Fyrinnae eyeshadows...

In anticipation of a tiny haul of Fyrinnae coming my way (cleared customs! now...on ze way), I have been using their stuff every day.

This post is a tidy round-up of some favourite Fyrinnae looks over the months. I noticed my skills have deteriorated over time. Again, let's blame the beverages. Caffeine is leaching important minerals from my brain!

(Btw, if anyone's fond of interesting/creative makeup and has a bit of time to spare, please check out her blog: http://dizzymakeup.blogspot.ca/ << pretty much a visual feast. She is UNE ARTISTE MAGNIFIQUE)

finished look (VERY OTT)

(Clinique perfect plum topping off EArden Neoclassical coral)

This is literally all Fyrinnae, from inner corner outwards: Electric Stardust (discontinued), Snow Leopard, Te Amo, and finally, for the crease and lining purposes, Sorceress.
 Two of these colours were Arcane Magics (slight colour shifting), so twas a complex look indeed!

Again, Sorceress for crease/lining. Evocation and Shenanigans for the lids. L/S: Revlon Fuchsia Fusion.

Unless used wet as a liner, Sorceress is hard to work with, as are all their shades with a black base. However, the effort is worth it. Teal and turquoise lovers will love it.
The colour shift is subtle but glorious. It's a pain to use as a crease shade, unless you have a big fluffy crease-shaped brush which does the majority of the work for you.

Eye Sweep brush, mine's called, from Spa Resource (INEXPENSIVE), and looks like the Bobbi Brown one of the same name.

You NEED a decent (more than 2) variety of brushes for loose shadows, especially duochromes and Arcane Magic shizzle. This way, you can simply pat them on, but the brush gently diffuses it for you, without having to lose the sheen/overlay with motion.

Ho-hum, another blue-green look. Nothing too creative as I was going to a Posh Wedding. I didn't want to be mistaken for a Punjabi aunty with a penchant for dancing in her socks. The one who is beating the doctor-sahab-who-looks-like-he-is-having-an-epileptic-fit-but-is-really-just-doing-a-bhangra at his own game.
"Bhai, koi in ke liye roh afzah laye! Inho ne to hum sab ka SATIYA NAAS kardiya hai!"

A khaki Hard Candy cream shadow as a base (thing went prune-like in a few weeks!), followed by Electric Stardust (discontinued! Thank GOD I haz backup).
The silvery-greens from Dior Extase Pink, which my amazing cousin gave me to use on my wedding, for the rest (crease). Rimmel Amethyst Shine l/s.

Electric Stardust is LEGIT my favourite eyeshadow ever. It goes from mint-green to pastel blue.

Now we come to a flinch-wince-cringe pose-y picture, but I was trying to balance the friggin iPad whilst nearly toppling, ever so gracelessly, off the stairs.
Electric stardust for an inner corner highlight.
Scarlet Macaw (lid) and Sultry Samhain (crease). These are both beautiful reds from Fyrinnae. However Macaw is a warm red, Samhain is cool-toned. So they kinda conflicted, the Electric Stardust just played off the incongruence of the pair. And Fyrinnae Enrapture for blush, way heavy-handed.
Lips are Clinique Ambrosia (buttershine)...

And now we come to my scarf-take-off-ing phase. I really really miss hijab. I felt happier.
But I know I'm gonna feel like turtle poop if I get any more reproachful glances, rude words about it, or about MoZlEmZ in general. I don't have the emotional stamina to deal anymore.
And on the other hand MoZlEmZ expecting me to be some kind of enlightened Madonna. The assumptions on either side.

K, whatevs. Rainbow eye. Again, Electric Stardust--a common theme--I can't resist it. Evocation, then Snow Leopard (I promise I do other combos, but it seems every time I hit on something I want to PHOTOGRAPH, it features these three colours), London Mod (inner crease--also lower lashline, to top off Cover Girl Liqui'line blue liner), and Meerkat/ Sultry Samhain for outer crease. Bourjois fuchsia lip crayon.

The dastardly iPad decided it preferred this lighting, to show off the eyeshadows. Unfortunately, this one's prior to lip balm thingy.

This is...Dior Rosy Tan and Fyrinnae Te Amo. Artist of Makeup Marrakech for a bright orange.

Anna Sui bronze liner again. Marcelle Kajal, which is a great cheap replacement for Arden's powder pencil liner (and a deeper, cooler black, whereas the EA one was pretty much a warm dark grey). Best bit is the Marcelle Kajal doesn't irritate my finicky eyes, and looks messy/smudged, without much effort.

Te Amo is a delicious colour. It's a greyish-copper with a tendency to look like multiple colours (bronze-brown in crease). They have renamed it 'Serendipity,' to keep us suitably confuddled.

If I look happy, it's because I managed to find a decent colour match in Cover FX cc cream. NOT because my life is amazing, or I am a blessed, successful little pixie. NO.

Finally, this (ok, the base wasn't all that bad--I had on SPF and it was near a window--case closed)...is nice. Black eyeliner as base (smudged out) with Fyrinnae Snow Leopard on top. A bit of Artist of makeup Espresso around the outer-V to smoke out the Anna Sui liquid liner pen (a sparklesome brown/gold).

This proved how versatile Fyr E/S are, to me.

AOM: It will make your heart flutter

Artist of Makeup: never have I anticipated a product launch more. If you know of Zukreat Nazar, you might know what I'm talking about. She has glorious makeup tutorials, which I adore for her elaborate Arabic style. The way she does eyes up is simultaneously too much, and just right. That sweet spot.

Anyway. She used awesome products in said videos, right? Contouring sticks, eyeshadows, blushes. And they looked pretty excellent but they were from her upcoming makeup line...WHICH TOOK FOREVER TO COME OUT. The wait period was excruciating!

When the site was finally up and running, I spent an hour(s)(s)(s) hunched over trying to figure out what to get. It looked so GOOD! Some of it didn't appeal to me, admittedly (the blushes-not a blush person, honestly. And foundations...I will never cheat on Vichy Dermablend! Never! Never! Except with Shiseido!). I toyed with the idea of maybe spending baby's university diaper fund on the magnificent pro HD eyeshadow palette and big fat professional brush kit. But...I'm not a pro. I'm an aficionado.

I got five neutrals loosely inspired by my Dior Rosy Tan. Neutrals, to better suit my warm, medium toned skin. Although I use the Dior palette daily (it is a perfect, harmonius blend of understatement), I have issues with 1. pigmentation 2. the tone (it was definitely made with lighter skin in mind) 3. creasing.

These were meant to pick up where that lacks.

So.

They are, in a word, though I despise the word, fabulous. Tres so. Substantial pigment yet they blend beautifully.

Cast:

1. Bare Canvas - a creamy, smooth pale peachy-pink (a warm pastel pink), with a sheen. The texture is similar to Wet 'n Wild's Brulee eyeshadow, but...smoother, if that is possible. I would compare it to NARS' All About Eve palette, the texture is something like that. It is almost overly-smooth, by which I mean your brush may pick up too much. You may have to dust it off a bit, if you are into more subtle looks. This is my favourite because it brightens the eyes so well.

2. Hush - A scrumdiddlyumptious soft mauve, similar to the top shade in Guerlain's Les Fumes, but with gentle micro-shimmer running through it. Satin finish. This is well-suited for hazel and green eyes, particularly, and I can't wait to try it on my mother, who, indeed, possesses such a pair.  [edit: OMG, I DROPPED IT REALLY BADLY, AND IT CRUMBLED TO DUST JUST NOW!! :'( I should've gotten a palette to put it all in...]

3. Nutmeg - Warm matte. Soft. Smooth. No issues with chalkiness or powderiness. Maybe a bit too warm to be an everyday crease shade for EVERY look for me, but I can see it working on some people. It plays reaaaally well with the other characters in this movie, though. (edit: just wanted to add that I have seen Zukreat use this several times as a bronzer/contour shade, so it is multi-purpose!)

4. St. Tropez - Bling. Zing zang zoopity zoop. A mixture of fine shimmer and glitter, which adds dimensional interest to what could otherwise be a dull Mac Woodwinked dupe. Very very gold. It actually matches my gold wedding jewellery perfectly. A good pick for desi brides, then. Very smooth, and it picks up the warmth of aforementioned Nutmeg, they make a good team. A+.

5. Espresso - Matte cool-toned brown. It blends out into almost a plummy shade. No issues with patchiness, which was my main concern.

So...following are some swatches, apologies as I have naught but an iPhone cam. :(
They look soooo much nicer in person. Swiped on with fingers, and no primer.

Nutmeg, Espresso, St. Tropez, Hush, Bare Canvas

See how nicely they sit on the skin? Particularly the mattes; rare to find mattes like this. On the lids, they blend and sit beautifully, perfect for a minimalist look as well as a standard "brown smokey"--and things in between (cut-crease, the Old Hollywood eye, etc). I went over the swatches a couple of times (did the same for the following Dior ones), because this is my first time swatching and I barely touched the product for the first swipe.

Arrogant comparison to Dior Rosy Tan shades (right of each AOM shade), although they are not supposed to be dupes, I just wanted to compare the colours.

(As you can see, the Dior is very well put together, almost too well put together, as it looks like a haze of meh on my lids.)

I'm wearing 'em today. No primer yet no creasing.

On my way to the pediatrician, not a calculus exam, although you'd be forgiven for thinking so, given my odious expression.

Lizzy Arden's smoky black pencil, L'Oreal Double Extend Beauty Tubes 'scara, aforementioned Artist of Makeup e/s,

Omorovicza tinted moisturizer mixed with Shiseido Perfect Refining foundation,

Guerlain Terracotta liquid blush in Spicy Coral, Omorovicza Sunkiss bronzer, Essence Bronzer in Blondes,

Dior Nude glow sculpting powder in a shade much too pale for me, and ....Dior Nude "lip blush" (eye roll) in Trench.

 So in conclusion:
1. Get these. If not today, next Sunday.
2. Don't be une massive dope like me--acquire one of the empty (9, 15, or 30) palettes, so you don't end up dropping the unprotected little shadow and have to repress it. *weeps*
3. Well done, Zukreat.