I really like the Sleek Eye Dusts. Tigress looks like a slightly brass-ish gold, and it applies…well…it wants to clump a little bit more than some of the Eye Dusts. But it's a pretty color with a nice, elegant metallic finish. I've most often worn it as a...
The base color appears medium-violet in the pot, but when I applied this, it leaned more slate-blue. Not that I'm complaining, mind you! (That's almost the color of my eyes, with a bit more smoke, so it's a very nice bit of luck finding this exact shade!) A little bit...
I don't know, but I think this might have been Sally Hansen's play to have a Pantone-color-of-the-year polish for 2015. (Not that Marsala was universally loved…but it did have its adherents. And it can be a nicer, slightly elegant-ish red.) This color looks okay on me. I would have liked...
Attractive softer orange, good coverage, and - yay! - doesn’t make my fingers and hands look too red. (Some oranges do that, and it’s very frustrating - especially if I otherwise love the color.) When photos of the Flora and Fauna collection came out, I thought I would...
After my 2014 BBAC Sleek-palette series where I used almost all of my Sleek i-Divine palettes - many for the first time - I was really looking forward to Sleek’s Del Mar II palette. In retrospect, I think I would have had more fun with the Volume I palette -...
Three colors that I wouldn’t have necessarily chosen to team up…but they work rather well. Midnight Sky and Nob Hill are neutral enough to not be overly intimidating; and Mint is a very soft green. I generally prefer Midnight Sky and Nob Hill, and have used them in...
One of BE's eyeliner colors, which have always had better payoff and been more expensive per ounce (though, honestly…when repotting, I don't see much if any difference between one of BE's eyeliners, and one of their loose-powder eyeshadows.) The pigmentation is good. This is definitely brown, not blackened brown...
Yes, yes, I know the name says “pearl”...but this is closer to a frost finish. It's a bit less smooth than a pearl finish, and it while it doesn't completely block the color, the reflectivity is more visible than the base color. To me, that's the hallmark of a “...
Here’s some color! Always lovely to see a richer shade in BE’s kits, even if there’s just one of them. The kit composition was fairly nice, though had I been a BE buyer when it was released I think I would have forgone buying the entire kit...
Soft near-neutral shades in everything. I don’t know that I would have purchased this kit as it stands, but I do have the individual colors and I’m quite content with all of them. (Though I kind of wish Fantasy Island had a little more oomph.)
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