good quality pigment/eyeshadow?

So as part of my rethought major artwork i'll be doing some very smexical makeup artistry on my self and using the photos as part of a mixed media piece.

im going to need some really good quality, bright pigments or eyeshadows...

but i don't want to spend over say, MAX $30 AUD on each colour. preferrably less...

im not sure which colours i'll be using but i wanted to get an idea of prices...

also which brushes can you guys reccomend for fine detailed work and for getting a good coverage with a colour?



and completely unrelated but i need a bronzer and a highlighter

so itd be sweet if you could reccomend those too

Well I'm absolutely loving Napoleon brushes atm.
AAAAAAAAND their shadows too. And all their shadows are $24 each. They show up really well - especially when used with good quality brushes.

I like my couple of Fyrinnae pigments. I use them wet and dry, and to make them wet, I just ran out and bought a little bitty bottle of contact solution, and use a drop and it works wonders. I use painting brushes with them, water color brushes to be specific, coz it's cheaper to get them at work with my discount than drive the 45 minutes to Sephora and spend $15+ on one brush.

does fyrinnae have a website? and how much are ze pgiments?

and thanks jade i'll look into napoleon, we have one at the mall ^.^

are the brushes expensive?

Well I just bought an angled brush and an eyeshadow brush for my birthday at $25 each, but they're AWESOME quality.
And they have this great blending brush that I want (made from real squirrel fur apparently) which is $40. But I think basic eye make-up brushes are $25.

http://www.fyrinnae.com/

There you go, dearie! I really do love those colors. I have a list that pretty much covers a sheet of printer paper..and my handwriting is really quite small.

eeexcellent!!

thanks both of you!

Yeah, i love lisabeth for mentioning Fyrinnae. They are the bomb.

that site is AMAZING

i already have like 8 on my wishlist

I already own about 20-30...and I'm ordering heaps more soon. At first some colours seem like they apply shitly, but it's just they all sorta have different techniques eg. some look better wet, some look better patted on, some swiped etc.

they don't ahve the shade of orange i want that is allowed to be put on the eyes :/



reckon mac or napoleoon might?

so far i want:


Still Breathing Loose Eye Shadow

Professional Colours: Bite Me

Professional Colours: Shrouded In Gold

Runed Torc Loose Eye Shadow

Chlorophyll Loose Eye Shadow

Finnegan's Wake Loose Eye Shadow

Magenta Gauntlets? Loose Eye Shadow

Pyro Loose Eye Shadow

Inks Liquid Eyeliner: Brazen Burgundy

Hot-Tempered Colour: Sarcasm

Some people do apply it on their eyes, but i would really proceed with caution. Why don't you try those cheapo makeup brands like Gasp? They tend to have bright colours, and seeing it's only for photos, they should be fine!

yeah but the photos are going to be semi- professional

i intend to send them in for my HSC hehe

so i need it to look fully sick bra

MAC has Everything. So yeah I think they would have the colour you want

mac def. they have tonnes of colours...I just hope you can get everything you want ;-;

Keep mind it'll take AGES for Fyrinnae stuff to get here...approx a month?

PolyphonicThought wrote:

mac def. they have tonnes of colours...I just hope you can get everything you want ;-;

yeah its just that mac is so expensive over here... its like $34 for one pigment...

but spanks

and i'm willing to wait a month for my makeuo since we don't ahve to start til next year and i can rpactice with my lame makeup in the meantime

DP// YAY

i'm getting my whole list and then some!!

this is so sick, this means that not only will my major work be rokcin, i'll have some sahweeet eyeshadows to use.

AWESOME! Im so excited now =D

Lil, you can always get MAC pigment 'samples' off... whatever your main online auction site is there. They're not really samples, it's where someone went into a MAC store and got a whole pot and eeks them out into tiny little jars and makes heaps of money off people who don't want to spend $40 odd. It's pretty morally grey, but it does mean you can get pretty pigments for cheap.

Damn expensive MAC.

YAY WE JUST ORDERED THEMMM

Le_Saboteur wrote:

Lil, you can always get MAC pigment 'samples' off... whatever your main online auction site is there. They're not really samples, it's where someone went into a MAC store and got a whole pot and eeks them out into tiny little jars and makes heaps of money off people who don't want to spend $40 odd. It's pretty morally grey, but it does mean you can get pretty pigments for cheap.

Damn expensive MAC.

Tbh, MAC pigments seem to be in like huge pots, and everytime I look at them and consider getting one, I just think "I'm never gonna use all that." and feel like it's silly paying so much for one. I might ask for some for christmas though. Although, I find loose eyeshadow can be such a mess sometimes.

I do luuuuuurve MAC though.

Also, is it true that they're going to start discontinuing shadesticks?

Some of them are being discontinued (or already have been) but not all of them. Thats what I read from MAC chats people from Specktra did.

it's the paints they're eventually gonna phase out isn't it?

can't say i'm fussed... the colours were all a bit blahhh?!

But the paints are like, really new. At least in the UK they are, I think.