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Entries for Sunday, March 25 2012

Review: Concrete Minerals

Review: Concrete Minerals

Posted on Sunday, at

The Store / The Site They started out on Etsy, and moved to their own domain and store in 2010. The photos were excellent, if a little more "treated" than I'd like. Whatever adjustments they use to help achieve a uniform appearance takes an occasional minor toll on how the colors themselves...

Entries for Saturday, March 24 2012

NYX Cosmetics’ Jumbo Eye Pencil in Oyster

NYX Cosmetics’ Jumbo Eye Pencil in Oyster

Posted on Saturday, at

One of the very first makeup products that I bought with my own money was an eye pencil from Wet n Wild. It was "nominally" purple, but it was this same "sterno" purple shade - more like an ultraviolet than a true purple. I liked how it shifted colors slightly....

Entries for Friday, March 23 2012

NYX Cosmetics’ Jumbo Lip Pencil in Copper

NYX Cosmetics’ Jumbo Lip Pencil in Copper

Posted on Friday, at

Definitely coppery, but not so harsh that it looks orange. (Is it weird to say that something called “copper” isn't brassy? Because…well, that's appropriate here.) The color stays in place about as well as any of the Jumbo Lip Pencils, meaning that the color will come off on cup...

NYX Cosmetics’ Indigo Black Label Lipstick (130)

NYX Cosmetics’ Indigo Black Label Lipstick (130)

Posted on Friday, at

I'm not sure why NYX called this color Indigo. Perhaps out of a morbid sense of humor. Or because they couldn't think of other names. (Though there are so many names from their Round collection that they didn't use in the Black Label collection. Indian Pink, for one.) The color...

BareMinerals’ Gorgeous blush

BareMinerals’ Gorgeous blush

Posted on Friday, at

There are many times that I strongly regret Bare Escentuals' supersheer blush formulas. There are a few colors that look excellent on me and apply well, but there are more of them - like this shade - that show such promise only to end up so subtle that they're almost...

Entries for Wednesday, March 21 2012

Milani Cosmetics’ Cyberspace

Milani Cosmetics’ Cyberspace

Posted on Wednesday, at

The light blue is a bit more saturated than Kaleidescope Him Out. The holographic effects seem a bit more sparse in this color than even compared to the other Milani polishes from this collection, and definitely more sparse when compared to Kaleidescope Him Out. But it's still possible to get...

China Glaze’s Glittering Garland

China Glaze’s Glittering Garland

Posted on Wednesday, at

Even though this is a dark green, it took three coats for full coverage - and you can see the side of my thumbnail has a spot that didn't quite get the third coat. This is definitely an ‘evergreen' - not a slightly blued green like Emerald Fitzgerald.

OPI’s Countdown to the Kiss

OPI’s Countdown to the Kiss

Posted on Wednesday, at

Not exactly 100% original, but a pretty color nevertheless. And I got it on end-of-year sale, which made it even more appealing. Eyes Like Sapphires is a little brighter, and not quite as opaque as this color. Blue Year's Eve is more of a sparkle finish with some glitter particles, where...

Entries for Tuesday, March 20 2012

Fyrinnae’s Halloween 2011 collection

Fyrinnae’s Halloween 2011 collection

Posted on Tuesday, at

I waited so long to list this collection because it took me a while to order, and then even longer to swatch the colors. At least with Fyrinnae their collections aren’t really LE, so the colors are all available long after their launch (barring sudden discontinuations of any of...


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