Sephora’s 12HR Wear Waterproof Jumbo Liner kit

Last year I got Urban Decay’s 24/7 Shadow Pencil Stash, and while I liked the pencils well enough, Urban Decay is a bit on the pricier side, for individual items. I was glad to see Sephora debut their own jumbo eye pencils, but held off getting too many until this...

OPI’s Living in Cinn-amon

Zoya’s Indigo

I held off on getting Indigo for the longest time. In the various swatches I saw, it looked nearly black; and I didn't know that I wanted this polish. I finally got it during one of Zoya's flash sales, and am enjoying it more than I thought. It does look...

BareMinerals’ Shades of Decadence kit

Bare Escentuals - excuse me, bareMinerals - holiday kits this year were a mixture of loose-powder and pressed-palette makeup. I’ve acquired so much loose-powder BE that often, unless the colors are all-new, I’ll already have most of the items in any new kit. (I have enough Flawless Definition...

Beauty from the Earth’s Boutique Babe

More pink than it appears on the manufacturers' site, and less brown. There's also a highly reflective pearl finish that really brightens the color significantly. I prefer the dry-application of this color, because the finish doesn't overwhelm the coral-salmon pink pigmentation. I don't know for sure, but I think this...

Beauty from the Earth’s G Kelly

Clear medium green with gold shimmer and extremely faint blue tones. The color payoff looked a bit lessened, when this color was applied dry; but it kept the clear green coloring and didn't have any thin patches. The wet application looked much more attractive to me. I could probably use...

HiFi Cosmetics’ Lost and Lonely

This is a “mixture” color - two distinct complementary colors are visible. It's almost a duochrome, but not quite. The base color is a really interesting-looking medium-deep dusty blue with reddish purple undertones. The purple sparkle and shimmer is a bit more visible when the color is applied dry. HiFi...

Black Rose Minerals’ Blade Runner

Very similar to Concrete Minerals' Harlequin, minus the faint purple duochrome. Blade Runner has more gold shimmer to it, but the base color is the same - perhaps a little deeper in Blade Runner. The color payoff is excellent, and I didn't notice significant fading when wearing this color. Some...

OPI’s Ocean Love Potion

Fairly bright, but not neon, with a straight creme finish. Application was smooth, and the polish was neither too thin nor sludgy. I think, though, that I'll get the most use out of this as a nail-art color. It's a bit too intense for my preferences, for an all-over manicure;...

Maybelline’s Pink Cosmo

Upsides for me: another duochrome! And not a green/purple shift! Also available in drugstores, not limited to etailers and Ulta (whenever they'd get around to stocking it). The color was more toward the pink, while Swanky Silk showed the gold a bit more and was generally warmer. This color...