Phyrra said that this was a favorite color of hers, and I can see why. It's got the rich gorgeous red-brown base color, pigmentation strong enough to work easily as a liner, and the bronze-gold-red highlights that show up when you apply it wet. (And the brown somehow softens. I...
Several companies have done versions of this, with varying degrees of success: The SheSpace's The Maestro, Sassy Minerals' Gasoline Rainbow… I'm drawn to the potential of these shades, to show off the multicolored sparkle against a dark grey or black base color; but in most cases, the sparkle doesn't seem...
A reddish purple, vaguely similar to Bare Escentuals' Magical…at least the base color. This one has a slight shimmer finish that's more prominent than Magical's, but it's not as bright a shimmer as other Fyrinnae colors. (It's not really a pearl or a frost finish, either.) I don't know...
I want to try the Stila smudgepots. A few bloggers I read regularly have used them, and while I've been fairly devoted to MAC's paint pots and Benefit's creaseless cream shadows, Stila looks like it has a few shades that neither of those two currently do. The muted green and...
The first sample and the first pot of this color that I got were both grey-based. The second pot I got was purchased during the period that The Chemist was not with the company - and the base color had changed, to be very slightly more brown. When I emailed...
There's a very faint pink iridescent shimmer with this blush. Otherwise I'd have a hard time seeing it at all. In the jar it looks rather orange - like a deep melon or something. It is warmer, but it's so very sheer I was reminded of Applause blush - which...
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