Collective Makeup Haul - Highend + Drugstore | MAC, Sephora, MUA, MRL etc.

Hi there ! Last month (November) I bought a lot of makeup so I wanted to do a haul post about the products I purchased that month. However, there’s one product that didn’t reach me in time so this post got delayed and also...I got lazy because there were so many pics to be clicked! Nevertheless, I hope the haul is a treat for your eyes, as it is for mine. This is probably my last makeup haul for 2015 (a girl can hope !)...uhh wait...I have to try something from the Maybelline Fit Me Range in India...

Drugstore =) :

-Nykaa Pastel Nail Enamel Mint Meringue & Hasta La Pista : Rs.150 / $2.2 each 
Nykaa's debut nail polishes, I'm happy to support them, will share my thoughts on this range soon. See Mint Meringue in action here. Buy here .

Review : Inglot Freedom System Bright Matte Eye Shadows 362M,372M,382M + Eye Shadow Base 01

I think what we all love about summer is the freedom to trot around wearing the fiercest and boldest colors without standing out. As monsoon slowly descends in India, I got tempted to pay a tribute to summer by doing a post on 3 lovely, bright & completely droolworthy summer eye shadows.

Inglot #362M is a bright bubblegum pink with a matte finish. Though pink eye shadows make our eyes look sick, this one is actually quite wearable. I actually purchased it because I wanted to use it along with NYX Kiwi eye shadow to recreate a look from MAC meets Barbie collection & it’s the perfect shade. It can be used as blush too I suppose, but the small pan size is a bit inconvenient to me. I love using it along with #382 (mentioned below) and The Body Shop Color Crush Eye Shadow in Be My Clementine.  Together they make a gorgeous sunset look.

Inglot #372M is a gorgeous matte turquoise color. Its a beautiful combination of aqua and green. I love using this as a pop of color on the lower lash line, sometimes I use it over the Maybelline Colossal Turquoise Kohl to make it even brighter. This can also be used wet to make it more vibrant.

Inglot #382M is a vibrant deep red color, it is completely matte. It’s a great color to use in the outer corners whenever you use peachy, pink, orangey or bronzey colors on your lid. It may seem like an odd shade to have but its actually pretty versatile & goes well with many warm colors. I tried using this wet but as you can see from the pan, it didn’t work out :( So do not dip a wet brush into this shadow)

Price: Rs. 400 / $6.2 each

Qty: 2.7 g / 0.09 oz (1.3g variant is shown here)

Availability: Major Brands | Nykaa 

All 362M, 372M shadows have the smoothest matte texture and blend effortlessly. 382M is a bit chalky and requires a dense fluffy brush to blend well. I have used them with drugstore brushes as well as expensive ones and they have performed well with either kind of brush. As you can see from the swatches, they are insanely pigmented. However I faced a problem when I used them on my lids, which I will elaborate below.

Inglot Eye Shadow Base 01:

A primer helps to create a smooth, oil free canvas for eye shadow application whereas a base is used to intensify the color of the eye shadow. If you use a base only, your eye shadow might crease, but a primer ensures that they won't.

Ingredients: 

Price: Rs. 500 / $7.8

Qty: 5.5g / 0.19 oz

Shelf Life 9 months (!!)

Availability: Major Brands | Nykaa

Frankly, the Inglot Eye Shadow Base failed to impress me when I used it initially: it did not make my eye shadows appear more pigmented nor did it help in increasing their wear time. I have pigmented eye lids & despite being bright in swatches and on the pan, the colors 362,372,382 don’t translate the same way on my dark lids. After trying these bright Inglot shadows over NYX HD Base & even over a white shadow pencil I was still not impressed because they were not appearing as vibrant as they are in the pan.

Then one day I tried the eye shadows over this Inglot Eye Base (that was lying forgotten in my makeup drawer) and I was suuper impressed. The eyeshadows looked so bright on my lids, exactly as the look in the pan. If you have pigmented lids like me and your eye shadow base is not helping you out, do try this out. I don’t recommend it for all shadows, not even for all Inglot shadows (as the neutral Inglot eyeshadows work well over any base/primer)…but it’s a perfect partner for the bright Inglot eye shadows that I have.

Shade 01 is a flesh colored base, 02 is a darker one. Inglot Eye Shadow Base is a creamy product. It does not have the same texture as a cream eyeshadow (for ex, Maybelline Eye Shadow Tattoos), its more like a mousse-cum-cream texture wise.  I use a stiff brush to pick out the amount needed, then I apply it in dots over my lid and under my lids and blend with my ring finger. Since it is so creamy, you need just the tiniest amount otherwise your eye shadows may end up creasing (unless you use a primer underneath this base). When I swatch this base on my arm and apply shadows over it, they don’t look different at all, infact that step is actually unnecessary as the colors are vibrant in the swatches.

Overall Verdict: 

#362M -4/5

#372M - 4/5

#382M -4/5

Eye Makeup Base - 3/5 

(1 mark deducted from all for being hard to get!) 

The Inglot Freedom System Eye Shadows are really good quality & frankly, they are worth the $6 price. However due to the currency exchange rate being high (value of Rupee is less) they are somewhat pricey in India (Rs.400). I feel that they are worth the investment, because they are really good quality and still cheaper than MUG/MAC. I like to store mine in the Freedom System Z Palette, but they can be stored inside any magnetic palette.

The Inglot Eye Makeup base is quite tricky to use & doesn't work with other eye shadows that I have, however it is really inexpensive compared to similar products in the market so I would recommend you to buy it if you feel that your Inglot shadows are not as vibrant as you would like them to be.

Inglot products are FREE from parabens and are NOT tested on animals.

I wanted to click EOTDs guys, but its so cloudy outside. Its been that way this whole week in Pune :/ I’m sorry :’(

Inglot Freedom System Blush AMC #58: Review, Swatch, Price in India

For the longest time, I ignored my powder blushes. When I was in college (well technically, I still am), they seemed a bit much: washing the brushes every week, making sure that they blush is applied exactly at the right spot, blending it out so that it would look natural etc. is too much work for someone who wakes up three-fourths of an hour before class starts. I relied on the liquid-mousse blushes from Rimmel, so convenient for all those times I didn’t have the time. Now that I’ve begun work (technically, its an internship) I tend to take it more seriously than I did college and actually wakeup couple of hours before I have to leave. Since I’m not bound by any household duties, I can spend all time I want on prepping myself up, and that’s why I pulled out a much neglected and lovely blush from the Inglot Freedom System :  AMC #58.

Price: Rs.450 (may have increased)

Qty: 6g

Availability: Majorbrands (AMC not stocked yet) | Nykaa

Can be stored in palettes, see mine here.

My take on Inglot Blush Refill AMC #58

Color: 58 is a warm toned everyday pink on my cheeks. In the pan it looks like a dusky pink meets mauve color and when photographed, it looks reddish. But the swatches are true to what it appears on me. It will suit all skin tones, I feel it will appear brighter on fairer skin tones and more mauve on deeper skin tones. It does brighten up the face a little bit. I have included pictures of how it looks indoors and how it looks in daylight because my camera wasn’t picking up the color properly :( It’s a great color to wear to work, or even to college if you want. Its one of those colors that you can put anytime you’re confused about what color to wear with a smokey eye look or when you just want a little color to your face.

Last look for 2013 | Happy New Year!!!

So 2014 finally came, I’m so happy I was at home to welcome it and not at my college hostel. Actually I am bunking the first week of college so that I can be at home. I hope all of you had a wonderful night and bestest wishes for 2014. May this year be prosperous for all of us!

Some fun facts about 2013:

1. 2013 is composed of four different digits, and is the first such year since 1987.
2. 2013 is composed of four sequential digits, although obviously not in order. The last such year was nearly 600 years ago, back in 1432. But the next such year is only 18 years away.
3. More than 16 billion photos have been uploaded to Instagram
4. There are over 1 billion unique monthly visitors on YouTube
5. The Oxford Dictionaries word of the year 2013 is “selfie”. selfie noun, informal (also selfy; plural selfies) a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website. The frequency of the word selfie in the English language has increased by 17,000% since this time last year.

 I had an indoors party, so here’s the look I did for the night. I first used a white kajal pencil on my eye lids as a base. Then I used cranberry, pink and silvery pink e/s from a Faces quad and a dark color from another Faces palette. I used Lakme Eyeconic kajal in black, drew a line and smudged it, also used on waterline and to tightline. Then I lined my eyes with Maybelline Hypersharp Eyeliner. These pictures are before I put mascara. I used Maybelline’s gloss in Mirrored Mauve and Inglot blush refill #58. So all in all, very pink look. 

Sources: Fact 1 & 2 from Here, Fact 3 & 4 from Here, Fact 5 from Here.

How did you bring in the new year?

My Fall-Winter Makeup products & More..– Most used products.

*UPDATE: mybeautyexpress is now crazybeautyland.blogspot.com

Opps...Its been so long since I posted. I'm back in my college now, hence there was a huge delay in publishing posts; I'm dependent on college wifi...sigh. It was really frustrating to write posts and edit pictures but never get a chance to publish them!! But anyways, continuing with the fall-winter skincare that I had done last week, here’s all the makeup I've been enjoying for winter.

Starting with the eye make up:

Maybelline The Falsies Mascara: Its a great mascara, especially for my bottom lashes. Definitely false lash effect! Too dramatic to wear it to college though, but perfect for parties and otherwise.

Maybelline Color Tattoo in Tough as Taupe (Review here):

Its a lovely grey color, has certain lilac tones underneath. Its a good color for fall, I use it as a base for brown colors to make them more taupe-y. On some days I use it as it as with just a black liner and mascara.

Bourjois Ombre Stretch eye shadow in Flexi Brown:

Its a lovely brown color perfect for fall and winters, I love the gold flecks it has. However, I get a decent color pay off only when I use it wet.

Inglot round eye shadow refills in 463DS, 418P, 378M :

(From my Inglot Palette) They are the only neutrals I got from Inglot and I'm loving them. 463DS is perfect for highlighting, 418P is an amazing green color and 378M is dark brown color which is a must have for me.

Faces Single eye shadows in FES00064 and FES00232:

I love FES00064(pale pink one), its a "my lids but better" color for me, some times I use it just to give a wash of color on my lids, some times I use it as a blending color. I also mix both of these to get a nice soft brown color for blending in black smokey eye looks. 

Lakme Eyeconic Kajal in Black:

This one is a recent purchase and I'm loving it! It has got so many reviews already so I won't be reviewing it on my blog. Its a great kajal and liner, I apply it on my upper lash line and then smudge it to get a smokey look.

Maybelline Hypersharp Liner: 

Thanks to this, I'm able to draw on a cat eyeliner and winged liner which I wasn't able to do earlier with gel liner and pencil. Now I can draw them by pencil as well, I’m yet to try with my maybelline gel liner, but its all dried up and using a liquid liner is sooo easy!

~ Inglot Freedom System And My Experience ~

*UPDATE: mybeautyexpress is now crazybeautyland.blogspot.com

“ A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions”                                                                   Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Inglot is famous for its freedom system where you can create your own custom palettes. The refills are very cheap but the palettes cost a bomb. I’ve come across Inglot eye shadow refills and blush refills so many times on both Indian and international blogs that I always wanted to own all a few eye shadows myself. I did do that, way back in July, I ordered a few refills online, you can read about shopping at majorbrands.in here. You can find at least a gazillion swatches of all Inglot eye shadows and that makes online shopping a cake walk. But I didn’t feel like using them yet, I needed a palette! Many of the blogs I read said that you can store the refills as is in the box they come, but that wasn’t convenient for me. So I decided to buy a palette, and I got the time to do that this month only.

Until last week, I had been to the Inglot store just twice. The first time was when I just happened to see the store while shopping for other stuff, I had heard so much about Inglot but I’d never come across the store. I went inside and it was all so over whelming, the Visual Merchandiser of the store had done a wonderful job. I ended up just asking about all of their products and walking out, just like that.

The second time I went to the same Inglot store, it was quite, umm, memorable? I’m not sure what adjective to use here, not memorable, something between interesting and memorable. One of the SA/MUA’s was a guy and he had full on make up; a smokey eye and I kid you not, GOLD LIPS, and to top it off he was wearing gold pumps. It was over whelming to look at him and he was assisting me. I ended up buying only the eye shadow base, because all other people outside the store were staring and I started to get really, really conscious. I never give a f*** about people’s stares or looks or taunts or whatever, you can’t live in Mumbai if you don’t ignore all that bullsh*t, but this time it got to me.

So after two not so eventful visits to the Inglot store, I wasn’t feeling optimistic about my third visit. And all the online reviews about Inglot stores in general didn’t help me either; people have said that the SAs force you to buy palettes, they are rude and inattentive and all that. 

The thing is, I had brought round refills and Inglot has now discontinued these in India as well. I wanted their large palette in which you can store any type of refills. So here’s how it went down with the SA:

Online Shopping Experience Review and Haul - majorbrands.in, Aramex Delivery

If there's anything I like more than shopping, its online shopping! Its so relaxing to know that despite the extremely sunny/ stormy weather, I can still get my hands on necessities, that too by just sitting at home. Online shopping helps you become aware of brands you might not have heard before, products you wouldn't have thought of trying, products from international brands too and best of all is that most of the stuff is priced lesser than that at stores.

Recently, I did a major Inglot haul at www.majorbrands.in . MajorBrands is actually a retail organisation which is a partner for brands like Mango, Aldo, Aldo Accessories, Charles & Keith, Inglot, La Senza, Bebe, Nine West and Promod in India.

*UPDATE: mybeautyexpress is now crazybeautyland.blogspot.com

A few screenshots of the site: