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Guerlain Precious Lights Radiance Essentials Kit Review

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Guerlain makes some of my absolute favorite products for creating a flawless luminous look, especially Guerlain meteorites. Right now, they have available a limited edition collection, the Guerlain Precious Lights Radiance Essentials Kit.

Guerlain Precious Lights

the Guerlain Precious Lights set includes the following:

(1)  Precious Light Rejuvenating Illuminator: This light concealer has gold radiance pigment to blur the appearance of wrinkles and other issues by reflecting light. It also contains peptides to treat the skin.

(2) Guerlain Meteorites Perles Light-Diffusing Perfecting Primer contains also reflects light and conceals blemishes with color correcting properties (generous trial size).

(3) Guerlain Meteorites Perles (my favorite) provide six colors to use as a finishing powder that creates a glowing look unlike anything I have achieved with other powders (generous trial size).

Here are photos from the set.

Guerlain Precious Lights Kit

Guerlian Meteorites. I love these.

Guerlian Meteroites

The Perles Primer. I find that it doesn’t color correct all that much, but it lends to the overall luminous glow that you can get when using these products together.

Guerlain Meteorite Perles Primer

Here is a swatch of the Guerlain Illuminator. This rubs in to diffuse and reflect light.

Guerlian Precious Light Illuminator Swatch

Overall, this is a very nice set and it can be a great way to try these products without dishing out a ton of money for full sizes of the meteorites and primer. One caveat, the shades are geared for fair to light skin. They can be pretty forgiving, but I still wouldn't recommend the kit for anyone who doesn't consider themselves fair or light.

Get the Precious Lights Kit at Sephora

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The Best Face Powders

Finding the best face powder can be a bit tricky. There are plenty of good ones, but there are also plenty that are so full of talc and fillers that they look chalky or pasty, especially in the cheaper brands.

The below article, syndicated from Total Beauty, has their reader’s favorites. I’m actually not a fan of a a couple of the powders in the article: L’Oreal True Match (this one is chalky for me), and Physician’s Formula (that one doesn't last well for me). I also don’t love Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil because it has quite a bit of bismuth, and ingredient that can cause irritation and that creates a shiny look.  However, I do love the Clinique powders that are listed, along with MAC Mineralize. Guerlain, my all time favorite, is also listed.

Click on through below to see the entire list of best face powders from Total Beauty.

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The 13 Best Face Powders

There are so many grease-minimizing powders out there, but which one is No. 1? Find out ...

The 13 Best Face Powders  

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We combed through thousands of reviews to bring you the most helpful, insightful tidbits about the highest-rated face powders on our site.

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What is your favorite face powder?

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MAC Venomous Villains Swatches (Full Collection)

MAC Cosmetics’ limited edition Venomous Villains Disney collection is quite a colorful eyeful. Of course, so are the four Disney villains that the collection is based on. Below are swatches of all of the items of consequence from the full collection. The only items omitted are staples, such as basic eyeliners, finishing powder, mascara, and greasepaint sticks.  There are swatches of all of the MAC Venomous Villains eye shadow, lipstick, lipglass, beauty powder, and powder blush.  All swatches are taken in indoor light.  To see the nail polish swatches look here: MAC Venomous Villains Nail Polish Swatches.

Venomous Villains Makeup MAC Venomous Villains MAC

First up are the Cruella DeVil swatches. I particularly like the lip products in this collection.

swatch mac venomous villains DeVil blush MAC Cruella DeVil Beauty Powder swatch
Powder Blush: Darkly, My Dear Beauty Powder: Her Own Devices
MAC Venemous Villains Eye Shadow Swatch MAC Cruella DeVil Lipstick Swatch
Eye Shadow: Carbon, Sweet Joy, and De-Vil Lipstick: Heartless, Innocence Beware!,
Lipglass: Wicked Ways, Devilishly Stylish

Evil Queen includes some pretty violet eye shadows and another round of great lip shades.  Toxic Tale and Strange Potion are particular favorites of mine.

MAC Venomous Villains Evil Queen Eye Shadow Swatches MAC Venomous Villains Evil Queen Lipstick Lipglass Swatches
Eye Shadow: Vainglorious, Vile Violet, Her Alter Image Lipstick: Toxic Tale, Sinister
Lipglass: Hot House, Strange Potion
MAC Evil Queen Beauty Powder Swatch Blush Swatch
Beauty Powder: Oh So Fair, and Powder Blush: Bite of an Apple

Dr. Facilier has my favorite items from the Venomous Villains collection. As you can see from the swatch, the lip Gelee is extra luminous and the pigments are gorgeous.

MAC Venomous Villains Lip Gelee Swatch Dr. Facileir MAc Venomous Villains Pigment Swatches
Lip Gelee: Resort Life Pigment: Melon, Push the Edge, Brash and Bold

Maleficent provides even more wonderful lip shades and two mineralize eye shadow duos. The duos disappointed me a bit. They look beautiful in the package, but rather muddy on the skin. The green in She Who Dares is rather nice though and really looks much better than in the picture. I think these would look nicer in daylight, but they really are not daylight colors.

MAC Maleficent Mineralze Eyeshadow Swatches MAC Venomous Villains Lipstick Swatches Lipglass Swatch Maleficent
Mineralize Eye Shadow Duos in She Who Dares and My Dark Magic Lipstick: Violetta, Dark Deed
Lipglass: Revenge Is Sweet, Wrong Spell
MAC Beauty Powder Swatch Briar Rose
Beauty Powder: Briar Rose

The MAC Venomous Villains collection will be available September 30, 2010 through October 2010.

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