CND’s Vinylux Ripe Guava (248)

ColourPop’s Lippie Stix collection

The lippie stix are retractable sticks of color, with an airtight cap. They come in different finishes, and a range of shades. Most of the shades are medium intensity or bolder, with a few purples and a black thrown in for “edginess”...but they don’t have Urban Decay’s...

Meow Cosmetics’ Bubak

Try using this as a liner shade. It’s dark enough to provide definition, but it’s not black or navy…or even really brown. There’s enough orange to make the color interesting, but not enough that it will clash or look jarring on extremely warm skintones.

Femme Fatale Cosmetics’ You Know What They Say…

I like this color of red - a faded mauve that still has a bit of depth, and has solid-enough color payoff that it won’t disappear or fade into the background no matter what other eyeshadow color it’s up against. It applies and blends very well. The shimmer...

Shiro Cosmetics’ The Maiden Fair

NYX Cosmetics’ Faux Blacks eyeliner in Onyx

This and Linen (from the Faux Whites) were my first choices from these collections. Onyx doesn’t smudge out as much as I would like, but the coverage is good and it applies easily. My only complaint is that, perhaps, the product is a little too soft. I had repeated...

Shiro Cosmetics’ Yzma’s Essence of Llama

This was one of the best-sellers in 2013, so it went straight into the High Scores collection and stayed permanently available. Makes a very good liner shade, as well as an accent or contour. This color is pretty pigmented - I don’t need much on the brush to get the...

Tarte’s Amazonian Clay 12-Hour Blush in Paaarty

This birthday-gift freebie is an attractive enough color, but it’s so sheer, it barely shows up on me. I think that it would have been all but invisible on folks with medium and deeper skintones.

ColourPop’s Lippie Stix in Tutu

Vampy raspberry-wine with a satin finish. The coverage can be a little bit uneven, especially compared to other CP Lippie Stix; but careful application takes care of that. There was a little bit of staining when I applied this color, but even that staining faded away on its own about 30...

Shiro Cosmetics’ Erotic Friend Fiction

This color applies a bit softer than it appears in the pot - it isn’t translucent, and it’s definitely not a pastel shade, it just doesn’t have the visual payoff you’d expect. The bonus to that is that this color can be used with out utterly...