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meaganola said:
Okay, question time!  Which makes more sense:  Anime/manga in general with the specific fandom noted, or each separate work with its own section?  So it would look like:

Or

I'm already lumping comic book properties together since GDE and NB don't separate Marvel and DC, so it kind of seems like I should follow suit on anime/manga.  Or does anyone really even care?
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Girl, I just have to say you.are.AMAZING. Thank you so much for doing this. I would probably keep anime/manga together to keep it simpler, but whatever makes most sense to you and is *easiest*

Also, if anyone ever did a Battlestar Galactica or 2001 line, I'd flip.

 
@AllisonH  Cool!  I just realized that I can/should do the same with video games, too.

So.  I started with a list of fandoms and was putting links to each company's collection as I was hitting each fandom.  I realized I didn't like that process.  It wasn't methodical enough for me.  The way I'm doing it now:  I'm going through a company and slotting its collections into the fandom frame.  Fandoms are in alphabetical order.  Companies are not currently in any real order, but that may change later.  Anyway.  Here's one more look at it before I stop for the night (well, I might do Darling Girl tonight, too) and publish everything under the spoiler as a blog post:

So...  It has come to my attention that there is no such thing (at least none that I can find) as a directory that lists fandoms and the indie makeup companies that offer themed collections for those fandoms.  This is an attempt to fix that.  It's also a constant work in progress!  If I'm missing something -- either a company or a fandom -- please let me know, and I'll add it.  This list is being compiled largely because I'm sure I'm missing things!  (I'm specifically excluding Victorian Disco at this time due to turnaround time, though.  It's getting into the months for many orders.)  Company links under the fandoms will take you directly to the page for the collection.

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Alice in Wonderland

  • Hello Waffle
Anime/manga

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Story

  • Darling Girl Cosmetics
Comics (Marvel, DC, Boom, etc.)

Doctor Who

Fairy tales

Firefly

Fringe

  • Hello Waffle
Game of Thrones

Hannibal

Harry Potter

History

Hunger Games

The IT Crowd

  • Daily Lovelies
Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit/etc.

Merlin/Arthurian Legend (some might be for the show, some might be based on VERY VERY VERY OLD things.  Just covering my bases in advance!)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (oh, *yeah*!)

Music

The Neverending Story

Orange Is the New Black

  • Darling Girl Cosmetics
Princess Bride

Sherlock

Star Trek

Steampunk

Supernatural

Twin Peaks

Video games

The Walking Dead

Wizard of Oz

And a special mention to Espionage Cosmetics for their nail wraps.  They cover such a wide range of geeky interests -- Power Rangers, nebulae, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, many comics, Star Trek -- with this line that I'm just going to point you in their direction. 

In addition, Notoriously Morbid has a subscription (well, the first two months, it wasn't a sub, and then Things Happened, and now it's a sub!) called the Vanishing Cabinet that offers a small themed collection each month.  So far, they have done collections based on The Craft, Firefly, the works of Neil Gaiman, and the works of Tim Curry.  Each one has featured four shadows and a lip product, although the Firefly collection had your choice of nail polish or lip gloss.

ETA Thanks to @@Shalott and @@ohsailor, too!  I was fighting with the editor posting the draft when you guys basically confirmed that this was the right direction to go with the comics/anime/manga.  The editor does *not* like Wordpress page cuts.

 
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meaganola said:
@AllisonH  Cool!  I just realized that I can/should do the same with video games, too.

So.  I started with a list of fandoms and was putting links to each company's collection as I was hitting each fandom.  I realized I didn't like that process.  It wasn't methodical enough for me.  The way I'm doing it now:  I'm going through a company and slotting its collections into the fandom frame.  Fandoms are in alphabetical order.  Companies are not currently in any real order, but that may change later.  Anyway.  Here's one more look at it before I stop for the night (well, I might do Darling Girl tonight, too) and publish everything under the spoiler as a blog post:

So...  It has come to my attention that there is no such thing (at least none that I can find) as a directory that lists fandoms and the indie makeup companies that offer themed collections for those fandoms.  This is an attempt to fix that.  It's also a constant work in progress!  If I'm missing something -- either a company or a fandom -- please let me know, and I'll add it.  This list is being compiled largely because I'm sure I'm missing things!  (I'm specifically excluding Victorian Disco at this time due to turnaround time, though.  It's getting into the months for many orders.)  Company links under the fandoms will take you directly to the page for the collection.

[and there's a page cut here]

Alice in Wonderland

  • Hello Waffle
Anime/manga

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Story

  • Darling Girl Cosmetics
Comics (Marvel, DC, Boom, etc.)

Doctor Who

Fairy tales

Firefly

Fringe

  • Hello Waffle
Game of Thrones

Hannibal

Harry Potter

History

Hunger Games

The IT Crowd

  • Daily Lovelies
Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit/etc.

Merlin/Arthurian Legend (some might be for the show, some might be based on VERY VERY VERY OLD things.  Just covering my bases in advance!)

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (oh, *yeah*!)

Music

The Neverending Story

Orange Is the New Black

  • Darling Girl Cosmetics
Princess Bride

Sherlock

Star Trek

Steampunk

Supernatural

Twin Peaks

Video games

The Walking Dead

Wizard of Oz

And a special mention to Espionage Cosmetics for their nail wraps.  They cover such a wide range of geeky interests -- Power Rangers, nebulae, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, many comics, Star Trek -- with this line that I'm just going to point you in their direction. 

In addition, Notoriously Morbid has a subscription (well, the first two months, it wasn't a sub, and then Things Happened, and now it's a sub!) called the Vanishing Cabinet that offers a small themed collection each month.  So far, they have done collections based on The Craft, Firefly, the works of Neil Gaiman, and the works of Tim Curry.  Each one has featured four shadows and a lip product, although the Firefly collection had your choice of nail polish or lip gloss.

ETA Thanks to @@Shalott and @@ohsailor, too!  I was fighting with the editor posting the draft when you guys basically confirmed that this was the right direction to go with the comics/anime/manga.  The editor does *not* like Wordpress page cuts.
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Already have two more orders planned thanks to this list. YOU. ARE. AMAZING. 

Nail wraps, OMG!

 
ohsailor said:
Already have two more orders planned thanks to this list. YOU. ARE. AMAZING. 

Nail wraps, OMG!
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I love their wraps so much that I'm backing their Kickstarter for a second round of designs -- and that's *after* spending $75 (six sets of wraps plus the Eye Spy shadow collection) at their booth at a con this weekend!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/naileditec/nailed-it-but-waittheres-moar

It's hit funding now.  If you back it at $50 or higher, you get two backer-exclusive wraps (glitter versions of Lunar Phases and Baker Street) IN ADDITION TO whatever your backing level will get you.  (My backing level:  Diana Prince.  I'm currently trying to figure out whether I can swing another $50 now in order to help bump the pledges just a wee bit closer to the stretch goal.  I'll want to spend more later, but that's not going to help the campaign.  *That* is how much I love their stuff.)  If we hit $88k, they will unlock six more designs (including two different versions of glow in the dark tentacles!) and add a third free wrap (this one will be random) to everyone backing at $50 or up.  I think their first Kickstarte was so successful that everyone over the $100 level ended up with *six* free wraps.  They have lowered the bar to the free wraps to half that for this round.  If you are geeky/nerdy/fannish and like nail wraps, jumping on board at the $50 level will currently get you six random wraps plus the two backer exclusives.  $60 will let you pick your six wraps, and you still get the bonus freebies.

 
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For the list, Daily Lovelies also does a small anime collection based on Attack on Titan, as well as a Doctor Who collection. Also AFK Cosmetics has quite a few fandom collections, and they've been popping up in the subs lately.

 
Here are a couple of random ones I can think of now:

AFK Cosmetics actually has an Attack on Titan collection, too (AoT)

Dusk Cosmetics - DotA

Hello Waffle - Ouroboros Collection (Fullmetal Alchemist)

I know Fyrinnae has some random fandom themed ones

D. Gray-man (anime): Innocent Sorrow (a single eyeshadow... it's named after the opening song, so I'm not sure if that counts for the list)

Steampunk (there's an eyeshadow named steampunk... so I guess that falls under that category?)

Collections based on the works of Hayao Miyazaki (would fall under anime/manga):

Dusk Cosmetics - Howl's Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke

Baroque Cosmetics - Howl's Moving Castle (A Heart's A Heavy Burden)

Shiro Cosmetics - Miyazaki Tinted Balms

Victorian Disco - Sirocco Collection

Sailor Moon inspired collections

Victorian Disco - Sailor Scouts

Daily Lovelies - Moon Powers Collection and Outer Planets Collection

Mythology

Aromaleigh

Chinovi Cosmetics

History

Baroque Cosmetics - Viva la Revolution (collection based on the French Revolution)

 
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Geekton abbey has mst3k and breaking bad collections  :) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

oh and native war paints has a walking dead collection, that might have been posted earlier too

 
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If links could be provided, that would be extremely helpful!  This is super time-consuming, and if I could get a direct link, it would make it a much quicker process.

Aside from the Shiro TARDIS shadow (since it's already there), I'm not going to dig into the one-offs.  That's just more work than I'm willing to do since I'm not that familiar with most of these lines/fandoms, plus it would get into some crazy minutiae that would drive me insane.  I knew about the Shiro TARDIS shade, so I included it.  Other than that, I'm looking exclusively at collections. 

And as noted in the intro section of that blog draft behind the spoiler, I am specifically *not* including Victorian Disco due to their TAT.  Once/if they get it down to under a month for at least three months in a row, I'll add them, but at the moment, I'm not comfortable with them, and since it's my list, I would feel really guilty if someone placed an order with them based on me and then didn't have their stuff by Thanksgiving (because that's how long some people have been waiting for orders they have yet to receive *right now*).  The recent Facebook posts do not instill me with any confidence.

 
Links! I can do links:

Daily Lovelies Harry Potter collection: http://www.dailylovelies.com/collections/witches-and-wizards-collection

Daily Lovelies Sailor Moon: http://www.dailylovelies.com/collections/moon-powers-collection

http://www.dailylovelies.com/collections/the-outer-planets-collection-1

Daily Lovelies Sherlock: http://www.dailylovelies.com/collections/the-cumberwitch-duo

Daily Lovelies Doctor Who: http://www.dailylovelies.com/collections/whovian-duo

Daily Lovelies Attack on Titan: http://www.dailylovelies.com/collections/the-year-845

AFK Cosmetics Attack on Titan: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AFKcosmetics?section_id=15687235&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1

AFK Cosmetics League of Legends: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AFKcosmetics?section_id=15862364&ref=shopsection_leftnav_2

AFK Cosmetics Fallout: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AFKcosmetics?section_id=15862364&ref=shopsection_leftnav_2

Life's Entropy DOTA 2: http://shop.lifesentropy.com/collections/765942-secret-shop

 
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@@Kelly Silva I had all of those except the AFK Summoners collection.  I could not figure out what that one was! 

(And, wow, I didn't realize how many collections that GCC had yanked.  I remember there being a lot more collections I had to look up.  It seems like they were all based on games.)

 
@@meaganola Oh whoops I didn't notice! I feel like there's another company or something being forgotten, but I can't think of what it is. If I figure it out though I'll let you know.

 
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meaganola said:
I love their wraps so much that I'm backing their Kickstarter for a second round of designs -- and that's *after* spending $75 (six sets of wraps plus the Eye Spy shadow collection) at their booth at a con this weekend!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/naileditec/nailed-it-but-waittheres-moar

It's hit funding now.  If you back it at $50 or higher, you get two backer-exclusive wraps (glitter versions of Lunar Phases and Baker Street) IN ADDITION TO whatever your backing level will get you.  (My backing level:  Diana Prince.  I'm currently trying to figure out whether I can swing another $50 now in order to help bump the pledges just a wee bit closer to the stretch goal.  I'll want to spend more later, but that's not going to help the campaign.  *That* is how much I love their stuff.)  If we hit $88k, they will unlock six more designs (including two different versions of glow in the dark tentacles!) and add a third free wrap (this one will be random) to everyone backing at $50 or up.  I think their first Kickstarte was so successful that everyone over the $100 level ended up with *six* free wraps.  They have lowered the bar to the free wraps to half that for this round.  If you are geeky/nerdy/fannish and like nail wraps, jumping on board at the $50 level will currently get you six random wraps plus the two backer exclusives.  $60 will let you pick your six wraps, and you still get the bonus freebies.
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Thank you for letting me know about this!! Backing now. And seriously, again: Thank you so much for your hard work!

 
It's not every day you see a Downton Abbey cosmetic line...that's my kind of "fandom". ;) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

My daughter would love the Mickey nail polish! She's fascinated by Mickey (always), and loves to look at my nails on the few occasions I actually wear nail polish.

Has anyone ever tried Fandom Cosmetics?

 

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