[SWATCHES] My awesome gift from the lovely /u/txteva on /r/imam!!! :D

AWW YEAH LOOK AT ALL THAT MAKEUP. And candy!! :D :D Man, txteva was really just too generous with this package!! I have more pictures and swatches under the cut, but just be warned that it’s ultra picture heavy!!

All the way from Bristol, UK! :D :D A postcard with some fantastic pictures of Bristol!

The candy! I’d already greedily devoured one of the two Freddos by the time this picture happened. I CAN’T RESIST CANDY OK

British indies?!!!! These are from Missile Cosmetics, a really adorable as heck brand based in UK. From their website: “Badass make-up for awesome cuties.” Yup!! I’d like to think that that suits me perfectly to a T. :D

That namecard is so goddamn cute! And it comes with wrestling cards to complement the theme, which is pretty cool.

Swatched over Etude House Proof 10 eye primer on top and then Darling Girl Cosmetics’ Glitter Glue on the bottom!

They’re so gorgeous and the names are so cute! I’m especially in love with Phenom and Dirty Deeds. I’ve never really been too fond of using green shades but I feel like Cloverleaf would actually work quite well for me? I haven’t had the chance to try it out on my eyes but I can’t wait!

Not quite indie, but oh my goshhh!! A really gorgeous and super BRIGHT makeup palette and a bunch of hair product samples!! txteva really did her research because those are so totally me…

This is the Acid Brights palette from Makeup Revolution. Holy crap, isn’t the saturation amazing? I love ridiculously saturated colors so this is absolutely perfect for me!! Not to mention that those colors are so insanely pretty!!

Seriously, how the heck are these so pretty and pigmented?!! It’s INSANE. The first couple colors and the pale pink are a bit sheer and do require a bit of building up, but the rest of them swatch really smoothly and opaque! It’s AWESOME, I’m quite in love yes because UGH this palette just screams my name and I love it so much!! Thanks txteva, you’re super awesome (:

Some of the other non-indie stuff! A really gorgeous cream eyeshadow, a beautiful lipstick from Makeup Academy and OH MY GOOODDDDD HELLO KITTY GLOSS AND SHADOW…..

Swatches of the two eyeshadows that I nearly forgot about in my excitement because there’s just so much, too much to be excited about! The top one is of the cream eyeshadow and the second one is of the Hello Kitty one. These are both colors that I love a lot and I tend to rely on gold and teal shades very often so you can be damn sure that I’ll be using these a fair bit. :D Also. HELLO KITTY EYESHADOW. How’s that not insanely awesome?!!! And cute?!!!

GASP. MY BEAUTY ADDICTION STUFF. Okay, I’ve been wanting stuff from this brand for a loooong time but could never just quite go through with it. So I was super ridiculously insanely excited when I got these!

These samples are ridiculously generous, holy crap.

All the lip product swatches on my arm!

Bare lips for comparison (:

MBA’s Glamazon!!! It’s such a pretty color but I don’t quite know if it really works for me. Maybe because I didn’t layer it on properly? I’m not the best with glosses… I gotta try this out over a darker lip tint/stain sometime because I feel like that would make for a ridiculously gorgeous finish!!

The Hello Kitty gloss awwww yeah!! It’s a really cute and wearable color.

Here’s the MUA lipstick! I AM IN LOVE. I think txteva is seriously psychic because I’ve been lusting after a color like this for quite a bit!! And this one’s just perfect. Swatches smoothly and goes on really opaque! It came a bit smushed in the tube so I applied it with a lip brush and it turned out great still. (:

MBA’s Spiced Pumpkin! SO PRETTY SO ORANGE SO SHIMMERY PUMPKIN-ESQUE. Gorgeous and I love it!

MBA’s Burlesque. What the heck this shade is insane. It’s a really pretty fuschia that leans just slightly blue but I COULD SWEAR it looks like it changes colors in real life just because of how interesting and shimmery this lipstick is! IT’S WITCHCRAFT I TELL YOU. BEAUTIFUL SPARKLY INDIE WITCHCRAFT! Or maybe I need more sleep.

MBA’s Indigo! I’ve been dreaming of owning this for a while now and there’s been way too many times I’ve added it to my cart only to just close the entire page hahaha. BUT NOW I HAVE IT. And it’s every bit as gorgeous as I thought it would be!! :D

MBA’s Breathless! I LOVE THIS SHADE SO MUCH I’d have never thought of getting it if not for this sample! It’s really pretty. I can’t really speak to its wear time because it didn’t seem to last very long on my lips but yeah!! I still really love this color a lot and it’s so perfect…

MBA’s Envy! MY FIRST REAL GREEN LIPSTICK HECK YES also I think this is a sign that I should most definitely cosplay FF. Anyway. It’s an awesome opaque green that is really easy to apply and while I’m cool with blue lipsticks, I still gotta work my way up to being able to wear this out comfortably!

Also I totally forgot to swatch Jailbreak on my lips ): ): I shall have to remember to do that another time!

Okay and now! Onward to the Life’s Entropy stuff! That package came in later and so the swatches were made on a different day too, so sorry for the disparity in lighting! I hope it’s not too bad,

This packaging is seriously impeccably gorgeous and well-thought out. I’d been wanting for quite a bit to place an order from Life’s Entropy but had yet to so getting this made me really happy (:

AUGH this is so pretty seriously! This is the little packet that the eyeshadow samples are in. I love how much thought was put into all this branding, it really pays off because damn, that looks so professional and beautiful!

THE GOODS. Duuuude. Look at that. It’s like porn to me. Beautiful, sparkly, makeup porn. Txteva seriously knocked this one outta the park because PLACEBO HECK YEAH. Now I can have FIFTY MILLION different lip colors WHENEVER I WANT :D :D It’s perfect!! (Also you can check out a lip color I made with DG’s Tainted Love over here in this post! :D)

Here’s the samples! I’m guessing these are meant to be mixed with Placebo to make custom glosses but I’m too fickle-minded and I just want to experiment with Placebo a ton more… So who knows when those empty tubes will actually get some use, haha. :P

I LOVE Fiery Soul and Refraction a lot!!! These all swatch like a dream and are gorgeous but those two are my faves of the lot. I’m obsessed with really warm, reddish shades right now soooo Fiery Soul is just perfect. And I could never turn down a good purple. :D

Lip Theory in Big Bang Theory! This color is so freaking perfect. It’s really hard to find a dark red like this that doesn’t lean brown or blue so this one is just amazing. I’ve been wanting a color like this for a while too, so yup, I can definitely confirm that txteva is a psychic Ghostbusting extraordinary person, yes! It goes on really nicely opaque and is easy to apply and it’s nowhere near as runny as the OCC lip tars that I am used to, which is really great!!

Lip Theory in Osmosis! This is like a way better version of OCC’s RX, in my opinion. While I can’t quite attest to the lasting powers of this lip theory because I’ve yet to wear it out, it’s a lot thicker than my RX lip tar. It’s also a lot easier to get opaque on my lips, which makes it a lot less finicky to apply. I’m really glad to have gotten this sample because I think this is just the perfect shade to replace my RX lip tar which seems to hate my lips… :D

I also swatched it on my hand with OCC’s RX for comparison. I took this picture only seconds after swatching and YUP RX started bleeding already. Dammit OCC, why would you break my heart like that! ):

Thank goodness for Life’s Entropy, bringing us all the weirdass colors in funky lil tubes with cute stickers . Just in case someone accidentally thinks we’re a sane bunch, WE CAN PROVE THEM WRONG. BAM. BLUE LIPSTICK. TAKE THAT, ASSHOLE, THAT’LL TEACH YOU TO LABEL ME AS SANE. :D

Aaaanyway. I’m super happy to have received this bountiful and ridiculously generous collection of pretties from txteva! Some of them came all the way from UK too! That’s just really cool to me okay. Not to mention that chocolate was really delicious. I’m really grateful to have gotten to be part of this exchange! I was really lucky to have a really cool partner who likes cosplay too and who GOES OUT GHOSTBUSTING ON A REGULAR BASIS I’M SO JEALOUS THAT IS SO AWESOME… It was a ton of fun getting to talk to her to find out what she likes (which turns out to be quite similar because we’re both avid sparkle fairies!!) and trying to sort out what to get her. The wait for stuff to arrive was really fun too. (: THANK YOU SO MUCH EVA, you’re just seriously the coolest and the most rad!! And I’m really glad to have met you!! :D

And many thanks to Benoit for putting together the whole awesome affair on /r/IMAM and bringing a ton of happy goodness to the community! IT WAS AN AWESOME EXCHANGE and I had a ton of fun and I would definitely do it all again sometime when I can!! :D