Happiness Comes Wrapped In Corrugated Cardboard.

This morning the postman brought me a wonderful surprise Fyrinnae package, which had me skipping about happily, then swatching like mad. As they explain in this post, Fyrinnae don't send out free press samples to bloggers for review/swatches, they just sometimes send out free things to people, blog or not. This is one such occasion (I guess I count as one of Fyr's "lovelies", as the company owner puts it. Gleeee).

Fyrinnae are bringing out 7 new Arcane Magic eyeshadows which are brighter and sparklier than anything we've seen previously from them, and although they're still not released for sale quite yet, I was lucky enough to get a set of samples of them.

They're gorgeous in person, and I'm already totally in love with Electric Stardust, Futuristic Glam Rock, Pyromantic Erotica and Sequined Master in particular. Because they're all Arcane Magics, they shift colour when they're closer to artificial light (like a lamp), so I tried my best to show that in the swatches, but it's really hard to photograph - the colour shift is more dramatic in person.

• Futuristic Glam Rock - A gorgeous bright sky blue with strong green sheen. Closer to light, the green sheen becomes violet, giving it a strong lavender highlight. Metallic & sparkly.
  
• Leopard Print Galaxy - Starts a golden rosey chartreuse, yellowy-green with a peachy sheen, and shifts to a bright, clear green chartreuse near light. Metallic & sparkly.
  
• Electric Stardust - A bright mint green. Starts off distinctly greeny, then shifts to a much bluer pale bright teal near light. Very metallic, less sparkly.
  
• Sequined Master - Sparkly purple, sparkliest of them all. Starts off a cool purple with silvery and pink sparkles, and closer to light turns a more vibrant magenta-purple. Less metallic, but very sparkly.
• Velvet Vampire - Starts off a very metallic rose/raspberry pink with gold sparkles, closer to light it changes to a golden champagne shade. Strongest colour shifter, very metallic, gold sparkles.
• Pyromantic Erotica - Vibrant orange. Starts off orange with strong golden-yellow sheen, closer to light it becomes a purer, darker, more vibrant orange as gold changes to redder-orange. Very metallic, less sparkly.
• Glitterboi - The most perplexing. In the jar a deep midnight blue, on skin it's a deep blue with purple sparkles and a very strong green sheen. Closer to light, morphs to a dark, vibrant blue-based purple. Metallic & sparkly.
  

The colour-shift on Velvet Vampire is the strongest, with Glitterboi and Sequined Master close behind. They're all pretty strong shifts, though - much stronger than some of the older Arcanes like Wizard's Apprentice and Elemental Fire. The colour-shift is stronger than pictured in reality.

These beauties weren't the only thing in my lovely package, I also got this adorable little cutie.

Isn't he cute? He's super-soft and lovely, and he needs a name! Which brings me on to the next thing in my package.

These weird little pink blobs are mini-sized little tester pots of Pixie Epoxy! My favourite primer, and... well, favourite make-up product in general. I mentioned a while ago on Twitter that I wanted to get a bunch of Pixie Epoxy samples to give away to people who'd never tried it, and so they magically appeared in my parcel, courtesy of the Epoxy's creator, Fyrinnae's multi-talented chemist.

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Mini-Contest!
NOW CLOSED. Thanks for participating!

This is only for people who haven't tried Pixie Epoxy (don't lie!). Five of you Pixiepoxie-virgins will win a little tub (the samples are roughly 1ml, which is enough for manymany uses) of the magical gunk, and probably a few eyeshadow samples, too, depending on how generous I'm feeling.

To enter, just comment stating that you've never tried the Pixie Epoxy (no lying!) and suggesting a name for my lovely new tiger. I'll pick 5 of the names I like the most and post the winners up on Friday, so you've got 'til then. Open to everyone, everywhere in the world, provided you've not already tried the epoxy.

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There were other things in my parcel, too, but I'm keeping those to myself. Many, many many thank you's to Fyr, for the lovely surprise, and his partner for mailing it.