Top: My make up order all wrapped up with bonus lollies; Bottom: My Intertubes, eyeshadows and samples.

Swatches of Forty Cakes, Yo Dawg, Shoop Da Whoop, Sad Keanu, Still Alive, Vileplume, For Science and Rattata on the back of my hand.

I took just a few photos of the lip glosses and shadows I got, but please don’t expect make up blogger levels of perfection! I’m just a regular lady blogger! In fact, to demonstrate my ineptitude, I decided to just put a little concealer and BB cream on as a base and managed to discover my eyes DO NOT like the new Maybelline concealer I bought recently. They were watering and stinging all afternoon after I took all the make up off. If I could find an indie make up company that does concealer with super effective coverage I would be all over that (anyone have recs?)

A kind of blurry photo of light green (Still Alive) and mauve (Vileplume) eyeshadow on my eyelid.

Purple (Rattata), mauve (Vileplume) and gold/ peach (For Science) eyeshadow on my eyelid.

I bought Rattata and For Science and got samples of Still Alive and Vileplume, and in these two photos I applied the pigments over Hi-Fi Cosmetics High Impact Shadow Fix. If you’ve never used mineral pigments I highly recommend getting something like this so that the shadow fixes to your skin. Rattata is brilliant, I’ve been looking for a highly pigmented bright purple eyeshadow for a long time and Rattata is my holy grail! In the photo above I’ve blended it into the Vileplume and haven’t used a lot, but you can see from the swatch on my hand that it’s pretty intensely purple. Still Alive was a wonderful surprise, I might buy some when I order next. I can’t wait to play more with these pigments.

Wearing a light pink lip gloss (Forty Cakes).

Wearing a strawberry coloured lip gloss (Yo Dawg).

Wearing a red orange lip gloss (Shoop Da Whoop).

Wearing dark purple lip gloss (Sad Keanu).

The Intertubes lip glosses are basically amazing. I can’t rave enough about the ones I got, and my stand out favourite is Sad Keanu. I know dark purple/ black lips are terribly “Blogger Trendy” right now, but I had to find out what Sad Keanu looked like on me. And I love it! It’s also the most pigmented of the lot. I’m really happy with the colours I chose and I was surprised that the formula is so creamy; I avoid lipstick because many feel too drying so finding such pigmented glosses is perfect for me.

In conclusion: Shiro Cosmetics are awesome and affordable paints for your face and I am pleased to count myself a fan and proselyte! The only negative thing I can say (with great reluctance) is that there are no swatches on the website, so you’ll need to employ Google when looking for swatches of Shiro colours. Shiro do have a tumblr with photos of eye make up created with their product, so that’s handy too.

My lips perfect the femme sneer while wearing Sad Keanu.

I’ve had a quick squiz throughout the site, and hand picked my handmade favourites!

Doiley badge by Button Tree

Vintage fabric badge by Button Tree

Chika the Owl by Vanilla Bug

te.tsu bag by temono

Are You Looking At Me? by aussiepatches

Simona – Hey Sunshine Handbag by Shagpile

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