Today's post was made possible by Jellyminx, of Jellyminx Thinks, who very kindly donated some of her personal pigment collection to the MAC pigment swatch catalogue.

Around the time I was last swatching MAC pigments (loose eyeshadow beloved for their complex colors and/or intensity of pigment), I got a letter from the beautiful, talented, and very gracious Jellyminx of Jellyminx Thinks, saying she had a few

When I hear about a particularly good sale, I've just got to pass it along. And damn, this is a good one.

If you were thinking of buying either Bobbi Brown's holiday Chrome Mini Brush Set or Gold Stone Long-Wear Eye Palette, they're both currently on Macy's website for $22. I don't think you'll find

Yesterday we started discussing Chantecaille's powder blush. Today I have for you the other five shades currently available. These blushes are $28 each (and check out their Aquablush too, while you're at it).

In general, I would say the Chantecaille brand is subtle, luxuriously made, and focused on "naturally radiant" beauty (with the exception of their

Dallas is having the rainiest fall I can remember, but that does present a good opportunity to catch up on a few essential permanent-collection items before we dive back into the seasonal goodies.

I think powder blush is one of the products Chantecaille does best. I sometimes have to remind myself that Chantecaille is an American brand (with a French

Zoya is best known as a nail polish brand, but they also produce a lipgloss called Hot Lips. These come in cute, chubby little squeeze tubes with rounded tips. They're

Dior just released a new lipstick formula: Serum de Rouge ($32). It comes in a long, pen-style tube, and when you twist the base, the lipstick "clicks" up (but you can also "click" it back down).

What makes Serum de Rouge so special is that it contains the active ingredient from Dior's Capture Totale (their wrinkle-prevention line). It felt

I don't know what's bigger news about Bobbi's new Rich Color Gloss: the formula or the fact that this is the first doe's foot applicator I can remember having seen from the line.

Bobbi's website says they offer "the coverage of a lipstick, the soft shine of a gloss, and the luxurious feel of a balm." One of the Bobbi

Did you have any doubts that this fall is unusually vampy? Let Chanel allay them for you, with a small collection called Noirs Obscurs.

It seems to me to be a bit of black humor (pun not actually intended) to name the eyeshadow quad Les Folies Noires ("folly" is a mistake, a lack of good sense). The quad just

Are you planning your entries for the Bobbi Brown foundation brush giveaway? Write my URL on your arm to win!

Holiday items have begun trickling in — I spotted an incomplete Bobbi holiday display this weekend, and took the opportunity to swatch the highly anticipated Earth Metal Palette.

The Earth Metal Palette is

I recently got my hands on Chanel's foundation manifest, scanned it in, and posted it — to show, at a glance, the differences between their different foundations. People seemed to enjoy that, so I got one from Armani, too. Click the image to view at full size.

Update, spring 2010: I saw an updated foundation map

Chantecaille has four foundations, in varying levels of coverage: Just Skin (tinted moisturizer in an airtight tube, though I think the coverage might actually be fuller than Real Skin), Real Skin (very sheer cream foundation in a compact, available in SPF 15 and SPF 30), Future Skin (medium-to-full coverage gel foundation in a screw-top pot), and

I have a giveaway for you, readers, and I am tickled pink about it.

I'm very pleased to say that I finally found a counter with a full set of the permanent Cremesheens. Cremesheens were released in two collections: first in September of last year, in a collection called Cremesheen, and then in February of this year, in Cremeteam (which included the now famous, limited edition Lavender Whip and the