Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Some Hi-Fi swatches

Hi everyone! I thought I'd show my swatches from my last Hi-Fi order. I did get a sample set of the Halloween collection, but I didn't bother swatching those since so many people already have. I did order samples of all the 1st anniversary colors, and I swatched them for you since I haven't seen too many other people with these. Top 3: Last Words, So What, Another Day Another Drama Bottom 3: Intoxicate Me, Adrenaline, Suicide Trees I wish I could capture the complexity of these! I'm REALLY impressed by this whole collection, especially the pinks! Last Words is a pale pink with a gold shift, a la Fyrinnae's "Rapunzel Had Extensions" (I don't have that one to compare, sorry). So What has a really gorgeous violet/blue shift to it. Top 2: Contradiction, Like a Hurricane Bottom 2: Verge of Obscene, Loser King I could not for anything get Like a Hurricane and Verge of Obscene to show up as gorgeous as they are in person! Like a Hurricane is this really awesome, shimmery blue-silver color. Verge of Obscene is a super dark purple, it would be amazing for a purple smokey eye. Contradiction has some crazy pink glitter in it; here's a close up so you can see it better. I also got 2 Spotlight Lip Glazes- Natural Assassin from the 1st anniversary collection, and Phantasm from the Nightmare 2010 collection. Natural Assassin is a HIGHLY PIGMENTED copper! From the picture I expected it to be more pink, but the description does say it's a metallic copper. Phantasm is a sheer pearl gloss, it's going to look awesome layered over lipstick. My only complaint with these is the smell... Phantasm is ok, it has a kind of fake-vanilla plastic-y smell. Natural Assassin smells REALLY plastic-y though, and it's pretty strong. As of yesterday my blog is a year old! :D How exciting! It would be better if this was my 200th post, but sadly it's my 199th, aww! I'm going to stay on my no-buy through the rest of November, unless it turns out that insurance will cover the new retainers I had to pay for, which it might! I really hope so, because I have some orders I'm aching to place. I hope everyone's having a great week!

31 comments:

  1. Ooh, these look pretty!

    I have no idea why I haven't ordered from Hi-Fi yet... O_o

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  2. What is the name of the one in the second last picture. Is that the hurricane one? Its gorgeous.

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  3. @femputer: It's my favorite indie brand :)

    @FunnyFaceBeauty: It's actually Contradiction. The color isn't accurate in that picture and it totally does look like Hurricane, I didn't realize that... I just wanted to show the glitter.

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  4. Happy 1 year to your blog! (:
    The swatches are beautiful! Contradiction is amazing and I love how you've captured it in the close up, gah!
    xoxxx

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  5. I have Natural Assassin as well and love it!

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  6. Happy Anniversary! :D I've never ordered from them before, but it looks pretty interesting. Do you have This is Halloween? How well does the glitter show up when applied?

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  7. Gorgeous! I just ordered some samples from their new "Art" collection. They looked so pretty in the pictures, I couldn't resist.

    Hope your insurance comes through!

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  8. Verge of Obscene is beautiful.
    Happy Blogaversary ;)

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  9. Wow happy blog birthday! I've had mine for a while but haven't made nearly that many posts... I'm lazy, lol. xD Anyways, congrats! :)

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  10. Omg Intoxicate Me, Adrenaline and Loser King are gorrrrrgeous. And so is Phantasm - I regret not getting it now. I thought it might be really frosty and white, and just gave me flashbacks back to this awful opaque glittery white lipgloss I had when I was like 14 XD

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  11. Happy 1 year anniversary! Thats awesome! And great swatches! Hi-Fi has so many amazing colors!

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  12. You're so right about the smell. I've received some samples of the lip glaze and I thought I wouldn't be able to wear them because of the smell. But I tried to wear one for some time and the smell fades after 5-10 minutes, so I got Sanctum in full size & I love it. :)

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  13. Happy anniversary! :)

    The first pic has really lovely swatches, love the bottom row of colours!

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  14. Congrats on your one year anniversary! can't believe you've done 199 posts... that sounds like LOADS! :)

    Gorgeous colours, I absolutely love Natural Assassin because its one of those metallics thats so bright its almost wet looking (if you know what I mean?) and the pinks are all really pretty

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  15. Congratulations on hitting the one year mark.

    Those Hi-Fi shadows are so pretty.

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  16. Happy blogiversary! Yay!

    I agree with you about that smell. The first lipglaze I got from Hi-Fi, I wondered if it'd gone bad. I'm more or less used to it now, but every once in a while it still gets right up my nose.

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  17. OOOH these are very pretty ! I like Verge of Obscene and Hurricane !

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  18. Happy Blog Birthday !

    Wowo Natural Assassin really looks like a killer colour !

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  19. YAY! blog birthday! I love the Natural Assassin color

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  20. Hey Heather
    If you have a chance, please check out my 'Dare to Wear' challenge for AIDS Charity. For everyone who recreates a look posted on my blog, my parents and I will donate money to The Stephen Lewis Foundation.
    You can check it out here:

    http://www.funnyfacebeauty.com/2010/11/dare-to-wear-challenge-3-for-aids_03.html

    Thanks
    Alicia

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  21. congratulation!! Adrenaline is pretty, on my wishlist now. No buy though.

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  22. Happy Anniversary!! How exciting!! My blog is about to be one year old too! Yeah! I'm planning on a big give-a-way!! =D

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  23. Are you going to enter my Halloween contest?? Just a few days left to enter!!!
    www.nvbeauty.blogspot.com

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  24. Wow talk about well pigmented! These are gorgeous!

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  25. WOAH. Contradiction looks like an AMAZING color! what a great swatch!

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  26. Totally love Contradiction. I see what you're saying about the complexity of these colors. They look amazing! :)

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  27. That pink glitter swatch in that deep shade is beautiful! Thanks for the lip swatches. I've wondered what Phantasm 'looks' like and that helps a ton!

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  28. I love Hi Fi eyeshadows, next time I'll order Contradiction and Like an hurricane. Thank you for mentioning the strange smell of Lipglazes, I had a sample of Sober and the smell is so strange/pervasive I thought there was something wrong with it :-)

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