Shane Dawson is a YouTuber who has been on the platform since 2008 and was one of the first YouTubers to rise to fame, accumulating over half a million views by 2010. Shane started his career by making comedy sketches, moved into conspiracy and food videos for a little while, and now Shane makes docu-series, where he follows creators such as Jake Paul, Tana Mongeau, and Jeffree Star. Shane now has over 23 million subscribers, making him one of the top 100 subscribed channels, and has over 5 billion views. In his first docu-series with Jeffree Star, Jeffree suggests that Shane should create a makeup collection and his most recent series came to life. For the past year, Shane and Jeffree have been working hard on their "Conspiracy Collection" which contains 23 separate products, including 2 palettes, 6 lipsticks, bags, and more. Writer's Note: you can follow the journey of the creation of the collection on Shane Dawson's YouTube channel, shane, in his most recent docu-series "The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star". I will also only be reviewing the items that I purchased and not the entire collection (the Conspiracy Palette, the Mini Controversy Palette, the 6 lipsticks, the black Pig Mirror, the Shane Glossing lip gloss, and the lip balm). One thing I will say before reviewing each product individually is that Shane also made this palette personal to him by naming all the eye shadow and lipstick shades after his friends and favorite things. For example, there is a lip stick named after his fiance, Ryland Adams, and an eye shadow named after one of his longest friends, Trisha. Which, for me, just makes these products even more special. Okay, let's start with the Conspiracy Palette and the Mini Controversy Palette. From the get go, the palette boxes are just beautiful, the Conspiracy Palette follows a black hypnotic spiral theme while the Mini Controversy Palette follows a static theme (pictures of the products and swatches will be down below). At first, I was a little wary to buy the palettes because they don't really follow a color scheme and have a lot of colors that I don't usually use. But here's the kicker, that is what makes these palettes special. Before I bought these palettes, I would never even think of wearing pink, green, yellow, etc... eye shadow but these palettes pushed me to play around with colors and try new things. Ever since it arrived, I've used different colors more than I have ever had in my entire life. Everything is also great quality and that can be seen in the swatches down below. The colors just really stick and what you see is what you get on your eyes, whereas many palettes I've bought in the past the colors fade. One bad thing about one of the eye shadows is that Trisha stains a little bit and your eyes will most likely be a little pink the day after. The lipsticks, however, I am not a big fan of. I love the "Are you filming?" and "I gotta go" but I did not like how 3 out of the 6 lipsticks are pink. I personally do not like how pink lipstick looks against my skin and I wish they had made maybe a brown or just a darker color for people with tanned skin like me. I should've just bought the two lipsticks I like because I do not think I will ever be using the pink ones. On the other hand, like everything else in this collection, the quality of the lipsticks are to die for. The colors are very vibrant and the lipsticks do not bleed, which is always my main concern when buying lipsticks. There is not much to say about the black Pig Mirror other than it is iconic because Shane's symbol is a pig and that it was much bigger than what I expected it to be. I actually stopped using my old mirror and only use the Pig Mirror now. The Shane Glossing lip gloss and lip balm are also amazing. The packaging, the quality, everything about these two is just amazing. With other lip balms, I actually feel like I have to apply it many times throughout the day whereas Shane's lip balm I apply it maybe once or twice and it lasts the whole day, same with the lip gloss. Although I do not like the smell of it because it is supposed to smell like Diet Root Beer, Shane's favorite drink, it still feels amazing on the lips and would definitely recommend. Now, let's talk about launch day because it. was. crazy. Shane Dawson's and Jeffree Star's Conspiracy Collection came out on November 1st and several minutes before the products even launched Beautylish, one of Jeffree Star's biggest online retailers, website crashed and Beautybay, another one of Jeffree's online retailers, also crashed seconds before the launch. And it only got worst from there. On Shopify, the e-commerce website Jeffree Star Cosmetics uses, they were the #1 top store 60 seconds before the products launched over all the 500,000 other websites that use Shopify. But all the products couldn't even upload on the website because of how much traffic there was, with over 2 million people trying to buy the Conspiracy Collection on Jeffree Star Cosmetics. As you can imagine, Jeffree's website crashed as well for several hours and everyone was put in an online line because the website could not handle having everyone check out at the same time. I personally was waiting in line for 2 hours and a half, with a few moments in between when I was able to add some products to my cart. Overall, the Conspiracy Collection was sold out everywhere selling over 1 million palettes in the first 30 minutes. Unfortunately the whole collection will not restock until March of 2020 but the YouTubers did a pre-order restock of the Conspiracy and the Mini Controversy palette with 60,000 units available (Mini Controversy can still be purchased on Jeffree's website). Furthermore, Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star broke every sales record on both the Jeffree Star Cosmetics website and Morphe stores making this one of the biggest, if not the biggest, makeup launch in history. Having been a fan of Shane for a little under 6 years now, I can only say that I am super proud of him and that I know there are many more amazing things he will do with his life. Congratulations to both of you for breaking the internet and breaking all those sale records. The collection is absolutely amazing and I wish you both the best of luck with your future endeavors. Down below is a video compilation of some of the looks I have done with the Conspiracy and Mini Controversy. I am no makeup guru and I really only do one style of eye shadow (light color over the eyelid, darker color in the corner of my eyes, and eyeliner done with eye shadow).
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