It's Monday at Makeupland (Weekly Lost in Makeupland post)

I'm very excited this week and it hasn't almost started! First of all, as you may know already, I released the Alice's Chains collection, I'm working on a nostalgic collection (I've posted a few pictures on Twitter today) that will be released by the end of May/start of June. It has been in the works for a long time, but I've been holding up on it for outer reasons I won't go into.

I'm also working on new blush and face powder shades, lipbalms (which I'm going to start shipping to my volunteer testers) and will soon ask you all out for help on a beautiful project I already talked about on Twitter. If you follow my tweets, you've already seen when I asked you out for your stories on cat adoption. I'll talk more openly about the whole project and how it's going to be done, but in a few words, I want to put all your stories and mine together into a little ebook that would be donated to an animal shelter (I've contemplated selling it and donating the benefits but I want no shadow of doubt over myself and my honesty) and besides that I'll make an eyeshadow collection as a tribute to these cats. I'll give you more details in a while, but hope everybody is as excited about it as I am. :)

Now for the news!

Bye, bye sifters!!

I've already started to replace sifters in 5gram jars with shrink bands. This means that jars will be full and closed. Price will stay the same for them $5.99. I still have to update all my listings and include this info so there aren't any unhappy clients.

Doesn't it look cute? 

Weekly Sale

I already posted about it (typo included lol!), until May 8th all orders over $15 (before shipping) get a free surprise gift!! ;) It's valid on both my ArtFire and Etsy shops.

Doesn't look like it, but it's spring! Giveaway time!

Usually here in Spain when April comes weather becomes super sunny and we have nice temperatures. This year it hasn't been like that. It's been raining, dark, quite cold a lot of days.. not what spring is supposed to be at the south of Spain.

Still, I'm stubborn and want to wear bright colors and cheer myself through makeup. During this month I'll be uploading looks using colors I like for spring. For me, it's time for yellows (am I the only sucker for yellow eyeshadow out there?), neons, oranges and strong lips (bold pink and ooooh I SO want to get my hands o a Morgana Cryptoria's orange lippie!).

Which leads me to the following... do you want to win an Alice's Chains collection sample pack? Just leave a comment on this post telling me your favourite colors for spring on your eyes and lips.

-You must be a follower to enter.
-Giveaway it's open worldwide.
-For an extra entry, you can tweet " Let's celebrate spring with a gift from @lostmakeupland "

A winner will be drawn at random on Monday May 9th. It can't be easier!

Alice's Chains collection swatches

So, how's spring treating you so far? Are a lot of you experiencing allergies too? Do they affect the way you put on your makeup? For example I try not to line my waterline and avoid mascara on my bottom lashes when my eyes are all allergic and watery.  

Weekly sale!

EDIT: Sale ends May 8th, I don't know how I looked up dates lol!

Since lately things have been so slow at Makeupland, I'm a bit discouraged on thinking about sales and fun stuff, but still can't help but come up with nice offers for you.

Until Sunday May 8th you'll get a SURPRISE gift with any orders over $15 (shipping not included). It can be a full size product, a sample pack, a discount code... A surprise!

This offer is valid at both my ArtFire and Etsy shops (but as usual, I'll love you more if you buy at ArtFire ;) ).

Are you into surprise gifts? How have your experiences with them been?

<3

Holy Sale!

This week is Spanish's Semana Santa (Holy Week?, I don't know what's celebrated abroad lol) and to celebrate there's nice, long holidays I'm doing a sale during the weekend, don't miss on it!

10% off every item on my ArtFire shop and 5% off Etsy orders using the code HOLY5 at checkout.

ENJOY!

<3 (Really, you girls are the best ^^)

It's Tuesday at Makeupland (laaate Weekly Post)

I know it's been forever since I last posted here, I'm not even going to give any excuses, just say I'm sorry and really hope I could sit down and write the MILLION ideas on my schedule.

I don't want the post to be Bible-long, so I'm going to try to be concise and clear.

Weekly Offer

This week I've gone crazy, BUY ONE GET ONE FREE at my ArtFire shop!! (not on Etsy, sorry!). Everything applies except palettes and pressed palette refills.
This leads me to...

ArtFire

Lost in Makeupland is now on ArtFire too! For those of you who don't know ArtFire, it's an Etsy-like place but better.
Why? I'll give you the simplest reason. NO FEES for me. As my shop slowly grows, I also have to pay more Etsy fees and have to buy more supplies. I just can't put up with that.
Shipping costs have gone crazy, I'm still unemployed and have to pay my car, bills and eat and I just can't. I also want to study and just can't pay for it all. I don't want to raise my shipping charges and want to keep LiM affordable for everybody and that's the only way to do it I can come up with.

So, from now on, all my offers, discounts and a little reward system for returning customers I want to put up before summer are going to be on my ArtFire shop only.
Registering there is free for you and pricing will be the same for my products.

Navigation is easy and hey, the shop looks lovely! Another plus is that I can add more product pictures, keep a blog there... Really, it's amazing the tools they give us sellers to make the experience so much nicer and easier for you.

I'm not going to close my Etsy shop, but I'd like my customers to use the ArtFire one instead. Obviously, it's up to you whether you prefer to buy there or not, but it's a nice way to help support companies you like.

If you have any doubts or questions as to how to use ArtFire, just let me know and I'll try to put together a mini tutorial or something :)

Contest winners

I know, I know! I haven't forgotten about this! So, before you get bored of my ramblings and go away, I'll announce the winners of my 100 sales celebration contest! 

And, the lucky winners are:

-My favourite look (this was really hard to chose! I loved them all!) who'll receive 10 samples of her choice...

 Rach!!

-For the 50% off coupons

Aaaaaand, the big winner of $50 in Lost in Makeupland products of her choice is....

Congratulations ladies!!! I hope you're happy with your prices :D I'll contact all of you during this week with all the info.

I want to thank all the people who joined the contest, it was fun and I loved it. Next one will be when I reach 500! ;D

 
What's going on?
 
I'm working on a LOT of things. Those of you who follow me on Twitter and know me a bit know that I'm not going through good times. It affects me in a weird way, I find it very hard to sit down and "produce" stuff but I'm incredibly creative, I've been making a lot of new products, some of them have been tested already, some are being tested and others I haven't found the time to try yet.

As a new, important note, I'm trying out lip balm formulas, they're so fun! I can't give a launch date yet since it's still in the earliest phase of testing. I'll be sending a few volunteers samples so they can try them and I can also check how they behave in different weathers. My idea is to sell them in cute little tins, tinted and not. I haven't decided on a price yet. I'll tell you more about this as soon as I can.

The Alice's Chains collection is definitely going to be released this month.I want to add a couple of new blush shades to it, one of them will be very neutral going in the line of the collection, and the other will be EXTRA bold. The jar design will be super cute, it was designed by the lovely Sakura and I love it. <3

I also have a bunch of new highlighters ready to be released but don't see that happening anytime soon. I'm quite low on some supplies and until I find a new jar supplier with REASONABLE shipping costs I can't spend a fortune on big jars. Really, it's insane the way prices have gone up, I can't put up with that.

Something beautiful

I want to finish this post with something beautiful. I'm always angry at my neighbour because he's got a lot of trees on his patio and they go into my patio, fruits fall down and ruin mine, tree leaves fall down too, I just fucking hate it and have thought about ruining his trees more than once.

But I have to admit that I love this tree and don't mind it going into my patio (just while it's this beautiful lol). It bloomed a couple of days ago and looks stunning.

So, how are things going on lately? Have you ever used ArtFire? What's your opinion on it? I've only been there for a little time so I'd love to check out other people's opinions. 

Any blogs worth discovering? I'd love to get to know new food, fashion and hair related places on the net :D 

100!!!!

EDIT: Contest will run until March 31so you have more time to enter. I also wanted to clarify that you don't have to submit a look to enter the contest, just if you want to enter for the $50 in LiM products. If you don't submit a look you'll still be eligible for the 50% discount :)

I promised something very special to celebrate my first 100 orders, and thank you all for your support. I know it's a bit late, but here it is!

There'll be three lucky winners who will receive the following:

-One winner will receive $50 in Lost in Makeupland products of her/his choice.
-Two winners will receive one 50% discount code each.

Ok, so I've gone crazy! Just take advantage of it ;)

What do you have to do to win? 

First of all, follow my blog, this contest is for followers only.

Then you'll have to comment on this blog entry with the following:

To win a 50% discount code:

1. Follow Lost in Makeupland on Facebook. This will be worth 1 entry.

2. Tell me your favourite Lost in Makeupland product and why do you like it. This will be worth 1 entry.

3. Have you ordered from Lost in Makeupland? Tell me your etsy username! This will be worth 1 entry.

4. Blog about it and leave a link to your post. This will be worth 1 entry.

5. Tweet a link to this post, don't forget to mention me @lostmakeupland on the tweet or I won't have a way to count the entry. This will be worth one extra entry.

Now, onto the BIG prize!!

To win $50 in Lost in Makeupland products:

1. Follow Lost in Makeupland on Facebook. This will be worth 1 entry.

2. Create a look using at least one Lost in Makeupland (include a picture of the product itself too) products and email me the picture or include a link to it on a comment in this post. This will be worth 2 entries.

OR

Create a look using products from another company (which you'll have to state, I love discovering other indie products <3 ) inspired in what you'd wear if you ever visited a place called Makeupland. This will be worth 1 entry.

3. Tell me your favourite Lost in Makeupland product and why do you like it. This will be worth 1 entry.

4. Blog about it and leave a link to your post. This will be worth 1 entry.

5. Tweet a link to this post, don't forget to mention me @lostmakeupland on the tweet or I won't have a way to count the entry. This will be worth one extra entry.

A winner will be chosen at random on March 31th. The more entries you submit, the more options to win you have!

The contest is open internationally. Submitting a look will make you eligible for the big prize, and also eligible for the discount codes with the same number of entries. If you don't submit a look, you'll still be able to opt for the 50% discount.

Only one entry for person. You can add more later (EXAMPLE: You post on twitter and follow Lost in Makeupland on Facebook, then you decide you want to do a look later, it's ok, you can do that later, I won't count entries until the contest closes).

If you are a blogger and end up winning any of the prizes, I'll also do a little giveaway for your followers.

I'll also choose my favourite look from the submitted ones and will send that person a few samples of their choice.

It's everything clear? If you have any doubts, don't hesitate to ask me, I'll try to clear them as soon as possible :D

So, what do you think? Opinions are more than welcome. Are you as excited as I am? I hope a lot of you enter and that we all have fun. I <3 contests! 

I can't wait to see your entries ;) 

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!!

Weekly Lost in Makeupland post

I should really go back to posting the Weekly posts on Sunday, I feel like a total slacker when I post them later than Monday! Still, here is my weekly update on what's going on at Makeupland. There's quite a bit of stuff I want to talk about.

Delayed Packages from December

They are starting to arrive! One of the packages which was taking longer, shipped on Dec 11, FINALLY arrived to the buyer yesterday. I was SO relieved I can't even tell you. I'm quite worried about all the packages I shipped back them I hope they all start arriving.

Here's a bit more info on that, I took those paragraphs from the Royal Mail (UK Postal Service) page.


USA Start date: 18th November
End date: Ongoing

Update 28th January 2011:

The United States Department of Homeland Security is continuing to require increased security measures for items carried on passenger airlines. As a result, some mail entering the USfrom around the world, and including the UK, that would normally be sent via passenger aircraft must now travel by other means, including ships and cargo planes.

Most items, including personal letters and cards, magazines, CDs, DVDs and lightweight packets, will be delivered in the USwithin a few days of posting.  However, there are delays of about two weeks for some heavier packets.  These delays are currently affecting stamped items, franked items, and items posted under contract, with the exception of Destination Sort and/or M-Bag* items.

That means that items shipped via ordinary mail have more of a chance of arriving soon and well than registered ones. This is crazy, but there's nothing I can do but hope things are done eventually in a way it doesn't affect European people when shipping something to the US.

I also wrote a blog post adressing that matter a while ago, you can read it here.

I'm going to continue to keep in touch with the affected buyers and will try to find a solution by the middle of the month for those who haven't received their packages by then.

Releases

I know I keep promising to go back to releasing stuff constantly, but I've gotten an order increase and am working on a lot of stuff and just find releasing a shade per week quite annoying and time-consuming at the momment. So, what I'll do will be release what's left of the Lifestyle collection soon, all at once, and have a few batches prepared before I do it so it doesn't affect my work schedule. Also, the lightening here it's so bad lately (it finally stopped raining yesterday!) that I haven't been able to photograph anything, I still have to take pictures of nearly all my eyeshadows again and upload some more swatches.

Valentines

I won't be releasing a Valentines collection, nor am I going to have one of my weekly sales this week, but I will have a Valentine's sale. From this momment until February 20th, if you write the coupon code MUSTBELOVE at checkout you'll get an automatic 10% discount on your order! ^____^

Highlighter packs

My highlighters are becoming very popular, mostly thanks to Ana ;) and I get lots of questions about which one would suit you better. I'm always glad to answer your questions, and last week I actually posted a How-to tutorial thinguie with lots of pictures showing you how I use them and how they look on my warm skin, but I can't really know how all of them are going to look on you since we all have different skin tones and undertones. So, I've thought that the best way to let you find your perfect highlighter is by offering a highlighter sample pack.

It will cost $4 (separately the price would be $5.50) and you'll receive four baggies with a sample of each of my highlighters : Faerie, Glow, English Rose and as an extra, a sample of Whipped (this one doubles both as an eyeshadow and a eye highlighter). You'll get the same quantity of product than when you order the highlighters separately with the only difference of them going in the small baggies I use for eyeshadow samples instead of the bigger ones I use for highlighters, blushes and face powders.

I find it's quite a nice offer for those who are unsure of which shade will suit them best or aren't really into highlighters and want to experiment with them and their textures at a small prize.

These will be available sometime today or tomorrow. I'm qute busy at the momment and can't promise an exact date, but I will post about that on Twitter, Facebook and here on the blog.


How to's

Last week, I posted a tutorial on how to use my highlighters on the face. I took a lot of pictures and explained step by step how I do it, showing how it works with Faerie on a side and Glow on the other so you could see how a different toned highlighter can change and melt with a skin tone.

Is there anything else you would like me to explain? A tutorial on a make up technique, a way to apply any of my eyeshadows, swatches, comparisons, whatever? I'd love to know and would be glad to take the time and make them, I really enjoy all things make up related from creation, to experimenting with new stuff, and what I love the most is makeup application. If there are any tips you'd like me to share, don't hesitate to ask!

I love shopping indie!

A few weeks ago I received a Shiro cosmetics order I'm dying to share with you, so expect me to post some swatches and rave about the awesome stuff I bought!

Last week I also received a small Beauty From The Earth order I made because of a great sale they had to try ther products (Becca it's your fault, you convinced me!!!) and I also want to show you a couple of shades that really impressed me.

I've also placed orders from Evil Shades, The Morbid the Merrier, Haus of Gloi, and a package from One Hand Washes the Other (yayayayayayayayyyy so excited about receiving this one!!!) still pending to arrive, I'll show you the goodies once I receive them, I'm so excited about everything! ^_____^

Plus, Morgana Cryptoria is going to release 20 new lipstick shades, I can't wait to see them, I'm sure they'll be gorgeous! You can read about my great experience shopping from Morgana Cryptoria here. <3


I think that's it for this week's post!! Stay tuned, I'll be posting more this week ;) Really, thanks everybody for keeping up with the blog, following and all, I'm glad! <3

So, is there anything you're looking forwards to this week? Any ideas, suggestions, things you'd like me to talk about? What do you think of the highlighters pack?

ON SALE!!

This month I've switched to transparent jars instead of the ones with black lids I used before. The black lids got scratched easily and it looked ugly, so I switched to transparent hoping they look better.

After doing so, I was left with a few filled jars that I'm offering now for sale on my Etsy shop.

There are several eyeshadows at $4.50 and a jar of Faerie at $4. Go take a look!!


Click here to see which colors are on sale!

I love shopping indie

I'm going to write a post about a woooonderful package I received yesterday, that's an order from another indie company.

Before I do that, I think there are a couple of things I have to state clear since this is the blog from another indie company.

FIRST OF ALL: This is not a regular beauty blog so I won't be doing proper reviews, there are wonderful blogs on the right bar here where you can check indepht reviews on any company. I will just show you what I bought, swatches and will briefly tell you what I think of it.

BUT!!!! This is important, and it's a big difference from a regular beauty blog, I WILL NEVER TALK SHIT ABOUT ANOTHER COMPANY's PRODUCTS. I think it's unfair, disgusting and kind of nasty. One thing is that I'm sick of the activities from a few nasty companies and give my opinions on that and a very different one is that I buy a product from a honest company and don't like it. If I don't like it, I won't talk about it and that's it because I respect everyone's work and would never try to affect their business negatively. This doesn't mean I'm lying to anyone, just that I won't come here and say "I hated ZZZ product from AAA indie company." The only case when I will talk clearly about a company to warn you to stay away from it would be cases like Calypso, I was ripped off by that company and paypal never refunded my money or continued with my dispute. Still, now I'd never buy from anyone if I haven't seen they're honest (that's one of the reasons I love beauty blogs, but you have to know where to look).

I just want to share things I love with my customers and other people interested in my company, and that's the whole point on me swatching, talking and linking you to other company's shop. My intention isn't to review anything, is to say "hey! I got this wonderful customer service and gorgeous products, me happy yay!!!"

I don't believe in competition because every single one of us makes different stuff, and each one is unique on its own. The fact that I make eyeshadows doesn't mean that I can not buy eyeshadows from another company (indie or mainstream). I love shopping from indie makeup and bath companies and will keep on doing that.

I would like to know what you guys think of this.

Do you find appropiate that I talk about other companies here? I'm completely aware of the fact that it isn't a personal blog even though I like to throw in bits from time to time because I find it nice to interact with you and is a fun way for you to know what and who is behind the company.

Rock my Look is more than color...

You probably know the Rock my Look collection by now. These eyeshadows are the most popular and most sold in my shop! They are six deep, dark eyeshadows suitable for any kind of look and they can also be used as liners with great results due to their creamy dense formula.

But... do you know where they come from?

I got the inspiration from six different music bands that mean something to me, music that has made me feel during years, inspired me and overall, whose music I love and reach for again and again.

I'll leave a link to a video for each eyeshadow, I'm not posting the actual videos here just in case anyone thinks I'm trying to claim ownership over them or something.

I've also swatched them on top of Pixie Epoxy, you can see how amazing they look using it! I'll write a proper post on Pixie Epoxy soon, but you can check here why I'm so happy with it.

Please let me know if you like this kind of posts or think I should skip them. Sometimes you just see a name on an eyeshadow, or a collection but it doesn't make sense, or just it's not possible to understand why X name is attached to S product. I'm just trying to give you some background on what inspires me to end up giving you the products you see in my shop.

I really really hope you find this post as interesting and enjoyable as writing it was for me. :)



Dream On

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Is there anyone in this world who doesn't know Aerosmith? They're kinda like the Rollings, they've always been here and they always will! Dream On is my favourite song from them ever. It makes my hair stand up every time I listen to it, and it's a show of the amazingness of Steven Tyler's voice (recent versions of it sound as great as they did yeeeeears ago) and the way it's composed, the tasty music parts with the elegant guitars floating around the voice... WOW, I could go on forever about this song! You can't tell me you aren't amazed by it!

For Dream On I wanted something antique but edgy, surprising and beautiful. Sadly it's a very hard to photograph shade and I haven't been to swatch it properly yet, but I think it's worth trying.

Click HERE to watch an amazing Dream On performance!


Libertine

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Oh, my poor Libertines! Many of you won't probably know about The Libertines unles you're Brittish or, like me, a total sucker for all things MTV-2 in the early 2000.

That's the music band where the "what a waster" Pete Doherty started, along with his friend Carl, lots of dreams and illusions and far too many beers and drugs. Despite all the media shit, drugs and the way everything that had nothing to do with music took over the real, shameless, sloppy fresh talent from these guys, they did some great music back them, full of meaning and it sounded so well, so different from the shit that was really going on with them.

The Libs will always have a warm spot on my heart and they'll always make me smile when I think of them.

This eyeshadows was named after a tattoo both Pete and Carl have on their forearms, the word Libertine in a handwrited font. I wanted a deep blue, dark and beautiful but still bright enough to remind myself that there's always hope, it's us who sometimes let go of it and turn our backs to what we have.

You can listen to one of their fresh first songs HERE.

Queen 

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Is it necessary to say anything about Queen? REALLY? They're history, they've made things nobody had before, were and will always be icons. The loss of Freddy Mercury has been in my opinion one of the biggest in music ever and they are just... pure genius!

The voice, the guitars, the chorals they made... Everything blended together, no matter the kind of song, they way the joined a rythm with another, GENIUS.

I'll admit some of their songs sound like crap to me and will never like them, but in general, everything Queen made was great and you always find something in their songs that entrances and takes you to a world where they tell you their little stories in an optimistic kind of way.

To me Queen had to be delicate yet strong at the same time, satiny yet not shimmery due to the lost memory of Mercury and had to be a beautiful elegant dark burgundy to sum that all together and portray my feelings for this band in just one swipe of color.

Click HERE to listen to one of their genius songs, I always listen to this one when in a bad mood and instantly makes me feel better and gives me the shot of energy I need. Today it made wonders on me.

Seven Nation Army

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I fucking love The White Stripes. I can't say it any other way. With just a set of drums and a guitar, they make magic. Noisy garage like entracing kind of magic. And I love it. They can just create a magic intimate momment with songs like Jolene or Hotel Yorba or make it all explode and big with Seven Nation Army or Blue Orchid. 

It's a right here, right now music for me, no perfect voices, dirty sound and this little "them" touch that makes you recognize their music instantly.

When I think big and intrincate like the Seven Nation Army video is, I think of a lot of contrast, brightness and stuff all together at the same time. And this eyeshadow is like that, ultra shimmery while still dark, changing depending on light and what you pair it with and overall gorgeous while not the brightest.

You can watch the Seven Nation Army video HERE.

Volta

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It seems like all I can say it's genius, but, what do I do if they are? And The Mars Volta are big fucking ones. These short, shabby men make the most psychedelic, stunning and unusual gorgeous music ever.

Some of their tracks sound like experiments, full of meaningful, deep guitars that never lose their elegance, the high pitched gorgeous voice that makes you trip around their angst filled lyrics... 

Their music videos are also worth mentioning, they're gorgeous! Well made, dark, different from each other, meaningfull.. I really recommend you to check them out!

This color had to be kind of psychedelic, beautiful and dark at the same time, but bright as their talent, so I settled for this beautiful purple and it's silvery reflection of colors.

You can watch my favourite video from them HERE.

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Natural light on the left, right swatch with flash.

I love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They're crazy, hysterical, raveish, then they shut you up with some beautiful songs like Maps. Karen O, their singer, means crazy endless energy to me.

They're not the deepest band out there, nor is their music the best, but they shine with their energy, great vibes and talent for show. They're pure spectacle!

I also love Karen's sense of fashion, extreme and fun. That's why I chose this color for them, it's bright and addapts itself to any other color. It is also fun and edgy if you look at it the right way.

You can watch a video from them HERE.


And this is where the Rock my Look collection comes from!! What do you think? :)

I promise I'm back! Some thinking and love for all of you :)

Hi everyone!

First of all, I'd like to apologize for not updating my blog for so long. I've been neglecting it in order of getting other things done and due to life in general.

Christmas has been very busy, Lost in Makeupland is a baby that's trying to stand up on it's own and starting to walk step by little step. I really, REALLY, want to thank you all for keeping up with me, trusting my company and products and giving them a try.

I also want to apologize to all the people who ordered from me by the end of December because I had a long gap where it took me far too long to proccess or ship their orders. I fell sick at the start of January with a horrible cold, which resulted in me not going out of home to ship anything and absolutely and for OBVIOUS hygiene reasons not  going anywhere near products until I got well. No way for me getting near micas and bases while I was constantly coughing, sneezing and wiping my nose every momment. I hope everybody understands it and that it's not a big hassle for you.

A very important thing I want to do is thank all the people who's asked me questions, to those who've bought from me, especially for those of you who have come back after your first purchases. To all the people who's reviewed me (both on blogs and people who convo me telling me what they like about my products and how was their experience with them). Also thanks for those of you who follow my blog, Twitter and Facebook page.

I especially want to thank all the people who's ordered from me during Christmas and are still waiting for their orders to arrive. Thanks for your patience. Apparently, this Christmas have been very problematic for sellers outside the US. I'm going to write a full post about it, because doing some research, I've found out that I'm not the only one who's sent packages that are not arriving. I think it's a very serious matter and believe it deserves a post of it's own. If you ordered between Dec 11 and 27, don't panic just yet!

I'm so happy with the way things are going for my company, that I can't complain. Lost in Makeupland has been open for two months and a half and I've made more than 50 sales already, which I think it's great.

It's quite a bit overwhelming in the way that I'm changing my work schedule to adapt myself to the growing of the shop. I'm still deep into that, so I'm working slower at the momment and hope things go faster starting this new week. My current turnaround time is 2-5 days.

I'll be catching up with you guys in blog stuff during this next week, but I'll leave a little list of some of the topics I'm going to cover soon here:

-I've made a couple of giveaways.
-Upcoming products (a deep look into my Face powders, Alice's Chains collection which is being reformulated)
-I'm using transparent jars for eyeshadows instead of shiny black lids.
-Looks by you.
-Part 2 of the How I test my products post.
-The wonders of Pixie Epoxy (thanks Sakura for sending me some!)
-I've bought stuff from some lovely indie companies and will tell you what I think of everything.
-Looks by me.