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Happy Birthday to everyone celebrating their birthday this month!!! Please post your enabling and amazing hauls for all to see. May we continue to inspire each other for our love for all things beauty and non beauty related. 💕❤️💗🥰
Pulling together my recent Pat McGrath orders from Sephora and PMG direct, and I managed to leave one product out of the group photo. 🤦♀️
PAT McGRATH LABS DARK STAR 006 ULTRAVIOLET BLUE is my second Dark Star kit; I bought the first one (the version without Ultraviolet Blue or Ultrasuede Brown) 2 years ago. This kit is one of my favorite things ever, partly because of all the joy I associate with it:
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When I ordered 006 direct from PMG 2 years ago, they sent me the wrong kit: Metalmorphosis 005 Gold. They quickly sent the correct kit and let me keep 005. So, I got the 005 Gold kit for free!
Dark Matter Pigment is my favorite black satin shadow. Some folks complain it's not dark enough, but that's what I love about it: it's not as dark as the Dark Matter matte shadow from some of Pat's palettes, plus it's a satin. That makes it easy to sheer out and very buildable. I use it often to smoke out my outer corner and lower lash line. Whenever I travel, this single is in my makeup kit—so it's tied to many fond memories. I'm very sentimental about this eyeshadow and overjoyed to now have a backup. 🖤 If Pat sold this shadow as a single, outside of any kit, I'd buy it over and over.
I've wanted the Ultraviolet Blue version of this kit ever since it first launched but, as with Decadence when it first launched, I missed it—and then I kept missing it each time Pat brought it back. So, major thanks to @RGbrown for alerting me of the Sephora stock! I FINALLY HAVE THAT BLUE. 💙 (On a related note, I also have 2 Decadences now 🤣 and I'm glad it's finally a permanent fixture of Pat's available Mothership line.)
I'm not super fond of using the black kohl liner as a liner. Eh, it's not the best, to be honest. I occasionally use it as a lid base coat, though. And the brush that comes with this kit could be better... it's not awful but also doesn't work well for me as an eye brush. Instead, I use it to apply teeny bits of setting powder to my undereye concealer.
Dark Matter Pigment is my favorite black satin shadow. Some folks complain it's not dark enough, but that's what I love about it: it's not as dark as the Dark Matter matte shadow from some of Pat's palettes, plus it's a satin. That makes it easy to sheer out and very buildable. I use it often to smoke out my outer corner and lower lash line. Whenever I travel, this single is in my makeup kit—so it's tied to many fond memories. I'm very sentimental about this eyeshadow and overjoyed to now have a backup. 🖤 If Pat sold this shadow as a single, outside of any kit, I'd buy it over and over.
I've wanted the Ultraviolet Blue version of this kit ever since it first launched but, as with Decadence when it first launched, I missed it—and then I kept missing it each time Pat brought it back. So, major thanks to @RGbrown for alerting me of the Sephora stock! I FINALLY HAVE THAT BLUE. 💙 (On a related note, I also have 2 Decadences now 🤣 and I'm glad it's finally a permanent fixture of Pat's available Mothership line.)
I'm not super fond of using the black kohl liner as a liner. Eh, it's not the best, to be honest. I occasionally use it as a lid base coat, though. And the brush that comes with this kit could be better... it's not awful but also doesn't work well for me as an eye brush. Instead, I use it to apply teeny bits of setting powder to my undereye concealer.
The lip liners are 2 of the new shades: PAT McGRATH LABS Permagel Ultra Lip Pencil Blood Lust and PAT McGRATH LABS Permagel Ultra Lip Pencil Living Legend . Someone asked me how close these are to certain other lip liner shades, so I swatched 'em for comparison:
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Swatches of PMG PermaGel Ultra Lip Pencil, plus a few other brands' pencils for comparison.
Swatches of PMG PermaGel Ultra Lip Pencil, plus a few other brands' pencils for comparison.As soon as I noticed PAT McGRATH LABS OpuLUST Lip Gloss Venomistress restocked at Sephora, I jumped on it. This is very pretty on its own, but I think it'll be even better layered over a base coat of dark lip liner (not one of PMG's gel liners though; I don't like using them as full base coats. They're fantastic as perimeter liners, though!)
And of course I bought some of the new Lip Fetish Balm shades: PAT McGRATH LABS Lip Fetish Sheer Colour Balms Dark Romance , PAT McGRATH LABS Lip Fetish Divinyl Lip Shine Electric Lotus , Belle Amour, and Love Interest. Like many other folks, I was caught by the SKU bug and received Nude Venus instead of Dark Romance. Kudos to PMG for quickly sending me the right shade, and thanks again to @SportyGirly125 for trading with me (yay, now I have an Electric Lotus backup)! Here are my hand and lip swatches I shared in the PMG thread:
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Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Divinyl shades, plus one comparison with an original Lip Fetish shade.
PMG Lip Fetish Balm in Dark Romance.
PMG Lip Fetish Divinyl swatches
Pat McGrath Lip Fetish Divinyl shades, plus one comparison with an original Lip Fetish shade.PMG Lip Fetish Balm in Dark Romance.PMG Lip Fetish Divinyl swatchesNot pictured: PAT McGRATH LABS Dark Star Volumizing Mascara 0.43 fl oz / 13 mL which I've worn twice so far. For me, it's much better than FetishEyes which is formulated to be buildable. I only need 1 or 2 coats of Dark Star on my top lashes to get the look I'm usually after, and my lashes don't get all hard and crusty in the process. I'm wearing Dark Star (top lashes only) in my lip swatch photo above.
