Very pretty color…but there are some issues. Aside from the typical Romantique-era spreadability problems, there's the fragility. For whatever reason, this polish is much more suseptible to scratches, dings, dents, and scrapes. It reminded me of the old Sally Hansen Nail Chrome polishes circa 2003 that looked very pretty until...
n the Katy Perry collaboration with OPI was announced, I wasn't all that interested. When the promo photos started showing up, I still wasn't that interested. The polishes went on sale…and still, no interest. Then I happened to see one particular Ebay seller's photo of this color and I...
I really should have a bit more faith in Zoya's creme polishes..! While many of their metallics take three or even four coats for full coverage, their cremes - like Coco - are almost fine with one coat, and perfect with two. (With one coat there were a few uneven...
Sometimes,you get something you weren't expecting. That's definitely the case when buying makeup online. You have to rely on the merchant's swatches and color descriptions. Sometimes the unexpected is good. Sometimes…not so much. I really love Morgana Cryptoria's lip balms! The consistency is good and the price is...
Definitely a very red “coral” shade. To my eyes, this is more of a warm bright red than a cool deep orange-red. It's right on the borderline of shades that I can easily wear, though - I have to watch that I'm not wearing any other reds, especially the cooler...
Despite being a warm color, it's almost a pinked coral rather than what I'd mentally class as “Apricot”. (Or perhaps my definitions are just mucked.) At any rate, this color pleasantly surprised me by being very wearable. Apricot, peach, coral, and other warm lip colors are kind of hit or...
This is like Concrete Minerals' Temptress, but without the blackening. Imagine the color deepened rather than blackened…and there you go. (I did not intentionally plan to review these two shades on the same day. It just worked out that way…) Even without the blackening, B&E works as...
One of my first purchases from Concrete Minerals was the Mermaid collection…which I bought largely for this shade. It's slightly blackened, but not so much that the sooty residue overwhelms the teal-blue shimmer. Don't be concerned about the blackening, though. This works well as an all-over shade without looking...
They call it a ‘pearl', but applied dry or wet, it's more of a pearl than a shimmer. (I don't know if the difference between a pearl and a shimmer finish eyeshadow is ‘particle size', but I'm going to go with it. NYX didn't grind their ingredients fine enough for...
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