A nicely muted softer pink shade. There is just enough greying in this shade that people with medium- to light-warm skintones might be able to wear this color. I like wearing shades like this as my early-fall daily lipstick. It's not a vivid summer bright, but it isn't autumnal, either.
The sparkles I see in the pot don't show up very prominently when I apply, except as very subtle light-catchers when I turn at different angles. It's a nice, elegantly understated effect. This color is perhaps too pigmented to easily use as a highlighter, unless you use a light hand...
Dark enough to easily be used for lining, or great for dramatic looks. This did not leave behind any sooty residue when I removed it, either - which seems to happen quite a lot with these darker blackened shades. I like the slight shimmer that adds some color highlights but...
This is very similar to Toasted. Toasted has very slightly more blue tones in it, but only just. The green is also - barely - a little bit deeper (but again, not by much.) I can see people having both colors if they're an obsessive collector (like me) or love...
This is like a tauped version of Shim-merry Chic. The base color is more neutral, but the red, gold, and silver sparkles are visible. It didn't take tons of coats to get full coverage on this one, which occasionally happens with polishes like this. If you use a base coat,...
I loved this color the instant I saw photos of it - both because it was an autumnal shade, and because it was a deeper orange. It wasn’t so orange that it would look odd on my hands, make my skin look too red. It turned out to be...
The colors in this kit are a bit richer, a little deeper than the colors in the Girls Just Want To Have Fun kit. They’re still a bolder, more colorful palette, though. Illusion appears in a few other mini-kits from BFTE, but I think that Emerald City and Livid...
First of all, you’re not going insane…there really were two collections called Pure Eyes Frost released by Aromaleigh. The colors were completely different. I liked many of the former Pure Eyes Frost shades, but I’m also glad to see another deeper-richer palette join the permanent collection at...
I picked this up when I was at IMATS LA. The colors looked very pretty, a combination of neutrals and my much-loved jeweltones; and it included a smudge stick eyeliner in a color I hadn’t ever seen before (the smudge stick eyeliner was the real reason for getting this...
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