NYX Cosmetics’ Epic Wear Liner Stick in Silver Lining

This one is just…kind of a disappointment. I was really hoping for a nicely-applying metallic silver, instead of a skippy chunky mess. This doesn’t love going on smoothly either! However, since it does kind of apply like a sparkle-effects layer, I apply this over any deeper ink or...

NYX Cosmetics’ Sweet Cheeks Creamy Powder Blush Glow in Fig

CND’s Vinylux Mover & Shaker (371)

This is a pale…near-pink peach white? Whatever it is, it’s on the warmer side of “pastel-white.” I have some really good white polishes that I use as stamping backgrounds, and this might be a similar shade. It isn’t totally opaque after two coats so it’s too...

CND’s Vinylux Gala Girl (359)

I love when nail collections manage to include a color that could, on its own, be a straightforward neutral…but it fits into the over all colorway of the collection. This shade is a near-white, almost-pink-leaning complement to Sweet Cider. I did have a few issues with thin spots, but...

ColourPop’s Wild for Wine collection

I recently went a teeny tiny bit nutso. I got a chunk of money owed to me, and one of the beneficiaries of my temporary largesse was ColourPop. I did something I hadn’t really done before: I bought some of their eyeshadow palettes. I love deeper reds, and so...

Silk Naturals’ Qwerty

This was part of Silk Naturals’ Avant-Garde collection, which was a dupe of Anastasia Beverly Hills’ Subculture palette. I was never interested in that palette, so I ended up with only one of the colors - Qwerty, an uber-deep green satin. This color was released in 2017, and now - four...

Kiko Cosmetics’ Long Lasting Stick Shadow in Cool Gold (54)

The base color is a cooler white-gold, but this “shadow”‘s most visible effects are the interference shimmer shifts. I see primarily gold and red, with a little bit of silver. This color is more of an “effects” shade, or a highlighter than a solid laydown of color like so...

JD Glow Cosmetics’ Liquid Multichrome Liner in Urgent

This is another extremely subtle shift. The predominant color is a deeper red, almost a maroon. The orange and gold shifts are faintly visible when swatched on my arm, but I wasn’t able to see that when it’s on my lids. (Then again, it’s difficult to see...

Zoya’s Patrice

I did not expect this polish to be this glamorously elegant. It’s a cooler, buff-toned pink with scattered gold glitter. I thought that the glitter would be barely-visible microglitter, or that the pink would be your standard ballerina, baby, or Barbie pink. Instead I see what looks like the...

elf’s No Budge Shadow Stick collection

When elf came out with a small collection of shadow sticks, I was interested. I liked several of the colors, and hoped that they really would be "no-budge." While they do tend to stay in place for a longer time than many elf cream or pencil shadows, they aren't 100% budge-proof,...