Drugstore

Closeup of Golden Sage eyeshadow in its pot

L’Oreal Infallible Eye Shadow in Golden Sage

L’Oreal’s Infallible eye shadow in Golden Sage (Ulta,$7.99) is a cream to powder formula that claims to stay on your lids for 24 hours without budging, fading or creasing. As ... Read the full article →

Closeup of English Oak eyeshadows

Rimmel Glam’Eyes HD in English Oak (002)

Rimmel Glam’Eyes HD eyeshadows are possibly the best example ever of poor packaging compromising a high quality product (Ulta, around $6). I won’t say it “ruins” the product, but it ... Read the full article →

Closeup of Bronzed Taupe in its pot

L’Oreal Infallible Eye Shadow in Bronzed Taupe

L’Oreal’s Infallible eye shadow in Bronzed Taupe (Ulta,$7.99) is a cream to powder formula that claims to stay on your lids for 24 hours without budging, fading or creasing. I ... Read the full article →

Sigma's E60 Large shader brush for eyes

Sigma Brushes review, part 2 (E series)

I reviewed a number of Sigma face brushes yesterday, and you can read that review at the link. It also goes into more detail about Sigma and the brushes, but ... Read the full article →

Closeup of the I'm Getting Sunburned shadows

Wet N Wild I’m Getting Sunburned eyeshadow palette

The Wet N Wild I’m Getting Sunburned palette ($2.99 at Walgreens and Amazon and many drugstores) is a trio of bold, bright, high shimmer colors. Like the rest of the ... Read the full article →

Closeup of the colors in the Knock on Wood palette

Wet N Wild Knock on Wood Eyeshadow Palette

The Wet N Wild Knock on Wood eyeshadow palette ($2.99 at Walgreens and Amazon and many drugstores) is a collection of three eyeshadow shades designed to work together. Wet N ... Read the full article →

Interior of the Comfort Zone palette

Wet N Wild Comfort Zone Eyeshadow Palette

The Wet N Wild Color Icon Eyeshadow palette in Comfort Zone is a collection of eight roughly earth toned shadows (more on this in a minute). The formula Wet N ... Read the full article →

Closeup of colors in Inspired quad

Revlon Colorstay eyeshadow palette in Inspired

If you read my review of the Revlon Colorstay Precocious palette yesterday, you’d better hold onto your socks: the Inspired palette just blows it out of the water (available at ... Read the full article →

Closeup of the colors in the Precocious quad

Revlon Colorstay eyeshadow palette in Precocious

I’ve been curious about the new Revlon re-done Coloystay eyeshadow quads, but I wasn’t sure what quality to expect. Revlon’s old Colorstay quads had been okay – decent pigmentation and ... Read the full article →

Closeup of Santa Fe palette

Hedy’s Ma.nish.ma eyeshadow mini-palette in Santa Fe

Like the Hedy’s Ma.nish.ma Tahoe palette, their Santa Fe palette is highly pigmented, blendable and velvety in texture. Since Tahoe was so strikingly reminiscent of the coolest colors in Urban ... Read the full article →

The Ma.nish.ma Santa Fe Palette

Hedy’s Ma.nish.ma eyeshadow mini-palette in Tahoe

I’d never heard of Ma.nish.ma before, but when I saw some adorable little eyeshadow palettes at Rite-Aid the other day for $3.99 each, I picked up a couple. The first ... Read the full article →

My collection of 6 Maybelline Color Tattoo shades

Maybelline Color Tattoo Cream Eyeshadows

Maybelline Color Tattoo 24-Hour Cream Eyeshadows really do live up to the hype. I was going to review them separately, but it turns out all the shades I purchased perform ... Read the full article →

Maybelline Superstay gloss tube in So Pearly Pink

Maybelline Super Stay 24 Color (in So Pearly Pink)

Maybelline Super Stay 24 Color lip color is extremely similar to Revlon Colorstay Ultimate Liquid Lipstick, which I already reviewed. It makes the same claim of (up to) 24 hour ... Read the full article →

The Bohemian Rhapsody palette, open

NYX Bohemian Rhapsody Eyeshadow Palette

Like Champagne & Caviar (or Caviar & Bubbles, whatever it’s calling itself these days), the NYX Bohemian Rhapsody palette from the Runway Collection is another big winner that retails for ... Read the full article →

NYX Champagne & Caviar palette open

NYX Champagne & Caviar Palette

The NYX Champagne & Caviar palette from the Runway Collection is a beautiful collection of neutral browns of surprisingly high quality, retailing for $8.50 to $11.95. The keyword for this ... Read the full article →

A bottle of mineral oil

Mineral oil is not bad for you!

If you watch my YouTube (go subscribe right now!), you know I got the Urban Decay Naked 2 palette on Saturday, and it came with a little Lip Junkie Lip ... Read the full article →

My obviously much-used Elf Studio blush bronzer duo

Elf dupe for Nars blush/bronzer trio

You may have heard that Elf supposedly has dupes for the Nars Blush/Bronzer trio in Orgasm, Albatross and Laguna. When I tried the Nars products on, it wasn’t just the ... Read the full article →

Palette, out of the box

Elf 32 piece warm eyeshadow palette

Elf has some new holiday offerings, and the Studio 32-piece warm eyeshadow palette is one of them. The packaging They come in these cute, glittery silver boxes, and that gives ... Read the full article →

Rimmel Lip gloss in Pink Protect

Rimmel Moisture Renew Cream Lipgloss – Pink Protect

Rimmel’s Moisture Renew Cream Lipglosses first grabbed my attention because of the SPF 15 sun protection. I’m pretty careful about putting SPF on my face, but the lips are a ... Read the full article →

Closeup of L'oreal Voluminous mascara wand with clumps all over it

L’Oreal Voluminous mascara turns into a clump fest

Argh! For years, I’ve used L’Oreal Voluminous mascara and loved it. It did exactly what I wanted, which was to make me look like I had a schmillion long lashes. ... Read the full article →

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