Shiro Cosmetics / Detrivore’s Sulph-Haemoglobin

Metallic medium olive gold-green.

CND’s Vinylux Lovely Quartz (329)

I was really excited for this polish! It looked like it had some duochrome action going on, and it was a lighter polish. Turns out it’s just got a strong green pearl dutone, but that’s unique enough. I don’t love that it takes four coats to get...

Zoya’s Michaela

Kiko Cosmetics’ Long Lasting Stick Shadow in Lavender (42)

This isn’t a matte lavender, but it’s close enough! This is a very pale color, almost a lavender-white. It’s a little thin in some places, so I don’t know that it would appear the same on deeper skintones. It isn’t one of the first colors...

LA Colors’ Paranoia

There isn’t as much colorshift in this as in some of the others, and no duotone whatsoever. At the furthest angles of the curves, you can see a bit of yellow. This requires four coats and is nearly opaque, but this is one of the few colors from this...

CND’s Vinylux Gummi (276)

Aromaleigh v2.1’s Matte Saga Four collection

The fourth and fifth chapters in the Norse Matte Saga were released at the same time, around two weeks after the third chapter debuted. These colors aren’t precisely pastels, but they’re not as rich as expected from the vendor photos. I was hoping that Alfrodul would be just...

BareMinerals’ Buxom Strike Gold Plumping Lip Gloss

These are all older shades, and so I’ve had them for a while. This is a pretty good set to get if you want to try out the different product formulas. The mini Plumplines even have the full-sized brush on the ends of the pencils - and in my...

Notoriously Morbid’s Desire

The warm-spectrum multichrome from Notoriously Morbid. It’s much the same as the red-orange-gold multichrome from most other indie vendors, right down to its mind crankiness when mixing with water. The dry application is perhaps less dramatic than the foiled; but it does shift colors at different light angles (and...

TKB Trading’s Ultramarine Violet

A lovely, interesting periwinkle-purple shade with fairly good coverage. Since this is an unblended colorant, it has no ingredients to help with blendability or longevity. You’ll get best results if you stipple instead of trying to sweep it onto your lid; and you’ll want to use an eye...