elf’s Confident

Beauty from the Earth’s Guipure

Femme Fatale Cosmetics’ Cosmic Power

Sally Hansen’s Peach of Cake

I’m not the buggest fan of orange nail polishes. They generally don’t work well for me: some make my hands look too red, or make my skin look faintly jaundiced. I’ll make exceptions for duochrome...

BareMinerals’ Big and Bright eyeliner in Plum

So dark it’s almost black. Unfortunately, this has a manic case of that skipping problem that most of these liners had. I was only able to get a solid line - faint, but solid - after keeping the...

Beauty from the Earth’s Way Up High

Normally, white eyeshadows tend to look better foiled. This one is just the opposite. (Or I screwed up the montage, whichever.) I can use this as a highlighter, though it’s just a tiny bit too...

Femme Fatale Cosmetics’ Mysticism

Meow Cosmetics’ ROFLMAO

A great level of color payoff as well as nicely even coverage, but if you don’t use a base or sealant with this you’ll get fallout all day. (That’s just how some sparkly eyeshadows are - the Wild...

Color Club’s Halo-graphic

A softer color, but not as light/pastel as some of the other shades in the first wave of Halo Hues colors. It’s a bit softer than Rated Holographic, with the smoother linear-holo finish of TTYL. I...

Fyrinnae’s Feisty Fennec Fox

Lost in Makeupland’s Beverly Hills

Femme Fatale Cosmetic’s Archangel

Beauty from the Earth’s Isis

This is an unblended pigment color - meaning, that while base mix may have been added, it’s essentially the same color as a raw mica that you might buy from TKB Trading. (Beauty from the Earth has...

BareMinerals’ Big and Bright eyeliner in Intense Black

NYX Cosmetics’ Lily of the Valley Black Label Lipstick (179)

I love the color and the very slight gold shimmer on this! This is definitely a cool magenta, almost a violet-magenta, so warm-toned ladies might not be able to pull this one off. (That’s okay,...

MAC’s Softwash Grey pigment

BareMinerals’ A Bucc-an-ear

Meow Cosmetics’ Moonrise

So deep a navy blue it’s almost a cool deep charcoal. The coverage is decent, though the pigmentation level is a bit on the low side. I can see flashes of green and purple in the shimmer-finish,...

Meow Cosmetics’ Cricket Serenade

This is a slightly cooler, just slightly deeper version of Bitey Tyrannosaur.

Color Club’s Blue Heaven

When I look at this color and Harp On It in their bottles, I have a hard time telling the two apart! There’s some more visible color differentiation between them once they’re on my nail, but...

Mattese Elite’s Star Dust Powder collection

I first started looking for these when I noticed another blogger using what looked like the perfect orange eyeshadow. I found the name, went looking for the producct…and found a whole collection of...

OPI’s Skyfall collection

This collection was released as OPI’s 2012 winter holiday collection, because the timing worked to have this released during the Skyfall movie hoopla *and* be that year’s holiday release. I was...

Meow Cosmetics’ Cookie Dough

Looks exactly the color of Toll House cookie dough just after you’ve mixed up the bowl, before you start spooning it into your mouthonto the cookie sheet.

Meow Cosmetics’ Spiked Eggnog

I have a few pale yellows in my collection, but so many of them are semisheer. This one actually shows up without having to apply multiple layers - which is a nice change of pace. I don’t know how...

Meow Cosmetics’ Beach Bonfire

I really love this color! It’s a rich deep orange bronze with pink highlights, and an excellent color payoff. It reminds me a bit of MAC’s Pink Bronze pigment. In Beach Bonfire, the orange is a bit...

Beauty from the Earth’s Zaniah

Zaniah is like a slightly warmer, slightly softer version of Lotus, another Pro color from BFTE (or perhaps, Lotus is the warmer, slightly bolder version of Zaniah, since this color was released...

BareMinerals’ Big and Bright eyeliner in Granite

Fairly straightforward medium-deep slate grey retractable eyeliner pencil. This was one of the core colors in the lineup. Application was about on par for these liners, and the color was a favorite...

NYX Cosmetics’ Dusty Rose Black Label Lipstick (108)

A nicely muted softer pink shade. There is just enough greying in this shade that people with medium- to light-warm skintones might be able to wear this color. I like wearing shades like this as my...

Fyrinnae’s Nijiro

The sparkles I see in the pot don’t show up very prominently when I apply, except as very subtle light-catchers when I turn at different angles. It’s a nice, elegantly understated effect. This...

Femme Fatale Cosmetics’ Demon Soul

Dark enough to easily be used for lining, or great for dramatic looks. This did not leave behind any sooty residue when I removed it, either - which seems to happen quite a lot with these darker...