I Don’t Care About Edward Cullen, But I Do Care About His Makeup Collection

I have absolutely no business owning a Twilight makeup collection. And yet, here we are.

I’ve never been a Twilight girl. I think I read the first book, and I’ve seen the movies mostly because I have FOMO and an unreasonable need to understand pop culture references. I’m not Team Edward or Team Jacob, although if we’re choosing based on looks, Jacob wins. Sorry, Edward.

But apparently, one look at the Twilight Saga × SHEGLAM collection is enough to get that iconic opening music stuck in my head. Against my will, obviously.

And while I never had a Twilight phase, I was a slightly gothic teenager turned full-blown scene kid. Some things never really leave you. Especially an appreciation for dark eyeshadow, excessive glitter, and anything that looks like it could’ve come from Hot Topic circa 2008.

So when SHEGLAM released a vampire-inspired makeup collection, I did what any reasonable adult with questionable beauty spending habits would do.

I bought it.

But is the makeup actually good, or is this just nostalgia in cute packaging? Let’s find out.

How I got the SHEGLAM Twilight collection

I bought the SHEGLAM Twilight collection while I was living in Mexico, because apparently being a former scene kid means I’m still susceptible to dark makeup and a little vampire-themed nonsense.

I opened the whole thing in Mexico, but unfortunately, I don’t think I filmed the unboxing. And when I moved back to Canada, the fancy packaging didn’t make the cut. The makeup, however, earned a spot in my suitcase.

So, while I can’t give you the full unboxing experience, I can tell you whether the actual products are worth using once the novelty wears off. Which, let’s be real, is the important part.

What’s in the SHEGLAM Twilight collection?

Apparently, vampires aren’t the only things that sparkle in Forks. And SHEGLAM took that concept and ran with it.

The Twilight Saga × SHEGLAM collection costs $33.07 CAD and includes seven different beauty products, with three shades of lip tint:

• Eternal Love Eyeshadow Palette (approx. $4.99 CAD) — A mix of matte and shimmery shades.
• Forbidden Love Liquid Blush (approx. $7.49 CAD) — A deep-red liquid blush.
• Immortality Lip Tints (approx. $3.27 to $4.84 CAD depending on colour choice) — All three come in the collection: Heart Beat, Bitten, and Wolf Pack.
• Premonition Roll On Lip Oil (approx. $4.84 CAD) — A clear lip oil with floating red details.
• Vamp Skin Highlighter Drops (approx. $5.31 CAD) — Liquid highlighter inspired by sparkling vampire skin.
• Forever Setting Spray (approx. $4.24 CAD) — A dual-phase makeup setting spray.
• Soulmates Solid Perfume (approx. $6.34 CAD) — A solid perfume housed in an Edward and Bella necklace.

It’s a combination of wearable makeup and Twilight memorabilia, which makes sense for a franchise where the vampires literally sparkle. And if you do want ALL the items in it, it’ll save you somewhere around 27 per cent to get the full collection.

But being cute and vampire-themed doesn’t automatically make something good makeup. So, how did everything actually perform?

A note on pricing: All prices are in Canadian dollars because, well, that’s where I live. SHEIN also likes to change its prices, and there’s almost always some sort of sale or discount happening. So take these prices as a general guide, and don’t be surprised if you find a better deal.

1. Eternal Love Eyeshadow Palette

The Eternal Love Eyeshadow Palette is probably one of the more wearable pieces in the collection, assuming your definition of wearable includes a little glitter and the occasional dramatic eye.

It’s a pretty mix of matte and shimmery shades, with moody greens, blues, golds, and a few lighter colours thrown in. Very fall. Very vampire. Very appropriate for someone who still appreciates a little gothic nonsense.

Unfortunately, the pigmentation is a bit hit-or-miss. I swatched all eight shades, and here’s how they performed, starting from the top left:

• Shimmery white: Pretty, but very little colour payoff.
• Shimmery blue: Another sheer shade with minimal pigmentation.
• Shimmery gold: Lovely sparkle, but not much pigment behind it.
• Shimmery red: Decent pigmentation, although slightly translucent.
• Icy blue shimmer: Light, but nicely pigmented for such a pale colour.
• Light brown: An interesting shade that pulls more blue-grey than brown when swatched.
• Matte dark green: Good pigmentation and one of the stronger shades in the palette.
• Matte black: Another solid performer with good colour payoff.

And then there’s the glitter fallout. Those sparkles have absolutely no respect for personal boundaries and will happily migrate beyond your eyelids. But that’s hardly a SHEGLAM-specific problem. Shimmery eyeshadow has been making a mess of my face for years.

Overall, I still like the palette. The colours are lovely for fall, and there’s enough variety to play around with different looks. Just don’t expect every shade to deliver the same level of pigmentation.

2. Forbidden Love Liquid Blush

The Forbidden Love Liquid Blush is not here to give you a subtle little flush. She’s here to make sure everyone knows you have blood circulating through your body.

It’s a deep, rouge-red shade, and when I say a little goes a long way, I mean a little goes a long way. Even a single dot delivers a pretty intense amount of colour.

Formula-wise, it’s similar to the other SHEGLAM liquid blushes I’ve tried. The applicator is actually pretty decent, and I don’t particularly mind using it. The biggest consideration is simply how much pigment you’re working with.

I swatched this one on my hand rather than incorporating it into my finished makeup look, so I can’t speak to how it wears throughout the day. But the colour is striking, and I can absolutely see the appeal if you like a more dramatic blush.

3. Vamp Skin Highlighter Drops

I wanted to love the Vamp Skin Highlighter Drops purely because the concept is so fun. Liquid highlighter that makes you sparkle like a Twilight vampire? Sure. Sign me up.

The actual highlighter is pretty nice. It’s liquid, it’s blendable, and I did use it in my finished makeup look alongside another highlighter.

My problem is the packaging.

The little dropper has a plunger mechanism that requires an unreasonable amount of effort to get any product into it. Once you’ve finally managed that, you’re dispensing one concentrated drop that you need to spread around pretty quickly.

To be fair, it does dispense a single drop rather than dumping the entire contents onto your face. But it’s not particularly convenient for distributing makeup, especially when you’re trying to control exactly where the highlighter goes.

And there doesn’t seem to be a tremendous amount of product in the container, either.

I like the idea, and I don’t dislike the highlighter itself. I just wish getting it out of the bottle wasn’t such an unnecessarily complicated experience.

4. Immortality Lip Tints

Now, these I actually really liked.

The Immortality lip tints come in three shades: Heart Beat, Bitten, and Wolf Pack. I experimented with Heart Beat, a pinkish-red shade, and Wolf Pack, a darker brown. I didn’t try Bitten on my lips.

I started with Heart Beat, but on its own, the colour wasn’t quite what I wanted. So I layered Wolf Pack over it, and suddenly we were getting somewhere.

The combination created a really pretty reddish-brown shade that worked beautifully with the rest of my makeup.

The formula is liquid when you apply it and dries down afterward. Both colours went on nicely, and I was impressed with how well they stayed put. No major complaints about the application or wear.

I finished the combination with the Premonition roll-on lip oil, which gave everything a glossy finish.

Of everything in the collection, these are probably among the products I’d be most inclined to reach for again. They work well, the colours are fun, and you don’t have to be emotionally invested in a fictional vampire to appreciate a good lip tint.

5. Premonition Roll-on Lip Oil

The Premonition Roll On Lip Oil might be one of my favourite packaging concepts in the collection.

It looks like someone trapped little bits of blood inside a tube of lip oil. The red material floats around in the clear liquid, moving almost like a tiny lava lamp. It’s ridiculous in the best possible way.

And despite what the packaging suggests, the oil itself is clear.

I applied it over the Heart Beat and Wolf Pack lip tints, and I really liked the glossy finish it gave the combination.

I will say, it did wear off pretty quickly. But aesthetically? I’m into it.

This is exactly the kind of themed makeup I enjoy. The vampire concept is obvious, but it’s still a product I’d actually want to use rather than something that exists purely to sit on a shelf looking cute.

6. Forever Setting Spray

I would love to tell you whether the Forever Setting Spray actually keeps your makeup in place, but there’s one small problem.

It smells disgusting.

Not in a particularly identifiable way, either. It’s not floral, fruity, or even reminiscent of an aggressively scented cleaning product. It’s just got this unpleasant, chemical-like smell that makes me question whether I want it anywhere near my face.

And as far as I can remember, it’s smelled that way since I first opened it.

So I didn’t use it.

To be clear, that doesn’t mean the setting spray doesn’t work. It might be perfectly effective at keeping makeup in place. I genuinely have no idea because I wasn’t willing to spray it on my face.

But considering how many setting sprays exist that don’t make me recoil when I smell them, I don’t feel particularly motivated to find out.

7. Soulmates Solid Perfume

The Soulmates Solid Perfume necklace is probably the most obvious example of a product designed for Twilight fans rather than people who simply like makeup.

It’s a plastic necklace with a picture of Edward and Bella on one side and solid perfume on the other.

And look, I understand the appeal. If you’re a massive Twilight fan, having a little Edward-and-Bella necklace that doubles as perfume might be adorable.

But personally? I’m not wearing that.

The necklace looks and feels pretty cheap, and the perfume itself doesn’t smell especially appealing to me. I didn’t actually wear the perfume, so I can’t comment on its longevity or how the scent develops.

I also tend to prefer a more minimalist aesthetic when it comes to the things I carry and wear. Not everything has to look expensive, but I do want it to look like something I’d willingly leave the house with.

This one isn’t it.

As a piece of fandom memorabilia, I can see why someone might enjoy it. As a practical beauty product, though, it’s not something I’d reach for again.

In this particular look I used: SHEGLAM’s Dream Foam Cloud Primer, Bubble Glow Blush Bar, Eternal Love Eyeshadow Palette, Heart Beat and Wolf Pack lip tints, Premonition Roll On Lip Oil; Girlactik’s Luminous Tint Foundation (in 4, Medium); Half Caked’s Eye Defy Zero Gravity Mascara; Toyfactory’s Niabrow Serum Brow Gel.

Putting the SHEGLAM Twilight collection to the test

Despite my lack of enthusiasm for the actual Twilight franchise, I have to admit the makeup came together pretty nicely.

I used several shades from the Eternal Love Eyeshadow Palette, along with eyeshadows from other collections, to create a shimmery, slightly dramatic eye look. I also combined the Vamp Skin highlighter drops with another highlighter because apparently one wasn’t enough.

For my lips, I layered the Immortality lip tints in Heart Beat and Wolf Pack, then finished everything with the Premonition Roll On Lip Oil. And honestly? I loved how that combination turned out.

The finished look was a little dark, a little sparkly, and surprisingly wearable. I’m not gonna lie, I wouldn’t be opposed to wearing this out on a cute fall date.

I also swatched the Forbidden Love Liquid Blush, although I didn’t use it in the finished look.

If you want to see the products in action, I filmed myself testing them alongside makeup from SHEGLAM’s Catwoman and Bubble Bath Dreams collections.

Watch the video:

So, is SHEGLAM’s Twilight Saga collection worth sinking your teeth into?

Honestly? I liked more of this collection than I expected to.

The eyeshadow palette is pretty, the lip tints are genuinely good, and the roll-on lip oil is exactly the kind of ridiculous little beauty product I enjoy. Even the highlighter drops, frustrating packaging and all, have their charms.

The setting spray and solid perfume necklace? Those can stay in Forks.

I think the biggest distinction is whether you’re buying the collection because you love Twilight or because you actually want the makeup. If you’re a die-hard fan, the themed packaging and novelty products might be half the appeal. But if you’re like me and just want some fun, slightly gothic makeup, there are definitely individual products worth considering.

Would I buy the entire collection again? Probably not. Would I repurchase the individual products? Maybe a few, but I’m not exactly planning to stockpile them.

That doesn’t mean I regret buying it. I had fun experimenting with the products, I liked the finished look, and several of them earned their place in my makeup collection.

And apparently, you don’t need to be Team Edward or Team Jacob to appreciate a good vampire-inspired lip tint.

Looking for more makeup reviews?

• I also bought the Catwoman x SHEGLAM collab
• … and SHEGLAM’s Bubble Bath Dreams kit
• Plus this hella cute mermaid-themed Chula Box