Snow, when it is pristine and clean, is very pretty to look at. It catches the light and shimmers away. However, there is one big problem: it's bloody cold. It also will get you wet and it can be quite the inconvenience. Blech! Can't we just have the pretty look without the mess?

My cosmetic-loving brain,. of course, immediately thought of eyeshadow. Hmmm. What the heck, I'll go with it! May I direct your attention to Make Up For Ever's white diamond shadow, shade 301?

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My favourite things of late that I just can't get enough of! Exciting? Not really, but versatile - whoa baby!

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Hi everyone! Hope you had a super awesome weekend. I'm still sceptical you all aren't sick of looking at smears of purple on my arm, but since you said to keep going... I will! Today are various non-MAC pressed purple shadow swatches (and one glitter liner!).

Here you are looking at Urban Decay Deluxe shadows in Fishnet and Ransom, and the purple from Smashbox's Celebrita quad.

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This post is mostly not pressed shadows. You'll see!

Purple halves of MES Earthly Riches, Mi'Lady and Hot Contrast (THE MELANGE TURNS PURPLE)
I love Earthly Riches so hard. I don't have a lot of MES, by the way. These three? About half my collection of the formula. I generally believe that MES=mess.

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The swatching of my purple pressed MAC shadows continues. Yes, this is an illness.

Roustabout (Amazon Eyes quad), Demi-sweet (Sweetie Cakes quad), Leap (from Corps de Couleur quad)

Um, wow. Way to be nearly identical, Roustabout and Demi-Sweet. I actually really love Leap, though. I think the Corps de Couleur quad in general is ridiculously pretty, in a soft, ethereal sort of way (but wasn't that the general vibe of Danse anyway?).

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Well i've been living under a rock for the last few weeks, I guess depression can do that to you. Anyway i'm a little better and want to post about this new brand of makeup I ordered off the net. I love to support little companies and try new products. The site is Star Makeup Haven. They have cheap eyeshadow that is comparable to Mac and other brands. Same size pan and each shadow is only $4.95us. They let you build a customizable palette, which I did. The shipping was decent and I would order from them again. But after getting 15 shadows for around $50us i'm good for now.

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Time for more swatches! Let's go over the other palette I showed you, shall we?

Lavender Sky, Plum, Violet, Dear
Lavender Sky, being a veluxe pearl, is incredibly easy to work with. Great medium, very warm purple. Plum, I've heard a lot of people complain about? I have no issues, and quite like it! Violet, Dear is pretty, but I hope you have patience, because it's one of those velvets that requires piling on to get any colour. Great over something like Mauvism paint!

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Let's start with swatches of this bad boy, shall we? One of my absolute favourite palettes in my collection!

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Boom!! Another quad graces our presence. With Makeup Art and Cosmetics 3 quads making a little happy threesome this dark and delicious wonder scares them all away. If you want to achieve the dark blue/grey smokey eye for fall this is a given. It houses A Warmer White which Mac calls a pale green grey...I don't see any green, Tone:Grey which is a nice mid-tone grey, Waft a nice dark blue grey and The Right Smoke which is almost Deep Truth but has white pearl. I didn't pick this guy up as I have tons of blues and greys but it's a nice starter quad that has everything you need for a smokey eye.

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You know, I'm feeling swatchy today. How about swatches of my MAC quad collection? Yes, that will do. I have 17 of 57 existing premade quads (not counting the yet unreleased Tone: Grey quad). Have a peek, yo!

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