Color Club’s Perfect Molten

Zoya’s Norra

Sally Hansen’s Royal Blush (230)

Beauty from the Earth’s Teal Palette kit

By the time I started eyeballing these kits to see what samples I needed to buy, to have the whole thing…I already owned all but four of the colors in this one. (And I ended up buying two of those, after swatching the samples!!) I wish I’d been...

Meow Cosmetics’ Rainbow’s End collection

The golds in this collection range from pale to medium to deep, all with metallic finishes. There are neutral, warm, and cool undertone variations. I personally wish that Lunulae was just a tiny bit more gold, but at the same time…it’s nice to have a neutral gold in...

BareMinerals’ Motivate

Silk Naturals’ Doubloons

NYX Cosmetics’ Oro Pearl

Bronzed gold? Golden bronze? Not sure how best to describe this shade. It's not a straight gold-coin gold. There are definitely orange tones, but it's not full-on brass, either. The coverage is fairly good, though if you wear this without a primer underneath it will crease and fade rather quickly.

Silk Naturals’ Astral

Similar to shadows like Orinoco or Zinnia (both from Aromaleigh v1), but a bit more color depth to the peach-pink base. On my skin (or on other fair cool-toned folks) this looks like a soft pinkish peach. On fair warm-toned folks it might look closer to a sheer wash of...

Spending ban: headed into week 5

I've been rediscovering products all during the past six months, as I've had time to photograph my huge backlog. I've literally had shadows sitting in that backlog that I'd purchased over a year ago, and forgotten that I had. (In one case, I bought some shadows from Meow Cosmetics that...