Review & Swatches: Ten Three Labs Eyeshadows, Salve Sticks & Smudge Sticks

/u/ifweburn and I have been chatting and I ended up sending her stuff from Indonesia, and she sent me some stuff from her store, Ten Three Labs.

So here's what I got!

Those are seeds! I have no idea how to grow them but they're cool!

• Smudge Sticks: Vylette, All Vamp Everything
• Salve Stick: Flawless Victory -Ridiculous Strength Peppermint
• All 12 Eyeshadows from The Grand Reopening Collection: Bells Bells Bells Bells, Capoeira, Electric Love, Ehhhhuagh, Hello Blondie, It's Your Funeral,  Kuchi Kopi, Night Butterfly, Oil Spill, Thank You For Loving Me, The Butler, Zombie Butts

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Salve & Smudge Sticks Review

So these came shrinkwrapped:

And here's another plus for me, the top bit's pretty smooth!

It's a small thing, but messy balms always makes me sad, so I'm happy these are pretty neat.

Formula-wise, these will easily be my favourite lip balm formula if not for the flavour. I'm not saying this because I'm Cara's friend. I'm honestly incredibly impressed with these formula. First of all, they're very moisturizing. Secondly, it's solid, yet not oily. If we're putting lip balms on a spectrum from the oiliest to the waxiest, it'll sit in between Notoriously Morbid's Coffin Kissers and Haus of Gloi's lip balms. It's perfect for me.

Now here are my not-so-happy reviews of their tastes:

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Flawless Victory -Ridiculous Strength Peppermint

Ridiculous strength is right. It's so minty. To the point where it feels uncomfortably cold....and I'm in a tropical country. I'm not sure how this would feel in cold weather.

When I first tried this, in a moment of sheer genius (not), I thought, "Hey, my lips are burning cold! I should rub this chilli on my lips to neutralize the coldness!"

Turns out your lips can burn hot and cold and the same time.

All Vamp Everything

This is the flavour I'm most ok with out of the lot. It's an artificial cherry with mint but I'm ok with artificial cherry so it's not too bad. This has the perfect level of mintiness in my opinion –no more than a subtle, fresh tingle.

Vylette

This was the worst flavour for me. Artificial grapes. I HATE artificial grapes. There's also the perfect level of mintiness in this but gahhh SCREW YOU ARTIFICIAL GRAPES!!!

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Still, I love the formula a LOT, so I'll still highly recommend these. Not only are the formulas awesome, check out the swatches for All Vamp Everything & Vylette:

These are meant to be tinted balms, hence the slight "streakiness". From afar, they look great:

Cara really picked the perfect colours for me!

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Eyeshadows Review

Under natural light, swatched over Darling Girl's glitter glue

These formulas are definitely legit and contain bases. For a guide on identifying ingredients in your eyeshadows & why bases are important, click here. Here are the swatches:

Over Darling Girl's Glitter Glue
Left: Under artificial yellow-toned light to show the shift
Right: Under natural light

Over UDPP
Left: Under artificial yellow-toned light to show the shift
Right: Under natural light

Left: Under artificial yellow-toned light to show the shift
Right: Under natural light

Left: Under artificial yellow-toned light to show the shift
Right: Under natural light

For the mattes, I only did swatches over bare skin and primer, and under natural light, since there aren't any shifts to show off:

Both under natural light

I like these eyeshadows, but I noticed that I have a lot of problems with the lighter matte colours (Zombie Butts, Ehhhhuagh, Hello Blondie, Kuchi Kopi) –they end up being really streaky. Hello Blondie was the worst and you can see it kinda flaking on the swatch. The darker colours were perfectly fine though.

For the shimmers, everything was great except for Night Butterfly. It's rather streaky and definitely a struggle to put on.

Oil Spill is supposed to be black with holographic sparkles, but it's mostly a matte black with a bit of holographic sparkles. The holographic sparkles show up best when you're foiling it with water.

If I had to pick one favourite out of the entire collection, I'd pick Bells Bells Bells Bells –it applies so beautifully, even on bare skin! Thank You For Loving Me is definitely a close contender for favourite!

Oh yes, you can wear them over bare skin. Not my favourite or recommended method of using them, but yes, they stay on for a while. Here's a picture of my eyeshadow on bare skin after 2h (it could have lasted longer, but I forgot to take a picture before I ruined it by rubbing my eye):

Ehhhhuagh & Zombie Butts over bare skin

They are harder to blend and do cling on to your pores that way, but I ran into this problem with most indie matte shadows. They do perform slightly better than Blackbird Cosmetics' eyeshadows (old formula) over bare skin though.

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So here are some looks I did with Ten Three Products:

Look #1: The mattes

Over Eccentric Cosmetics' primer. I just tried to squeeze in as many products as possible. Here's Kuchi Kopi, It's Your Funeral, Ehhhhuagh, & Hello Blondie

Sorry for the crap quality..it's been cloudy and rainy the past few days.
Lips: OCC Lip Tar (Metal Black Dahlia) & OCC Stained Gloss (Mein Herr)

Look #2: The shimmers

Bells, Bells, Bells, Thank You For Loving Me, & Oil Slick

Lips: All Vamp Everything