EOTD Yellow, red, purple and blue :)

Hi!

I'm trying to post more often and this morning I felt inspired for some make up. Pictures have been taken under horrible light but I hope you get the idea of the colors.

I got the inspiration for this look from this picture, from the model on the right's clothes. I saw it then decided to play a bit with makeup.

Taken from Forever 21's Spring 2011 Lookbook.

I  didn't take full face pictures because my skin right SUCKS at the momment. I have dry patches all over, redness and a few breakouts. 

I also took pictures of my lips, excuse how bruised and chapped they are, they make the gorgeous lipstick I used no justice. I will swatch it properly when my lips look better ;)

PRODUCTS USED:

EYES:

-Too Faced Shadow Insurance

-Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy

-Lost in Makeupland Lazy Sunday (inner corner and up to the crease)

-Lost in Makeupland Not too much (lid, closer to the lashline)

-Lost in Makeupland Go! (lid, over Not too much and into outer corner)

-Lost in Makeupland Party (outer part of the lid and into the crease) 

-Lost in Makeupland Glow (highlighter, browbone, inner corner, face)

-MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack

-Deborah 264 eyeliner (waterline)

-Too Faced Lash Injection mascara

FACE:

-Clinique Perfectly Real Make up Foundation in 02 (P)

-Lost in Makeupland Finishing powder for Normal to Combination skin

-Lost in Makeupland Say it isn't so Blush

LIPS:

-Morgana Cryptoria lipstick in Roses and Violets

SCENT: 

-One Hand Washes the Other Fresh Snow

How do you get inspiration for your looks? Is spring making you more daring on your makeup? 

Weekly (and quite late) Post

Fist of all I want to apologize for the lack of blog updates. I've been busy, very busy, then sick and I've been neglecting the blog a lot.

There is a loooot going on at Makeupland, and I'm so excited to share the news with you! A few secrets will be kept for the momment too, but stay tuned and you'll know very soon :D

New equipment

I bought a new grinder last week, this one is much bigger than my previous one and more potent, so I can make bigger batches in less time with a bigger quality than with the old one. I LOVE it!! It's saved me a lot of time and has helped me get do all the delayed work quickly.

#100 and counting

Last week, Lost in Makeupland reached 100 orders!! I'm really happy and grateful for all the people who's helping this baby grow each day. I'm glad you trust my little company and like my products. 

As a way to say thanks, I want to celebrate with a BIG contest. The prize? There'll be three lucky winners.

One will receive $50 in Lost in Makeupland products of her/his choice, and there'll be two winners of a 50% discount code each.

What do you have to do to win? 

Just read a post with all the instructions which will be up tomorrow. The contest will last until March 10. 

Pressed stuff and releases!

I can finally announce when I'm going to release pressed highlighters, blushes and eyeshadows. It'll be by March 1st if everything goes well. 

I'm going to offer them in different formats, palettes and refills.

You have two options when you buy a palette. You can either request one with two 2,6cm pans and two 1,5cm pans at $22 or you can get it with two big pans at $20. Palettes will be magnetized so you can remove the pans anythime and put it inside another palette of your choice. They'll be made in your choice of colors so you'll have to leave a note with it at checkout.

 Palettes will look like this.

Refills will be $8,50 the 2,6cm pans and $1,75 the small ones.

Except for highlighters and blushes, I'll press eyeshadows by request, so you'll have to keep in mind that it's a process that takes quite a lot of time and you'll have to allow me 2 more days to make them than with normal loose powders. I'm going to try to make it quite fast though and have some stock ready before I launch them.

On that same day, I will be releasing six new blush shades which have been ready for the longest time. I'm showing you some swatches so you get the idea of how they look. These swatches aren't the best, they look much better in real life, but I wanted to show them to you before they were released. They were tested long ago and I've been wearing them quite often, but I wanted to be secretive about them.

They'll be available both in loose and pressed form.

On to the swatches and descriptions! :)

Say it isn't so

 

Bright cool pink with a blue shift.

Alive

Light pearly pink with a reddish light to it.

Peachy

Light sheer peach with almost unnoticeable gold and copper iridescence.

Exotic

Beautiful reddish peach with a slight orange duochrome.

But I like it

 Gorgeous mauve with copper duochrome.

Golden Touch

Flattering rosy peach with a golden duochrome touch.

I'm also working on an ultra secret collection I'm UBER excited about and it's going to be EPIC, but I can't give you more details. Haven't forgotten about the Alice's Chains collection either, and hope to be able to release it during March. And, there are a couple of super seeeeeecret collaborations with 2 ladies we all love which you'll know about very soon :D

I love shopping indie!

Lately I've received some more gorrrrgeous indie stuff. The lovely Sakura sent me samples of Sugarpill loose eyeshadows, which I'm absolutely in love with and I also received a Fyrinnae order which I bought together with her. I got samples of Damn Paladins, Feline Familiars and Pyromantic Erotica. I'll try to take pics and swatch everything I've gotten lately for you, but for now, I'll leave you with a picture of my today's LOTD using Fyrinnae's Feline Familiars and Lost in Makeupland's Glow.

Are you excited about the incoming releases? What do you think of the blushes? And about the contest? I've gone craaaaaaaaaazyyy!!

EOTD If the weather is bad... go tropical!

Today has been a very cold, dark day. It's not raining at the momment but it could start pouring anytime! So I decided I had to put some make up on and cheer myself up a bit.

I've always been a sucker for yellow eyeshadows and it had been quite a long time since I last used mine. Since yesterday I saw these gorgeous Evil Shades swatches on Phyrra's blog, I got inspired to take out my yellows and palettes and play with make up a bit.

First I did the same look on both eyes, but one was matte and the other shimmery. I decided to stay with the matte one and did the other eye and the rest of my face afterwards. Morgana Cryptoria's Azalea Blue was the best possible lipstick to pair it with, and a light touch of blush on my cheeks finished the job.

I've only taken pictures of the eye, sorry about the lack of face ones but my skin is crazy at the momment, all dried out and cracked, but super oily at the same time. Uhhhgg, GROSS!

PRODUCTS USED:

EYES:
-Mavala brow pencil Brown
-Too Faced Shadow Insurance
-Kryolan matte yellow AB25
-Sleek Neon Orange from the Acid palette
-Darker red from the Coastal Scents 42 color matte palette
-Darker brown from the Coastal Scents 42 color matte palette
-Sleek matte White from the Acid palette
-Lost in Makeupland Faerie
-Lost in Makeupland Whipped
-MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack
-Generic White gel liner
-Too Faced Lash Injection mascara

FACE:

-Clinique Superbalanced Foundation in Petal
-Clinique Airbrush concealer
-Lost in Makeupland Finishing powder for Normal to Combination skin

CHEEKS:

-Cargo blush in Catalina
-Benefit Coralista blush

LIPS:

-Morgana Cryptoria Azalea Blue

What do you think? Do you do this kind of looks on winter too? There aren't enough yellow looks out there, I want to see more ;)

Christmas Day Look

Here in Algeciras, the 24th is a bit different than anywhere else in Spain. Young people reunite in the morning (since 12:00 or so) and drink, have fun with friends, drink some more and spend the afternoon inside a huge crowd until the sun goes down.

I didn't feel like drinking, so I just took a beer there and went for a couple of hours in the afternoon to meet friends. Since it was going to be really crowded I went with some comfortable clothes and pretty basic makeup. I didn't apply a base or concealer at all to let my skin rest for the night. I just applied a bit of a Deliplus powder base and MUFE HD powder to my skin. No blush at all since my hair was freshly dyed and dye would end on my cheeks anyway later. I kept my eyes simple too.

I used my Sleek Acid palette for the look, using the matte purple and a bit of neon pink in my inner corner blended very well with the purple and a bit of the white from that palette under my crease blending down the purple and pink and on my inner corner. As a highlight I applied a bit of Faerie to the rest of my lid up to my eyebrows.

At 20:00 I went back home to take a quick shower and change my clothes and also changed my makeup. I did a look inspired on this GORGEOUS look by Phyrra. I was in a real hurry and couldn't take pictures of it though, but will redo it and take pictures then since I loved the result.

PRODUCTS USED:

EYES:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Sleek Acid palette's matte Purple
Sleek Acid palette's neon Pink
Sleek Acid palette's matte white
Lost in Makeupland Faerie highlighter
Deliplus black eyeliner pen
Coastal Scents (same generic one sell anywhere) gel liner in Deep Plum (waterline and lower line)
Too Faced Lash Injection mascara

FACE:
Deliplus compact powder foundation
Make Up Forever HD powder

LIPS:
Vaseline
Nyx Round Lipstick in B52

What did you do for Christmas? Did you do any different looks than usual? Did you get any presents?

FOTD Blue shock

Today I've been playing with a couple of new colors. One of them is Glow, a nice golden toned highlighter which will be released this weekend, and the other is Sugar-coated, next Monday's Lifestyle release, which is a gorgeous (sorry I love it) light blue with a little touch of green and silver glitter. I've also used Party and Snow to give an extra highlight.

My skin is a bit crazy today, I've run out of my daily exfoliating cleanser so I didn't want to apply too much makeup, just powder foundation today.

I really love how the look turned out, it's been hours after I did it and the eyeshadows look as bright and vibrant as they did this afternoon :)

 This is the look before applying mascara and without highlighters or my waterline lined. Natural light.

PRODUCTS USED:

-EYES:
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Lost in Makeupland Sugar-coated (whole lid)
Lost in Makeupland Party (outer corner and a bit up into the crease, lower line)
Lost in Makeupland Glow (rest of the lid, very ligtly)
Lost in Makeupland Snow (inner corners, under eyebrow)
Deliplus black pen liner
MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack (waterline)
Too Faced Lash Injection mascara

-FACE
Deliplus pressed powder foundation in 5 Nuez (I don't recommend this foundation, it's gross, but it's the only pressed powder with color I own for the face right now)
MAC Gentle Mineralize blush
Cargo Catalina blush

-LIPS
Nyx Round Lipgloss in Doll Pink

 Finished eye, with flash

My finished face, taken without flash, my house's lightening sucks!

It's a pity I don't own Pixie Epoxy yet (it has been on my list of HAVE to buy since like... FOREVER? I hope my economical situation goes back to normal soon and I can afford to make a big order from Fyrinnae <3). I think the colors would have a much better payoff on top of it, specially Party, which is heavily loaded with glitter.

What do you think of the look? Would you have chosen another combo? Which kind of looks would you like to see here? I'll be glad to "listen"! ^___^

EOTD Expensive dreams

Today I've gone for a dark yet wearable golden look. Dream on and expensive work really well together, so I just had to add a bit of highlight, eyeliner and mascara and was ready!! It is a very fast and easy look nad also very flattering.

PRODUCTS USED:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Lost in Makeupland Dream On (entire lid)
Lost in Makeupland Expensive (inner corner on top of Dream On and as liner on the lower lid)
Lost in Makeupland Faerie (up to my eyebrows)
Lost in Makeupland Snow (inner corners and under eyebrow)
Deliplus Eyeliner pen
MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack (waterline)
Too Faced Lash Injection mascara

What do you think?

My "almost" EOTD!

Don't you hate it when you rush to get your things done, have dinner while in a momment to be able to get ready, you get dressed and start to put on your make up to go out, and just when you're about to finish (I was going to put my mascara on) you are told you aren't going anywhere.

Ehh... yes, I'm angry, but the look really was gorgeous. I'm only posting pictures of my eyes and lips because lightening was awful and I wasn't in the mood for full face pictures.

I felt in a gold mood so I put this look together. I find these shades are very flattering on my brown/green eyes, they bring out the green in them and add some warmth to my face and expression. About the choice of lipstick, I find these two products together work with any look for me, so I stick to that combo whenever I don't want to think about what to wear.

PRODUCTS USED

EYES:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Lost in Makeupland Them Bones (the lightest color of the upcoming Alice's Chains collection) on the lid

Lost in Makeupland Expensive on the outer corners and wet as a liner on the lower lid

Bobbi Brown Espresso (dark brown blended with Expensive for more depth) on the outer corners

Lost in Makeupland Faerie on entire lid to highlight a bit

Lost in Makeupland Snow in the inner corners and the browbone to highlight even more 

Deliplus black eyeliner pen

MAC Fluidline in Blacktrac on the waterline and over Deliplus black liner to set and darken it

FACE:

Clinique Superbalanced Foundation in Petal

Clinique Airbrush concealer (it's actually a pen), I believe this is the only shade

MAC Gentle Mineralize blush

Cargo Catalina blush

Lost in Makeupland Faerie to highlight my temples, the bridge of my nose and just the tiniest touch on my cheeks

MUFE HD Powder (I learned too late about silica T_T)

LIPS:

NYX Round Lipstick B52

Too Faced Glamour Gloss in Pillow Talk

 Have you seen the gorgeous gold shimmer in Them Bones? <3

Hope you like the look!!

What do you think of it? Would you have chosen another lip/cheek combo?