The Whatever Book

And finally, Yule! The Winter Solstice! We’re almost done, people… Let’s get it started!

All the colors of Christmas applies to Yule/Winter Solstice, since it’s one of the holidays the church “borrowed” from.

I know! Shocker!

But as a reminder, my notes have the Yule colors as :

Red

Orange

Yellow

Gold

Silver

White

Blue

Green

First up, Give Me Glow (plus singles).

Christmas Morning Palette: Not sure if there’s a holiday palette with a better curated color story. You have the beautiful gold for the Sun and solar magick, pine green for evergreens and prosperity, warm cinnamon and cranberry reds, and warm toned silvers and deep greys.

Single Shadow “Add-Ons”

Low Battery: neutral toned medium-dark red matte

Emerald City: emerald green metallic

Patty: slightly warm toned medium green matte

Cream Please: ultra creamy ivory matte

Glamourous: extremely high foiled pale gold

Halo: metallic white with baby blue and gold shifts

Icy Frap: icy warm champagne metallic with taupe undertones

Icicle: icy white metallic

Marshmallow: pure white matte

Satellite: aluminum foil silver metallic

Dirt Road: deep black brown matte

Valentines Red: cranberry red metallic

Now for Juvia’s Place!

The Afrique: Toasty reds, golds and greens. It’s definitely more suited for Yule than Samhain. It’s similar to Christmas Morning in terms of color magick, but I definitely prefer the GMG palette.

The Warrior: If you’re focus is the rebirth of the sun, the golds and gold-toned browns in this palette is the way to go. A work safe color and subtle enough for people still in the broom closet.

This is the last time, I promise! For now, anyway… Our lord and savior, Coloupop!

Just My Luck: Green for the evergreens, celebrating life even in the long, dark cold winter; and for prosperity, abundance and luck.

Main Squeeze: Reds for strength, health, and physical energy for those of us with seasonal depression; and for the fire that keeps up warm and alive during the icy winter.

Blue Moon: Speaking of icy… Blues for the ice, snow and cold outside.

Frozen II: Elsa: Seriously, fuck pressed glitters. This is another “going with the vibes” palette. The icy blue, silver and purple, and the berry shades scream winter. It’s based off of Elsa, so I’m not surprised.

Next, BH Cosmetics!

Poison Shock Ghost Pepper: Like all the Poison Shock palettes, the depth of the mattes are lacking. But if you ignore the pink shades, it could lend itself to some holiday glamour magick. I feel like the Poison Shock palettes can be paired with a Colourpop monochrome palette . So yeah… what I wrote for CP Main squeeze applies here too.

Poison Shock Absinthe: Again, depth isn’t great, but everything from the CP Just My Luck palette applied to this one.

Poison Shock Sub Zero: The depth is slightly better in this one. Again, all things from the CP Blue Moon palette applies to Sub-Zero.

Naughty Palette and Miss Claus: The Lit List Palette: If you have either of these BH holiday palettes, you have options. I like the size of the pans in the Naughty palette because it makes it easy to also use them as blushes, and the quality is worth ignoring the two pressed glitters. The only look you can really do with this palette is an icy blue one, since it’s more toasty and cozy. The Lit List palette is the Naughty palette’s brighter little sister, and it thankfully only has one pressed glitter. This one will give you an icy December weather look, and it has an abundance of golds if you’re aiming for the rebirth of the sun. To be honest, you have them both, you’re pretty much covered.

Smitten in Switzerland: These colors lean more to the icy side, but with a bright golden yellow pop. Another “vibes” palette for the list. If you’re going for Jack Frost covering everything with a layer of ice, this will have you covered.

Passion in Paris: I included this for the winter berry shades. The reds and blues specifically.

Love in London: This palette’s here specifically for the metallic blue, purple, grey and gold. And no other reason.

Blueberry Muffin: Another good icy palette, with its cool toned blues, greys, white and silver.

And finally, we have the singles from Shroud, Terra Moons, and Looxi Beauty.

Shroud:

World Eater: an intense true red metallic shimmer

Vigil: a golden yellow metallic

Artifact: a grungy olive green metallic with a slight gold shift

Terra Moons:

Skyfall: a pale cool toned blue metallic with blue and lavender shifts

Meteorite: a golden, pink shimmer with hints of green

Nightfall: a deep blue metallic with hints of cerulean blue and gray

Spiked: a warm, dark red metallic

Hot Spiced Cider: a unique gold-green with hints of brown metallic

Dark Matter: a turquoise brown shifting metallic

Looxi Beauty:

Dream On: a pale aqua blue shimmer

Money Bags: a green with shifts of gold and blue

Honey Pot: a golden orange with shifts of copper, yellow and purple

Snow Angel: a light iridescent shimmer with shifts of gold, pink and bluish purple

Winter Moon: an azure blue shimmer with subtle shifts of gold and olive green

Chilly: a baby blue shimmer with shifts of pink and purple

Cupid: a warm peach shimmer with shifts of gold, orange and pink

Donner: a blue with green and gold duochrome

Rudy: a burgundy red with shifts of gold and orange

Adonis: a metallic powder blue with shifts of silver, blue, turquoise and purple

CASHmere: an emerald green with slight shifts of blue and gold

Noir: a steel blue with a lavender shift

Firefly: a red metallic with a copper/orange/gold shift

Lady Luck: a bronze gold with shifts of green, red and brownish purple

Nebula: a light violet metallic with undertones of silver

Vibin’: a periwinkle shimmer with a lavender shift

As usual, if you have anything to add, 100% please do so! Share and inspire!

And the sabbat series is officially finished! It’s done! Holy crap…

LETS PRETEND THESE LAST TWO AREN'T HORRENDOUSLY PATHETICALLY LATE, OKAY??? OKAY!!!

Obviously these are the original pictures from last year, so I’ll mention any new releases that have popped up since then that I think fit (that I have). So, let’s get into it!

According to my personal notes, colors associated with Samhain are:

Black

Orange

Red

Brown

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Yellow

Indigo

White

Golden

Yellow

Purple

And I, personally, have included some greens in the palette. Both for usual spooky season reasons (which I still celebrate because I love it, and it’s a way to honor my papa since he was super festive at every holiday) and because we’ve got green pumpkins and gourds, as well as some green leaves that are holding in for dear life in the trees. So it should be included.

First up: Juvia’s Place

The Violets: The veil between the world of the living and the dead is at it’s thinnest at Samhain, so it’s the perfect time for all kinds of divination and spirit communication. Psychic abilities seem to be stronger around this time of year and people tend to have more paranormal experiences, as well. Colors like purple, indigo and silver are often associated with intuition and psychic ability, so this is a good palette to reach for if you want to lean in to the uptick of psychic energy.

The Tribe: Oranges and greens, pumpkins and changing leaves. If you want your look to reflect what nature is doing, this palette has a great color story for it.

The Festival: Early on in the creation of this makeup series, I decided this palette was going to be in the Samhain post, primarily because of the red and metallic black. But it’s also has your oranges and golds.

Afrique: I put this palette on the list for the deeper reds, green, purple and gold.

The Saharan: This palette’s on the list for the black and the oranges, basically.

Next, Give Me Glow and Shroud Cosmetics…

GMG Juicy Olive Palette: A palette for more murky olive greens.

GMG Grunge Palette: This is for the darker purple, brown and black mattes. The original reason I wanted this palette so bad was for all the nice deepening shades.

SC Spooky Cute Palette: Other than the black, the pastel shades are good for blending out the edges of more colorful looks. That’s it. That’s why it’s on the list.

SC Arcana Palette: Arcane’s dark jewel and muted color tones work really well for the sabbat in general. Some of the colors are more muted in person than they are in the picture, but in a good way. Maybe “murkier” is a better word for it? I dunno… Granted, this one is based more on the “sitting at an altar/grave, communing with the dead, burning candles and incense” vibes it gives off when I look at it. So… Plus they spell “Altar” right, which a bunch of witches online tend to fuck up regularly, so props for that.

SC x Beautbean It’s Freakin’ Bats Palette: This one’s really cute for Halloween, what with the theming and references, and the Sam shade is so unique in my collection. For Samhain, however, the focus is on the purples for a intuition and psychic ability boost.

Next is Urban Decay and Kristen Leigh Cosmetics. Because of the whole supporting Putin situation, I’ll be skipping over ABH for the foreseeable future. Instead we’ll talk about a palette from Unearthly Cosmetics (formerly Alien Cosmetics) that I bought this past year that I think fits.

UD Born to Run Palette: Like at Mabon, the fall vibes of this palette live on. The black, dark grey and murky purple, orange, brown and bronze shades lends itself to this darker tone of year.

KLC Autumn Vibes Palette: Undeniably a companion palette since it’s four metallic/ duochrome shades. If you’re going for a late-fall nature focus, any of these will would work.

UC Poison Apple Palette (new, not pictured): At Samhain, apples are used for divination and as offerings to our beloved dead. This palette, from the mattes to the duochromes, embody this sacred fruit perfectly. It also works great for Mabon.

Haven’t said this in a while. Time for our lord and savior, Colourpop!

Blowing’ Smoke: The color black is associated with death, the dark and cold night (growing longer until Yule) and protection; grey is associated with divination, intuition, spirit and ancestor communication, death and the underworld; and silver is associated with protection and intuition/psychic ability. So, a good color story to work with at Samhain. If you’re new to makeup, go in slowly with black eyeshadow. That ish can go from 0 to 60 in a blink.

Orange You Glad?: Specifically for the two darker mattes. And say it with me! Fuck pressed glitter! Uhg, that could have been such a beautiful duochrome!

Main Squeeze: Again, this one is specifically for the darker blood red shades on the bottom row.

It’s My Pleasure: A decent purple palette with a few different purple tones in the shimmers to work with.

Yes, Please!: While not super deep, the OG Colourpop palette is the “work appropriate” red-orange-yellow Samhain palette.

Whatever: Again, fuck pressed glitter. But the reds and browns are nice and deep, and with the orangey-bronze shade “Not OK”, it mimics the majority of leaves on the trees this late in autumn. Just more glam.

On to BH Cosmetics. I haven’t really bought anything from them since they were bought out by Makeup Revolution. So I don’t know if the formula’s changed at all. I do know that a good chunk of their palettes got discontinued, though.

Poison Shock Scorpion Sting: I’d bring in the dark orange matte from Orange You Glad?, since the three mattes don’t go as deep. Metallic wise, you have a lot of options for whatever leaf or pumpkin you’re trying to replicate.

Poison Shock Nightshade: Again, the mattes don’t go as deep as I’d like, but it still works nicely.

Poison Shock Venom: The Venom shades can be used similarly to Blowin’ Smoke from CP. it just has one or two more purpley shades to work with

Zodiac: All of the mattes besides the Leo and Virgo mattes are great purple/black/browns to use. The baked metallics that would work for Samhain are Cancer, Gemini, Pisces, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio and Libra.

Love in London: I chose this specifically for the matte black, a couple of the matte browns, and the purple, dark grey and gold metallics. Definitely another office appropriate palette choices.

Passion in Paris: Strictly for the reds, purples and greys. Though this is more “wintery”.

Bringing up the rear, we have the single shadows! Starting with Kristen Leigh Cosmetics, Terra Moons, and Shroud.

KLC Halloween Havoc Collection:

Haunted: an orange to gold iridescent duochrome highlighter with gold to green to silver blue color shifts.

Jack-O-Lantern: a pumpkin orange multidimensional eyeshadow with gold to green to silver blue color shifts.

Potion: a light leafy green duochrome eyeshadow with lots of iridescent green duochrome sparkles.

Sorcery: a cool toned dark brown to purple duochrome, multidimensional eyeshadow with purple to pink to blue to gold and slight orange shifts depending on the lighting and angles.

Terra Moons:

Hurricane: a warm-toned medium-dark orange metallic.

Spiked: a warm, dark red.

Bonfire: a duochrome orange-red shimmer.

Martian: a duochrome green, gold and reddish shimmer.

Shroud:

World Eater: an intense true red metallic shimmer.

Ignite: a fiery copper metallic.

Vigil: a golden yellow metallic.

Enigma: a mid tone purple with an icy blue shift.

Pillow Talk: a deep purple with an intense gold shimmering reflect.

Scrumptious: a coral red shimmer with an intense gold shimmering reflect.

Artifact: a grungy olive green metallic with a slight golden shift.

Nightsong: a deep metallic blue with a black base.

Next, Looxi Beauty.

Jelly: a blue purple duochrome.

Gator: a missy green with shifts of brown and pale yellow.

Adorbs!: a reddish bronze with shifts of gold and green.

Honey Pot: a golden orange with shifts of copper, yellow and purple.

Hocus Pocus: a purple shade with shifts of olive green.

Poppy: a deep, dark metallic burgundy.

Follow Me: a vibrant orange gold shimmer.

Tricked: a vibrant golden yellow shimmer.

Poor Unfortunate Souls: a purple shimmer.

Forbidden Fruit: a bold metallic red shimmer.

Emerald: a burgundy with shifts of green, gold and copper.

The Monarch: a bronzed brown with shifts of rose and gold.

Juice: a deep wine red with shifts of brown, gold, and green.

Omega: a green metallic with shifts of teal, purple and dark blue.

Firefly: a red with with a copper/orange/gold shift.

Lady Luck: a bronze gold with shifts of green, red and brownish purple.

Starry Night: a mid-toned blue with a violet undertone.

Lagoon: a metallic, golden olive shimmer.

Spyro: a grape metallic

Coppa’ Feel: a bold, metallic copper with a hint of pink.

That’s What She Said: a golden metallic with slight hints of green.

Bonfire Babe: a vibrant fiery orange with shifts of yellow gold and pink.

Next to You: a deep purple with an electric blue shift.

For the Graham: a cinnamon brown with shifts of red, gold, and orange

And finally, Give Me Glow!

Leggings: matte ultra black

Blackened Plum: deep smoky purple matte

Chili: deep rustic red-orange matte

TBT: deep burnt rustic orange matte

Toxic: vibrant deep true purple matte

Storm: a cool toned purple taupe metallic

Selfie: a warm toned medium-dark copper metallic

You’re Cheesy: a warm toned, light-medium orange metallic

Ultraviolence: a deep purple based violet metallic

Satellite: aluminum foil silver metallic

Halo: white with baby blue and gold shifts

Marshmallow: pure white matte

And with that, we’ve finished Samhain. Not much else to say except, if you have any ideas you’d like to add, please do!

Looks like it's time for a couple of late as eff posts! Starting with Mabon! Berries, greens, browns, golds, oranges, purples, reds... if it's on the trees or in a stereotypical cornucopia, it's fair game.

Am I using a backup altar cloth for a backdrop? Why yes, yes I am. Onto the palettes.

Let’s start with our lord and savior, Colourpop!

As far as monochromatic palettes go, I’d reach for the It’s My Pleasure palette (for some of the deeper purples), Main Squeeze (especially that bottom row), Orange You Glad?, Uh-Huh Honey (for more gold-yellows), and Just My Luck (for the darker and more olive-toned greens). And the last 9-pan on the list, the Frozen II: Anna palette’s berries, gold and warm neutrals makes it a good choice for Mabon. Also, this goes without saying, but fuck pressed glitters.

Dream St. is more of an honorable mention. It wouldn’t be my first pick, but the deeper teals and warm bronze-y shades would fit pretty well.

The Zodiac palette is the better Kathleen Lights collab for fall, by far. If you cover up those two blues, the berries/oranges/golds make for a goidv fall leaf color palette.

Yes, Please!, the OG Colourpop palette. Though it’s more summery, the deeper reds and oranges would need good to reach for.

Since the Good Sport palette no longer exists (how very dare you, ColourPop?!), I’d say the Whatever palette is the ideal warm-toned CP fall palette. Other than the pressed glitter, the reds/reddish-browns/rich red-oranges, all the warm fall tones in one palette. 90% of what’s on the New England leaf-peeping trees is in this palette.

Next, Give Me Glow and ABH.

The GMG Juicy Olive palette’s murkier greens are good “fall harvest” greens. I kind of want to try pairing it with the warmer shimmers in the Whatever palette, now…

The GMG Grunge palette is loaded down with good cool tone and warm tone mattes. The purple/berry shades the cool/warm browns and the charcoal black all would be good to reach for for Mabon if you have it.

The ABH Modern Renaissance’s reds and oranges are good for a more toned down colorful looks, while the Soft Glam’s rich, warm browns and bronzes make for a good fall palette for people who don’t do color.

Now for BH Cosmetics…

The Naughty Palette (bottom center) was last year’s holiday palette. Other than the two pressed glitters, it has pumpkin oranges, purples, and reds - and the duochrome “Spiked Cider” - fit the Equinox perfectly and can honestly bring you all the way through Imbolc.

Love in London (bottom left) - Yes, it’s very neutral. I know. But I’d be a bad friend if I didn’t tell you that the bottom row (except Crumpet), and the lovely metallic gold and dark purple, when used together make a very pretty fall look. Okay, moving on.

Chillin’ in Chicago/Amore in Amalfi (top left) - This is here solely because I liked the red/orange/brown fall look I got with it when I paired it with the rich reds, oranges, orange toned browns, and almost plum purples of the Beautiful in Barcelona palette (top center).

Avocado Toast (top right) - Really only here for the darker/earthier greens and warm browns.

Passion in Paris (bottom right) - Although this is definitely more wintery, the reds in the bottom row and the dark purple shimmer and black in the row above it could make a good cool toned fall look.

On to Juvia’s Place.

First the three mini palettes in the bottom, left to right:

The Chocolates, The Berries, The Violets - The deeper purples in The Violets, The Chocolates’ warm browns, and The Berries’ fall… berries. I’d personally use these with each other, or as companion palettes, instead of on their own if I were to reach for them.

The Saharan (top left) - Fiery fall leaf oranges, reds and golds, the deep green metallic… if you ignore the pinks, it’s a pretty good pick overall

Afrique (center left) - Although the gold and jewel tones in this palette are better suited for Yule, the color story could make for a nice fall/harvest look if you take out the blues.

The Nubian 2 (top center) - On the earth toned, non leaf-peepers side of the equinox: golds, browns, that herb green and eggplant purple… honestly it’s straight out of a cornucopia.

The Tribe (center) - Early fall leaves? Butternut squash? Pumpkins? Honestly, this is the perfect color story for any of those Mabon, fall equinox vibes.

The Nomad (top right) - With the earth toned yellows, golds and greens, this could bring you from Lammas to Mabon, but I’d probably pair it with another palette. Maybe The Tribe.

The Warrior (center right) - Earthy browns and golds for days!

Now for the single palette brands.

Norvina Pro Pigment Palette Vol. 3 - This was brought out as Norvina’s fall palette, and everyone was saying that it was way too bright to be for fall. Except it’s not? The reds, greens and yellows are all very “apple picking”, the oranges, browns, and greens are very “fall leaves in New England”.

Urban Decay Born to Run Palette - this was toted as “the only palette you need to pack” if you travel. If it’s the fall, maybe. Even the blues are “fall sky” blue.

Midas Cosmetics Artistry Volume 2 - This little 6-pan is very “fall botanical”. You’ve harvested a bunch of plants/herbs and they’re now hanging up, drying.

Alien Cosmetics (now Unearthly Cosmetics) Fairy Frolic Palette - With the honey golden-orange metallic, the bronze metallic and the red/purple/orange multichrome, along with the mattes, it definitely gives a “changing leaves” vibe.

Shroud Cosmetics Arcana Palette - Mystic and Alchemy are a bit more jewel toned, but the rest of the palette is more dark earthy toned.

Time for the single shadows!

Shroud Cosmetics

World Eater - An intense true red metallic shimmer

Ignite - Fiery copper metallic shimmer

Vigil - Golden yellow

Oracle - Champagne shimmer with a slight gold shift

Pillow Talk - Deep purple with an intense gold shimmer reflect

Scrumptious - Coral red with an intense gold shimmer reflect

Magnetism - Aqua green with an intense gold shimmer reflect

Artifact - Metallic grungy olive green with a slight golden shift

Nightsong - Deep metallic blue with a black base

Soulstone - Jewel toned magenta metallic shimmer

Terra Moons Cosmetics

Spiked - A vibrant orange red shimmer

Bonfire - A duochrome orange red shimmer

Harvest - A duochrome orange, green, and yellow shimmer

Hot Spiced Cider - A gold green with hints of brown metallic

Dark Matter - A turquoise brown shifting shade

Baby Bat Beauty

Hawthorn - Dark brown with a purple shift

Ceres - Sage-Forest green

Falling Leaves - Deep pumpkin orange

Looxi Beauty

Jelly - A sparkly shifter of electric blue and electric purple

Gator - Mossy green with brown and pale yellow shifts

Money Bags - Green with shifts of gold and blue

Adorbs! - A warm and toasty shade with sienna, gold, green and mauve shifts

Honey Pot - Golden orange with shifts of copper, yellow and purple

Poppy - A deep, dark burgundy shimmer

Poor Unfortunate Souls - Purple shimmer

Tricked - A vibrant golden yellow shimmer

Emerald - A burgundy with shifts of green, gold, and copper

Berry Sexy - A red/pink/brown/orange duo chrome

Juice - A dark berry with a green, gold, and purple shift

Omega - A green, teal, purple, and dark blue duochrome

Rage - A green and plum purple duochrome

Firefly - Red with copper, orange and red shifts

Lady Luck - A bronze gold with shifts of green, red, and brownish purple

Rudy - A burgundy red with shifts of gold and orange

Piece of My Heart - Burgundy shimmer

Lush - A deep forest green metallic

Nymph - Ivy green metallic

Lagoon - An olive gold metallic

Thorny - A dirty rose metallic

Spyro - Grape metallic

Coppa' Feel - Metallic copper with a hint of pink

I just want to note that, by the end of December, Looxi is discontinuing all of their current shades and, if you're interested, are having a Last Chance Sale.

Give Me Glow

Cream Please - Creamy ultra pale beige

Icy Frap - Icy warm champagne with taupe undertones

Iced Coffee - Deep bronze gold metallic

Halo - White with baby blue and gold shifts

Joker - Olive green with lime undertones

Stoned - Moderately warm-toned medium green metallic

Savage - Yellow based olive green

Tiger Lily - Warm light peach

Sweet Tea - Rusty orange with yellow shifts

TBT - Deep burnt rustic orange

Chili - Warm-toned medium-dark brown

Purple Hills - A pure deep electric purple

Toxic - Deep neon purple

Salem - Deep smokey plum brown