When I apply this wet, I see more of the different colors in this shade - discrete dots of color, like a pointilist painting. It looks very similar to Mercurial, from the Alchemie collection. (Mercurial has a little more blue in it, but they’re extremely close!)
This was the only color I got from the Poptastic collection. I thought it would have a stronger duotone/interference effect, but the red shimmer-layer is a bit faint. There’s a very faint red interference effect - EXTREMELY faint. It took me three coats to get to full opacity....
When the screenshots of this collection flooded Instagram, my first thoughts were “I do not need more lipsticks” and “...but there’s a lavender one!” I told myself that I’d consider the lavender. I can wear purple and purple-leaning blush and lip shades, and I look good in them....
I have a few other similar colors to this one; but it’s something that works very well for me and I use them fairly often. It leans just barely warm, but on me it’s a definite neutral color. It harmonizes well with the other colors in the Technical...
This is almost more of a brown than a pink. (When I received my jar, I had to check the label several times because I was sure that I’d been accidentally sent a different color.) The application is on the better end of my experiences with Aromaleigh v2.1 shadows...
About six months after my first DEC purchase, I decided to slowly start getting sample sets of all of the older collections - both because I’m an Extreme Completist, and so that I could get a better idea of which colors I wanted to buy myself. Not long after...
About six months after my first DEC purchase, I decided to slowly start getting sample sets of all of the older collections - both because I’m an Extreme Completist, and so that I could get a better idea of which colors I wanted to buy myself. Not long after...
About six months after my first DEC purchase, I decided to slowly start getting sample sets of all of the older collections - both because I’m an Extreme Completist, and so that I could get a better idea of which colors I wanted to buy myself. Not long after...
About six months after my first DEC purchase, I decided to slowly start getting sample sets of all of the older collections - both because I’m an Extreme Completist, and so that I could get a better idea of which colors I wanted to buy myself. Not long after...
About six months after my first DEC purchase, I decided to slowly start getting sample sets of all of the older collections - both because I’m an Extreme Completist, and so that I could get a better idea of which colors I wanted to buy myself. Not long after...
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