I remember when Sketcher's Shape-Ups came out, and they were so expensive - I remember prices close to $200. I was mildly interested in these shoes, but not -=that=- interested. $200 for a pair of trainers? You've got to be kidding me. So when I went to Costco because I...
Two collections had eyeshadow colors based on the 2011 vegan lipstick shades - some duochrome, others not. Both collections started out with half a dozen colors and will be gradually expanded as the year passes.
I like the scattered gold shimmer finish of these polishes, but I don’t know that I’ll be looking for the others from this group. The two that I do own, Strawberry Fields and Watermelon Rind, are both thin and somewhat watery. It takes four coats to get totally...
This collection was released in fall 2007, to commemorate China Glaze’s 10th anniversary. I don’t have too many colors from this collection - II and III, because I was specifically looking for some neutral colors - and they’re both pretty enough, but sadly they’re a little on...
A deeper warm purple with brown-green duochrome. I have an eyeshadow that tries to be like this (Bare Escentuals' Popular) but it just looks muddy. This looks…not quite elegant, not quite striking, some blend of the two. This required three coats for even coverage and total opacity. The fourth...
This is both brighter and cooler than Lisa, from the winter 2010 Flame collection - but those two are a bit similar. As with all microglitters, use a base coat or you'll be taking extreme measures to remove your manicure. (Zoya's microglitters aren't as unwantedly tenacious as some other companies' microglitters;...
This is almost a ‘mannequin-hands' color. With two coats it's the exact same as my skintone. With three coats, a little more of the pink undertone shows up. It takes four coats for total opacity. It also applies very smoothly, without any of the pulling or dragging that some creme...
I got this hoping for a tan base with faint gold shimmer. This has a very faint pink sheen to it. It's also rather thin and watery. I had to use four coats to get full opacity.
Sometimes you adventurously try a color, a finish, a shade, a product that you haven't tried before. Sometimes it's way out of your comfort zone, but you figure - I might as well try it, right? Never venture out of the comfort zone, never learn anything. And so I ventured....
When I saw this swatched over on another blog, it looked like a silvery-white with faint tinges of blue. I had a hard time finding swatches of this color anywhere else, to compare. I finally bit the bullet and ordered it, thinking that I could use it under some of...
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