Still feeling a bit ill, but not as poorly as I was over Thanksgiving. Today for breakfast I had pumpkin pie and coffee, which is of dubious nutritional value but excellent taste value. :D This look is part of the One Year Eyecolor Challenge (new colors used: 5) and Dance Monkey...
I originally got this because I thought it might - MIGHT - be a halfway-decent substitute for Loretha, which I missed out on. Turns out…they're kind of similar. Loretha has more teal pigmentation and less of the blackening; but Drama Teal doesn't have a whole lot of sootiness -...
It looks so very unassuming…and maybe it's because the color is a pale-milk-chocolate brown, but the faint “metallic” finish really shows up on this color. Two coats and I felt a burning need to rip open a bag of Christmas candy. (Fortunately for me - and my waistline -...
I received my Meow samples yesterday, so I'll be happily swatching the day away (and making composite-pro photos for various kits and collections), but before I disappeared again, I wanted to remind folks of some endings, some beginnings, and some up-and-comings.
A pretty enough purple - similar-ish to <a href=”/such/obsessive/addictions/bareminerals_berry_flambe/”>Berry Flambe</a> from last year's holiday kit Sweet Obsessions. It's lighter in terms of pigmentation, but not as whisper-faint as Berry Flambe. If you love purples, you'll like this one. If you...
With “Plum” in the title, you might expect this to be a purple. Well…perhaps it is to others, but to me it's a lovely maroon. This is actually the color I'd hoped MAC's Artifact would be, but isn't quite - so I'm very happy!!
I am not in a food coma - though that would be preferable to my current condition. I did not get buried under the abnormal snow that hit the Puget Sound region, nor was I frozen solid as I attempted to take out my garbage in a Fargoesque snowstorm. I...
This color raised hopes that there would be a deep rich blue…and then kind of dropped them. Folks found that unless they wetlined, most of the blue sparkle disappeared, leaving them with a blackened navy ish that's a bit similar to Marina, but with less pigmentation. Pat this one...
The three paint pots from Femme Metale are very nicely pigmented. They spread easily, but don't stay damp forever. I hope Benefit adds more colors like this to their lineup!
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