Today's post is all about purple lipgloss, brought to you by Captain Chapped. Please forgive. This is Lull, from MAC's Bluestorm collection.

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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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So, I finally got to check out the new Reign collection that Smashbox is offering this fall. Some very nice things in this collection. I found many dupable items because I have some makeup already, but their eyeshadows were soft and pigmented and the jet set liners were creamy and in very neutral colours. The blush didn't seem that unique to me, and the other lip pencil in Amaretto seemed like a colour I already owned. But the packaging is to die for! If you're a package whore, then stay away or you will be tempted to buy. The only thing I came home with was the Doubletake Lip Color in Currant. It's such a rich shade of red berry, I had to have it.

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Hands down out of these, the Electric quad is my favourite. Also, I may be the only one to feel this way, but I think vertigo is mildly hilarious.

Some of the shades from the Tokidoki collab quads (Modella and Celebrita) need to be used with a stiff brush - a soft one like, say, a MAC 239 won't get you far ("WHERE IS THE PAYOFF!?"). As you can see, though, when applied with something firmer, they show up fine. The pale yellow in the Modella quad almost has this fun green iridescence to it. The whitish shade from Celebrita has a gentle pink iridescence to it. Basically, fun stuff, dudes. My apologies that the FOTDs I had planned for this week and other stuff have simply not come to fruition. I feel frigging lame.

Unfortunately, I'm sick and my allergies are all wonky. As such, you have to deal with my lack of face. Swatches it is!

I love my handful of Smashbox shadows! Here are some swatches of 3 singles, a trio, a mini-duo and a full size duo. The shade you can't really see with the trio is akin to MAC's yogurt, but smoother and a touch less pink, and Envy actually has rainbow glitter.

Hopefully my eyes are human-sized tomorrow!

One of the things I first fell in love with from Smashbox was their lipgloss. Got to say, that love hasn't faded! I don't go around buying every gloss ever because I'd never use them all, but I do have a small selection with 14 shades:

Why do I love these? How MUCH do I love these?

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