By Taylor 6 years ago.
I picked up the original Venus a while back, and while the colors look absolutely ghastly on my skin tone, the formula is quite good. With a decent eye primer, everything lasts through the day, with some minor fallout with the shimmery shades, but that's a little normal, I think. Mattes are quite pigmented, with the shimmer shades being able to be built up for impact. Blending seemed easy enough, but my skin just made everything kinda muddle together into a very gross shade of orange, but I let a friend try it, and she had no issues with getting colors to stay true on her. In the end, I just gave her the whole pallet, and she loves it.