Skip to content

Kaja Mochamallow Play Bento Sculpting Trio

Kaja Mochamallow Play Bento Sculpting Trio ($25.00 for 0.33 oz.) includes a powder blush, powder highlighter, and cream bronzer. The powder blush and highlighter were lovely--pigmented, blendable, and long-wearing--but the cream bronzer applied rather sheer in practice (and...

Kaja Mochamallow Play Bento Sculpting Trio ($25.00 for 0.33 oz.) includes a powder blush, powder highlighter, and cream bronzer. The powder blush and...

B+
Permanent
Read Review

Tower 28 Best Coast Bronzino Cream Bronzer

Tower 28 Best Coast Bronzino Illuminating Cream Bronzer ($20.00 for 0.15 oz.) is a medium-dark, coppery brown with warm, red undertones and fine, gold pearl throughout. It had a lightly dewy sheen on my skin, once it "dried down," which was more of a semi-set feel, as it was...

Tower 28 Best Coast Bronzino Illuminating Cream Bronzer ($20.00 for 0.15 oz.) is a medium-dark, coppery brown with warm, red undertones and fine, gold...

B+
Permanent
Read Review

Tom Ford Sunlust Soleil Lip Gloss

Tom Ford Beauty Soleil Sunlust Lipgloss ($56.00 for 0.24 oz.) is color-changing formula, so while it appeared translucent and just gold-shimmered initially, the base color was more of a peachy-pink, which yielded a heavily gold-shimmered, coral color on my lips. The...

Tom Ford Beauty Soleil Sunlust Lipgloss ($56.00 for 0.24 oz.) is color-changing formula, so while it appeared translucent and just gold-shimmered...

C
Limited Edition
Read Review

Best of Pat McGrath LiquiLUST Matte Lipsticks

Best of Pat McGrath LiquiLUST Matte Lipsticks

The Pat McGrath LiquiLUST Matte Lipstick ($30.00) includes eight shades at the time of launch, which I've finished up reviewing. They're a liquid formula that has a full dry down to a flat, matte finish. While Pat McGrath has often impressed with past lip launches, the liquid lipsticks are just...

Continue Reading

Best of Tower 28 BeachPlease Lip + Cheek Cream Tints

Best of Tower 28 BeachPlease Lip + Cheek Cream Tints

Tower 28 BeachPlease Tinted Balms ($20.00, six shades) is supposed to have "buildable color" with a "luminous, second-skin finish" that can be used on lips and cheeks. They seem quite pigmented initially, but they are more buildable coverage than they are intense coverage as the moderately emollient...

Continue Reading

NARS Summer Solstice Eyeshadow Palette

NARS Summer Solstice 9-Pan Eyeshadow Palette ($49.00 for 0.45 oz.) is a new, limited edition warm-toned color story that featured two matte shades and seven shimmer shades (which varied from softer, pearl-like sheen to higher sparkle). Most of the eyeshadows were pigmented,...

NARS Summer Solstice 9-Pan Eyeshadow Palette ($49.00 for 0.45 oz.) is a new, limited edition warm-toned color story that featured two matte shades and...

B+
Limited Edition
Read Review

Tower 28 Sun Coast Bronzino Cream Bronzer

Tower 28 Sun Coast Bronzino Illuminating Cream Bronzer ($20.00 for 0.158 oz.) is a light, peachy gold with warm undertones and lighter gold pearl throughout. It was one of the more shimmery shades in the range. ...

Tower 28 Sun Coast Bronzino Illuminating Cream Bronzer ($20.00 for 0.158 oz.) is a light, peachy gold with warm undertones and lighter gold pearl...

B+
Permanent
Read Review

YSL Rouge Pur Couture Lipstick Swatches (x19)

YSL Rouge Pur Couture Lipstick Swatches (x19)

For a brief time, there was a mega sale on YSL Rouge Pur Couture Lipsticks ($38.00 for 0.10 oz.), so I ended up picking up several shades that I had not previously reviewed but are part of the permanent range. Here are swatches of all 19 shades I purchased!

Continue Reading

Rare Beauty True to Yourself Eyeshadow Palette

Rare Beauty True to Yourself Discovery Eyeshadow Palette ($29.00 for 0.15 oz.) includes three matte eyeshadows, three shimmer eyeshadows, and one pressed glitter. Two of the seven shades were nice to work with--the last two--but the rest were disappointing, considering how...

Rare Beauty True to Yourself Discovery Eyeshadow Palette ($29.00 for 0.15 oz.) includes three matte eyeshadows, three shimmer eyeshadows, and one...

B-
Permanent
Read Review
Back to Top