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trekkersangel said:
Goodness.  I don't know if I'd ever use a black with purple shift, but I have to have it just because I'm in love with Toothless!  How to Train Your Dragon is one of my favorite kid movies & I adore it.  MUST HAVE NIGHTFURY!
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I'm not sure I would either, but it could be fun to experiment with! And i love Toothless too. He is soooo cute. My boyfriend and I just took his niece and nephew to see How to Train Your Dragon 2 a few weeks ago and we both cried more than the kids haha.

chibimorph said:
@ @@trekkersangel One of the nominees for Shiro's June CotM was called Toothless! Description was "deep black with purple shimmer and green sparks" - it lost to Chinchillin' though.
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Thanks for all the info!! Shiro will definitely be getting my business soon. And now I'm totally going to be checking out Meow as well! This thread literally is worse than the enablers thread.

magicalmom said:
@@trekkersangel Chinchillin' was the color for June.  Nightfury is still well ahead in the August poll!
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Yay!! :) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 
I must be tired, I just posted this accidentally on the Ipsy thread instead of Indie thread  :wacko:  anyways...

New August GDE GWP is up!

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Oooh, my Notoriously Morbid order arrived today! I didn't get it until well after 11pm so there is no good light to see the colors, but I can't wait to play around with them tomorrow! ♥_♥

 
Finally pulled the trigger on my Shiro order!

Went with:

Nic Cage Nibbling Petit Fours in a Posh Victorian Tearoom × 1 - was going to order, no matter what.

Size: Full Size Tube (15 mL)

Nic Cage Churning Butter One Crisp Thanksgiving Morn × 1 - all swatches show this as a non-washed-out-nude, we shall see!

Size: Sample Clamshell (approx. 1 mL)
A Girl and A Cat × 1 - Berry lip balm! With a CAT!!! Yaaaaaassssss.

 
I was lemming after the Yzma shadow, but realized I have a very close dupe in a pressed shadow (Stila's Not So Nude Palette, the shade Barefoot.  It doesn't have the strong copper duochrome shift, but it does have copper sparkles! I'm going to try swatching it over my NYX Milk pencil to see what I can get.)  I just have way to many eyeshadows, and WAY too many dark eyeshadows.  And on my hooded eyes, navy looks a lot like brown, looks a lot like black, etc. 
 
Very happy with my selection, and now the long, long 2 week TAT until the order ships!
 
magicalmom said:
Finally pulled the trigger on my Shiro order!

Went with:

Nic Cage Nibbling Petit Fours in a Posh Victorian Tearoom × 1 - was going to order, no matter what.

Size:Full Size Tube (15 mL)

Nic Cage Churning Butter One Crisp Thanksgiving Morn × 1 - all swatches show this as a non-washed-out-nude, we shall see!

Size: Sample Clamshell (approx. 1 mL)
A Girl and A Cat × 1 - Berry lip balm! With a CAT!!! Yaaaaaassssss.

 
I was lemming after the Yzma shadow, but realized I have a very close dupe in a pressed shadow (Stila's Not So Nude Palette, the shade Barefoot.  It doesn't have the strong copper duochrome shift, but it does have copper sparkles! I'm going to try swatching it over my NYX Milk pencil to see what I can get.)  I just have way to many eyeshadows, and WAY too many dark eyeshadows.  And on my hooded eyes, navy looks a lot like brown, looks a lot like black, etc. 
 
Very happy with my selection, and now the long, long 2 week TAT until the order ships!
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Yay! I've been wanting the entire Miyazaki Tinted Balm set for a while because I love Miyazaki films! A Girl and a Cat is inspired from Kiki's Delivery Service and the cat on the tube is Kiki's cat named Jiji. Come Out, Come Out has the Catbus from My Neighbor Totoro on it. Those are both extremely awesome children's movies!

 
bsquared said:
Shiro order is sitting in my mailbox!!! But hubby has the key and he's got to work late! I am going to die!!! I have zero idea what I even ordered!
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Ahhhh I totally feel your pain on days when I work late or traffic's even worse than usual and I get home after 6:00 and I just know my packages are right there in my apartment office but I can't have them.

Got paid today and I'm waiting for my Fortune Cookie Soap soap box and ipsy charges to clear before I order anything, but I have carts ready to go for House of Gloi, Femme Fatale, and Impulse. I've also started a cart at Shiro and a new one at GDE and I'm already anxious for Little Sparrow to reopen so I can get some of those lip jellies and Hello Waffle too. I don't mind if I never get out of the rabbit hole.  :wub:

 
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marigoldsue said:
Interesting.  You can still order it on their site.  Think I will pass though.
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I don't know anything about the monthly sub, but I think MSC has been clearing out her inventory for a while...  she still has ingredients that need to be mixed so there are going to be sales and new products trickling out for a bit before the closing/hiatus. She might have something posted on her fb page.

 
20% off at Baroque Cosmetics with code NOBUYBEGONE (ends 8/8): she has a Howl's Moving Castle Collection (called "A Heart's A Heavy Burden") and a French Revolution collection. This is a very new brand so there aren't many reviews/swatches out. But the themes are cute (well, at least the Howl's Moving Castle one) and the reviews that are out seem favorable.

http://baroquecosmetics.storenvy.com/

20% off flash sale at Midsummer Dreams Apothecary (ends midnight EST) with code: Lammas14

Storenvy: http://midsummerdreams.storenvy.com/

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MidsummerDreams

 
So I ordered from Aromaleigh on Monday with the Monday deal (Sherlock inspired pigments 40% off).  I got 3 Sherlock inspired full size pigments & then 4 samples of pigments that looked pretty to me.  Not only did she ship the day after I ordered (less than 24 hours later), but I got my package today.  Talk about speedy gonzales.  She sent the 3 full size, the 4 samples I ordered, & then 3 more samples just for fun.  I'm having WAY too much fun discovering these companies.

Here's what I wound up with.  The first pic is all of them swatched on my arm . . . taken outside.  We're having a sad, gloomy day here in VA today so not the best lighting.

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So, I went back inside my bathroom & tried to get closer pics so you could see the glitter.  All of these pigments are extremely glittery (which I love).  Pics don't do them justice.

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Left to Right: "Fateful Storm" (June 2014 color), "Nanette" (Pure Eyes Lustre Collection), "Lisette" (Bette Noir Collection), "Neuro Divergent" (Autism Awareness), "Tarasque" (Serpens Collection), & you can kind of see "Shimchong" (Serpens Collection)

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Left to Right: you can kind of see "Tarasque" (Serpens Collection), "Shimchong" (Serpens Collection), "Fafnir" (Serpens Collection), "Password Protected" (Sherlock), "Psychosomatic Limp" (Sherlock), & "High Functioning Sociopath" (Sherlock)

I love them all.  They're all more muted/neutral colors to me which is good for me because I'm still trying to figure out how to use these pigments.  (I tried a "blue" eye look yesterday & was mortified because I ended up looking like Mimi from the Drew Carey Show.  How do you ladies make your eye looks look so beautiful?  I guess I just need to practice.  These are good practice colors for me.)

 
chibimorph said:
20% off at Baroque Cosmetics with code NOBUYBEGONE (ends 8/8): she has a Howl's Moving Castle Collection (called "A Heart's A Heavy Burden") and a French Revolution collection. This is a very new brand so there aren't many reviews/swatches out. But the themes are cute (well, at least the Howl's Moving Castle one) and the reviews that are out seem favorable.

http://baroquecosmetics.storenvy.com/
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That is the BEST coupon code I've ever seen.  

 
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magicalmom said:
That is the BEST coupon code I've ever seen.  
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Haha, I know! The sale is to celebrate the end of the owner's no buy... I wonder if that code works as an incantation to get rid of my low buy :rolleyes:

trekkersangel said:
So I ordered from Aromaleigh on Monday with the Monday deal (Sherlock inspired pigments 40% off).  I got 3 Sherlock inspired full size pigments & then 4 samples of pigments that looked pretty to me.  Not only did she ship the day after I ordered (less than 24 hours later), but I got my package today.  Talk about speedy gonzales.  She sent the 3 full size, the 4 samples I ordered, & then 3 more samples just for fun.  I'm having WAY too much fun discovering these companies.

Here's what I wound up with.  The first pic is all of them swatched on my arm . . . taken outside.  We're having a sad, gloomy day here in VA today so not the best lighting.

IMG_2282.JPG

So, I went back inside my bathroom & tried to get closer pics so you could see the glitter.  All of these pigments are extremely glittery (which I love).  Pics don't do them justice.

IMG_2285.jpg

Left to Right: "Fateful Storm" (June 2014 color), "Nanette" (Pure Eyes Lustre Collection), "Lisette" (Bette Noir Collection), "Neuro Divergent" (Autism Awareness), "Tarasque" (Serpens Collection), & you can kind of see "Shimchong" (Serpens Collection)

IMG_2284.jpg

Left to Right: you can kind of see "Tarasque" (Serpens Collection), "Shimchong" (Serpens Collection), "Fafnir" (Serpens Collection), "Password Protected" (Sherlock), "Psychosomatic Limp" (Sherlock), & "High Functioning Sociopath" (Sherlock)

I love them all.  They're all more muted/neutral colors to me which is good for me because I'm still trying to figure out how to use these pigments.  (I tried a "blue" eye look yesterday & was mortified because I ended up looking like Mimi from the Drew Carey Show.  How do you ladies make your eye looks look so beautiful?  I guess I just need to practice.  These are good practice colors for me.)
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I find that a glitter glue (laid over a primer) and patting the shadow on intensifies the eyeshadow look, makes the glitter stand out more, and makes shadow a bit easier to work with for me. However, glitter glue makes the shadows blend less easily so placement becomes key. There's a bit of a learning curve with indies, I think.

 
trekkersangel said:
I love them all.  They're all more muted/neutral colors to me which is good for me because I'm still trying to figure out how to use these pigments.  (I tried a "blue" eye look yesterday & was mortified because I ended up looking like Mimi from the Drew Carey Show.  How do you ladies make your eye looks look so beautiful?  I guess I just need to practice.  These are good practice colors for me.)
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I have a lot of the same problems with blues.  I also have problems with greens, but I think that is more my coloring.  I would love it if some of you would post some of your looks that you are doing with the pretty blues, greens and teals and tell us what colors you are using and where you are applying them.

 
chibimorph said:
There's a bit of a learning curve with indies, I think.
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Hah this! I just tried some of my GDE yesterday, and normally I don't wear primer because my lids don't get too oily, but by the end of the day my shadow had creased. Definitely going to need primer, but I used Mackinac all over the lid, Fiji Mermaid as the crease color, and Crystal Ball from July's OTM as the brow highlight color. It was fun! I don't think I've ever done an all green look before, but I can't wait to try some other colorful looks!

marigoldsue said:
I have a lot of the same problems with blues.  I also have problems with greens, but I think that is more my coloring.  I would love it if some of you would post some of your looks that you are doing with the pretty blues, greens and teals and tell us what colors you are using and where you are applying them.
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I didn't take a photo of it sadly, but maybe I can recreate it another day and get a photo.

 

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