Halloween Collections

Halloween and/or Autumn LE Sets.  Many of these companies are offering a limited edition Halloween set.  Some are shadows, shadows and lippies and others a combination of various products.

Links are generally to one collection in their shop, make sure you check around for all the products. The very bottom lists the companies that are going to have a collection but it's not released, and a small list of companies that every day could be considered Halloween.  If anyone is missing, please let me know.  If you have a bath and beauty company you want added, also let me know.

Listed in no particular order:

Dark Heart Designs

Dawn Eyes Cosmetics

Moi Minerals

My Pretty Zombie

My Beauty Addiction (Also has eye shadows.)

Noella Beauty Works

Rock-A-Betty Beauty
Also a moving sale 35% off with code MOVING.

SweetPea & Fay

Altered Ego

Darling Ghoul (Girl)

Tick Tock

Lucky 107

Brazen

Persephone Minerals

Stella Starish

Evil Shades

Venomous Cosmetics

Meow Cosmetics

Virus Insanity - They are having something Halloween related here.

Halloween is Every Day

Detrivore
My Pretty Zombie
Evil Shades
Venomous Cosmetics

Known Halloween Collections that haven't been released yet/or I can't find em.

Concrete Minerals
Geek Chic

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Madison Street Cosmetics

A newer company on Etsy offered their products at a 30% discount.  I took advantage and ordered 5 samples, Butterscotch, Golden Peach, Ocean Coral, Pink Tulip and Mossy Mauve.  

I received a bubble mailer with the jars within about 4 days from ordering to my door.  That's pretty fast.  Upon opening the mailer I had 5 loose jars - no invoice, business card, packaging of any sort - just the jars. The first thing that threw me for a loop was that they were sealed with black electrical tape.  This was a first for me. I've received mineral makeup in just about every combination you can imagine - but never with black electrical tape.

Pricing:

Samples are $2.50 each for a 5gr jar, no sifter with an advertised of quantity of .3gr which is slightly more than 1/8 tsp. 5 samples for $9.49.  Single 5gr jar with sifter, 1-1.5gr product, $4.99.  Shipping in the US is $2.84, International $6.00 flat rate.  The samples are overpriced, regardless of the quality of the product.

Their individual listings have a lot of verbiage pertaining to being "hand-crafted", "all-natural", "handmade", "amazing quality" etc  It's tough to prove the validity of those statements.  I am not a mineral makeup formulator many of the nuances concerning lip safe products, ingredients and such are best left to review by someone more knowledgeable.  The jars do not list any ingredients.

I guess it would be safe to say that all their claims have proven successful in convincing people to buy their product.  They have a large number of sales in a short period of time.

Descriptions:

Butterscotch - An opaque, warm, buttery beige with a touch of golden shimmer.

Golden Peach - A semi-sheer, warm peach color with golden undertones and a hint of shimmer

Ocean Coral – An ultra-sheer coral shimmer

Pink Tulip – Neon pink with low shimmer, semi-sheer

Mossy Mauve - a very sheer, glittery mauve with bright green shimmer

Every color was disappointing.  Butterscotch is indeed opaque but more like a shade of banana than a butterscotch.  Golden Peach was not sheer.  Ocean Coral was not ultra-sheer in any way.  It was very sparkly and applied the best out of all five. Pink Tulip was rather bright and had almost no shimmer, it was very difficult to apply - messy.  Mossy Mauve is the pigment that disappointed me the most, and it's also the one I am most familiar.  This is a pigment sold by TKB Trading under the name Chameleon Fine.  It's a great shade, a brick reddish brown base with a great green duochrome.  My impression is that these are straight pigments with little to no base.

Bottom line is that the shadows were disappointing to say the least.  Would I purchase again?  Not a chance.

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SLM/SBM 80s Cartoon

SLM and SBM 80's Cartoon Look

 Black liner is Gray Sky from Palladio. Leaves are My Beauty Addiction - St. Paddys and Simply Just Minerals - Keylime.  Rose petals - Concrete Minerals - Lovey Dovey layered over top of Mae Minerals - Temptress, White - Dawn Eyes Cosmetics - Wild White.  Lighter Petals: Aqua Blossom - Whimsy, Noella Beauty Works - Rose Silk and Pink Smoke and BE Mystic layered on top. Simply Just Minerals - Soft Black in various areas for shading.  Eyelid and gold outside the rose - Dawn Eyes Cosmetics - Ivy and Ivory.  Lipstick is WetnWild 547B.  Mascara Rimmel The Max Bold Curves in Black. Eyebrows very light application of Trucco #7050D.

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Dawn Eyes Cosmetics - Halloween

I recently won a contest from Dawn Eyes Cosmetics - for 10 samples.  I love her products, so this thrilled me. I ordered 10 additional samples and one LE Halloween color to help with my costume.  I plan to be Little Red Riding Hood.

Vampire Tears is absolutely perfect for my needs.  I wanted to get it swatched right away, her LE collection will be gone on 11/01/11.  Samples for this collection are only .75 and a full size 5gr shadow, $4.00 - no shipping!  In addition, she included a free LE sample of Candy Corn.  I had a hard time swatching Candy Corn.  It came out like a cameo pink with the glitter not holding up.  This could be due to my inexperience swatching very glittery shades.  At any rate, enjoy Vampire Tears.

I searched around to find a color that accurately describes Vampire Tears, the only one that I think is a good match is a very dark raspberry with holographic glitter. I had a good time with  the pictures.

This shade is really super sparkly,  which is very difficult to catch on camera.  The biggest concentration of glitter was when I foiled it.  Swatch on the right.

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