as a website selling pigment-pressing supplies and empty palettes — and though

It's day 3 of Stars Makeup Haven week at TNBTTGSY! Stars Makeup Haven got its start selling 1" (26mm) empty pans (the same size as MAC eyeshadow pans), thin magnets, and palettes — everything you would need to press your own loose eyeshadow. Now they've launched their own brand of cosmetics, and you have 50 new shades of incredibly soft,

Put on your hardhats, ladies (and fellas?), today's shadows are extreme. We're continuing on through the catalog of Stars Makeup Haven eyeshadows — and I should have mentioned yesterday that these pans are the same size as MAC's, meaning they will fit in your 4- and 15-pan palettes (even E.L.F. palettes).

In a nutshell, SMH are incredibly pigmented (as

I am SO excited about this week at TNBTTGSY (and it's been really hard not to spill the beans prematurely). In a nutshell, this week we're focusing on a great new brand, plus I have an exclusive discount code for you, PLUS there's a giveaway every day this week. (Dang!)

I have a very American (or Walt Disney?) fondness for

Today's post is a little bit higglety-pigglety, because Chantecaille's fall collection is a little all over the place. The main event for fall is Sylvie's Personal Palette, a 3-eyeshadow, 1-blush quad with rose embossing on the powders — but I'm not sure what the release date is, and my counter doesn't yet have a tester.

For fall, Chantecaille is also

I'm introducing a new feature today, one I've been thinking about for a while now (and if it doesn't work, we'll fuhgeddaboudit). Spending so much time hanging around makeup counters, I hear (or overhear) little useful tips from the makeup artists who work there — and I want to pass them along.

So to kick off this feature with

Sorry to backtrack a little, but when my Nordstrom first put Bobbi Brown's Nude Collection out on display, they set the eyeshadow palette and the shimmerbrick out on little pedestals with price placards — and I gleefully swatched them, thinking that was the whole collection.

Well, when the official display unit arrived, it turned out there were also

When I first caught sight of Too Faced's Natural Eye Neutral Eye Collection (which I'll call the Natural Eye Palette from now on), I was intrigued. I think it was being promoted on Sephora's homepage, and online, it looked like a dream.

When my Sephora finally got stock and I was able to see it in person, I was

Bobbi Brown's Ivy League collection is out on counters, just in time for back-to-school.

There are three fall-friendly eyeshadow shades, each $20 and sold in a "one-pan palette." (Bobbi's eyeshadows and blushes are all on a system that allows you to construct your own 3- or 6-pan palettes.) Dark, sparkly green Bash Metallic Eyeshadow was previously released with the