Aromaleigh v2’s Amandier

This color shows a bit less of the pale pink tones that I see in the jar, once it's on my lids. I can use this as an all-over shade, or as a highlight if I use a fiber-optic brush and a lighter hand. There's just a little too much...

MAC’s Butterfly Party pigment

This color applied more evenly then the others from the Butterfly Party crushed pigment stack, even almost a year after being repotted; but there's still not the metallic shimmer that I'd expect. This shade is an attractive purple - I've seen this color in other eyeshadows, and definitely in some...

Alphabet Nail Challenge: D is for Daring (by Speciallità)

Another from Speciallità‘s Mari Moon collection. Daring's colorshift is a little more noticeable than Artsy - the medium-deep blue changes to a lavender to a magenta-ish. As with all the Mari Moon colors (at least, all the ones I've tried thus far) the first layer won't show much more...

Stila’s Long Wear Lip Color collection

Meow Cosmetics’ End of Days collection

Admittedly not a collection that sparked my interest. I think I was thrown off because all of the photos had a characteristic look to them that said, “We’ve been Photoshopped a little too much.” Whenever this happens on Meow’s web site, I’m either mildly disappointed, because the...

Alphabet Nail Challenge: C is for Charge It (by OPI for Sephora)

This is not a new nail color. I remember seeing it back in 2007, so whenever it was introduced to the regular lineup of polishes in the Sephora-by-OPI collection, it's been out for some time. The color is a new-minted gold, it applies smoothly, but my bottle was a bit thick. ...

Alphabet Nail Challenge: B is for Boho Gold (by Maybelline)

I finally saw the Maybelline Fashion Week 2012 collection at my local drugstores, and managed to get some of the nail polishes. This one, Boho Gold, is “the Chanel Peridot” dupe of the lot. It applies smoothly, it's an interesting shade, but if you don't get it, don't be heartbroken. Most...

Stila’s Fragrance Trio Rollerball kit

Let me say a few things up front: this was a decent deal; I know little about the science of perfumes and scented things; I haven’t ever bought perfumes from Stila before. Okay, now that that’s out of the way, let me just say how very underwhelmed I...

Aromaleigh v2’s Whirl

Alphabet Nail Challenge: A is for Artsy (by Speciallità)

My first polish is Artsy, from Speciallità‘s Mari Moon collection. I got mine from Llarowe (I wanted to get some of the colors that seemed to be perennially out of stock, so I just finally broke down and bought both 4-bottle kits from this collection.) Artsy is a duochrome,...