Madd Cat Monthly January 2014 Review

One of the new mineral eye shadow subscriptions I'm trying out this month is Madd Cat Monthly by Madd Style Cosmetics. I found out about this company through the Makeup Talk forums (MUT) along with the other one I'm still waiting on. For $12 a month, you get 2 full sized exclusive to the subscription shadows, at least 2 samples (think baggies) of their other products, and occasional surprises that can range from full size to sample.

Since I signed up before the 20th of the month (that's the cutoff for that month), I got January's bag first.

The bag (with lots of star confetti inside!)

Info card

This month's colors were:

• Stroke of Midnight (full size) - a super sparkly black with a definite purple tint and lots of purple sparkle. I really wish this photographed as it looks in real life. I couldn't capture the beautiful detail of this color, but it's so gorgeous and definitely a new favorite. 
• A Wrinkle in Time (full size) - a super sparkly antique gold. Really lovely and unique to my quickly growing collection.
• Time Warp (sample) - Another black, but this one was filled with blue and green glitter, so close up it looks quite different to me in person. Sadly, again, I just couldn't capture the detail in the picture, so it looks pretty similar, photographed, to Stroke of Midnight. They are different though!
• Fairy Fright (sample) - White in the bag, this turns to a lovely beigey white with a strong pink sheen on my skin. Very pretty.

Top jars: Stroke of Midnight and A Wrinkle in Time, Bottom bags: Time Warp and Fairy Fright

Swatches: Stroke of Midnight, A Wrinkle in Time, Time Warp, and Fairy Fright

Blurred shot to show sparkle

I was totally thrilled with this month's selections. The colors were so gorgeous! I love when shadow has a ton of sparkle in it and this absolutely delivers that! Although I'm not sure I need all this shadow, I'm definitely keeping this subscription.

Madd Cat Monthly January 2014 bag

If you'd like to sign up, head over to their website!

(And just a disclaimer: I bought this myself and was not compensated for this review in any way. All opinions are my own.)

Glamour Doll Eyes OTM January 2014 Review

Another of my favorite mineral eye shadow subs is Glamour Doll Eyes. Previously, the longest subscription you could make with them, I believe, was 3 months. That's what I started with and then December was a special month, so only a single month sub was made available that month. Early in January though, when the subs went up on the 8th (they always go up on the 8th, unless that's a weekend, when they'd instead go up that Friday), I noticed a 12 month sub, which I snatched up immediately! Woot! Don't have to worry about logging on on the day subs open up for a whole year!

Anyway, GDE is an eye shadow of the month subscription. I still can't remember what 1 month costs (the info is only up when there are open subscriptions spots on the 8th of each month. I think it's $7.), but I got a 12 month subscription for $72, which includes shipping. For that price, Glamour Doll Eyes sends out a 5g pot of a limited edition color mineral eyeshadow of the month and usually a little bonus item. Subscriptions DO NOT automatically renew and usually sell out pretty fast on subscription day.

So, again, I forgot to take a picture of everything in the bag, but it wasn't a see-through bag, so it wouldn't have shown much. It was a velvety blue bag. Cute!

Info card

 The color of the month was Social Suicide. I thought it was a lovely rich, true blue with a good amount of sparkle.

Glamour Doll Eyes Social Suicide

The extra this month was a small sample of their new Hydraglaze lip gloss in the color Social Butterfly. It's a very pretty pink, but I couldn't really get the blue in it to show up in my swatch photo. In person, you can see it in the pot, but I'm not sure how well it will show up on lips. Maybe unless you get super super close to the person wearing it? I also kind of wish it were a slightly bigger sample. Not huge - I'm not asking for a 5g pot of it, but maybe just fill the clamshell? I feel like I'd use this up in like 2 applications. We also got 2 fun size Laffy Taffys for fun.

Glamour Doll Eyes Hydraglaze in Social Butterfly

Blurred shot to show the blue sparkle in it

Swatches

Blurred to show sparkle in the shadow

I liked this months colors. I don't wear a lot of blue, but this is a really nice blue. I think I'm less a fan of light blues. I have brown eyes, so light blue and teal don't look fantastic on me. The lip gloss is also really nice and it smells great!

Glamour Doll Eyes January 2014 bag

If you'd like to sign up, subscriptions open up on the 8th of each month, unless that's a weekend, like this month, so I think for February, it will most likely open up on the 7th at this page.

(And just a disclaimer: I bought this myself and was not compensated for this review in any way. All opinions are my own.)