how dupeable do you think the eyeliners are? what are the most unique items in this collection?
The least dupeable is the green one, overall - but remember...they are not approved for the waterline. There's always Minted, if you want a leaf green, although this one's a little lighter and brighter.
Most unique goes to Riviera Life - it is SOOOO opaque and truly tangerine orange.
Most eye-poppingly gorgeous goes to Sail la Vie. Wowie kazowie! If you have dreamed of a more orange version of Toxic Tale, with the glowing brilliant neon depth of Candy Yum Yum and Scarlet Ibis, you are going to be in heaven. If you were one of those people (like me!) who wore Temperature Rising lip pencil by itself, you are also going to go bananas for SLV. My eyes bugged out when I tried it on. It's the good Satin finish too, not drying and not horrible to remove. Riviera Life on top is just outrageously summery.
Also mega-beautiful is Send Me Sailing. Like all of these lipglasses, the formula feels a little different. You have to put a thick layer on all at once, or else it feels a bit crumbly and dry. With a thick coat, though, you get a deep, laquer-like, super wet gloss with absolutely opaque color. The store manager was speculating that this was the Glam Glass formula, since it went on as densely pigmented and high shine as the ones he'd remembered from way back when they were shown at last year's update. The actual color is really beautiful too - a mostly neutral red, perhaps slightly leaning blue, but just barely. It doesn't make me look like an old, sallow lady, like most neutral reds do. Red Racer was a touch more neutral leaning and a beautiful texture, but it did make me look a bit sallow. This is the red for people for whom Scarlet Ibis was too yellow and/or too bright. It's rich, but not blaringly bright (on NC15 - on skin tones around 30 it will look brightest and most lovely, imo). Personally, I prefer SI, but I think most folks will be happier with RR's shade and slightly creamier finish. It's dramatic as all get out with Send Me Sailing on top, although personally I think SMS is even better on its own.
The white gloss is opaque enough to really make a difference lightening up any lipstick color underneath, but it looks pretty weird worn alone, unless you want to be the most Jersey Shores of them all. Meanwhile, just as I suspected, Salute is the perfect peachy nude for those of us with red lips who can rock the canceling power of the yellow undertones. If you can wear Sheer Mandarin Supreme Sheen, but wished it was a little more toned down and nude, Salute is going to get you really excited. As someone who looked 100% blah in all the Naturally peachy nude lipsticks, Salute really makes up for it. The white gloss looks really good over it too.
I didn't much care for To Catch a Sailor. Heroine from Wonder Woman is nearly the same, but with a better metallic frost, better texture and slightly richer color. Blessedly Rich has some very near dupes in the perm lipglass selection, with the only difference being it has a touch less pink than something like Enchantress, but it's not noticeably different on the lips.
I'll go on about the other products I tested later on today. All I personally reserved: Sail la Vie, Riviera Life, Send Me Sailing, the red lip pencil and the light pink/white body oil (which has been reformulated to be less oily than the To the Beach ones, although the coppery body oil is just as disappointing as the TTB one - can't see the sparkles and it doesn't impart enough color.) The light colored body oil is the winner, since it DRENCHES you in clear white shimmer, and has a touch more noticeable base color - I'd call it about the same shade as Superb, maybe a touch lighter.
TCAS is on page 55 and SLV on page 57.
