L’Oréal’s Infallible Gel Lacquer Liner in Bronze

Milani Cosmetics’ Shadow Eyez pencil in Snowy White

Not a brilliant white, nor an oyster or cream shade. Just…white, with a matte finish. It applied well, even if it did take a second pass to get fully opaque coverage. I like this limited-edition white better than the “regular” shade, which is a white metallic that doesn't cover...

Urban Decay’s 24-7 Eye Pencil in Deviant

A great shade with a pearl rather than a metallic finish…that sadly had some pretty severe application problems. Even using a dotting method rather than attempting to draw a line or a series of shorter lines, I couldn't easily get this pencil to adhere to my lid. The swatch...

Meow Cosmetics’ Wildcat Leopard glow powder

Not deep enough to work for contouring or bronzing, but it does work very nicely on top of brighter blushes that you want to tone down…just a tiny little bit. The glow seems more subtle on this Wildcat powder than on many of the others, which is nice to...

Jordana’s Twist n Shine Balmstain in Terra Crave (08)

Meow Cosmetics’ Explicit

The single black/white/grey shade in an entire collection of neutrals…and it's almost a blue-black, rather than being a straight-up charcoal or softened black.

Beauty from the Earth’s Hopeless Romantic

When I first swatched this, I thought, “Oh, this is just like that shadow in Aromaleigh's Elemental Lusters collection!” And then I checked my inventory…and apparently I never owned a lavender-ish metallic shadow from the Elemental Lusters collection. Still, the sentiment stands: it has a metallic finish and a...

My Pretty Zombie’s Goth Mary Poppins

Blue? Green? Blackened…something? This color just keeps showing more and more interesting facets. The main color is a deep blue, but the sparkles make the blue look a bit lighter, especially from a distance. The blue-green shows up at certain angles, but is a subtle hint rather than an...

Femme Fatale Cosmetics’ Wavemender

Just a little brighter than I regularly prefer my eyeshadows…but it's a gorgeous color. I wear this as a high-contrast liner alongside blacks, dark browns, or the darkest purples I own. It did stain my skin when I swatched it, but a second pass with the makeup remover wipe...

Color Club’s Ms. Hautie

It's grey! It's shiny! It's lumpy! ...wait, what? Yes, really. This polish is a thick quasi-foil cement grey with little sparkle particles. Except they're not exactly “little.” They act like pebbles, causing the finish to be lumpy. When they are on the top of the polish, you see the multicolored...