Some colors look extremely different when applied wet versus dry. This color…is ten of them. The dry application gets a soft, almost sage green with strong gold duotone shimmer. Foiling really amps up the base color's intensity and saturation! Since this color is cooler and has some greyed tones,...
Three coffee-shop themed micas, one outright neutral and two neutral-warm shades. I found out while swatching these, that Espresso is an exact match for BFTE Cosmetics’ Espresso, a shade which was only available in the Coffee Shop collection. So yay, there’s that. (Sweet Tea and Cinnamon Sugar do not...
Three duotone eyeshadows…but, I have to be honest, I only really see overt duotone in two of the colors. (Maybe I’ve just never looked at Beautiful at the right angle.) The three shades work well together, and it was kind of interesting to see that neither Riddle nor...
Not quite as soft or as neutral as Lunulae - there's definitely the yellow-gold cast to this shade. People with extremely cool skintones may have to be careful what other colors they wear this one with. The coverage is very good, but you'll definitely want to wear primer if you...
I saw this eyeshadow in a look on Phyrra's blog, and it sent me scrambling to see where I could buy it. It's the utterly perfect orange: intensity without being garish; depth without being too dark; good color payoff; and no overt yellow tones. This was in the first order...
A really attractive (at least to me) midweight soft pink with coral tones. The finish has a bit of grit to it - somewhere between a satin and a frost, in terms of visual texture. It's a lovely pink for people with cooler skintones, though if your skin is too...
While I've been busy starting the new job and eyeballing the expansion of Stila's smudge stick lineup…the Buxom Lip Polish collection has exploded. For quite a while, there were no additions to the regular lineup, but they added new variants (lip cremes, and the full-bodied lip glosses.) Now they...
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