BareMinerals’ Bare Pleasures kit

BE has released a couple of these “mini” collections over the years: nine eyeshadows, all mini size, many of the colors hard-to-find shades, and they’re built around a theme. In this case, luxury goods. There’s a good mix of neutrals and richer shades, so I can build a...

Stila’s Cobalt Smudge Pot

L’Oréal’s Infallible Silkissime Eyeliner in True Teal

This entire lineup is really good! The individual pencils are more expensive than other drugstore pencils, and they're pencils rather than retractable sticks of product. But there's no arguing with the intensity of the colors! They're also very easy to apply evenly, which is another thing that not all pencil-liners...

TKB Trading’s Lavender Luz highlighter

Sheer white base with purple interference shimmer. I've used this as an effects-layer on top of a colored eyeshadow base, and it could probably also work on lips and as a face- and body-highlighter. It looks really cool, patting a thin layer of this on top of a still-damp black...

Maybelline’s Color Sensational lipstick in Brazen Berry (905)

The cooler of the two purple lipsticks in the Vivids group. Hot Plum is more fuchsia-violet. This one is straight-up heliotrope. I'm not wildly in love with the shade, but it does look decent on me, and it's not as purple as I originally thought it might be. The glossy...

Aromaleigh v1’s Pure Hue: Delicate Burgundy

LaurEss’ Windswept

A stormy neutral that won't overwhelm other colors, but it does have solid color payoff. I like pairing this with cream or pale mauve.

Pure Luxe’s Indigo

This was one of Pure Luxe's Super Liners, so it was much more pigmented than the regular line of eyeshadows. Wet application is even, with solid color payoff. Dry application was okay, though it wanted to get a little patchier toward the edges, even after repeated attempts to pat the...

My Pretty Zombie’s Maryjane

This green almost looks greyed or dusty…but it isn't. Not quite. It's softened a bit. I personally could see buying and wearing this shade if it were just the base color - it's a more elegant looking green that's deep enough to be definitely visible, but not so deep...

Color Club’s Triple Lutz

This is really close to Sally Hansen's Copper Rose - a little more coppery, just a smidge deeper, but they're very similar. I like this color! I just wish that the formula was better…this is a bit streak-prone. On the up side, it dries (and cures) pretty quickly, and...