China Glaze’s holiday collections are sometimes interesting, sometimes not so thrilling, but they usually are half red shades, and contain a few metallics, a few cremes, and a glitter or two. The colors are then packaged in sets of two or four colors, often with some little giftoid or...
In the pot, this color looks like it might lean more toward a warm dark brown. It's a rich, thick, dark almost-blue-brown that works as a liner or an accent color. It could work as just about anything, really - I don't know that I'd use this as an all-over...
This color is very similar to BareMinerals' Soul. Full Moon Rising is just a touch warmer, though, and has better color payoff. It makes an excellent highlighter, and works well as an all-over color. It's a brighter white-yellow, so it contrasts nicely with a rich blue or a deep maroon,...
Fyrinnae has this color prominently described as a sheer wash of color, and says (and shows a photo of) how one can intensify this color by applying it over a bright or white cream base. The quality is good, the value is good, and they're completely right: apply this over...
I spotted this color in a beauty outlet store and fell in love. It's a gorgeous pinky-bronze shade, a bit like MAC's Pink Bronze pigment in nail polish form. It is mainly a bright, almost glowing bronze with pinky red shifts on the curve of the nail - almost like...
The blue/gold duochrome polish trend continued well into 2011 and 2012 with China Glaze, Maybelline, and Sally Hansen each adding their versions. Boho Gold has a bit of colorshift, but it's not as strong as the original peridot. There's also just a bit more blue than green. The main color was...
This was one of the last “rewards-redemption” kits I was interested in. The color palette was very very naturalistic, and I wasn’t too interested in any of the shades. Then I got a sample size of Sweet n Sassy and liked the color enough to use my points on...
There were either three or four of these Glam Slam duos - I can’t be quite sure, since I’m picking up some of the colors more than a year after their release! I first saw Pros and Bronze while shopping with my mom after Christmas, and fell in...
Similar to a few other BE colors, Satin Caramel is darker brown than Antique Pearl, cooler than Ta-dah. The finish is a near-pearl, what BE is calling “satin” - it's not quite as reflective as other BE pearls, and the underlying color is more visually present than with other “pearl”...
Almost an antiqued gold, with hints of green and a roughened shimmer finish. The pigmentation is excellent. The only issue I have with this eyeshadow is that it doesn't look markedly different when applied wet versus dry, so if you generally amp up colors by foiling them, this color is...
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