Smelly Yeti Review

So, I have literally had this package for a really long time, but then finals got in the way, and now I finally have time to review a rather amazing company!


Sadly, I will have to take a little break after this post because I am going down to Panama for a week to visit with family, and they don't have wifi.


A little preface to this whole review first. I placed my order back towards the beginning of November, and I didn't get any sort of notification for a couple of weeks for shipping, and then stuck with shipping label created for a while. I ended up emailing Abigail a couple days before Black Friday (I know I am a big douchenozzle), and she was really great at getting back to me even though I was bothering her before a big sale. She said that there were issues with her supplier, and offered to throw in an extra free sample for the long wait. When I opened up my package she graciously included a sample of Supermom! It's little things like these that make me wanna stay with indie makeup forever.


Now, onto the review!

Buffybot
With slightly singed wire, motor oil, ozone, and a smooth metallic finish, this perfume calls to mind warm electronics. Subtle and slightly sweet, this perfume is just strong enough to get people slightly worried that the robot uprising is upon us. Just slightly worried. And, you know, sometimes you just want to smell like a robot. A slightly malfunctioning, overly peppy robot.

Bottle: The smell kind of reminds me of my dad after he has been working on his motorcycle. It leaves a bit of a metallic taste in my mouth, but not really in the bad way. I don't have an expert nose or anything, but I can for sure smell that smooth metallic finish. 

Skin: This scent takes on a warmer smell on my skin. I can start to pick out notes a little bit better now. There is an acidic scent to it, which might be the motor oil. This isn't one I would wear everyday, but I really like it.

Captain Peroxide
Spike. Dirty leather coat, smoky tobacco, bleached hair, with a soft spot for a certain slayer. He may act tough, but at the heart of it all he's a marshmallow. Red Egyptian musk gives it a smooth finish and a distinctive bloody coloring. This is the scent that has it all. Sweet but dingy. Smoky and sexy. This perfume is practically bottled pheromones.

Bottle: I really do like this scent in the bottle. It kind of smells like scotch with a hint of something sweet, like not sugary sweet, more like a honeyish scent. Honey like the sound of Spike's voice. Mmm...

Skin: The scent becomes more leathery when I put it on, and the sweet scent becomes sharper. Overall, the perfume becomes a bit darker, and more masculine when I put it on. This will be good for days when I wanna smell kind of badass.

Not The Bees!
It might actually be more accurate to call this "Yes The Bees" because this perfume is a lovely sweet confection of candied honey and honeysuckle, punctuated by citrus and underscored with smooth vanilla. Nicolas Cage screams not included.

Bottle: YES THE BEES PLS. My mother and I both agree that this is the best smelling one, and she normally hates perfume so this was a big win!

Skin: This smells even better on my skin! I'm planning on getting a full size of this with my next order. It smells sweet, but not overly sweet, and is a great everyday scent.

Ouran
Roses. Bulgarian roses. English roses. Rosehip jasmine, pikake flower, and yuzu. Basically, FLOWERS. Plus, a hint of the tropical flavor that signifies the mark of a true silly anime - the token beach episode.

Bottle: One of my favorite scents from what I got! It has a nice rosy scent on it, and it does not smell artificial like some of the other rosy scents I have tried before from major companies!

Skin: Roses, and more roses. This is more of a fancy scent, and I've been trying to wear it more, but I like it a lot. The combination of the flowers is just right for me, and not a single flower scent is overpowering another in my opinion.


Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
According to Douglas Adams, this drink feels a bit like getting your head smashed by a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick. While it doesn’t have Fallian marsh gas going through it, our version is a striking citrus mint cocktail with a powerful sparkling punch. Unisex.

Bottle: I honestly don't know how I feel about this scent. If I quickly sniff the bottle, it smells like soap, but then if I take a big inhale, and really think about it, I can smell the lemony carbonation. It could just be my untrained nose, but I only sort of liked this one. 

Skin: Curse you skin chemistry!! I wanted this one to work so badly, but it ended up going pure soap on my skin. I tried wearing it to school one day, but it did not turn out so well, and I ended up having to scrub it off. Oh well, this is why sample packs are great!

Queen of the Damned
Drusilla, Spike’s sometimes-paramour, wanderer of graveyards, makes for an enchanting and unconventional floral scent. Among the more traditional bouquet of roses is a mélange of darker, cooler notes of cabbage, cedarwood, tuberose moss, dewy grass, and damp earth. The overall effect is one of flowers in a graveyard. Feminine.

Bottle: The smell kind of reminds me of cilantro. Like when I first smelled it I instantly thought Cilantro!! I love the scent of that, and then it has a nice sweet rose after scent. 

Skin: Well, I never thought I would see the day where I say I like the smell of dirt, but today seems to be that day. This is a wonderful complex scent that compliments my typically dreary outfits, but has that rose scent which gives it a bit of a fancy scent. 

Supermom
Sweet and simple, warm and comforting, it's a mug of hot chocolate, the brim overflowing with mini marshmallows. Folded underneath the sweet and subtle cocoa is a hint of caffeine and a smothering of sticky benzoin. Feminine.

Bottle: BAKED GOODS??? YES! This was my favorite of the bunch by far! It smells so nice and cookie-ish, and I never knew I needed this kind of smell in my life!

Skin: This one is amazing on my skin. It is a bit too sweet for everyday, but I honestly love it so much! It turns very hot chocolate on my skin, but there is a bit of a spice to it, which might be the caffeine. I always get complimented when I wear this one to school. 


Sizing Pictures:
I have issues with picturing the sizes of bottles, so I took some pictures of the sample size bottles for those like me that have issues comparing/visualizing sizes.

I had to put in the little lid art b/c it's super cute

Overall:

I love everything I got, and it was an overall success in terms of scents! I am already planning my next order, but that won't be for a while because of the great post-holiday no-buy (more than likely gonna be a low-buy because I can't resist). 

The Dark Side of the Swatch

So, in order to cope while I wait for the rest of my Black Friday purchases to arrive, I've decided to start taking swatches of my major Shiro Cosmetics stash. Beginning with my favorite shades of all....DARK SHADES!

*All swatches taken over NYX primer, and in natural sunlight


Full Arm Swatch

Arm Swatch (w/Flash)

Two-Faced (Seasonal)
Blackened brownish-purple with an orangey sheen.

This is more of a lighter liner for me, and it is especially great on those days where I don't feel like having super black liner, but more of a softer one. I didn't really get as much of the orangey sheen, but it was jam packed with sparkle power.

Pumpkin King (Seasonal)
Blackened smokey bronze loaded with bright golden sparks.

This color just shouts autumn at me. I seriously need to use it more since it's still fall where I live (curse you Northeastern lack of snow). Even though in this picture it may not look super duper dark, when I blend it out/foil it, it looks a lot darker than it is right here.

It seems as though I have a thing for dark colors with lots of sparkles....

I'll Move That For You
Blackened amethyst with bright purple sparkle.

I should preface this review with the fact that I was a complete minecraft junkie until about a year ago, so when I got this sample with my first purchase, I was super duper excited to wear it. This is a liner that I wear on occasion, and I always get complimented on it when I do. 

Burdened With Glorious Purpose
Blackened semi-metallic olive-gold.

I can honestly say that I bought this color at first purely for the name, like seriously, t-hiddles is amazing in that role. Then I got the color and I fell in love with it. Foiled out as a liner, it has this amazing duochromey gold, green, black going on that makes me wanna shake my head in the sunlight so I can see all the colors. 

Lingered In Twilight
A twilit forest: blackened blue and green tones with slightly metallic shimmer.

My #1 favorite liner color of all time. It looks super green in this picture, but when I apply it wet (as I do most of the time with liners), it becomes this nice black color with a touch of green which is perfect for everyday wearing.

Attercop, Attercop
Matte black base with the deep blue iridescence of an insect’s carapace. 

This is a newer color for me that I picked up on my last order from Shiro. I was looking for some more liner colors I could wear so that I wouldn't be stuck wearing the same ones every single day. This is such a pretty color, and it pairs extremely well with some of the black/navy dresses I have.

That Man is Playing Galaga
Pure black with loads of fine rainbow glitter.

Two words. Glitter. Bomb. It was so hard to get a decent swatch of it because it was hard to put on dry without smudging it around everywhere. But when I wear it, I feel like my inner rainbow is coming out and spewing glitter all over the world. I love this color so very, very much.

Overall:

I typically use all or most of these shades as liners, seeing as I am not great at smoky eyes, and normally look like a raccoon. My three main liners that I use the most are, Lingered in Twilight, That Man is Playing Galaga, and Attercop, Attercop. I'm planning on trying to use the other colors more, because they are also so pretty and I wanna have more variety in what I wear on my eyes. 

BONUS: All the colors with flash!!

Corvus Cosmetics: The Year 3000 Review

So, this is my first post on the blog, and I'm pretty nervous/excited. This was my first Black Friday with indies, and when I saw that they had a Futurama inspired collection, I knew I had to snatch it up!

I ended up buying the complete set, and it came with a GWP shade: Ice Queen. This is Corvus Cosmetic's first collection, and it contains 9 shades.

The TAT for this store is amazing! I ordered it on the 28th, and I got a shipping notification on December 1st.

When my package arrived to me today, I was so impressed at how personalized they got with the package. I loved that little handwritten note element to it.

(All swatches taken with indirect indoor lighting)


Now.... On to the swatches.
I divided up the colors into warmer and cooler, so let's start warm!
Warm swatches: Left over NYX primer, right over bare skin

(Top over NYX primer, Bottom over bare skin)

Smizmar

Soft, sparkly, super light pink.

If I'm being honest right now, this is like my second favorite shade from the set! I can do so many different things with it, and I love it. It has that subtle shift to a darker pink when applied over primer, but would work well as an inner eye color without primer.

Champaggin!

A rose-gold champagne color with a bit of sparkle.

While I do love this shade, I never really got any of the rose gold that was described on the shop. None the less, I really do like this color. If I pair it with Shiro's Full of Craft, I could have a very nice gold eye. 

Why Not Zoidberg?

A bright coral-pink with a gold shift.

Can you say ROSE GOLD?? I love this shade so much, it makes me want to cry. Not to mention the fact it's lip-safe (I literally made it into some gloss at the bottom). This is hands down my favorite shade from this collection, and I would go back and buy it in a full size. 

Orange Joe

A warm orange with a slight gold shift.

Sadly, I didn't like this color as much. The gold shift came out much more without primer, than with, and that could be an issue with the primer itself, but all I could think when I was swatching was that I looked like I had dorito fingers. Then I got hungry and ate some doritos....

Fine Jamaican Bacon

A chocolate brown with a satiny, slightly sparkly finish.

 While I am a sucker for glitter bombs, and shimmery goodness, it is so nice to have a nice matte-ish brown color to work with, whether I use it to fill in my brows, or blend into a smoky eye, this shade will be very useful to me. It had some issues going over the primer though, so I'll have to work on that.

Cold swatches: Right over NYX primer, left over bare skin

(Top swatched with NYX Primer, bottom bare skin)

Ice Queen (GWP)

Frosty light blue with white sparkles

 

Wowza. I really do like this shade. When I had it in the container, it reminded me of Shiro's Glowstick of Destiny, but once I swatched it, I saw the differences. There was no official description on the shop because it was a GWP, so I tried my best to describe it.



Good News Everyone!

A light, minty green with a strong gold shift.

You can never have too many greens right? I do love this color a lot, and I can picture myself using it on many different occasions. However, I did notice it was quite different from the official swatches, but I think I like this version better than what I thought I would be getting. 

Zero G Jugs

A royal blue with a slight aqua shift.

This was an iffy color for me when I made the purchase. I've never been a very bold blue type of makeup wearer, but I might have to make an exception for this color. I would still wear it without the primer, just because it is a little bit softer, but it applies super well, and I LOVE IT.

Clobberella

Velvety, smoky purple with a soft violet shift.

This is one of those shades that looks fine without a primer, then you add one and wow. Like look at that shift on there!!! I know that I will be using this color a lot in my crease, and occasionally on my lid, but I not only love the name, but the character behind it.


Bite My Shiny Metal @$%

Shiny antique silver with a slight brown base.

Two browns in one collection????? Yay! However, this brown is very different from Fine Jamaican Bacon. First of all, there is an amazing silverish shift on it that was very hard to capture. I really do like this color a lot, but it isn't my favorite.


Overall, I was very happy with all the colors I got. They applied very well, and I look forward to buying from Corvus again in the future.


Bonus:
Why Not Zoidberg? Lip Gloss

 Bare naked lips for reference

My lips with the gloss

Overall, it seems to make an excellent gloss, albeit a little bit runny. It is not super opaque, but it does add a pop of color to my lips, and the gold sheen comes out well in the gloss, just not in the picture as much.