Hi everyone, I hope you’re doing well. I am going to try and make a goal of posting every 3 days or so since this blog is new it needs posts! I wanted to make my second post about some of the loose shadows I have tried or bought that are not “mainstream” buy mainstream I mean not bare minerals or a brands you can buy in store. For the most part “indie” means it’s not corporate owned but there are some indie brands that are getting to be “big” so it’s a broad statement, mostly I like to think of it as the brands that aren’t sold in every store. I have only started dipping into the indie idea but I can tell you form my experience the products are superior in quality and the time put in by the owner shows. I have only bought shadows for myself so far but my next step is blush and foundation I believe.

Lets dive in, this will be picture heavy but if your like me I want to see not just read. My first purchase was made on cyber monday of last year and I had not actually done anything with them until recently when I really started getting into the indie idea.

So this is what I got minus a container of “filler,” my original intent was to start making my own shadow colors which I did attempt making a few but it is more difficult then I expected to be “creative.” These are from Coastal Scents which I am not 100% sure if they are indie or not but they do sell products for you to make your own items including skin care stuff! I was hoping to post a link to the set I bought but it appears that they stopped selling this as a set so I will post a general link to their Mica Powders. I took them and put them in these jars for easy access and so I could put them in my kit.

I actually ran out of these jars and I bought a clear set from Michael’s craft store but still didn’t have enough so I have loose powders in bags still. I have been thinking about making a pressed palette of these but I have never done it before. It appears to be simple enough but I am sure the first couple times I try it won’t go so well.

When I worked at my mall job I had plenty of time to browes the internet and I started getting into Reddit I found a subreddit about indie makeup and that is when I decided to try out a brand, the first I choose was Glamour Doll Eyes I like variety so I decided to order a sample set called All Work No Play because I loved the natural colors. I also wanted a unique color so I went with a color called Burleque. I also wanted to try their primer Foil Me because the samples I saw looked like the primer is magic! What is really awesome about indie brands is a lot of them give you bonus samples or some give a deluxe size sample! I got two baggie samples plus a sample jar. I gave one of my samples to my friend because he can pull off bright pink/red better then me but the rest I was super excited to try!

This is what was inside my craft envelope that came in the mail!

This is the other side, it was jam packed!

So theres a sticker, a promo card, and business cards of theirs and other indie brands! They love helping each other!

This is the Foil Me and the deluxe sample I got I love purple shadows, they always look good with my brown eyes!

The two samples!

The collection plus my single shadow I picked.

These are swatched in order on my arm as shown top line is bare skin, second is foil me and third is Too Faced Shadow Insurance. That first color was deceiving in the bag, it looked brown then BAM I am blue/purple!

These are swatched the same as above!

In the future I think I plan to buy from Silk Naturals. I think I want to always stay in the $15 range that way I can say what I get is always affordable! I will let everyone know how much my order was so they see what the value they get is. The Costal Scents order I had was $50 which isn’t affordable but it was 50% off that day from $100 so I got a steal, this is why I love cyber monday (the monday after black friday). The Glamour Doll Eyes order was $10. Now that money is very tight I feel like that $15 every so often isn’t a bad number that is forgiving though I will admit I want to be in the $10 range but with shipping that doesn’t leave a lot for product! I look forward to hearing your opinions and questions!

Love, The Beauty Mom