Gothmetic Cosmetics

Last week I got an email from the Finnish Gothmetic importer asking if I'd like to try out their products, and I sure did! I had been looking at this line last summer in Germany, but didn't get anything and have been drooling over the pretty packaging ever since. Here's the website for Finnish customers.

They sent me a package with a black mascara, a pencil sharpener and a lip liner in the shade Plum.

The Gothmetic range is mainly black, white, purple and red to suit gothic tastes. The products are wonderfully decorated with ornamental pattern and fleur-de-lis stamps. I especially like the pencil shapener, she black and silver design is very sophisticated.

I tried the mascara briefly, but since it's not waterproof, it's not for me. My eyes are quite sensitive to wind and light (mark of a true goth? ;P) and my eyes tend to water easily, so water soluble mascaras only make a mess. It did make my lashes look nice but further testing will take place once it's less windy and sunny.

I really like the packaging!

I requested the lip liner and was really happy with it. The shade is called plum. The swatch on the site was not very accurate, but I didn't have a nice cool, dark pink liner I decided to give it a go. The end of the pencil is painted to represent the liner shade, but on my pencil it looks very different from the actual product. The paint is brown-ish wine red, but the actual liner looks like this:

Gothmetic lipliner in Plum. Taken in natural light, no editing.

It's a cool dark pink and seems to fit my many purple lipsticks quite well. The texture is a bit on the dry side, when I coloured my whole lips with it the colour "rolled" a bit, meaning it made little colour clumps that didn't want to blend in. I got rid of the clumps by gently rubbing my lips with my finger, making the liner melt better. This only occurred when colouring whole lips, when traditionally lining, it worked perfectly. The liner is soft and therefore very comfortable to use.

Gothmetic lipliner in Plum, coloured on whole lips.

And another shot!

After taking pictures of the liner, I applied clear gloss on top. This made the liner melt and spread more evenly on my lips. After an hour the liner had slightly feathered, but I think that was my fault for painting the gloss all the way to the edge of the liner, leaving a small gap would possibly have prevented bleeding.

Gothmetic lipliner in Plum with transparent gloss on top.

And again!

All in all I'm very happy with the liner. It's not the greatest I've ever used, but it does what it promises and looks damn good while doing it! The mascara formula is nice and easy to apply and the sharpener works like it's supposed to.

The eyeshadows also looked interesting and the liquid liners are just gorgeous, so if you are in need of some beautiful things to fill your make-up bag, have a look at the site :)