Product and Company Review: Surreal Makeup

Hey everyone! Today I have a small company/product review for you. Through my Biohazardous Beauty page on Facebook, I was contacted by a company called Surreal Makeup. The owner, lovely Miss Amanda, asked if I would be interested in doing a review of their products, and of course I said yes!

I'm always looking for a chance to try new makeup. Whether it's a new product at the drugstore or Sephora, or a new Indie company online. Surreal makeup describes themselves as:

"We pride ourselves in bringing you 100% pure mineral makeup that contains no lake, dye, waxes or harsh chemicals.Surreal Makeup IS highly pigmented, hypo-allergenic, water resistant mineral makeup that wears all day yet cleans up easily with soap & water or a baby wipe. We think you owe it to yourself to find out why it is called Surreal Makeup!"

http://www.surrealmakeup.com/

And for what was introduced to me as a 'small' company, they have a massive, (and I mean MASSIVE) shade range! 

My shadows arrived in an adorable sachet!

Each shade is individually shrink wrapped. Bonus points!

The caps are printed with the company name, in this really, really cool holographic print. I kind of failed at capturing that, but I thought it looked really profession!
And it's NOT a sticker. These containers are made for this company.

I did not get to choose which colors I wanted to try (but hey, I'm not picky, and willing to work with anything!) and was sent Everglades, Feather, Smooth, Willow, and Visionary. Each jar is printed with the shadow name, www.surrealmakeup.com, and the ingredients. It does not have the size printed on it, so I am not sure if I got 5 gram or 3 gram jars. But both sizes are available on the website.

All shadows come with sifters, I just always remove sifters, because, they get in my way. xD

Left To Right: Smooth, Feather, Visionary, Everglades, Willow (Swatched over UDPP)

Each shadow as described from the website:

Smooth - A white gold highlighting shimmer with light gold sparkles

Feather - A vibrant teal shadow loaded with teal sparkles

Visionary - Visionary is a baby blue eye shadow with pink reflects throughout

Everglades - *couldn't find on website*

Willow - A dark golden green eye shadow.

For the most part, I agree with these descriptions. The pink sparkles in Visionary can be a little elusive, but I do see them there. As for Everglades, I would describe it as a medium olive green, with gold shimmer. 

Mind the mascara, I know I applied sloppily x.x

Here's a look I did using all 5 shadows.

Complete list of products used:

• Urban Decay Primer Potion Original
• Surreal Makeup Smooth
• Surreal Makeup Feather
• Surreal Makeup Visionary
• Surreal Makeup Everglades
• Surreal Makeup Willow
• Urban Decay 24/7 Waterproof Liquid Liner in Perversion
• Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on Pencil in Stash
• Urban Decay Eyeshadow in Walk of Shame
• Urban Decay Supercurl Mascara

Overall I really quite loved how these shadows looked. They're so pretty and shimmery. Looking at the website, there's everything from matte, to UV reactive, to glitter, to iridescent colors to choose from. I believe I was told there's 280+ colors to choose from!
5 gram jars cost $8.00 per shadow, and 3 gram jars cost $4.00 per shadow. I love when companies, especially ones with a larger selection give you that size option, when you want to try a bunch of colors, but don't necessarily need full size jars of each one.

Surreal makeup also sells primers, powders, lipglosses, and brushes!

I am definitely impressed by this company, that I can't believe I never knew existed! Those UV eyeshadows are calling my name! 

***Disclaimer*** Products shown were sent to me by the company for the purpose of reviewing. However, complimentary products never receive special treatment, I review them just like I'd review something I bought myself. My opinions expressed here are purely my own, and are not influenced by any outside sources, nor do I represent any company.***

Zombie Girls

So I've have the Zombie Girl Collection from the lovely Concrete Minerals cosmetics company since Christmas, and every day I'm loving it more and more!
Obviously, more than being a makeup fanatic, I'm also a HUGE Zombie/Horror movie fanatic. Always have been! So when I saw this collection, I knew I HAD to have it! The tin the shadows come in is gorgeous, I'm still keeping my shadows in it, since I really have nowhere cooler for them to go!

The collection includes six, gorgeous, mineral eyeshadows, with names befitting of any scream queen!

[Swatches from Left to Right, swatched over Hard Candy Eyeshadow Primer]

-Graveyard - a gorgeous, medium brown with shimmer

-Living Dead - A lime green with goldish shimmer
-Quarantine - A light, baby pink, although it can be intensified if used wet!
-Nightmare - My personal favorite of the bunch. An intense purple with blue shimmer to it! So gorgeous.

-The Vaccine - A light, steel blue. I would call it a grey with a blue undertone. So unique.

-Blood And Guts - This one wins overall best name! xD This is a brick-red base, with gorgeous teal duo chrome to it. What more could you ask for?!

Using Living Dead, Nightmare, and Quarantine

I was so excited to finally get these! It took some getting used to, I had to keep reminding myself that they are mineral eyeshadows, so they aren't intense right off the bat. It takes some working, using them wet, with a sticky base, some clever tricks to get them to really pop. But when you do want them to pop, oh, they sure do!
A great thing about them is that they can be subtle, or they can be bright and dramatic! Really versatile. Over all I am extremely happy with these. I will be ordering from Concrete Minerals again!!!

Pressing Loose and Mineral Eyeshadows!

Hey everyone! So I recently filmed a tutorial on how to press loose and mineral eyeshadows yourself! Pretty neat. Here's a link to the video tutorial on youtube:

Let me know what you think of it! If you have any questions or need clarification on anything be sure to leave a comment either here on or the video itself!