NEW Makeup Geek Pigments! ~Review and Swatches~

Hello world and welcome to possibly the most picture heavy post you will ever come across. I personally like more pictures than text. As they say, "Pictures are worth a thousand words."

Makeup Geek recently released 10 new colors in their brand spankin' new pigment line. I've been drooling over the idea of MUG pigments ever since it was mentioned in a forum. Marlena always keeps her fans and followers in mind when creating new products, asking for our input along the way with everything from colors to packaging. 

Makeup Geek is ultimately my favorite brand of all time because of how much effort and thought goes into the line, not to mention the products are amazing!

So onto the review! First off, is the fun, colorful packaging. 

 Each pigment comes boxed in this ultra pretty-chic packaging, featuring the same quote which is on all of the  MUG packaging.

 The back has a circular cut out that allows you to see the name of the pigment. The actual name of the pigment isn't printed on the box, but honestly it doesn't matter since I usually just throw that stuff away.

The product comes packaged in a wide glass jar with a flat lid. It's about 2x larger than your normal indie pigments and along with that comes some pros and cons. I absolutely love the large lid to mix product in and to use to pack pigment into a brush. Larger size also means more product, which of course is never a bad thing! 

It doesn't fit with my other pigments, which is a shame, but I think these will have to make a home somewhere else in my desk. My biggest and only pet peeve about these is that they don't have a sifter. Pigments are so messy and literally get everywhere. Even though the pigments were sealed tightly with plastic, some of them were still spilling out into the crevices of the lid. I would love it if these pigments had optional sifters! 

Some quick swatches of each of the pigments. I'll go more into detail about each pigment later on. These were swatched using Fix+, no base, natural lighting.

Enchanted: Red toned plummy purple-shimmer

Birthday Wish: Goldeny Peach-shimmer
(Looks less orange-y in person)

Prince Charming: Metallic grey-blue undertones

Utopia: Blackish brown and duochrome glitter- exact dupe for Antique Gold by MAC, But better

Liquid Gold: Greenish gold-metallic 

Paparazzi: Smokey grey with glitter
(Note: Glitters don't show through when applied wet-see swatch)

Afterglow: Champagne-loads of shimmer-great to use for a cheek highlight

New Years Eve- Soft white-gold with small glitters

Sweet Dreams- Pinky beige- tiny amount of shimmer

Insomnia- dark brown duocrome-blue reflects

These pigments are ultra smooth and glide on like butter. The colors are absolutely brilliant and I love that there are a few MAC dupes in there. A Vanilla pigment dupe is recommended in my opinion, but these are above anything I expected.  These are turning out to be a staple in my collection. I've grabbed them every day so far this week and I absolutely love them!

Pigments retail for 6.99 USD each at www.makeupgeek.com

Super Hero Makeup Collection

A little while back I started a makeup series based on various DC comic super heroes. I never really got around to completing all of the looks I intentionally planned on doing so here is a mini collection of looks. 

Who knows? Maybe in the future I'll add some more looks, but I'm pretty 

happy with what I've created so far.

Hope you enjoy! 

Have a wonderful day! 

Evil By Moonlight Collection by 8 Bit Cosmetics

8 Bit Cosmetics recently came out with three super awesome new collections including pressed eye shadows, glitters, and nail polishes. I'm breaking this collection review down into separate blog posts, so you can skip around to what you're interested. 

The Evil By Moonlight collection consists of 5 gorgeous and fun shades to flaunt on your nails. 

Each polish can be bought in a 5ml or 15ml bon bon jar depending how much nail polish you love. ;)

Queen Beryl, Mistress 9, Wicked Lady

I'm not much of a nail person, but I liked these a lot. I usually get really fussy after I paint my nails and find the need to have to touch everything in my house, usually screwing up my polish. These polishes, though, dried REALLY fast. Honestly, I never really expected to like an indie polish but I just can't get over how fast these dried.

As for the longevity, they lasted a few days before chipping, which is awesome for me considering I wash dishes all day. You can also get away with one coat if you're in a hurry, since these polishes are super opaque.

Excuse my nails, I'm a makeup person for crying out loud. :)

Left to right: Wicked Lady (1 Coat)
Queen Beryl (2 Coats)
Mistress 9 (3 Coats)
Queen Beryl (1 Coat)

I love Mistress 9 as a layering polish to put over the other two colors. Although I have to say, it's absolutely gorgeous when you slap a few layers of it on a bare nail. It consists of fine glitter as well as square and hexagonal glitters in a clear base

Wicked Lady has a really gritty texture to it, almost like the liquid sands, but not so fabulous. I recommend putting a topcoat over it to smooth it out to a nice finish.

Queen Beryl is my favorite of all the shades. It's the perfect purple with a pink sheen. I loved it so much that I put it on my toes too! 

I was sent three of the five shades but I will insert pictures of the other two from the website for your viewing pleasure.

BonBon Babies- Baby blue, yellow, pink and white hexagon shaped glitter in a clear base.

Fiore- Beautiful creamy dark pastel green.

Stay tuned for the rest of the collections coming soon! :) 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/EightBitCosmetics

Have a Tantalizing Tuesday!

Rainbow Liner with Venomous Cosmetics

Today's look is inspired by April Showers bringing along May flowers, and of course, Rainbows! I've always wanted to do a rainbow liner look so I thought I'd go ahead and take the plunge since Spring is finally (almost) here! This look is inspired by Ronnie's look of BowsandCurtseys, so be sure to check her out! She's amazing!

Products Used:

• Primer-
• Lime Crime Eye shadow Helper
• Crease-
•  Makeup Geek eye shadow
• Latte
• Cocoa Bear
• Eyelid- 
• Venomous Cosmetics in White Rabbit's Timepiece
• Liner-
• Venomous Cosmetics Loose shadows (Applied wet)
• Bravest Astronaut
• Fire Ant
• Bread and Butterflies
• Boomslang
• Man O' War
• Sea Anemone
• Milani Runway Eyez Mascara 

  

  Sold as 5 gram jars or sample with 1/4 tsp (pictured)

I love seeing Indie brands go up and beyond the stardard mineral eyeshadows, so when I got a package in the mail from Venemous Cosmetics, I was ecstatic! I've never tried their products before so I was eager to see what they had sent me! Turns out, they have some of the best shades of mineral shadows, pressed shadows, and lip glosses. So onto the review!



First of all I would like to start off by saying that these shadows are some of the most colorful, bright, and pigmented I've tried. Just let the swatches speak for themselves.

Bravest Astronaut: Pink with Blue shimmer
Fire Ant: Matt true red with the tinniest hint of red sparkle
Bread and Butterflies: shimmery golden-y yellow
Boomslang: satin medium toned-seafoam green
Man O' War: satin blue
Sea Anemone: Violet with pink shimmer (my camera picks up purples as blue, it's a lot more vibrant irl)
White Rabbit's Timepiece: White with white and pink shimmer

They also have pressed shadows which are super convenient for the everyday girl. I prefer pressed shadows over loose ones, although I think the pigmentation is kind of lacking with these. I had to swatch the white over UDPP for it to even show up. The blue however, was quite nice. It's a gorgeous shade and the pigmentation and smoothness of application is spot on. 

Skywriter and Down the Rabbit Hole

Lastly are the Lip Poison which come in full size tubes or minis, like these.

Each come with a little doe-foot applicator which makes it super easy to throw and your purse and touch up throughout the day. Not to mention they're small, so that's a bonus too when traveling!

Dream in Color, No Place Like Home, Invasion

I appreciate these lip glosses because they are relatively opaque. I hate wearing lip gloss in general but I would probably be fine with these because they are sort of like a lipstick and lip gloss in one. These do have the tendency to stain and they smell a bit like crayons when you first apply it. The smell goes away after a few seconds though, so unless you're super sensitive to smell, you'll be fine.

Some or all Products were sent to me for possible review.

All opinions are completely and honestly my own.

www.venemouscosmetics.com

Let me know what you think! 

Have a stupendous Saturday!