Another bring-over from Sirvinya! We were both a bit worried about the palettes surviving the trip, but nothing crumbled, all the colors were perfectly intact. I wasn’t sure if I wanted this palette, because the colors looked vaguely similar to the Storm palette (the first Sleek makeup palette that...
Despite looking almost so bright red that I wouldn't be able to wear it, this color is very sheer. It adds an iridescent flush to my cheeks without looking over-done, or (my other worry) like a slight case of sunburn. It's a strawberry-pinkish color that looks equally good on cooler-toned...
Incredibly similar to Bel Air, from the Caribbean collection…but with the iridescent shimmer that Canna and Heliconia have. It adds a sheer warm red-pink flush. If you dislike the iridescent shimmer, stick with Bel Air - you'll get exactly the same shade, with just the sheer wash of color....
This is a very cool color with a lot of shimmer. I had hopes that it was more of a sheen, but…I can definitely work with this. Layering this over warm orange-red mattes will cool them down a bit, and hopefully they'll work with my coloring when they've been...
Second in the Perfect Gift kit series, released in March or April 2011. These colors were a little more interesting: a blue and a green eyeshadow, instead of a brown-purple and a straight brown.
Back when I first got Canna blush, I was thrilled with the duochrome iridescence. So when this collection came out (some time in early 2009, I think?), I drooled for years until I could afford to get several samples and a few full-size blushes. The blushes that I got initially looked...
Vampy cremes for the 2008 fall season - partner to the Pulse metallics. This collection had a much narrower color range, though: red and brown, no purples like Pulse had. I wasn’t looking to collect a huge horde of red nail polish (glances ruefully down at the box of Zoya...
You'd think that a metallic silver foil wouldn't get so much attention! But after the Romantique collection, and its generally poor spreadability, people (including me) were thrilled to get ahold of a metallic that *didn't* show brushstrokes, and *did* last well. This and 2030, the gold metallic from the Khrome collection,...
The purple color is semisheer. There's a faint blue duochrome that shows up best after three or more coats. Full coverage at three coats (the latter two were somewhat heavy.) Dries quickly. Good spreadability - no visible brushstrokes or slubbing. Sally Hansen's Virtual Violet has a more dramatic duochrome flash,...
This is an orange red…which normally would not be something I'd go anywhere near. But I got a color spoon, and while the base color is orange-red, there are pink duochrome tones that keep this from being a straight-up orange. The duochrome effect looks pink in some lights, and...
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