Milani Fierce Foil Eyeshine Review and Swatches

The packaging is beautiful, shiny, and gold- it's definitely eye-catching. I picked up 2 of the 4 quads, 01 Milan and 02 Rome.

These are described as "groundbreaking gloss technology formulated especially for your eyes".



 Rome 02 has beautiful shades of purple...
 ...while Milan 01 has some really pretty nudes.
They're super creamy...almost overly so.  To me, some of the shades actually felt greasy like they were made from petroleum jelly.  Some of them were also full of big, chunky glitter and the effect was definitely not something I would wear everyday.  Still, they went on really pigmented and smooth and weren't streaky.

I took some photos inside and outside and you can really see the glitter in the outdoor photos (and it wasn't even sunny today).

Milan 01 Indoor Lighting

Milan 01 Outdoor Lighting

Rome 01 Indoor Lighting

Rome 02 Outdoor Lighting

I decided to wear the Milan 01 palette today and I put it on without any other makeup (so please excuse the photos).  I don't have a before shot, so both photos below are what happened "after".

I had to run out to Walgreens with the baby and I got home about an hour later. When I looked in the mirror, I couldn't believe my eyes, literally.  After only about an hour and a half, the glitter was all over my face, down under my eyes and all over my son's head. The Eyeshine had also migrated from my eyelid to above my crease and it was creasing all over the place.  I must have looked like a freakazoid to the people at Walgreens...yikes!

Needless to say, these were a total fail for me.  I usually love Milani products but these were expensive and ended up a greasy mess. Not to mention that I have really dry skin and usually don't have a problem with makeup sliding off of my face.  So I don't think this would work on any skin type, unfortunately.  It may work better if you layer a powder eyeshadow over it, but I'm not even going to bother because they're too glittery for my purposes anyway.

Have you seen or tried these? I'm kind of disappointed because they looked really pretty in the packaging and I was hoping for something long lasting and shiny (but not glittery).