Fyrinnae Halloween 2015 Swatches

Welcome back, everyone!  Fyrinnae recently released their permanent Halloween 2015 collection and I picked up a few shadows along with some from past collections.  Spoiler alert - one of them has such an insane duochrome that it's really hard to believe!

Pictures taken under daylight bulb and swatched over ELF Glitter Primer (top/left half) and ELF Essential Primer (bottom/right half)

Yurei's Wrath

Yurei's Wrath:  satin fuchsia

Lady Glamis

Lady Glamis:  gorgeous gray base with pink to green duochrome and gold sparkles.  Look at that insane shift!  I definitely had to take two pictures to capture the shift.  It's also irresistibly sparkly; I wore it to work one day and got so many complements!

Lashes & Lingerie Project with Adore Me!

Good evening, everyone!  I'm excited to share a collaboration I did with NY based lingerie company, Adore Me!  I did a few makeup looks inspired by their newly released lingerie sets.  There are many beautiful sets on their website to choose from, and I ended up choosing the two darker ones, as that's more my personal style.  They recently launched a new Spring line as well, with very colorful and spring-y colored styles.  I was originally going to do one look per set, but the second one was classic enough to inspire two.

Spring Midnight

Spring Midnight look featuring: 

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics' 7 Years Shattered (inner corner)

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics' Annataz (lid)

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics' Hallow's Eve (outer corner and crease)

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics' Famine (outer corner)

ELF Cosmetics' Peachy Keen (blush)

Victoria's Secret Intensity (lipstick)

Lorraine

Lorraine look featuring:

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics So Goes My Nation (lid)

Notoriously Morbid Cosmetics 5 by 5 (outer corner and crease) 

ELF Peachy Keen (blush)

Guerlain Garconne (lipstick)

Lorraine 2 look featuring:

Innocent and Twisted Alchemy's Face Hugger (inner corner)

Innocent + Twisted Alchemy's Ripley (lid)

Innocent + Twisted Alchemy's Drone (outer corner and crease)

Fyrinnae's Mystify (blush)

Limnit Lipsticks' Extraterrestrial (lipstick)

I had a lot of fun doing these looks and enjoyed my collaboration with Adore Me!  Please check out their collection of sexy lingerie and you'll definitely find a set that suits you.  The sets I chose were darker and classic because that's more my style, but there are plenty of sets for bright lovers as well.  Also, if you liked any of the makeup, feel free to check out the shops I linked.  Most of them are small independent companies with great products and customer service!

Until next time,

- Jolie ♥

Fyrinnae Blush and Liquid Matte Lipstick Swatches

Welcome back, everyone!  I have a review of several Fyrinnae blushes, eyeshadows, and one matte liquid lipstick.  I've had mixed feelings for Fyrinnae for awhile mainly because everyone gushes over their eyeshadows and the one time I tried them, I was not impressed (turns out I had the older loose formula instead of the semi-loose one).  Anyway, I came into a bit of money last month and wanted to try out their new liquid matte lipstick formula, especially their color Kitten.  As my luck would have it, Kitten was out of stock when I went on their website and I decided to pick up Dublin instead.  I've also seen so many raves of their blush formula and decided to pick up a few as well.

Fyrinnae is notorious for having a long TAT, but anyone familiar with the company knows that their TAT is actually much, much shorter.  I got my products within two weeks and have gotten to try out all of them.  Now you'll notice in the blush pictures that my application was very light and sometimes didn't even look like I'm changing my blush at all.  I went for a more wearable, everyday look instead of piled on my cheeks just to show off the color.  I want you all to see how they would look like applied and blended out naturally.  

Onto the swatches and review!

Pictures taken in daylight and swatched over ELF Glitter Primer (top/left half) and ELF Essential Primer (bottom/right half)

Ailurophile

Ailurophile:  purple with gold sparkles.  This was my free sample and I thought it was very pretty, even though I don't usually go for purples.

Notoriously Morbid Shadow Bind - Review and Comparisons

I have some exciting news, everyone!  Notoriously Morbid released their version of a glitter adhesive this morning.  It's called "Shadow Bind" and is supposed to make glittery/sparkly eyeshadows adhere to your lids better, instead of having a bunch of fallout on your face.  Shadow Bind is not a primer, so you will need to prime your lids with regular primer beforehand.  I was sent a tester sample a few months ago and I have been using it this whole time.  The site advises you to primer your lids, apply a bit of Shadow Bind to your lids and wait 15-20 seconds to dry.  However, I find that I don't really have to wait that long, I end up dabbing it on my lids, smoothing it over and then applying my shadows immediately.  It also has a watery texture, as opposed to fan favorite's Pixie Epoxy by Fyrinnae.  Pixie Epoxy (PE) is said to have a very steep learning curve as you have to wait for the appropriate amount of time to try and it tends to be hard to blend afterward.  

As soon as I received this product, I got straight to work with tests and comparisons.  I've put it through several different tests, so there will be a lot of pictures!  For all the swatches I'll be showing, I applied a layer of ELF Essential Primer (non-sticky) and then applied NM's Shadow Bind on the top half - everything is shot under a daylight bulb.

Notoriously Morbid Elegant & Wicked Collection - Review and Swatches

Notoriously Morbid has done it again!  They recently released a small eyeshadow collection based off of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.  Now I personally don't know squat about this book/movie, but I do like the fact that they have collections based off of lesser known works.  It really shows that they get inspirations from things they love rather than things that are popular at the moment.  

The whole collection was released during a Free Day Friday where you also get a free full-sized Easter shadow if you spend over a qualifying amount.  I can't resist anything limited edition and I can't have enough of NM anyway, so I added enough to my cart to qualify.  I got the whole Elegant & Wicket set (I purchased duplicates of some samples depending on if I thought they were risky to press) and I bought a mini-jar of one of the colors that I knew would not press well.  I also added a few more lip-safe colors that I already owned to mix into a lip gloss and requested lip-safe shadows as my free samples as well.

OH - I also forgot to mention that the whole collection consists of duochrome shadows!  The last full duochrome collection NM came out with was the Christmas Carol one and that really blew me away.  I was extremely excited for this one, especially after seeing the sneak peeks on their FB customer's page.  There was one that many people seem to really be drooling over because of it's similarity to Fyrinnae's Mephisto shadow.  Now I personally really love Mephisto, so yes, I was very excited to see how they compare - I will have swatches and side-by-side comparisons below :)

Full-size jar of the Easter shade.

A new thing that I noticed in this order was the label on the full-size jar.  There seems to be a pretty border around the woman's head and the label itself seems to be waterproof.  I like this label more than the old one because it has a glossy texture and just looks a lot nicer.

Bunny Hop is the exclusive Easter shade :)

My lip-safe goodies; I can't wait to turn Tempest into a gloss!

Pictures and swatches after the jump!

Fyrinnae Haul - Review and Swatches

Despite my initial disappointment with the famous indie company Fyrinnae, I made a second purchase because they were finally restocking the Mephisto eyeshadow.  I'd been wanting this shade for a really long time after looking at dozens of swatches.  Let me start off by saying there's nothing wrong with their products, it's just so hyped up that I expected a lot more when I ordered.  They weren't having a Black Friday or Cyber Monday sale but I picked up a few other shades anyway.

Pictures taken under daylight bulb and swatches done over ELF Essential Primer (click to enlarge)

Mephisto

Mephisto:  dark purple with blue and red tint.  I've been waiting so long for this shade and it did not disappoint.  It can look like three different color at once - the site description states that there's copper in it too, I think.  I also wanted this color because I'm a fan of Goethe's Faust so I had to have a shade called Mephisto.

Fyrinnae - Eyeshadow Reviews and Swatches!

I feel like whenever people think of indie eyeshadows, they automatically think of Fyrinnae.  Fyrinnae seems to have been around for awhile because I know I've heard of it for years, especially their Arcane Magic Eye Shadows.  Arcane Magic Eye Shadows are shadows that change color in different lights, which are now more widely known as "duochrome".  

I decided to buy 3 sample shadows (including one Arcane) and a sample of their famous Pixie Epoxy glitter glue.  I really wanted to get a sample of Mephisto which seems to be a complicated purple, blue, and red all together.  Too bad it was currently not for sale due to complaints (not sure who would complain about such a beautiful shadow!), but it may come back on sale in November.

Anywho, here come pictures - remember to click to enlarge:

Flash - 4 shadows and Pixie Epoxy

Daylight