Sleek Makeup’s Paraguaya i-Divine Palette

Another gift from Sirvinya, this palette full of oranges and corals and pinks is part of Sleek’s Avoir la Pêche collection. Shade-wise, it’s more limited…but orange eyeshadows look surprisingly good on me. The more vibrant they are, the better the contrast with my blue eyes! The...

Wet n Wild’s Gray’s Anatomy

This one took four coats: one coat got me a sheer dusty violet wash; two coats got me a deeper dusty violet; three coats got me the green tones and the beginnings of the metallic finish and complete opacity; and four coats gave me metallic pink with purple and green...

Sally Hansen’s Celeb City

There's something utterly, gleefully childish in me that just had to post my review of Zoya's Rihana on the same day as my review of Sally Hansen's Celeb City. Celeb City reminds you - quite pointedly - that Sally Hansen nail polishes are not Big-3 free. You open this bottle...

Zoya’s Rihana

This color is a bit brighter than I'd thought, from looking at the various online photos…or even at the jar itself. One coat is brighter than two, and three is deepened even more. Still…I'm not quite sure how I'll wear this color. It actually looks like the non-creme...

Morgana Cryptoria’s Vegan Lipstick Sample Swatches, part I

Revlon’s Peach Colorburst Lipstick

The color on the top of this cap looked a bit…intimidating. It looked like it would be far too orange for me. The picture on a particular webstore made it look like the lipstick was a softer peachy-nude shade, though, so I went ahead and ordered it. And…yep....

Evil Shades’ Aureate

This color looked like it might be a butter-gold, in the photos. It is…but it's rather sheer, which is something of a disappointment. It doesn't feel chalky, which is good; and there was fallout only when I tried to pack on enough color to get a better color payoff.

Aromaleigh v1’s Ringoffire

For some reason, I decided against getting this color when Aromaleigh was open (even though I did buy some of the other reds from that line.) I'm very glad that I got this in the grab-bags! It's a bolder red with red and silver sparkle, but it's not so orange...

Shiro Cosmetics’ Everything Is Bears

I wasn't all that sure about this color when it debuted - I have lots of browns, so wasn't sure that it would work well. It's like BE's Tiger's Eye, with more sparkle. I'm glad I got it!! There's a tiny bit more fallout than with most of Shiro's near-matte...

Beauty Trials: Wet n Wild Megalash Clinical Lash Serum

I wasn't too interested in trying Latisse because of the cost, and because of reports that it can change the iris-color permanently. But I figure that a product like this probably has as good a chance of working as Latisse does...because the folks at Allergan stumbled onto Latisse by...