On one hand, it was nice to see this color because it's a soft, muted pastel blue creme…but it's not a faintly tinted white, like some pastel shades seem to be. On the other hand, it was a little unnerving…because when I bought my house, the exterior was...
It's a decent warm brown, not dark enough to be used easily as a liner shade, but not whisper-pale or minimally pigmented. It's your basic brown. Bare Escentuals release so many of them that unless they do something different - Tiger's Eye's dark pigmentation or Firefly's almost-sparkly shimmer - I...
This came across as more of a purple than a blue to me - kind of an electric periwinkle. The coverage is a little lighter than some of her blue shades, like Lady of the Lake or Lapis Lazuli. There's about the same amount of heft in this color as...
These colors were thrown together a few times: the first Teamed Up kit, this kit, and the six-piece Nude Beach kit released in spring 2007. They’re a decent enough combination, even if they are all softer neutrals. I wouldn’t wear all these colors together - it’s just too...
When you decide to go into business, and sell either a service or a product (or both), you get the whole host of issues to think over: do I start off with a merchant account, or is Paypal good enough? Do I sell items I buy from somewhere else, items...
These have been around for quite some time - I don’t even know how long NYX Cosmetics has been in business, nor how long their Round Lipstick collection has been out. I first tried these after seeing some swatches on Phyrra’s blog…and then I went looking for...
I store most of my nail polish in the refrigerator. Yes, I know that it still separates even when stored in the refrigerator. But I have to store it somewhere. (And this keeps me from buying lots of junkfood to clutter said refrigerator.) I usually let the bottles warm to...
First: it isn't possible to stay 100% safe by only buying from big box stores or department stores. Big corporations do dumb things too. Some of them do extremely dumb things. Some even do harmful things knowingly, because someone somewhere buries paperwork or blurs statistics because selling Product X is still...
This is my first Orly polish - and will probably be my only Orly polish. Not because they're not good, not because they're more expensive than China Glaze (at least through etailers), not because they're less easy to get ahold of…but because I don't know that much about Orly...
A good solid neutral-but-not-invisible shade. Morgana seems to be best known for the brighter, more colorful shades that she does so well; but she doesn't do too many neutrals. The shade is similar to other colors, especially drugstore makeup, so you may be thinking…why would I pay this much...
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