Hey everyone! It's been kinda Shiro-heavy around here lately, but I've got one more round of new releases to show you before switching it up. The winning Color of the Month for September 2015 was The Last Unicorn, which is the very first CotM face product! Shiro also released two eyeshadows inspired by Mad Max: Fury Road, so I figured I'd show them to you today as well. Let's take a look!
Disclosure note: I purchased all the Shiro products shown here. The Blackbird loose shadows I used in the eye look at bottom were press samples. I purchased all other products used in the eye look.
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From the website: September’s Color of the Month is the first face product to win the CotM poll, hooray! This is a unique but wearable highlight, silvery shimmer with very subtle lavender shine. Color suggestion by Sinsemellia M.
Price is for one 20-mL jar with sifter.
Ingredients: mica, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, tin oxide, magnesium myristrate, aluminum powder, silicon dioxide. Safe for eyes and face, but not lips!
Personal Comments: As advertised, this highlight is a mix of pale lavender shine with silver shimmer. It builds up nicely if you want a more intense finish. Folks who dislike sparkly highlights will want to give this a miss. Though it has a sheen from normal conversational distance, once I get within a foot or foot and a half from the mirror, the silver sparkles become very readily apparent and... what's that you say? The blended swatch above does a terrible job showing the finish? You're totally right. Let's take a look at an angled shot (heavy and blended swatches over bare skin):
There we go, hopefully that will give you a better look at the combined sheen and sparkle in the blended swatch, plus the lavender shine at the edges of the heavy swatch. Since this product is approved for use on the eyes, I'll likely get the most use out of this as an inner corner highlight or overshadow patted over darker mattes. The lavender sheen (which usually reads as a soft, cool pink to my eyes, if I'm honest) is readily apparent in a heavy arm swatch but more subtle on the cheeks. In the spectrum of Shiro's permanent highlighters, this is more intense than the Boy Band highlights but less intense (and a very different finish) than Curaga. It lasted nicely for the 7 hours I was able to test it before I had to wash it off.
I also want to note that this is a super fine and lightweight powder. At one point during testing I picked up some on my brush, then tapped my brush to rid it of any excess... and suddenly had no product on the brush. If you're trying to get a precise placement I definitely recommend patting rather than sweeping it on to avoid throwing sparkles everywhere.
Also, I have good news for anyone who can't live without this product (because unicorns) but can't see themselves wearing a cool-toned and shimmery highlighter. Take a look at what happens when you put this eye-safe product over Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy:
And this photo doesn't even show how well it pulls out the lavender sheen. The Last Unicorn, we're gonna get along just fine.
In the swatch collage at top, both swatches were done over bare skin. Heavy swatch done with a flat eyeshadow brush, blended swatch done with a blush brush. Photos taken in natural light.
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Warboy
From the website: Oh, what a day! What a lovely day!
Matte bruisey red-purple-brown, for that radiant (or irradiated…) half-lifer glow. More red on initial application (as shown), rubs down more purpley-brown to a very convincing bruise shade. Price is for one full 5-mL jar with sifter.
This is in the Sandbox because it’s an “I felt like it” color, but it is not technically limited edition and may be considered permanent until further notice! (This is also okay for requesting as a custom lip gloss).
Ingredients: mica, carnauba wax, titanium dioxide, iron oxide. Lip safe!
Personal Comments: This is an incredibly pretty shade, and man, it performs beautifully. I patted it onto my eyelids for the eye look below and it only took me a few swipes with a blending brush to fully blend out the edges, but the color stayed intense. So good! When I think of my favorite indie mattes Shiro doesn't generally come to mind, but this shadow is making me sit up and pay attention. Also, as a bonus, it makes a lovely blush!
It's worth pointing out, however, that this shade can swatch really streaky over bare skin. Here's the "first impressions" swatch I posted on my Instagram when it first arrived:
I haven't tested this shadow over bare eyeball skin, but the swatches suggest this is one that will perform best with primer.
In the swatch collage at top: Bottom swatch swiped over bare skin. Top swatch patted over Urban Decay Primer Potion. Photos taken in natural light. I edited the open jar shot (upper right photo) by increasing contrast and brightness, as it was a little dark. I did not edit any other photos (aside from cropping!).
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From the website: You will arrive at the gates of Valhalla, shiny and chrome!
The most reflective, metallic, chrome-y silver I could manage. Sadly not lip-safe (but neither is real chrome). Swatch is over basic primer (TFSI), but when foiled this stuff turns into a molten liquidy silver. Price is for one full 5-mL jar with sifter.
This is in the Sandbox because it’s an “I felt like it” color, but it is not technically limited edition and may be considered permanent until further notice!
Ingredients: mica, carnauba wax, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, tin oxide, aluminum powder, silicon dioxide.
Personal Comments: The Shiro team really knocked this shadow out of the park! The site description isn't kidding when it says this takes on the appearance of molten silver when foiled or put over glitter glue. I'm so impressed! It's so reflective that it's tough to photograph properly. Here are a couple angled shots of the Pixie Epoxy swatch:
It's pretty awesome even over just silicone primer, as you'll see in the eye look below. If you're looking for a super intense true silver (I can't spot any green or other undertones), definitely check this one out. I will say you definitely need at least a silicone primer to pull out the metallic finish, as it's just a ton of silver sparkles over bare skin.
Swatches done as follows, from left to right: swiped over bare skin, patted over Urban Decay Primer Potion, patted over UDPP and Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy. Photos taken in natural light.
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I did an eye look with the two eyeshadows because I needed them on my face as quickly as possible:
I started with primer and a base shadow in my skin tone, then placed Blackbird Dog Days (press sample) as a transition shade. Shiro Warboy is all over the lid and outer lower lash line. I deepened the outer corner with Femme Fatale Seven Lost Lords, Blackbird Atlas (press sample), and Blackbird Lucid (press sample). Shiro Witness Me! is in the inner corner.
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