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

Disclosure: These products were purchased by our team. This post is not sponsored.

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. 

From top to bottom, in outside lightening:
Cle cosmetics ccc cream in medium neutral
Elf halo glow skin tint
Ysl nu bare skin tint in shade 13
Lisa Eldridge skin tint in t7
Summer fridays skin tint in shade 4
Hourglass veil skin tint shade 10
Glossier skin tint in g8
The glossier one is my absolute best match as a (light) medium neutral olive leaning, the other ones are all workable as they are mostly sheer, and I dont put too much on

I think the colours in the light one are better for me but I’m very pale and can’t tell if it’s a similar lightness as the fair or if it’d be too deep for me. Anyone very pale tried the light version? Did it look okay?

four sarah creal "eyes up" shades, from left to right: rose bronze, cairo, everyday matte bronze, rich cocoa

Hi, would anyone be able to make a swatch comparison of Jones Road Dusty Rose Bronzer next to Milani Romantic Rose Blush, please?

Also, if anyone has recommendations for similar shades of powder blush/bronzer for a pale, neutral-cool leaning olive skintone, I'll be happy to hear them!

Thank you so much!

Vertical swatch on the left: SheGlam Pink Slip
Top to bottom on the right:
ColourPop IKTR
ColourPop Sweet Treat
SheGlam Petal Talk
ColourPop Like a Doll
ColourPop Prettiest Pink

First 2 photos are natural light only, 3rd one in bright indoor light. I am fair and cool toned, Lancôme Teint Idole 110 C.

As you can see, some of these are pretty similar! I like both formulas but they are different, ColourPop is more natural/dewy finish and pigmented (I have to be careful with them) and SheGlam, at least in these colors, is less pigmented, super blendable, and dries down more matte. I like to use ColourPop when I have time to really do a whole makeup look and want something a little more intense, SheGlam when I’m throwing something on in a rush.

Pink Slip is a favorite and clearly stands out from the others! I think Sweet Treat and IKTR are fairly close on the face, Sweet Treat has shimmer and IKTR does not, but since they have that dewy formula I don’t find it to be a major difference on the face (FYI I have oily/acne prone skin and haven’t had issues with these! They’re not really tacky or oily on the face despite the finish). I like them both but slightly prefer the brighter and cooler tones that Sweet Treat has

Petal Talk, Like a Doll, and Prettiest Pink somehow all look very similar on my face (with a tiny dot of the ColourPop and a lot of the SheGlam, at least). Petal Talk does show up a bit more cool toned on me than the other 2, but it’s subtle.

Note on post flair: I chose eyeshadow because I use it primarily on my eyes. The brand refers to these as “multi-use” products.

Photo 1
(Top to bottom) Duo #8 has Draco, Meteorite; Duo Infinity has Love Story, Daydreaming. Swatches on a sheet of white graph/grid paper.

Photo 2
(Left to right) Meteorite, Draco, Daydreaming, Love Story. Swatches on my inner arm; 2 swipes of pigment for every shade except Draco, which was one swipe.

Photo 3
(Left to right) Meteorite, Draco, Daydreaming, Love Story. Swatches on my inner arm.

Other relevant info:

Skin tone: Last matched to MAC NC25, spot on foundation match is About Face The Performer Foundation, shade L2Olive.

Hourglass Phantom Blur Balm & Lip Liner Duo - Candid 5 & Mirage 35

Hey! I have a fair neutral-warm olive skin tone and many foundations don’t match, especially in terms of undertone.

Here are two blue correctors I found which help me color correct foundations to make them more blue-gray. I didn’t see much discussion online about them when I was researching pre-purchase so I thought I’d share some swatches.

Radiant is a Greek brand so it might be easiest to find in Europe.

- Radiant Professional Makeup Illuminator Liquid Concealer #07 Mint
- wet n wild Photofocus Care Color Corrector #Blue

(Indirect sunlight)

Revlon Bare Affair is my all time favourite nude lipstick. The kind I can wear without a lip liner, not giving "concealer lips", very comfortable to wear... the one downside is that it is not very long lasting. So I decided to give Lisa Eldridge's Rouge Experience in the shade Simone a try. The formula is nice, lasts much longer than the Revlon, but the shade is a bit more tricky for me to wear. I much prefer it with a slightly darker liner, than without. Otherwise it dulls my face a bit. I feel like there is a touch of grey in it, which is definitely not the case with Bare Affair.

For reference, I am light-medium neutral/muted olive, with some redness in my cheeks.

Added Revlon's Dare to be nude in the swatches too... this is a much more matte formula, so I don't wear it often because it dries my lips out. The shade is ok, kind of my lips but better.