Notoriously Morbid’s Halfway to Halloween collection

I bought three of the five eyeshadows from this collection about two months after it was originally released. They looked unique enough for me to want to add them to my collection. Two of them - Dead Dates and Toxic Waste - ended up being attractive, not quite a match...

Notoriously Morbid’s Cute, Weak and Kitteny

This looks lighter brown in the pot, but it’s got a strongly-visible top whitish layer. It looks neutral in the pot, but the top layer…turns it slightly warm, somehow. The application is decent enough, with no pilling or patchiness. It could be an interesting base layer, or a...

Notoriously Morbid’s Curds and Whey

Pale lavender, almost a white-purple. The eyeshadow is a little powdery, but it applies evenly and blends decently. I have found that it can fade away throughout the course of a day unless I use just a tiny amount of setting spray (usually spritzed onto a face-buffing brush and then...

NYX Cosmetics’ Suede Matte Lipstick in Vintage

I was happy to see this color finally recreated in the Lip Stick line, when it had been in the Lip Liner collection from the get-go. This is a great shade for me - deep but not the deepest red, cool undertones, and a soft matte finish. It does have...

Maybelline’s Color Sensational Lipstick in Sapphire Siren (835)

Kiko Cosmetics’ Long Lasting Stick Shadow in Midnight Blue (17)

I have several liners named “Midnight Blue” (I’d guess that many people do, unless they hate the shade!) This is a metallic finish, and even through it seems to swatch a bit uneven, when applied it’s pretty smooth, balanced, full coverage.

NYX Cosmetics’ Slide On Eye Pencil in Jewel

I love this shade - it's a softened mauve shimmer that works well with my coloring, and gives me softer definition with a color other than grey. It gives me a bit of red near my lids that isn't either blood-red or hot pink (which is sometimes exactly what I...

Maybelline’s Super Stay Ink Crayon in Enjoy The View

A well-pigmented warmer neutral. It applies solidly and stays in place fairly well - standard (thus far) for these Super Stay Ink Crayon. This turned out a bit warmer, a bit more orange than I thought it might. (I was really hoping it would be a dupe for Buxom Brooklyn,...

Color Club’s I’ll Never Desert You

Not quite bright enough to be called “cameo rose”, but it’s very close. There are brown undertones that make it more of a pink-clay. I thought it might be more rosey, but since this is a “desert” inspired palette, the clay/dust color makes more sense. The polish spreads...

Color Club’s Can You Not?

This is almost a very cool pink. It’s an interesting shade, but it seems a little less intense than many other colors in this collection. The formula was a bit problematic: it did not really want to self-level at all. You can see the thinner spots in the photos,...