Such a gorgeous shade! This is almost an exact match for China Glaze’s First Mate, but Baldwin Blues is just a bit more teal. It’s also very similar to Zoya’s Natty, but Baldwin Blues is a bit brighter. The coverage is very even, though it can be...
This is a little bit lighter than “robins-egg blue”. It's an attractive blue creme…that, sadly, is not the best formula in the CSM line. It's a bit watery, and the formula does not spread itself evenly across the nail. You can see how two coats definitely left me with...
I started out getting two of these. Then I got a set when it was on sale. Then I got a few more colors, also in sets that were on sale. Then in 2013 when the collection exploded (adding 22 shades)...well, I was safe for a while, because I didn’t...
Just over a dozen eyeshadows, mostly brighter shades, and most named after drinks (with a few outliers. I don’t know if there are drinks called “On the Rocks” or “Wasted”. It also makes sense that those are the two neutrals in the collection.) Coverage on a few shades is...
There appear to be a slight green cast to the shimmer finish - not enough to “cool down” the color or make it unwearable by warm-toned folks, but just enough to make it a little bit different from other gold-tan eyeshadows. If you don't want to see the green at...
A very soft color with an almost-metallic finish. It works best on me as an inner-vee highlighter, under my lower lash line, or as a lighter accent. I don't personally like how it looks when I use it as an all-over color, but that's down to the shade and how...
A rusty orange with pink and red shimmer, this color is really well-matched with Aurora and Ember in TKB's Firestarter collection. I like the wet application of this color much better than the dry application, though. Either method yields solid, opaque coverage; but the color is a lot richer when...
If you have fallen in love with Beauty from the Earth's unblended-mica shade Dusty Rose…here's the “mica” part of that unblended mica. It's a softer neutral red that's right on the edge of being a warm brown. The color isn't too shimmery, and because it's an unblended mica there...
This shade seems to have almost every facet of the cool spectrum in it somewhere. The base is a dark turquoise or a light-ish navy, the shimmer is blue-green, and the color looks like it has violet in it somehow. This shade makes such a wonderful liner! (It works just...
I'm using a lot of eyeshadows from Femme Fatale Cosmetics in my daily makeup. That's partially because the colors are gorgeous, but more because I've just repotted two orders, and the empty 5-gram jars still have a bit of product in them. No sense throwing those out yet, there's still...
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