First Look: Living Dead Grrl - Makeup to Die For!

Lyndsay from new BRITISH indie cosmetics company Living Dead Grrl contacted me last week explaining all about her new company and asking if I would like some samples to review. I took a look at the site and was pretty much sold - a long-time blog reader and 'token goth' who is self confessedly opposed to repackaging and bored of waiting for awesome indie make-up from the States creating her own indie makeup? Yeah, I'm down with that.

There are currently four shadow collections available from Living Dead Grrl: Spaced, So I Married An Axe Murderer, The Cure Disintegration Collection and the Roller Derby Collection. A good sample across the freaks n' geeks board, I'd say.

Anyway, Here Be Eyeshadows:



Samples, two full sized, business card with cute note from Lyndsay.



The Spaced Collection. L-R: Skip To The End, Heeello Brian, Robot Club, Fantasy Bazaar.

First of all: I LOVED SPACED. (If you haven't seen it... Oh, god. Just.... wha? Go There!) I sifted through the samples I received to check these out first - you'll notice I didn't swatch the other colours in their collections. Ooops! Fantasy Bazaar is my favourite of the quad. It's really vibrant and pretty, and I don't have another gold that leans this yellow. Fried Gold ;)



L-R: Mrs X (So I Married An Axe Murderer), Passing the Star (Roller Derby), Being Electrocuted (SIMAAM), Lullaby (Cure Disintegration.)

Of these, Being Electrocuted and Lullaby are my favourites - Lullaby is a beautiful soft grey with multi-coloured shift. Mrs X and Passing the Star are colours that I do have similar versions of from other companies - although Mrs X leans more a little more plum that other metallic indie reds I have and Passing the Star has gold and silver sparkles which makes it unique to my collection.



L-R: The Same Deep Water As You (Cure), Whip It (Roller Derby), Fascination Street (Cure), Derby Wife (Roller Derby.)

Oooh, I want to wear all of these together! Whip It is a fantastic green with a gold shift and Derby Wife is like a more purple version of Evil Shades Suffocation. I love that I'm thinking of things I can pair these with already - a good sign in my book.



L-R: Lead Jammer (Roller Derby), That's A Fact! (IMAAM), Woooman (IMAAM.)

Lead Jammer is great - we all have a black with multi-coloured sparkles but this is a grey! Hooray. Lyndsay was king enough to send me full sizes of That's A Fact and Woooman after I said I like them, which was very sweet of her and I'm glad as they are both gorgeous. You can't tell, but That's A Fact has lovely orange sparkles.

The Boring Stuff:

-Full Sizes are £3.50, samples are £1.00 for 1/4 tsp. A collection costs £12.00, so you get a decent saving.
-Full Sizes are packaged in 5g square sifter jars. My jars were secure - no leakage.
-Flat rate shipping cost of £1.99.
-Does not currently ship outside of UK.
-Living Dead Grrl uses Etsy as a shopfront, so simple and easy.
-All shadows are clearly labelled as to whether they are vegan or not, as well as whether they are eyes and lip safe. I.e., Skip To The End reads: Eye, Face and Nail Safe. Not Lip Safe. Vegan.
-Ingredients listed clearly on etsy listings.

I got sent everything you see here by Lyndsay for review purposes which does not change my opinion of the products. It also means I can't say too much about her customer service as *technically* I'm not a customer, but she comes across as fun, professional and passionate, which all point to 'awesome' in my book. I'm excited to see where Living Dead Grrl goes next!

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<3 Robyn