Slightly warm, but not too red-leaning. More of a grape than a plum. The color payoff and saturation are really good - this makes an excellent liner shade as well as an accent or all-over shade. Not sure how well it would do as a crease color, but it could...
The color softens ever-so-slightly when applied. Not much - it doesn't sheer out or become a medium blue. It just doesn't have quite as much intensity as it looks like it would have in the pot. (This is easily recovered by applying it over a dark cream or gel base,...
Two “looks” contained in one palette. Both are composed of the same type of pieces, just the colors are different. Mostly repromotes, but a few new items. (Huzzah for Ebay! I got the new items without having to buy the entire kit.) The first subset, Dramatic Eyes, was all repromotes....
A dozen sparkly shadows that can actually be foiled with water. (So many of the recently-reformulated Aromaleigh v2.* shadows are a bit hydrophobic. These…these aren’t!) This collection also has colors that I like a bit more. They’re closer to a winter palette - which is appropriate, since...
At first glance, this kit didn’t give a full put-together look…but it did collect four fairly versatile face colors in one kit. Versatile enough that, for folks with fairer skin who are looking for a very subtle “no-makeup” look, you can have a complete face using just the...
BareMinerals has LOTS of brown shadows in its lineup, both kit-exclusives and regular available-for-individual-purchase shades. This is a brown version of Vanilla Sugar - which isn't one of my favorite shadows ever, but is pretty versatile. This shadow is the same. It's a neutral brown, so no concerns about the...
Either this is a mis-recording on the BEAddicts spreadsheet, and the Maribou kit had slightly different components, or this kit is a near-duplicate of the Hummingbird kit. The color pieces are all the same; the differences are in the mascara (Glamour Lash for this one, Big Tease for Hummingbird) and...
These “get started” kits have probably been around, in one form or another, since a few years after BE started. Currently, they exist…but they’re broken up more granularly (color depth as well as warm/neutral/cool) and the focus more on the foundation, mineral veil, and other face...
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