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Enter the jungle and choose your face. 🔥🌿
The Tiki Face Challenge is about transformation, personality and pushing your creativity somewhere darker. Choose the face that speaks to you, then turn it into your own makeup creation. Guardian, Warrior, Spirit, Mischief, Surprise, Romantic, Party or something completely unexpected.
No two faces should look alike. Your interpretation is the challenge.
🔥 October 1st through October 15th
🔥 Create your Tiki inspired face
🔥 Tag WPM M.Roan.Hatter/ Roan Hatter so I can see your creation
🔥 Most importantly, have fun and MAKE IT YOURS.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS LIPSTICK?
Look at the top of this old lipstick. It has actually curled over on itself.
This is a Tho Radia lipstick, a French beauty company with a pretty wild history.
Back in the 1930s, Tho Radia actually sold some cosmetics containing tiny amounts of radioactive material. At the time, people were fascinated by radium. It was new, scientific and being promoted for all kinds of supposed health and beauty benefits.
Yes. They actually thought putting radioactive material in beauty cream was a good idea.
But here's the important part.
This lipstick came later. By the time Tho Radia started making lipsticks, the company had stopped using those radioactive ingredients.
So why does this lipstick look like it's turning into a flower?
Probably because it's incredibly old.
A lipstick is basically a carefully balanced mixture of waxes, oils and color. Over 70 years, the oils can move, dry out or change. The waxes can change too. Some parts shrink more than others.
When that happens, the lipstick can pull, twist and curl.
Instead of simply cracking, this one appears to have slowly curled back on itself as it aged.
And that may be the coolest part of the story.
We're looking at a tiny cosmetic formula that has basically been conducting its own 70 year experiment inside that tube. A special thank you to Erin Parsons Makeup. Go watch her content, its worth it!!!

3D PRINTED MAKEUP PALETTES
THE FUTURE OR A PROBLEM?

3D printing sounds like a dream for small cosmetic brands.

No massive mold investment.
Small production runs.
Custom shapes.
Refillable designs.
Change the CAD file instead of rebuilding expensive tooling.

But there are problems nobody should ignore.

Surface quality can look cheap without extensive finishing.

Some printing resins can be brittle, warp with heat, or crack when dropped.

Printed hinges can become failure points after repeated opening and closing.

Tiny dimensional differences can affect magnets, pans, mirrors and closures.

Then there is the hidden cost.

Sanding. Polishing. Coating. Painting. Installing magnets. Adding mirrors. Assembly. Quality control.

Suddenly the inexpensive printed shell isn't so inexpensive.

And “3D printable” does not automatically mean appropriate for direct cosmetic contact.

The smarter application may be different:

Use 3D printing to create a beautiful reusable outer compact while keeping the actual makeup in conventional cosmetic grade metal pans.

For limited editions, prototypes and refillable collector palettes, 3D printing could open extraordinary possibilities.

For thousands of inexpensive disposable palettes?

Traditional manufacturing may still win.

Innovation isn't automatically better.

It has to survive real life.

The gates are opening again. 🖤
M.Roan.Hatter® 2nd Annual Halloween Look Battle returns October 15 through October 31.
This is the makeup community’s season to stop playing safe. Give us haunted beauty, Victorian nightmares, creatures, ghosts, monsters, glamour, illusion, prosthetics, paint or something nobody sees coming.
Every completed look adds another surprise to the Tricks and Treats prize. The more looks that enter, the bigger the prize becomes. At midnight on Halloween, the gates close.
Beauty should scare you a little. 🥀