I saw swatches of these on Decorative Diva's blog yesterday (check them out HERE) and, despite my intentions to be fiscally responsible for the next few months, I'm having a very very hard time resisting. I rarely like every item from a collection but these are all pretty stunning, my favorites being Coney Island, Rooftop Garden, Girl's Night Out, Return to Tiffany's, Swelter, Italian Ice and Concrete Jungle.
Here are Aromaleigh's shade descriptions:
window shopping : neutral champagne buff with golden iridescent highlight and vivid gold sparkles.
skyscraper: rich, deep gray/green/brown tones with shimmery highlights of copper, pink and blue.
coney island : joyous green apple luster with bright sparks of green.
swelter: lustrous tangerine with a pink iridescent highlight and contrasting purple sparkles.
gridlock: mysterious midnight blue, teal green, silvery pewter and warm chocolate tones... all in one, ever-changing.
return to tiffany's : gorgeous aqua sheen with diamond luster and bright teal sparkles.
girl's night out: warm purple frost with bright green sparkles.
hustle & bustle : a warm coppery brown shade with iridescence of pearlized greens and roses...
asphalt: darkest ebony matte black offset by the brightest sparks of pink and gold.
italian ice: sweet and tart bright lemon yellow with pretty pink sparkles throughout...
concrete jungle : warmed taupe with the most amazing bright sparks of aqua.
neon lights : soft flame orange with sparks of blue.
lady liberty : lustrous smokey blue green frost, the shade of weathered copper... like the lady herself!
socialite: roses, mauves and browns in a lustrous frost with bright sparks of pinky mauve.
late for work : Vivid deep cornflower blue luster with sparkles of blue and green.
hoity toity: Deep smokey mauve tones with a metallic pewter undertone and bright sparkles of blue.
heat wave: Warm golden luster with iridescent pink highlights and tiny golden sparkles.
rooftop garden: Warm golden green frost with tiny sparkles of gold and blue.
24 hours : deep coppered garnets, smooth and lustrous with tiny sparkles of gold and pink.
brownstone: cocoa brown frost with tiny borealis luster sparkles. Not your average brown...
What shades are you loving?
28 comments:
The whole collection is nice. Coney Island and Return to Tiffany's in particular.
Also, I like how Aromaleigh do their swatches.
You'll laugh at me for this, but I prefer the sample baggies over jars!
I keep my sample baggies in a 3 ring binder, which makes it a lot easier to find stuff :)
I think I need full sizes of Return to Tiffany's, Girls Night Out, Concrete Jungle, and Gridlock so far.
I wish I was brave enough to wear Italian Ice! I think Socialite and Hoity Toity would look good mixed together or with Girl's Night Out.
I pretty much love them all, even the colors I wouldn't normally wear such as yellow or orange. I hear you about the baggie thing. That would drive me crazy. It's probably messy to boot.
aw wow i'd love them all! i think so far i'm digging window shopping, asphalt, concrete jungle and 24 hours! will you be buying some? tutorials please ^o^!!
Me too Ana - they really help to give me a good idea of what to expect, which is great since I hate being surprised when it comes to makeup shades.
Phyrra I so admire you for your organization, but messy person that I am mine just end up in random drawers and shoved between other products, never to be seen again. But my issue with them isn't so much organizational but the fact that I find them messy to use. I hate having to dip my brush into a plastic baggy and then having it come out all covered in shadow when I only wanted a tiny bit. Is there a better way to use these?
Nicolle it's definitely bright but I think it would make a great highlight shade combined with a few other colors and would make such a fun, refreshing summer look.
Deb I find baggies to be a bit of a disaster for me and I dislike how my brushes emerge from the bags entirely covered in eyeshadow.
Suki I'm thinking I definitely need to order some samples, and if I do I'll be sure to put up a few eye looks with the step-by-step breakdown! Concrete Jungle really looks so gorgeous in Phyrra's swatches.
Ok yes!
Go to Michael's and buy a little paint mixing palette. It's like maybe a dollar for one. It will have 6 little places to mix. Pour your eye shadow into one of those holes, and use it, and then you can pour any excess back into the bag.
Something like this:
http://www.fun2make.co.uk/Circular-10-Well-Paint-Palette_0_0_1ADQQ.jpg
I also use these when I foil/wetline with color to mix up the color.
Phyrra thanks for the great suggestion! I actually happen to have one of those sitting in my bathroom (don't ask LOL) going to waste so I'm definitely going to give this a shot when my sample baggies come. I'm excited now!
No problem :)
The only thing that bugs me with mineral makeup is the mess, so I have hunted down ways to minimize mess :P
Phyrra I'm the queen of maximizing any potential messy situations, so I need all the help that I can get.
I neglected my BftE minerals for ages in favour of easier pressed MAC shadows, palettes etc. Now that I'm applying them wet or over a cream shadow, I'm way back into them and my MAC pigments.
If you just apply one wet all over, you get no mess, no fall out, amazing cover and colour and a base for any others over the top. And they're so cheap! Of course, I mix and match for different looks, but I'm using my minerals a lot more now.
Ana I'm also too lazy to wet my brushes as that means I have to schlep down the hall to the bathroom =X. Plus I always end up with waaaay too much liquid on my brush LOL. I'm such a disaster.
Ah, I have a lil' bottle of mixing medium on my desk just for that. I, too, am too lazy to go to the bathroom. Mine's ALLLLL the way downstairs though.
Yep I have a tiny bottle of indelible eyeliner sealant on my vanity for just that purpose.
http://www.aromaleigh.com/ineyseal.html
I used to use saline solution or water.
Ana I really need to go buy some mixing medium from MAC. That's one thing I keep forgetting to do!
Phyrra you and Ana seem to have the same idea. I guess great minds think alike :).
Do you use the sealant for all over eye application or just for liner?
Hehe, you can use the sealant for either. I tend to use it for liner.
And I agree, Paint Pots, Nyx Jumbo Eye pencils can really help hold loose eye shadows on so that you don't have fall out.
I made mine myself. Bottle of liquid glycerin from the pharmacy was like £2 for 200ml, I have a tiny 30ml screwtop bottle with 10ml glycerin in, 20ml water. Small bottles are better so I can throw it out and make some fresh every so often.
All I do is dip the MAC 239 brush in lightly, wipe it off on the bottle rim then either dip it into the shadow (that's all it takes with a MAC pigment) or tip a little mineral powder into its lid and just mix it about and test it on my hand until I get a not-too-runny consistency.
Wipe the brush off, re-apply it dry over the top, and bingo, it's vibrant, lasts all day and doesn't crease.
Phyrra summer has made me so lazy in my makeup routine, I've nearly stopped using my paint pots altogether. Part of that is because I always happen to slip and stick my nail in there creating a giant hole LOL.
Ana I think I read about that somewhere and I've been meaning to try it but I can never find liquid glycerin at the drugstores near me. I'm going to check the drugstore around here in a little bit and see if I can't get it there since that's one place I haven't looked. So is it bad for this stuff to sit out? And how is using glycerin + water different from just plan water?
Thanks for the reminder! Must resume my hunt for this stuff.
Glycerin just makes it a little bit stickier. Helps powder to adhere better, doesn't dry out as much, etc.
And because I dip the brush in the mixing medium occasionally gets powder in it and gets coloured etc. Plus I don't like the idea of it going stale/stagnant and then putting it on my face. I probably change it every 10 uses or something like that.
I spent ages trying to find liquid glycerin and then want to this pharmacy that had all those adverts in the window for like scar treatment, palmer's cocoa butter etc, and they did it.
Ana my other wet-brush quibble is that it makes blending a little more difficult -- is there any way to remedy this? It scares me when my makeup just sticks to my eye and stays there since I need a lot of room for error when I'm doing my looks.
I'm going to be more persistent in my glycerin hunt!
Yep. That's why you apply the same again dry over the top. Generally I'll apply my first mineral powder wet all over the lid and slightly above the crease. Then I either wipe the brush off and dry it a bit or switch to a blending/crease fluffy brush. Stick it in the powder dry, tap off the excess thoroughly, then re-apply it over the top lightly, and use that to blend out the edges.
After that, my 2nd, 3rd etc colour I can sweep on dry over and blend, and they come out pretty strong.
Ana armed with all this info I'm going to give it a shot when my Aromaleigh samples come in (after I place my order lol).
So I found a tiny little bottle of glycerin at my local organic yesterday but it was $8 for the small bottle so I held off. Hoping I can find something more affordable!
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