Entries for Monday May 14

My Pretty Zombie’s TaraYvonne

• Vendor: My Pretty Zombie
• Availability: part of the Darksider collection
• Color Range: deep indigo with red sparkle
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: USD$3.75 for 1.5 grams
• Would you purchase again: yes
• Similar shades:

Fyrinnae’s Sake & Sashimi

• Vendor: Fyrinnae
• Availability: part of the regular line
• Color Range: medium-deep brown shimmer
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: USD$5.90 for 3 grams
• Would you purchase again: yes
• Similar shades:

This is dark and pigmented enough that it could easily be used as a liner. I tend to use it most often for contouring, though - there’s enough shimmer to make things interesting, but enough pigmentation that easily blends out, that to me it’s a natural contouring shade. I do have a few other shades that are similar, but not exact matches.

Morgana Cryptoria’s LE 101

• Vendor: Morgana Cryptoria
• Availability: part of the Frankenshadows collection
• Color Range: muted yellow shimmer
• Staying Power: 3 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: USD$5.50 for 1.2 grams
• Would you purchase again: yes
• Similar shades:

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This color is…hm. Not really “muddy”, not really “greyed”. It’s a deeper gold-yellow, not a bright sunflower shade. It appears to lose a bit of color payoff when applied, but not as much as other shadows (both from Morgana and elsewhere.) My skintone shows through, so this isn’t an opaque yellow, but it’s not sheer, either.

Everyday Minerals’ Passion Passport

• Vendor: Everyday Minerals
• Availability: from the online storefront; part of the regular eyeshadow line
• Color Range: metallic blue-grey shimmer
• Staying Power: 3 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: USD$7 for a 10-gram jar with sifter / 2.5 grams
• Would you purchase again: possibly
• Similar shades:

I have an uneasy relationship with Everyday Minerals. Their colors were fairly decently priced, and while the quality was hit-or-miss, if you carefully played within the rules that the owner set out, you could get a nice discount…so that if the products weren’t all that great, at least you hadn’t paid too much money.

Passion Passport is one of the more recent releases (some time in late summer / early fall 2011, I think?) and it has a good color payoff. It’s a deeper grey, more of a pewter than a silver, with enough shimmer to brighten but not enough to look full-on metallic or “glam”.