Releases, FINALLY!!

After months and months of keeping you waiting for this collection, showing out some swatches from time to time and postponing the date time after time, I've released A BUNCH of new products.

The much awaited Nostalgia: When I Was Young collection, four new Whipped highlighters, three finishing veils and the finishing powder for oily skin are finally available in my Etsy shop!

Let's break them down a bit!

This collection was troublesome for me even to chose its name! I doubted between two until the last minute almost, and some of you may have received free samples with the name Nostalgia: Once Upon a Time. I settled for When I Was Young, but there'll be a Once Upon a Time collection too ;)

On to the shades!! Click on them to fully appreciate the colors <3

 

Deep smokey brown with a gold shift.  

 Highlighter, light creamy gold with subtle red shimmer.

 Light aquamarine blue with violet duochrome and glitter.

 Beautiful cold toned pastel pink with blue shimmer.

 Bright teal with golden shimmer.

 Amazing yellowed grass green with red glitter. Designed by Ana of Lipsticks and Lightsabers.

 Light, semi matte grey.

Low shimmer highlighter, cool toned cream. 

Reddish eggplant with blue iridescence and glitter.

   Dark purplish blue with pink iridescence and gold glitter.

Deep red with green duochrome and glitter.

Bright yellow with red iridescence and red glitter.

I love Whipped and use it quite often, but sometimes I felt like I needed an extra "something" on it but keeping the same formula and texture it had. And so the Whipped Reflects were born!

This is the original Whipped. 

It's taken forever hasn't it? My finishing powders have always had a good acceptation and the testing done by Stephanie and later by Jade (lovely girls with great blogs!) went so well that I've had a hard time not selling it.

 

Until I can get a hold of a shipment of 10 gram jars (if you follow me on Twitter you've probably seen me complain about a completely crazy ripoff shipping cost that's keeping me from buying them) it'll only be available in sample size at $2. I hope this gets solved asasp, I'm currently waiting on TKB's answer to my email regarding this issue and getting angrier by the day.

Do you love Lost in Makeupland's finishing powders but want to add a little touch of light to your skin? The Finishing Veils are just perfect for it!

They're available in three different shades: English Rose, Faerie and Glow, and same as the regular finishing powders, they're also available for normal to dry, normal to combination and oily skin.

They won't make you shimmery or look oily, they just have the barest hint of light for them to look natural and make your complexion glow.


And that's all for the September releases... Next time will be for Halloween, but there won't be a Halloween themed collection, though I can I can assure you it'll be AMAZING. I'll post swatches in the following weeks because you know I'm a tease!

What do you think of the new products? Which ones appeal to you the most? Which are your musts? Your less favorite ones? You know I love knowing what you think!

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Highlight Me!!

The highlighter sample packs are FINALLY (took me forever, I know) available at my Etsy shop :D. At $4 they're a really nice deal, take a look at them! :D

Also, in other news and as I tweeted this afternoon, I've updated my Morgana Cryptoria post with more on lip swatches. Here's the link if you want to take a look!

I hope to be able tell you about the lovely package I got from sweet Becca from One Hand Washes The Other and give you an opinion on all the products I received. So far I'm in LOVE with everything I've tried. Here's some eye candy to make your mouths water! ;)

This week hasn't been very blog-productive, but I'm just too overwhelmed to sit down and write much. I've also had some real life issues that have kept me rather upset and without wanting to write. I'm already writing the Weekly post so hopefully it'll be up tomorrow the latest.

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?

Tips and tricks! How to use Lost in Makeupland highlighters... on your face

Hi everyone! Since they're quite popular and I get lots of questions on my highlighters, I'd thought it'd be nice to show you how I use them on my face. I also wanted you to see how they look on a certain kind of skin. Mine is warm, really warm, so since I get asked about how warm Glow and Faerie are, I've used each one on a side of my face. Both work great on cool skin tones too, but if you are unsure, I'd say go for Glow, or the newly released English Rose. I'd show you English Rose on my face too, but it's too cool toned for me, that one is perfect for cool toned skin and I guess neutral skin tones could rock it too. If you're as warm as me, it will do a good job on your eyes, but may unset a bit your skin tone if you use it on your face. Then again, every face is a world on its own and the fact that it doesn't suit me doesn't mean it won't suit you.


So, I first do my face makeup, today I mixed a bit of my Clinique Perfectly Real foundation in shade #2 (P) with a drop of moisturizer and applied it to my face using my fingers. My skin is doing horribly lately and it feels like my pores are crazy and going huge and gross so I didn't want to apply a heavy layer of makeup on top. Then I put on my blush, Benefit's Coralista since I like to apply highlihter after my blush and blend it a bit downwards onto it.

 This is the before pic.

People usually uses fluffly brushes to apply highlighter, well, I do it differently. I use a Deliplus flat liquid foundation brush, clean and dry. I don't like these kind of brushes for foundation, and I use this one exclusively for highlighting and applying concealer.

Deliplus liquid foundation brush.

First I picked up a bit of Faerie (ups, my jar is empteeeh) and tapped of any excess. You don't want to use too much product, but to build a soft light on your skin. Then I start patting softly while dragging the brush down a bit and bring it down over my cheekbone with what's left on the brush. if you feel that's not enough, repeat the proccess blending the highlighter a bit with the edges of your blush.

 

This is how it looks like after it's been blended out on my skin, see the subtle light? it doesn't have to look like you have anything on, just brighten your skin a bit. Faerie brings out the pink tones of my skin naturally, and adds the touch of light I need for my skin to look healthy and nice.

After that I did the same on the other side with Glow. Same process, lovely result. You can't really compare because the Faerie jar was empty, but Glow is golden while Faerie is a peachy pink. So, what does Glow do? What it does is kind of neutralize any skin tone, which means, that if you're warm like me, it will kind of cool your skin a bit making it a bit more neutral and if your cold, it will warm you up slightly while looking right.

Have you seen the lovely touch it gives the skin? It's quite easy, fast, and you only need a tiny amount of product. You can do this with any kind of highlighter, be it powder or liquid, the key is applying the right amount and blend blend bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeend until you get a natural effect that looks like the light comes naturally from your skin.

The last step would be to apply a finishing powder on my skin to set everything and mattify. I took a few pictures for comparison before doing that. Here they are.

 Side with Glow, no flash (Excuse my cracked lips).

 Side with Glow, with flash. (on my lips, Morgana Cryptoria's Twinkling Rubies)

Side with Faerie, no flash.

And done! What do you think of these kind of post? Is there anything you want to know about my products in terms of how to use them, color, etc? If it's on my hands, I'll be glad to show you :)

Hope that was helpful! ;)

Weekly post, what's new?

This week has started strong here at Lost in Makeupland. There are a lot of things going on, some of them you'll know about really soon, others will be kept a secret for some time.

What I can tell you is that I finally released one of my secret colaboration projects, that is a lovely highlighter I made for the amazing Ana. It's called English Rose and it's perfect for pale, cool toned skin. You can also use it if you're warmer, I specially like it on the inner corners of my eyes.

 Can you see the difference between English Rose and Faerie? They're quite similar but English Rose is a cool pink tone and Faerie is a peachy pink.

Speaking of Ana, she's posted an update on my company on her blog and you can check her swatches, highlighter comparison and opinion on them, I'm truly glad she's happy with everything ^_____^

In other news, you know I have a different offer every week, this week I'm keeping last week's offer since it hasn't been around for the whole week and it's quite a nice deal. You get five free samples of your choice if your order is over $20 and if it's over $30 you also get a 30% discount on your next order. Shipping cost not included in the offer.

This week I'm also going to release my finishing powders for Normal to Dry skin and Normal to Combination skin, stay tuned because they'll be out today or tomorrow! ;) These will go in 10gr jars at $8 and sample baggies at $2. I plan on selling bigger jars in the future if they sell well. They work great as finishing powders and I've also tried them as primer before my liquid foundation, with lovely results. I'm so excited about them!!

I'm working in a lot of stuff at the momment!

I can announce that I'll be offering pressed powder highlighters and blushes soon, as palette refills and will also sell small palette duos to those of you who want them. You will also be able to request me to press any of my eyeshadows for you. I'll write an indeep post on this before I start selling them.

I think that's it for the weekly post, yet I have the feeling I'm missing something!!

Coming soon...

So after the Christmas craze and the forced stop because of me being sick, things go on in Lost in Makeupland and I have plans on releasing new stuff and keep my company improving and growing.

There are quite a few products in the works. I want to briefly introduce them to you.

Finishing Powders

I've been working on these and testing them for quite some time already, with great results.  These will be released sometime between the end of January or beginning of February.
I've formulated three different powders to suit different skin type needs.

There's the Normal to Dry skin finishing powder, currently being tested by the lovely Sakura (thanks hun!). This powder it's meant to help set and kind of mattify your foundation, diffuse pores and fine lines and keep your skin nice.

My favourite is the Normal to Combination skin one. I've tested it on myself and it has absolutely worked great for me as a finishing powder AND as a primer. I've been using it on a daily basis since I formulated it. I usually wash and tone my skin, then apply a really thin layer of powder on my face, let it sit for a couple of minutes then do my foundation and makeup routine. To finish my makeup, I dust a bit of it again over my face and it keeps me matte and nice for 6-8 hours, depending on how my skin is behaving that day.

Last but not least, I've also formulated a Finishing Powder for Oily skin. I was having a friend test it, but she didn't at the end so I'm still trying to find someone to test it before it is released.
I've tried it on myself, but it's not appropiate for my skin type since I'm normal with a tendency to get slightly to very (depending on the weather and my hormones) oily on my T-zone, so my experience isn't correct in order to test/tweak it. It does dry my skin too much and I have to take it off after minutes. The only conclussion I can take out of this is that it is too drying for normal skin types and would "probably" work on oilier ones, but there's no way I'm releasing this until I get it tested properly.

Alice's Chains collection

When this collection was going to be released, I had a major supply problem so I kept it away for some time. Then, I re-tested it and found I could make some changes since Dirt and Rain When I Die stain my lids so I've tweaked their formulas a bit. It'll probably be released in February.
I really do want to take my time and maybe design some nice packaging for it.

Them Bones, Would?, Dirt, Rain When I Die, Man in The Box, Love Hate Love

More Blushes

I have quite a few blushes formulated and will probably release them all during February. Swatches will be up soon ;)

Lifestyle Collection

I stopped releasing Lifestyle shades back when I had the supply problem in December and it was something else I neglected after being sick. I have a lot of colors from this collection and plan on releasing them. I'm quite fond of them and think they're really nice on terms of color and texture, even though each one has its own.

If everything goes well, I'll be releasing a new Lifestyle eyeshadow on Monday 24. I'll show you some swatches during next week.

Concealing Powders

These are still in the earliest creation process. I'm experimenting with formulas, colors and coverages to come up with a green and yellow powder to even out redness, a light lavender and orange one for under eye concealing... as I've stated, right now that's just experimenting, but I hope something good comes out of it.

More Eyeshadows

I'm also working on more colors with and textures for eyeshadows and will keep on releasing new colors in the following months. I'll probably wait until I'm happy with quite a few and release them all together instead of releasing one by one.

Highlighters

I'm happy to say that there are a few more highlighters coming soon!!! I've done two collaborative super seeeeekrit projects with two wonderful ladies and you'll hear about them soon. I'm very excited about them and hope you will be too once they see the light! ;)

Wow, that's about it I guess, are you people looking forward for something particular? Any suggestions on products, eyeshadow finishes, blushes or finishing powders you'd like? How do you feel about powder concealers? Feedback is always welcome! :)

Finally!! And coming soon...

Today I have a couple of announcements!! Full size 10 gram jars for highlighters Glow and Faerie are already available on my shop, at $8 I think is a fair price for them.

On another note, I also made a Facebook page for LiM, check it out!

And, I'm showing you a sneak peak of what's coming this Monday, a new Lifestyle eyeshadow, Mustard!! It is a greenish gold, with a nearly metallic look to it. It's beautiful and has a lot of blending possibilities!

I'm also going to start selling blushes as soon as I put together pictures and text they'll be up on my shop. Blush prices will be $4.00 MiniSize 5gr jar and $7.00 Full size 10gr jar.

How should I use the Facebook page? What do you think of Mustard? Do you find my highlighter and blush prices fair? I'll be glad to know your opinion! :)

Today's releases and sale of the week

Today has been a long, productive day!! I've released two things, the weekly Lifestyle eyeshadow, Lazy Sunday and a highlighter I've previously talked about, Faerie.

Here you have swatches of both!

 Lazy Sunday

Faerie

And, since I'm in a good mood because I'm going to watch the new The Walking Dead episode tonight, I'm going to give you during this whole week (until Sunday 12th) a free blush with every order over $10 (shipping cost not included into the $10).

I'm working on 6 blush shades at the momment. Here you have a picture of the ones which are ready to be sold. They won't be available though until I'm happy with all the shades.

Yay!!! :)