Morgana Cryptoria Eye See You Halloween Eyeshadows Haul and Swatches

My Morgana Cryptoria order arrived on Monday, but since I've been busy and behind on other posts, I wasn't able to swatch and get this posted for you until now.

Here's what I got:

Socket to me eye primer
Eye See You Halloween Eyeshadow Collection
4 Lipgloss Pots

Eye See You Eye shadow collection (my clumsiness spilled some dang it!)

Order came with a sparkly bat!

Eyeshadows were swatched with Morgana Cryptoria Socket To Me eye primer

From left to right: Cronea, Sneaky Seer, Freaky Peepers, Pumpkin Eye Patch and Glaring Goblin (taken with flash)

From left to Right: Oogling Ogre, Vampy Voyeur, Evil eye Candy and Creepy Peepers (taken with flash)

From left to right: Cronea, Sneaky Seer, Freaky Peepers, Pumpkin Eye Patch and Glaring Goblin (direct sunlight)

From left to Right: Oogling Ogre, Vampy Voyeur, Evil eye Candy and Creepy Peepers (direct sunlight)

Eyeshadow colour descriptions:

Sneaky Seer - Lavender with sparkles of shifting gold and silver.

Pumpkin Eye Patch - vivid orange with gold tones and metallic orange sparkle.

Glaring Goblin - slightly metallic olive with an intense gold sheen and golden shimmer.

Cronea - slightly metallic champagne with silver & gold sparkle

Evil eye Candy - dusky red with turquoise sparkles 

Vampy Voyeur - wine with a violet sheen & violet-blue sparkle. 

Freaky Peepers - grape with a shifting sheen of violet to blue-green

Creepy Peepers - deep grey-brown with a shift of green, steel blue and red-violet

Oogling Ogre - vivid green with a tint of blue & orange-copper-gold sparkles 

Lipgloss colour descriptions:

Alloy - doesn't have a description but it looks like a coppery gold to me

Cozy Coffin - brown-wine with lots of golden sparkles

Witches Brew - Deep wine with Red, red-violet and gold sparkles

Fallen Leaves - Red-Brown with intense green sheen, that changes blue-green and red-violet

Socket to me eye primer:

"A little bit of this light textured liquid-paste goes a long way. Applies clear.

Application tips: Apply a tiny amount using a brush or the wand for best results. Apply your shadow in thin coats to build opacity or simply pat on."

I didn't swatch the lipglosses because I intend to wear them with some upcoming looks so you'll get to see them in action.

If you have any questions, please let me know. :-)

~BLIX

Morgana Cryptoria Haul + Glitter, Shadow and Lipstick Swatches

Here's the order I received early this week. I was so busy with work and unpacking, I didn't really get to look at it until the day after getting it.

 

 Stuff with flash

 

 Stuff in natural light

 Glitter swatches 1st row from left to right with flash: Grape Twist, Red Plum Jam, Wine, Ancient, Teal, Pining, Celedon and Olivette.

2nd row from left to right: Mystery Mix, Twinkling Purple, Embers, Cranapple, Navy, Mysterious, Elfin and Rainbow Sea Serpent.

 Glitter swatches 1st row from left to right in natural light: Grape Twist, Red Plum Jam, Wine, Ancient, Teal, Pining, Celedon and Olivette.

2nd row from left to right: Mystery Mix, Twinkling Purple, Embers, Cranapple, Navy, Mysterious, Elfin and Rainbow Sea Serpent.

 Lipstick swatches with flash from left to right: Twinkling Rubies, Apple Plum, Otherworldly, Plumeria lipgloss

 Lipstick swatches in natural light from left to right: Twinkling Rubies, Apple Plum, Otherworldly, Plumeria lipgloss

 Eyeshadow swatches with flash top row from left to right: Barely Lilac, Snowsheen, LE #5
2nd row: Grape, Graphite, Black Spot

 Eyeshadow swatches in natural light, top row from left to right: Barely Lilac, Snowsheen, LE #5
2nd row: Grape, Graphite, Black Spot

See anything you like? I'm drooling over everything. The glitter is sooo amazing. The lipsticks are yummy. The shadows are really nice too. I'm not a huge matte shadow fan but I like these so I grabbed them. :-)

~BLIX

Kryolan Shimmering Vision palette & HD cream liner Swatches

Late last month I ordered Kryolan's new Shimmering Vision Cream Based 18-color palette along with the HD cream liner in Ebony (black) from Shrinkle on eBay.
I just received them on Tuesday. The postage date was the 30th so I'm wondering if the package was lost or possibly routed to the wrong area, which is why it took so long. I have no idea but it's not normal for Priority packages to take more than 2 weeks! Anyway, I'm not complaining as everything arrived safely and as described.

 So here's the goodies:

Palette, Cream liner and an unlabeled sample but I believe it is Hysteric from Sugarpill.

Taken in natural light. Yep, I played with it a bit before taking pictures. My brush was super stiff and cut right into the pretty teal colour. Ooops!

with flash

 natural light (ebony cream liner on the left)

natural light

with flash

with flash

Colour chart for the colours. I'll use this for reference when I use this for a look so you know which ones I used.

the unlabeled sample (Hysteric?) looks to be purple with blue/green sparkles

swatched over ebony cream liner on the top and swatched over white from the palette on the bottom.

I'd have to say the main thing I noticed from the palette was of course the awesome shimmering colours, then next was the smell. It's not a terrible smell, but it is sort of perfumey. I've worn two colours already and did not notice a smell after they were applied. But I know some people are sensitive to smells so I thought it was important to mention that this palette does have a smell, but it's not chemically...just sort of creamy...perfumey. Like floral body cream or something.

Anyway, the squares are about 1" x 1". They all seem to be filled at varying levels but overall you get a lot of product for the money. 

When trying them out, they have a wonderful consistency. They are very creamy, blend well and shadow adheres to them decently but not as well as my Detrivore eye primer or say Fyrinnae's Pixie Epoxy. I will try these out with glitter at some point to see if it sticks at all. 

I tried a couple of these on the water line and they held up really well. Didn't budge at all so that's great as I love putting fun colours on the water line. :-)

I will be playing with the palette over the next couple weeks and if I have time, I will do a more thorough review.

I've worn the HD cream liner 2 times. I tried it as I normally would for winged liner as well as on the water line. Since I'm used to using Kryolan's Aqua color liner (which is applied with water), this HD cream liner is dry to me. I think for a cream liner it's really, really good but it will take some getting used to for me. Other than it being drier than I'm used to, I like it fine. It's also very creamy and can be used as a black base. It did exceptionally well on the water line too!

The palette is $52.50 and the HD cream liner is $20.00. Both were purchased from Shrinkle's eBay store

I hope you enjoyed this post! If you have any questions, please let me know!

~BLIX

Beauties Factory Eye Shadow Compact Order + Swatches

Many of you have heard of Beauties Factory. You can get a lot of the basic eyeshadow and lipgloss palettes there. I already have an 88 palette so I didn't want to get another pre-made palette. Instead, I bought several eyeshadow compacts so I can choose what colours I want to try. They are $1.45 each if you are registered, which I am, or $1.50 each if you aren't registered. I bought 40 compacts and shipping was $0.60. Which is REALLY cheap considering it's international. So my order came to $58 and some change. Not bad for buying 40 huge eyeshadow pans. Everything arrived in about a week which is really fast. It arrived very well packed and everything was correct. No eyeshadows were broken. Everything is just perfect. No complaints.

Here's what the compacts look like:

natural light

flash

They all came sealed

the back

packaging

shows how big these are

These are so large that they won't fit into MAC or Stars Makeup Haven palettes. Beauties Factory has various palettes you can buy to put these into if you choose. I did not buy a palette because I figured I would make one myself.
The eyeshadows have numbers and names listed on the website. But they only came with numbers on them. When I get around to trying a look with these, I will list names instead of numbers. But if anyone wants to know the list of colours with names and their numbers, let me know and I will add it here for you to reference.


In doing these swatches I noticed that they all had different textures based on their finishes. Most of them are shimmery or pearly. A few are matte and a few are sheer. The shimmery ones are easier to work with, while only some of the matte ones were a little weird but not terrible. Basically some of the mattes were softer and a bit chalky, so I had to be more gentle when using my brush to pick up pigment. But with some shimmery ones, I had to press much harder and they were more smooth. However, all of them were completely true to colour and very pigmented.

Here are the swatches which are over Aromaleigh's light primer. You can click to enlarge all pictures.

From left to right: Pure White, Snow White, White, Vanilla Sky, Sake, Skin Tone, Private Garden, Rich Red, Amazing Grace, Tango, The Jewel, Remember Me?, Fading Memory

natural light

flash

From left to right: Lilac, Violet, Fuschia, Paris Night, Ocean Pacific, The Pivate (do they mean Private?), Miss You, Navy, Plumage, Blue Eyes, Emerald, Atlantic, Star Dust

natural light

flash

From left to right: Chill-Out, Yu, Forest, Herbal, Green, Mermaid, Noble Green, Lime, Bling Bling, Gaze, Gold Vintage, Tropical Punch

natural light

flash

From left to right: Black Ring, Black (matte)

natural light

flash

I would say these are just OK for now. I really love many of the colours (Plumage being my fav) so I will play with these for a while before I come back with a better review for you all. 

I really couldn't find much about these online. Seems like no one has blogged about them or swatched them. Which is partially why I wanted to try them. Have you tried these? See anything you like?

If you have any questions or comments, please let me know. :-)

~BLIX



Here's the list of colour names with their numbers (I realized I needed to do it for myself anyway).


Pure White 401
Snow White 501
White 402
Vanilla Sky 503
Sake 504
Skin Tone 573
Private Garden 465
Rich Red 480
Amazing Grace 561
Tango 563
The Jewel 551
Remember Me? 557
Fading Memory 457
Lilac 458
Violet  460
Fuschia 462
Paris Night 463
Ocean Pacific 554
The Pivate 447
Miss You 536
Navy 448
Plumage 548
Blue Eyes 452
Emerald 534
Atlantic 547
Star Dust 453
Chill-Out 532
Yu 531
Forest 540
Herbal 539
Green 438
Mermaid 525
Noble Green 440
Lime 425
Bling Bling 517
Gaze 518
Gold Vintage 520
Tropical Punch 524
Black Ring 507
Black 408

Skindecent Natural Body Care order arrived! Wooo!

My husband, Jason, and I are going on a romantic getaway soon. Every year in the winter, we rent a cabin in the Rocky Mountains, mainly to go hot tubbing in the snow at night. It's so fun and totally romantic. So to help the romantic-ness, I placed an order with www.skindecent.com on February 26th for scrubs, bath bombs and lotion!  I just received it today. Pretty fast coming from Canada! Yay!

I like bakery/foody smells and Jason likes citrus smells. So this is what I got for us:

2 Body Polisher Scrubs in Orange Dreamsicle and Chestnuts & Brown Sugar

2 Manicure in a Minute Scrubs in Fresh Waffle Cone and Lemon Marshmallow Cake

2 Bath Kabooms (these babies are HUGE!) in Orange Dreamsicle and Enchantress

4 Soft As Silk Hand & Body Lotions in Orange Dreamsicle, Fresh Waffle Cone, Chestnuts & Brown Sugar and Cotton Candy Frosting

1 Hand Sanitizer in Orange Dreamsicle to keep in the car

Click on pics to enlarge:

Bag is busted a little but everything is fine :-)

Hand scrubs and Body Polisher Scrubs

Lotion

Cute teddy bear Bath Kabooms! You can order them in a big ball or teddy bear. I find that the teddy bears are easier to break up...I just feel bad for the little guys when I whack 'em! :-P

Me holding one to show how big they are. Don't use it all at once...these bad boys go a long way.

Hand sanitizer

Awesome Free Samples with every order!

Scent Descriptions of the items I ordered:

Cotton Candy Frosting - (Medium Intensity) Similar to our Sweet Tooth scent but stronger. This scent may cause cavities

Orange Dreamsicle -  (Medium Intensity)- End of the summer favourite treat! Bright orange popsicle surrounding creamy vanilla ice cream

Fresh Waffle Cone - (Medium Intensity) A true scent consisting of butter, flour, a pinch of sugar and that "fresh baked crust" note.

Enchantress - (Medium Intensity) Similar to BBW's Brown Sugar & Fig, this enticing scent combines brown sugar, figs, coconut and a touch of amber

Lemon Marshmallow Cake - (Medium Intensity) A creamy lemon poundcake with a gooey marshmallow cream center & rich vanilla frosting smothered on top

Chestnuts & Brown Sugar - (Medium Intensity) A duplicate of Yankee Candle, Rich caramel and chestnuts with a creamy, buttery base! Everyone loves this rich and yummy scent!

I love how it's all packed in a cute bag with my name on it, like a gift (but I paid for it!). Everything arrived in perfect condition. No leaking or anything, even though the box smelled soooo good before I even opened it! OMG everything smells divine!

I've ordered several times from Skindecent and I can't say enough good things about them. I have loved everything I have tried. The quality of the products and service is amazing. Marliss, the owner, is a sweet woman and I enjoy dealing with her. If you have not tried this company, you should!

www.skindecent.com

Physicians Formula SPF50 Powder Foundation

Being a very active outdoorsy person that burns easily, I make sure I always wear sunscreen when going out and even when I don't go out. For a few months I was searching for some sort of sunscreen powder foundation (because sunscreen lotion breaks me out pretty bad). Most that I find I hate...HATE. They suck and don't even offer a high SPF. Anything below SPF 15 does not work. So that means SPF 15 is actually SPF 1. So what's the point? I searched the internet from time to time, looking for something with a high level of SPF. I encountered a few websites and blogs that mentioned a few different types but most were too expensive for me. The one I kept going back to and feeling like I needed to try, was Physicians Formula Healthy Wear SPF50 Powder Make Up.
 So I looked up reviews for it and found this one by Y: http://prettychinadoll.blogspot.com/2010/02/review-time-physicians-formula-healthy.html

Their Healthy Wear products are tested and recommended by the Skin Cancer Foundation: http://www.skincancer.org/seal/display.php?c=8

After reading that, I knew I wanted to try it. So I searched the internet for the best price which is $11.96  and I found it here: http://www.discountbeautycenter.com/

I've seen a few reviews where people complain about the price, but sunscreen lotion on its own is pricey. So I think this is a good deal with sunscreen and makeup combined. I ordered it in Translucent Light because I'm rather light skinned. And since I like to add colour to my face in the summer, I ordered the SPF50 bronzer in Fair (also $11.96). Along with those, I ordered green and light concealer, Ardell Defining Eyebrow Powder in Mink Brown and Cover Girl Volume Exact mascara in very black, which I really like. The order came with a $10 off coupon towards my next purchase and one of the sunscreen powders came with a $5.00 coupon for another powder. So if I like it I'll buy more and use the coupons. :-)

 

Y had mentioned that the packaging was cute and it is! Bright orange and hot pink make me think of the beach!

 

  

  

Uh oh...I just realized I'm giving an accidental sneak peak on the fabric I talked about that I'm using to sew my outfit/costume! Hee hee! I just finished it and was trying it on when my order arrived.

 

I will be using the sunscreen powder everyday for a while so I can give a good review on how I feel about it. If you have any questions about anything, just let me know. :-)

Have you tried any of these products? Would you like to?