Review - Notoriously Morbid Duo Chrome Loose Eyeshadows

Hiya Everyone :-)

Hope everyone is doing well today.  So, my review today is another foray into the world of indie cosmetics.  Through Makeuptalk (I really should stay away from that place......), I found out about an Indie brand called Notoriously Morbid, which people seemed to love.  I quickly jumped onto their website, and after a teeny tiny look around, I placed my first order.  I requested eye safe duo chrome eyeshadows only, and this is what they sent.



 L - R Wayward Son, Look Upon Me, Evil Eye, It's the Riche, Lizard on a Window Pane, Bad Juju, Walking on Sunshine

 

 

Wayward Son

Ingredients

Titanium Dioxide, tin oxide, silica, mica, ferric ferrocyanide, magnesium stearate, lauroyl lysine

 

Wayward Son is an icy blue with a bright green duo chrome.  The powder is very light and kicks up a lot when applied with a dry brush.  This powder really needs a sticky base to look its best, as I had trouble with it applying to the skin.  This is a really beautiful colour.

 

Not lip safe, vegan

 

Look Upon Me

Ingredients

Manganese ammonium, pyrophosphate, mica, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, tin oxide, carmine, magnesium stearate.

 

Possibly my favourite of the dusts I received.  Look Upon Me is a cool-ish mid tone brown with a lavender purple duochorme.  This looks and applies stunning.  While it was still a light powder, it didn't fly around as much as Wayward Son.  The pigmentation was nice applied dry without a primer, but I did it would be extraordinary applied with either a base or wet.  Love it, love it, love it!

 

Evil Eye

Ingredients

Titanium dioxide, tin oxide, silica, mica, carmine, Red #40, magnesium myristate, magnesium stearate.

 

Evil Eye is a  dusty pink with a muted light green duochrome.  It is a lovely wearable pink, that can be worn with the fear of the colour making the wearer look sick.  Pigmentation wasn't fabulous, but once again, apply wet or with a primer, the colour would have much more impact.

 

Its the Riche

Ingredients

Mica, titanium dioxide, yellow #5 al lake, palmitic acid, hydrogenated polyisobutene, preservatives, tin oxide, iron oxide, silica, synthetic flurophylogopite

 

Its the Riche is a mustard yellow with a slight pink duochrome.  I didn't find this dust to be very pigmented, and it was fairly dusty - not my think at all.  That being said though, I don't wear yellow eyeshadow, so its more personal preference than anything else.

 

Vegan

 

 Lizard on a Window Pan

Ingredients

Titanium dioxide, mica, magnesium stearate, magnesium myristrate, tin oxide, iron oxide, carmine

 

My other favourite of the colours I received.  Lizard on a Window Pane is a cool toned taupe-ish brown, with a muted green duo chrome.  I think that applied perfectly dry, but the intensity could be upped with a primer, or by applying wet.  This is such a beautiful shade, and I would happily wear it to work

 

Bad Juju

Ingredients

Mica, titanium dioxide, carmine, iron oxide, ultramarine, magnesium stearate

 

Holy crap on a cracker, this dust is B E A U T I F U L.  You may well ask if its so beautiful, why isn't it one of my favourites..... this is purely due to wearability.  Bad Juju is a rusty red (colour of the dirt in the Australian Outback), shot through with a lavender duo chrome.  This dust was very pigmented applied dry - so much so that my skin was stained after I removed the colour (less than 5 minutes of wear on the swatch), so that may be something to consider.  I wish I could wear this colour, but it just looks horrible on my colouring.

 

Not lip safe

 

Walking on Sunshine

Ingredients

Manganese violet, mica, titanium dioxide, tin oxide, ferric ferrocyanide, lauroyl lysine

 

Yes another gorgeous shade - seriously I got zero duds in the colours I received.  Walking on Sunshine is a beautiful mid tone violet purple, with an aqua duo chrome.  I don't know if its because I received this dust in full size, but the product does seem to be denser in texture than the sample colours I received - and in my opinion all the better for it.  Walking on Sunshine applied smoothly, and had lovely pigmentation.

 

Overall?

The overriding feature in all the dusts I received (besides Walking on Sunshine) is that the powder is very light and can be a bit messy to apply - however this isn't uncommon with eyeshadow dusts.  Like most dusts, the pigmentation, longevity and creasing can be improved with the use of a good eyeshadow primer (Walking on Sunshine would look awesome applied over a black base I think.... mental note to try that).

 

I do prefer my Inglot Pigments to these, but that probably isn't a fair comparison as the above shades don't pretend to be pigments.  That being said, I really liked the colours I receive and the formulation's, so much so that I have subscribed to the Notoriously Morbid Vanishing Cabinet monthly subscription. 

 

I think this company produces really interesting and unique products that are harder to come by in the "commercial" cosmetics world - and at a great price!  I would highly recommend checking them out.

 

Available at Notoriously Morbid

Urban Decay Perversion Mascara

Hiya

Hope everyone is having a great Saturday.  Its a lovely Spring day here on the West Coast of Australia.

Today I have a review of the Urban Decay Perversion mascara sample that came as a gift with purchase when I purchased the Vice 3 palette from the Urban Decay website.

Ingredients

Aqua (Water/Eau), Synthetic Beeswax, Acacia Senegal Gum, Stearic Acid, Palmitic Acid, Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax (Cera Carnauba/Cire de Carnuba), Butylene Glycol, Glyceryl Stearate, Polybutene, VP/Eicosene Copolymer, Aminomethyl Propanol, Pentylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Potassium Sorbate, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Soluble Collagen, Myristic Acid, Arachidic Acid, Behenic Acid, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Oleic Acid, Mel (Honey/Miel) Extract, Sodium PCA,Hydrolyzed Elastin, Glycogen, Serine. [+/- (May Contain/Peut contenir): CI 77499 (Iron Oxides)].

Packaging

The mascara is housed in a sexy little gun metal style plastic tube, with lilac writing on it.  It looks really stylish.  I kinda squirm when I read that I just wrote that - but there is no other word to describe it.

The wand is made of natural bristles and is a very full style without any bells or whistles (I hate those torture style spiky wand ends, such as on Benefits They're Real) - this is my favourite style of wand.  

Formula

The formula is neither overly wet nor dry.  It felt very smooth and almost creamy going on and captured lashes easily.  The formula built up volume nicely without any clumping after two coats.  However, I think the formula could begin to clump with further coats.  

I wear this mascara for approximately 12 hours during the day, and don't have any issues with smudging or flaking.  I also wear contact lenses, and I don't find the mascara irritates them.  It also didn't slide down my face when I got a little teary.

I found it removed fairly easily in the shower using my Alpha-H Triple Cleanser.

What Did it Look Like?

Please excuse my retinol irritated skin, and 15-week-old-baby-lack-of-sleep bags!

Bare Lashes

One Coat - top and bottom lashes

Two Coats - top and bottom lashes

Overall?

I really liked this mascara.  It gave my average lashes volume and length without clumping, smudging or flaking.  It wore well over a 12 hours period, and my lashes didn't look sad or pathetic at any time.  I would buy this mascara again, and would certainly recommend it my best friend.

Where to Get it?

The mascara is available from Urban Decay for $22USD.  Note to anyone in Australia - Urban Decay does not ship to Australia - I used MyUs freight forwarding service to ship my Urban Decay purchase.

The Makeup Addict Tag

Howdy!

I saw this tag on Sample Himes blog yesterday, and I thought it sounded made for me!.  The tag was originally created by Tales of a Pale Face - and the below image has been copied from her blog.

 

 

1. Which product do you still keep buying more of despite having plenty in your collection?

Hmmm..... honestly it would be a toss up between eyeshadows and lip products...... but I guess since lip products have a limited life, they'd have to win.  I have more lip products than I can possibly use in this, and the next lifetimes.  And its not even like I'm a really bad hoarder who can't throw things out!  I'm constantly going through my collection and getting rid of less loved stuffed.  First world problems right there.

2. What's the one product you couldn't live without?

My Miguhara BP cream.  This stuff is just phenomenal.  Its a beautiful silky smooth primer which makes my skin look flawless.  I received samples of it in various Memeboxes, and have been using it sparingly because its hard to find online.  I recently received a full sized one in the CoffeeBreakWithDani collaboration Memebox - happy days!

3. Favourite makeup brand?

Seriously? That's almost like asking me to pick my favourite child.  Hmmmm.... if I absolutely had to pick one, it would be Urban Decay.  Their eyeshadows, eyeliners and lipsticks are brilliant.

4. How big is your makeup collection?

My husbands answer to that would be too big!  Even I have to admit I have a stupid amount of makeup - I'm a Financial Controller for a living, so its not like I'm making any money from it.  However, I'm not going to try and make an excuse for my makeup - I am a makeup collector, and I am at peace with that - ha!

5. And how do you like to store it?

Unfortunately, I haven't yet figured out how I like to store it.  Currently I have it split between a 3 tier train case, a 3 drawer bedside table, and a little 3 drawer desktop storage drawer (great things comes in 3 apparently lol).   I would love to be able to have a room just for makeup - but in a 3 bedroom house with 2 kids, that's pretty unlikely :-).  - thats going to be a prerequisite for the next house I think!  Each time I get it just so, I buy more makeup and have to rearrange the whole thing - there's those first world problems again.

6. How many items of makeup have you got in your handbag at the moment?

I actually cleaned out my bag last night, so I only have the Makeup Forever Aqua Lip pencil in 3c, and a Laura Mercier lip gloss in a shimmery nude colour.

7. If you could raid another blogger's stash, who would it be?

Given she seems to acquire absolutely everything, it would have to be Temptalia

8. How long does your usual makeup routine take and how many products do you use?

Given I get ready for work with a 3 year old, and a 14 week old in the morning, I don't have the luxury of a heap of time.  Probably 20 minutes start to finish.  I do my lippy in the car on the way to work (when stopped at traffic lights - not while actually driving lol) after I've finished my coffee.

I somehow manage to get a full face on in the morning - including contouring and eyebrows.  I have no idea how many products..........lots

9. Have you ever bought makeup knowing you wouldn't use it?

Probably eyeliner sets - especially colourful pretty ones.  But in reality, I know there is only so much eyeliner I can go through.

10. Tag a few other makeup addicts to do the tag! 

I tag whomever reads this!