[REVIEW] Beauty Bar Baby swatches! (:

Yayyyyy! My Beauty Bar Baby end of summer sale haul came in and it’s awesome! So I tried to make a swatch and review post, but be forewarned, I’m pretty terrible at this entire swatching/photography thing so… Yeah! I really don’t think any of my photos do these colors justice, because I don’t know how to make these gorgeous sparkles show up as quite nicely on camera. I’ll be sure to take note of my mistakes this time round and try to do a better job next time. Let me know if you have advice for me on how to make better swatch posts! Unless it’s the tape thing because my arms cannot handle intense taping, sorry. My arm hurts already because I’m a bit of a pissbaby, unfortunately. \:

So exciting! I got quite a few eyeshadows and also a cosmetic glitter, one watermelon-scented lip balm and a lipstick. There’s a little thank you note from the owner, Nicole! It’s such a small detail but it’s stuff like that that makes me love indie brands. It just feels a lot more personal than mainstream brands and that’s always sorta nice.

The watermelon lip balm most definitely smells like watermelon. My friends said it’s weird but I love watermelon and its smell so yes, give it all to me, I want to be the watermelon!! It’s quite hydrating and it lasts for pretty long too, I put it on my lips before I went to bed and when I woke up my lips were ultra soft! It feels nicer than the Burt’s Bees one I have too.

(From left to right y'aallll, swatched over Etude House Proof 10 eye primer, bare skin, and then Darling Girl Cosmetics’ Glitter Glue)



ICE BREAKERS:“A matte light sea foam green" (description from BBB’s page)

A gorgeous and bright matte light mint color! Would be fantastic as a liner on top of some dark shadow.

PHANTOMIZER: "Emerald green duo chrome eyeshadow with blue, gold & green color shifting undertones.”

I tend to shy away from green colors but this leans blue enough that I’m not scared of it! It’s a really pretty jewel tone that would be fabulous with brown eyes.

LOCK & LOAD: “Navy duo chrome eyeshadow with gold, green & blue shifting undertones with gold sparkles throughout”

I LOVE THIS COLOR. It’s just really pretty and so sparkly and perfect. Also the name just sounds so badass. :D

YUP THOSE ARE SURE SOME BUTT-UGLY SWATCHES I’M SORRY???

ICED MANGO: “A shimmery & sparkly pearlescent bright & vivid pinkish/orange shade loaded with soft red sparkle glitter.”

This one is a lot more bright pink-ish in person! Not sure if it’ll look so great on me though… This really doesn’t remind me anything of mangoes, honestly, but it’s still a really pretty color!

RED VELVET: “A matte primary red shade”

Yeaaah, I most definitely should not have tried to swatch this over GG. I think it’s a bit too dark to really be considered a primary red, but I love how bright and bold this is.

POISONED APPLE: “A deep & dark blackened red shade with black undertones.”

The black is a lot more obvious when swatched without GG, which is pretty cool.

BACON & WAFFLES: “A fiery metallic copper shade loaded with gold fleck sparkles!”

I love this one, it actually has a picture of bacon and waffles on the jar! :D A delicious combination, it definitely makes me hungry, yup.

CHICKEN & WAFFLES: “A soft pale pearlescent gold shade…great used as a highlighter!”

This would be gorgeous layered over Bacon & Waffles, I think. It definitely would make for a great highlight shade, it’s pretty close to my skin tone too. (Which for the record, is usually NC20 but I think might be NC25 now that I’ve gotten a little tan…)

It’s the The Wickedly Purple Awesomealicious Color Shifting Collection!!! SO MUCH PURPLE

AWESOMENESS: “soft lilac purple with turquoise, green, silver & gold color shifting reflections.”

Utterly pretty and so soft looking!

AWESOMAZING: “Medium violet purple with blue, turquoise & gold color shifting reflections”

Another pretty purple! This would be really pretty just on its own too.

AWESOME & THEN SOME: “Jet black base with purple, orange, red, turquoise, green, blue & did I say purple? color shifting reflections”

This is the most intriguing color from the collection! It shows up looking like navy on the photo here, but the purple sparkle is a lot more obvious in person. I love how it shifts from blue to purple over the black base! It’s just really cool and my picture here totally doesn’t show it off enough ):

Whoops, a rather messy swatch, sorry \:

On the left, swatched over GG is VIOLENT FEMME: “Bright Sparkly purple microfine loose cosmetic glitter”

An ultra sparkly glitter bomb! Well, it’s just straight up glitter. I’m not too sure how much I’d be able to wear this, honestly, but I’m sure I’ll find some occasion to glue glitter to my eyelids sometime! It’s really pretty and sparkly and I’m a sucker for the sparkly stuff.

To its right is LIGEIA OPULENT OPAQUE LIPSTICK: “A haunting combination of reds and plums to create a supernatural look”

I didn’t get a very good swatch of this because it was sort of mushy due to the summer heat. I should have followed the note Nicole sent with it, saying not to worry about it getting soft and to just chuck it in the fridge for a bit \: I still swatched it though! It’s a very nice dark color and it’s quite opaque for sure.

I also swatched my Sweetpea & Fay liquid lipstick in Marjorie on top and my MUFE Rouge Artist Intense 49 on the bottom to see if they’d be dupes. Ligeia is a slight bit warmer than 49 but it’s pretty damn close if you ask me!!!

Here’s what it looks like on my lips! I applied it with a lip brush since it was kinda mushy, but it was pretty easy to build it up to an opaque color on my lips. I should probably also have blotted before I took this picture but I’ll blame that on how tired I am today. Yup.

I also had delicious Bacon & Waffles on my eyelids with some Copper Bird from Sweetpea & Fay. B&W is indeed gorgeous! I’ve been fighting a runny nose for the last week or so hence the red area around my nose ): But still! Ligeia goes very nicely with the orange-copper tone of B&W (: I’ll try it out again sometime when it’s less mushy and report back with results! :D

All in all, I’m pretty damn happy with what I got from Beauty Bar Baby. It took about ten days to get here, which is pretty fast! The eyeshadows are nicely pigmented and blend out easily. The lighter shades don’t really show up without primer but that’s pretty standard for most of my eyeshadows I think. They’re all very pretty and sparkly (save for the matte ones which are just beautifully matte). It also was really cheap considering the amount of stuff I got + shipping to Canada! I really enjoy all the colors I’ve gotten for sure. :D Their end of summer sale is still on going and you can check the store out here!