Detrivore is a mineral brand that has been getting a lot of love off the bloggers out there who love minerals. They have a webstore and also an Etsy shop. I ordered from the Etsy shop.
I ordered the 50 sample set of their eye shadows which also came with a primer. The set cost $23.00, along with $3.00 postage to the UK. It took 2 weeks to arrive from my order date. I didn't get a notice to say it had shipped and my Etsy account is still telling me hasn't been posted.
The samples all came in little bags. As I've said, I hate bags to use but have no objections to getting them in bags. I would have hated to get 50 samples in jars! It's no issue getting some jars myself anyway. The samples seem quite generous compared to other mineral samples I have received in the past so I'm going to get plenty of use out of them.
The colours do look interesting and they're one of the companies who are known to blend their own colours rather than just repackage. One issue I do have is that their pictures on Etsy do look over saturated. Some of my shadows just aren't as rich as the pictures show, I don't think it's just mine as it looks the same on other blogs. They're not complex colours (such as The She Space or Sassy), but they look well thought out and there's a good range of shades. I've only had a quick look through the samples and there don't seem to be any colours that don't work.
I'll give the primer a good go as I've heard very mixed reviews on it.
I must admit, I do adore the names of the eye shadows! Having and eye shadow called "Saprophyte" makes me very happy indeed. I think the labels are quite lovely as well.
I swatched some for you, there's no way I was doing all 50 tonight!
Just swatched with a damp cotton bud (as usual). Left to right:
-Psychopathia
-Saprophyte
-Gorgon
-Vile
I love "Vile", I don't think I have anything else like it. It's a gorgeous flat metallic mustard gold. Quite unusual.
I'll be doing some FOTDs with these, and doing a proper review once I've done more than go "ooooh, pretty!".
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