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| Top to bottom: Makeup Geek Fairytale, Time Travel, Typhoon, and Ritzy |
I originally ordered these four shadows from
Makeup Geek after looking for a dupe for the terrible Maybelline Color Tattoo in
Vintage Plum (
reviewed here). From swatches I found online, Mac's
Dove Feather looked similar, but it's been discontinued. But Makeup Geek's
Fairytale is apparently a dupe for
Dove Feather, and I couldn't order just one and holy shit duochromes and here we are. I bought individual pans of four shades ($6 each + $2 shipping):
Ritzy, Typhoon, Fairytale, and
Time Travel, which came in little cardboard sleeves, and I eventually put them all into this magnetic palette I picked up with my
Choix points. I ordered the eyeshadow on March 18, got a shipping notice March 24, and the package was delivered March 28--just to give you an idea of how long things took, since indie cosmetics can be slow. Not bad at all. (I know that there has been some drama involving Makeup Geek, as there tends to be with all personality-driven makeup brands. You can google if you are so inclined. So far as I can tell, there have been no instances of hate speech, so I'm going to stick to reviewing the products themselves here.)
I'm going to show arm swatches of all four shadows, as well as photos of how they look on my eyelids. I swatched them on my arm with a good brush and without primer. The photos of the eyeshadows on my eyelid are over primer, because I have such oily lids that I never wear eyeshadow without primer. For each shade, I packed it on to my lid with a brush and then blended it up and out, into the crease and above. This is not necessarily how I would normally wear all of these shades, but it provides a consistent comparison. I also used a highlight shade on my browbone.
(I'll give you a cut here so you don't have to load a bunch of giant photos of my eyeballs if you don't want to.)
