Third (and final) iteration of the Purist Grand AD series of kits, available as the Autumn kit. The color palette was far more neutral, but - interestingly enough, for an autumnal kit - included a coppery-rose glow powder that manages to look good even on cooler-toned folks. Poise is so...
This was one of the largest Color Club collections I’ve seen - I’ve seen ten, very occasionally twelve, but haven’t seen many fourteen-color collections. The colors were a mix of finishes, mostly neutrals with a few reds. Coverage was fairly decent on the colors that I purchased. ...
Soft-ish almost neutral with a light satin finish, good for accenting or a general-use shadow. I can't use this as a highlighter because it's so close to my skintone (and a little deeper, in some lights), but I can see deeply tanned or deep-olive skintones using this as a very...
Quite a lot of gold found in pre-Columbian South America was a gold/copper alloy - so this color's shade and name make a great deal of sense, in that context. The gold is a bit warmer than most metallic gold shades I've seen, and has a bit more orange...
Either ‘muted' or ‘softened', depending on how the light hits it and what other colors it's paired with. There are some faint pink interference highlights, but not enough to make this eyeshadow lean toward coral.
A soft, cool-toned mauve red with a blue-purple duotone shimmer…that, sadly, makes my eyes look kind of tired. Or like I'm having an allergy attack. (This is not a bad color, it's just a bad color <em>on me</em>. Or, at least, on my eyes.) It's...
I love metallic eyeshadows. I love metallic eyeshadows that apply and adhere well, even better. This is such an excellent color for me, too! It complements my eyes, and the reddish and gold-brown mean that the color works for me no matter where along the dark-ash-blonde/gold-brown/red-brown spectrum my...
Ends up looking more gold than brown, at least on me. In dimmer or indirect light, the gold metallic fades back and the color looks deeper. I like using this color as either an accent or a liner-accent (more for highlighting than definition) but it works fine all over the...
I kind of expected…well, a darker, deeper blue. In the swatch, it looks a bit brighter. Fortunately, when applied in a thinner line, it doesn't look quite as intense. (But I still think I would have preferred a color with just a tiny bit more depth.) On the upside,...
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