Shiro Cosmetics’ A Fell Voice on the Air

There’s almost some gold and green visible in this color, when the light hits it at just the right angles. Coverage isn’t as even as I’d like, but that can be avoided by foiling it with a bit less water than I used. This is almost a “...

Meow Cosmetics’ Armageddon

Color Club’s Unphased

This color glows. It doesn’t have a gold shimmer like I thought it might; but it’s very vivid. Two coats gave me solid, even coverage. Adding a third didn’t give me extra flash, depth, or other effects.

TKB Trading’s Matte Pop collection

These are ready-to-wear colors! You don’t have to mix them with other ingredients to keep them from falling off your face. (It can help…but it’s not required, as is the case with straight micas or oxides.) I like the shades in these collections, and they’ve got...

Makeup Revolution’s Iconic 1 Redemption palette

Makeup Revolution’s answer to Urban Decay’s various Naked palettes were the Iconic Redemption palettes. The color matches are fairly close. I don’t know how the eyeshadow quality compares, because I don’t own any of the UD palettes. But I can say that at USD$10 or below,...

Shiro Cosmetics’ Wrassle That Deer-Looking Thing

The base color leans reddish, but not strongly or obviously so. The pearl finish softens that further, so this brown coordinates with more colors than might be expected. I’m not sure what this was an “oops” of - possibly Climbing Chaos or King Under The Mountain.

My Pretty Zombie’s New Brisket

Some of the ingredients for the eyeshadow Brisket were discontinued, so Emily reformulated it and gave it a new name. It’s got less of the gold shimmer that the original Brisket had, so this color appears more red than the original did…but looking at them carefully, I think...

Shiro Cosmetics’ Moon Prism Power

It’s interesting how two separate indie companies ended up making eyeshadows with the same name, that were almost reverse-images of each other. Persephone Minerals’ Moon Prism Power looks green in the pot and has a red, almost pink, interference layer. Shiro’s Moon Prism Power is the exact opposite.

Shiro Cosmetics’ You Snow Nothing

NYX Cosmetics’ Faux Blacks eyeliner in Oxblood

I’m happier with this color than with Burnt Sienna. While the other red in this collection actually looks red, this looks more like a burgundy-brown. It’s a better overall liner shade for fairer skintones than Sienna because this doesn’t start to slide into the “looks like the...