Hello, everyone!

The new year has arrived here in CST, and I have a 2014 parting gift for you! I got home from my trip to Seattle to find my final Black Friday order from Dreamworld Hermetica! Here are some swatches!

First Up, from the Firefly-inspired collection…

I’m a little bit in love with Hero of Canton. Shiny.

Next, the ode to Mal and Inara:

Sorry Fog wasn’t in with Big Damn Heroes and Hero of Canton. I forgot to pick it up and then remembered it after I had already swatched and taken all the pictures and then washed the others off. Re-dos weren’t happening.

Moving along, we have a couple of shadows from the Hocus Pocus collection. Randomly, I was gifted the DVD of this for Christmas. It made me way too happy!

When I started this post, I thought, “I don’t have much to say today. I’m just going to make a nice swatch post.” I will side-step that right here, because this shadow is intense! The official description of it is, “Purplish brown with yellow undertones. Slight shimmer.” In the picture, this looks like an antiqued purpley-red. And that’s exactly how it looked to my eyes. And then, I put it on my eyelids as a one-color look for New Year’s Eve, and antiqued purpley-red shines alongside a beautiful brown/yellow. I’m going to have SO MUCH FUN playing with this shadow!

This one kind of reminds me of Hello Waffle’s Franz Katfka. I suppose I’ll have to do a comparison swatch soon!

Man, that movie never gets old! Now, a collection inspired by another movie that was quintessential to my childhood:

This collection consists purely of earth-tone matte colors, and they really are beautiful! This picture shows them over primer. I played around with them without it, and the color payoff is still pretty good! I generally don’t wear eyeshadow without primer anymore though, so I tend to not swatch them without it either.

Alright, moving away from the fandoms and such, this next set are inspired by a story written by Ellie herself! It’s the story of the Island of Magara, a bit of which can be found right here.

On to swatches!

I went into Black Friday ready to buy all the Jumanji colors in mini/full sizes, and I will be completely honest when I say this collection threw me for a loop. This entire collection looks like glorious neutral heaven!

Last but not least, a free sample that came with my order! This is also from the magara collection, my first Dreamworld Hermetica lip gloss! It goes on nicely! The only indie gloss I really have for comparison is Shiro’s – DWH’s gloss is a bit thicker. It’s a tiny bit sticky at first if you apply a heavy layer, but only takes about 45 seconds to feel wonderful! While this isn’t a color I’ll wear out and about (because I’m lame and tame with my lip colors), I’ll wear it around my house and feel oh-so-fantastic while I do!

This is a thick swatch. It’s very easy to build up, but naturally wears really thin, so it just gives your lips this yellow-green shift. It really is a pretty gloss!

As of this post, Dreamworld Hermetica is closed until February 1st (tentatively). When it opens back up, I understand that Ellie is going to have her new liquid/gel foundation lines out and she will be carrying Little Sparrow Cosmetics as well! And though you can’t order, you can still stalk the shop to pick out some things to try once they re-open 😉

Alright, guys! It’s late and I’m sleepy. Bed time.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[Disclaimer: everything here was purchased by me and all opinions are my very own]