Brazen Halloween Quick Swatches

Happy Wednesday!
I'm going to post more detailed photos/review later this afternoon, but I wanted to get these up as soon as possible. Sandi from Brazen Cosmetics sent me some things to review from her Halloween releases.

L-R, natural light: Bondage, Wicked, Dead of Night, Fleet Street, Hades, Diablo (glitter gel)

L-R, with flash: Bondage, Wicked, Dead of Night, Fleet Street, Hades, Diablo (glitter gel)

Bondage is easily my favorite out of the set- what a beautiful deep purple!

Brazen Lip Swatches!

I'll do more in depth posts later with my usual skin swatches, but I just wanted to share a few pictures because I love Brazen's glosses so much. Seriously, I never liked lipgloss before I tried Brazen. Now I'm addicted.

Alchemy

Peep Show

Floozy

Floozy can be a bit hard to work with, but I love the color. It's just not good for days that I'm running low on patience.

Brazen Floozy Swatches

If you've read my other posts about Brazen's Passion Pot lip glosses, you already know that I'm a bit crazy for them. And if you didn't already know that, you know it now. The glosses are $4.99 here.

I've been hoping that Brazen would come out with an even redder gloss than Cherry Bomb or Make Out, and Floozy did not disappoint. I love a strong red lip. Floozy isn't a pure, pin-up red, but it's pretty close.

Swatches in natural light.

The only thing that could make this gloss better would be for it to be in a tube rather than a pot so I could touch up on the go! I seem to be forever on the hunt for the perfect red lip product. I need one that I can apply easily to touch up between songs while swing dancing, and the germies on my hands from dancing with others aren't going anywhere near a pot of lip gloss!

Breathless Swatches

Continuing on the Brazen-fest train, here are swatches of Brazen Cosmetics' Breathless lip gloss.
Photos in natural light, click to make them gigantic and more color-accurate.

Although Breathless can be applied in various levels of opacity, it's more of a difference in sparkle levels than actual color.

Less Sparkle:

MOAR SPARKLE!
...ahem. I mean, More Sparkle:

Muah!

Despite the massive sparkle, I don't recall noticing the gloss feeling gritty.

Brazen Passion Pot Face-Off: Cherry Bomb vs. Make Out

I know, I know. All I ever post these days is Brazen lip gloss. But I figure a comparison of Make Out and Cherry Bomb might be helpful to at least a few people.
I usually don't upload my photos directly to blogger, but I will today for the sake of time. I apologize if the formatting is wonky or anything. Click to make them enormous- the colors are so much more accurate that way.

Cherry Bomb is on the left, Make Out on the right.
All photos natural light unless otherwise noted.

Flash!

Sheered out, it's more apparent that Cherry Bomb is a cooler-based color.

In conclusion:
Cherry Bomb is more of a cool-toned red (although not quite what I would call a "true red"), while Make Out is pinker and warmer.  Cherry Bomb has more of a mirror-like finish (which is more apparent in the swatches here). Also, Make Out has a healthy dose of iridescent glitter.

Cherry Bomb:

Make Out:

If I HAD to choose one over the other, the winner would be Make Out. However, they're both beautiful glosses.

Hope this helps!

Vanity Swatches (Brazen Cosmetics)

Believe it or not, I still have a bunch of Brazen lip gloss swatches to share with all of you. As I've mentioned before, Sandi of Brazen sent me samples of many of her lip glosses. Here's my little colony of lippie samples:


I love these glosses.

In honor of in retaliation against the cold, dreary, rainy weather, I would like to present Vanity. Brazen describes Vanity as "a bright vibrant coral". While it is very pretty, I found it to be more difficult to apply evenly than the other Brazen glosses I've used. However, this is only when applying opaquely- sheer application is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.

All photos in natural light.








Sheer application:



Opaque application:

La Femme

I'm currently moderately obsessed with things that are golden, shimmery, glowy, peachy and coral-y. Thus, La Femme from Brazen Cosmetics is definitely a favorite of mine right now. It's a gorgeous shimmery lipgloss.
A sample of this gloss was given to me by Sandi of Brazen.

All photos in natural light.










Applied sheerly:







Applied opaquely:







I adore this gloss!

I have an exciting Friday night planned- freeing up space on my hard drive! That, and maybe some Mario Kart.

I meant to post this a while ago...Brazen glitter gel

In my last Brazen order, I received a nice surprise- a green glitter gel.










When first applied, it looks like this:



Then it dries and looks like this:


I haven't played around with it much yet, but I was impressed by how well it stayed on after it dried. I rubbed my finger back and forth across the swatch, and hardly any of the glitter budged. I love that it has such great staying power, I just need to figure out some looks to try it with.

Brazen Burlesque Swatches

In my last Brazen order, Sandi was kind enough to send me samples of a bunch of lip glosses, including Burlesque. I had been eyeing Burlesque (the name alone made me want it), but the photos on the etsy listing made me skeptical about just how wearable it would be. I'm happy to report that it is indeed quite wearable! Don't let the extreme pink of the gloss in the pot intimidate you! When it comes to lip color, my comfort zone consists of red, red, and more red. Pink usually doesn't enter the equation. I think Brazen is going to change my concept of lip color, because I'm loving playing with shades that I probably wouldn't have tried otherwise. So, on to the swatches.

All photos in natural light.

As always with the Brazen Passion Pot glosses, it can be applied sheerly or opaquely. The sheer application is great for a quick wash of color.







Sheer application:









Opaque application:









Rumor has it that Sandi will be introducing lip gloss in tubes (instead of pots) soon.
Do you have any glosses from Brazen? Any favorites?

I have seven more glosses to swatch for you, so stay tuned!