I could not resist the mermaid scale pattern and glitteriness.

Looks like May is going to be eye shadow month at Beauty Blogging for Belly Dancers, because I have been hitting the new and new-ish eye makeup pretty hard lately. I actually bought this Sephora Colorful Duo Reflects in “Mermaid Tail” at the same time that I bought the Marsala palette, but I didn’t try it out until last night because I had tucked it away in a strange place and kept forgetting about it.

I’ve said before that I’m pretty iffy about Sephora eye shadows, having had bad experiences with them in the past, but this one seems like it’s got some promise. It’s a very interesting dark teal with a purple duochrome effect and teal and purple glitter in it. It’s a pretty unique color, which is why I picked it up. I have a few costuming pieces that it would look really good with, so I figured it was worth a try.

Before I continue with the review, I want to apologize for the poor quality of the photos, I was rushed getting ready for Open Stage last night and then I remembered that I needed to take photos for this blog, so I snapped them really quickly and they didn’t turn out well.

This color is so hard to capture!

I applied this eye shadow dry with a relatively dense, flat brush. I think it would probably work better applied damp, as even though I patted it on pretty well, it was still a little sheer. However, the duochrome came through really well, and there was a decent amount of glitter. I applied it over my usual Urban Decay primer. I think a primer is going to be necessary with this to help ensure that the glitter stays put.

Hand swatch, no primer.

After spritzing myself with some makeup setting spray, I wore this color for about 4 hours at Open Stage, where I built up a bit of a sweat. At the end of the night I had maybe a little glitter fallout (hard to tell which was from the shadow and which was the actual glitter I had applied on the outer corner of my eye), and a small amount of color loss on one eyelid. Side note, there’s this one spot on my left eyelid that seems to be the first place that I lose color, I don’t know if there’s a weird oily spot there or if I consistently fail to apply enough color there due to an issue of angles, or what. My right eye looked fine!

Note the cool purple sheen!

I think this product bears more experimenting with. I really like the color, it looks especially nice with my Siren super bootie skirt that I wore for Open Stage last night. I definitely want to see how it looks when I apply it damp, or with my finger instead of a brush.