For Future Reference - Indie Nail Polish I Own

 This is just a "for reference" post.  I have a habit of buying doubles of things because I can't remember what I have already, so it's list making time!  These are all the indie polishes I currently own.  Polishes on the bottom of a list in itallics are on their way to me.

  And no, I'm not selling.  Everytime I post something like this, someone offers me their first born.  I waited oodles of launches for some of these dudes, and being in Canada, many were friggin hard to get so I'm not letting anything go.

Rainbow Honey:
Kitsune
Glittering Rapture
Sweet Talk
Cosmic Dawn
The Frizz
Oni
Pot o' Gil
Mint Flavour
Star Stuff
The Power of Love
Mt. Moon
I Miss You
Pink Cloud
Heisenberg
Bubble Beam
Tessie
Magic Cake
Spirit of Wonder
Leonids
Muffins
The Kraken
The Element Of Magic
Pinkie Promise
The Worst Possible Thing
20% Cooler
A Little Kindness
Hoof Wrassle
Mare Of The Moon
Celestia

Daily Lacquer:
Holo 101
Haruka
Mamoru
Not So Angel
Regina
Slayer Comma The
What May Come
The Green Fairy
Michiru
Welcome to the Hellmouth
Setsuna
The Avatar State
Ami
Hotaru
Helios
Giles the Ripper
Don't Spike Me
Water Tribes
Mrs. Mime
I'll Fly Away
Wicca Willow
Artemis
Makoto
Chibusa
Moon Kitty
Satine
Fluffy Cotton Candy

Femme Fatale:
Aqueous
Winter Hyacinth
Cloudburst
Spring Fling
Sweet Surprise
Librarian's Shush
Ebon Roses
Sinister Calling
A Tisket, A Takset
Gilded Roses
Lunar Halo
Keeper of the Grove
Shimmering Snowcap
Sea Pony
Snapevine
Veil of the Siren
Glinting Lodestone
Abyssal Refelctions
Pools Of Vision
Sparkleshell
Sparkling Sands
Burning Blossom
Snowy Bramble
Midsummer Petals
Dreamer's Potion
Cinders of Sleep

Nerd Lacquer:
All of Time and Space
Don't Blink
Gorramit
Shiny
It's Just a Flesh Wound
Exterminate
Warrior Ethos
Nebula
Event Horizon
Don't Panic
Home of the Untempered Schism
Hyperspace Bypass
Largo

Enchanted Polish:
Hey Jude
Across the Universe
Mean Mr. Mustard
I Am the Walrus
Magical Mystery Tour
Octopus's Garden
Secret Sauce
Tummy Time
Freeze Machine

Jindie Nails:
Rave
Snow Angels
Candy Land Remix
Swoon
I'm a Star Dot Com
Princess Breath

I love Nail Polish:
Birefringence
Mutagen
Cygnus Loop
My Little Glacier

 Lush Lacquer:
Haywire
I Lost My Marbles
Blue Gypsy
Neon Lights

A England:
Holy Grail
Holy Grail (new)
Beauty Never Fails
She Walks in Beauty

Ninja Polish:
Divinity
Nebula
Melted Snowman

Darling Diva:
Cherubic
Bitches Have Birthdays

Girly Bits:
Arctic Sunrise
Eggnogoholic

Dollish Polish:
Have a Berry Good Day
Penny... Penny... Penny...

Lush Lacquer: 
Peek-a-boo
Halloweenie

Naild' It:
Sticky Peeps
Spring Fling


Pegasus Poop
Sphinx Scat

Hare Polish:
Own Your Opulence
Bury the Hatchetfish

Different Dimensions - Sparkles Like Edward
Candeo Colors - Jellybean
Scofflaw - Cloud Cuckoo Land
Gloss n' Sparkle - Unicorn Spawn
Nail Pattern Boldness - Boop oop a Dupe
Crow's Toes - Bone Daddy

Mackintosh's Toffee Bars...

ARE BACK.

Just a lil notice for Canadians who have been searching for years and years when all we had were those little nuggets that were SO NOT THE SAME THING.

I haven't eaten any yet, so I can't say if they taste the same as I remember.  I'm trying to stay on a keto diet and sugar is a huge no-no. 

One day, Mackintosh.  I will throw you in the freezer, take you out, smash your sweet sweet face in, and then EAT YOU SO HARD.

My mom found these in a box of 4 each at Shoppers Drug Mart. 

Darling Clandestine Halloween 4 Scent Suite

 

Oh hey spooky peeps!

It's finally fall, the leaves have all turned, except my mom's weird lilac wannabe trees, it didn't get the memo it can stop being green any time now. I also regret raking that lawn a few days ago.  That grass would have looked better covered in a layer of dead leaves...whoops!

Halloween is just around the corner and all the Indie shops have THE BEST STUFF EVER.

For real dudes, Halloween is the best time of year to buy indie products.  The most fun limited editions come out, some with a sinister theme. What's not to love?

So today I bring to you Darling Clandestine's Halloween limited edition 4 Scent Suite! 
The set consists of: Spurn, Squander, Wither and Falter.

DC's oils usually come in a 1/2oz amber glass bottle but these ones are super special and come in the most adorable little dropper bottles!  I love these badboys!  I prefer my perfume oils without the internal dropper thing because it gets all over the place and you can't control the amount sometimes.  It's like waiting on a ketchup bottles only to have it crap all over your fries when you're not looking.

Not these bottles!  You can squeeze just a drop or 2 and not have to worry about walking around in a haze of perfume.  Plus the black and white labels on them, LOVE. 

They are $13.75CDN (my etsy is on Canadian, I have no idea what the US price is, so lower than that!) Or grab the whole set at a discounted price for $46.53CDN.

The other great thing about these is one drop is enough.  I've bought indie oils where you can barely smell them right out of the bottle, you could tip the whole opening on you and get next to nuthin'.  DC scents are strong and worth every (s)cent.  HAH!  See what I did there? :D

On to descriptions!

We'll start with my favourite because I do what I want: Falter 

From DC: “All at once, the electric panic that lights up your inadequacies like constellations. Kill it.”  Startling, misty, herbal, with notes including avocado and ozone and clary sage.

To me this was the most unusual of the bunch. Not unusual in a bad way or it wouldn't be my favourite and first pick!  I was trying to come up with a description without reading the notes and it definitely smells green.  My brain thought melons.  It must be melons.  But that's not right, I hate melons, this is something else.  Then I checked the listing, and it all makes sense now.  This one is fantastic and I don't have anything in my indie collection anywhere near it.  If I could pick a perfume it reminds me of, I'd say one of my favourites, Curve Crush.  But it's not the same, Curve Crush is sweet and spicy, the herbyness of Falter just reminds me a bit of CC without the pounds of sugar. If you love fresh green scents, you need this one.  


Squander

From DC: “Rich as cello, the furious moments you wasted, never recognizing the fire at your command. Taste them.” Deep and decadent, with rich fruitful notes including clove and nutmeg and sandalwood and ripe red apple.


This one smells the most like Fall/Winter to me. It's like spicy badass apples.

Spurn

From DC:  “At each silence, the ache of the blade that released your indecorous wrath. Twist it.”
Fierce and passionate, with bright bursts of pomegranate, tempered with aged wood and haunted by marigolds.

 To me this smells like dark sexy fruits.  I'm not sure how to explain it.  Dark sexy fruits works right?  SMEXY.  This one turns into a bit of a clean laundry soap smell on me eventually.  I put it on before I went to bed and after reading for a couple of hours, I moved around and got a whiff and my first thought was "Hey, my blanket smells great!"  Then I remembered it's a feather throw and I'm too chicken ass to wash it without destroying it, so the smell was MOI!

Wither

From DC:  “One Draconian day, the fissures into which your voluptuous youth dissolves. Welcome it.” Unsettling, ethereal, with notes including ozone and blueberry and trampled leaves, soaked in black rum.


FAVOURITE NUMBER 2.  To say it's a fav I probably should have posted it right after Falter but at this point that's a whole lotta copy paste and well, I just don't wanna! I like smells that trick my nose.  The blueberry is this, you can definitely smell at first sniff, but it kind of takes a leather turn to it somehow.  I think it's how it pairs with the rum.  It's neat! It bounces back and forth, one moment I'm sniffing berries, the next I swear I smell leather.


I hope this was somewhat helpful!  I'd say screw picking just one, and grab them all. 

 

Peachy Matte EOTD

I don't even have anything to ramble about today.  Le sigh.

Here's a peachy look I did using Detrivore's Graveyard collection.  I used, over TFSI:

Autopsy on lid, Premature Burial in crease, Necropolis in outer vee, Embalm to highlight browbone.

Cut Crease Recreation/Half-face Makeup Look

Some days I get lost in Google-land and find some looks I'd like to try out.  I don't even have a specific search in mind. One minute I'll be googling the nutritional benefits of cucumbers, or drooling over in-floor bath tubs and my mind wanders back to makeup usually.  Probably something like "yellow eyeshadow" or "cheek illuminator". But I have no freakin clue how I stumbled onto the look I tried to recreate for this post.  I found it on preen.me, I think it's like a makeupbee-type website.

I didn't bother doing both eyes because but it's kinda neat seeing the before/after.  Or after/before in this case!  I should have powdered the right side too, I use Tarte Maracuja oil so I just look greasy right there hahahah

 

 I used all Sugarpill (Tako, Bulletproof, Buttercupcake), the NYX Milk jumbo eye pencil and the teal shade was from one of my UD palettes but I can't remember which one.

And the original by Codigo

 

And my eyeball again

 

Another EOTD using Detrivore's Graveyard Collection

Here's a purple and green look I played around with.  My camera washed the pics out a bit, the full face shot shows the green much more accurately.
I used all colours from Detrivore's Graveyard collection.

I used over TFSI Lemon Drop:
Formalin on lid
Catacombs on crease
Casket to blend into browbone shade Embalm
Ossuary to try to blend out the inner corner part next to my nose, I don't know what that part is called.
Funeral to darken outer corner of crease
Grave Digger on lower lashline
NYX Milk on waterline and inner lower lashline.
Annabelle black eyeliner

 Excuse the Biebs hair, it's in a ponytail so it looks kind of silly head on. I never realized my nose was so crooked.  I hope it was just the camera! Or my damn teeth are shifty, it all doesn't line up.  hahaha  that's going to bother me.  PLEASE BE THE CAMERA!
 ANYWAYS...
I didn't really have a plan for this look, just kept adding colours until I really liked it. The Graveyard collection is great to work with and one of my favourite overall collections.  You can do something fun and colourful, something neutral for office settings, or some kick ass smokey look if you wanted to.  Distorria has added 2 new colours to the line, Cadaverine and Memento Mori.  Well not super new, but new this year I believe.  I didn't even bother sampling them, just straight up bought em :)


Back to draino-ing my tub.  So far the tub is winning and I am losing.

Meow Cosmetics Blush swatches

What do ya do when you have a 25% off code and realize you only have a few blushes?  BUY MOAR BLUSH!  Meow's birthday came up again this year and I decided to treat myself because JUST 'CAUSE!  When I was packing my makeup up I noticed I had thousands of eyeshadows but the amount of blush I had, I can count on less than my 10 phlanges.  Now one might say, "dude you only need like 2, IF that." to which I say, "why have 2, when you can have 20!?

This is why I don't own a house.  Or a car.  Or a laser ray gun.

I also noticed I have zero bronzers, unless you count that thing I bought from Claires which is more of a gold highlighter.  Try bronzing with that and you'll look like C-3P0.

Here's all the awesome I decided on:

No flashy.

I also picked up the foundation in the Pampered Puss formula after already luvin' Flawless Feline.  There are 2 jars because my skintone is a mix of 2 parts Naughty Abyssinian to 1 part Frisky.  Or it may be the other way around.  I forget.  Either way, I need both of em!

There are 7 Stripped colours up there.  Swatches here already.

A few Lost Rainforest shades I only had in sample form.  Swatches here. 

Theeeeeeeen we have a bunch of their original blushes, that whole second column.  I think Sassy was the only one I tried before hand.  FLYIN' BLIND HERE!

Column 2 is mostly their Cat on a Hot Tin Roof bronzers.  On my skin tone these are better as blush.  I grabbed them all in the Light and Medium shades + Sizzle.  If I remember, I'll have to order samples of the Dark ones to see how they look on me. Or not because I now have 80hundred blush/bronzers and I'll probably live.

Let's seeee, also grabbed a Medium Abyssinian Skinny Dipper for contouring.  Light was too pale on me even for highlighting purposes.  The rest are random blushes from various collections, like  Firefly, a Taboo blush in Fetish, 2 Lost Rainforest Blushes (swatched with the eyeshadows) ET CETERA.

Since I'm not good at swatching blush, here is my attempt!  In the future if I do looks I'm kind of proud of, I'll be sure to wear one of these to show them off in actual blush form and not "I just wiped this on my hand" form :)

5/6 are from their original line, #6 is a Firefly

1. Delisions
2. Coral Reefer
3. Infatuation
4. Harlot
5. Cherry Bomb
6. Spark

1. Delisions
2. Coral Reefer
3. Infatuation
4. Harlot
5. Cherry Bomb
6. Spark

1. Delisions
2. Coral Reefer
3. Infatuation
4. Harlot
5. Cherry Bomb
6. Spark

Spark close up.  LOOKIE THE GOLD GLITTAH!

Oye, somewhere a funky font size change happened.  Whoops.  This is me fixing it.  Annnd I lied.  Deal with it.

I LOVE HARLOT!  Insert jumping action!  That's the perfect peachy coral I've been searching for.  

Anywhosies, just thought I'd post these for your google viewing pleasure :)