Evening Zombies! We had a nice Saturday afternoon at the store, listening to our baby son (who's almost 1) scream throughout our shopping trip. It's always a fun time when that happens. I just stare back at the people who give me dirty looks. What am I gonna do, slap him to make him shut it? Geezus. If you don't like it, take a hike.. ASSHATS! Woah..sorry. Let's get on to the subject at hand.
Yesterday I received my first ever
Fyrinnae order. (For those who don't know, Fyrinnae is an indie mineral makeup company- which is gathering a pretty solid following.) I can't even describe how excited I was. Last year at this time, had you told me I'd be addicted to mineral eyeshadow, I would have stared at you in disbelief. But now, just the thought of it makes me weak in the knees. (That reminds me of a song.) So, when I pulled the white mailer out of the mailbox, my heart skipped a beat, I broke out in a smile, and skipped to my car to go home and rip the package open. (As IF I waited until I got home.) I'm amazed...truly amazed at how gorgeous these colors are.
PLEASE! Click images for larger picture..
I placed my order on April 5th and received it on April 16th. So..that's what 10 days processing and shipping? I'm gonna just round it to 10 to count weekends. That's NOTHING! I read it could take up to 22 days to even ship. I was really happy at how fast it got to me. I was also extremely impressed at the amount of product in the sample jars- per website: Mini - 1/3 tsp in jar- Arcane Magic have 1/4 tsp in jar. I seriously believe I've received "full size" shadows from other companies with less product than Fyrinnae's samples. That's seriously KICK ASS, especially for $2.00. I also received a free sample -which from what I hear is pretty standard for Fyrinnae.
I swatched each color over NYX "Strawberry Milk." I purchased samples of the Pixie Epoxy but haven't played with it yet.
I will describe them the best I can below. For more about the shadows, colors, and descriptions, make sure you check out the website. :)
Colors are as follows: Left to right starting on top-
- Parental Advisory: bright shimmery purple
- Delvian: purple with gold undertones
- Arcane Magic Faerie Glamor: purple with lavender and blue undertones and TONS of glitter
- Sennyo (free sample): hard to describe. I want to say a medium purple with hot pink mixed in
- Arcane Magic Glitterboi (freaking HOT!): OMG, OMG...dark based purple, bordering on slate with pink and purple glitter
- Necromantic ( glittery black- LOVE): black bordering on charcoal with glitter
- Hypercool: Super hot black based teal
- Digital Faerie (beautiful): LOVE! teal blue with gold undertones. What they say is true Zombies!
- + 20 Beautification: simliar to DF but has more depth
- Meerkat: WOW....Rosy pink with gold undertones. Such a lovely and fantastic color.
- Polar Bear: shimmery gold
- Damn Paladins: I admit, I bought this because I play WoW...Now..I can't describe this color. Seriously. In some light it takes on a slate color with a blue undertone. In some light it's a dark gray with blue glitter. I don't even know, it's indescribable and beautiful.
Here is a blurry image to show the glitter:
I can only say one thing for sure. This was worth the (short) wait. I mean, come on, these are the most amazing and unique colors I've ever run across. And I just can't get over how glittery and girly they are, but yet some of them have the "edge" I'm looking for too. I am blown away, seriously. And NO I was not paid to say any of this shit. Seriously! I don't want to bore you with any more details. You MUST go check out the website and see for yourself. (Don't be alarmed if the website is down from time to time. It's so they can update the website.)
I give Fyrinnae 6 out of 5 Zombies!