NYX Cosmetics’ Canary Chrome

I wish this appeared on my skin, closer to the color that I see in the pot. When applied, it looks almost like a slightly more tired version of itself. If this were more sheer, it would almost be invisible. If it were more pigmented, it might be too bold. ...

BBAC 2011: Day Seventeen

For those of us stateside, Nails Inc. is finally being carried at Sephora. They've had two of the magnetic polishes up there for a while, and have added the third - Whitehall Teal - in the last month or so. When I was in my local Sephora a few days...

NYX Cosmetics’ Black Chrome

I don't know if it's the metallic finish making this look more like a dark charcoal than an actual black, or if it's the color itself. It is more of a deep charcoal or a soft black than a true intense jet black. It works very nicely, and defines well,...

NYX Cosmetics’ Green Chrome

The dry swatch looks the way it does because I didn't have much product on the brush…and didn't realize how it looked in the photograph. The color payoff is about the same as the other NYX Chrome shadows: fairly decent, not wonderfully bold or vivid, but a solid performer...

NYX Cosmetics’ Red Chrome

I know I sound like I'm whining…but I really had hopes that this shade would be just a little deeper. It's a good color, decent payoff, not horribly light, it isn't a pink, and it's not semisheer. But…I was kind of hoping for a richer red. Now onto...

MAC’s For Effect paint pot

This color is a bit on the sheer side - there's not a whole lot of color payoff. (Which, to be fair, might be the intent.) When I bought this I had hopes that it would be a darker, more opaque black with the sparkles. When I apply this, I...

NYX Cosmetics’ Jumbo Eye Pencil in Pacific

I was drawn to this because of the shade. I admit, I'm a sucker for anything periwinkle. (I'm going through my blue phase. I've been going through it for the last...oh, few decades.) I wish that this were slightly deeper-toned, less of a "borderline pastel", but it is a...

BBAC 2011: Day Sixteen

So I'm giving myself permission to “take the day off” - relax, paint my nails, watch a video, NOT check email every five minutes, do some blog cleanup that's needed done…for a while now. And while I'm doing that I'm revisiting some music by Lisa Gerrard. The band Dead...

Meow Cosmetics’ Ingenue blush

Meow Cosmetics’ Santa Baby collection

One of four new winter holiday collections released by Meow Cosmetics for 2011 (the others are Aurora, Ice Blossoms, and XMas Misfits.) Kisses is the only color that interests me right off the bat, probably because I have such a large collection already…but one can almost never have enough ruby...