- Hey, friends, welcome back and hello
to you new people too, I'm Courtney.
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So, today's video is a reader request.
I was asked to talk about
affordable indie makeup brands.
So, my opinion, most indie
brands are very affordable.
You have some that I would
say are more on the luxury end
of the price side such as Rituel de Fille,
I'm sure I'm butchering
that 'cause it's French,
but, for the most part, I feel like
most indie beauty brands
are extremely affordable
so I'm going to focus
on the ones that I know
have sales a lot or have coupon codes.
First up would be Aromaleigh.
Aromaleigh has weekly sales where you
can save 25% off on whatever is on sale
and they do a lot of beautiful duochromes.
They have some excellent mattes
so if you are looking for unusual colors
or even staple work neutral colors
I would recommend you check them out.
They also make some beautiful
contour colors that I really like.
It's in, like, their
Insectarium collection,
so there's like some grays
and like gray-violets
and like greyed out mauves,
like, beautiful colors.
So, the next brand would
be Darling Girl Cosmetics
and Darling Girl Cosmetics also has
a lot of really pretty duochrome colors.
They have some good mattes which are in
their MILF collection which
is Matte's I'd Like to Find.
I actually did a collaboration
with them years ago
which is a Monster High
inspired collection,
so if you look at those
colors, they're really pretty.
There are some, like, Vegan
Vampire is one of the shades
and Goth Moth is another
shade, so they have
some really cute stuff and
they also have a new sub box
which is, like, called Glitter Grams.
I recently showed them
in my Instagram stories
and I'll probably put swatches either
up on my channel or on my blog.
I have a coupon code for Darling Girl
to give you 15% off which is PHYRRA15
and all of my, like, discount codes are in
the description box down below
as well as my affiliate links
so if you ever want to shop through those
I would totally appreciate it
because I make a small amount
of commission on whatever
links that you shop through
if it's an affiliate
link and I use that money
to put back into my
blog, to buy equipment,
to buy products to
review, stuff like that,
so it's up to you but I totally
appreciate it when you help me out.
So, next on the list of affordable
indie makeup & skincare brands
would be Ishani Botanicals and this is
a vegan skincare brand
that's an indie brand
so basically everything is handmade.
They use biodegradable
packaging, stuff like that, and I
personally really like they
have really good coconut oil.
They have some interesting cleansers.
I like their hair mask.
Basically, if you look at their page,
they all tell you, like, in detail
what type of skin type is
for, and I've reviewed them
on my blog in case you
haven't ever heard of them
but you can check them out and you
can save 25% with the code phyrra25.
So, next up is My Pretty Zombie.
My Pretty Zombie Cosmetics makes some
really badass duochromes and they have
some, like, really funny, creepy names.
So, some of their names are, like,
the medical name for drugs,
like, MDMA or oxycodone
and then, other names
are, like, on the creepy
or creepy cute Side because the owner
has a very morbid sense of
humor and I really like it.
One of the things about ordering from them
is that I think they do a bloody finger
or something that comes in your box,
but what I really appreciate is for me
she always puts a cat in because
I don't like the bloody fingers.
I like the attention to detail
that she has with her
brand and if you look
at their sales page, they
have, like, bundle sales
where you can, like, buy four
items and get it discounted,
buy five items and get them discounted
and that's how I bought a lot
of my eyeshadows from them,
so that's what I recommend you do.
Additionally, I have a 15%
off code with My Pretty Zombie
which is just myprettyphyrra
and I've done tons
of, like, reviews and swatches on my blog
so if you just check at my
blog, like, Phyrra dot net
slash tag My Pretty Zombie
you'll be able to see those.
I'll put it up here in the
screen so you know exactly
what to look for on my blog
but you can see different looks
and stuff that I've tagged
with My Pretty Zombie.
So, the next brand on
my list is Silk Naturals
and they're a mostly vegan brand
and I think that their products
are always very reasonably priced.
Their eyeshadows are only
like $4.50 for a jar.
You can save an additional
5% with the code phyrra18
but, basically, all of the
prices on their products
I think are really, really low,
so I personally recommend
checking out their eyeshadows.
They have a lot of, like, staple
neutral, like, work course eyeshadows.
They do, like, vegan versions of
the Urban Decay Naked palettes,
of the Too Faced Sweet Peach palette,
of the Anastasia Beverly
Hills Subculture palette,
stuff like that, which I
think is really helpful
for people who have allergies.
Their products are like
gluten free and free of, like,
bismuth oxychloride which
can be itchy and an irritant.
I really like their
velvet matte lipsticks.
If you are somebody who
wants, like, a comfortable,
comfortable matte lipstick formula,
that's a great on to check out
and they have a pretty
wide range of colors.
I reviewed a ton of
their stuff on my blog.
So, I'll put information up here for how
you can find my reviews on their products.
So, Fyrinnae is another
one of the, I think,
very affordable indie makeup brands.
They're 100% vegan.
Their Exquisites and Arcane
Magic eyeshadows are amazing.
They also have, like, some lippies
and their Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy is badass.
It's basically like this mixing medium
that makes any sort of
duochrome or multichrome
or glittery shade just pop, so amazing.
I definitely recommend
that you check them out.
They have great products.
Next on my list would
be Geek Chic Cosmetics
and they have sales pretty regularly.
You need to keep an eye
out, like, around holidays.
They're also, I believe, 100% vegan
and they have some really fun colors
with their JoySticks lip colors.
They have some foundations.
Their foundation range is pretty limited.
They have beautiful,
beautiful highlighters.
Like, if you ever had wanted any of
the Jeffree Star
highlighters that were in,
like, the weird colors liken the mint
and the pastel pink and stuff,
Geek Chic has a whole line
of those kind of, like,
minty pastel colors
that you might find beautiful.
Their eyeshadows are great,
so they're definitely
another one that I would check out
and, again, I think
they're very affordable.
So, I'm pretty sure all the
brands I've mentioned so far
have eyeshadows that are $10 and under.
I think they're usually between, like,
$4.50 and, like, $6.50 or $8.
I also wanted to talk
about Makeup Geek Cosmetics
because Makeup Geek's
eyeshadows are pretty much,
I think, between, like, $5 and $10.
So, I think that they deserve
to be on this list as well
and you know I love my Makeup
Geek, love, love, love them.
They have a ton of eyeshadows but they
have discontinued a bunch of colors.
I've seen that they're coming out with
the Power Pigments, so I
can't wait to get my hands
on those 'cause those look like
they're going to be fun bright colors
but the line up that they have right now,
like, those colors are great too,
so if you're looking for, you know,
a lot of like more neutral colors,
because they have a lot of, like, what
I would call neutral colors with browns
and peaches and stuff, you can find them
at Makeup Geek and they're pressed
which I know some people
don't like loose eyeshadows
'cause they feel like they're too messy,
so you could always, you know.
So, I think it's always
good to give an option that
has pressed shadows and Makeup
Geek is a good one for that.
Another indie company that
has pressed eyeshadows
that I really like would
be Sydney Grace Company
and I recently featured
Sydney Grace Company
in my DIY Cool Berries
Palette, so if you're curious
about how their products swatch,
you can check out that blog post of mine.
So, for the more expensive
side of indie eyeshadows
I would look at Saucebox Cosmetics.
They're coming out with a
bunch of new eyeshadow colors
and they often have really nice bundles
and sales so you can check those out
and I think that you won't
be disappointed with 'em.
Their quality is excellent and their
eyeshadow pan size is huge,
so where a regular pan
is, like, I don't know, like, say
that big, a Saucebox is that big.
Saucebox is the same size as Sugarpill
and I'm going to talk about Sugarpill too
because I love Sugarpill
but they're definitely
on the more expensive
side of indie eyeshadow
and they have sales very rarely.
You pretty much have to follow
their Instagram to see their sales.
I mean, I share their sales in my
Phyrra Nyx Facebook
group if you're in there
but they have sales
very, very infrequently.
Saucebox has sales much more
frequently than Sugarpill does
and I think that's really it for brands
that I love that I consider to be more
on the affordable side of indie beauty.
So, let me know your favorite affordable
indie brands in the comments below.
I can't wait to hear
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Thanks so much for watching and
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