Warpaint Beauty (Hot Topic): Eyeshadow

These eyeshadows are available at Hot Topic for $4 each. I bought them while they were on sale for $1.99.

They are packaged in clear, round compacts that are lightweight. 

Top Row: Skinny Dip, Envy, Bruiser
Bottom Row: Destroyer, Start Here, Rich Bitch

Destroyer

Matte black base with tons of rainbow sparkle

Start Here

Matte finish
Creamy off-white/beige colour

Rich Bitch

Shimmery gold

Bruiser

Shimmery purple

Envy

Satin finish green colour

Skinny Dip

Matte finish Royal Blue colour

Swatches: Destroyer, Start Here, Rich Bitch

Swatches: Bruiser, Envy, Skinny Dip

The size of these eyeshadows is about the size of a poker chip, making them great value for your money. However, they are hit-and-miss quality-wise.

Each finish applies differently and each colour has a different amount of pigmentation.

Destroyer is a great sparkly black that I definitely recommend. It's matte with some rainbow sparkle which is just enough to keep the eyeshadow a matte finish, but enough that you can definitely see the sparkle. This will crease quite quickly unless you use an eye primer.

Start Here is completely matte with no shimmer or sparkle. This colour would make a great matte highlight colour, or a skin tone colour if you're light in skin tone. This will crease unless you use an eye primer.

Rich Bitch is a shimmery gold with little to no fall out. The pigmentation is all right- not the best, but you can make it work. Use a cream colour base or a primer to intensify the colour and to prevent it from creasing.

Bruiser is absolutely horrible and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. If you look closely at the swatch above, you can see that there is a ton of fall out which has gathered in the middle of the swatch and would fall right off if I moved my hand. The same goes for the entire swatch of this colour. This eyeshadow has absolutely no adhesive properties to the skin and can be rubbed off very easily and no pigment would remain.
*If you're looking for a purple eyeshadow similar in colour and price to Bruiser, I recommend the Wet n Wild 9 Pan palette in Petal Pusher which has many different shades of purple, plus one like Bruiser, or the NYX Single Eyeshadow in Morocco.

Envy isn't as bad as Bruiser, but I wouldn't recommend it either. It doesn't have too much fall out but the pigmentation is horrible. It's so bad that you can almost see each particle of the eyeshadow and the spaces in between. It adheres to the skin somewhat, but what's left is barely visible on the skin.
*If you're looking for a colour like Envy, I recommend the NYX Single Eyeshadow in Kiwi.

Skinny Dip is a colour that I would recommend. It's a completely matte royal blue (deep blue) colour that is generously pigmented and applies smoothly. Using a cream colour base or an eyeshadow primer will prevent it from creasing and intensify the colour.

Hopefully this review will help you choose which colours you might like to try from the Warpaint @ Hot Topic brand. As a general rule, it seems that the neutral colours are better than the bright ones, but this isn't always the case.

Though this brand is great value for your money, I recommend NYX and Essence Eyeshadows as an alternative. Overall, NYX and Essence make better eyeshadows at around the same price as the Warpaint ones. Hot Topic stores are also more difficult to find in Canada and internationally while NYX and Essence are more widely available.

Overall Grade of Warpaint Eyeshadows: B-

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Hot Topic's Cream Eyeshadow

I posted a while ago that Hot Topic had a clearance sale on their Cream Eyeshadows that I had never seen before. I bought three, and here are the swatches of these very interesting cream eyeshadows.

*I'm not sure if these are still available, but they were so different that I decided to share!

The back of the packaging. Nail colour: L'Oreal's Owl's Night (290) from the Project Runway Collection

Purple

Black

Pink

These are the craziest cream eyeshadows I have ever seen! The top is sprayed and spotted with a mousse-like cream and glitter is mixed in as well. Underneath is a cream eyeshadow, similar in texture to the E.L.F. Duo Eyeshadow Creams, though the Hot Topic ones are a bit thicker.

Black

Purple

Pink

As you can see, these were difficult to swatch. I tried to swatch some of the mousse-creams (they are the swatches that are most pigmented, but also kind of 'patchy'), but it was very difficult to only get one colour. They were very thick and didn't blend too well. Of them all, the black one swatched the best because it didn't have as much glitter, and the two colours of mousse were similar in colour (black and grey). 

The 'base' cream (the cream underneath all the overspray) is one colour throughout, and so if you are/were a fan of the overspray, it would be short lived. However, if you're a fan of the base cream and not the overspray, it would be difficult getting it all off without wasting product or mixing the top colours with the base cream.

Testing them out, I found that wearing them on their own was a disaster. I put some on one eyelid, and then some on the other over a primer. Within minutes, both eyelids started creasing, but the one with the primer creased a lot quicker and became greasy-looking (I used a silicone-based primer, similar to a face primer).

I think if I were to use another primer, use a thin layer of this cream eyeshadow and top it with a powder, it might hold up a lot longer. 

Because these likely aren't available anymore, I won't grade it, but I will say that I wouldn't recommend these if you want something long-wearing.

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Hot Topic: Clearance!

I just thought I'd share with you some cream eyeshadows that I recently purchased at Hot Topic. They were on clearance, so I don't expect they are available anymore, but if you look closely, they are not your average cream eyeshadow!

They look like some sort of thick overspray has been layered on top (along with some glitter). I swatched these, and underneath of this is an actual cream eyeshadow, but those spots on top are actually coloured mousse! It's really cool. I'll have pictures of swatches soon :)

Check out my review of Hot Topic's Baked Eyeshadows!

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Hot Topic's Baked Eyeshadows

A few months ago, I was walking around the Eaton Centre in Toronto and I was pleasantly surprised when I found that a Hot Topic store had recently opened there. They already had a few sales going on, and I found these baked eyeshadows that are amazing! They are regularly $2.99 but I bought them for $1.50 each on sale. 

Colours (left to right): Ice Blue, Electric Green

These feel a bit more soft than other baked eyeshadows and they are highly pigmented.

Colours (left to right): Ice Blue, Electric Green

I also found a great trio that is a little less soft than the ones pictured above, but they are just as pigmented.

I think these are such a great value and of high-quality. You can't beat the price and the other colours available are just as bright and fun! You can see the other colours they have by clicking here and scrolling to the bottom of the page.

Here are some swatches:

Colours (left to right): Ice Blue, Electric Green, Trio (last three colours)

I think these are definitely worth trying if you're looking for some great bright colours. They also have some 'wearable' colours as well that are more neutral and toned down.

The packaging of the single eyeshadows is great and durable, as is the packaging of the trio. If you put them over a primer, they last a decent amount of time, but if you put them over a coloured base (like a cream eyeshadow, or eyeshadow pencil), then they'll last quite a long time!

Summary:

Product: Hot Topic's Baked Eyeshadows
Price: ~$3 (www.hottopic.com)
Grade: A

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