Metallic maroon with some brown undertones. This looks like a warm brown when foiled, and looks more red when applied dry. The dry application isn't my favorite because the color softens a bit.
<p>I wanted to try and create a "winter-snow" manicure, by adding freehand dots of white polish. It was a good idea, but I figured out where I went wrong:</p> <ol> <li>I should have made much smaller dots - maybe a few larger dots...
I was interested in getting the Curious palette as soon as I saw pictures online. Problem was…it was a limited-edition palette, and it had been released before I was even really aware of Sleek palettes. I wasn't quite ready to pay twice retail price for a Curious palette through...
Semisheer reddish medium purple…it doesn't work too well on me as an all-over lid color because of the patchy application. It works okay as a liner, providing subtler definition and color. It's similar to one of Urban Decay's metallic liner pencils, but it provides just slightly better coverage than...
This isn't a color I think I would have picked out for myself. It looks just a tad too warm for my cooler coloring, it's light enough that it wouldn't provide much definition. These are all true. But I do like this pencil anyway - much more than I thought...
I was all about the green and orange for this look. The relative intensity of the colors didn't look very wintery to me; but the entire Curaçao palette leans more toward brighter shades. The color combination was okay - green, beige and orange is the complement to red, white...
This shade (along with Glamourpuss) was released…I don’t actually know. Sometime in 2014, I think, though it may have been in the second half of 2013.
I put Strawberry Sherbet on my brush, thinking that a softer pink with no shimmer would make a good all-over color. Well, it would have, but…you know how sometimes you can wear just the wrong color of pink, and it makes you look a little like you've been crying?...
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