Cover Girl Queen Collection Eye Shadow Quad

This is my first review of the Queen Collection eye shadow.  I purchased the Brass n Sass eye shadow quad last month from H.E.B. Grocery Store when they had all Cover Girl and Revlon products on sale.  I haven't purchased Cover Girl or Revlon eyeshadow in years.  I just don't ever remember them working well (except for Loreal HIP).  I've been hearing so much about the Queen Collection that I figured I'd try it out to see if these products were better.  Since they are geared towards women of color, I was hoping they'd be very pigmented so I won't have keep building the color.  Here are my thoughts.

Brass N Sass

Looks promising from the finger swatches right???

Aww man!  Disappointed.  These swatches on my hand are very sheer. Very unfortunate for such pretty looking colors.

So it appears that the Queen Collection is not what I hoped it would be.  Can I make it work?  Of course, but it will require primer, a lot of product and careful application so that the product doesn't fade away.  *sigh*

Black Radiance Baked Eye Shadow and Baked Bronzer

Wow!  What can I say about Black Radiance?  I totally regret not buying products before now.  I've passed this brand up for years thinking that it wasn't worth my money. (not sure why I thought this way, I guess I figured b/c it was inexpensive, it must mean that the products weren't good).  I purchased 2 products last week due to Walmart having $1 off coupons on them.  I've heard a few people mention Black Radiance, but I really don't remember the exact products.  Maybe it was a lipstick or gloss?  Anyway, here is my review of the Baked Bronzer and Baked Eye shadow.  Please excuse the date stamps.  I had to recharge my battery in my camera and the settings were reset.  I forgot to take them off. LOL!

On the left is the Baked eye shadow in Rum Spice.  On the right is the Baked Bronzer in Gingersnap.

This Baked Bronzer reminds me a lot of my absolute favorite MAC MSF Comfort

This Baked Bronzer reminds me a lot of my absolute favorite MAC MSF Comfort

 Pretty close.Comfort is a lot bigger, but it also cost way more. Retails at $28. (I received this in gratis). 

  MAC MSF is the top swatch and Black Radiance Gingersnap is at the bottom.  Gingersnap has more shimmer and it has more copper.  Comfort has more of a natural effect and is more brown.  

Black Radiance Rum Spice is the top swatch.  It has pretty good payoff (not quite a much as I would like but hey it was only $3).  The product is a bit deceiving.  It looks as though it is a combo of brown, gold, bronze, copper, but it really just comes off as gold. 

Coastal Scents Mini Haul

I purchased a few products from Coastal Scents two weeks ago.  I talked about how much I love the concealer palette already but I didn't mention the other things that I purchased.  See below.

African Black Soap, 4 foundation samples in ST11, Smacks lip gloss in Coral Funk, 2 eye shadow samples

Woo Hoo!  I finally got the Smokey Palette!

Both the concealer and Smokey palettes were very good choices.  I'm quite proud of myself.

It's a lot smaller than I expected

Brand new!

Ooooh Pretty Pretty colors all arranged together in families.

I didn't swatch all of them just the first column

Very pretty and pigmented

Coral Funk 

Me gusta!! It shows up more orange than pink in real life.  I love it and it's not too sticky.

Looks with these products will come later. :-)