Weekly Challenge: Makeup Geek Starter Kit
Welcome to this very special edition of the ‘Weekly Challenge!’ This week we came up with a unique way to thank our wonderful customers by hosting a Makeup Geek Eyeshadow Challenge! So get those MUG Shadows out and be ready to win some AWESOME prizes!
“What if I don’t own the Makeup Geek Eyeshadow Starter Kit?” Don’t worry; the Weekly Challenge will be back to normal next week! We just wanted to take the opportunity to thank our customers, celebrate the Makeup Geek brand, and get you guys some great prizes!
In case you couldn’t tell from the title of this post, the Challenge requires the use of at least some of the colors from the Makeup Geek Eyeshadow Starter Kit. While the only shadows you can use in the look have to be from this lineup (Cocoa Bear, Mocha, Glamourous, Purely Naked, Shimma Shimma, Purple Rain, Unexpected, and/or Corrupt), you can use some other products such as eye liner, lashes, primer, etc as long as the Starter Kit colors are the primary color. (Liners should only be accents). Please be sure to list all the products you used in your look.
These are two categories you can enter into: One is a more creative/dramatic look and the other is a more simple but glamorous look — something you might wear to work, school, or social gathering. You can submit one entry for each category.
The Reward
The reward for this challenge is a unique opportunity to try out our yet-to-be released-to-the-public Makeup Geek Lipsticks! The lipsticks are due to be released in about a month, but the winers of this challenge will get to try these out before anyone else!
The two winners of this challenge will get 6 different preview units – which means the lipstick tubes will be missing their logo and cap screen-printing, (we are still working on this!), but they will have name labels and the artwork on the lipstick box will be completed.
Product Requirements for This Challenge:
- The only eyeshadows used can be from the Makeup Geek Eyeshadow Starter Kit: Cocoa Bear, Mocha, Glamourous, Purely Naked, Shimma Shimma, Purple Rain, Unexpected, and/or Corrupt
- You do not need to use all of the shadows in the kit
- You can use other non-eyeshadow products such as lashes, primer, etc.
Other Rules:
- Challenge begins Monday, May 7th and ends Friday, May 18th at midnight EST
- Post photos of your look here in the forum
- Only 2 looks per person, and the work must be your own
- You must list the full list of products used in your look
- Winner will be announced Tuesday, May 22nd
- Prize will be 6 preview units of Makeup Geek Lipsticks (only has name labels — no tube printing yet)
- The spirit of these challenges is to practice & create something new, thus to enter a look into a Weekly Challenge please create a look specifically for this challenge, i.e. do not upload a photo that was taken for another purpose.
- In one of your photos, please take a picture of yourself holding the products you used in the look (minus the lashes, if used)
- Do not edit or alter your images – images that have been altered will be disqualified.
- Only two entires/person. You may not create other user names to get out of this rule.
- Any entry that is suspected of violating these rules will be deleted, and the user disqualified. Repeat offenders will be banned from entering future competitions. If you have an issue with this, or believe you are not in violation of the rules, please contact Mariella or Jessica by pm.
- Two winners chosen — one for the most creative look, and one for the most elegant, but simple look. Photography is VERY important with these entries (see our photography guide and how to choose a camera)
- This challenge is open to anyone of any age and from any country




very unfair
How is this unfair? Many people have purchased this kit, myself included, and it will be fun to use shadows created by the site itself in a contest. How often do you get an opportunity like that? Every other week is any brand you want to use, so wait until the next one if you are missing out on the MUG shadows!
WTF! This bitch just wants to sell her whack ass eyeshadows, this is ridiculous!!
If you really feel that strongly, I suggest you go elsewhere. This isn’t to sell eyeshadows, it’s to reward those that already bought them.
You’re complaining about a free website that offers free prizes.
I suggest the same thing!!! Makeup Geek is not even close to what “Blah” is suggesting! Seriously???!!!
haha! who the eff is “Blah!?” what a weirdo
Instead of saying something mean why don’t you go do something productive and simply not participate.
I do think that it is odd that they deleted all criticism based comments or people asking if they could do the look using MAC dupes listed for the products.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with people leaving comments voicing their frustration.
But I do agree with Robyn, the comment by Blah is out of line.
I’m not aware of us deleting any comments unless they are rude.
And we list a full listing of MAC dupes for everyone to see right here:
http://www.makeupgeek.com/reviews/makeup-products/mug-mac-dupe-list/
On the forum, when I checked right after the challenge was posted, there were a lot more comments regarding the challenge and some of them were a bit critical/saying they felt the challenge was unfair. They were just opinions though.
Now they’ve all disappeared.
The forum moderators must have cleaned them up so it was just entries in the thread (which is kind of the point)
But there was only one person really complaining, the rest (including my comment) was just discussing the issue.
Ah, okay, thanks for the clarification, Nick
I don’t understand why the Blah person is so upset… This is Marlena’s website and yes she sells her own eyeshadows… She can do what she likes… I guess if you don’t like it, don’t visit the website, as simple as that.
Really people?!? Really??!?! I fully agree with Nick on his reply to Blah. This is a FREE website that gives people the opportunity to win FREE prizes. On top of that, you don’t even have to have the best look out of the bunch when it comes to the weekly challenges. For EVERY challenge they reward someone at random just for participating. HELLO?!?! What other place do you know of that you can go and get rewarded for just entering a contest???? THERE ISN’T ONE!! I have been a long time supporter and viewer of this website and I adore Marlena and what she stands for.
Oh and by the way, how is she trying to sell eyeshadows? Even if you did purchase the eyeshadow kit just so you could be apart of the contest, by the time the order was placed, filled, shipped, delivered and the time was taken to create an original look, the deadline for the challenge would have passed.
Amen!!!
I just have to say I for one am extremely excited about the contest! I think that if anyone has read the contest rules it states that you must only use make-up geek eyeshadows from the starter kit, that is the challenge. Trying to come up with and create gorgeous looks with just a few colors. I am currently going to school to become a makeup artist and I have been a fan of Marlena and Makeup Geek for a long time. I LOVE Makeup Geek eyeshadows their so pigmented and creamy even. I have all kinds of MAC eyeshadows which I love MAC don’t get me wrong but corrupt is without a doubt the blackest black eyeshadow that I have tried hands down!!! There may be some similar colors from the starter kit from MAC but as far as pigmentation, color pay-off and blendability there’s no comparison. Carbon from MAC is in no way a dupe for corrupt. In fact Carbon is one of the more disappointing blacks on the market (like I said I LOVE MAC but facts are facts). SO, it is a great contest and if you can enter it wonderful and if not maybe next time. But Marlena promotes all different types of brands and uses, MAC, NYX, etc. in her tutorials and they have all differnet kinds of brands for sale on their website. I’m a critical person when it comes to makeup and after receiving my eyeshadows just two weeks ago they became my favorite the day got them and tried them out
I just simply wanted to say koodos to Marlena for doing what she loves and succeeding. The whole website is brilliant and I really admire her hard work. Even for those who want to critique in any way, one must be truly amazed at the work that she has accomplished. Therefore, while I do agree on voicing frustrations, it is commonly understood that it should be voiced politely and intelligently. This is true contribution to society and work like this is what makes the world go forwards. There just isn’t ANY excuse to say something as rude as what “Bleh” has said, who clearly didn’t read the whole description because it states that the challenge would resume to normal the following week.
I can’t enter because I haven’t order any yet. I do not feel cheated or that this is unfair. I’m actually excited to see what color combos ya’ll come up with. Also, marlena as such great skills I swear sometimes you could give her berries to use as makeup and she would still come out looking like a star, but I am still learning so it will be interesting to see people more on my skill level or above me create looks using them.
I don’t feel cheated at all by the fact I don’t have the starter kit to participate. If anything, the first people to try the lipsticks should be the geeks loyal enough to have bought a starter kit by now. I also want to point out that both Ulta and Sephora have their own lines of makeup as well as all the other brands they sell, so I see nothing wrong with Makeup Geek doing the same thing, in fact I’m quite excited about the eyeshadows (even though I have yet to buy any) as well as the lipsticks. I see it as an extension of the tutorials/reviews, just Marlena trying to make our lives easier by providing good products at a decent price.
do we have to use the eye shadows or can we use colors that are like it?