Yes I realise it's wayyy past Halloween, but I ordered these late October and they only got to me a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't even going to swatch these at all, but I went to place my Christmas order and realised that most of the Halloween stuff is still available in the shop! (I totally ended up placing a combined Darling Deer Christmas and Darling Ghoul Halloween order when I saw that. I can't help myself.) You've probably seen a billion swatches for these products already, but I want to throw mine into the mix. The blogosphere could always use more pretty pictures of sparklies, right? :3
Y'all know I've been on a massive lip product kick lately. I rarely have time in the mornings to apply more than the simplest neutral eye and bold lip, and my eyeshadow stash has just gotten so large that I had to slap an eyeshadow spending ban on myself. I've consequently diverted my attention to cheek and lip products, and am particularly enjoying layering lip products to get more out of my stash. The Darling Girl Holo-Glosses are great for layering over lipsticks, and as soon as I saw the Halloween glosses I had to grab some. I also love me an orange lipstick so I had to grab The Pumpkin King, and I was curious as to how Just Bitten would compare to the Tarte for True Blood Cheek Stain.
From left to right: Darling Girl Cosmetics Lip Jelly in Ghouls Gone Wild, Petit Eyeshadow in Svenghouli (GWP), Sweet Cheeks Cream Blush in Just Bitten, Holo-Glosses in Vampire's Kiss, Going Batty, Poison Apple and Bewitched, Kiss You Off: Colour Rich Lip Balm in The Pumpkin King, and samples of Uprising Eyeshadow (GWP) and Orange You Glad To See Me? Soft Focus Blush (GWP).
As you can see, my tube of The Pumpkin King got a little melty and smushed during the trip to Australia. I emailed Susan straight away and she was quick to ship out a replacement :)
Here's an open jar shot of Ghouls Gone Wild Lip Jelly, Svenghouli Eyeshadow and Just Bitten Sweet Cheeks Cream Blush. I'm assuming Just Bitten melted a little on the way to Australia? It's still good though.
Ghouls Gone Wild is a "sheer gloss with green and pink shift and loaded with holographic micro-glitter". The colour description for this one is accurate, but unfortunately it's nowhere near as opaque as the website swatches show.
Poison Apple is "granny smith apple green with pumpkin and iridescent holo-shimmer that shifts from gold, to green to blue". I can't see any blue myself, I just see a green gloss with red, green and possibly gold shimmer.
Going Batty is friggin awesome. No, really. The website describes it as "a sheer black loaded with green, orange, red and pink holo-shimmers". My bad, I totally thought it was a brown base! To me it looks like a brown base that's absolutely packed with red and green shimmer. I can't wait to layer this over red lipsticks for cheesy festive Christmas lip looks :3
Vampire's Kiss is "a sheer black base with loads of red and color holographic holo-shimmer. It is a must for vamping up red's and berry toned lipsticks and looks stunning all on it's own". This totally reads purple to me! It looks like a blackened purple base with purple and pink shimmer. I can't wait to layer this over Poison Plum lip balm when it comes in the mail.
Bewitched is "a bright magenta with gorgeous blue flake". This is that quintessential fuchsia gloss with blue shimmer that everyone has to have, and I also see sparks of pink and purple in there too. It reminds me a lot of Rimmel's Kiss Off! Lipgloss in Paint The Town. :3
The Pumpkin King is "a bold bright orange with gold and copper flash". Can't argue with that! I'm excited to play around with this one because most of my orange lipsticks have strong red undertones. I have one tangerine orange and a burnt brown orange, but I don't have any pumpkin oranges.
Y'all know I've been on a massive lip product kick lately. I rarely have time in the mornings to apply more than the simplest neutral eye and bold lip, and my eyeshadow stash has just gotten so large that I had to slap an eyeshadow spending ban on myself. I've consequently diverted my attention to cheek and lip products, and am particularly enjoying layering lip products to get more out of my stash. The Darling Girl Holo-Glosses are great for layering over lipsticks, and as soon as I saw the Halloween glosses I had to grab some. I also love me an orange lipstick so I had to grab The Pumpkin King, and I was curious as to how Just Bitten would compare to the Tarte for True Blood Cheek Stain.
From left to right: Darling Girl Cosmetics Lip Jelly in Ghouls Gone Wild, Petit Eyeshadow in Svenghouli (GWP), Sweet Cheeks Cream Blush in Just Bitten, Holo-Glosses in Vampire's Kiss, Going Batty, Poison Apple and Bewitched, Kiss You Off: Colour Rich Lip Balm in The Pumpkin King, and samples of Uprising Eyeshadow (GWP) and Orange You Glad To See Me? Soft Focus Blush (GWP).
As you can see, my tube of The Pumpkin King got a little melty and smushed during the trip to Australia. I emailed Susan straight away and she was quick to ship out a replacement :)
Here's an open jar shot of Ghouls Gone Wild Lip Jelly, Svenghouli Eyeshadow and Just Bitten Sweet Cheeks Cream Blush. I'm assuming Just Bitten melted a little on the way to Australia? It's still good though.
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| Left to Right: Ghouls Gone Wild, Poison Apple, Going Batty, Vampire's Kiss, Bewitched, The Pumpkin King, Just Bitten, Svenghouli, Uprising and Orange You Glad to See Me? |
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| Natural light, but not quite sunlight. It was hiding from me :( |
Ghouls Gone Wild is a "sheer gloss with green and pink shift and loaded with holographic micro-glitter". The colour description for this one is accurate, but unfortunately it's nowhere near as opaque as the website swatches show.
Poison Apple is "granny smith apple green with pumpkin and iridescent holo-shimmer that shifts from gold, to green to blue". I can't see any blue myself, I just see a green gloss with red, green and possibly gold shimmer.
Going Batty is friggin awesome. No, really. The website describes it as "a sheer black loaded with green, orange, red and pink holo-shimmers". My bad, I totally thought it was a brown base! To me it looks like a brown base that's absolutely packed with red and green shimmer. I can't wait to layer this over red lipsticks for cheesy festive Christmas lip looks :3
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| With flash |
Vampire's Kiss is "a sheer black base with loads of red and color holographic holo-shimmer. It is a must for vamping up red's and berry toned lipsticks and looks stunning all on it's own". This totally reads purple to me! It looks like a blackened purple base with purple and pink shimmer. I can't wait to layer this over Poison Plum lip balm when it comes in the mail.
Bewitched is "a bright magenta with gorgeous blue flake". This is that quintessential fuchsia gloss with blue shimmer that everyone has to have, and I also see sparks of pink and purple in there too. It reminds me a lot of Rimmel's Kiss Off! Lipgloss in Paint The Town. :3
The Pumpkin King is "a bold bright orange with gold and copper flash". Can't argue with that! I'm excited to play around with this one because most of my orange lipsticks have strong red undertones. I have one tangerine orange and a burnt brown orange, but I don't have any pumpkin oranges.
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| Natural light |
Just Bitten is "a sheer cherry red with gold flecks" which is accurate. This is supposed to be Darling Girl's dupe of the infamous Tarte for True Blood Cheek Stain which I was massively excited about. Unfortunately that one applies weird and patchy on me, so I've never showcased it in a look before. I'm betting this one applies a lot better.
Svenghouli was a gift with purchase, and I don't even know if that's the correct name because the font's quite hard to read D: To me it looks like a light greyed green with a strong gold flash and subtle copper shimmer.
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| With flash |
Uprising is "a gorgeous color shifting copper laid over a black base. It some lights it looks purple, in some you can really see the copper". I see this is a dark cool-toned brown with a strong purple flash. I used this over the weekend and expected it to be a deep taupe with a purple flash, but it applied so dark and smokey it took me by surprise. It'd be a nice crease colour with a dark or blackened purple on the lid, or layered in a grey smokey eye like I did.
Orange You Glad To See Me? is described as "a bright carrot orange matte" and that's 100% accurate. I'd like to try this blush out, but whether I can actually be bothered to figure out how to apply blush from the baggy is a completely different story. *is lazy and hates baggies for blush*
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*runs off to smother self in sparkles*
