I was doing some swatch comparisons trying to find dupes in my collection and figured it might be helpful to compare some similar shades with each other.
Everything swatched in diffused natural light on fair-neutral dry skin.
Most notable findings:
Smoky lilac and rose tiramisu from Dasique are cool and warm toned sisters! The saturation and general vibe are so similar, just one cool and one warm! I find that the texture on these is smoother and easier to blend than the fwee pudding pots, though neither are hard to work with. For formula I prefer the Dasique, but for the color selection fwee is certainly more diverse. I mainly wear these as cheek colors, and the wear time is easily eight hours provided I don’t touch my face too much.
Etude dusty beige is certainly a cool toned mauve, but from other swatches I’ve seen I expected this to be more brown toned, whereas in practice it’s more of a muted pink-lavender. Probably best for summer cool tones, but on me it washes me out unless I use a deeper lip liner.
The Romand zero velvet tints are definitely not one of the more popular offerings from their line, but I personally love the color payoff and finish of these! Rose tea and Deep Soul would look gorgeous on deep autumns, and Fizz and Villain Vest are perfect cool red tones for Dark Winters! I will say the colors of all of these are very different from the swatches from Romand, with villain vest being much lighter and fizz being deeper and less of a strawberry color! I would slot both of them into the “cool red” category. I love villain vest, but it is much less deep and vampy in person! The formula does transfer a bit and doesn’t dry down completely but the trade off is that it is super comfortable and non-drying, but also not moisturizing and doesn’t bleed into lip lines.
Haven’t tried the fruity glam tints aside from swatching as this was an allergy test of the formula, but the staining power is great despite and the formula is thin with what I would call medium shine.
Happy to answer any questions or dig into my take on some of these formulas if anyone is interested!
by hannahpancakes