Indies: AFK Cosmetics Mystery Bag!

Hi everyone,

Months ago, I ordered and got a Mystery Bag of eyeshadow from the lovely indie shop AFK Cosmetics (non-affiliate) when Dena, the owner, was having a sale! I didn’t really know what I wanted, so I asked her to surprise me with eyeshadows! Overall, I am really impressed with her service (and fast turn around), the quality of items, the artwork, and that it is related to League of Legends!! (the most important part obviously.)

Without further ado, the unboxing:

The cute packaging and note she wrote me!

This is super cute. I love it!

Ninja turtles ftw!

Such cute wrapping. When you unpacked it, this is what you saw:

Everything in the bag!

SO EXCITE

THE EYESHADOWS!

w00t! The first couple of eyeshadows I got were F****in shrooms (in reference to one of my favorite champs Teemo (non-affliate) – see below), and 3 full-size eyeshadows with pictures of Nami (non-affiliate), Leona (non-affiliate), and Evelynn (non-affliate)!

WHO COULD HATE THIS CUTE FACE?!

Now back from the cuteness, these are all the eyeshadows laid out:

From L=>R, Eve, Nami, Leona then bottom has names

Just take a look at this artwork:

Leona Artwork

Nami Artwork

Eve Artwork

Here are all the real names and ingredients for the eyeshadows:

And here are swatches of all of them (except F****n shrooms because I suck and lost it)

Swatches

I love the colors of these!! And the references –

• Solar Flare is a reference to Leona (her ultimate)
• Tide Caller is a reference to Nami (part of her name title)
• Shadow Walker is a reference to Evelynn (her passive)
• Suicidal Bastard is maybe a reference to Brand?
• Getting Stumped is a reference to Maokai

It’s hard to see Clean Freak in this, but it’s a goldish color shifter. This would be great to use blended or layered over other shadows.

Overall I’m really impressed with these eyeshadows and especially love the artwork.

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My first indies – Glamour Doll Eyes

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the delay in posting – it’s been a hectic 2 weeks. Recently I received samples from Glamour Doll Eyes (Link to site, no affiliate). Glamour Doll Eyes is a little more established than say, an indie favorite I’ve been watching, Hello Waffle (still love HW a lot!). I picked out 6 samples I would like to try, and I’m probably not the best person to pick. Ha. I picked colors I thought I didn’t have in my collection, or I loved. So, I ended up with greens (foresty, mint), white, bright pink, gold, and a purple.

As you can see the colors are really pretty. Also, there is a coupon to Sedona Lace. Use glamourdoll to get $4.00 off your order.

I picked 6 samples: Midnight Kiss, Candy Floss, Oddity, Mackinac, Gold Digger, Angel Wings. These are from various collections (Blogger, Best Seller, Circus).

They use the shiny black tops that a lot of other brands use as well.

I really like the packaging on these because I like when items are sealed. coughLooking at you Nyx cough

Midnight Kiss is the purple that I ordered. On their site it is described as purple with a red and blue shift. the red shift is a little more subtle than the blue shift in person. I personally find it to be a pretty cool toned silver with a much more noticeable blue shift than red.

I love how bright this color is! It’s a bright fuchsia with a cool shimmer! It definitely needs a primer underneath it though. If you go down to the swatches you can see tht it isn’t as bright if there isn’t primer. Here is a link to the item: http://www.glamourdolleyes.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31_32&products_id=851

This is my favorite eyeshadow out of the ones sampled. The payoff on this shade is great and I love the foresty/warm green. This is something I would wear a lot. Link to item: http://www.glamourdolleyes.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=92_95_99&products_id=460

I love mint greens, but I kind of wish this one was more matte. It’s payoff is pretty good, but it’s reallllly shimmery. Link to item: http://www.glamourdolleyes.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=92_106_107&products_id=926

I wanted to love this one. I love greens and golds, but something about it falls flat. I think I wanted it to be a bit more shimmery. It photographs well, but in person I wish it was a bit brighter I think.

I thought I needed a white, lol. The payoff on this is good and it’s pretty close to a pure white, just has a cool toned shimmer. Link to item: http://www.glamourdolleyes.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=31_32&products_id=592

Primer is definitely needed under most of these, but color payoff without them isn’t bad. Oddity is by far the most pigmented.

Overall thoughts:

These are nicely formulated, but you definitely need a primer under them because they won’t stay on long. I am preferential to NARS Smudgeproof. The colors are beautiful, though they don’t blend all their colors themselves (some are the ones they buy from their distributor). I think that is a little odd. Some of the colors fell flat for me (Mackinac, Gold Digger), but I looooove Oddity.