Cirque Colors’ Rothko Red

As soon as I decided to try thermal polishes, I knew that I wanted a red-to-black thermal. Unfortunately, most of what I saw was brighter polishes, blues and purples, or whisper-soft pastel thermals. I finally found this from Cirque Colors - a brand that I’d heard of, but hadn’...

Color Club’s All Charged Up

I didn’t expect this polish to be so similar to the old OPI Pros and Bronze. It’s one of the two totally opaque polishes from Aura Energy (the other being That’s The Spirit), and there’s a faint colorchange visible at the extreme sides of the nail...

Maybelline’s Color Sensational Shaping Lip Liner in Dusty Rose

Nyx Cosmetics’ Vivid Brights Liner in Vivid Halo

I don’t often use yellow eyeliner - but it’s good to have it available. This is a good pricepoint, and the liner applies decently but a single swipe isn’t necessarily full coverage. Applying it thicker gets you caking and cracking. For me, the main downfall of this...

NYX Cosmetics’ Slide On Eye Pencil in Golden Bronze

This is such a great liner color! It’s metallic without being brash, and it’s a warm medium bronze that looks great with my neutral-cool coloring and can look really good with so many other people: strongly warm undertones, medium-deep skintones, so many eye colors.

Milani Cosmetics’ Hypnotic Lights Powder Highlighter in Luster Light

This is much more of a “standard” soft highlighter. It’s not like Flashing Light - my personal favorite from this group - with its pink-rose undertone that makes that almost a blush+highlighter combo. There does seem to be some greyish or taupe base color, but it’s also...

Aromaleigh v2.1’s Mazu blush

Maybelline’s Super Stay Ink Crayon in Own Your Empire

I thought this would be a little deeper and possibly cooler when I bought it. I prefer deeper reds. Still, this is a nice color and a great format. It’s a near-neutral, truly “kickass red lip”.

Color Club’s Once Upon a Time

This is an odd color - not quite green, not really brown. It’s an excellent neutral, though. The formula is barely thick - it does tend to want to hold on to brush strokes. If this happens with your bottle, this can be cleared with a drop or two...

Color Club’s Made in the Shade