Indie Weekends: The Great Indie Potluck Package of Pretties Reveal

This is a very special edition of Indie Weekends, as I received a jam-packed package of indie pretties in the mail, and I'm here to reveal everything I received! I will do swatches and a full review of everything hopefully by next weekend. Let me give you a little back story about this. A few of the indie cosmetics enthusiasts over on Makeuptalk and I, got together and decided to do an Indie Potluck, specifically The Great Indie Potluck!

Our Facebook group banner I made :)

Basically the rules were to spend $5-6/person on indie products, send them to the designated coordinator, coordinator packaged them all up for everyone, and sent them out to us. For instance, there were 9 of us, I contributed my products, and bought 8 of an item I already had, and 9 of other items I didn't already have. It didn't have to be one item for $5-6 either, it was just total. I think a lot of us used that as a way to maximize the awesome! It was free range for what you wanted to buy, but we told our coordinator before we purchased it, just to make sure we weren't all buying the same thing, and we made a Google doc before hand of the products we already had, so that everyone could buy new products for everyone. We decided the rules as we went, and just communicated with each other in our Facebook group we made. It was also decided that any samples that came with the purchase someone made, would go back to that same person.

It took a little longer than expected to purchase everything and receive it all, but I think it was worth the wait! We were missing one of our group members items, because of some unforeseen circumstances, but hopefully I can just include them in the swatch and review post. Our coordinator was awesome enough to send us our packages 2-day Priority, and we just Paypaled her our packages shipping cost. It just arrived yesterday, and I am ecstatic! Buckle in, this will be a long post!

Indie Weekends: Innocent+Twisted Alchemy September 2014 Subscription Review

In my quest to try more Indie subscriptions, I signed up for the Innocent+Twisted Alchemy sample size subscription, and wow does this thing come with a lot of products! There are always three eyeshadows from Innocent+Twisted Alchemy, a coupon code for your next purchase, and then bonuses from other indie companies. There is a sample sized sub ($12/month), and a full size sub ($18/month). It's a recurring subscription, so once you're in, you're in, no having to sign up every month or every few months.

Linda, the owner, only lives 30 minutes from me! Shout out to Linda, who has said she will be putting her subscription on hiatus for November and December because she works retail! I know how it goes, I worked retail for over 3 years, and it's a huge time suck (and even worse now that most places make their employees work on Thanksgiving...). She has said current subscribers can either cancel, or do nothing, and their subscription will just be put on hiatus for those two months. No charge and no subscription, but it should start back up in January. 

And since it was only a 30 minute journey, my subscription only took 1 day to arrive within California, via USPS.