Lime Crime Drama-Rama

Image via Lime Crime

Before I was ever truly apart of the beauty community, I ran across Lime Crime Cosmetics thanks to Pinterest. Of course the Velvetines are everywhere, and you've probably seen pictures of their colorful lipstick line whether you realize it or not. Despite Lime Crime being an "indie" makeup company, they seem to be everywhere!

Since first discovering them I've been driven away by the sheer amount of bad things I've heard and seen surrounding the company. I won't go into too much details here, as there are so many posts out there that explain every little bit, but the tl;dr version is:

Doe Deere repackaged and resold generic wholesale eye shadows as her own, claimed to be vegan but was not, threatened and harassed bloggers who did not give her products good reviews, continually deletes any comment on her pages with a legitimate complaint, and recently was involved in a massive credit card fraud involving the Lime Crime website.

Some links to educate yourself:

Doe Deere & Lime Crime: A Sordid History

Lime Crime: Beneath the Glitter

Lime Crime's Crimes (Sephora Stops Carrying Lime Crime After a Few Weeks)

Lime Crime Class Action Lawsuit

Lime Crime's Reaction To Lawsuit

#BoycottLimeCrime Petition

Some links to further explain my issues with Doe Deere:

Doe Deere as Hitler

Lime Crime Plagiarizes Images and Kindly Tells Everyone to Shut Up

Doe Deere Calls Commenter Dumbass for Saying She Isn't 100% Vegan

Not to mention the time she had her fans harass Christine from Temptalia for giving an honest review of her products. This is what the newsletter to her "futurettes" said:

“Finally, we wanted to discuss a less-than-favorable review we received on Temptala.com. The review gave our Candyfuture opaque lipsticks a C- rating… We don’t agree! Do you? Here is the link so you can see for yourself: http://www.temptalia.com/lime-crime-lipsticks-reviews-photos-swatches

We would like to encourage all of our futurettes who have had good experiences with our company and products to make yourselves heard. Please don’t keep your happy opinions to yourself! Feel free to email Christine (Temptalia) at [address removed for privacy reasons] and share your positive Lime Crime experiences with her, let her know you disagree with her review, or leave a comment on the article letting everyone know your personal view on our products and company. Please be honest, respectful, and polite!”

The decision is yours. I personally had chosen not to shop from Lime Crime long before things really truly blew up, but now seeing how Doe Deere ignored and blocked people who tried to call out the credit card issue in the past several months, and only owning up to it when it really truly got out of hand, I'm doubting how safe my information really is.

Disclaimer: All opinions stated on eyesonrhi.com and other blogs linked to are strictly opinions, and are drawn by looking at simple facts. I isn't sueable.

Guest Post: Morphe 35 Warm Color Palette Review

So hey there! My name is Rebekah, but since I plan on us being friends you can call me Beks! I am basically the queen of eye shadow palettes, don't believe me, well I'm attaching a photo to prove it. I have all 3 naked palettes, the Lorac palette, the Semi Sweet chocolate Bar palette (my fave) and a few other assorted palettes.

I'm also a huge Jaclynn Hill fan, so you know when she announced she had a partnership with Morphe Brushes for a palette I was all over it, sadly it SOLD OUT!!! :(((((( NOOOOOO! So I decided to shop anyways. Well I found the next best thing, the Morphe 35 Warm Shadows Palette. Wanna take a guess how much it was? Like $20!!! AMAZZINNNNNGGG! Best believe I threw it into my shopping cart and got it like a week later.
The pros of this palette are:

1) The colors, like you have an endless supply of almost every color!

2) The pigmentation, I played with a few yesterday when I received it, I didn't swatch for this post because well I just self tanned, and you know the struggle, I will however link my YouTube channel and you'll get a full video review and tutorial with the palette.

3) The options! Like 35 colors?!?! Who couldn't create hundreds of looks? Like I know I've already played with it!

The one con, however is that there is a lot of fall out with these shadows. Which is an easy fix, but it's still pretty annoying for anyone who does their eye shadow after they do their face.

Here are some pics of my favorite colors! And they will be used in my tutorial with the palette that will hopefully go up sometime this coming week, as I'm on vacation from school and work!

And here's my favorite. I have grey eyes so you know mustards and golds are my babies!

My YouTube channel link!
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCjfE2ERlDp_B86wcK3HwdPg
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE!
And thank you Rhi for letting me sub in for you<3
Beks!

Note from Rhi/Disclaimer: Big thanks to Beks from the Oh My Lash! Beauty Council for helping me out this weekend and writing for me. Definitely make sure you check her out. Also, neither of us are sponsored by Morphe and this palette was bought by the writer.

Eyes On Rhi Vice 3 Challenge

Hello ladies and gents! Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to use the Urban Decay Vice 3 over the next 4 weeks 20 different times (I left a bit of room to work with because I know I'd probably go crazy only using one palette for a whole month). I'm going to make a separate page that will feature each of my daily looks, as well as (hopefully) some of the lovely people's that have taken my challenge. Below are the explanations.

Use only column 1: Truth, Undone, Downfall, and DTF.

Use only row 1: Truth, Dragon, Vanity, Alien, and Last Sin.

Use only column 2: Dragon, Freeze, Heroine, and Brokedown

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Use only row 2: Undone, Freeze, Lucky, Alchemy, and Angel.

Use only column 3: Vanity, Lucky, Reign, and Bobby Dazzle.

Use only row 3: Downfall, Heroine, Reign, Bondage, and Defy.

Use only column 4: Alien, Alchemy, Bondage, and Sonic.

Use only row 4: DTF, Brokedown, Bobby Dazzle, Sonic, and Revolver.

Use only column 5: Last Sin, Angel, Defy, and Revolver.

Summer smokey eye: Create a bright summer inspired smokey eye.

Heaven or Hell: Create either a sweet, flirty look, or a sexy, sultry one.

Fairytale: Create a look based off of your favorite fairytale.

Song title: Create a look based off of your favorite song.
I know some snarky person isn't gonna do their makeup and say it's "Blank Space".

Alterna-chic: Create a look based off of some type of alternative fashion.

Book inspired: Create a look using your favorite book as inspiration.

Eyeliner: Use the palette in a creative way to amp up your eyeliner.

Celeb recreation: Create a look recreating one of your favorite celebrity (or beauty blogger's) makeup.

Animal inspired: Model your makeup after an animal.

Choose a decade: Create a look based off of your favorite decade for makeup.

Seasonal theme: Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall themed.

Disney: Choose your favorite Disney character.

Challenge for Instagram or Twitter: Repost this picture from my Instagram (@eyesonrhi_makeup) or Twitter (@eyesonrhi). #eyesonrhivice3 With your daily look.

Challenge for Facebook: Like my page. Post your picture to my page.

Challenge for anyone else: Send me your images with a link to your blog, YouTube, etc. eyesonrhi@gmail.com.

Disclaimer: I'm not sponsored by Urban Decay. They have no idea who I am yet.