My Lime Crime Collection

I mention on my facebook page and on here quite regularly my use of Lime Crime products because I adore them because of their versatility and striking colors. The products, especially the lip products, have such a different texture in comparison to other brands I use and that texture it memorable in appearance.

Let me introduce you to this rising empire by showing you the Lime Crime products I own! But first, about the brand...

Doe Deere, CEO of Lime Crime Cosmetics

Lime Crime is a cruelty free and vegan brand brought forth by the imagination of the queen unicorn herself, Doe Deere. She came to fame as a nirvana loving model from Russia. Now married and creating a living doll house with her husband, she rules this girly "nu-grunge" brand with ever expanding product lines to please all.

I have been collecting Lime Crime products for about three years and I have yet to be disappointed. I did have a reaction to their gold eyeliner but oddly enough I have had reactions to gold liquid eyeliner from four different brands. My skin refuses to let me fabulous.

I keep all my goodies in my Lime Crime shipper box. When ordering from Lime Crime directly your box it came in is reversible into that gorgeous black floral lovely! My collection is ever growing I plan on having a lot more than this.

I will start off with the oldest Lime Crime product I have (and worship) that Lime Crime no longer makes. This is Dragon Scales loose eyeshadow.

Extremely hard to photograph because of its multi-tonal holographic appearance so I pulled a picture off the internet to help me. Dragon Scales is a blue, brown, terracotta, purple magic? It simply just looks like dragon scales!

From Oldest to Newest, I have just bought the new Venus palette which is supposed to bring Lime Crime into a new era from unicorns to "nu-grunge" which is a term Doe Deere has invented.

Completely made of warm red tones in a mixture of satin and matte finishes. They are extremely pigmented and have a striking effect on brightening eye color. I have even experimented with using some of the colors for blusher contouring. 

It is funny how much of an effect packaging has on the decisions you make. The first thing to ever turn me on to this brand was the purple lipstick tubes with holographic unicorns on them. I like when my makeup is pretty but it is really important to me that my makeup compact and packaging is pretty as well. It adds to that luxury and that pampering princess feel you want to get when you have spent absolute fortunes on products.

Airborne Unicorn- pastel neon purple satin finish

My Beautiful Rocket- coral infused orange satin finish

Geradium- pretty princess pink satin finish

Poisonberry- deep glittery purple metallic finish

When it comes to pretty packaging. The Carousel Glosses have always been my favorite. They are so elaborate and girly. The gloss collections are all extremely shiny and packed full of glitter.

This is Present. A gloss released for Christmas. It has a cranberry tone with three different shades of red, pink and cranberry glitter specks that make this product a show stopper. I ended up being very dissatisfied with the tackiness and texture of gloss but I never ever wear lipgloss. I mix the gloss with lip colors for the glitter effect but I never use it directly.

Uniliner liquid precision eyeliners go unnoticed which is sad because these are such strongly pigmented beautiful eyeliners available in colors I do not see anywhere else. I mentioned it above but this gold eyeliner, Ryhme, did cause a serious reaction on my eyes but i have used it on other people and they have had no issues and loved it!

Blue Milk- pastel sky blue, matte

Quill- jet black, leather finish

Rhyme- gold with gold glitter

Lazuli- lapsis lazuli blue, matte

Orchidacious- shocking pink-purple

I have a glitter problem, I love it all. When they introduced their Zodiac Glitters, things got real. Each glitter is themed around the horoscopes. Though a Virgo, I liked Scorpio better.

 Scorpio is an olive green and gold with hints of teal and purple

 I am not an eye primer believer because none have ever prevented creasing on my greasy eyelids. The Lime Crime Eyeshadow Helper brightens the applied shadow and near acts like a velcro, grabbing the shadow and packing it on the lid. 

Over the years Lime Crime has made themed palettes in beautiful purple unicorn tins. This particular collection is Alchemy, themed around old school gypsies, fortune tellers, and well, alchemy. All the shadows have a opalescent and satin finish and are extremely bright on the skin.

 Divination- teal blue satin finish

Spellbound- creamy ivory with pearly look

Love Potion No. 9- purple with lots of shimmer

Lucky Charm- olive green with a soft satin finish

Incantation- coppery orange with a bright mirror shine

Okay, these.....are the goods. These took Lime Crime from a small cult brand to a raging international trend. These liquid lipsticks dry to an extremely matte finish that does not rub off the lips and really does have the velvet look. the application tip makes a really strong line around the edge of the lips. The colors are intense and very heavily pigmented thus making a trendy statement lip that is very kissable. These are like pokemon cards to me, I need to have them all.

 Black Velvet- well, it looks like black velvet...if you please

Wicked- dark brick red with a berry undertone

Red Velvet- true red (my favorite makeup product to ever be invented)

Utopia- neon pinky purple

Suedeberry- a muted coral-red 

(not pictured because it came in the mail late) Pink Velvet- neon barbie pink

This is the entire range of Velvetines and I wanted to show you because three of the colours are not being sold yet but I obsess over these and plan on having them all!!!!!

Velvetine Complete Range recently released by Lime Crime HQ

I saved this for the bottom because it is completely unrelated to the quality of the products Lime Crime makes. The brand lately has been making business mistakes that are costing them a lot of clientele. For example, just two weeks before Christmas they stopped sending product to Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Mostly, their customer service is appalling and I thought I had just had a bad few experiences but then I read online about the amount of people torn up over their lack and good customer care. It is very obvious that this brand grew a lot faster than they expected and they have no idea how to handle it. When a product goes out of stock it takes months to go back into stock, they are slow in stocking outside of the united states and just make staying on trend and giving them my money a really difficult process. My order for my Venus palette took nearly six weeks which is just unacceptable.

 Even with the company's bad business plan and rude employees, I will always buy their products because the quality is intense and they are really a niche girly brand offering 100% vegan products (even though the cruelty free status of their products is regularly argued). This brand will hopefully sort out their faults and rise to be a department store regular serving up immaculate products.