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Entries for Monday, July 04 2011

Fyrinnae’s Gilded Wings

Fyrinnae’s Gilded Wings

Posted on Monday, at

The color's fairly soft when applied dry - but the metallic finish is still pretty apparent. (Not as much as Aromaleigh v1's Opulent Lustres or Elemental Lusters, or as much as BE's High Shine colors; but it's there.) Applied dry, I get a softer metallic yellow-gold. Applied wet, it...

BareMinerals’ High Shine Rose Gold

BareMinerals’ High Shine Rose Gold

Posted on Monday, at

Looks dark rose in the pot, applies much less dark. It's almost a brownish red. If you're familiar with any of the “Rose Gold” shades from other companies…this one is not the same. The “rose” is a bit browner, a bit faded. It's definitely metallic, though - like all...

Entries for Friday, July 01 2011

Shiro Cosmetics’ Enrichment Center

Shiro Cosmetics’ Enrichment Center

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Shiro Cosmetics’ Shall Not Be Mourned

Shiro Cosmetics’ Shall Not Be Mourned

Posted on Friday, at

Most blackened colors leave behind a sooty residue. And then there's this one. Yep, no gungy hard-to-remove kruft, just a darkened metallic shade. This definitely looked different in the sample envelope - I was worried that it was more black than gold!

Shiro Cosmetics’ You Were Adopted

Shiro Cosmetics’ You Were Adopted

Posted on Friday, at

Almost midnight blue applied wet, a softer shade with silver and green shimmer when applied dry. I don't do the “smokey eye” thing, but this could probably be used for that look - it's a deep enough blue without being blackened. I like that this color actually has two distinct “...

Shiro Cosmetics Triumph

Shiro Cosmetics Triumph

Posted on Friday, at

Softer warm orange. I have some similar shades from other companies, but none with this finish nor this level of color payoff. It's actually somewhere between “pale pumpkin orange” and “bronzed gold”. I don't know how this would look on super-pale skintones, but I'm betting that on deeper skin with...

Shiro Cosmetics’ Are You Still There?

Shiro Cosmetics’ Are You Still There?

Posted on Friday, at

I love true maroon eyeshadows - but for whatever reason or series of reasons, they either come out looking nearly black, or having only a ghost of actual maroon in them once they're applied. This one is a faded maroon, almost a brick red. But it's actually maroon - not...

Entries for Thursday, June 30 2011

OPI’s Canadian collection

OPI’s Canadian collection

Posted on Thursday, at

When I started buying OPI polishes, I was drawn to Mauving to Manitoba. I liked the mauve-rose color, and the metallic shimmer was a bonus. I didn’t realize that it was part of an entire collection. (I know. Hopelessly naive. That changed in a hurry…) The colors in this...

BareMinerals’ Safari Chic kit

BareMinerals’ Safari Chic kit

Posted on Thursday, at

Yet another of the three-color kits from QVC (there seem to be quite a lot of those.) Some of these are fairly good, others are just…kind of sad (sheer colors, all browns, no new colors…something.) This palette was more muted than most of the ones that initially catch...

Sally Hansen’s Hard as Nails (Spring 2011) collection

Sally Hansen’s Hard as Nails (Spring 2011) collection

Posted on Thursday, at

Originally I wasn’t going to bother with a write-up for this collection because I’d only gotten two polishes. And then I got three more. And then, well, there was this one that I just had to have. And those two look pretty too. And hey, while I’ve...


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