More TKB!

I'll have more to say when I've played around with the liquid lip colours I got for mixing with the versagel base I talked about last time, but for now this is just the eyeshadow pigments.

This time, I bought a whole bunch of containers from them, and the ones I chose all stack together, so I can keep my eyeshadows in neat little stacks of different coordinating colours. This made things way easier for me, and keeps my make-up bag a little more organized, too. The only thing I forgot about was some way of labeling all the jars, and since I didn't feel like going out in the rain in search of little white labels, I made do with packing tape. What I ended up with looked like this:

These little jars are 5gm, and they hold about a quarter of what you get in the bags. I keep the bags with the remaining micas separate for mixing my own colours. I filled the jars with a 1:3 ratio of C-Smax:Mica, stacked up the stacks and shook the whole thing to mix it.

All swatches are on the back of my hand, over my usual primer. Wet was just done with water. Left side dry, right side wet.

1. Chamoisee

2.Antique Silver

3.24 Karat Gold

4.Sparkle Gold

I think anyone who is ordering from them should get a free sample of Chamoisee, it's totally worth it. They're giving away free samples, since it was an off-spec batch of Antique Silver, but it's really quite lovely. Antique Silver is much darker than I was expecting, sort of a pewter tone. It's not quite right for my skin tone, but I think for anyone with cooler colouring it would be lovely. I can imagine it would look good blended with blue, too. 24 Karat Gold and Sparkle Gold are fabulous foiled, but useless dry. Also, they get EVERYWHERE when you open the bags. I mixed equal parts 24 Karat Gold, Sparkle Gold and Gold Sparks! to get the perfect gold for foiling, but forgot to take pictures.

1.Australian Amber

2.Blackstar Gold

3.Honey

4.Moon Stone

I think Blackstar Gold was one of my biggest disappointments in the order. It's almost identical to Australian Amber, but doesn't foil as well. Honey and Moon Stone are absolutely gorgeous. The dry swatches didn't show up very well in the pictures, but I got great colour pay-off from both of them.

1.Apricot

2.Chameleon Glitter

3.Aladdin's Lamp

4.Artisan Coral

Chameleon is so cool! It changes colour with the light, but in a really wearable way. Shifts from magenta to deep marroon to green with flashes of pink. It changes quite a bit depending on what you put it over, too:

Left side- Chameleon Glitter over Pixie Epoxy

Right side- Chameleon Glitter over a base of black gel liner

I plan on getting the non-glitter version of this with my next order.

1.Crucible Red

2.Umber

3.Burning Leaves Reflecks with no C-Smax. Far left swatch is dry, middle is wet (water), far right is over PE

4. Burning Leaves Reflecks with 1:4 ratio of C-Smax:Glitter. Far left swatch is dry, middle is wet (water), far right is over PE

I plan to get more of the Reflecks series. They're similar to the Sparks! (which I'll be swatching in a sec) but the colours are much more obvious, and although the particles are slightly bigger in size, Burning Leaves didn't have any grittiness to it, and they're safe for use on eyes. Umber makes me think of Steam Punk. It's one of my favourite colours in the whole order, and Crucible Red is powdered sex. I can't wait to make it into a nail polish.

1.Burning Leaves Reflecks with no C-Smax. Far left swatch is dry, middle is wet (water), far right is over PE

2. Burning Leaves Reflecks with 1:4 ratio of C-Smax:Glitter. Far left swatch is dry, middle is wet (water), far right is over PE

3.Glitter Bordeaux

I got a lot of fall-out from Glitter Bordeaux, but it was easy to foil, and I imagine it would work very well over PE. It's not really a glitter at all, but it is VERY sparkley.

1.Bolera

2.True Red/Orange

These two were the only other disappointments for me in the order. Bolera was described as bright orange when patted on, and hot pink when rubbed down. In reality it was just kind of a dark coral/apricot colour, that didn't change at all. It's very pretty, just not as exciting as I was expecting. True Red/Orange is actually hot pink, and hard to work with wet or dry. I think it might go well in a lip colour, but as an eyeshadow it sucks. I guess that was my mistake, though. I think it's mostly sold for use in soaps and lip colours. I was hoping to be able to make a matte red eyeshadow, but no amount of mixing and blending has been able to make it happen.

Sparks! Collection

I was initially a little disappointed in these; I was hoping they would be similar to Fyrinnae's City Glam line, but when they arrived the whole collection just looked like a bunch of white glitter. I could barely see any difference in colour between any of them. Once I swatched them, the colours showed a little clearer, and I started to see how cool they were. You definitely have to use something like Pixie Epoxy or a Glitter Fix with them, or you'll just get them everywhere, and the colours won't show up. It was hard to photograph them, but the little flashes of colour you get when they catch the light are almost holographic.

Over a black base, the colours show up incredibly well, and they're super bright and sparkly. These were swatched with PE over some black gel liner (I think a Maybelline one, I'm not sure). Left side over PE, right side dry. I only did the blue and the copper this way, since the liner takes forever to scrub off, but if anybody wants swatches of the rest of them, let me know. I really like them, but I think it will take some playing around to figure out how to use them.

This is the look I played around with the other day. Umber, with one of my own mixes in the crease, and Burning Leaves over Pixie Epoxy to finish. The pictures don't really show how incredibly glitter it was.

p.s. Sara Hasson has an awesome give-away going on ever at her blog, you should check it out! Here's the link!