Small Shiro Haul/Swatches!

Sorry for the blogging break, the husband and I are trying to wrap everything up at home with our various projects and whatnot before we head to Indiana for a week to visit family for a much needed vacation (yay!).

So Shiro was the very first indie order I purchased because I had read so many rave reviews. I've already got a much larger order planned out to place before the end of this month (grabbing some COTM's and most likely the Seven Kingdoms and Hobbit Collection) but wanted to start with a smaller order for my first so I placed an order on May 5th for full sizes of Legendary, Missingno, The Fourth Be With You and Plausible Walrus. The order was placed right after the anniversary sale, so the TAT was quite long due to the huge amount of orders placed then. The order shipped May 30th and I received it on June 3rd.

The package came with candy and two free samples (Steve and Snake). I was very excited to receive Steve because that one happened to be on my wishlist already.

Onwards with the swatches!

Here's all of them together, they were swatched over NYX Milk and bare skin.

Steve is such a gorgeous blue, fantastic pigmentation, lovely application.

I'm not too sure how much I will end of using this one actually, but it has some great pigmentation, and applied very smoothly, definitely not an everyday color.

I'm sure most people already own this shade as it was the freebie gift for most anniversary sale orders, but I swatched it anyway. Gorgeous green, just as pigmented as the other shadows and the label is just fantastic! This is another one that wouldn't be an everyday type shadow, but still lovely.

This is a gorgeous bright pink/coral-ish color. I can see why so many people are getting the custom lip gloss from Shiro in this shade. Lovely shimmer to it, beautifully pigmented and goes on like a dream. I might have to jump on the lip gloss bandwagon with this one.

Missingno and Legendary were both being discontinued so I had to pick them up. This is a fantastic black eyeshadow with awesome sparkles throughout it. Goes on smoothly and I'll probably get a lot of use out of this one.

As mentioned before, this one has been discontinued so I had to buy it and am so glad I did. Look at that swatch, it's gorgeous, even over bare skin. Love this one, wearing it today and it just looks lovely.

That's the end of my Shiro swatches. I still need to post about my larger Notoriously Morbid order, and I also have a Victorian Disco order I'm anxiously waiting on. Ended up messaging back and forth with the owner about the status of my order as it still hasn't arrived and it shipped before all of my other orders. I know she had issues with tracking numbers for a few orders, so I contacted her wondering if mine was one of the ones messed up. Looks like it hasn't been and either it's still accidentally sitting around her shop or USPS is just dropping the ball (which I think is way more likely). She has assured me she's looking into it and is being very helpful about the whole situation. It was my largest order ever placed though, hence me being so excited to get it. Plus, I was really hoping to get it before leaving for Indiana this Saturday.

I guess we'll just see how that goes.

Thanks for reading!

*Disclaimer: These products were purchased by me and these opinions are solely my own.

Geekton Abbey Haul/Swatches!

Getting home from work yesterday and finding 5 little packages shoved into my little mailbox was awesome! Only had tracking on three of those items and only two of those said they were out for delivery that day. All of my major indie eyeshadow and perfume purchases have now shown up (except for my largest order, Victorian Disco Cosmetics, which should be showing up any day now). I received orders from Geekton Abbey (a very new store on Etsy by a fellow redditor), Darling Clandestine, Shiro, Notoriously Morbid and a purchase of a perfume from a redditor looking to destash. I was so excited I started opening them right away and took basic product photos of all I received and will be (hopefully) splitting up my swatches/reviews of them over the next few days.

This particular post is focused on a brand new entry into the indie cosmetics scene by redditor GeektonAbbey. She posted on r/indiemakeupandmore about her new Etsy shop (https://www.etsy.com/shop/GeektonAbbey) which featured a collection inspired by MST3K, which of course I purchased samples of right away and received two free samples for her latest yet unreleased Breaking Bad collection. I placed the order on May 28th, got a response from her thanking me for the order and letting me know she would be in touch through every step of the ordering process (which was very awesome of her to do). The order shipped on May 30th (awesome 2 day TAT) and I received it yesterday, June 2nd. 

The samples were nicely wrapped in this tissue paper and included a lovely handwritten note thanking me for my purchase and explaining the free samples.

Her samples are stated as being 1/2 tsp and as you can see, these baggies are very full, and now typing this out, I should take a photo of the jars I decanted them into to compare them to my Shiro and Notoriously Morbid samples. I may tack that onto this post later.

Onward to the swatches! The top of each swatch is over Darling Girl Primped and Primed Eye Primer.

The shadows are gorgeous, very pigmented and go on like a dream! I got a little over excited about swatching Yeah Science so I fumbled the brush a bit and ended up with some fallout landing in various spots in the other swatches, ooops.

Individual photos:

The Breaking Bad reference is spot on for this one, absolutely perfect. This one was the least pigmented of the set, it took several swipes to get it this way, but it's still lovely.

I've got a soft spot for blues, so this is easily tied for my favorite. I'm wearing this one today alongside Crow (which is next) and it is just so vibrant. 

I love me some coppery/gold eyeshadow and this one is so vibrant and went on like a dream! Even over the bareskin is was so pigmented. Absolutely love this one.

I'm not the biggest fan of purples, but I'm slowly realizing they growing on me, and I will end up ordering more purples in my future orders. This one is such a lovely purple-pink and just like the others, had a very smooth application.

This one is gorgeous! Very fiery and looks like it performs best over primer. This one took only one swipe to look like his.

I was expecting a bit more green from this one because of how it appeared in the baggie, despite knowing it's silver from the description on the Etsy page. This one took 2 swipes and really shines over the primer the most, but is still a great silvery shade. This one will get a lot of use from me.

So that was the last of the swatches from that order. I will be adding this Etsy store to my watch list to keep an eye on for new shadows. It was a pleasure to purchase from her and I am beyond satisfied with the beautiful shadows.

*Disclaimer: These were bought with my own money and these opinions are mine.*