Collection Spotlight! Shiro Marauders, Mugwumps, and Muggles Eyeshadows! (1 of 4)

By AG

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Hey everyone! The highly anticipated Marauders, Mugwumps, and Muggles collection from Shiro Cosmetics is here! Shiro has been teasing a collection based on the Harry Potter series for at least a year, and now we have 20 eyeshadows, 5 glosses, and 2 face products to bury our faces in. For my own sanity we're dividing the reviews into multiple posts, but if you're dying for more, I always post eye looks to my Instagram page as I'm testing through the products.

Thanks so much to Kristin for doing the swatches! She went above and beyond to get them done, taking them with her on vacation to California just to get some damn sun (I'm shaking my fist at the Seattle sky as I type).

You can find part 2 here and part 3 here; I'll link the rest when they're up.
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From the website: This color is perfectly normal. There isn’t the least bit extraordinary or unusual about it. What are you looking at? Go away, there’s no post on Sunday.

A pleasant ballet pink dampened down with a very Dursleyish greige. Matte, of course, and proud of it. Lip-safe!

Ingredients: mica, carnauba wax, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, tin oxide, zinc oxide, magnesium myristrate, red #40.

Personal Comments: In the bag this appears to be a matte light dusty rose, a shade or so darker than but otherwise very close to Figment from Blackbird Cosmetics. On my eye it actually looks warmer than it does in the bag, as though a bit of red has been added. No issues with application or blending - this is a lovely, smooth matte.

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From the website: Wotcher! Never, ever call her Nymphadora or she may make noses at you.

Inspired by some of the various shades of Tonks’ hair! Medium, slightly desaturated blurple base with shifting shades of bubblegum pink, blue, and violet. Not lip-safe.

Ingredients: mica, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, tin oxide, ultramarines, methicone.

Personal Comments: This shadow is a lightly purpled gray, and until I read the site description, I honestly thought it was a matte... so either I need a new silicone primer (a distinct possibility) or a sticky base will be best for bringing out the shifts! It's a little darker and a little more purple than Fiction from Blackbird Cosmetics. This one needed a little extra work to blend out - I applied it with a very tapered blending brush and could still see the line where I'd originally applied it after some blending with a fluffier brush. My suggestion would be to apply this one in lighter layers and blend as you go.

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From the website: “There is no good and evil, there is only power… and those too weak to seek it.”

A yellow-tinged greenish greyish befittingly creepy-snakey color, with malevolent red shift. Lip-safe!

Ingredients: mica, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, tin oxide, magnesium myristrate, copper powder, silicon dioxide, methicone.

Personal Comments: This shade looks like a dirty gray in the bag but takes on more brown tones once it's on the eye. I tested this (over primer) before reading the site description, and I'm happy to say I definitely noticed a subtle sheen on the center of my eye, but it looked more gold than red until I got up close to the mirror. Close to my mirror under bright lights, it looks like a red-tinged copper sheen to my eye. It's subtle, but adds dimension and a really neat effect to the otherwise matte color. The base color seems fairly close to Blackbird Cosmetics Smudge. This color needed just a bit of extra work to blend out, but nothing too problematic.

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From the website: “Such a beautiful place it is, to be with friends.”

The olive-toned mustard yellow of a nice pair of socks! Smooth opaque matte finish. Lip-safe!

Ingredients: mica, carnauba wax, iron oxide, magnesium myristrate.

Personal Comments: This is a matte orange-leaning mustard color, if that makes any sense. It's got really good pigmentation and doesn't lose too much when blending out. It looks a little softer on my eye than I expected from looking at the bag. I applied it over He Who Must Not Be Named and could still see a little of the latter's sheen through it after blending, so it's not 100% opaque but pretty close. No complaints about this one!

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From the website: Maybe he isn’t the best at potions or spells or fighting, but his quiet unwavering courage was worthy of the Sword of Gryffindor all the same. And he grew up really well too, that Neville Pertbottom. 😀

Deep royal navy with a glimmering green shift (okay, it was inspired by Neville’s pajamas in the first movie…) Not lip safe.

Ingredients: mica, carnauba wax, titanium dioxide, tin oxide, ferric ferrocyanide, ultramarines, magnesium myristrate.

Personal Comments: This is a gorgeous deep blue. The base color is very similar to Detrivore Benthos, but a little more cool-toned. The site description mentions a green shift and I definitely spotted green sparkles in the sample bag, but I'm not seeing them translate to the eye over just silicone primer. I swatched it over a sticky base and the green sparkles are much more prominent that way! It behaves pretty well given how dark it is - blending isn't too hard and it doesn't spread to the far reaches of my face when I so much as think about blending it out.

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I did a few eye looks with these shades while testing them out. For both looks I started with UDPP and a base shadow in my skin tone, and wrapped up with tightline and mascara.

For this look, I used There's No Such Thing As Magic across the lid and The Well-Organized Mind in the inner corner. I built up the outer v with Metamorphmagus, Mad As Her Master, and finally All Kinds of Courage. I mirrored all the shadows on my lower lashline. 

Since I blended a lot of the shades together in the previous look, I did another eye look using most of the same shadows in order to show them better:

I used He Who Must Not Be Named across my lid (you can see it immediately left of the dark blue in my inner corner), There's No Such Thing As Magic and Metamorphmagus through the crease, A Free Elf in the outer v, and All Kinds of Courage on the inner (packed on) and outer (blended out) corners.

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Ok, there's part one of our multi-post review and swatchfest for the Shiro Harry Potter shades! Stay tuned for the rest of the eyeshadows plus the face products and lip glosses in upcoming posts.

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