Entries for Wednesday February 10
Aromaleigh v1’s Mythos collection
- Vendor: Aromaleigh v1
- Availability: from October 2010 to the company's closing
- Availability: from the company's webstore
- Contains: 25 eye colors
- Cost/Amount: USD$5 for 1.2 grams. Sample baggies and sets also available.
- Would you purchase again: yes
The "official photography" for this collection has been cleaned up and rearranged slightly - because I'm such a rabid fan of alphabetical organization. :D (Side note: while rearranging the various color-drops for this version, only two colors did not have to be moved: Hades, and Phoebe.)
I had a bit of fun writing up this profile because while I'm fairly conversant with Greek mythology (and the Roman versions of these same gods), there were a few that I had to go look up. Ananke, for example: I'd never heard of her, in all my readings. (Turns out she's the personification of unalterable necessity / force of destiny, and mother of the Moirae.) I linked to each being's profile over on Pantheon.org, so if you're curious about background myths or identities, you've got a starting-point for your own reading. I'll post my own swatches later on; but for now you can see swatch photos - taken in full sunlight - over at Aromaleigh v1's company blog.
This collection contained:
- Ananke [at Pantheon.org] — metallic violet sparkle
- Aphrodite II [at Pantheon.org] — lavender pink shimmer
- Apollo [at Pantheon.org] — silver-blue sparkle
- Artemis [at Pantheon.org] — lavender blue shimmer
- Asteria [at Pantheon.org] — bright violet with multicolored sparkle
- Athena [at Pantheon.org] — burgundy berry shimmer
- Chronos [at Pantheon.org] — rich brown with gold and green shimmer
- Demeter [at Pantheon.org] — clear green with cool shimmer
- Dionysius [at Pantheon.org] — wine-purple with multicolored sparkle
- Eos [at Pantheon.org] — red-gold duochrome shimmer
- Erebos [at Pantheon.org] — dark indigo with multicolored sparkle
- Gaia [at Pantheon.org] — warm pink shimmer
- Hades [at Pantheon.org] — deepest midnight blue with blue and green sparkle
- Hera [at Pantheon.org] — lavender pink sparkle
- Hermes [at Pantheon.org] — sand-brown sparkle
- Hestia [at Pantheon.org] — pinked mauve sparkle
- Hyperion [at Pantheon.org] — yellow-green sparkle
- Neptune [at Pantheon.org] — rich turquoise with blue sparkle
- Nyx [at Pantheon.org] — deep indigo with blue and purple sparkle
- Phoebe [at Pantheon.org] — metallic deep-sea blue sparkle
- Rhea [at Pantheon.org] — greyed lavender-blue with multicolored shimmer
- Selene [at Pantheon.org] — lavender periwinkle shimmer
- Tethys [at Pantheon.org] — metallic olive with multicolored sparkle
- Theia [at Pantheon.org] — aqua teal shimmer
- Zeus [at Pantheon.org] — yellow-gold with red sparkle
