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Tonight, my hair will smell like Eat Me from BPAL:

Three white cakes, vanilla, and red and black currants.
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Eat Me hair gloss was the July Lunacy Post winner, and it should be in my mailbox right this minute!
(Unlisted note: Red musk. So much red musk it can make me sick if it's too warm out.)

 
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Ok someone help me with my house of gloi wish list because I've decided I'm done working for the day.

So what scent might I like? I tend to enjoy fruity florals, heavy on the fruit. I like sweet stuff and I love scents that incorporate like...whipped cream and creamy notes, but not so much vanilla. I don't like musky dark scents. Think pink glitter and white fluffy snow in perfume form if that makes any sense.

I'm overwhelmed on this site and don't know what 90% of these words mean on the scent descriptions. I have the dumbs :( /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 
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Well I read that Madd Cat Style was going out of business. I will forever regret not buying the Clockwork Orange collection. I did purchase Fright Night which was on sale so altogether with shipping I only paid $4.50. So at least I get to try one thing from them. Now I have to wait until Sunday to place my first Shiro order!

 
@@MIKAGlam Shiro's releasing their leftover pressed shadows and palettes from Crafty Wonderland tomorrow at noon PST! (you can buy individual pressed tins or build-your-own 4-pan palette) I don't know if they'll last until Sunday, though.

 
@@MIKAGlam Yeah... my no-buy turned into a low-buy with the Shiro order I made yesterday. And with the Hello Waffle sale, I feel that September might become a BUY-IT-ALL month for me...

 
@@chibimorph I am not even thinking about a no-buy until I have at least 1 Nic Cage gloss, the Earth's Mightiest Hereos ,and most of The Seven Kingdoms in my collection. I have a mighty need!

I am trying really hard to stay of the other indie sites. It is not helping me.

 
Had an itch to transfer all of my sample baggies to the jars that came today. Those suckers hold a lot more than I thought! Good news is the stickers all easily peeled off the baggies so I didn't have to make labels :)

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marigoldsue said:
So I just went through the Hello Waffle site and there are ONLY 26 colors that I want.  *sigh*

ETA:  Oh crap, I forgot to look at blush.
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Yeah, this is exactly why I haven't gone on the site yet.  I skimmed the etsy store, decided I needed a *lot*, and put it on my 2015 list.

ETA:  Wow, I hadn't realized this hadn't happened yet!  Daily Lovelies is getting ready to put their Witches and Wizards (Harry Potter) collection up on their site, possibly this weekend.  I picked it up at Emerald City Comic Con back in March.  I recommend Chocolate Frogs (shimmery milk chocolate brown with green sparkles), The Boy Who Lived (shimmery bright green with, hmm, purple and pink sparkles, I think), Polyju--  Y'know what, get them all.  Yes, Harry Potter as a collection theme is a gimmick, but the colors are all gorgeous and so sparkly my camera freaks out when I try to take a photo.

 
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Ok GDE swatch time! The mail was a little later than usual and then I had to make BLTs for dinner  :D /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Everything is swatched over primer, shadow names are left to right, top to bottom

Start a Rumor and Whoa Dog blush blended out

These are the discontinued unblended shadows in the DQ section of the site. If you order any of these, be sure to use code DQme to get 35% off

Glam Girl, Lovers Lane, Blueberry Lush, Jayne, Her Revenge, Stiletto

Samples from my Summerswap girl, I love these

RoxxCandy, Flaunt, Sarcasm, Grease Lightning, June Bug, Facade, Provocative, and Funeral Parlour

And some more random samples I have

Spider Sense, Electric Chair, Juicy Mango, Going Green, Aqua Foil, and Spikes and Pearls
 
bsquared said:
Ooooo need mango. And grease lightening. And flaunt.

Oh how insane I am going to go in November....
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Be aware that Grease Lightning might not make it until then!  There have already been a few unblended shades that have sold out and will not be restocked.  Keep an eye on this page:

http://www.glamourdolleyes.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=149

Once a shadow hits that page, there's a code on that page for a discount, and then once it sells out from there, that's it.  I fear next year because I know there is amazing stuff on the way.  There's *always* amazing stuff on the way!

 
chibimorph said:
@ I agree, too! (Mainstream palettes can also be purchased on sale, as well, though) However, palettes don't bother me because I'm the kind of person that hasn't really met an eyeshadow color I didn't like (except for black, maybe) ^_^ /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

I love being able to buy a bunch of eyeshadow samples - even if it's more expensive per gram, they're still going to last me long enough that I feel like I got my money's worth (in case my 170+ indie shadows haven't already demonstrated that...). The article was probably a response to a thread on reddit where people were talking about how indies were priced better per weight and a better deal (and people who mentioned supporting mainstream were downvoted). But I feel there's room for both indie and mainstream makeup in any collection based on someone's own preferences (I personally really like the way mainstream palettes look). 

That said... I'm really itching to make a Scaredy Cat Cosmetics order. Great price and super duper cute jars! :wub:
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I'm a little late to the conversation, but I totally agree with this. I only really got into indies abotu a year ago, and it wasn't so much ordering collections and samples online, but picking up a shadow here and there when I saw them at conventions, or what not. So I didn't really pay attention to the shadow or the brand, because I didn't really think about them as a product that was being marketed outside of a very specific event. So, my collection of indies is actually quite small.

Now that I know more, and am familiar with more brands and understand the product more, I enjoy indies shadows more than I did in the past. However, for me, buying indies could never replace buying mainstream. In my life, indies just aren't practical enough to take the place of my mainstream shadows.

Occasionally I will do a full look with indie products, but for the most part they are used in conjunction with mainstream products. I'm sorry, that probably makes me a heretic or something. :lol:

 
I can't handle keeping this a secret any more since I just got the go-ahead to show it off and brag, and I know there's someone else on this forum in my position.  I wanna know who it is!  Coming in January (my birthday is mid-month-ish, so whatever the release date actually turns out to be, it's going to be right around my birthday, so happy birthday to me!) to GDE (spoilered because SO BIG) (and I only have swatches because I'm terrified of dropping the jar when I try to take a photo of it because it's happened before, and this baby is not currently replacable):

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Rose City, after my beloved hometown that WILL NOT LET ME GO no matter how hard I try (I gave up trying to leave in 2009).  Green sparkles to represent the thorns in a rose bush!  Tons of sparkles -- so much my camera can't capture them -- to represent all of the strippers in this city!  (Seriously, we have a *lot* of strippers.  Like more per capita than Las Vegas or Los Angeles.)  And it's lip safe and vegan! 

ETA:  Forgot to mention that the left side is over e.l.f. glitter glue, and the right is blended on bare skin. 

 
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meaganola said:
I can't handle keeping this a secret any more since I just got the go-ahead to show it off and brag, and I know there's someone else on this forum in my position.  I wanna know who it is!  Coming in January (my birthday is mid-month-ish, so whatever the release date actually turns out to be, it's going to be right around my birthday, so happy birthday to me!) to GDE (spoilered because SO BIG) (and I only have swatches because I'm terrified of dropping the jar when I try to take a photo of it because it's happened before, and this baby is not currently replacable):

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Rose City, after my beloved hometown that WILL NOT LET ME GO no matter how hard I try (I gave up trying to leave in 2009).  Green sparkles to represent the thorns in a rose bush!  Tons of sparkles -- so much my camera can't capture them -- to represent all of the strippers in this city!  (Seriously, we have a *lot* of strippers.  Like more per capita than Las Vegas or Los Angeles.)  And it's lip safe and vegan! 

ETA:  Forgot to mention that the left side is over e.l.f. glitter glue, and the right is blended on bare skin. 
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NEED NEED NEED *Also a lover of our Rose City <3 I actually have many friends whom are dancers, strippers, performers or burlesque dancers lol. That is one beautiful color!!

In unrelated news, I did a bad thing today...

I finally went into a local store that sells Portland Black Lipstick Company lip sticks...*Ive been avoiding it due to a serious knowledge that I will want all the things*

Thankfully they were out of a lot of shades but I did pick up Artificial Amethyst and I can already tell I am going to need to round out my lippie collection with some of these indies. 

 
meaganola said:
Yeah, this is exactly why I haven't gone on the site yet.  I skimmed the etsy store, decided I needed a *lot*, and put it on my 2015 list.

ETA:  Wow, I hadn't realized this hadn't happened yet!  Daily Lovelies is getting ready to put their Witches and Wizards (Harry Potter) collection up on their site, possibly this weekend.  I picked it up at Emerald City Comic Con back in March.  I recommend Chocolate Frogs (shimmery milk chocolate brown with green sparkles), The Boy Who Lived (shimmery bright green with, hmm, purple and pink sparkles, I think), Polyju--  Y'know what, get them all.  Yes, Harry Potter as a collection theme is a gimmick, but the colors are all gorgeous and so sparkly my camera freaks out when I try to take a photo.
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Every once in a while someone will remind me that Daily Lovelies exists... and then I'll browse the site, make grabby hands, realize that their Fairy Size is in a $3 clamshell, and forget about them. The Sailor Moon collection looks lovely, though (and the Sherlock stuff... and now they're going to have a Harry Potter collection?) I may have to try to keep it in mind from now on ^_^ /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

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