Maybelline’s Color Sensational lipstick in Pop of Cherry (975)

BBAC 2013, Day 20: Sephora Professionel face brushes

The Sephora Professionel line is the most costly, so they're not something I'll buy that often. I was lucky enough to discover the line when all brushes were on sale, before the brush handles changed color and the brushes themselves came with plastic “holders” to keep the bristles from mashing...

Silk Naturals’ Nighthawk

Beauty from the Earth’s Big Ego

Sparklecrack Central’s ENDulge

Created when I was repotting my Meow Cosmetics shadows, and accidentally mixed a jar of Meow's End into my larger jar of Meow's Indulge. (The two colors can look a bit similar…especially when you're repotting over a dozen shadows. And kind of watching TV at the same time.) I...

Meow Cosmetics’ Inner Kitty

This color is somewhere between ‘light olive' and ‘medium-deep lime', depending on whether it's foiled or not. The sparkle finish is just enough to catch and refract light, not truly “glam/glitz” sparkle. I personally prefer using this shade as an accent color rather than a liner, because I don't...

BBAC 2013, Day 19: Beauty from the Earth Cosmetics and Silk Naturals

I've purchased more from BFTE than I have from Silk Naturals; but in the past year I've purchased quite a lot from each of these companies. I've got about half as many more products from each company, still in the “to be swatched and photographed” queue. I've purchased a few...

Orly’s You’re Blushing

Zoya’s Zeenat

I wish that this color (and Parveen) had both been introduced to the regular Zoya line. It was nice to see a softer grey with this finish - even if the formula was just a little thin, and it did require more coats for full opacity.

BBAC 2013, Day 18: tarte’s Picture Perfect eyelash curler

In my first year of beauty-blogging, I picked up Tarte's EcoEyes kit. It included a few products I wanted to try out…which didn't include the eyelash curler. (I was interested in the cream shadow and the eye pencil!) I tried the eyelash curler anyway, and was very pleasantly surprised.