Sonnetarium Polish

I don't care that it's after Christmas. I finally got my hands on this polish, so I'm gonna put this polish on my hands!

Sonnetarium's Peppermint Kiss. You might remember it from this post about my favourite holiday polishes. Well after it being sold out for a while, me checking their website repeatedly paid off! It didn't take long to arrive despite it being the holidays, and it got here bubble wrapped, in packing peanuts, in a little box, with a hand signed business card.

It's everything I hoped it would be, looks like you could eat it, and I got a compliment at work today about my nails when I just painted them this morning ;) awe yeah!

(Please forgive my crappy pictures...)

Sonnetarium polishes are big 3 free (no formaldehyde or the other icky harmful things). You can check out their polishes on their website, and their facebook to see when things are getting restocked.

Providence and Grace Makeup Review

I bought a few eyeshadows from P&G back when they were under another name on etsy. I don't have all the eyeshadows anymore but I will show you the swatches that I have. The samples came in clamshells in a bubble envelope.

First set: Coven, Gypsy, Black Gold and Dark Seas.

Their photo for example.

These looked beautiful in the containers (blacks with various colors of glitter in each) but I found the black was very weak with very little payoff. I had to layer it over another black eyeshadow and the glitter didn't pop. If I had owned a primer or a Nyx pencil when I had these, I might have liked them a lot more, but I got rid of them because they were taking up space. I kind of wish I didn't so I could try them again because seriously, the sparkle when you looked in the jar was so pretty.

Color Shower, Starlet, Mint, Emerald, Midnight Sky, on bare skin (top) and over primer (bottom).

Even though it doesn't show up well in the photos, color shower is the finest, prettiest rainbow glitter ever. I don't use it with makeup often, but I've been known to mix it into epoxy because of how light it is, so it doesn't settle.

Starlet is an almost bluish toned pink, but is more of a glitter texture than a shadow texture so there isn't much color payoff.

Mint and Emerald are two great greens that I think go very nicely together, and I do wear these on occasion. They're very frosty though, and I'm not a big fan so they don't get much use anymore. I did wear them a lot when I first bought these shadows though.

Midnight Sky is a very dark blue shadow that's almost black, and highly pigmented. Exactly as described. It's a great eyeshadow, but I've come to realize I do not like dark blues of this tone.

Would I buy from them again? A full sized 'Color Shower' is something that I need to own, but other than that, no. Some of their shadows are of good quality but the colors and color payoff aren't enough for me to want a second order.

Bad Bitch Cosmetics Review

So it seems I'm not the only person interested in indie makeup brands, and want to know what they're like before buying them. I figured I would do another review of a makeup brand I've been using for a while now, Bad Bitch Cosmetics.

This is the whole lot, besides 2 I have that I bought twice.. whoops! And Onika, the blush I used to color my hair temporarily, here.

All their colors are named after/inspired by strong, fierce females, real and fictional. They're very pigmented and super shimmery/glittery/metallic. I don't think they have any matte eyeshadows. The samples are pricier than most etsy shop samples I've seen ($14+s&h for 10, certainly not expensive but more than normal) but I think it's well worth it.

I haven't used much of this eyeshadow, so this is the fairest picture I can give on the amount you get.

I didn't swatch all the colors, but the ones that I found very exceptional/the ones that surprised me the most. 

Over black and over primer. L-R Missy, Nut Cutter, Lafayette, Ms Grier (so much more impressive IRL), B Kiddo (my absolute fave!), Trina, Yuki-onna, Barracuda.

Their foiling medium works fairly nicely, though I haven't used anything besides eyedrops to compare it to. You get a huge amount in the bottle (I doubt I'll ever use it all).

Used the foiling medium for the black eyeshadow, which without it would go on streaky and weak.

Nut Cutter, Lafayette, Ligeia, and Yuki-onna in the inner corner.

I do plan to buy from them again (they have an Andy Warhol series and a Hunger Games series that have some fabulous colors in them!) I would highly suggest you give them a chance.

B Kiddo with (another brand's) gold, foiled with their medium.

How gorgeous is B Kiddo?! Ugh. Amazing.

My Beauty Addiction Review

I received my order from My Beauty Addiction yesterday, and I cannot say how pleased I am! To start, incredibly fast shipping. I feel like I received it in no time! (This may also be because I didn't have to wait for the package to get to the east coast like I normally do, but regardless, it was mailed the next day after ordering.)

Everything arrived in a bubble mailer, with bubble wrap, and was sorted in mini ziplock bags according to the sets that I bought. And it came with a bonus sample!! I love when companies do that, because its almost always something I'd never buy myself but often love. So bonus points for that.

All the samples come in an extra deep clamshell container with a fair amount of product.

Toxic

Theirs on the left, standard clam shell on the right. 

The primer was also very different. Its more of a lip balm texture, where the others I've used have been liquid.  But it goes on wonderfully, its hard to use too much of it because of it being more solid, and holy moly does it hold on to the colors! Look at a few swatches I did on my hand, you can clearly see where the primer was applied.

L-R: Agent Orange, Karma, Chrome, Blue Currauco, Toxic, Shameless, Swiss Chocolate. 

The colors themselves are gorgeous, highly pigmented, and go on smooth as silk.

The whole lot. I figured it was time to invest in 'neutral colors' so there's a lot in there. 

The test run:

Shameless, Agent Orange, and Sand Dollar. (Plus 2 darker non MBA products above the crease.)

I wore these eyeshadows (with primer) out to a concert last night, where I had the shadows on for 6+ hours in the heat, dancing, moshing and general rocking experience. When I got home there was barely any creasing, way better than without a primer or with the last primer I had purchased. (I'm convinced I'll always have creasing, my eyelids just must be really oily :P).

The flash made it look worse than it was, I think. 

The second wear:
Wore it to work today and had only the worlds tiniest amount of creasing which was easily fixed with a touch of my finger, without having any shadow come off.

Verdict:
I would definitely suggest buying from them if you're looking for a great product and an independent makeup label. Great service. It's also nice to get a great primer for $5 instead of having to pay $15-$30.