Almost as deep a base color as Magnifique, but it gets thwarted somewhat by the “velvet” finish that adds its own layer of whitewash-residue atop the brown. (If you're thinking that I should not have bought this kit, you'd be right. I now know for absolute certain that BareMinerals' Velvet...
In retrospect, this was not the best color-purchase for me. The photo on the site made it look like it had more gold tones, when actually it's more of a yellow-orange. The color payoff is okay, the finish is very nice. But the shade is not one that I can...
Wearing my new boots I signed up for one of those sites that sells shoes for a pretty low price, and so far I've bought two pairs of shoes...and three pairs of boots. They're all above-the-knee, and wide-calf, so they actually fit me! Finding boots that fit me is...
Brighter, almost “holiday” red, with a shimmer finish and a higher gloss than most other CND polishes. It isn’t metallic, it’s a little bit rough to be a frost finish, but it’s a lovely shade. If you have markedly warmer undertones, this color may not look so...
Color-palette-wise, I think this may be my favorite subset of the ScandalEyes shadows. Even with four browns, the other shades nicely cover the range of color, and they all coordinate well with each other. (I don’t know that I could easily wear multiple ScandalEyes colors because of all the...
A romantic color palette…that doesn’t have a pink. The purple that it does have is a softer near-pastel, but the interference of that color and of the highlight shade change this from being “another romantic-shade quad” to something…not bolder. Less pliant? Covert-assertive? Not quite sure how to...
This may look like it could be an opaque deep green liner shade. It's more like a medium liner shade, not truly the deep green you see in the pot. Applied dry, the blue shimmer effect is softer and more diffuse. Applied wet, the blue shimmer is harder, sharper, more...
Good solid color payoff makes this a good neutral to have in your palette. It's a very slightly cool taupe-grey, very similar to Fyrinnae's Work Safe Blue (which started out life as Damn Paladins.) I don't know if other companies have corresponding shades for this; but I do know that...
This kit was…well, a bit odd. I ended up having all of the pieces to this, even the brush, but that’s not because I intentionally bought this kit. (I don’t even know if it was available when I got into BE.) There aren’t many pieces, and...
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