Zoya’s Giada

This is such a wonderfully smooth metallic finish…there’s very little visible graininess or texturing at all, it’s just shiny and light-reflecting. The color is very rich but not so dark it’s almost black (Zoya’s done a few of those.)

Dawn Eyes Cosmetics’ The Premiums collection

I love multichromes! I get so excited about multichrome eyeshadows or nail polishes…and then get so let down when they turn out to be sheer, need four coats to see the multichromatic effects, or need a certain product to make the colorshifts more visible than “a hint”. When I...

Dawn Eyes Cosmetics’ Mystical

Mystical covers the cool end of the spectrum pretty thoroughly. The purple shows up more strongly at extreme angles, and when it shows up it’s a rich violet.

Dawn Eyes Cosmetics’ Alluring

This colorshift combination has been tried a lot of times as a nail polish…and somehow, it rarely works. It works VERY well in this eyeshadow, though! I think the reason that it works is because the shift doesn’t stop at gold, but moves past into green. It’s...

ColourPop’s Lippie Stix in Rocket

This color is a little more orange and a little less pink than it appeared on the vendor-site photos. Still…it’s not so orange that I can’t wear it. The formula on this one was pretty good - I got very little feathering, and it went on evenly.

Fyrinnae’s Wicked

Sobe Botanicals’ Insomnia

Ended up being a bit softer than I thought it would be; but it’s a nice quasi-neutral. I would have preferred a shimmer or satin finish to pearl - buffing down the finish loses me quite a bit of the base color.

Zoya’s Oceane

This is a very intense, saturated, lovely color of blue. On the site, it looks more teal-ish and is described as “turquoise”. Well..some turquoise does come in this shade of blue, though most is a little grenner (because of the exact mineral content) so to others’ eyes this could...

BareMinerals’ Box of Wonders kit

The “massive sampler” holiday kit (there is no kit comparable to Wealth of Beauty or Bells and Whistles, both of which had fullsize items.) This can be a good gift for someone who wants to try out BareMinerals. It may not be a great gift if someone already has a...

TKB Trading’s Up The Hill

An autumnal accent that looks warm-leaning, but isn’t so warm-leaning that I (neutral-cool coloring) have trouble wearing it. It has orange tones, so it complements and intensifies my blue-grey eye color.