Originally Posted by
liba 
I saw all the crushed metal pigment and lipgloss sets today!
The boxes are simple and just cardboard, but very cute. Not anywhere near as swanky as the various eye and lip sets in the padded boxes.
The green pigment set: The pale green is the same as we've seen before in Butterfly Party and Surf the Ocean, which is OK more or less, since it's a really nice highlight color that's a bit more interesting than a neutral, without looking overdone. The white is the same type of texture - I don't have this one in another set, but it's quite possible it's come out before. MEANWHILE, that deep bottle green is gorgeous! Beautiful color with a texture like the usual smoother crushed metals - not sheer at all. Then there is the MEGA-gorgeous brown with green duochrome. It's like blue green pigment or Club, but so much nicer - so soft and with a really pretty warm base color. These two make the whole set super worth it, in my opinion.
Originally, I was only interested in the green pigment set, but the soft smokey one, with the pink, purple and soft neutrals, is surprisingly nice. First off, the pink is just incredible - pink with purple duochrome. Amazing. Then, strangely enough, the medium brown made my jaw drop. It looked like an older CMP color, but the texture is brand new to the CMPs - it's just so amazingly wet look - even smoother and wetter than the Pressed Pigments. Wow! The deep purple is a duochrome too - with deep purple as the base and a lighter blue highlight - doesn't remotely need to be wet to bring out the colors. I was trying to restrain myself, but I think I'll be getting this set along with the green one - it's actually got more beautiful pigments in it than the green one, if you don't like the CMPs that are very sheer with the glitter pieces.
I didn't try out the all neutral one - I'm sure it's nice, but it's too plain for my tastes.
The pink/purple lip gloss set is very cute - Boys Go Crazy dg, Color Saturation csg - you can't fail with these. The pink csg is very soft and pretty and not milky, it's got a very subtle lavender cast. It's almost like a pink version of Narcissus. The dg creme is also very soft and pretty, without heavy glitter - a nice soft nude.
The brown gloss set was a bit samey between the various colors and the coral set had a lot of cute colors, but colors we've seen a million times already in gloss, so you'd have to be quite a dedicated coral gloss person to feel like this is a must have, imo.
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It sucks so many people were disappointed.
Thanks for the swatches my dear 
