Now that I've checked everything out, I just want to say that Beautyzine's swatches, especially for the lipsticks and the fluidlines, are very very accurate. Thank you for the attention to detail!!!
This one shows the colors quite well too, especially the red lipstick Prepare For Pleasure and the pale pink nude Flair For Finery.
I wasn't prepared for Prepare For Pleasure. The gloss is really nice for a red gloss, especially since it's rare we get a true red csg, but it's still a very basic straightforward red. Nice an opaque for a csg too! I'm going to skip it, though, since I really don't wear the red glosses I already have. If I am going red, I want RED and that means lipstick 9 times out of 10. Which brings us to PFP lipstick. Now that is a gorgeous red. It's got the exact same moist brilliant color and finish like you get with Just A Bite, but while JAB is a bit brown and definitely a sporty sort of red, PFP is BRIGHT and classic. At least it's incredibly bright on my skin tone - and my coloring is such that a lot of reds do not look as bright on me as they do on darker skin tones. It's not a light or dark red, just super intense. It doesn't look magenta red like the description on me at all, most of just a true classic red - and that's the type of red I can't always pull off. I tried it on and instantly had to get a tube. I don't really want to BU any more reds, but I am thinking maybe I should BU this one after all, because like I was saying, I usually don't look good in classic style reds - I usually need something overtly blue or orange or darker or lighter than the norm. If PP is any indication, PFP is going to be another one that is going to look really different on different people, so maybe on someone else it will look bluer or more magenta.
Flair For Finery was not for me at all. It's very light and much pinker than Feed the Senses. FtS looks great on me, but this one was no bueno. I suppose if FtS looked all dead and corpse-like on you, FFF might be tons better, but it will always be really light. It's not the sort of lustre finish that blends well with my pigmented lips, but it does have good coverage for a lustre. It was the only lippie that was seriously a loser for me, but it ought to be a winner for pale NWs.
I will have to digress and say I don't think this collection is really well balanced for NWs - almost all the products lean a bit warm - not orange warm, but definitely yellow warm or brownish warm. If you are a pale NW, it's very possible that almost every item in this collection is going to be a little iffy. So many of the shadows have warm golden bits and though some of the MSFs and MBs are very sheer and even pale, they are going to show up on an NW15 in ways I know they weren't showing up on me, between NC15 and NC20. I am beginning to think my true NC15 days might be over, due to age or hormones or the health stuff, I dunno - in any case, this collection is AMAZING if you are the sallow type who normally can't wear gold eyeshadows, pink eyeshadows, taupe eyeshadows, etc. I'll talk more about this later when I get to Center of Attention, which is seriously quite unique, but perhaps not perfect except for certain specific skin types.
Just to finish up the lipsticks here, someone was asking if You've Got It will make them look like a 60's go go dancer. When I tried it on its own, I would have had to say yes. It's not the moist new-fangled frost like Warm Companion or By Design. It looked very flat and dry and more whitish creamish frosty than golden. I was going to skip it. Then my MA decided to try it on top of PFP and PP and let me just say Oh Lord! Then, you could see the glorious gold coming out really well and it lightened the deeper colors in this really attractive way, rather than in some bolt-on frankenstein style. I decided to get it, but I don't see myself wearing it alone, but either as a topper for other lipsticks or as a base for glosses - it should look really beautiful that way.
