I purchased this at Sephora after hearing so many of you popples raving about it. For those of you not in the know, here's the description from Sephora.com:

Get Started Kit - Fairly Light/Light
Price: $60 ($181 Value)
Begin with the right foundation! If you hate the look and feel of traditional makeup, but you want to cover imperfections, redness, or other skin conditions, join the other seven million women who swear by their bareMinerals - the makeup that performs like a skincare treatment.
The Get Started Kit will get you on your way to beautiful, radiant skin. Made of pure crushed minerals from the earth, bareMinerals SPF 15 Foundation looks like a powder, feels like a cream, and buffs on like silk, giving the skin a natural luminosity. It's makeup so pure you can sleep in it.

This complete kit includes all the basic products to achieve radiant skin:
-Two shades of bareMinerals SPF 15 Foundation to ensure the perfect match. (Size: 0.06 oz)
-bareVitamins Skin Rev-er Upper: can be applied daily before applying bareMinerals to rev up your skin
-Mineral Veil: provides a translucent finishing touch to your makeup, infusing it with softness and adding a flawless finish. (Size: 0.06 oz)
-Warmth All Over Face Color: add an instant sun-kissed glow to skin where the sun would naturally touch. (Size: 0.06 oz)
-Flawless Application Brush
-Full Coverage Kabuki Brush
-Maximum Coverage Concealer Brush
-Bonus! A How-to DVD for tried and true beauty tips from Leslie Blodgett, Bare Escentuals CEO.

I also bought the i.d. bareMinerals Multi-Tasking Minerals in Well-Rested (yellow-ivory). Here's that description from Sephora.com:

Besides working as a beautiful, soft eyeshadow base, Multi-Tasking Bisque also performs as a miracle concealer for your face, covering dark circles and skin imperfections. Apply directly onto brown and red spots, blemishes, broken capillaries, scars and other areas of skin imperfections. Use Bisque for lighter complexions and Summer Bisque for deeper, golden complexions. Plus, enjoy the added SPF 20 in Summer Bisque for year round sun protection that won't sting your eyes like traditional creams and lotions.

When I first got the kit, I wasn't too thrilled with it. But as I developed my own routine with the cosmetics, I'm more and more thrilled. There are a few components to the kit that I don't use, but most of it is very helpful.

I'll go step by step, since what I do is somewhat different than what the instructions on the DVD say to do.

Before I start with the BE, I wash and dry my face, and moisturize. And, if I have any dark blemishes, or if my undereye circles are really bad, I might begin with some liquid concealer just on those areas first.

Step 1: bareVitamins Skin Rev-er Upper

I apply this just like moisturizer

Step 2: bareMinerals SPF 15 Foundation in Fairly Light

The kit I got comes with two foundations, Light and Fairly Light. I'm using the Fairly Light in the winter. In the summer, when I have some color, I may be able to use the Light instead.

Although the girl at Sephora used the Flawless Application Brush, I'm having more luck with the Full Coverage Kabuki Brush, which I Love

Dump a bit of foundation in the lid of the makeup. Swirl the Kabuki Brush into the makeup, tap the extra off, and buff the makeup onto your face.

Swirl, Tap, Buff. Repeat that mantra in your mind!

Step 3: Concealer

The foundation can also be used as a concealer if you use the Maximum Coverage Concealer Brush.

The makeup goes on a bit thicker and more precise with this brush, and it covers my blemishes very well.

Then, I use the same brush to apply the i.d. bareMinerals Multi-Tasking Minerals. I bought the Well Rested, which is a yellowish-ivory. I apply it to my undereye circles using the Concealer Brush.

Step 4: away from the realm of BE

I apply my Benefit High-Beam and Stila Blush as usual. It looks fine on top of the BE.

Step 5: Mineral Veil

I apply this with the Kabuki Brush to give my face a finished look.

Voila! Now I'm beautiful! Well, not really, but I'm less flawed than I was before!

Now the stuff I don't use:

Flawless Application Brush

Nothing wrong with this brush, really. I just prefer the Kabuki

Warmth All Over Face Color

When the girl at Sephora put this on me, she remarked how it looked really dark in the container but went on very light. And when she put it on me, it looked fantastic.

When I put it on myself, I look like a train wreck. A streaky, orange train wreck. Since I prefer to be rosy instead of bronzed anyway, I put this one away. Maybe I'll give it another shot someday.

So, that's it.

If anyone has used any of the eye or lip makeup by BE, I'd be really interested in hearing about it.

My review:

4 out of 5 pimps. Although there are a ton of steps, the makeup is super easy to apply and it looks natural, not cakey. The true test will be in the summer, when I'm sweaty. I'm a bit nervous about that because the other day, when I was crying at the end of the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie (shut up), the Well Rested got wet and pancakey under my eyes. But I'm crossing my fingers...