LaurEss’ Crowning Moment blush

BareMinerals’ Putting On The Glitz kit

BE’s holiday kits tend to be hit or miss, for me. I’ve also noticed that every year, BE seems to be on a different “color kick”. Last year it was green and purple; the year before that, browns (but no surprise, as it seems like every other year...

Meow Cosmetics’ X collection

I love that Meow re-releases previous years’ seasonal collections each holiday! I also love that they keep adding more! The Friday the 13th collection, released for Halloween 2009, purported to have a lot of duochromes…but I found the duochrome quotient a little lacking. This collection, along with Zombie Apocalypse, seems...

OPI’s Route 66 collection

I don’t have tons of colors from this collection - there aren’t too many still available, though Chicago Champagne Toast apparently became part of the regular OPI line at some point. Most of the colors were browns, nudes, and of course the lots-of-reds that seem to be in...

China Glaze’s 2030

Metallic, and gold…and no brushstrokes!! (Of course, by now - mid-autumn 2011 - China Glaze has released several other gold and silver metallics with good spreadability. But this collection went so fast because durable metallic polishes that didn't show brushstrokes were not all that common from *any* manufacturer. I got...

Zoya’s Mieko

Bright rose-red that manages not to be garish…with widely scattered gold sparkle. I was able to get full coverage in two coats (which, happily, seems to be standard for Zoya 4- and 5-opacity polishes) and the red wasn't so vivid that it really messed up my cuticles. It also...

BareMinerals’ Pretty Amazing Lip Gloss in Sass

Sass was one of the two new “sheer” PA colors debuted in the 2011 Holiday Pretty Amazing Lip Collection kit. (The other was Oomph.) These two colors were more like traditional lip glosses, in that they were very sheer. You could only really see any color if you left it heavy...

L’Oréal’s Infallible Le Rouge Lipstick in Tender Berry (519)

Another of my almost-instant "go to" lip colors - because it matches my natural color (or, my natural color like it was 10 years ago) but has just a little extra. Judging by the product alone, I worried that it would be a little bit too dark on me, so I'm...

NYX Cosmetics’ Jaipur Black Label Lipstick (176)

Slight undertones of magenta in this one - something makes it look a bit bright, not just bold. I like the color better when it's blotted down and softened a bit, but that's just my personal preference. Like all the Black Label lipsticks, there's a faint grapeseed scent to this....

Scaredy Cat Cosmetics’ Arctic Royale

The product photos show this as a lighter lavender shade with shiver shimmer. Mine…reads darker. It's more of a light violet than a medium lavender. I have no idea why that is, it just…is. The color's pretty, but it doesn't have quite as much duochrome effect as the...