I clicked so fast, so exciting to hear your thoughts on Looxi and major props to Kathryn for making this happen!! I love Snickerdoodle, I think of it as a Diet Carving and wear it when I want Carving vibes with less of a base/impact. The sheerness of a lot of their shades is a big selling point to me. Totally agree they’re doing themselves a major disservice by not providing accurate swatches and not commissioning creators of different skin tones to make accurate swatches. Hoping they take note soon!
The sheer base is a major selling point for me too. I love nothing more than a semi sheer/sheer, colorful, sparkly shade! Very few Indies do it as well at this price point! 🫶
Omg the SWATCHES! You made all of the Looxi shades look so good! It was really interesting to see your comparisons since you’ve got some shades that I don’t! Honestly, seeing your comparisons for Fuzzy Flamingo kind of make me want to see it compared to Clionadh Sunbeam or Adornment!
If there's just *one* shade I'd love to see in a future video or IG post, it's Angel Wings, now that it's available again! Also, it might be worth doing a comparison of Hybrid with Clionadh Grisaille and Abrasion. Something influencers have pointed out that I agree with is that Looxi dupes themselves often. Examples: Abracadabra and Snickerdoodle are warm and cool versions of each other. Drip is a TM Hot Spiced Cider dupe so it's probably right between Peacock and Jeepers Creepers. Star Burst and Salt Water Taffy have the same gold sparkle with different bases (tan vs dark red-brown). Angel Wings, Rose, and Boujee are the same or very similar base and shifts with different textures. So as a point of advice to anyone, I don't think it's worth collecting them all even at this price point, but it's definitely worth picking and choosing whatever assortment suits your fancy.
I just placed a small order a future video, for some shades that I think / hope will be similar alternatives for more expensive shades. I did pick up Angel Wings but I didn’t think to pick up Hybrid! Will def pick that up for a part 2 if people are interested . Thank you for providing all those examples! Super helpful, unlike their website 😬
I watched hot vegan Hannah and Kathryn B before placing my looxi order. Between the two, I think I was able to make an informed order. I use the nyx glitter glue and don’t experience creasing - but I definitely experience the shimmer traveling up into my crease (user error?) as well as fading for some shades (I wear my makeup for a 12-18 hr day). I’m surprised you don’t have cookie dough in your video :) painted lady looks very gold to me. I was hoping for more of the blue, silver over purple effect that I see in your video. I wonder why … and I also think I need to start sheering out my shadows more - I tend to be heavy handed. All in all I am enjoying my looxi shadows. And I really enjoyed this video and would appreciate future such videos as well.
In a perfect world, I agree that Looxi would benefit from hiring a few people with different skin tones to provide more accurate swatches, but I sometimes admire her attitude towards stepping away from social media. It’s as if she’s saying she’s just going to make the best shadows at the best price she can and those who like what she does will buy the product. Anyway, there are so many I would recommend, especially from more recent collections: Jawbreaker, Red Hot, Once Upon a Time, Emerald City, Jelly Bean/Arctic Rose/Venus, Champagne Punch, Goody Goody Gumdrop, Blitzen, Vixen, Starboy, Glasswing, Until Dawn, Dark Waters, Winter Moon, Blue Lagoon, Cosmo/Tequila Sunrise, Jelly, plus Bubblegum, Screwball and Snow Cone for the inner corner. I knew Angel Wings and Hybrid would come up as recommendations. I’m super curious to see how Hybrid compares to more expensive blue-brown shades.
I can understand why a brand owner would want to step away from social media - I get a lot of *nasty* messages and comments from people who think I’m a makeup brand, so I can only imagine how many an actual brand owner gets lol. I don’t think they need to have a social media presence to have adequate representation in swatches tho, and honestly I wouldn’t be critiquing them for their lack of social media presence if they had this on their website. Especially since I have seen them send out PR to at least one creator on IG. Those funds could have been allocated toward compensating a creator for swatches. That’s what I did for my collab at least. we were only able to afford sending PR to a couple people with what was leftover but swatch representation was a non negotiable. Appreciate your perspective! And thank you for the recommendations!
For some reason I couldn't edit my comment so I'm re doing it altogether. Their swatches can become misleading tbh. It was why I bought so many of their shadows when I 1st stepped into the scene and now they just sit collecting dust since I only wear really shifty eyeshadows. Don't get me wrong they're nice especially for the price just not my preference. I might give them away to my mom who would appreciate the everyday kind of more neutral leaning eyeshadows. Thanks for sharing! Always a joy to watch any of your content ❤
I think this is fair criticism and I agree! I ended up decluttering /giving away all of the shadows I had from them back in the day. Their newer shadows seem a lot more promising! Also thank you so much ❤️❤️
Great video! In terms of Looxi shadows that weren't in this video, I really like Cookie Dough, Glasswing, and Catty Pillar. Also, their mattes are lovely.
Omg I just placed a huge order from Looxi for the first time in years, too! I'm excited to hear what you think of them and how they look in this video. I think Kathryn's videos show them off beautifully, and I wish I'd seen her videos before placing my order😅
@seekingshifts same, Looxi was one of my first indie loves. The butterfly kisses collection really disappointed me, but Kathryn said some of those were reformulated now. Tbh, after watching your video now, too, I feel like the newer shadows look gorgeous! If they're a little oily, as people say, I definitely don't mind soaking up some of the binder with some paper when they are this cheap. I ordered a ton of shadows, as they don't ship to Norway and I currently have a US address with a forwarding company. Their mattes are some of my favorite too! I'm excited to watch your next video with dupes/comparisons 😍
I still go back to Looxi and always pick up a few shades from their collections. I know a lot of people find the swatches a but of a bait and switch but I still take a chance hoping that it will be a shade that I will love. The newest collection has a shade Splash that reminds me of Enceladus from TM and Angel Wings is *chefs kiss.* I do get a little creasing from some of the shades but it’s not bad since I have incredibly oily, hooded lids. I just use a primer and a base to minimize any creasing.
I'm an oily hooded eye person and all the shades I ever had from looxi creased within like an hour on me. So I decluttered the majority of the ones I had with a few exceptions that I can use as a highlight or that I would use strictly on lower lash line
Oh this was fun! How nice of Kathryn to do this with you. I like looxi’s formula. And price. I cannot lie. Lol it’s kind of fun getting them on a whim and seeing what works and what doesn’t. A waste, but fun. Lol
I'm so mad that yt has not been giving me notifications for your uploads & I have the bell on. 🥴 Anywayyysssss.. 😂 You KNOW I'm a looxi fan & have been for years & years. It was so interesting to see which shades Kathryn sent you because now I want to send you 10 that I want you to test out! I definitely would've sent fuzzy flamingo & ube, but I have so many others that I adore & think would blow your socks off. Thing about looxi is they're a very polarizing brand in the community. Their swatches are misleading, they have zero social presence, they don't reshare or like/comment on any of their customers who create content, they only pop up to announce new collections or sales, they don't have swatches on different skin tones, & I've heard of instances where they have reached out to offer pr & then don't send it. I have a feeling that they found a manufacturer that sells them these in bulk at an incredible price. I think they also buy samples of the pigments to create their swatches & either mix the pigment with a mixing medium or tap the pigment on over a glitter glue. I'm sure they mess with the contrast & saturation, but not to the level where it would make everything look completely different. When that's done, it causes the skin tone to look wildly different imo & as far as I know, that is the owners skin tone (the thick band swatches). Obviously I have so many opinions on the brand lol. As someone who is passionate about byop, I adore that looxi provides beautiful shadows at a price point I can get on board with. Oh & I have more comparisons to other Indies! I should really pull all of my looxi & do a proper swatch comparison to some other Indies I have!
This video couldn’t have came at a better time. I just placed a big Looxie order and it’s my first time trying the brand, so I’m going in blind. This was to curb my urge with the Terra Moons sale 😂
One of my most frustrating things about buying from brands is sometimes the swatch is so off. I end up purchasing something it is not even near the color really wanted.
Just placed an order for “slightly spicy neutrals” (aka grays and pinks) from Terra Moons during the sale. Your videos were so helpful in determining which shadows I would like!
Yay for featuring Looxi!! You got a lot of my favorites. The others i love are Angel wings, glasswing, hybrid, venus, once upon a time, blue lagoon, and more! I love looxi and I Adore kathryn b. ,
I really enjoy Looxi even though it can be a gamble. But for $2-3, it’s been worth it! Of the orders I’ve made, I’ve only gotten one dud. My favorites so far are The Monarch, Fuzzy Flamingo, Joker, Foxy Lady, and Under Da Sea. To me, Snickerdoodle is almost the same as Abracadabra. I prefer Abracadabra because to me, it was shinier. Also if you have Cookie Dough, you can put it on top of a cream base and get Salted Caramel and on top of a pinky peach base and get Gingerbread.
Love me some looxi…. She has some really pretty shades. I usually wait til they’re on sale, to get them even cheaper. Some shades crease on me and some don’t, honestly just depends. I also work 12 hour shifts so I’m sure most things crease by the end of the day for me lol. I wore ube on my inner corner the other day and it was so glowy!!
Looxi uses synthetic wax as a binder which makes her eyeshadows rather oily. Synthetic wax is derived from petroleum. That said there are some true hidden gems in her line up, like Angel Wings and Painted Lady. Haven't tried their more recent shadows after the "reformulation" so I can't really speak to those. And yep my last order from them was in 2019 when they released their Butterfly kisses. From what I understood, they are both private labeled and handmade. The eyeshadows that aren't handpressed like their regular shimmers and mattes come from a factory, the auroras are handpressed, because the swatches she shows on her website are likely made when the pigment is being mixed, that's why they look much more intense.
Thank you! I definitely see why that would cause so many people to have creasing issues. I used to have both of their Ice Cream Social collections back in the day and there were some absolute standouts- Salted Caramel and Cookie Dough. I ended up giving all of my Looxi shadows to a friend but otherwise I think I would still be using those 2 shades to this day
@@seekingshifts yeah it's unfortunate they crease on some of us with hooded or oily lids. Synthetic wax is safer than natural wax, but at the end of the day an eyeshadow should perform without too much babysitting. Perhaps repressing them with alcohol and soaking the excess with a paper towel would make them less oily and less prone to creasing, but I don't expect everyone to do that, when there are arguably better formulated eyeshadows on the market.
Angel Wings is in my top 5 single shadows of all time! Their other shades, not so much 😅 I had 7 or 8 of them I think, but I ended up repanning a few and mixing them with other shadows to create custom shades since they weren’t getting much use as-is
I just received my second order from looxi. When swatched out next to other brands they can seem a little lack luster but I find myself reaching for some of the shades all the time. Chocolate cherry is my new favorite which is very similar to snickerdoodle. I will say I agree with the website not showing the shadows well, so much so that I bought a shade I already had because it looked so diff online 😂.
Hannah is the one who introduced me to this brand, I think my favorite shades from them are Painted Lady (which my cat smashed but I thankfully was able to repress it) and Angel Wings, but I have a few others I enjoy. They have some affordable yet good quality shadows! A couple aren’t my faves because they’re too sheer or too satiny for my preferences. But I still think most of them are pretty good, regardless of the low price point! I just wish that on the website they wouldn’t show such dramatized and unrealistic swatches. Yours seemed much more accurate but still so pretty! I get they’re probably trying to sell more by making the swatches look more appealing, but it’s definitely a bit deceptive and leads to disappointment. I would agree it seems the contrast/saturation has been enhanced on their site, which they don’t even need to do! The shadows I have look amazing when you’re natural light so it’s like Looxi… stop! You don’t need to edit your swatches!!!
Not always but usually just lowering the saturation, and the contrast on looxi site swatch photos will give you a better idea of the shade. Thats my little hack atleast
I don’t have too much trouble with creasing from Looxi, and my eyes are very hooded but not oily.. so maybe it has to do more with the oils and their formula? Definitely some variations of their formula stay put better than others. (If anyone sees this-I have heard Wet N Wild Photofocus eye primer is good for oily lids, obviously I can’t confirm myself for the oily aspect but in general it works great for me and I like to put it out there in case it is helpful to someone else especially since it is affordable) Very beautiful swatches and absolutely 100% agree.. if they showed a variety of realistic swatches on a variety of skin tones it would be a game changer. It would also be good for them to zone in on making their descriptions more accurate imo.. if anything undersell it and just name the base tone and the most prominent reflect🤷🏻♀️ I also wish they were more dedicated to having at least some social media presence, the last time I looked they even had their comments turned off on newer posts, which isn’t a good sign at all to me. With all that being said, I do really enjoy their shadows for what they are. I don’t expect anything specifically when I order and I usually am pleasantly surprised.
I picked up the butterfly kisses collection and a few other shades back when it released. I'd say the swatches are misleading. And compared to my other indie shifty shadows they weren't able to stand out. The price point is fair for what you're getting but the swatches need a major improvement.
I just recently tried Looxi. The shadows are beautiful but the formula doesn't last on my hooded, oily eyelids. If I use all my primers and barely tap the shadow on, it will get me around 4 hours of wear before it turns into a mess. I really wish they worked for me.
I clicked so fast, so exciting to hear your thoughts on Looxi and major props to Kathryn for making this happen!! I love Snickerdoodle, I think of it as a Diet Carving and wear it when I want Carving vibes with less of a base/impact. The sheerness of a lot of their shades is a big selling point to me. Totally agree they’re doing themselves a major disservice by not providing accurate swatches and not commissioning creators of different skin tones to make accurate swatches. Hoping they take note soon!
omg thank you Looxi queen 🤩 diet carving is a PERFECT description! I def agree about the more sheer bases being a selling point
@hotveganhannah Diet Carving great! You gotta TM that 😀
The sheer base is a major selling point for me too. I love nothing more than a semi sheer/sheer, colorful, sparkly shade! Very few Indies do it as well at this price point! 🫶
Omg the SWATCHES! You made all of the Looxi shades look so good! It was really interesting to see your comparisons since you’ve got some shades that I don’t! Honestly, seeing your comparisons for Fuzzy Flamingo kind of make me want to see it compared to Clionadh Sunbeam or Adornment!
I have sunbeam! This vid inspired me to pull my looxi collection & compare them to other Indies I have. When I do I'll tag you!
If there's just *one* shade I'd love to see in a future video or IG post, it's Angel Wings, now that it's available again! Also, it might be worth doing a comparison of Hybrid with Clionadh Grisaille and Abrasion.
Something influencers have pointed out that I agree with is that Looxi dupes themselves often. Examples: Abracadabra and Snickerdoodle are warm and cool versions of each other. Drip is a TM Hot Spiced Cider dupe so it's probably right between Peacock and Jeepers Creepers. Star Burst and Salt Water Taffy have the same gold sparkle with different bases (tan vs dark red-brown). Angel Wings, Rose, and Boujee are the same or very similar base and shifts with different textures. So as a point of advice to anyone, I don't think it's worth collecting them all even at this price point, but it's definitely worth picking and choosing whatever assortment suits your fancy.
I just placed a small order a future video, for some shades that I think / hope will be similar alternatives for more expensive shades. I did pick up Angel Wings but I didn’t think to pick up Hybrid! Will def pick that up for a part 2 if people are interested .
Thank you for providing all those examples! Super helpful, unlike their website 😬
What’s the difference between Angel Wings and Rose?
@@seevanhawkins4591 Rosé has a more metallic finish while Angel Wings is more flaky/textured.
I watched hot vegan Hannah and Kathryn B before placing my looxi order. Between the two, I think I was able to make an informed order. I use the nyx glitter glue and don’t experience creasing - but I definitely experience the shimmer traveling up into my crease (user error?) as well as fading for some shades (I wear my makeup for a 12-18 hr day). I’m surprised you don’t have cookie dough in your video :) painted lady looks very gold to me. I was hoping for more of the blue, silver over purple effect that I see in your video. I wonder why … and I also think I need to start sheering out my shadows more - I tend to be heavy handed. All in all I am enjoying my looxi shadows. And I really enjoyed this video and would appreciate future such videos as well.
In a perfect world, I agree that Looxi would benefit from hiring a few people with different skin tones to provide more accurate swatches, but I sometimes admire her attitude towards stepping away from social media. It’s as if she’s saying she’s just going to make the best shadows at the best price she can and those who like what she does will buy the product. Anyway, there are so many I would recommend, especially from more recent collections: Jawbreaker, Red Hot, Once Upon a Time, Emerald City, Jelly Bean/Arctic Rose/Venus, Champagne Punch, Goody Goody Gumdrop, Blitzen, Vixen, Starboy, Glasswing, Until Dawn, Dark Waters, Winter Moon, Blue Lagoon, Cosmo/Tequila Sunrise, Jelly, plus Bubblegum, Screwball and Snow Cone for the inner corner. I knew Angel Wings and Hybrid would come up as recommendations. I’m super curious to see how Hybrid compares to more expensive blue-brown shades.
I can understand why a brand owner would want to step away from social media - I get a lot of *nasty* messages and comments from people who think I’m a makeup brand, so I can only imagine how many an actual brand owner gets lol. I don’t think they need to have a social media presence to have adequate representation in swatches tho, and honestly I wouldn’t be critiquing them for their lack of social media presence if they had this on their website. Especially since I have seen them send out PR to at least one creator on IG. Those funds could have been allocated toward compensating a creator for swatches. That’s what I did for my collab at least. we were only able to afford sending PR to a couple people with what was leftover but swatch representation was a non negotiable. Appreciate your perspective! And thank you for the recommendations!
@@seekingshifts Excellent points. I can only hope she’ll take note over time. It would certainly decrease customer frustration and help her business!
For some reason I couldn't edit my comment so I'm re doing it altogether. Their swatches can become misleading tbh. It was why I bought so many of their shadows when I 1st stepped into the scene and now they just sit collecting dust since I only wear really shifty eyeshadows. Don't get me wrong they're nice especially for the price just not my preference. I might give them away to my mom who would appreciate the everyday kind of more neutral leaning eyeshadows. Thanks for sharing! Always a joy to watch any of your content ❤
I think this is fair criticism and I agree! I ended up decluttering /giving away all of the shadows I had from them back in the day. Their newer shadows seem a lot more promising! Also thank you so much ❤️❤️
Great video! In terms of Looxi shadows that weren't in this video, I really like Cookie Dough, Glasswing, and Catty Pillar. Also, their mattes are lovely.
Great swatches and comparisons to Looxi's swatches. One of my favorites is Crimson Rose. It's not shifty, but a pretty foiled shadow.
Thank you!! I remember wanting Crimson Rose back in the day! I’m a sucker for a dusty purple/mauve
They have some great spicy neutral options 🙌🏻
Omg I just placed a huge order from Looxi for the first time in years, too! I'm excited to hear what you think of them and how they look in this video. I think Kathryn's videos show them off beautifully, and I wish I'd seen her videos before placing my order😅
It feels so nostalgic to have them!! I’m curious about what you ordered!
@seekingshifts same, Looxi was one of my first indie loves. The butterfly kisses collection really disappointed me, but Kathryn said some of those were reformulated now. Tbh, after watching your video now, too, I feel like the newer shadows look gorgeous! If they're a little oily, as people say, I definitely don't mind soaking up some of the binder with some paper when they are this cheap. I ordered a ton of shadows, as they don't ship to Norway and I currently have a US address with a forwarding company. Their mattes are some of my favorite too! I'm excited to watch your next video with dupes/comparisons 😍
I still go back to Looxi and always pick up a few shades from their collections. I know a lot of people find the swatches a but of a bait and switch but I still take a chance hoping that it will be a shade that I will love. The newest collection has a shade Splash that reminds me of Enceladus from TM and Angel Wings is *chefs kiss.* I do get a little creasing from some of the shades but it’s not bad since I have incredibly oily, hooded lids. I just use a primer and a base to minimize any creasing.
I just ordered both of those for a future video!!
I'm an oily hooded eye person and all the shades I ever had from looxi creased within like an hour on me. So I decluttered the majority of the ones I had with a few exceptions that I can use as a highlight or that I would use strictly on lower lash line
Oh this was fun! How nice of Kathryn to do this with you. I like looxi’s formula. And price. I cannot lie. Lol it’s kind of fun getting them on a whim and seeing what works and what doesn’t. A waste, but fun. Lol
I'm so mad that yt has not been giving me notifications for your uploads & I have the bell on. 🥴 Anywayyysssss.. 😂
You KNOW I'm a looxi fan & have been for years & years. It was so interesting to see which shades Kathryn sent you because now I want to send you 10 that I want you to test out! I definitely would've sent fuzzy flamingo & ube, but I have so many others that I adore & think would blow your socks off.
Thing about looxi is they're a very polarizing brand in the community. Their swatches are misleading, they have zero social presence, they don't reshare or like/comment on any of their customers who create content, they only pop up to announce new collections or sales, they don't have swatches on different skin tones, & I've heard of instances where they have reached out to offer pr & then don't send it.
I have a feeling that they found a manufacturer that sells them these in bulk at an incredible price. I think they also buy samples of the pigments to create their swatches & either mix the pigment with a mixing medium or tap the pigment on over a glitter glue. I'm sure they mess with the contrast & saturation, but not to the level where it would make everything look completely different. When that's done, it causes the skin tone to look wildly different imo & as far as I know, that is the owners skin tone (the thick band swatches). Obviously I have so many opinions on the brand lol. As someone who is passionate about byop, I adore that looxi provides beautiful shadows at a price point I can get on board with. Oh & I have more comparisons to other Indies! I should really pull all of my looxi & do a proper swatch comparison to some other Indies I have!
Additional recommendations: Gingerbread, hot rod, licorice lace, angel wings, glasswing, Venus, saltwater taffy, pixie dust, dragon slayer
This video couldn’t have came at a better time. I just placed a big Looxie order and it’s my first time trying the brand, so I’m going in blind. This was to curb my urge with the Terra Moons sale 😂
OOH please update me when you get your haul I’m super curious about what you got and how you will end up liking them!
@@seekingshifts I most certainly will and Snickerdoodle was included in that haul, so I’m kind of excited about that shade now 🥰
One of my most frustrating things about buying from brands is sometimes the swatch is so off. I end up purchasing something it is not even near the color really wanted.
Just placed an order for “slightly spicy neutrals” (aka grays and pinks) from Terra Moons during the sale. Your videos were so helpful in determining which shadows I would like!
Yay for featuring Looxi!! You got a lot of my favorites. The others i love are Angel wings, glasswing, hybrid, venus, once upon a time, blue lagoon, and more! I love looxi and I Adore kathryn b. ,
I really enjoy Looxi even though it can be a gamble. But for $2-3, it’s been worth it! Of the orders I’ve made, I’ve only gotten one dud. My favorites so far are The Monarch, Fuzzy Flamingo, Joker, Foxy Lady, and Under Da Sea.
To me, Snickerdoodle is almost the same as Abracadabra. I prefer Abracadabra because to me, it was shinier. Also if you have Cookie Dough, you can put it on top of a cream base and get Salted Caramel and on top of a pinky peach base and get Gingerbread.
Love me some looxi…. She has some really pretty shades. I usually wait til they’re on sale, to get them even cheaper. Some shades crease on me and some don’t, honestly just depends. I also work 12 hour shifts so I’m sure most things crease by the end of the day for me lol. I wore ube on my inner corner the other day and it was so glowy!!
Omg yes, every brand should have products be swatched on 3 skin tones, minimum!!!
Same for clothing, show us multiple body types, jeezy creezy
Looxi uses synthetic wax as a binder which makes her eyeshadows rather oily. Synthetic wax is derived from petroleum.
That said there are some true hidden gems in her line up, like Angel Wings and Painted Lady. Haven't tried their more recent shadows after the "reformulation" so I can't really speak to those. And yep my last order from them was in 2019 when they released their Butterfly kisses.
From what I understood, they are both private labeled and handmade. The eyeshadows that aren't handpressed like their regular shimmers and mattes come from a factory, the auroras are handpressed, because the swatches she shows on her website are likely made when the pigment is being mixed, that's why they look much more intense.
Thank you! I definitely see why that would cause so many people to have creasing issues. I used to have both of their Ice Cream Social collections back in the day and there were some absolute standouts- Salted Caramel and Cookie Dough. I ended up giving all of my Looxi shadows to a friend but otherwise I think I would still be using those 2 shades to this day
@@seekingshifts yeah it's unfortunate they crease on some of us with hooded or oily lids. Synthetic wax is safer than natural wax, but at the end of the day an eyeshadow should perform without too much babysitting. Perhaps repressing them with alcohol and soaking the excess with a paper towel would make them less oily and less prone to creasing, but I don't expect everyone to do that, when there are arguably better formulated eyeshadows on the market.
Angel Wings is in my top 5 single shadows of all time! Their other shades, not so much 😅 I had 7 or 8 of them I think, but I ended up repanning a few and mixing them with other shadows to create custom shades since they weren’t getting much use as-is
I just received my second order from looxi. When swatched out next to other brands they can seem a little lack luster but I find myself reaching for some of the shades all the time. Chocolate cherry is my new favorite which is very similar to snickerdoodle. I will say I agree with the website not showing the shadows well, so much so that I bought a shade I already had because it looked so diff online 😂.
Hannah is the one who introduced me to this brand, I think my favorite shades from them are Painted Lady (which my cat smashed but I thankfully was able to repress it) and Angel Wings, but I have a few others I enjoy. They have some affordable yet good quality shadows! A couple aren’t my faves because they’re too sheer or too satiny for my preferences. But I still think most of them are pretty good, regardless of the low price point! I just wish that on the website they wouldn’t show such dramatized and unrealistic swatches. Yours seemed much more accurate but still so pretty! I get they’re probably trying to sell more by making the swatches look more appealing, but it’s definitely a bit deceptive and leads to disappointment. I would agree it seems the contrast/saturation has been enhanced on their site, which they don’t even need to do! The shadows I have look amazing when you’re natural light so it’s like Looxi… stop! You don’t need to edit your swatches!!!
They definitely make all their products in house.
Not always but usually just lowering the saturation, and the contrast on looxi site swatch photos will give you a better idea of the shade. Thats my little hack atleast
I don’t have too much trouble with creasing from Looxi, and my eyes are very hooded but not oily.. so maybe it has to do more with the oils and their formula? Definitely some variations of their formula stay put better than others. (If anyone sees this-I have heard Wet N Wild Photofocus eye primer is good for oily lids, obviously I can’t confirm myself for the oily aspect but in general it works great for me and I like to put it out there in case it is helpful to someone else especially since it is affordable)
Very beautiful swatches and absolutely 100% agree.. if they showed a variety of realistic swatches on a variety of skin tones it would be a game changer. It would also be good for them to zone in on making their descriptions more accurate imo.. if anything undersell it and just name the base tone and the most prominent reflect🤷🏻♀️ I also wish they were more dedicated to having at least some social media presence, the last time I looked they even had their comments turned off on newer posts, which isn’t a good sign at all to me. With all that being said, I do really enjoy their shadows for what they are. I don’t expect anything specifically when I order and I usually am pleasantly surprised.
Great job! Looxi shadows don't crease on me either.
I picked up the butterfly kisses collection and a few other shades back when it released. I'd say the swatches are misleading. And compared to my other indie shifty shadows they weren't able to stand out. The price point is fair for what you're getting but the swatches need a major improvement.
I just recently tried Looxi. The shadows are beautiful but the formula doesn't last on my hooded, oily eyelids. If I use all my primers and barely tap the shadow on, it will get me around 4 hours of wear before it turns into a mess. I really wish they worked for me.
I’ve heard a lot of people say the same about creasing :/
Loved this video! Also, for $2, hybrid is a STEAL! I could name a lot more but that's the one that comes to mind
I’ve been so curious about looxi lately. These swatches were very helpful. I may place an order sometime soon. 🤍