Prepare your eyeballs for awesome. A couple gems from Persephone Minerals.

Ugh I am SO excited. I ordered these 2 shadows from Persephone Minerals a while ago. Both of them are from the Halloween 2011 collection, and were made permanent by popular demand (lucky you!) Then, I lost them. Somewhere in my house, I lost them. I tried blaming the cat, but that didn't seem to bring them back. I had a HUGE sad :( Then, today, I decided I was going to do some swatching. I went into my "to swatch" drawer, and was deciding what to play with today, when I discovered my 2 Persephone shadows tucked in with another company's stuffs! YAHOOO! I had to rub them all over myself immediately, of course.

Dead Ringer, Spirit Realm

Dead Ringer, Spirit Realm

Dead Ringer, Spirit Realm, swatched over Pixie Epoxy outdoors, no flash. 

Dead Ringer, Spirit Realm, swatched over Pixie Epoxy outdoors, no flash.

Dead Ringer, Spirit Realm, swatched over Pixie Epoxy, indoors w/flash

"Deadringer- A cremains ash grey duochrome with a firey orange shift & coppery orange reflecks. Very volcanic!"
"Spirit Realm- a zombie-ish green duochrome with a violet-pinkish shift. Leaning toward teal at some angles & complete with gold, green and purple sparks."
(Descriptions taken from the Persephone Minerals Facebook page)

As usual, thanks for kicking ass, Persephone.

A little bit of Darling Girl

I placed another smallish order from Darling Girl Cosmetics, because I really wanted to try out the Aqua Liners (out of stock at the moment), being the liner whore I am. Seriously, if I could only use one makeup product for the rest of my life, it would be eyeliner hands down. A good liner is like GOLD in my opinion. So, I picked up Mermaid Tails Aqua Liner, Mochi shadow, and received 2 free samples with my order, Garden of Weedin' shadow and Man Candy blush. 

L-R natural light: Mermaid Tails Aqua Liner, Garden of Weedin', Mochi

L-R indoors w/flash: Mermaid Tails Aqua Liner, Garden of Weedin', Mochi

Man Candy blush, heavy on left, blended out on right, outdoors in natural light

And indoors with flash

I've reviewed the eye shadows before, so I'll make it short and sweet and say again that they are gorgeous, pigmented, and of great quality. This is my first time trying DG blush, and I have to say that all the same applies! 

Now, I'd like to spotlight the liner since liquid liners in the indie world seem to be few and far between. I really like this liner.There are a few things I like about it. I love the color, of course, but most important for me is I really like the formula. It's liquid without being runny, and it dries relatively quickly. Once it's dry, it stays put. It's very pigmented and really gives me that POP of color I want when using a colored liner. You can really tell it's there. The applicator is a stiff, but bendable, felt tip applicator. I honestly expected the applicator to have more softness and "give" so to speak than it actually does, but then again I've never used a felt applicator so I don't know how they are really supposed to feel. I think I like the applicator, despite that. It just took a minute to get used to. It was really easy to apply and I could actually get a wing going, so that makes me happy as hell. I really hope these get put back in the DGC shop soon, because I would love to own more. 

I'm actually wearing the liner today, but no face pics for you, because my face is dumb right now. But be assured, my liner is bad ass.