Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Theshespace & Fyrinnae Swatches

I finally got swatches done for my latest shespace haul & I did some of all the Fyrinnae pigments I have. I'm also including short reviews and color descriptions of each pigment.

Bright Outlook: Cheerful shimmery pale yellow/orange. Soft but vibrant.
Aphrodite Screams: Shimmery true orange.
No Scruples: Bright purple with hot pink sparkles. One of my top favorites.
Far Too Fabulous: Dark royal blue, a little darker then the swatch looks.
Born A Savage: Dark navy blue. Not my favorite, hard to use unless wet.
Blaim The Rain: Soft lime green with a kick. Goes with a lot of colors.
Chasing Mystery: Soft teal/blue/green/grey. Swatch doesn't do justice.
Swim With The Fishes: One of my top 5's. Gorgeous aqua/teal.
Moral Enemy: Fantastic almost emerald/grass green. Love love love.
Art Of Noise: Dark sparkly green, not brown like the swatch shows.



Rapunzel Had Extensions: Soft coral with gold. Lovely color.
Melty: Warm pink. Really pretty.
Shallow Sleep: Great bright blue with hint of aqua.
Dragon Tears: Not at all like Fyrinnae's website shows, dark blue. Kinda crappy quality, have to use it wet or else it just doesn't stick.
Embrace: Also not anything like the Fyrinnae swatch, this is a dark almost matte teal. Not very impressive.
Japan: Similar to Embrace but greener.
Equality: Sparkly silver taupe. Really nice color.
Newcastle: This gets a lot of love but I don't like it. Looks like dirt from my back yard with glitter.
Leif: Great bright apple green, I love this one.
Dragon's Wing: Almost matte soft green.
Dragonskin: Green with gold tones, shimmery and very pretty.
Njordr: Dark forest green with silver sparkles.


I did just place another Fyrinnae order yesterday, so I should have more swatches in two or three weeks.

xox

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Major SheSpace haul, I am in Love.

No swatches, the mail came way late and there isn't the greatest light atm & I have no energy. Those will come on Monday or Tuesday at the latest.

My favs from this batch are No Scruples (I almost didn't get this, omg its ++ more amazing in person then photo), Fatal Glamour (almost didn't get this either, thought I wouldn't like it but I loooove it), and Cursed With Charisma. I can't wait to use these!

L-R
Bright Outlook, Aphrodite Screams, No Scruples, Swim With The Fishes
Blaim The Rain, Moral Enemy, Chasing Mystery, Art Of Noise


Custom Pigments, L-R
Fatal Glamour + Gold Twinkle, Cursed With Charisma + Pink Diamonds
Lives For Drama + Purple Diamonds, Click Your Heels + Turquiose Twinkle

xox

Monday, April 7, 2008

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania pigment swatches

As requested, here are the 18 NYX pearl pigments that I have. My favorites are silver, nude, space, and purple.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Review: NYX Ultra Pearl Mania

NYX Ultra Pearl Mania Eye Shadows.

Quality: 5 out of 5
Packaging: 4 out of 5
Price: $1
Where to buy: cherryculture.com is cheapest

These were my very first pigments ever in life. I got the whole set on ebay for $25. There are 24 colors (some I swapped away, so there are only 22 here). These are $1 each at cherryculture.com. The quality of these are amazing. Lime is the only one that doesn't have fantastic pigment, but its a nice sheer green. All the others are very vibrant. What you see in the bottle is what you get on your face. The powder is very fine, all the colors are shimmery. It has very good lasting power and its easy to blend. The jars are really small but there is actually tons of product inside. The only con about these are that the opening is very small, so you need a tiny brush to get inside. Usually there is enough product in the lid that you don't have to worry about that. Or you can just transfere them to bigger jars. Other then that, these are fabulous.








On a side note, if you're into pressing pigments these won't work. Myself and several other people have tried with no success, they just fall apart.

xox