 For a crowd favorite today, we are going to do a swatch and sip. If you're new to swatch and sips, basically this is for all my people who love to swatch our body and eyeshadows and just enjoy the prettiness of it all. So that's what I'm going to do. We're going to bask in some glittery shimmery goodness today. Most of the time it works out for my swatch and sips that I get to highlight some indie brands because I'm going to be honest here, nothing swatches like an indie eyeshadow palette. So I actually have two new ones that I want to talk about and I'm very curious about. We have the Glam Natrix Nearly Natural Palette that I've seen floating around and I've actually gotten a few requests to review it, it's on my eyes today. And then the other one is from Fantasy Cosmetica. This one looks like a glimmery, shimmery, magical dream. But first before we get into the swatches, I want you to pause right now and grab something to sip on while we look at some pretty eyeshadows. My sip for today. Okay, I'm so excited. I'm going to give you a whole feature film and explanation that you did not ask for. But I am drinking my 315. Is it 315? Oh my gosh, that was not planned. This is 315 Anytime Anywhere Tea. The name brands, 315, anyways, I mean it's now 316. That was weird. Anyways, this is my 315 tea. I don't plan to drink it at 315 normally. But anyways, the story behind this is I used to buy this when I was in high school and early college at my H Mart by my parents' house and then they stopped selling it randomly. And I actually went to, there's like an Asian grocery store in Sunrise, Florida for those of you that are local, that was really, really good. And I got so pumped, I was like jumping for joy because they had this here. And you could totally make a milk tea, obviously like the normal way with just tea and milk. But I don't know, there's something about this where I just love the flavor because it's something I drank for years growing up. Anyways, it's kind of hot. I haven't sipped it yet. It's just like a packet and I think there's powdered milk in it. You put hot water, you let it sit and then I like to add a little bit of honey. So good. It's like, I don't even want to recommend it to you though because it's probably not as good as normal tea. But it's about the nostalgia for me. So good. I love it. I think it tastes better than normal milk tea. Anyways, that is the tip for today and let's just get into the makeup now. Let's talk about this first palette from a brand called Glaminatrix. I've never tried this brand before. They sent this to me in PR and I love when indie brands reach out to send me products. I think it is so fun. So when I opened this, I was like, I have to do a swatch and sip on this and apparently a lot of you guys were curious about it because I got a lot of requests. So this is a nearly natural palette. It looks like this is an Australian brand and the price of this is $48.58. The packaging immediately reminded me kind of like put a beauty vibe but look at this color story. This is like me in a palette, right? It's got neutrals, kind of green tones and then kind of purpley tones and I'm wearing it on the eyes and I can tell you now the quality of it is why I love indie brands. So let's get a little closer and let's look at this eyeshadow palette. If you don't know, things get kind of dark with these videos because you can see the colors better of the swatches and the palette. So here's a closer look and a more true look at the colors. So you can see we're a little bit more cool neutral and then we lean more rows. We get more greens. We have some true neutrals, some purples. Oh my gosh, this palette is amazing. I mean, I guess this is more of like the neutral cool row, the greenish kind of row. It's just a beautiful palette. As soon as I opened it, I was like, what is this magic? So let's get to swatching, shall we? I guess I'll do it by row here. So we'll start off with naked eye, which I do have on my eyelid. Naturally. Anybody who watched Love Island UK, naturally. Davide. Davide was the contestant on the show. He would always go, well, naturally. That wasn't funny unless you watched it. Okay. Anyways, untouched and then we'll get unveiled here, even though pinky swatches are bad. Look at my fingers. Okay, the naked eye shade obviously caught my eye from the get-go. So let's see how we swatch. So naked eye. This applied beautifully. Like this is as beautiful as it looks. These don't apply as good with a brush, but with a finger, they're juicy. Naturally. I have this in my outer corner and it blends surprisingly well. It swatches really nice. It has some plumminess in it. And then I also used a bunch of untouched today. And it lacked a little bit of pigment, but it built up great. So I don't have anything to say bad about that. And then this one I haven't tried yet unveiled, which is kind of like a soft pink. Oh, it's not as soft as I thought. That looks so pretty. Now, the only thing I'm worried about with this palette is they are so reflective that you see once they're actually reflecting the light, they don't look as different. Oh, but they still look stunning though. I'm gonna show up my trap because, wow. Okay, cleaning my fingertips. My fingers always end up looking gross whenever I do this video. Okay, next we have Barely There, which is a great transition color. I use that today. I also use Nearly Natural. We have New Nude and Exposed, which is a little bit of like a green shade. Oh my gosh, shades like this. I can never say no to, they're my favorite. This has like some Pat McGrath characteristics here. Okay, so here is Barely There. Then we have Nearly Natural, which Pat McGrath right there, right? I have it on the center of my eyelid if you kind of want to see the sparkles from it. Then we have New Nude, which is like a gold shade, not as sparkly as Nearly Natural, but still stunning nonetheless. Okay, I'm excited about this one. Exposed, it's that kind of greenish shade. Okay, yes. This is as beautiful as I had imagined it to be in my head. I cannot wait to do a green look with this palette. Let's keep it rolling, friends. So we have Down to Earth and then this interesting silver shade. Ooh, those look pretty. Okay, I don't know why I got distracted. Then we have Simplicity, which looks kind of close to Barely There. We'll see if it's different and then Second Skin. Oh my gosh, Second Skin felt like butter. So that's a good sign. Let's see. So Down to Earth is that green shade. I can already tell you the next look that I'm going to do involves these three shades right here. Let's take a look at the silver. Silver is normally pretty easy to get a disgustingly good formula with. And yeah, they did that. Amazing. Then we have Simplicity. It's a little closer than Barely There than I would like for it to be. Different undertone, but whatever. I'm sure it's pretty on the eyes. And then Second Skin is disgusting. Believe me, beautiful. Look at that. And it has so much pigment. This one felt extra creamy. Clean off my fingies one more time for this palette. Next we have Diss Row, which is the darkest shade in this palette. I haven't used it yet. So this should be interesting. Raw, which kind of reminds me of this shade. So we'll see how they look and then nothing to see. I mean, how is that for like a kick butt look? Just all three of these. All right, let's see. This is the darkest shade. Okay, we'll have to judge how that applies on the eye. I'm so mad that just went out of focus because wow. I was worried it would look like this shade and it kind of does, but it does look deeper. So I'll have to apply this on the lid to see if there's a difference. And then we have the gray shades. So I would say the strong suit of this brand are the Shimmers. Incredible. But don't knock the mats. I feel like they're a less pigmented formula, but they did build up on my eyes just fine, though I did need to make an effort to build it up. So I'm going to play with the other mats, but I really wasn't bothered with application with how soft they were. I thought it made it a little bit more user friendly, but this palette's kind of incredible now. So what I love about doing swatch and sips with Indie brands is hopefully to get a new Indie brand on the map here. I mean, I don't know how popular Glaminatrix is, but I can tell you with my first experience, I'm really, really excited. As stated before, this is the palette that I'm wearing on my eyelids. I'm quickly going to go over how I got today's look. It was really simple. I started with Barely There right here, which is this neutral shade, and I applied that to the inner half of my crease. It was pretty close to my skin tone just a bit deeper. It's kind of like the perfect transition shade, I would say for myself. Okay, sit bright, quote on. And then I used Untouch in the outer half of my crease. It did require a little bit of building up, but it blended so smooth that I didn't even mind. I think it's the perfect neutral purple shade. So if you are unsure of color, that this is a great shade to start off with. And then I went in with Natrally, and I use this in my outer corner. Very impressed with how this blended. Sometimes shades like these can be difficult to blend, but this one worked out beautifully, worked as a very high end shadow if you ask me. And then the next shade I went into was nearly natural. I had to use my finger because this does not apply well with a brush, but I did apply this to the center of my eyelid. Looks really glimmery. It has some extra reflex in there, which is gonna make it pop when lights hit it. And then I used Naked Eye, which is a tad bit lighter on the rest of the inner portion of my eyelid. I will say both of the shades, I mean it's hard to tell that there's two shades on my eyelid. That's what I'm talking about. Where the reflect is so strong and so good, that then it kind of gets hard to differentiate the two. But nonetheless, I mean, I am so excited to continue using this palette. I think it is incredible. So if you're interested, I do definitely recommend it. It's a gorgeous play on a neutral palette. Yeah, shout out to you, Glamonatrix. I'm excited to see what you come out with next. Okay, another sip break. I have another new Indie brand to talk about. This is a new Indie brand. This is only their second launch. I was lucky enough to be sent their first palette. I didn't do a swatch and sip on that one, but I definitely wanted to do a swatch and sip on this one. So this is Fantasy Cosmetica. And this palette costs $38.99. And this is the Sorcerer palette. I think the packaging is so cute. Here's the back if you want to take a look. I do have a discount code or an affiliate code or something of that nature. I will have it in the description box if you want to support my channel, if not New Biggie. But I'm even more happy to be supporting an Indie brand. So let's take a look at it together. Now this one is the complete opposite from the Glamonatrix because it is so colorful and gorgeous. I am so excited. Let's turn the lights down so you can really get the full effect of the palette here. And their shimmers are crazy as well. So this is going to be such a fun one to swatch. So I'm going to swatch it by column, just like this. And we're going to use the other hand. Because this is my non-dominant hand, I'm going to concentrate on sticking my fingers in here and then I will show you. And this is a pigment palette. I do suspect that they will stain the eyelids. Oh my gosh, this hot pink, firestorm. Okay, here we go. You ready? So here is firestorm. Yep. Look at those reflex stunning. And then we have Unleashed, which is a matte hot pink. I may or may not be flipping you off. And so this one looks like I haven't applied it to the eyelid. So I can't speak on this, but it looks like it's going to be an easy to blend out a hot pink shade. And then we're going to do chaos next. Which this kind of gives like Mac Club vibes. I know Pat McGrath just launched a duo chrome that kind of looks like this. Very nice for a dark smoky eye. Great to go clubbing with. So those are the first three. Okay, let's get Innate, which is more of a brighter pink. Then we have Arcane, which is one of the multi-chromes here. Oh my gosh, it feels like butter. And then Empower, which is my kind of shade. So let's see how we look it on the fingers. Okay. Oh, I love it. Okay. Here is Innate, just a nice pink. Then we have, are you ready for Arcane? This is a multi-chrome. Get ready. Brace yourselves. Are you braced? Okay. Oh yeah, that's pretty. This doesn't have as strong of a base as I was expecting, but the reflex are on another level. Kind of has like some really soft blue reflex, but also some pink. That's kind of the shift that we're getting here. I'm going to have fun with that one. That's for sure. Okay. And then last one is Empower, which is just the dark match shade. So that's going to be great for the outer corner. I can definitely see the cohesion here. Wiping this off my fingers. See what I mean? My fingers always turn out looking like this when I do this video. And this row is going to be interesting to swatch. It's the blue and green row. So we have Wild Magic, which is a blue. And then we have Polymorph, which is a really creamy, lovely feeling multi-chrome. And then Illusion, I'm interested to see how this turns out. Are you ready for the reveal? Oh wow. That actually turned out even better than I was expecting. You can see this one has like a blue pink shift. And the green one has like a golden dark blue green shift. Do you see that? Wow. It actually has more like blue than I was expecting. It looked really green from the angle I was looking at, but it actually has a lot of blue. Okay. Here we go. Wild Magic, which is the matte. Listen, mattes are essential in an eye look, but mattes are always underwhelming to swatch in these videos. I'm all about the shimmers. Okay, Polymorph, are you ready? Oh, that's like my favorite shade. My favorite swatch, I guess you could say. You can see it has almost like a light green shift, but then to turquoise and then to baby blue. Hint of pink, maybe? I don't know. Wow, that's gorgeous. And then the last one, Illusion. That is also very, very stunning. So this one is not for the neutral lover. That's for sure. It's definitely an out there palette, but I feel like you can get some incredible looks. The way that they curated this palette, I think was really nice because it's very clear what kind of looks you're going to get and to create. You don't need to think too hard about it. So this is going to be amazing for some monochromatic style looks. So again, a huge thank you to Fantasy Cosmetica for sending this one. I'll update you guys as soon as I get this one on the eyes. But I mean, when I feature products on Swatch and Sip, I pick them because they're going to be gorgeous to swatch and these did not fall short. Yes. Okay. So one final cheers for you guys. Cheers. I hope you guys enjoyed this Swatch and Sip session with me. Make sure you guys head into your makeup area tonight and swatch your body and eyeshadows. We don't need to just buy eyeshadows to wear on our eyes. If this gives you joy, go ahead and do it. All right, guys. Thank you so much. Make sure you like this video and subscribe to my channel and I will catch you in the next one. Bye, guys. Have a good one.