This post — unfortunately — concludes the blushes I was able to swatch before Shu Uemura withdrew from brick-and-mortar stores in the U.S. (I have a few highlighters, but I thought they deserved their own post.)

Shu's blushes are called "Glow-On" because even the matte shades contain light-reflecting pigments — and they do seem to possess an almost magical glow.

I recently swatched the five "Tracy Reese" polishes in Sally Hansen's latest limited-edition collection — and I think I mentioned that I actually bought seven shades from this collection in all.  Another one of those was Starry, Starry Flight, an absolutely amazing silver glitter.

This polish deserves more than my poor photos can show. It's

It's hard out there for a Shu blush lover. I mean, aside from the fact that Americans can only buy them online ($23 each), it's also hard to get a handle on just how many Glow-On blush shades there are.

I know I didn't swatch every shade. There are shades listed on the website that I've never seen, and

I have a whole slew of Sleek Palette swatches to show you (graciously provided by Becca of Subtle Like a Tank). So I thought we'd start with one you haven't seen yet on this blog: Jewels.

Living up to its name, Jewels offers a rich selection of jeweltones for the eyes. Like the brand's other palettes in this series,

Here's a classic OPI shade, swatched by the exceedingly lovely Soaper1. I feel like we rarely talk about permanent nail polish shades, but it's such a relief when you don't have to scramble to hunt one down. OPI polishes retails for $8.50.

OPI Brisbane Bronze is a shimmery, metallic rose. I’ve picked up this polish dozens of times at various

Some time ago (when Neiman Marcus had a Shu Uemura counter), I swatched their selection of Glow-On blushes. I didn't run the photos because I wasn't 100% happy with how they turned out, but since I'm not likely to get a chance to do them over anytime soon, I figured I might as well share them with you.

Though Shu

Tremendous thanks to the amazing Becca of Subtle Like a Tank (definitely check out her blog — unlike me, she is daringly unafraid of bold color). She very graciously volunteered swatches of her own Sleek collection to add to the Sleek swatch library.

She has swatches of many (possibly all) of the Sleek palettes — and they

Today's post covers the remainder of Trish's eyeshadows. Click here for her matte shades, here for the other half of her Glaze shades, and here for her "Deluxe" shades (these come in double-size pans).

Trish's eyeshadows are generally muted colors, subtle in pigment and in level of frostiness. They're sold as loose pans for $16 each, and

I don't know whether you were already aware, but for some years now, beauty brand Sally Hansen has had a relationship with designer label Tracy Reese. To wit: when Tracy Reese has a runway show, Sally Hansen designs custom nail polish for that show (always in her Salon formula). Well it's now fall/winter 2010, which means you're

Well readers, I swatched the incredibly limited release MAC Pink Friday lipstick (here and here), and now it's time to send her on to someone who will love her more than I could.

For this week's giveaway, I want you to write a review — of any product — for Interact. I am going to try to

Found my first real "spring" collection at the mall this past weekend! I think people have been excited for Chanel spring since the first images of the eyeshadow palettes made their way across the web.

If this collection has one signature piece, it's probably the limited edition, five-shade Ombrees Perlees de Chanel eyeshadow palette ($65). This palette

Yesterday, we took a look at Trish's matte eyeshadows; now it's on to the glazes. The Glaze Eyeshadows are... everything that's not matte.  Trish doesn't really make frosty eyeshadows, so her Glaze shades generally range from satin-finish to soft shimmer.

I was going to swatch Petal at the end, but I ran out of space at

Ambling about a recent Saks beauty event, I idly swatched two of Trish McEvoy's eyeshadows on the back of my hand. (Previously, I'd swatched her Eye Definers and stopped there.) Woah. These are nice. Obviously I had to go back on a sunny weekend and swatch all of them.

Trish eyeshadows fall into three groups: Matte, Glaze (a

Several of you asked about I Get No Kick, the new pearly pink-gold kohl pencil released with Cham Pale — so I thought we'd take a closer look.

The most commonly asked question was, "Is it more pink or more gold?"  If I had to choose, I'd say it's pink.  But it's champagne-pink-gold, like Bare

After experiencing the joy that is Coralista and Sugarbomb, it's become a reflex: Benefit comes out with a new boxed blush, and I have to have it. Especially when they use enticing words like "watermelon" to describe it.

Bella Bamba is pink (watermelon pink) with gold sparkles.

When I first swatched it, it reminded me of