Color Club’s We’ll Never Be Royals

Shiro Cosmetics’ Great British Makeup Box: Showstopper

The warm-neutral holiday set from Shiro. The other full box that I bought, Technical, has cooler-leaning neutrals. I don’t wear all of these items together, because they match nicely with each other but all-warm colors don’t do miracles for my coloring. They’re all very attractive colors, full...

Dawn Eyes Cosmetics’ Burgundy Chrome

ColourPop’s Lippie Stix in Back Up

Part of the Matte X finish group. The color has been discontinued, but Party Foul is close. Sauce is more pink, a little less deep. Sitting Pretty, from the new Lux Lipstick line, looks like it’s in the same ballpark, but more saturated.

Scaredy Cat Cosmetics’ Poysenberry Pie

Persephone Minerals’ Siren’s Song

Some colors look better when they’re different from how they appear in the pot. This…is one of them, in my opinion. An aqua at the full strength that I see in the pot would have been a little too much for me, except as a liner. The much...

Zoya’s Tulip

I was hopeful about this one, because I liked the color. It’s a paler orange with pink tones, so it looks halfway good on me. I wasn’t super-wild about the microglass finish - I don’t like how Zoya often executes these - but decided to pick up...

Shiro Cosmetics’ The Earth’s Mightiest Heroes collection

It took me a long time to get any shadows from this collection. When it originally came out the colors didn’t catch my eye. Then years later, when I decided to get some of the colors, I saw swatches of the whole collection…and decided to get more of...

Inglot’s 14 Eyeshadow

Nice shade, but it doesn’t look great on me. If it were just a tad deeper, or more brown than copper, it would work better with my coloring. It applies decently, and the pearl finish doesn’t completely blot out the underlying color, though it does soften it a...

Meow Cosmetics’ Vintage

This grey leans cool, even without the scattered blue shimmer, so it might not be a great choice for people with golden undertones. This is a softened version of Explicit, from the Stripped collection. It works well for me as an inner-lid accent shade, or a very subtle liner.