Entries for Thursday June 21
My Pretty Zombie’s Pre-nup
- Manufacturer: My Pretty Zombie
- Availability: part of the Geekily Ever After kit
- Color Range: cool pink with blue and gold shimmer
- Staying Power: 3 out of 4 stars
- Cost/Amount: USD$3.75 for 1.5 grams
- Would you purchase again: yes
- Similar shades: Shiro Cosmetics' Ditto
This is not the best pink I’ve ever come across. It’s an attractive enough color, but it isn’t dreadfully unique, and its pigmentation is a little on the lighter side of average. Shiro’s /kiss(Ditto) is a very similar shade, and has better color payoff.
This was not available for individual purchase, but was part of the Geekily Ever After set. I don’t recall exactly when the set was no longer available; I just know that it wasn’t when I looked about two weeks ago.
Aromaleigh v2’s Antares
- Manufacturer: Aromaleigh v2
- Availability: released as part of Aromaleigh v2's Starry Night collection
- Color Range: medium maroon shimmer
- Staying Power: 3 out of 4 stars
- Cost/Amount: USD$7 for 1.2 grams; $1.00 for a sample baggie
- Would you purchase again: yes
- Similar shades:
Yes, I’m just getting around to swatching these colors now, when they’re totally utterly unavailable for purchase. (I know. I’m a horrible, awful person.) On the plus side of things, I can tell you that other indies have occasionally come out with slightly similar shades. I think one of Meow’s Egyptian Treasures colors is similar, but blackened; and I think one of their Christmas collections has a red that’s a much closer match. True, those aren’t available right now…but probably they will be in a few months.
The color payoff was fairly good, but it didn’t seem to adhere quite as well when applied dry, so the dry-application swatch looks like it’s got slightly less heft than Aromaleigh’s older collections. The sparkle that’s visible in the pot doesn’t entirely make it to the application. There’s more of a shimmer than the sparkle that I saw in the pot. (Not sparkle on the order of the old Sonic Eyes shades, but in the pot it looked more like a sparkle-finish.) That was kind of my experience with most of the Starry Night colors: they looked nice, and foiled well, but they seemed a little “thinner” when applied dry.
Fyrinnae’s Red Panda
- Vendor: Fyrinnae
- Availability: part of the Endangered collection
- Color Range: orange-red shimmer
- Staying Power: 4 out of 4 stars
- Cost/Amount: USD$5.90 for 3 grams
- Would you purchase again: yes
- Similar shades:
A cinnabar-red with light silver shimmer. I wasn’t too sure how this would work for me - if it would be too orange a red, without the depth, and so not look quite like I hoped. Luckily the shade has enough depth that it looks like either a deep orange or almost a “harvest red.”
There’s a reason this shade looks like a fox’s coat, by the way. The “red panda” is a species of fox, and is sometimes called a “firefox.” (Ever wonder where the Firefox browser took its name and logo? Well…there ya go.)