Holiday Makeup Sets

Hola a todos!

Hoy os voy a dejar con algunos de los sets que han preparado las firmas para estas Navidades, para que vayáis viendo lo que va a haber (si tenemos suerte y es verdad que algunas cosas son mundiales y no llegan 3 meses después a España) y lo podáis poner en la lista de regalos para Navidad.

Hello there!
Today I am here to show you some of the Christmas Makeup Sets that different brands are getting ready for Holidays, so you can put them on your wishlist (and if you´re lucky enough to get all this sets in your country, mine probably won´t have all of them ).
Let´s get into it!

Empezamos!

Nars lanza dos estuches con copos de nieve en su portada, y a parte labiales y esmaltes de uñas también de edición limitada para esta época.

Nars have this two cute sets with snowflakes on top, and of course some limited edition nail polish, gloss and lipstick.

Marc Jacobs también va a lanzar unos sets especiales, uno compuesto de sus lápices, otro con todos sus productos para ojos y otro mas general.

Marc Jacobs is launching this beautiful sets, one with 7 pencils, other one with all about the eyes and other more for a complete facial set.

Como no podía ser menos, Urban Decay también nos dejará un set navideño, con 6 labiales de su línea Revolution y un delineador transparente.

And Urban Decay is launching this beautiful set with 6 Revolution lipsticks and a neutral lip liner.

Para todas las fans de Benefit, creo que esto os va a gustar! Un set con todos sus coloretes mas un iluminador y brocha, y otro con los Benetint y Benebalm a juego.

For all the fans of Benefit, this two sets will make you fall in love! One with all the blushes, plus a highlighter and a brush, and other one with benetint with matching benebalms

Mac, como siempre, ya tiene disponible su línea navideña, MAC Keepsakes. Hay sets de todo tipo, incluso uno de Viva Glam con los dos labiales de Rihanna, y una paleta especial con todos los tonos Viva Glam.

MAC always have a special Christmas line, and here it is. Sets of all kinds, even a special one from Viva Glam with the 2 lipsticks of Rihanna and other that it´s a quad with the 6 shades of Viva Glam.

Las dos siguientes no tienen nada que ver con las navidades, pero quería ponerlas también. OPI va a lanzar en Enero una línea de esmaltes dedicada a la película "50 Sombras de Grey".

The next two things are not Christmas related, but I wanted to show them to you. OPI will launch in January a line of nail polish inspired on the movie of "50 Shades Of Grey".

Como fan de los tonos grises de uñas, estaré muy atenta a esta línea, porque me gustan todos los colores!

As a lover of the grey shades for nails, I will be checking this line as soon as it comes out!

Y por último, mi producto favorito, y que por desgracia no llega a España ni hay oportunidad posible de que llegue. El set de los Studded Kiss Lipstick de Kat Von D.

My favourite set, without any doubt is this one, that unfortunately there´s no way to get it in Spain. It´s the set of the Studded Kiss Lipstick from Kat Von D.

Y esto es todo de momento en colecciones navideñas, más algún extra. En cuanto tenga más, os aviso!

This is all for now, with a little extra something. As soon as I find new ones, I will tel you!

Nos leemos en el siguiente post.

See you very soon!

Lor.

They´re Real!?

Hello there!

I promised another post today, but I´ve been so busy that I didn´t have time to do it! I will do it soon, because it was my birthday and I got some really good gifts (a lot of makeup!) so get ready for the post very very soon.

This days I am almost finishing my They´re Real! mascara by Benefit (travel size). I did a little review in August, when I was using it for two weeks in that moment and was very nice. After the first month, I always know if the mascara is working or not. And it was a big no for me.

My honest opinion is that I adore a lot the brush of the mascara, really awesome for getting into the corners of the eye, what makes the application of it very easy and comfortable.
The fall out after a month increased so much, some days I looked as a racoon! I know is normal to have a little bit, but it has been so much lately.
What I don´t really like so much is the fact that is so hard to take it off. Even with eye makeup remover for waterproof mascaras, it has been a nightmare to take it off totally of my lashes. And I started, after the first month of use, just applying one layer of the mascara, because with two layers it really was so difficult to take it off.
Some of my lashes fall off, and I stopped using it for one week. The moment I started to use it again, my lashes started to fall again.
I loved the color, really black and make the lashes look almost as real falsies, but being very hard to take off and the fallout of my lashes this last month and a half; makes me say that I won´t get this mascara again.

(Don´t know if you can appreciate how dry is the mascara on the edge/ No se si se verá bien lo seca que esta la máscara en los bordes)

Sometimes it seems like I have a love-hate relation with Benefit, and I really was in love with the mascara, but then all the bad stuff started... Anyways, I will keep giving more chances to Benefit.

Have you tried this mascara? Let me know =)

Hope you like it, see you soon on the next post!

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Hola a todos!

Se que prometí otro post para hoy, pero estuve muy liada durante todo el día y casi no he tenido tiempo para poder hacer nada, además ha sido mi cumple y entre unas cosas y otras se me ha echado el día encima. En breves tendréis un haul con unas cuantas cositas de maquillaje que me han regalado (muchas, este año he debido de ser muy buena!)

Bueno, más o menos por Agosto hice un pequeño review en la nueva máscara de pestañas que había empezado a usar, la They´re Real! de Benefit (tamaño mini). Esas dos semanas me estaba gustando mucho la máscara, todo sea dicho, aunque me resultaba un poco difícil de desmaquillar, pero bueno, daba buen resultado. Para mi, a partir del primer mes se si una máscara me va a funcionar o no. Y esta, muy a mi pesar, fue un no total y rotundo.

De verdad que el cepillo de esta máscara me encanta, es muy cómodo por la punta que tiene para llegar a los extremos del ojo y repartía muy bien el producto. Era uno de sus puntos fuertes para mí.
Pero a partir del primer mes, la caída de la máscara bajo mis pestañas aumentó demasiado, había veces que parecía que llevaba las pestañas inferiores marcadas con negro!
Y otra de las cosas que me empezó a disgustar mucho fue que cada vez que pasaban mas días (supongo que será por que se va secando el producto) era mucho más difícil de desmaquillar. Ni si quiera con un desmaquillante específico para ojos y máscaras waterproof lograba quitármela de las pestañas en condiciones. Empecé a aplicar solo una capa de máscara por eso, porque con dos capas era una total pesadilla desmaquillarse.
Se me empezaron a caer bastantes pestañas, y paré de usar máscara durante una semana. A la semana, al volver a aplicar la máscara, empezaron de nuevo mis pestañas a caer.
El color ha sido otro de sus puntos fuertes para mí. Era muy negro y realmente parecía que llevabas pestañas postizas. Pero al ser tan difícil de desmaquillar y que la mitad de mis pestañas se fueran en ese proceso, me hacen decir con bastante seguridad que no creo que vuelva a comprar esta máscara.

Siempre tengo una relación amor-odio con los productos de Benefit. Me gustan mucho al principio, pero después siempre me pasa algo con ellos... De todas maneras, le seguiré dando oportunidades a más cosas de la marca, espero tener suerte con algo!

Fotos, más arriba!

Habéis probado esta máscara?

Espero que os guste el post, nos vemos en el siguiente!
Lor.

Get Ready With Me!

Hi everyone!

Tody I´m going to make a "Get Ready With Me" post about the makeup that I wear yesterday when I went to the movies with my girlfriends! We saw "Now You See Me..." and it´s amazing!! I recommend you to watch it, you won´t regret it at all.

So, let´s get started!

First, I clean my skin with the "Herbalism" facial mask, later I clean the rests of the mask with my Tea Tree Skin Clearing Facial Wash and apply some Tea Tree Water skin tonic. After  the skin tonic was complete absorved by my skin, I apply my Mineralize Charged Water Moisture Gel and wait for a few minutes until my skin was totally dry and not sticky for applying my makeup.

  

I did a very simple makeup, you can call it naked o washed face.

First, I applied my Face and Body foundation in C1 with a contour brush from Real Techniques. I used this brush because I like the finish that gave to the foundation on my skin, and because is very gentle and soft. After that, I took my 286 Duo Fibre Blending Brush for applying my Illamasqua Concealer in CC 115 and took my Beauty Blender dupe for a total blending (this concealer is very pale in comparison with the foundation that I used, so I don´t wanted to look like a panda but in white concealer haha!) After all, I set everything with my very used (as you can see) Collection Pressed Podwer in 18 Ivory with my 15BJF Inglot brush (is a blush brush, but I love to use it for podwer)

 

For the rest of the face I kept it simple, just some light cheek contour using Harmony and my 109 Small Contour Brush by MAC (this brush is one of my favourites ever!) and I use Stunner blush (satin finish) with my 168 Large Angled Contour Brush. For highlight, I put a little bit of Shroom with the 227 Large Fluff Brush on top of the cheeks.

After that I took my 212 Flat Definer Brush and with Concrete eyeshadow, for filling and define my eyebrows.

On the eyes, I apply with my ring finger a bit of Bare Study Painpot, and let it set for a minute. Later, with the lightest eyeshadow of this quad by Kiko (Color Fever Eyeshadow Palette, I got this a long time ago) I applied it all over the lid with my 213 Fluff Brush, blending any harsh line. After that I curled my lashes and put some mascara.

 

 

For the lips I used Whirl lipliner by MAC and MUA lipstick in shade 14.

Sorry I can put you a finish look photo, I didn´t take any! But this is one photo with the same look from a while ago, with the exact same products (is one of my favourite looks, as you can see)

Hope you like the post!

See you on the next one,
Lor.

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Makeup travel bag

Hello everyone!

Well, sorry for the lack of post, I´ve been so busy! But today I´m back with a post that you may like it.

I don´t know if this happens to you, but every single time I have to fly, I hate packing my makeup. I can´t decide what to leave, what to take with me... And normally I pack way more makeup that I need. But, when I travel, I like to take with me on my purse a little bag with the basic stuff that allow me to do my makeup if I need to, and don´t look like a ghost in the middle of the airport.

The first thing you obviously need is a vanity case, but not so big. Mine is a little one that I found a long ago in Primark that have the perfect size for my purse and I can carry everything inside.

One of the things that I think you really need is makeup remover wipes (on travel size, of course!) and some moisturizer cream. I always like to clean my face with one wipe and apply my cream when the flight starts, and keep my skin hydrated for the whole flight.

I like to have too hand wipes to clean my hands after applying my cream. You don´t want to have your hands sticky all the time!

And then, I have my makeup. I do prefer to travel with compact makeup, because for the pressure of the flight, any crystal pot can explode and cause a big mess (that happened to me once, my Studio Fix explode inside my bag, and you can´t imagine how horrible is that!). Because there is usually a big change of temperature inside the plane, I also prefer to take a solid concealer and not liquid (also, one of my liquid concealers got bad on a flight, from that day on, always a solid concealer!). I carry my normal podwer for setting my foundation, a bronzer and a set from MAC that has highlighter and blush on the same box, with a mirror.

My pressed podwer from Collection 

This one is Terracotta Bronzer by Guerlain

Hocus Pocus set from the Holiday Collection of 2009 from MAC

Then I have my eyebrow palette (cause I do my eyebrows with eyeshadow), my mascara of the moment and my paint pot from mac that I can use as an eyeshadow. Also I have my lash curler.

My mascara, They´re Real by Benefit

This is my palette fro travelling.

The lash curler from MAC

And for brushes I have a very tiny travel set from Bobbi Brown, that has every brush that I need and I don´t have to carry the big ones.

Mini Brush set from Bobbi Brown, Holiday Collection from 2010

If I need to use any eyeshadow, I like to put on my eyebrow palette a neutral one (like Patina or Satine Taupe) a highlighter (Shroom is my all time favourite) and some black (Carbon is the one that I usually take). But if you can carry a big palette, I like to take with me my Naked 2 palette.

For lips, depending on the day, but I like to have a dark color and a gloss, so I can wear whatever I want in that moment (that usually is the darker color)

So that is what I carry on my bag when I travel, hope you like the post, and see you on the next one! And for those who are travelling soon, safe flight!
Lor.

Benefit "They´re Real" Mascara

Hi everybody!

Hope you´re having a great last week of August, and for those who are starting school, work, etc hope that you´ve started the best way possible!
Mine is being a calm week, more or less.

Well, today I´m back, because I want to talk you about a new mascara that I´m trying at the moment, and it´s, as you can guess by the title, "They´re Real" by Benefit.

The previous mascara that I´ve used was the "Scandal Eyes" by Rimmel London. The first month with it was very nice, my lashes look so long, thick and black; and the fall out was very little, so I was so happy with it. After the second month it turns so dry and clumpy, so my lashes look weird most of the days, and the fallout was increasing everyday, so normally I end up the day looking as a racoon thanks to the fall out.
So I decided to get a new mascara, because look as a racoon is not very nice.

From a while, I´ve been reading a few reviews and watching it in YouTube about the "They´re Real" mascara, so I decided to give it a look when I was shopping to get a mascara. I wen to MAC, I looked through all the counters of makeup in Harrod´s (because that day I was visiting Harrod´s and I remember I need a mascara, I don´t usually buy there!) and finally I visited the Benefit counter. The people there were so nice, and they showed me every mascara they had. I asked them about the "They´re Real" and they told me very good stuff about it, so I decided to give it a go.

I am not a very big fan of Benefit, I´ve tried a few of their products, but everything I used to like they have discontinued it, so that makes me forget about this brand.

I got the smaller size (or travel size, whatever you prefer to call it) of the mascara, because the bigger size was a little bit expensive, and I thought it was a very good idea to have this smaller sizes, because when you buy a mascara and you don´t like it, finish a full size bottle sometimes seems to be eternal.

The color of the mascara is black, and I´m not a big fan of the plastic wands but I´m quite liking this one. At the point it has longer plastic "teeth" that I found very useful to get to the corner of the lashes. Because of the plastic wand, normally  there is a little bit of excess of product that you have to be careful, but I don´t find it as a very problematic thing. Is a waterproof version, really hard to take  it off, so use your makeup remover for waterproof mascara.

As always, I get fall out, but is not too much, and by the moment is not bothering me so much. Let´s see what happens after a month of use, that´s my point to know if the mascaras work well for me or not. (I´m getting closer, two weeks of use!)

I hope you like the review, and I will see you very soon on a new one!
Lor.