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Your favorite Victorian influenced makeup line will be traveling quite a bit in the coming months. Who will we see at these upcoming events?

9/8 The Menagerie Central Coast Show at Madonna Inn
9/14-9/15 Oddities and Curiosities Las Vegas Nevada
9/21-9/22 Oddities and Curiosities Salt Lake City Utah
10/5-10/6 Oddities and Curiosities Portland Oregon
10/26-10/27 Oddities and Curiosities Sacramento California
11/16-11/17 Blasphemeet Los Angeles California

We may add more events to this list. Let us know where you'd like to see us next?

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Using Victorian Beauty Secrets, The Devil's Tools, Our Darling Signature Palette, Weeping Veil Lashes, Permanent Night Liquid Eyeliner and Camellia Blush.

Palettes 😻

Who needs new lipsticks for fall? We have so many great shades for you to choose from. 💄💋

The most satisfying swatches of our Spiritualist Shadow Collection.

Love this look that created using the Our Darling Signature Palette 🖤

Come see us tomorrow at in Santa Ana.

Faint & Sickly Palette on eyes and as a lip topper. The perfect quad palette.

Retractable Eyeliners are on sale. Get them while you can, they will not be restocked.

Hello My Darlings, 

Thank you for tuning into this week's edition of Mourning Mondays. Today weare going to highlight four stones that were used in gravestones over the centuries. These four are also all stones that inspired our Gravestone Contour Collection. Thank you A Grave Interest for sharing your blog that inspired this MM.

Slate (1600s – 1900s)- Slate was very popular, mainly in the eastern U.S. during the 18th to the 20th centuries. One of the reasons is because the stone is easy to carve. Slate can withstand freezing and thawing fairly well, which is why we can still read them. And acid rain appears to have a minimal effect. But due to the stone’s porousness, it is subject to delamination, which means it separates into sheets and falls away.

Sandstone (1650s – late 1800s)- Sandstone was another stone that carvers used from the 1650s to the late 1800s. It was easy to decorate and was available around the country. The stone's color may range from red to light tan to brown to grey. The problem with this stone includes spalling and flaking. This is where pieces chip off the stone making the surface uneven, hard to read and encourages  the growth of lichen.

Marble (1780s – 1930s)- Marble has been used for centuries due to its strength and beautiful appearance. In the U.S. marble gravestones were popular from the 1780s through the 1930s. The stone is usually white with blue or grey veins running through it but can also be black with white veins. When you rub your hand over marble, it feels like sandpaper. But marble began to fall out of favor when weathering made it difficult to read. Acid rain has become the main enemy of this stone causing the surface to become grainy and the lettering on the stone to slowly fade away.

Granite (mid-1800s – present)- Granite is the most durable of gravestones, and currently, the most popular. With use mainly from the mid-1800s to the present, these gravestones can be red or grey in color. Granite lettering is resistant to deterioration, and stone does not erode. Modern techniques make it easy to carve, and lasers allow etching of personal images to tell your life’s story.

Which Palette are you wearing today? Victorian Beauty Secrets? Faint & Sickly? The Devil's Tools? Our Darling Signature?

wearing our newest launches. Spiritualist Shadow in shade Seance, paired with Our Darling Signature Palette, Permanent Night Liquid Eyeliner, Professional Mourner Lashes, Gravestone Contour in shades Granite, Slate and Marble, and Morbid Desires Liquid Lipstick.

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Hello My Darlings,
Thank you for tuning into this edition of Mourning Mondays. To go with last weeks launch of our Spiritualist Shadow Collection I am going to highlight a little about Spiritualism in the Victoria Era

Spiritualism, the belief that the living can communicate with the dead, was a popular movement in the Victorian era. It began in the 1840s in Hydesville, New York, when sisters Margaretta and Catherine Fox claimed to hear rappings and knockings in their home that were coming from a spirit. The girls became a phenomenon, and soon spiritual mediums were found in towns across the country.

Spiritualism was a divisive movement that sought to unite the natural and supernatural realms. It was popular with the wealthy, who would host séances in their parlors to entertain friends. Spiritualism also attracted middle-class intellectuals, such as physicians, professors, lawyers, and writers. However, it was also controversial, and was attacked by scientists and religious denominations who believed it was either a fraud or a force of nature.

Spiritualism was also a time when some people used tricks to swindle others. For example, in the 1890s, some spiritualists would use phosphorescent paint on props and partners in crime, and then convince people that they were communicating with spirits. It should be noted that Victorian Spiritualism was particularly attractive to women because they were regarded as more spiritual than men.

This is just a brief look into the history of the Spiritualist movement in the Victorian Era, if you would like to know more please let me know in the comments. Also please check out our Spiritualist Shadow Collection avaliable now.

Who has a favorite shade already? Check out our new Spiritualist Eyeshadow Collection

Have you seen our newest Shadows? Spiritualist Eyeshadow Collection is out now. Check out all 15 shades.

Gravestone Contour available now in 4 beautiful shades.

Spiritualist Eyeshadow Collection available now on our site!

Gravestone Contour is now available on our site!

All about the striking eyeliner. Using Permanent Night Liquid and Retractable Eyeliner, In Mourning Shadow from the Our Darling Signature Palette and Professional Mourner Lashes. Lips are shade Pagan Liquid Lipstick.

Hoping everyone feels like me and is ready for more spooky events! Join us on 9/1 for in Santa Ana.

Tempted by The Devil’s Tools Palette.

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🚨Summer Sale! $10 Eyeliners! All 4 above liners will be discounted once added to cart. Get them whole you can, limited quantities. 🚨

Shades Medium, Clairvoyance, Crystal Gazing, Spiritualist, Premonition, and Seance.
Set your reminders for our launch of our Spiritualist Eyeshadow Collection. 15 new shades you won't want to miss.

Shades Ouija, Spirit World, Departed Soul, Regions Beyond and Occult.
Stay tuned for more shade reveals and names.

Shades Apparition, Fascination, Mesmerism, and Paranormal.
Which is your favorite?
Who is ready for more sneak peaks and name reveals?

What is your favorite Our Darling Liquid Lipstick shade?

Morbid Desires Liquid Lipstick on . For sure a go to red from Our Darling.

We always love winged line, large wings, small wings, always stunning. wearing our Permanent Night Liquid Eyeliner for this look.

Hello My Darlings,
This edition of Mourning Mondays we will chat about lipstick in the Victorian Era.

Until the late 1800s, most lipstick was DIY, made with carmine dye extracted from insects called cochineal, animal fats, beetroot, herbs, and almonds. These ingredients would give a pink or red hue. At the time there were a couple known publications out with these recipes. Victorian women or their maids would be able to make up these concoctions at home with the help of these articles.

The first commercially produced lipstick was invented in 1884 by French perfumers. This lipstick was formulated from a combination of deer tallow, castor oil, and beeswax.
In 1915 a man named Maurice Levy invented the metal tubes for lipstick, which we have based countless lipstick packaging on.

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Hello My Darlings! We are gearing up for this weekend. Our Darling will be with on Saturday and Sunday. Come visit us! We will have our unreleased collections 💀

Who will we see this weekend???