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Concrete Minerals’ Orion’s Girl

It looks orange in the pot, and applies with the same color depth, but it leans a bit red. Good application with mild staining if you apply it damp over bare skin.

CND’s Vinylux Divine Diamond (331)

I was really looking forward to this color! Promo photos made it look like a good duotone polish - a gilded white with a green interference layer. Instead, it’s a silvered gilt base with a frost finish that shows brushstrokes a little too well.

Kiko Cosmetics’ Long Lasting Stick Shadow in Slate Blue (18)

This is an odd color…but it’s great for people who want a well-set-off interference effect layer without having to use a solidly opaque dark cream base. The downside is that if you want to keep the blue shimmer in place, you’ll want to avoid blending or smudging...

ColourPop’s BFF Volumizing Mascara in Pink Inc.

Like all of the BFF mascaras, this has some texture issues. It’s a little thinner than some of them, so it doesn’t clump up as badly as some (like Yellow Goodbye) but it does flake fairly easily unless you use a waterproofing top coat over it. (I haven’...

Aromaleigh v2’s Diapha highlighter

Very soft gold with a pale base. It’s easy to over-apply this because it’s so sheer and the shimmer is very soft and subtle. It’s more of a sheer color wash than a shimmer-highlighter. It’s also one of the face colors that Aromaleigh has kept around.

Maybelline’s Color Sensational Lipstick in Blissful Berry (410)

This almost looks like a very pigmented lip balm instead of a lipstick. This was a more recent purchase, so maybe the formula had changed from the bulk of the Colorsensational lipsticks that I bought between 2011-2017. I did want a darker shade, but this works for me for daily...

Color Club’s Blaze

This is another bright candied red - almost an orange-red. It’s bright, right on the edge of neon, but I’m not sure if it is a neon color.

CND’s Vinylux Powerful Hematite (334)

Deep charcoal with a subtle, sunken shimmer effect. It’s a little brushstrokey, like a frost-finish polish. I like getting my hands on another dark grey polish, but I wish that it was either a cleaner shimmer finish or a creme.

Makeup Revolution’s Colour Book Shadow Palette CB05 kit

This is one of five “colour book” palettes: blacks/greys/whites (CB01), browns/golds/creams (CB02), reds/yellows/oranges (CB03), purples/pinks (CB04), and this one, greens/blues (CB05). Each has the same basic structure: 24 mattes and 24 corresponding shimmers separated by a plastic barrier, each palette a mixture of eyeshadows...