Down the Indie Rabbit Hole

[Amber McCarley]

@ I have just discovered that BFTE Cosmetics has a Shinning Collection and a Amityville Horror Collection. I cannot speak to their quality or TAT as I have never ordered from BFTE, I cringe at the no samples option for these collections because I want to try them! http://www.bftecosmetics.com/Whats-New_c_57.html

 

[mandithomas89]

So I got a super special birthday package yesterday from the amazing @@marigoldsue and I'm super excited about it. Smelt of Elderberries is easily my new favorite lip gloss and she even managed to track down an Up All Night To Get Loki! She got me some Pretty Randoms which I had missed out on both times Vee put them up and two gorgeous purples (which I am addicted to buying) Go Fly A Kite from GDE and The Nightmare from Femme Fatale.

I'm new at doing swatches for photos, but I have some under the spoiler as well as a quick look I did today using some of my new goodies. Sunlight is lacking a little at the moment as it's the 4th stormy week we've had in the last month and a half here and you can just ignore the fact that I really need to do my eyebrows (yet to find my tweezers in unpacking!) and am still pretty novice at doing eye looks lol.

Spoiler

Top photo is indoor, bottom is outdoor. Smelt of Elderberries is on the left, shadows from top to bottom are swatched bare, over Stay Don't Stray, and Pixie Epoxy. L-R Pretty Random #2, Go Fly a Kite, Pretty Random #1, Up All Night to Get Loki, and The Nightmare.



This is Smelt of Elderberries on. I'm obsessed. For my eyes, I used PR#2 and Up All Night to Get Loki and blush is Pumpkin from Hello Waffle.

On the subject of Heavy Breathing Cat and Hello Waffle, I got mine the week before last but since I was in the middle of moving, I just brought it straight to my new place and stashed itas a treat to open after I got all moved in (with a Memebox I still haven't even bothered to open lol) and I forgot about it until last week. It was a pretty big order - Alternate Universe palette, several full size past COTMs plus Corgi Butts and Hot Cross Bunnies and mini jars of most of the 1000 Likes and then a bunch of sample baggies of shadows and blush. In addition to the two Alternate Universe GWPs, she also gave me full sizes of Magic Mirror and Gryphon which I thought was so awesome.

I did Some quick swatches last night while repotting baggies into jars and my new kitty kept trying to get into my eyeshadow. I did a swatch of Heavy Breathing Cat and it looked kind of taupey to me and it kind of matched him which I thought was pretty great. Although he's not much of a heavy breather, a shadow named after him would be more like Eyelash Licking Cat or Constantly Underfoot Cat.

 

[Kelly Silva]

The indie stars have aligned, I will have 5 things delivered on Saturday...

• replacement Black Violet perfumes (as I already got my order, but all of the perfumes I ordered were missing)
• Shiro Halloween collection, and a few other various items
• Haus of Gloi pt 2
• Aromaleigh Diavoli collection, and a few other discontinued shades
• Notoriously Morbid Winchester Gospels

 

[Allison H]

I either have

a) Too many different colors of eyeshadow;

B) Early stages of alzheimer's; or

c) BOTH

Because the odds of me being able to remember what the name of the color on my eyes is not high at all.

Ha! I'm the same way, but I've never been good with remembering names (for anything).

 

[BSquared]

Well I have broken the no buy. Dawn Eyes order in.

I had no choice!! I have been sitting at work for 7 hours now, my phone has rung exactly twice...you can not put me under these conditions and expect me to resist 50 cent samples. It's just plain irresponsible.

I am excited to try her stuff! Only thing I've tried is @@marigoldsue's lovely Kate's color and I enjoyed it a lot so hoping for good things, even if the website is straight out of 1996.

 

[EdieEm]

This is why I'm excited to get my Hello Waffle. I'll be so freaking happy if someone asks me what my eyeshadow is and I can respond 'Oh, It's Heavy Breathing Cat.'  :wub:

When I wear the Shiro Game of Thrones Cercei (Women's Weapons) and Jamie (No Men Like Me) colors at the same time I feel SECRETLY NAUGHTY all day.

 

[meaganola]

Shiro's Earth's Mightiest Heroes collection presents all sorts of combination possibilities.

Edited for subject/verb agreement.

 

[Lolo22]

Cocoa Pink shipping email just came!!!!  SQEEEEEE!!!!!  :lol:

 

[Allison H]

Cocoa Pink shipping email just came!!!! SQEEEEEE!!!!! :lol:

Mine too! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[Lolo22]

Mine too! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Yay! I'm almost more excited for yours haha! Jk these will be epic!

 

[kawaiisofoxy]

Sorry, I haven't been on much but I have a few replies/comments (my Mom is here visiting!  So happy!  We've been drinking tea and binge-watching Call The Midwife and Bletchley Circle all week!  Also, my husband is off work on vaca for 2 weeks, and he's been sweet and charming and is taking up ALL OF MY TIME.  The dear.  By the end of next week I'll be very ready for him to go back to work!)

Neil Gaiman! He's my absolute favorite!  If you loved the silly sweetness of Good Omens, I recommend reading Stardust next.  If you liked the spooky parts, go for Neverwhere.  If you liked the way religion was flipped over, examined, shaken, and put back together, read American Gods.  I also recommend his short stories.  Just not at night when you're alone if you're easily freaked out, as I am.

Hello Waffle - I'm practically throwing tantrums over here waiting for the Catssic Literature (and I wish I could stop saying "Cat Sick Literature" in my head when I read that) to come out.  MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE!!!!  GIMME!!!

Last but not least - due to the amazing @@marigoldsue I have the Cachtice Lipcraft Gloss from Notoriously Morbid's Blood Countess collection, and I. Cannot. Stop. Wearing. It. over Urban Decay's Revolution lippie in Manic.  Manic is a deep, perfect matte wine color, and Cachtice is a beautiful metallic mix between wine and a deep pink.  So hard to describe, but the gloss is sheer enough to let the lipstick color peek through, but it's also so metallic that it shimmers even in low light.  I'm probably going to wear it every day til Christmas. Or New Year's. Or Valentine's.  

 

[tacehtpuekam]

AHHH I forgot about the Catssic Literature Collection. I need to put that into my budget, because I'm buying it all!

Still torn on the Shiro order. I've had my cart full all day and open on another tab & I just keep going back & looking at it. Probably a sign I should just buy it already. 

 

[CurlyTails]

I bought the full size Shiro Halloween eye shadows! I showed some restraint and did not order the lip glosses or lip balms.

:: sings Kidnap the Sandy Claws! ::

 

[CurlyTails]

AHHH I forgot about the Catssic Literature Collection. I need to put that into my budget, because I'm buying it all!

Still torn on the Shiro order. I've had my cart full all day and open on another tab & I just keep going back & looking at it. Probably a sign I should just buy it already.

Do it . . . .

 

[KatieS131]

No worries! The more, the merrier. And welcome!! Which blush did you end up getting?

I have only gotten to try Day Job and Ms. Monroe and I love both! But I also got Peach is the New Blush, My First Time, and Whoa Dog!  

 

[marigoldsue]

So I got a super special birthday package yesterday from the amazing @@marigoldsue and I'm super excited about it. 

Last but not least - due to the amazing @@marigoldsue I have the Cachtice Lipcraft Gloss from Notoriously Morbid's Blood Countess collection, and I. Cannot. Stop. Wearing. It. over Urban Decay's Revolution lippie in Manic.  Manic is a deep, perfect matte wine color, and Cachtice is a beautiful metallic mix between wine and a deep pink.  So hard to describe, but the gloss is sheer enough to let the lipstick color peek through, but it's also so metallic that it shimmers even in low light.  I'm probably going to wear it every day til Christmas. Or New Year's. Or Valentine's.  

You all need to stop or I am going to get a big head over here...

Serioulsy though, both of those glosses are A M A Z I N G.  I have already purchased a personal back-up for the Cachtice and I never do that.

@, you were asking about where to purchase next.  If I was Secret Santa shopping for you, I would have to stalk a bit to remember what lip colors you like, but I am thinking my first purchase for you might be the NM gloss.  From my limited memory it seems like you would love this one.

 

[Allison H]

I have only gotten to try Day Job and Ms. Monroe and I love both! But I also got Peach is the New Blush, My First Time, and Whoa Dog!

I really LOVE Whoa Dog! It's a great color on my vampy white skin! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[marigoldsue]

Cocoa Pink shipping email just came!!!!  SQEEEEEE!!!!!  :lol:

Add me to the squealers.   /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

I kind of hope I hate some of them, my poor wallet....

 

[Kelly Silva]

Alchemic Muse first impressions, after I had to literally cut it out of my mailbox because my mail lady doesn't realize that our end is smaller than her end, and she was too lazy to bring it to the door...

Everything was packaged painstakingly. Each jar was wrapped in tissue paper, then shrink wrapped, then also had a protective seal under the lid. Obviously nothing leaked, and I also got a free perfume sample with my order.

Favorites: Pumpkin Chai body whip, Lovecraft whipped soap, and Nightshade. I haven't had a chance to try anything though, just smelled from the jar.

 

[SOSRedAlertSOS]

You all need to stop or I am going to get a big head over here...

Serioulsy though, both of those glosses are A M A Z I N G.  I have already purchased a personal back-up for the Cachtice and I never do that.

@, you were asking about where to purchase next.  If I was Secret Santa shopping for you, I would have to stalk a bit to remember what lip colors you like, but I am thinking my first purchase for you might be the NM gloss.  From my limited memory it seems like you would love this one.

I'll have to check that one out! Thanks for the suggestion, I sure do loooove lipgloss!