Blue eyeshadow lovers, I really think Stars Makeup Haven is your brand. (Don’t worry, neutral lovers: I’ve saved a little something for you tomorrow.)
For those of you just joining us, this week we’re admiring all 50 shades of a relatively new makeup line. SMH got its start as a website selling pigment-pressing supplies and empty palettes — and though they still sell those items, they’re applying their wealth of cosmetics experience to developing their own line. They’ve started with these remarkably soft, and incredibly pigmented eyeshadows — $4.95 each, sold in pans the same size as MAC’s (1″ or 26mm).
For the rest of this week (ending Sunday, August 16), SMH is also offering you readers a special discount: 15% off your total order with the code karlasugar.
1492 is an intense, reflective, Dodger blue. Pacific Rim is matte smoky blue. Walkin’ After Midnight is a shimmery blackened sapphire. Dress Blues is a reflective, shimmery cerulean. Steel Away is a shimmery country gingham blue. Electra-fied is a very sparkly, shimmery silver. In a Bind reminded me of MUFE’s Star Black Aqua Eyes liner, and I think it’s just slightly warmer than Smoke & Mirrors, which is cooler and more silver. Unzipped is matte black; The White Shadow is the matte white I alluded to earlier in the week.
>I've been looking for a really nice dark blue
I'll send you an email to enter the contest 
>Luv the blues, Have been waiting for you to swatch the blues. Thankyou
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>Blues usually scare me, but those are all gorgeous! Especially Walkin After Midnight! *compiles order list* thanks!
>I can't believe how good these look. I was eyeballing Pacific Rim on the website but now that I see the swatches I'm really liking 1492 and Smoke & Mirrors. All of these colors look amazing.
>These shadows are so beautiful! I need to pick out a few shadows to buy!
>These are gorgeous!
>Electra fied looks great for the smoky-eye.
>They all look very lovely. I have to say, though, that the names tread pretty close to some MAC shadows… Electra-fied for a silver shadow? Smoke & Mirrors?
>i'm liking the greys/silvers.
>Excuse me while I wipe off the drool on my keyboard.
Gorgeous！ I like your greens swatches a bit more, but then again, I've always been biased towards greens
The moment I saw these, I envisioned a smokey eye with Electra-fied, Smoke & Mirrors, and Unzipped. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's an exact dupe of my Chanel Argents 3 colors palette…
I just took a detour and went to their site again and did some snooping around. I *think* I'm going to just get their ninety something palette, which is apparently better than Costal Scents' eighty something one (do you know anything about this palette's pigmentation?). Then I'll probably add a neutrals quad to the order. I don't get to use vibrant colors all that often, so it won't be practical for me to buy the 15 pan palette, as much as I want to.
By the way, I got this strange warning message from Google Chrome browser when I came to your site today:
"The website at karlasugar.blogspot.com contains elements from the site pinkhairedprincess.blogspot.com, which appears to host malware"
… yeah
>So, today for blue lovers, tomorrow for neutral lovers… when will be the turn for purple lovers?
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>Love all the blue shades. ESP the 1492. What an interesting name
>Lay off of my Blue Suede shoes
>You seem to be reading my mind, Walkin' After Midnight and Smoke & Mirrors are my ultimate favorites in this set!
>1492 is simply hypnotic! And Walkin' After Midnight is not bad at all.
This is getting better and better. Looking forward to seeing what is coming next.
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>I'm with PlatinumV.
Bring on the Purples & Mauves!!!!
Purple lovers need some eye candy.
BTW Karla: YOU ROCK!
>Wow these Star makeup haven eye shadow looks really really good. Love smoke&mirrors, looks like THE perfect eyeshadow for smokey eyes!!
I think I want all of the shadows you have shown…..
I always love your swatches and think you are awsome for doing this!!
>Hows the pigmentation of Unzipped? Blues are not usually my thing but some of those darker ones look fabulous. I love all these swatches you have been doing. Serious lemming creator!
>Heya Lady!
Oh what lovliness, but 1492 is GORGEOUS!
Thanks continually for bringing the good stuff.
=D
>Great week of swatching! Thanks for the contest
>I love blues. And all this swatches look great, in fact. I like them all, walkin' after midnight is my favorite…
>Even with all these make up sales going on, 4.95 a pan is a hard price to beat. Thanks for introducing us to this wonderful line!
>love the blues!! i don't wear them a lot since i tend to gravitate towards the purples and pinks but i'm thinking i might have to jump on board and play w/these blue babies!!! =)
>These are so absolutely gorgeous! 1942 is totally calling out to me hehehe. Smoke and Mirrors too – so much more interesting than black!
>you know how i love blues. this is one post that i had to look and really shouldn't have done that OMG! it's heaven!
>Now these are awesome! I absolutely love blue shades. Favorite SMH post thus far!
>Love the swatches, just wondering if you have the ingredient list for this product? I am really conscious about ingredients, so if you could provide that, I would be really thankful!
Thanks!
>fav this time are electra-fied and steel away… absolutely beautiful
>ELectra-fied looks so beautiful!
>Yey I thought smoke and mirrors was the prettiest one
>smokes and mirrors looks totally awesomeee xD and the names for all of them are pretty cute, unlike MUFE numbers.. pshh.
>More gorgeousness! I'm getting an order together. Just waiting for the rest of your postings:) Thanks again for the awesome swatches!
>Thanks for the great swatches! I'm so glad that SMH has made a super pigmented matte black shadow! Now, I won't have to spend the 14.50 on MAC carbon.
>walking in midnight is super gorgeous! do u noe if there is a dupe for an eyeliner colour for that?
>Wow those blues are gorgeous. I especially love Steel Away and then Smoke and Mirrors.I don't post often but I love your blog you are the best!
>Kayvid: Hi! I am loving all these swatches. Thanks for swatching them.
>Gorgeous….Absolutely gorgeous. I NEED some of these shadows!
>Smoke & Mirrors looks awesome!
Wow SMH has really gone downhill in regards to service! I ordered four empty blush palettes over a month ago and they were never delivered. My money was taken out of my bank almost immediately, but my order still says processing on their site. I have sent four emails to try to find out what’s going on, but no response. I started a complaint with paypal earlier this week, but my order still says processing. This is not my first time ordering from them. Earlier this year in April I ordered two empty 28 pan eyeshadow palettes, which fit my mac eyeshadows perfectly, but got them after two weeks. SMH made up for the delay by including a free eyeshadow and explaining on the invoice that they were short staffed because some people went back to school, blah blah blah. I also noticed around that time on their twitter that they were going to hire or hired new staff. I recently checked their twitter again and they have no problem tweeting constantly, but apparently have a problem with responding to their customers’ emails!!!!! I will wait one more week, but if nothing changes, I will have to escalate my complaint with paypal and get my money back!Â