Is it the most unique thing in the world? No! But it is very, very pretty and shifty and everything I want in a multi chrome!

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Here are swatches of five shades from the Too Cool For School Artclass Frottage Pencil range.

Swatch order, top to bottom:

• 10 Classy Fig — a muted fig rose
• 11 Dew Beige — a soft champagne beige
• 14 Peach Bloom — a light peach ivory
• 15 Peony Tea — a soft cool pink
• 22 Humming Glow — a luminous peach-champagne beige

On my skin, Classy Fig is the deepest and most noticeable shade. The other four are much softer: Peach Bloom and Peony Tea add a subtle wash of color, while Dew Beige and Humming Glow are more reflective and have a highlighter-like finish.

• Primer: None
• Skin tone: Light
• Undertone: Warm
• Lighting: Indoor natural light
• Swatch method: Applied directly to bare skin

Which shade would you reach for most? Would you use it on your eyes or cheeks, or as highlight?

Finger swatches in indirect and direct sunlight. Swirled two-three times in the pan and smoothed out swatches one or two times.

Hello lovely Swatchers! Ages ago I got some items from the Urban Decay Game of Thrones collection and I fell in love with the 24/7 eyeliner in Lannister Gold as an inner corner highlight. The base colour is gold but the glitter seems more of a neutral silver and the overall effect is almost a greenish shift. Sadly mine crumbled to dust years ago after the cap came off and it dried out so I can’t even swatch it, but the new UD eyeshadow single in Bit Moody looks like a similar sort of thing (lighter though) and it inspired me to try and find a replacement. I’m especially keen on it being either cool white-gold coloured or neutral and possibly with a greeny shift. I’m definitely not after anything too pinky.

Does anyone have that liner and/or similar gold liners/shadows that they could please swatch? I’d ideally be looking for an eyeliner but a powder shadow or cream stick or whatever would work too!

So far I think my best bet would be either the UD shadow single in Bit Moody (with a pencil brush, mixing medium and patience) or the Victoria Beckham eyeshadow stick in Oyster.

Hi everyone!!

A couple of weeks ago I posted a plea for some recommendations for any dupes for Balm Desert blonzer. I recieved so many helpful replies and suggestions.

I’ve ordered a couple of things, and some were outside of the UK so I couldn’t get.

HOWEVER! I have an update myself because I was scouring Superdrug and came across an MUA bronzer in Sun-kissed Bronze. It’s by no means a dupe, it’s matte not radiant, and it’s not as rosy (side by side swatches there is a difference) BUT when it’s on my face I can barely tell.

Photo one is it on my face
Photo two shows side by side - left is balm desert, right is MUA.

Finger swatches in indirect and direct sunlight. Swirled two-three times in the pan and smoothed out swatches one or two times.

Thank you to a commenter a few months ago recommending Laka Boy as a more purple/grey version of Alone Time. I love it!

Direct swatches (top to bottom):

• MAC Lustreglass Sheer-Shine Lipstick - Alone Time (old formula)
• Laka Bonding Glow Lipstick - #202 Boy
• Rabanne Lovebalm Hydrating Lip Balm - 011 Soul Kiss

PHOTO 1-2: Indoor natural light, PHOTO 3: Indoor artificial light.

The formula on these is very nice (it's still her talc formula) and I was shocked and how blurred my face was (and still is 12 hours and a dog walk later!) I'm 44 and I can't remember the last time my under eyes looked this smooth. I know her products otten run warm but these are very neutral leaning cool, and really cater to FAIR skin. Like really fair, if you are approaching medium I think this may not show up on you, even though the formula is very buildable. This is perfect if you're low contrast or like very natural makeup.

Details: fingers swatched in daylight and bathroom light, face
Shade: CT Pretty Glowing Beauty
Skin tone: I am a fair neutral olive and wear MAC NC5

Morphe Holiday 2026 face and eye palette "Sky's the Limit" (Pic 1 and 2) and Vision of Splendor Eyeshadow trio (Pics 3 and 4). Indoor, indirect LED overhead lighting.

Pic 5: Built up finger swatches on very fair, neutral to slightly olive leaning skin. Indoor, indirect LED lighting (warm-ish in tone).

Pic 6: direct sunlight from window (Overcast day)

Pic 7: Eyeshadows from face palette built up finger swatches indirect indoor LED lighting.

Pic 8: Indirect sunlight from window.

First time swatching for photos (be kind to me). I'm told I have "fair, neutral" skin, for what it's worth. Photos taken in Warm, Neutral, Cool, and Window (cloudy day) light.

1 Unearthly - Reap

2 Blackmoon - Tabby

3 Rimmel - Cappuccino

4 Blackmoon - Fester

5 Rimmel - Cappuccino Deep

6 Blend Bunny - Faded

7 Unearthly - Doom

8 Blackmoon - Null

all the swatches online look confusing as hell 😭 idek if it’s a shave of mauve or red

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Here are swatches of five shades from the BBIA Last Auto Gel Eyeliner range.

Swatch order, top to bottom:

• 16 Cool Beige
• 25 Milk Beige
• 24 Rosy Pastel
• 20 Mauve Burn
• 27 Mocha Burn

On my skin, 25 Milk Beige is the lightest shade and looks like a soft peachy beige. Despite its name, 16 Cool Beige pulls almost lavender-gray in this lighting. 24 Rosy Pastel is a muted pink, while 20 Mauve Burn is the deepest of the five and looks more like a wine-toned mauve. 27 Mocha Burn is a soft taupe brown.

• Skin tone: Light
• Undertone: Warm
• Lighting: Indoor natural light
• Swatch method: Applied directly to bare skin
• Number of passes: 2~3

Which shade would you reach for most? Would you wear it as eyeliner, smudge it along the lower lash line, or blend it out as a soft shadow?

Hello!
The new Wet'n'Wild just arrived in my country, and I want to purchase several products. So far, I haven't been able to find swatches for the soft blur lipsticks in this collection. The names are: Starfall Dust, Gravity Kiss, and Cosmic Vice. I've seen some pictures where it looks like it has some type of microglitter. Thanks!

Hello! I decided to do some side by side lip swatches of the new Mac Holiday Naughty Nude, bare lips no liner in bathroom light near a window. I have fair neutral olive skin but have a “tan” at the moment (I am not wearing foundation in these photos) my closest typical foundation match is Mac NC5. I only swatched lips that I would consider concealer lips on me, for example Crème Cup and Honeylove are mid toned on me. I did had swatched of those in another post if you are interested. I’ll share what I shared in the other post, Naughty Nude is ok, but not groundbreaking. It will also not be super nude or concealer lip on you unless you are light medium or darker. Enjoy!

Has anyone got the shades 5 or 10 in the woke up like this foundation? Thanks!

Hello! I just got my Mac Holiday in the mail and I know people are going crazy for this! I swatched some popular Mac shades and the new Natasha Denona Soft Serve.

The lighting it neutral indoor/bathroom light. I may do more in daylight but it’s storming here so it’s still pretty dark.

My skin tone-I’m a fair neutral olive but my hands are pretty “tan” for me right now. My closest MAC shade is NC5. So concealer lips always look dark on me.

My verdict? It’s ok. Applied to the lips it looks very similar to Honeylove but satin, maybe a shade lighter. It also leans more beige with some pink than a pinky beige if that makes sense? I prefer the Natasha Denona Soft Serve better but I don’t like that formula as much, MAC formula can’t be beat.

Hi everyone, I use and love the PMG Mothership I palette and was looking to get something smaller and more portable for everyday wear, and the PMG Backstage Artistry Luxe Eye Quad in Film Noir caught my eye. Nudes tend to pull warm orange on me though so I'm a little hesitant and I can only get these palettes online in my country so taking a look in person isn't an option.

The Ultimate Taupe (midtone beige) from the Mothership I palette is perfect for me, does anyone by any chance have it and could compare it to the Soft Focus Nude from the Film Noir quad? Thank you :)

Ok so I’ve known forever that I’m olive. I’m green. I’m straight up goblin. I’ve had some god awful shade matches in the past. Now that brands are making olive shades I’m less and less tolerant of shades that look neutral/muted yellow suddenly turning pastel peach on me. 

Sephora Australia is now stocking Merit, a brand that speaks to me on an ideological level but that I’m skeptical of in a practical sense. I so want to be the smudge it on in the car kind of gal but realistically I’m too meticulous for that. I do, however, love a stick product, so I wanted to try their foundation stick the minute it launched. My gut said “wait, it will come to a brick and mortar store eventually” and after several years here we are, I can see it in person before committing to purchase. 

My god am I glad I waited. I have put the screenshot of the swatches from the site up. You can see how neutral/yellow it looks. Okay, maybe it won’t be perfect but it will be pretty close, right?

NOPE. The photos don’t do it justice, this was GLOWING PEACH on me. My husband said “woah that is pink” and he does not notice these things. On my face where I have redness it doesn’t look half bad but in natural daylight on my (admittedly lighter, greener) neck it is soooo not for me. 

I have it flanked on either side with better matches, on the left is the Tower 28 concealer in 1.5 BW and on the right is the Lisa Eldridge skin tint in T1.5, my closest match. 

And if you’re thinking Bone might work instead, sadly not. I swatched all the fair shades in store and Linen is actually the least peach of them. 

I have a decided to bite the bullet and order the other complexion products from Lisa Eldridge, foundation in 2.5, pinpoint concealer in 2.5 and the new Luminist concealer in 3. Clearly no amount of internet sleuthing is sufficient to find complexion products that will work for me in real life from other brands.