It’s haul time! Woot woot! In case you aren’t familiar with Femme Fatale (FF) already, it’s an online shop based out of Australia. They specialize in indie brands and carry brands like Concrete Minerals, Shiro, ILNP, Cirque Colors, Notoriously Morbid, etc.etc. Basically they have everything. In addition to all of the lovely brands they carry, they have their own line of cosmetics. Since I am lucky enough to be able to easily purchase most of the brands that FF carries, I limited this particular order to the FF eyeshadows. But that’s about all of the restraint I exhibited. Brace yourselves, we got ourselves a swatch fest up in here!

I’ll do individual reviews of these in future posts but today we’re going to stick with a good old swatch marathon.

Enjoy!

swatch protocol: The left side of the swatch is over LORAC Behind The Scenes primer, the right side of the swatch is over Darling Girl Glitter Glue and the center portion of the swatch is over bare skin.

Watery Grave

Underlord

Tiny Manticore

The Wayward Prince

Sunfire

Silver Apple

Secret Shiny

Puzzle

Glasswater

Flare

Desecration

Fever Swamp

Cosmic Owl

Cheap Tricks

Candied Apple

Bone Dust

Bat Wing Hall

Banshee Scream

Alpine Skies

Afraid of Bees

Order experience: I placed my order on May 10th, it shipped on May 13th and I had it in my hot little hands about a week later. Not bad at all!

Price: The small jars are generally $4.50 (USD) and a full size is $7.50. Shipping to the US without tracking was $8.50

Soo…I’ve clearly had these eyeshadows for a wee bit of time now. I am a horrible slacker, it’s part of the charm that is me! My general thoughts on the overall quality of these eyeshadows is that they’re quite good, some of the shades are even VERY good but overall, the brand isn’t my new favorite must have, gotta catch ’em all brand.

• You definitely need a sticky base of some sort or they won’t show up at all.
• Most of the time these have swatched with much higher pigmentation than I was able to achieve on my eye.
• The shift in the duochromes is often a bit on the subtle side. They aren’t as strong of a shift as My Pretty Zombie duochromes, but they aren’t as subtle as Shiro. On a few of these shadows, the complexity of the duochrome shift is really cool. Afraid of Bees for example, is really a multichrome rather than duochrome. It has an orange base but the gold shift is sometimes gold, sometimes green and sometimes pink. It’s amazing! But they aren’t all that complex so there’s an element of hit or miss.
• I wouldn’t say that any of these eyeshadows is a complete dud, they’re all quite pretty.
• I would say that there are a couple of stand out shades in the bunch. Silver Apple, Afraid of Bees, Candied Apple, Glasswater and Banshee Scream have all made it into a regular rotation of use. They’re really really good.

Overall  Femme Fatale is definitely worth checking out. They have some great shades! At this point, I think I have everything I could possibly need from their eyeshadows though so I’m not itching to try out the whole line.

Do you have any interest in seeing more in depth reviews on any of these shades? I’m working on a post about Afraid of Bees because, hello, orange multichrome eyeshadow is where it’s at! Do you already have shadows from FF? I would love to know what shades you’ve tried and loved!

Tidbits:

• I’m really struggling to find motivation for healthy living at the moment. I want to read all the books and watch all the tv and eat all the things. Working out is hard! I did go for a run this morning and it felt great so I’m feeling a burst of motivation that hopefully gets me through to tomorrow’s workout.