Down the Indie Rabbit Hole

[marigoldsue]

Guess what was in my mailbox today. The Life's Entropy October mystery bag. It has:

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two full size Lip Theories (Crystal Violet and a never before released color), two sample size lip theories (Enzyme and Nucleus) and a sample eye shadow (Dream Coil). Who would like to see swatches???

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Who was I kidding? Of course you want to see swatches. I was just stalling while I took the pic.

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Top to Bottom:

Coralation (separate purchase)

Nucleus (I am 48, I will never go out in public with black lips)

Enzyme

Constellation (the new color described as shimmery gold purple)

Crystal Violet

 

[Kelly Silva]

@@marigoldsue Looks good! I'm sure the Nucleus color could be used for mixing if you feel you want to use it somehow. 

 

[chibimorph]

Great choices! I have recently become obsessed with Black Violet. I have tried Morning Mango & Celebration from the ones you named and they're great but my FAVE is Bavarian Apfel Cider.. OOH MAN!! I have a body butter, perfume AND creme soap. My husband says he would swim in it if he could.

Leilani is a total sweetheart too. You made a great choice with her business! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Ok, back to lurking!

This made me super happy that I ordered a Bavarian Apfel Cider body butter during the sale! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[BSquared]

Notoriously morbid order came! One, "Jack" is freakish beautiful. Two, cosmic gulfs lip craft....my this is purple and metallic silver. I look rather corpse-y and I'm quite sure I had to have been drinking when I ordered this.... Well if I'm feeling emo it'll work!

 

[trekkersangel]

Thank you @sarap. I did chop off the long locks & I feel sassy & fun now!

I'm kind of addicted to the lip theories right now. I had no idea Life's Entropy did a mystery bag. Tell me more . . . .

I am sad I missed out on ghost puffs, but I have my fingers crossed for something minty & fabulous in the Yule collection!

I had a blast picking out colors & names for a GDE Christmas Collection. I'm excited to see what she goes with. I hope she shares some of the ideas people did. I think they'd be so fun to see. I bet she gets TONS of ideas. My kids helped me pick a theme & helped me name some colors. It was kind of a fun & silly family project.

I still have family in town until the 6th! I'm having MuT withdrawals only checking it once a day. I miss my ladies! ;-). Oh & hubby is home from training. It's a good week!!!!

 

[marigoldsue]

Thank you @sarap. I did chop off the long locks & I feel sassy & fun now!

I'm kind of addicted to the lip theories right now. I had no idea Life's Entropy did a mystery bag. Tell me more . . . .

I am sad I missed out on ghost puffs, but I have my fingers crossed for something minty & fabulous in the Yule collection!

I had a blast picking out colors & names for a GDE Christmas Collection. I'm excited to see what she goes with. I hope she shares some of the ideas people did. I think they'd be so fun to see. I bet she gets TONS of ideas. My kids helped me pick a theme & helped me name some colors. It was kind of a fun & silly family project.

I still have family in town until the 6th! I'm having MuT withdrawals only checking it once a day. I miss my ladies! ;-). Oh & hubby is home from training. It's a good week!!!!

The October Mystery Bag is still valuable.  I don't think I will order one again.  It says it will have 2 full size products and 3 samples with a retail value of $25.  The bag is $20.  I came up with a value of $20.50 if purchased separately.  I did like both full size lip theories, and one is new to the mystery bag.  I don't know if it will eventually be available to purchase outside of the bag.  It is probably my favorite of the products in the bag.  The other full size, I like.  But is is so close to other purples that I own.  And for some reason I have lots of new purples this fall.  The two sample size lip theories I will probably never use.  And the sample shadow is fine, but I could buy it individually if I wanted.  I just didn't feel like the value was here for me.  When it reality I would probably purchase the new lip theory in full size, the other full if I wanted it I would have only purchased in sample size, and I may have purchased a sample size of the shadow.  So the bag has maybe an $11 value to me, but I paid $20.

 

[Lolo22]

Gde goodies came! I won, I won!! I'm obsessed with these Awkward shadows, they are gorgeous. I had to redo my makeup right away to try Generation Whatever, it looks kinda plain in the jar but it's SO sparkly on and this cool bronzey gold color. Also, Day Job and Ms. Monroe are perrrfffect! These are going straight to the everyday rotation

Awkward shadows are on the right.





Used generation whatever all over and outie 5000 on the crease. Day Job blush with Ms. Monroe as highlighter.

Hopefully it's ok to post this since they aren't released yet.

 

[Kelly Silva]

I have I Tried and Doge, and they are beautiful! I just celebrated my 5 year anniversary with the bf, and for my look I used Doge as the brow highlight, I Tried over most of my lid, and GDE Lovers Lane in the crease. It was so pretty over Glitter Fix and I'm sad there wasn't enough light for a photo, I'm going to have to do the look again.

@@lovepink I finally have the photo of this look! Excuse my untamed brows, but I just recreated it today for a night out with the girls! Last time I did it over Glitter Fix and it was very pretty that way, but it's so difficult blending. You have to basically place it exactly where you want it. This time this was just over primer. And I added a little of GDE Her Revenge in the middle just to make the transition a little more subtle. But holy cow I Tried is glittery! I had to basically remove my makeup under my eyes and then redo it so I wouldn't have fallout everywhere!

 

[kawaiisofoxy]

Trying my first BPAL today!  (@@meaganola I finally got the package from Wren! Whew!)

Currently trying out Crowley from the Neil Gaiman - Good Omens collection.  I bought it for a friend, but HAD to try it first.  It's diabolically good! 

I also have several others - Sea of Glass, The Sea Foamed Milk, RPG Good, Ambergris, Paramatman, and Theodosius.  Happily looking up reviews and plotting when to try each one.   :wub:

 

[Amber McCarley]

Oh my goodness! The 3 orders from Sunday's Haus of Gloi restock all shipped today (after she was kind enough to put them all together for us)
I felt SO bad about having 3 orders but we kept finding products in various spots! She even refunded the shipping difference (and I totally told her she didn't have too since they are up to their eyeballs in orders) Since HoG is only about an hour drive from me we should get our pretties by end of week!
Talk about FAST TAT after a record breaking release.

 

[marigoldsue]

I am going to have to start doing my eye shadow first before I do the rest of my face.  I got ready for work this morning and I looked like I had been doing arts and crafts with pre-schoolers all morning.  I had so much glitter dropping off of my brushes and on to my face this morning.

I am in the mood to shop today and nothing is really catching my eye.  I do have my GDE October shopping list almost all planned out.  I have a DG order planned for when she announces what she is doing for her b-day special.  And I sitll have a small Shiro wishlist (waiting for the Oct color of the month) and a larger Fyrianne wishlist (but they are currently closed).  I still have a ton of Summer Solstice and Darling Clandestine scents to work my way through and more HoG and Black Violet on order.  What is left to buy?  Maybe I should think about some better storage for all of the pigments.

 

[marigoldsue]

So has anyone actually received anything fem Victorian Disco?  I had placed two orders.  One a little bit earlier than most of yours on July 21 and one on July 26.  I contacted her on Facebook on Sept 11 because she said they were on orders for July 25 and I had not received notification of shipping for my July 21 order.  It took a couple of attempts to get an answer, but she did tell me that somehow they had missed my original order, but they had found it and would get it out.  On the 13th I asked about it again because I still had not received shipping info.  I did not get an answer to that message.  I did get the "your order is complete" message on Sept 16 that everyone else seems to have gotten too.  Last night I sent a strongly worded message about how I still did not have tracking for my orders, two weeks later and a copy of the FTC rules for internet sales.  I got the same wordy apology that she has been sending out in some variation since at least March (although the reasons change) and by the time I woke up this morning I had a refund for the second order and one shipping notification.  After asking yet again, I am now told that they packaged up both orders together with some extras and have shipped it back out to me.  I hate to be cynical, but I wonder if it took my quoting FTC rules on internet sales to actually get any product out of her.  Of course, I still do not have my package in hand.

Now this is interesting.  Today I tried tracking the tracking number Victorian Disco sent me this weekend when she claimed that my package had already been sent and it must have been lost.  I wanted to see if it was showing any movement.  This one shows the label was created on 9/16.  So essentially the two orders she had sent me order complete notifications on in mid September where still sitting at her place, and she just put them in the same envelope this weekend, and they are still sitting at her place.  

I was prepared for a long turn around time.  I was even willing to wait a little longer than the stated 4-6 weeks.  But when a seller starts to outright lie to me, that is when they lose any future business from me.  I had suspected that a lot of her excuses were probably just fancy lies.  If you look closely at her FB page, she has had these type of shipping issues since way before her move.  I saw them going back to at least last Spring.  It seems to be her constant state of affairs.  It seemed like everyone eventually got what they ordered and she was staying in contact with people.  But integrity and honesty are pretty big deals to me.  If you lie to me, I have absolutely no interest in supporting your business.  I would much rather give my money to someone who runs an honest business.

 

[eastofthesun]

Could you  lovely ladies give me a rec on a nice highlighter/illuminator by an indie brand? Think... RMS Living Light, Lush Feeling Younger, NARS Coppacabana, RBR Sea of Illumination, only under $20 would be awesome.

You know, something cream or liquid-based for fair skin.

Got any recs?

 

[Tamarin]

If anyone's interested in trying out victorian disco, you can check daily lovelies - I believe she has a small selection of eyshadows.

 

[Shalott]

My shipping notice from Black Violet came late yesterday, so I am guessing she shipped today. I am sosososo excited! :w00t: I ended up adding on another full size perfume oil (the name escapes me without looking it up, so sorry) so I will definitely update on those scents when they come in!

 

[Lolo22]

@  Just got mine too!! And they also combined my orders /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> I am so impressed with them.  I would've still been impressed to get my shipping email a week from now.  Holy whoa, I will be back and fierce for the holiday collections!  What an amazing impression.

....and total opposite of that...Victorian Disco hasn't shipped.  And I say "hasn't shipped" instead of "hasn't moved" because it's obvious it wasn't shipped and we were all lied to.  I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt and waited a full 7 mailing days to receive it but nope....I'm going to send her an email right now that says if my tracking doesn't move today, I want a refund and/or will file a paypal claim tomorrow.  I don't even want my order anymore.  I think I will just get angry every time I look at the shadows. 

 

[Lolo22]

Now this is interesting.  Today I tried tracking the tracking number Victorian Disco sent me this weekend when she claimed that my package had already been sent and it must have been lost.  I wanted to see if it was showing any movement.  This one shows the label was created on 9/16.  So essentially the two orders she had sent me order complete notifications on in mid September where still sitting at her place, and she just put them in the same envelope this weekend, and they are still sitting at her place.  

I was prepared for a long turn around time.  I was even willing to wait a little longer than the stated 4-6 weeks.  But when a seller starts to outright lie to me, that is when they lose any future business from me.  I had suspected that a lot of her excuses were probably just fancy lies.  If you look closely at her FB page, she has had these type of shipping issues since way before her move.  I saw them going back to at least last Spring.  It seems to be her constant state of affairs.  It seemed like everyone eventually got what they ordered and she was staying in contact with people.  But integrity and honesty are pretty big deals to me.  If you lie to me, I have absolutely no interest in supporting your business.  I would much rather give my money to someone who runs an honest business.

Also, those tracking numbers are no good anymore, so they will never move.  USPS only gives you 3 days to mail.  Yes, I'm sure some slip through the cracks but my post office specifically checks and told me they will refuse them after that because they only guarantee the sender/recipient/weight info for that long (...or something along those lines).

I doubt the late July people will get their orders.  I'm jumping ship now before she runs out of refund money.

 

[CassieM]

Oh my goodness! The 3 orders from Sunday's Haus of Gloi restock all shipped today (after she was kind enough to put them all together for us)

I felt SO bad about having 3 orders but we kept finding products in various spots! She even refunded the shipping difference (and I totally told her she didn't have too since they are up to their eyeballs in orders) Since HoG is only about an hour drive from me we should get our pretties by end of week!

Talk about FAST TAT after a record breaking release.

What were your order numbers?! I did my first order with them on Sunday and I'm so excited to get everything! I'm so jealous yours has already shipped!

 

[Amber McCarley]

Victorian Disco: Same as everyone else here. "Shipping Label Created Sept 23rd" and nothing else.

Extremely ridiculous. I refuse to cancel early mostly because I want to see how this circus show turns out but seriously....not a company I would ever recommend to others after all this.

 

[Amber McCarley]

What were your order numbers?! I did my first order with them on Sunday and I'm so excited to get everything! I'm so jealous yours has already shipped!

#10043, #9944 and #9936 but I emailed them to be combined so that #10043 might have been pulled early.