[SWATCH] Rock & Republic: Saturate Eye Color - Exile

For my second installment of the Rock & Republic eyeshadow swatches, I chose Exile. So for a quick recap, I bought these off of Hautelook for $8.40 USD $24.00 USD each and they each come with 0.11oz/3g of product. Each eyeshadow is encased in a weighty solid plastic/metal container and are housed in black cylindrical packaging. The company logo is embossed anywhere to be found and all of the information on the product is found on the lower portion of the packaging and on the lower portion of the container. The eyeshadow flips up to reveal a mirror on the side with a plastic protective sheet covering the shadow.

The eyeshadows when swatched are very silky, smooth and glide onto the skin with much ease. Although they applied fairly pigmented dry, the colors became ever much more so prominent when applied with primer or wet.

Exile is a soft rose-gold copper base with many gold micro-shimmers. It's a beautiful neutral shade that can be used all over the eyelid or on the inner corners and lower lid as a highlight. I'd definitely recommed this color for first time shoppers of the cosmetics line as it is very easy to work with and not much blended is required to smooth out the color. Below are swatches when applied dry, with primer and wet. Enjoy!

Exile - Flash

Exile - No Flash

Swatches w/ Wet, Primer, Dry

Swatches w/ Dry, Primer, Wet

Disclaimer: The products mentioned in this post where purchased by myself for the use and review purposes. My opinions are honest and are not influenced in any way at all. I was not sponsored for this post.

[SWATCH] Rock & Republic: Saturate Eye Color - Tempting

I feel like I have failed in the bloggosphere aspect for posting blogs on a more constant basis. I promised swatches from my Rock & Republic Saturate Eye Color eyeshadows that I hauled from Hautelook a few weeks back. So of course, more apologies from me once again and today I shall present you with my very first swatch, Tempting!

First off, let me start off with the package. Slightly excessive but beautiful at the most! Each eyeshadow came separately packaged in back lacquered cylinders. The lids are sealed with black circular stickers each embossed in silver with the eyeshadow shade. The bottom of the container says that each eyeshadow hs 0.11oz/3g of product. Quite the amount I should say! I purchased these for $8.40 USD each on Hautelook and it's safe to say that for half the price of  a MAC eyeshadow and twice the amount of product I definitely cannot complain.

When the eyeshadows are removed from their packaging, below is the Rock & Republic logo embossed in a criss-cross pattern on the bottom part of the package.

The first thing that you see when you open up the packaging is the lid of the eyeshadow container. It has a very large Rock and Republic logo in 3D on the lid in very shiny silver and the background of the logo is also a glazed black plastic. The underside of the eyeshadow container has basically the same information as the bottom part of the outer packaging. The container itself is fairly weighty and makes it feel luxurious and has a quality feel to it as well.

Tempting itself is a very gorgeous purpley, grey, taupey shade that has multifaceted shimmer to it. As you've probably all heard before, the powder of the eyeshadow is very finely jet milled and upon swatching it, it felt like I was touching powdery silk. The eyeshadow glided on very smoothly in one application and it is very pigment as well.

Tempting - Flash

Tempting - No flash

I made swatches of the eyeshadow in comparison to how well it applies, dry, with a primer and wet. It works perfectly fine by itself dry but with a primer and wet, the color is much more pigmented. I definitely recommend this shade if you're interested in trying out the Rock & Republic Cosmetics line but unsure as to what shade to try first. This shade is very safe but very flattering and simple at the same time. It can easily be worn from day to night and with a little bit of eyeshadow it can create a very dramatic look.

Swatches w/ Flash {Dry, Primer, Wet}

Swatches w/ Flash {Dry, Primer, Wet}

I hope you guys enjoyed this half efforted written post that I whipped up in a few minutes and that it was semi-decent. I'll try my best to post up another swatch tomorrow night to compensate for the lack of swatches and posts this week. Have a good night! :)

Disclaimer: The products mentioned in this post where purchased by myself for the use and review purposes. My opinions are honest and are not influenced in any way at all. I was not sponsored for this post.

HAUL: MAC Jeanius Collection & Sheen Supreme Lipstick, Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer Review

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Yes! The feeling of getting paid is the best you can ever have! Yesterday also being the day of multiple MAC launches, I decided to stop by the store on my way home from class. I originally had my eye on the Biker Blue nail lacquer from the Jeanius Collection and from the Sheen Supreme Lipstick, I wanted to try out Ultra Darling, Full Speed, Gotta Dash! And Bare Again. Oh I forgot to mention that I was interested in the Cremeblend Blushes in the shades Posey and Something Special as well! The MAC counter that I went to had completely sold out in the Gotta Dash! shade and Bare Again as the only one that seemed to be the only shade that matched with my complexion. As for the Cremeblend Blushes, I really ended up liking Something Special but it seemed kind of pale in the store so I wasn’t entirely sold on it. As for the nail lacquers, the store had completely sold out of Frayed to Order so I only had a chance to check out Biker Blue. I read on Temptalia that it comes out really sheer so I’m not 100% sure if I’m going to keep it or not yet. I also wanted to try out Frayed to Order just to see how the shade turns out. Fortunately MAC has a decent refund policy where they accept any returns within 30 days of purchase with receipt. So if I don’t like any of my purchases, I’ll probably just return them.

In the end, I ended up picking up Biker Blue Nail Lacquer ($17.00 CAD), Bare Again Sheen Supreme Lipstick ($17.50 CAD) and hunted down a bottle of Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer ($17.00 CAD) at another counter. If anything I’ll probably end up returning the two nail lacquers (what a shame, seeing as I’m such a lacquer-holic) and probably purchasing one of the Cremeblend Blushes in its place or maybe another Sheen Supreme Lipstick. For today, I’ve swatched Frayed to Order so that I can get an idea as soon as possible as to whether or not I’m going to keep it.

Frayed to Order in the bottle seems to be a yellow-based white with a slight baby pink duochrome shimmer. Once on the nail, it dries to the exact color that you see in the bottle which is what I always aim for! The finish is a matte, but I found that it dried a lot slower than mattes usually do, and even after 5 minutes, I could still cause dents in the polish. Unfortunately, this polish is very sheer and dried with streaks all over my nails for the first 2 coats. It took about 3 coats to even out the color and I even went as far as putting on a fourth coat to achieve complete opacity. If you don’t mind the sheerness and streaks, I think that this is an adorable color! It feels very warm and doesn’t appear to be a stark white-out-esque white that you would see in other shades of white.
After I did the swatch of the polish itself, I decided to layer on a top coat just to see how much more pronounced the pink duochrome would look. I used Seche Vite Dry Fast To Coat and it did seem to help bring out the pink shimmer much more.

I really do enjoy this color; however the downsides in quality are really pushing me towards returning it. Hopefully Bike Blue will yield better results! I hope that you guys enjoy the swatches!
P.S. I also forgot to mention the price point of this product, sitting at $17.00 CAD a bottle, it comes out to almost $20.00 CAD when tax is included. I already have a problem with OPI being roughly $10.00 CAD a bottle for me so the cost of MAC polishes aren’t something I am completely content with. For the time being, I think I’m only going to purchase lacquers that perform above average if they are to cost this much. This lacquer definitely isn’t worth paying $20.00 CAD for but if you have some extra money to use then go ahead by all means. But I feel that I could probably snatch up something nicer from China Glaze or Essie instead of spending $20.00 CAD on just one bottle.

Packaging - Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer

Label - Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer

Bottle - Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer

Bottle - Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer

Label - Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer

Bottle - Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer

 Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer

Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer

Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer

Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer

Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer

Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer w/ Seche Vite top coat

Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer w/ Seche Vite top coat

Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer w/ Seche Vite top coat

Frayed to Order Nail Lacquer w/ Seche Vite top coat



GRADING

Pigmentation: 2/5

Price: 2/5

Dry-time: 3/5

Packaging: 4/5

Color: 3/5

Overall: 14/25 à 54%

Disclaimer: The products mentioned in this post where purchased by myself for use and review purposes. My opinions are honest and are not influenced in any way at all. I was not sponsored for this post.