Ugh. I'm surprised to say I don't mind the Annabelle MONO Eyeshadows, but the trio? Where did they go wrong? Surprisingly after experience what little there was to gain from the trio I swore off Annabelle products for good. My sister, however, had a couple Monos I tried and they worked fine! What's up with that? Anyway, I found the colours in the Trio to be faint, at best, when I applied them. I usually had to put up to four layers of it for it to have any impact. The browns, which there were two of in the Trio I bought, worked so poorly it was negligable and I stopped trying to use them. It was faint to begin with and only faded rapidly from there. Long lasting? Not in the least. By the end of the day I was lucky to see any residue of the colour I'd applied that morning, and all it did was make my face look tired, ugly, and like I had no idea how to apply a simple eyeshadow. The price wasn't bad (Annabelle usually isn't too bad for prices, after all), but considering the product didn't work for much longer than 15-30 minutes, I basically invested my money in invisible eyeshadow. YAY! Not. At least there's the Mono.