3/24/2023 0 Comments Eye candy colourpop![]() I thought the tie-dye thing was a total gimmick of presentation– although of course I fell for it. This one is fairly pigmented in one coat, and can be built up to remarkable opacity. I’d describe the composite color, actually as a truer blue than a cornflower– a poolside hue with a balance of purple and green. The website explains that it reads on the skin as a “cool toned cornflower blue with a shi#load of multicoloured glitter”– both the censorship and the Commonwealth spelling were original to the copy. One of ColourPop’s aptly named “tie dye” pigments, Pop Rocks appears (I’m so torn about the subject-verb agreement here!) in the pan as a marble of pink, purple, concrete grey, and aquamarine. I also had a problem with them flicking chunks off product out of the package. The fibers packed on pigment to opacity more quickly, and allowed for greater precision than the a fingertip. I did experiment with using an synthetic, angled eyeshadow brush, with mixed results. These plush pigments work best applied by hand– you can sheer them out fairly easily onto the lid, but also pat them on in layers for opacity. ![]() The company notes that their Super Shock Shadows are manufactured stateside, and not tested on animals. I decided to remedy that when I came across ColourPop, an indie brand boasting cream pigments in “a zillion shades, always $5” (they’ve since added lip products to their repertoire). So it’s probably kind of weird I never got into cream eyeshadows! I like finishing my makeup with my fingertips rosy as dawn. I’m not the kind of beauty junkie who prides herself on mathematically immaculate contours, inscribing the golden ratio in matte powders on my face. (Craft time, fingerpaints, the jammy ooze of sandwiches.) And I like feeling the emulsions sort of melt onto my face, warm from my fingertips, forgiving of asymmetry. When it comes to face products, I like to hoard creams. I mean, I like applying them with my fingers– dappling my cheekbones with liquidy pearl, and smudging peach-plum-rose– the texture of jelly– on the apples of my cheek.
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