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
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