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!
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Ooh, these look pretty!
ReplyDeleteI have no idea why I haven't ordered from Hi-Fi yet... O_o
What is the name of the one in the second last picture. Is that the hurricane one? Its gorgeous.
ReplyDelete@femputer: It's my favorite indie brand :)
ReplyDelete@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.
Happy 1 year to your blog! (:
ReplyDeleteThe swatches are beautiful! Contradiction is amazing and I love how you've captured it in the close up, gah!
xoxxx
I have Natural Assassin as well and love it!
ReplyDeleteHappy 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?
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! I just ordered some samples from their new "Art" collection. They looked so pretty in the pictures, I couldn't resist.
ReplyDeleteHope your insurance comes through!
Verge of Obscene is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogaversary ;)
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! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Berfday!
ReplyDeleteOmg 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
ReplyDeleteHappy 1 year anniversary! Thats awesome! And great swatches! Hi-Fi has so many amazing colors!
ReplyDeleteYou'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. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy anniversary! :)
ReplyDeleteThe first pic has really lovely swatches, love the bottom row of colours!
Congrats on your one year anniversary! can't believe you've done 199 posts... that sounds like LOADS! :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous 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
Congratulations on hitting the one year mark.
ReplyDeleteThose Hi-Fi shadows are so pretty.
Happy blogiversary! Yay!
ReplyDeleteI 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.
OOOH these are very pretty ! I like Verge of Obscene and Hurricane !
ReplyDeleteHappy Blog Birthday !
ReplyDeleteWowo Natural Assassin really looks like a killer colour !
YAY! blog birthday! I love the Natural Assassin color
ReplyDeleteHappy blogger-versary!
ReplyDeleteHey Heather
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congratulation!! Adrenaline is pretty, on my wishlist now. No buy though.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary!! How exciting!! My blog is about to be one year old too! Yeah! I'm planning on a big give-a-way!! =D
ReplyDeleteAre you going to enter my Halloween contest?? Just a few days left to enter!!!
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ReplyDeleteWow talk about well pigmented! These are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteWOAH. Contradiction looks like an AMAZING color! what a great swatch!
ReplyDeleteTotally love Contradiction. I see what you're saying about the complexity of these colors. They look amazing! :)
ReplyDeleteThat 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!
ReplyDeleteI 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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