Innocent World Oddment (2015) packs A and B

This week week IW posted their biannual Oddment packs, and we decided to give them a go. I purchased pack A and ihasadragon got pack B. We both placed our orders on April, 20th, paid on the 24th and got shipping confirmation on the 22nd. Then this morning at 9:30 my doorbell rang and a box big enough to ship myself in arrived. I.W. is probably one of the fastest places I've ever gotten products from. Aside from Ap USA (but I pick that up myself next day) Pack A is priced at 50,000yen  and B is priced at 80,000 yen these are pre tax prices, and tax in Japan recently went up form 5 to 8% (will be 10 in October) the current conversion being used by paypal is 116.5861 Japanese Yen per dollar. 

 Pack A I paid $574.69        Pack B she paid $884.19

15 items received                            24 items received

4 dresses                                          9 dresses

2 blouse                                           2 blouses

1 coat                                              2 sweaters

1 blazer                                           1 blazer

2 bags                                              3 bags

2 pairs of shoes                               2 pairs of shoes

1 Bonnet                                        1 beret

1 headdress                                     2 head "bows"

1 clip                                      1 ribbon clip

                                                     1 necklace

                                                 1 pair of socks 

The pictures below are the items we received, 

A pack is on the left, and B pack on the right.
*Item will eventually be placed on LM

Rose Blouse - Spade & Heart Blouse*

Big Ribbon Blouse - Blouse with Rose Jabot (rose clip is in the accessories picture)*

Napolean Knitted Jacket - King of Spades & Queen of Hearts Jacket*

King of Spades & Queen of Hearts Mantel - Playing Cards Cardigan

Lace Scallop Heart Short Boots x2  SS*

T Strap Ribbon Shoes L* - Cross Strap Ribbon Shoes

Lost Portraits JSK Long - Lost Portraits JSK Short

Rozen Maiden: Hinaichigo - Rozen Maiden: Suiseiseki "*"

 Ellen Clapsaddle JSK*- Anniversary Rose JSK

Marionette Theater Frill - Merry Belle OP*

Both from Box B

Sugar Cake OP* - Gargoyles of Notre Dame*

Both from Box B

Kaneko Alice JSK* - Sharon JSK*

Box B Oriana checkered OP *

Box B Sailor crown cardigan

Angel Bag x 2 *1 only

A: Playing Cards Chocolate Heart Bag

 Both from Box B

Angel Bag - Chocolate Chess Bag

Three items on the left are box A, the rest are box B

A: 

Rozen Maiden Bonnet

Rocking Horse Ribbon Clip

Rozen Maiden: Suigintou Headdress* 

B:

Angel Pearl Beret

Rozen Maiden Kanaria Head Bow*

French Picture Frame Necklace*

Tea Time Head Bow*

Ribbon Emblem OTKs

Double Blades Button Clip

Lace Clip is supposed to be clipped to the 'Blouse with Rose Jabot'

Overall I was very pleased with my pack, not as in love with every item as last year though, I will be selling a few things off later on that just didn't suit me. I do feel that pack B gave you more bang for your buck.

ihasadragon: There are some items that I'm really happy with, however I did expect to like a larger percent of what I got, since I bought the larger box. Maybe next time. I also feel it was a better deal, especially if it had had items that suited me better.


ihasadragon also discovered that the majority of our items were from 2013 collections, and the items I got the year before were from 2012. We are going to start browsing 2014 in hopes of seeing what we might get next year.

Did you order the IW pack? What did you get, was it from 2013? I hope you loved it.

What I got last year, in case you were curious, it is also a pack A, I do know that I got very lucky with it though.

Disney Fairytale Designer Collection; Snow White

For the past 3 years Disney designers have created some magnificent dolls for us. Last year it was villains. I was extremely curious to know what the next set would be, since they had all ready done princesses. I was excited to see that this year it will be couples, focusing on their happily ever after moment. 

They will be $130 and like the year before will be released separately. For information on how the doll acquiring process works, and it IS a process, call your local store or read here on The Buzz, the official Disney blog. 

Designer Fairytale Doll Collection Release Dates

Snow White Designer Doll Set, available in Stores August 20 and online August 21

Tangled Designer Doll Set, available in Stores September 3 and online September 4

Aladdin Designer Doll Set, available in Stores September 17 and online September 18

Beauty and the Beast Designer Doll Set, available in Stores October 1 and online October 2

The Little Mermaid Designer Doll Set, available in Stores October 15 and online October 16

Two weeks ago I stood in line for my Snow White set, I was first in line and to my surprise, not many people showed. It's pretty understandable I suppose, since it is the first doll of the set and that doll doesn't usually generate as much hipe. Not to mention Snow isn't as popular with this generation IMO.  It also didn't help that a special edition set was released for this couple during D23 and that's what most people want ATM. I imagine her value wont be very high but it's all right for me because I'm not looking to sell.

She just looks so much more regal this way, even Charming's gear looks more authentic. 

I got the lithographs as well, I'll show them individually with each doll to make it more fun, these are sold out online and in most stores, so get them if you can.

Beautiful art on the case as always

The loving couple, Still available online, one per purchase, per household

With their matching lithograph

And my full set. The only sad part about setting this up, was the realization/regret that I didn't get every doll in the last sets. So I don't have complete sets of all of them. It wasn't fully my fault though, since many princesses wont be getting couples and some didn't even get villains, like Jasmine, and Belle. I personally think Ja'far would have been a bad ass designer doll. Maybe some day right? Any characters you wish had made it into the collection?

<3 Alice

SALE SALE SALE!! 20% off sugar pill

I also finally got around to using these bad boys, part of the Amelia Arsenic  X Sugarpill collection. That will be out... well no one knows, but more on that later. 

I do not have this pallet they came individually panned.

<3 ANDI

Beautifully Disney Makeup, review and swatches

In March Disney parks launched a "high end" make up line titled "Beautifully Disney" It  WAS exclusive to the Parks and Vault 33 but it recently launched online. This is exiting because it eliminated most scalping that was being done, that was very sad since the line is all ready a bit pricy. It is the same price on line and in store.

NOW ON SALE BUY 3 GET 1 FREE

All Cruelty free and Hypoallergenic 

March Collection - Wickedly Beautiful

2 quads .1oz/disc - $27.95

Enchanted Kiss (eye opener)

Midnight Hour (evil eye)

2 polish sets .14 fl oz/bottle* - $19.95

Beauty rare (Princeses) - Enchanted Kiss, ocean mist, off to the ball, lookign for my prince and 

Icy Beauty (villains) - Midnight hour, mistress of evil, just one bite, Diva of the deep

*In store you can purchase these individually in the full 3oz size for $8.95

8 lip glosses .08 fl oz - $14.95

Dragon Diva - Dark purple

Soul Survivor - deep plum/ shimmer

Envy of the Ball - Magenta/ Gold Glitter

Poisoned Apple - Red

Loves first kiss - Mauve/ shimmer

Mysterious Mermaid - Sheer Coral/ shimmer

Enchanted Slumber - Sheer w/a gold shimmer

Stroke of Midnight - Sheer w/a silver shimmer

Finally getting around to doing this becasue there aren't enough reviews for this new line.  It's one of the reason I was extremely hesitant when getting it and hopefully this helps someone. I purchased the Midnight hour quad and Enchanted Slumber Gloss inside disneyland in New Orleans Square. Since the sale I have purchased all the polishes and a few more glosses but update on that once they arrive in the mail. 

Midnight Hour - I chose this one because Enchanted kiss seemed very neutral and I all ready have plenty of those colors.

Villain's silluettes (evil queen, Maleficent, Ursula)

Eye shadows don't have names just numbered 1-4, 

...... wait a mintue... dejavu here... oooohh yah!

So I depoted #4 to check. It came out very easily as it was just glued in with a smll piece of cardboard.

Popped into my sugarpill pro pallet. a pretty good fit, but the disney pans have no magnet so they dont stay in

does not work as great vice versa

well onto the shadows!

1 swipe, 1 swipe with primer (using finger)

I swatched them out of order sorry

#1, Cool Champagne color w/ silver shimmer, this color is a Satin, very smooth and easy to blend but very close to my skin color so I have to really pack it on even with primer.  Almost too easy to blend, it disappears quickly, but once again that may just be on my skin tone.

Here it is next to Mac's  Sweet Joy -Frost (Cruela) Very diffrent in pan but similar in swatch, sweet joy is more yellow mostly because one swipe does so much more. You can also see the size difference  Mac is .05 oz while DIsney is a full.1oz

#3 This one has great color pay off. Iti s a light silver with silver shimmer it swatches true and i think i will be using this color the most especially under Tiara (sugarpill). I would call this a frost since the glitter does brake down once you give it a good buff.

Her it is next to Tiara(top), #3(bottom) The color is actually more concentrated and deeper. but tiara has all the magic sparkle. No primer

#2 Is a deep navy. I woudl say velux pearl, it has a bit of a fall out issue, but it's so light and smooth once you buff it down.  This one made me sad, it is dark in pan and color can be built to that level if you pack it. Once you blend it however, it basically becomes a stain, pretty but not the vibrancy I expected.

#4 is a sparkley charcoal. It is definetly not black. This is the color you get when you are scraed of black but want black.

#4, Carbon (MAC), Myth (Labyrinth), Bulletproof(sugarpill), stella (sugarpill)

everythgin was one swipe, except for #4 it was 2 because at 1 it had trouble photographing. I will say this it is much more workable than all the others.

Enchanted Slumber - Sleeping Beauty

I chose this color beacuse it caught my eye as most unique. It looked very similar to a lime crime gloss that I adore and though I would wear the heck out of a more subtle version

Beautifully packaged

The make up has all of the new art for the Princess, to some a con, to some a pro.

A sponge tip. I prefer this on glosses with sparkle because the brushes tend to chunk up with the glitter after some time

one swipe (left), two swipes (top), Golden ticket (Lime Crime) (right)

Overall I truly loved this gloss. It is light and not sticky, very much like Mac's lip glass feel with the Urban Decay not so sticky finish. The wear is medium and it is slightly hydrating. The gloss is very sheer, but if it had been anything like Golden Ticket (Lime Crime) not many people would have bought it. I imagine it being great over different lip colors.

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Now on to the packaging; when you can't swatch a product you are basically forced to judge a book by it's cover. Although I loved the colors and fancy silhouettes, the quad its self was nothing to gasp over. In the display case in store you can see the issues right away. 

 

The shadows don't actually fill the pots. not a huge deal, but a big pet pieve of mine, you can see the silver and it's an eye sore against the matt black of the box. It closes with a magnet but does not stay propped up on its own, thats okay since it has no mirror. But for $30+ so cal tax, a mirror would have been nice. You can see that when the pans were put in it caused some damge to the cardboard. The circles look like they were cut by hand with a pair of safety scissors because they aren't perfect rounds and have snags all over. Again for a lower price palet not a big deal. The afterthoughts of packaging was what deterred me form buying more, especially the polish and glosses.

All of the cute details are just stickers. Remove them and it's just a run of the mill gloss tube, it is the same for the polishes. BUT WORSE! the labels on the bottom were place with scotch tape. Classy Disney real classy. The plastic inside the package and the instructions telling me not to eat or give it to my child as a toy really yell high end.

TLDR

So I give the collectio a 3.8/5. For one the products are easy to work with so great for everydya looks. They may not be as pigmented as I would want them, but if they were I don't think they would be as apealing to the masses. Not everyon wants to walk around with neon purple hair and eye shadow to match. They may have scored higher if the price was not so high and the packaging better. Most of the lose for me was on the packaging. The product itself was good and althoguh not the most long lasting it did as well as many brands that I have payed this much for , occasionally more. However if something is going to be marketed as high end and given these price tags I expect a little more. There is no way you would ever see this on Mac or Chanel. Also no returns YIKES.

Would I buy them again? Yes I am a slave to Disney, would I knock on doors and tell people to buy them? Probably not. I hope that for the next collection they fix the ltitle issues, because I all ready know I'm going to be buying them XD