Shiro Cosmetics / Detrivore’s A Shadow Among Shadows

Dawn Eyes Cosmetics’ Chrome #12

Light metallic chrome-blue with a faint gold duotone shimmer that’s slightly more visible in certain light angles. It’s almost like a faint duochrome effect, but it’s very subtle. It’s almost like a gold-metallic finish instead of the more often-seen silver.

Zoya’s Bekka

This is a bright yellow. A VERY bright yellow. It was a jelly formula, and it took me four coats to get (almost) full opacity. The polish was fairly durable, but it also stained my nails…badly. I couldn’t soak or even buff this stain away. I just had...

Bite Beauty’s Champagne Discovery kit

This was my first multistick. I wanted to get a sample of some other Bite products, and a multistick in particular…and Chestnut was one of the colors I wanted to get. I got this kit on sale, so for $5 more than one fullsize multistick, I got that plus two...

Dawn Eyes Cosmetics’ Brown Chrome

Near-metallic brown - one of the least “chrome"y of the Captivating Color Chromes, but still a useful, attractive color with good coverage.

Aromaleigh v2.1’s Scintilla

One of five colors in Aromaleigh’s 20th-anniversary collection. This color is a semisheer duotone shimmer, like the other colors in the collection. The coverage can be built up…sort of. Most of what builds is the shimmer rather than the base color.

Shiro Cosmetics’ Sunshower

Third in the “solar-phenomenon” set of Colors of the Month. I am least fond of this color, because seafoam is a pretty shade but not on my eyelids. This can sheer out but retain some of the interference effects, or (I found, quite by accident) it looks good over a...

Shiro Cosmetics’ Tiers of Joy

This is the only eyecolor I got from the Signature collection - which was all blues. I have colors similar to the other two, but I don’t have a lavender-leaning medium periwinkle. It coordinates well with the medium fuchsia-rose blush from this set, and I don’t know that...

CND’s Vinylux Alpine Plum (261)

Full-coverage metallic in…well, I guess it’s a wintry shade. Shadows-in-snow lavender. The formula is fairly good, and the polish is very durable once it’s cured; but it doesn’t level quite as well as I’d like. The visible brushstrokes are all fairly fine, but they’re...

Meow Cosmetics’ Mythos Mattes collection

It’s been long enough that I can’t remember which collection was released first: Mayhem, or Mythos. The color palettes are not exactly the same, but…there are some strong similarities between the two collections. Alchemy is unique, as is Journey. The other shades in this collection match up...