Meow Cosmetics’ Cat Eyes collection

One of Meow’s first collections, part of the original regular line. The colors are matte, and are all over the spectrum. The formula is okay…but these are not the best matte shadows that I’ve tried. They work nicely and last long if foiled and applied over a...

BareMinerals’ Basics and Beyond Eyecolor collection

Five minis and one “full size” eyeliner (all .01 oz). All of these colors had been previously released, and while some were easier to find than others, only Stardust was particularly difficult to get ahold of. It was a fairly good “re-promote” collection, since all of the shadows (except one) were...

Shiro Cosmetics’ Team Gold and White

When the “what color is this dress?” question drove the internet crazy, Caitlin was able to take care of people on both sides of the question Team Gold and White is a pale yellow-gold near-metallic shadow about halfway between Shiro’s /hugs and BE’s Sun Goddess.

Shiro Cosmetics’ Steelix / Victory Road

Part of the original Super Effective collection, discontinued some time in…I have no idea. Its name was changed to Victory Road in 2012, and then…the collection lineup changed again. I have no idea what happened to this color. I'm going to guess that in 2014, when the collection size was...

Meow Cosmetics’ Head Shot

I bought this color a few years ago, when the collection first came out. (And then I put it in my “to be swatched” backlog-box and there it stayed. Until I forgot that I'd bought it, and wondered why I was sure that I had.) This is a good solid...

New site series: BE Historic

In December 2014 I was doing my end-of-year organization, including planning out my posting schedule for 2015, and discovered…that I have enough kits from BareMinerals (nee Bare Escentuals) to post three kits a week…for 48 weeks. (THREE KITS A WEEK FOR NEARLY A YEAR, CARL!) It isn't because I've bought every...

Cherry Culture’s Jumbo Shadow Liner in Temptation

Almost every time I swatch one of the pencils from this collection, I get so…ANGRY. The colors are lovely, some are shades not really found in other lines at all. Coverage is very very good. But the color does not set! I've waited 30 minutes for arm-swatches to set, and…...

Sephora’s Contour Eye Pencil in Galaxy Girl

BareMinerals’ Tricksy

BareMinerals’ Perfect Rose blush

There are some extremely faint rouge tones in this, but they're very faint. This would make a really good summery blush for fairer/lighter skintones, with the very faint appearance of “tanned-blush”. Annoyingly, this was only ever a limited-edition release, and - as far as I can tell - it...