Sweet and Sour Lacquer’s All Panic, No Disco

An aged-gold, almost bronze-gold base with iridescent flakies, created for the final Polish Pickup of 2020. The theme was something along the lines of “pandemic retrospective” (or possibly just “that was the year that was.”) I bought six polishes from that group, primarily because of the names! They were too perfect...

Makeup Revolution’s Reloaded Palette in Blackout

So many of these Reloaded palettes are smaller versions of larger palettes within the Revolution Beauty ecosystem, which are (often) themselves duplicates of other manufacturers’ popular palettes. I’m not sure if this was a dupe of another palette, or if this was a subset of a larger MUR palette;...

Aromaleigh v2.1’s As a Maid

Softened gold with white, yellow, and purple shimmer. It goes on very thinly when applied dry, but when mixed with water it paints on quite well. I don’t hate this color, but it isn’t my favorite shade. (It’s definitely a warm shade, and I look better in...

TKB Trading’s Hilite Red

NYX Cosmetics’ Epic Wear Liner Stick in All Time Olive

I love a good olive eyeliner - it gets me color that doesn’t wash out the blue of my eyes, it gets me softer definition than black eyeliner, and if it’s metallic I get the light-refracting effects too. My favorite of the ones I’ve bought has actually...

elf’s Sheer Slick Lipstick in Jam or Jelly

I like how this color looks on me better than Black Cherry did…but it’s a relatively innocuous pink. I feel like I can get this color from other lines that aren’t a semisheer gloss, and so I prefer those alternatives.

Painted Phalanges’ You Know What FINE Stands For?

The slate blue is the predominant color here, and while there are multicolored iridescent flakies, they’re subtler than those in other polishes. The polish applied very easily and it’s a base color that I like. I wish that the flakies had been bolder and possibly cooler, but since...

Femme Fatale Cosmetics’ You Choose The Scare Volume III collection

The third and likely final entry in the You Choose The Scare line (Femme Fatale’s owner had announced, in 2018/2019, that she would be returning to college and so wouldn’t be releasing new Femme-Fatale-branded loose powder products.) There are several multichrome and duotone shadows in this group. They cost...

L’Oréal’s Voluminous Original Mascara in Deep Green

As a mascara, this is okay. It doesn’t clump, it provides nice definition, and even though it isn’t waterproof it doesn’t smudge quite as fast as other non-waterproof formulas. But as a colored mascara? Specifically, a deep green mascara? Nope. I think that many of these Voluminous...

Milani Cosmetics’ Color Statement Matte Lipstick in Matte Love

I thought this would be a deeper shade than it is, but that actually turned out quite well. This is a cool red - I don’t know how it will look on people with strong golden or olive tones. It applies well, and it’s slightly easier for me...