[REVIEW] Glamour Doll Eyes press samples! :D

A while ago, Vee from Glamour Doll Eyes made a post on r/IndieMakeupandMore asking for bloggers who were interested in reviewing some of their stuff! (That subreddit is a wonderful community of lovely and friendly people, just so you know!) Naturally, I jumped at that chance and fired off an excited email and Vee let me pick six colors to try out. Today, I received these six adorable sample jars in the mail and immediately had to swatch and review them all!! It also came with a little card with a thank you note for reviewing their products. :D

All the cute little cards that came with it! There’s also a sticker and a card with swatches from their two matte collections, which I thought was pretty smart. I kind of love GDE’s counter-culture inspired branding, to be honest. Their colorful and more edgy aesthetics really appeal to me and fits really well with how I like to present myself. I love the bold, bright, and saturated! As if that wasn’t obvious enough with the multiple colors my hair has been through and my forever obnoxiously sparkly eyelids. :D

I’m going off on a bit of a tangent, but it’s kind of awesome to see people that are a little outside of the conventional getting represented by a brand! That kind of thing just makes me a bit excited, sorry! I love seeing fabulous people with brightly colored hair, decked out in piercings and tattoos and just expressing themselves so outwardly. That kind of thing is pretty important to me. But alright now, enough of that rubbish rambling, let’s move on with the review!

I JUST HAD TO TAKE A PICTURE OF THIS. The model is just so adorable and some of those colors are so divine! Silhouette has got to be my fave color on this card. :D

Here are the colors I picked out! There’s a lot of alliteration going on in there. GDE also lists unblended eyeshadows in their shop which is cool because damn son, they’ve got a massive selection of pretty colors for shoppers to pick from! However, I picked shades that were unique to GDE, just because I wanted to be cool and special. I think they’ll be removing the unblended colors in time though, IIRC.

Vee is so generous with these samples! Look at the amount of product in there, I can’t wait to play more with them and come up with some looks and tutorials for these babies.

(Left to right, swatched over Etude House Proof 10 eye primer and Darling Girl Cosmetics’ Glitter Glue!)

HEEDLESS HEART: “an almost metallic rose gold” (descriptions from GDE’s website!)

A really gorgeous rose gold that leans more pink and warm than gold. It definitely does look very metallic and that gets even more obvious when used with GG!

CHIVALROUS: “Matte red with orange sheen”

This turned out to be quite pigmented even on bare skin. It’s a very pretty brick-red matte with yellow sparkles, hence the orange sheen.

COURAGEOUS: “Matte gray/slight blue with orange sheen”

I don’t have many grays in my collection because I’m not sure how to work them into my looks yet but I really adore this color! This is a really nice cool matte grey that just has a slight hint of shiny goodness. I’m still not too sure how well this would work with my skin tone, frankly, but I think it’d be pretty fabulous as an eyeliner! I had a bit of an issue at first because I don’t think it was blended properly and I had unmixed blue pigments showing up. I swatched it a few more times after and it seemed fine though, so that might have just been a tiny blob of blue that escaped the rest of the herd.

I wanted to see if Chivalrous would work as a blush, so I applied it very lightly to my hand and blended it out. I think it could work, if blended carefully. Not sure if the extra care and attention would be worth it yet though. But I’ll be sure to give it a try on my cheeks sometime, because I love that pretty shade of red and it’d be fun!

UNNECESSARY TANGENTIALLY RELATED BUT BORING FACT: I’M REALLY FREAKED OUT BY FAKE PICTURES OF THE FIJI MERMAID |:

MIGHTY MAIDEN: “a light sky blue with subtle gold and silver sparkle”



A really soft sparkly baby blue! Pretty and fits quite perfectly in my collection of blue-green shades. :D

FIJI MERMAID: “greenish blue, with green shimmer undertones, reminiscent of scales”

Definitely reminiscent of pretty, shiny fish scales! This has got to be one of my favorites of the bunch and I didn’t expect to enjoy a green color this much. This is more of a bluish green than a greenish blue, in my opinion! It’s quite dark when swatched over primer, and it looks like green sparkles over a really dark green base. With GG though, it shows up as a gorgeous green that sparkles really vibrantly!

CELESTIAL CROW: “blackened blue with intense green shimmer”

My other favorite!!! It’s such a ridiculously pretty and sophisticated dark blue that has traces of blue and green sparkles. It has so much depth to it and I love that!! I so desperately wish it could be lip-safe though, could you even imagine how flipping amazing this would be on my lips?!! BECAUSE I CAN. It’d be beautiful and glittery and stupidly dark and I’ll look paler than a bowl of white rice. It’d be fantastic. One can dream, yes.

Put together a quick look with Mighty Maiden and Celestial Crow! It’s awesome, it looks fab with my glasses which makes me really happy. They were pigmented and smooth, easy to handle and blend out. They show up leaning a lot towards grey on my lids (over just primer alone), so I’m guessing they’d be more true to their actual intended colors with a tacky base. Although I suppose that’s quite obvious from my swatches too.

Turned Fiji Mermaid into a liner with some DGC Superstar Serum! I swatched it with Urban Decay’s 24-7 Glide On pencil in Mars on the left. It’s a pretty close dupe, with Fiji Mermaid being slightly lighter and a hell lot more sparkly.

Tried it out along with some blue mascara just because I can. It makes for a really lovely and subtle but unique liner! Although it doesn’t show up too well when I open my eyes because of my eye shape.

This was my first time ever reviewing press samples! Thanks Vee!! I’m really grateful to have had this chance to try out some GDE eyeshadows. Regardless, I was still honest in my opinions of what I received, and ultimately I think it’s all pretty damn awesome. I think some of the colors look a bit different from the swatches on GDE’s website but I think that’s a lighting issue, since it mostly looks warmer on the site. Anyway, they were easy to use and blend together and some of them turned out to be a lot more pigmented than I’ve really expected of eyeshadows when swatched over bare skin. They’re all also really gorgeous colors, frankly!!! I’m glad to have this addition to my collection (:

That was a rather lengthy review, thanks a lot for reading if you actually sat through all of that! You’re most probably thinking about how much you need Celestial Crow on your eyelids now too, I bet. :D