This shadow behaves differently between wet and dry application. When it dries down, the wet application remains a cooler pink with the barest hints of gold shimmer. The dry-over-primer application shows a lighter, more neutral pink with a somewhat sparse gold shift. It reminds me a little bit of BE’...
I like this color depth! It’s not a super-bright purple, but it’s not so deep that it may as well be black, either. The formula is thicker and somewhat paste-like, so you easily end up with spider-leg lashes rather than a smoothly-coated color. The BFF mascaras are not...
This is a cooler red. Not quite a berry-red, but very very close. I have polishes that are similar, and I’m sure that I’ve seen others released since 2008, but it’s still not a shade that comes out every year like clockwork. It’s bright enough to be...
This isn’t my favorite of the Voluminous mascaras that I’ve tried, but that’s only because I don’t like the applicator as much as the one on Voluminous Butterfly Sculpt. This wand applies mascara all right, but I feel like I have to get the wand closer...
I love using this as a highlighter when I want just a little bit of color. The peach-pink is visible enough that I don’t know how well this highlighter would work on people with strong golden or olive undertones, though undertones that are closer to neutral might be able...
This also needs four coats for full opacity, like Sentiment. But after those coats, it is totally opaque. It’s more of a fuchsia than a purple, so the vendor artwork kind of lies a bit.
This is my other favorite polish from this collection! This one and Surreal are the ones that had the strongest duotone. On the downside, they require four coats for full opacity, and even with four coats there’s a hint of VNL.
I snagged this in a moment of weakness: I was trying to find something else on NYX’s site, and I was browsing the sale section to see if any recent faves were there. They were not…but this was. Instead of $22, I got it for $11. The colors appealed, so...
This is a blue-based gilded slate-blue shimmer. The shimmer can buff away, but it’s really the most visible component of this color. This one is best used as an accent shade, or a liner, or an inner-vee color - or, if you use it over most of your lid,...
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