I love these products, and this color is lovely…but the application is a bit on the thinner side. It's also a little bit patchy, but not as uneven as (for example) the NYX metallic eye pencils. Personally, I think I might be happiest using this as a visual accent...
This name is spot on. It does indeed look like strawberry-flavored Quik (strawberry milk, for the curious.) Unlike Milk eyeshadow pencil, though, this has a bit of a metallic finish. And unlike the other metallic-finish pencils in this lineup, it applied fairly evenly. That even application could be due to...
Thus far, this is my favorite shade in the Pretty Amazing lipcolor range. It acts very similar to L'Oreal's Tender Berry - it's “my lips but better.” My only argument with this is, of course, the applicator. I strongly dislike these applicators! They pick up way too much product, and...
This is a warmer shade than the other Taboo blushes that I own, but it's also got just slightly less color payoff. (Or maybe it's just closer to my skintone? Yeah…that must be it…) The iridescence on this one is softer than on the other Taboo blushes, so if...
The microglitter in this polish is extremely fine. It isn't as visible as the microglitters in China Glaze's Vintage Vixen polishes, but the particles look a little too large - and definitely too scattered - to call this a straight “shimmer” top coat. This polish does take three separate coats...
Not quite a duochrome…but almost. I like this shade with my coloring. It's a good near-neutral softer color that isn't pale/soft. This only took two coats for full opacity, and the unevenness you see in my photos is my long-neglected unbuffed ridgy nails. This polish doesn't show any...
The OMG collection holographics are my hands-down favorites, of the holographic polishes that I've seen (with the exception of Sally Hansen's Nail Magic polishes from the 1990s.) Linear holographics, some lovely shades (2NITE's dusty blue, TTYL's peach, FYI's gold-tan), and excellent spreadability. I do wish that the polishes were a...
I’ll be honest with folks: I bought this kit on my last day in Atlanta, back in September. We’d packed and checked out of the hotel, and we had three hours to kill before we had to be at the airport. So naturally we went shopping! We found...
I don’t know quite why, but I’ve gotten into blushes in a big way since I started my latest makeup-phase in 2007. I tend to gravitate toward eyeshadows first, but then if a company also sells loose-powder blushes and they look halfway interesting, I’ll try a few out. ...
The name says “pearl”, but trust me…this is a near-metallic when applied wet, and a kind-of frost-shimmer when applied dry. At no point does the finish really approximate “pearl.” On the good side, it's a cooler brown, and the color payoff is decent if not actually really great. It...
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