Fyrinnae Haul with Swatches!

Here's the contents of my second Fyrinnae haul, isn't it lovely?

I got two lip lustres as well, and I've yet to master the texture but the scent is delicious! It reminds me of caramel.

I took several swatch pictures. I got a lot of jewel-tones and autumnal colors this time around and there's not a single one that I didn't adore.

Here are the first eight that I swatched (over Pixie Epoxy of course) with indoor light and then with flash:

Top Row: Monarch Butterfly, Feline Familiars, Okapi, Avian Shapeshifter

Bottom Row: Leopard-Print Galaxy, Pumpkinfire, Fire Opal, Velvet Vampire

Second eight:
Top Row: Greenman's Forest, Candy Coated, Conjuror, Wicked
Bottom Row: Faerie Glamour, Madame & Eve's, Mystic, Evocation

Last three and lip lustre swatches:
Immortality, Dragonmagic, Dark Fantasy
Lip Lustres: Top, Bloodstains. Bottom, Type A.

And one last picture to show of the AMAZING sparkles in Immortality! (And also Dark Fantasy because I think it might be my absolute favorite of all the shadows in this order)

Feast your eyes! I can't wait to try these shades out ^.^

Winter Girl EOTD & Fyrinnae updates

This is the third Wicked Lovely themed EOTD I've posted so far and I'm really happy with how it turned out! This one is mostly blue with frosty sparkle, so I think it's fairly fitting.
Here's what I used:
1. Broken Glass - Detrivore
2. Nymphette - Evil Shades
3. Mirage - Pure Luxe
4. N/A
5. Nymphette - Evil Shades
6. Gyarados - Shiro
7. Meowth - Shiro
And here's how it looked:

Also, my Fyrinnae order arrived today in the midst of a snow flurry. Yay! I'll put up swatches and everything, but I just have to say Dark Fantasy is LOVELY!

Boomer EOTD, Fyrinnae, and a Third Themed Look Tomorrow

This is another Wicked Lovely - based EOTD. Boomer is the pet snake, so I tried to capture the whole snakeskin irridescence thing. It didn't photograph as well as I'd hoped, but here it is anyway.
What I used: (For the key explaining what number means what, http://maquillage-maenad.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-new-year-resolutions-and-other.html)
1. S.S. Anne - Shiro
2. Faceted - Pure Luxe
3. Luster - Pure Luxe
4.  N/A
5. Sake & Sashimi - Fyrinnae
6. Rimmel Sable Brown eye pencil
7. Meowth - Shiro

Also, I should be recieving my Fyrinnae order tomorrow I think. According to shipping, it's nearly here but the weather has been crazy enough that I'm not positive. Even if it's a longer wait, though, I'll be posting the third Wicked Lovely themed EOTD tomorrow, so there's always that to look forward to. In the meantime, stay warm! Snow seems to be falling everywhere in this section of the world.

Evil Shades Review & Swatches

I'm sorry this has taken me so super long to post. I'm not really sure why it wasn't up already. But I've tried to be meticulous and swatch everything. So here's my belated Evil Shades review.
I have to give Evil Shades a lot of credit, because these were the products that turned me on to the world of independent makeup. I can't measure the amount of money I've saved or the fun I've had playing with new pigments.
I've only placed one order so far, which consisted of 3 blushes (in China Doll, Ravishing, and Pin Up), 4 glosses (Deadly, No Angel, Loxensis, and Lethal Kiss), 4 lipsticks (Primrose Path, Ardour, Fiendish, and Corruption) , and 5 eyeshadows in Seraphic, Zombie, Nymphette, Double Barrel, and Devil's Bonfire. All of these were samples except for the Deadly gloss. The sample baggies are a bit difficult to work with, but I'm just a big fan of jars. The glosses apply easily with a brush, as do the lipsticks (which are super creamy by the way) and the colors are intense. The lovely owner of Evil Shades included a full size lipstick in Cursed Beauty (which hadn't been released at the time!) free with my order. It came in a black chapstick tube with the Evil Shades logo, and applies super smoothly. These were all super gorgeous, so here are the pictures. Enjoy and then go buy!
Blushes L to R: China Doll, Ravishing, Pin Up. Of the three, I absolutely adored Pin Up and MUST order a full size soon.
Here they are in natural light, and then again with flash to show the beautiful sparklies.

Out of the eyeshadows, my favorite is probably Devil's Bonfire. It makes a great wet liner. They all have pretty awesome sparkle. Shadows L to R are Double Barrel, Nymphette, Zombie, Seraphic, Devil's Bonfire. As usual, swatched over Pixie Epoxy.

The lip glosses were a little on the slippery side, but very pigmented. I found them to smell a little coconutty. I was a bit sad to see that Deadly was much more of a berry color than the deep red  pictured on the website. L to R: Deadly, No Angel, Loxensis, Lethal Kiss. I think my favorite is Loxensis.

All of the lipsticks were super pigmented and scented like candy. I found Corruption to be a little harder to apply than the others... I guess it's thicker? Out of all of them, I think Ardour was my favorite, closely followed by Fiendish. I can't really wear either of them successfully, but the colors are super vibrant. L to R: Cursed Beauty, Primrose Path, Ardour, Fiendish, Corruption.

So that's my review. Lovely products for great prices, go forth and purchase!

Pure Luxe Haul with Swatches

I finally got around to swatching these. Sorry it took so long! I'm waiting on at least two orders to arrive (three if my Archetype Cosmetics order ever actually gets here) so I'm trying to get a move on with the swatchies so I can get the reviews up soon after the new stuff gets here. This is my Pure Luxe order. I only ordered samples, but I lovelovelove that they come in jars. I got the Kaleidoscope collection, one Heavy Metalz in Molten, Mardi Gras Flash Cube, and the glow in the dark shadow in Apparition.
I was happy with all of them except Apparition. It's gorgeous in the dark, but it has the consistency of something between flour and very fine sand and I couldn't get it to stick properly. When I tried to foil it, it simply fused itself to my brush and I had to clean it off. Maybe there's a trick to doing this, but I haven't figured it out yet. If anyone has tips on how to do this, please tell me!
On to the pictures!

Indoor lighting: L to R, Top row: Molten, Faceted, Prismatic, Oasis. Bottom Row: Visions, Mirage, Illusion, Luster. The almost invisible one on the far right is my fail attempt at getting Apparition to stick. These were all swatched over Pixie Epoxy.

Natural lighting:

Flash:

Here's Apparition glowing:

Here are the pigments swatched wet. I was hoping it would make the color-shift more noticeable.

And last but not least, the lovely flash cube!

Squeeeee!

This is gonna be my updates post I think. I'm currently waiting on 3 cosmetics orders. Fyrinnae's TAT was 16-20 days last time I checked, and I didn't order too long ago... but I just got an email that it shipped!!! Yay! That's 19 shadows winging their lovely way toward me ^.^ and I'm super excited to try out the lip lustres.
I only ordered from Hi Fi a few days ago and I'm not sure what the TAT is for that, but I think the Fyrinnae order will keep me more than occupied til it arrives. I'm mainly excited about the uber-glitter factor of these shadows.
Aaaand then there's Archetype. Sigh. Today was another of those days where I gleefully sprinted to the mailbox, only to find a bunch of catalogs and a severe deficit of bubble mailers. I said in a previous post that I'd leave it a couple days before attempting to contact Holly again in the hope that the "Not Available" status of my supposedly shipped package was simply due to the holidays.
But it's been a couple days. So I called. To my surprise, Holly actually answered the phone. The whole conversation experience was bittersweet. She was super-friendly, but she said that my package could be in the batch whose shipping tags had been prepared... but were still un-shipped. So they've been un-shipped for ten days now. She said she'd call me back after she checked, but I'm not so sure if I should expect a response soon. I guess we'll see. Those are my updates so far. They seem to have started out all peppy and gone downhill a bit. Sorry about that!
Two more things before I go... One, I've got a Pure Luxe review on the way, and I know this is a small blog with no real pressure to get things posted but I have to apologize. I thought that I'd posted a review for Evil Shades a while back, but when I went to check there was nothing. So I'll post that soon, but I'm sorry it wasn't already there, since I've had those shadows/lippies for a while.
And two, Fyrinnae's website now says "Fyrinnae is closed until further notice" up at the top of the home page. Anyone know what's up with that? I haven't heard anything. Thanks all!

Daytime EOTD and Harry Potter

WHY did they split the 7th HP movie into two parts! It totally defeats the purpose of... you know, oh well. It means more detail anyway. I went to go see the Deathly Hallows pt 1 tonight. It wasn't bad. I wasn't sure where they were going to end it, and Dumbledore's burial site looked like an ostentatious granite bunker, but other than that I thought it was okay. The Weasley twins will always be my favorites ^.^

Anyway, on to the EOTDs. I rarely do an exclusively "daytime" look, since I don't usually reign in my dramatics when it comes to makeup, no matter what it's like outside. But Fyrinnae's Damn Paladins is such a great taupe I kind of had to!
 It's all Damn Paladins, with a bit of Titania in the corner and a highlight of Shiro's Meowth shade. Pretty neutral for me, but I love it.
So here's pics of the daytime look:

 

This second look is what I wore to the movie. Turns out it was very fitting, as everything in the movie seemed to be a dark blue.

1. Damask Grey - Face Candy Couture

2. Chill - Face Candy Couture

3. Nymphette - Evil Shades

4. Didn't use a liner (I'm just gonna say N/A from now on, okay?)

5. Chill - Face Candy Couture

6. N/A

7. Dinosaur Plushie - Fyrinnae

So here's the pictures, and then I'll shut up for the night

(A bit pic-heavy cause I was trying to capture Chill)