Hating:

Mineral makeup Senna gives good face — even after trading my moisturizer, sunscreen, and foundation for BB cream, I still stock two or three compacts of Senna Mineral Mix powder foundation. And Senna’s publicist spoils me with the best blushes and eyeshadows, along with answering my requests to try products like Senna’s Totally Transforming Eyeshadow Primer.

So Senna’s eyeshadow primer was a great base for shadow — it could substitute for under-eye concealer, and it contains a potent vegetable ogliopeptide that works like Botox. But couldn’t Senna’s eyeshadow primer have kept my smoky eyeshadow creaseless for a day?

And wouldn’t Dark Knight be a better movie if Bruce Wayne would just discuss how Martin Scorsese’s Age of Innocence is the perfect illustration to Edith Wharton’s same-name novel?

And why couldn’t Jesus turn water into green tea soy lattes, instead of wine?

I’m not asking for too much, am I…

Hating:

Senna’s Beverly Hills boutique used to give away Senna Cosmetics “4 in Ones” eyeshadow palette, in a rainbow of black and white. It was the perfect smoky eye palette, with white shadow for highlighting and a foggy gray for filling in brows.

Senna is practically still giving their “4 in Ones” away — they’re only $10 online.

The bummer? Senna Cosmetics “4 in Ones” are only sold in palettes like “Caviar” (Ivory, Khaki, Lavender, Aubergine) and “Sorbet” (Iridescent Peach, Icy White, Mint Green Shimmer, Royal Purple).

“Mint Green Shimmer” eyeshadow? Like construction-tape-yellow nails, I’ll leave that to the retarded sisters of Rihanna…

Wanting:

I’ve worn a smoky eye everyday since I was 15.

Yep, so for a whole year now.

Just like I’ve got a uniform — silk jersey racerback tank dresses, Giuseppe slippers, vintage Hermes Herbags — for my body, I’ve got one for my face. The only thing I’ve experimented with — face-wise, wink — are shades of charcoal and chocolate and midnight to smudge into a smoky eye. I’m a sucker for how midnight makes a brown-eyed girl’s peepers pop, but Senna’s matte eyeshadow “Ebony” is a tempting shade. My vanity is only matched by my lazy minimalism: an ashy brown is easier to apply than charcoal or blue, and could double as brow powder…

Wearing:

I used to be a whore for NARS makeup, largely thanks to their matte black, minimalist packaging and the dirty dubbing of their blushes (“Super Orgasm?” Genius). Now I only use Senna Cosmetics. Whatever Senna lacks in cheeky-chic marketing, the boutique line makes up with high quality pigment.

I always have a backup compact of Senna’s Mineral Mix powder foundation — its buildable coverage has a slight shimmer, so that your face looks dewy instead of Kabuki. Senna sent me their new Senna HDExtreme Firming Radiant Makeup, which is the liquid version of Mineral Mix: the slightest champagne shimmer makes the foundation blur your imperfections into the smoothest beauty…

Hating

I’m sure Senna’s brow stencil kit is an eye-opener for chicks with sperm brows or Ronald McDonald-like, un-golden arches (I’ve been there, shorty).

But would you cut your own hair?

Leave the caterpillar clipping to the pros…

Wanting

Senna Cosmetics was created by Eugenia Weston, an Emmy-nominated A-list makeup artist and color theorist who worked with Helmut Newton and inspired Kevyn Aucoin.

Which is lovely.

But what matters is Senna makes mineral makeup that works. I’ve never see eye shadow with a richer, finer pigment: Senna Matte Eye Color is like powdered silk.

Try Senna’s “Midnight,” fresh for fall: it’s a deep navy bordering on black, and its blue will brighten the whites of your eyes…