This is a lovely, glowy orange-red. It’s a little closer to orange, and there’s a tiny bit of depth to it so that it doesn’t look like a candy-red-orange shade. The polish applies a little uneven on the first coat, but it evens out and provides full...
Private-label makeup brushes with synthetic bristles and plastic crystal-shaped handles that are commonly available in sets of 10. These are available on ^maz*n and 3b^y under many different brand names: Kingtree, Luxstyle, Tenmon. (Tammi Clarke also just released her own private-label makeup brushes...and these are they. She includes...
Fifty-one matte eyeshadows named after Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I haven’t bought every matte in this collection, and with 51 colors I likely won’t buy them all. There’s a fairly decent variety of shades, and both the lighter and darker ends of the spectrum are present. Several of...
Medium-light silver that is a little chunky, like many of these 24HR Eye Shadows. It applies nicely, but doesn’t always blend too well - I’ve had better luck blending colors into and on top of it, than blending this into other colors. The coverage is very good, and...
A coolish medium olive with good coverage and excellent blendability. It reminds me of the “green” leaves you see in autumn decorations, alongside rusty orange and harvest yellow. Aromaleigh’s Gilded Jealousy is a warm version of this shade.
I saw this on Milani’s website, and decided to give it a try. I knew that the Ludicrous Lights highlighters needed to be applied with a thinner brush, and I’d seen a few people using fan brushes to apply a very delicate line, so I bought one. The...
This is a thermal polish…really. You wouldn’t know it to look at it, though. It’s a deep navy when cool, and a medium-deep bronze when warm. I don’t see much of the bronze even when I run cold water over my fingertips. Maybe I just got...
This color doesn’t work well for me. It’s just barely too warm. I have some medium-light rosewood-brown lip colors, but this is a little warmer than they. The formula for this one was a little firmer, a little less smooth to apply. It does draw a line, but...
This polish is a standard darker brown creme - dark, but not blackened or brown-black. It’s solidly brown. The formula in the bottle that I got…kind of stinks. It doesn’t apply evenly, so there are thin spots in a 2-coat manicure and the thicker bits didn’t...
White eye liner. This applies nicer than other white eye pencils, but it still isn’t my favorite. I prefer to use white liquid or felt-tip liners. It does make a nice white waterline pencil, and if you prefer eyeliner pencils, this is one of the better white ones. The...
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