Jumping on the bright makeup bandwagon, Cover Girl has come out with a new eye shadow compact called Tropical Fusion. In fact, this is so new that I can’t even find it on the Cover Girl website.

This eye shadow compact consists of bright blue, green, orange and yellow/green eye shadow.

Normally, Cover Girl plays it safe with their choice in colors. Today, we’ll see if it was worth it for them to go outside of the box.

I found this compact at CVS Pharmacy on sale, but you can usually find it in most drug stores around the $5 or $6 mark.

Here’s what I thought of the Cover Girl Eye Enhancers Tropical Fusion compact:

Pros: The colors are very vibrant, at least in the packaging. The price is very good, especially for the amount of shadow you get (5.5 grams). It does come with a sponge makeup wand, if you like using that kind of makeup applicator. Also, the blue and green shadows went on very well.

Cons: The orange and light green/yellow shadows didn’t go on very well. In fact, the orange was almost invisible. It didn’t blend well with the other colors so that I had a hard time getting the orange to even show up.

Because I had a hard time blending this, the look I ended up with wasn’t what I wanted. It did look good, but it didn’t show the orange barely at all.

I guess I’m a bit confused by this compact. I have a different Cover Girl Eye Enhancers compact that I used in one of the Tutorial Tuesdays makeup tutorials, and that worked just fine. I think the problem here is the bright colors. Cover Girl just isn’t used to this concept, and their execution wasn’t great.

I don’t think this makeup is all bad. I still ended up with a pretty look even though I had trouble with the orange. I imagine that if I had used eye primer first, it would have worked better, but I shouldn’t have to.

While I had qualms with it, there were still some pros to the Cover Girl Eye Enhancers compact in Tropical Fusion, enough to warrant an alright grade:

C

Have you tried this product? What did you think?

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