My Order: Samples of Good Morning, Lazy Sunday, Go!, Dirt, Love Hate Love, Party, Smurf, Sugar-coated, Weed, and Goomer
Packaging: The samples were sent in a small bubble mailer, each with a sticker on the bag indicating the color, ingredients, whether or not each color is vegan, and whether or not each color is lip-safe. For me, that's a huge plus. The samples were all wrapped together in a little tissue paper packet, and the owner also included a business card. I also got free samples of Would? and Expensive.
Today's Swatches:
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As usual, swatches were applied to bare skin with a foiled stripe down the center (top row,) and skin prepped with
Shadow Poxy from My Beauty Addiction (bottom row). Feel free to click any image for a closer look! I noticed that these shadows didn't foil well with just water (first set,) so I foiled the second and third batches with
The Wet Spot Eye Lining and Foiling Serum from Rock A Betty Beauty and it worked much better but it does take a little effort to get it mixed thoroughly. Darker colors seemed to apply better to bare skin, but they all looked fabulous over primer. The color swatches in her Etsy shop are surprisingly true-to-life!
Overall: I only specified six color in the note to seller at checkout originally, and Belén sent me a convo to ask which other colors I wanted; I thought that was really nice of her to send a convo instead of just adding four more at random. So communication was nice, and obviously I was happy with the packaging. The shipping time and cost was not bad considering it was an international order, although I honestly don't remember the exact day I received my order. I did love the application over primer, but bare skin didn't get consistent results. Overall, I'm really impressed with the array of colors, the communication, the packaging, the accuracy of the swatches in the shop, the look of the shadows when applied over primer, and my experience in general. I would definitely recommend purchasing from Belén if you see a color you like.
I did a quick look with some of these colors the other day. I primed with Shadow Poxy, then applied a white shadow crayon to my lids only. I created a rainbow using Dirt, Would?, Lazy Sunday, Weed, Party, and Go!, and highlighted using
Bouffant from Linnaeus Cosmetics. I foil-lined with black pressed liner, and applied mascara to my upper and lower lashes.
