Product Of The Month, September 2011

 

The first Product of the Month is Volta. it was a bit hard to chose but it's one of my most popular shades so why not start with it?

Before I start and since it's the first POTM, I'd like to tell you what it's going to be about and what you'll see during this time. There'll be weekly posts and this is what you'll find through the month.

-Product pictures and swatches.
-Info on that product: inspiration, ingredients, reasons I love it, instructions on how to use it and a list of possible uses for it.
-EOTD's using the featured product.
-The featured product will be a 20% off during the entire month and customers will receive a little gift when they buy a full size of it.
-Color combinations using other Lost in Makeupland shades with the featured product.
-A monthly giveaway of a full size jar of the POTM.
-Guest posts (this obviously depends on you ;) ).
-Looks from customers (same here!).

Volta is one of the eye shadows from the Rock My Look Collection, a bright, dark blackened eggplant purple. It's got a bit of shimmer to it and reflects light amazingly. As you can see, it's got a strong black base that makes it perfect for smokey looks.

I won't lie when I say I LOVE it and it's one of the shades I use the most, specially as an eyeliner due to it's thick dark consistency and the way the color suits me. You can use it wet as an eyeliner or over the whole lid for an ultra intense result, on top of a dark base for an super smokey look, on its own on the lid, on top of a light base for a brighter result. It will never disappoint you!

It works great on any skin tone and is flattering on every eye color, specially green eyes. It's deep and beautiful, what else can you ask for?

Mica, titanium oxide, carnauba wax, boron nitride, iron oxide, tin oxide, ultramarines, magnesium stearate, carmine.

Volta contains carmine, so it isn't vegan. It also contains ultramarines, which means it's not safe for lip use either.

PLEASE keep these facts in mind when you buy a product, and don't use it if you're sensitive to any of the ingredients or use it where it's not approved. We indie companies have to inform you, but you have to be responsible and know what you're buying and make sure it's safe for you.

The Rock My Look collection is a music inspired one, based on some of my favorite bands and songs ever and the colors they bring to my mind when I listen to them. Every shade was named after a band or song.

You can see more detailed info on the inspiration behind the Rock My Look collection and more swatches in this post where I even gave links to music videos.

Volta was named after the band The Mars Volta. They're amazing, pure genius, and if you don't know them by now you should. I wanted to create a color that expressed everything they bring to my mind when I listen to the and I'm pretty proud of the result.

This month you can win a full size jar of Volta. Entering is super easy it won't take you long! Are you going to tell me you don't want it?

What you have to do is:
1. Become a follower if you aren't already, giveaways are for followers only.
2. Comment telling me why you love Volta.

A winner will be drawn at random on October 1st. You have the whole month to participate!


Have you tried Volta? What do you think of it? What do you think of featuring a product each month? I can't wait to know what you think, and if you have any suggestions of things that could be included in the POTM features, don't hesitate to let me know!

A quick note on pressed eyeshadows

From now on I won't be taking more orders of any of the Rock My Look collection shades in pressed form. They just don't work well (most of them apply plain black when pressed) and I have to go and reformulate the shade multiple times and I'm just not happy with the results. When I started to press shadows, I tried to press Queen out of RML because I thought it'd be the hardest one to work with and it went ok so I didn't try the others.


All that together makes:

1. I lose money and waste supplies
2. Waste a long time, both mine and my customer's.
3. Orders take longer to ship because I'm stuck with one pressed sample.
4. Me ANGRY as hell.

Thing is, when I press shadows I always press one for the customer and another one out of that same mix for myself to quality control. So when customer bought other shades from the collection I started to experience trouble which has lead me to the decision to not press them anymore.

I have to clarify that I haven't shipped any of the non working RML shades, just in case anyone thinks I've shipped them not working.



So, if anyone requests them I'll refund them that shade or give them the option to chose another shade.

I'm sorry because the Rock My Look line is very popular and a lot of people wants them as pressed liners, but that won't be an option for some time.

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

Natural light on the left, right swatch with flash.

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

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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? :)

The Weekly LiM offers and releases post... a bit late

Hi everyone!

I should have written this on Sunday, but if you throw together the fact that I'm lazy, that my netbook was formated on Sunday and I hate writing using it with a passion and that I've been quite busy (did I say I'm lazy?) well, I've kind of neglected the blog.

I'm very surprised that I get many visits everyday, I hope you people like the content and find it interesting/useful or at least entertaining. Is there anything you would like me to add to the blog? Any topic you want me to talk about, looks you want to see, tutorials... whatever. I'm open to ideas so if you give me one I'll give it a try.

This week has been very prolific at Lost in Makeupland. There have been quite a few releases. Let's take a look at them!

-This week's Lifestyle release was Sugar-coated, a gorgeous bright light blue. Here's a pic of me wearing it on my lid with Party on the outer corner. In this look I also used Glow (the highlight you see on the rest of my lid) and Snow in the inner corner and just under my eyebrow.

-Glow. Another highlighter. I really like it. It's a lovely sheer golden toned highlighter, great for achieving a natural glow on your skin. It was swatched with no primer.

 

-Individual full sizes and samples of the Rock my Look collection. FINALLY!! I also swatched the whole collection as liners and added it to the listings. What do you think?

About this weekly offer... you get a full size eyeshadow of your choice from the Rock my Look or the Lifestyle collections with every order over $10 (shipping not included). Not a bad deal!!

I would also like to apologize to a couple of customers who are getting their orders these days in big baggies instead of the small ones I use. There have been delays in every supplies orders I've made early in the month and I ran out of sample baggies. I just received a large order of them so it won't happen again. These customers have also received more product than usual to make up for it.

On a last note, if you have done any looks using my products and would like me to feature them both on the blog and on a Facebook page I'm working on (I've said it more than once, I'm computer challenged LOL) email them to me at lostinmakeupland @ gmail . com

I'm going to add a little page on the top (next to About, Contact, etc) where I'll be posting pictures you people send me. I'll add another one where I'll list all the reviews on my products so you can check what other people has experienced with them. If you have written a review about Lost in Makeupland or have stumbled upon one on the net, send me the link so I can post a link to it here too.

UPS!! It ended up being a rather large post lol.

Coming soon...

This is what I'm working on lately:

-Releasing the Lifestyle collection

Every Monday I'll be releasing a new shade. Those are bright yet very wearable eyeshadows for everyday use.

This week was Psychedelic Mushroom's turn, isn't it gorgeous?

-The Rock my Look collection

This music related collection will be released arond the middle of December, but a sample pack is available at $4.50. 6 crazy, deep and plain gorgeous colors great for dark, edgy smokey looks, and GREAT used as liners.

-Alice's Chains collection

This will be released during December as well. Those colors are, I don't know how to explain it, like a "clean" look at Alice in Chains's album covers, I love that band! These colors are wearable and easy to combine.

-New products

In the upcoming months I'll be releasing a few blushes and finishing powders.


Everything will happen at it's time, no rushing here. I'm working very hard on providing good quality products and hope everybody enjoys them as much as I do ^____^

Is there anything you'd like to see? What shades would you like to see and try?