Wednesday, December 22, 2010

The Inglot Experience

Hello,

I just wanted to talk about my Inglot experience in Select City Walk mall in New Delhi. After reading and hearing much about Inglot, I decided to check out the place when I was visiting the capital in August.

To start off, the store was quite large and more welcoming than Colorbar (Wasn't happy with the service and the fact that it was so teeny.) The team of makeup artists did not go out of their way to make me and my two aunts comfortable. They only attended to us when we went up and asked them for help. Again, their service was not spectacular. However, I did end up picking out three eye shadows. 

Some interesting things about Inglot:
  • They have something called the freedom system wherein you can pick out single eye shadows and get them in palettes of 3,5 and 10 I think. 
  • They are cheaper than MAC when it comes to e/s. 
  • The palettes are magnetized and stackable. 
  • The eye shadows come in circular and square shaped pans.
  • They don't name their e/s, there is a numbering system.
So I picked up three colours that I was looking for. I wanted a matte white, matte yellow and an orange. I got the matte white but not matte yellow. Both the yellow and orange have shimmers in them. 

Check out some pictures:



The palette!

My colours!

Finger swatches!

Hand swatches!


So now my thoughts:


  • I am really sorry but  I do not remember the numbers of the eye shadows and hence I cannot tell you what I got! 
  • I palette + 3 eye shadows cost around Rs. 1200. I think each e/s was around Rs. 300 and the palette was another 300 bucks.
  • I love the white. It blends really well, is easy to use. I mostly use it as a highlight colour.
  • The orange I love as well. It has these really beautiful shimmers in them!
  • The yellow, I am not loving so much. It definitely needs some work. It needs some TLC! i.e a good strong yellow base, a flat shader brush and some serious packing onto the eye!
  • I wouldn't say that they are the most pigmented colours as you can see on the hand swatches.
  • The palette itself is sturdy, cute and snaps shut quite tight. It has a mirror included.
Overall, these colours work for me and I am happy with my palette but I am sure that there are people out there who may not like them. I like the freedom system concept and I did see some interesting colours. I would definitely keep myself open to getting more eye shadows from here in the future!

Let me know about your experiences at Inglot!

Thanks!



Saturday, December 18, 2010

Shimmery Yellow Look!

Hola!

I decided to try this shiny yellow look after watching a couple of Youtube tutorials, one of which was by pixiwoo. The tutorial can be watched here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9g_4HUWTTc

So now for the look: (The picture quality is not that great as I am still messing around with the camera settings!)



Products used:

  • Mac Painterly paint pot
  • NYX Jumbo eye pencil in Yellow
  • Mac Golden Lemon pigment
  • Inglot yellow eyeshadow (Don't know the number.)
  • Mac Blacktrack fluidline
  • Covergirl Lashblast mascara
Hope you enjoy and do let me know what you think!

Thanks

Inspired by Indyabeauty!

Hello everyone! 

This look was inspired by Rashmi from http://www.indyabeauty.com/ 
The look was done a while back and I don't quite remember the products used. I want to say that I used:

  • NYX Jumbo eye pencil in Slate
  • Mac Golden Lemon pigment
  • Silver-Gray eyeshadow from NYX - Jazz Nights Palette
  • Mac eyeshadow in Black tied
Check out the pictures. (The colours look washed out, but were brighter in reality.)




Do let me know what you think and leave me a comment! 
Thanks.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

My first ever cut crease look!

I decided to try a cut crease look after being inspired by looks viewed on www.makeupgeek.com. This is what it turned out to look like.




Products that were used:


  • NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil - Milk, Baby Blue,Black Bean
  • Unbranded white e/s
  • Mac Sky Blue e/s
  • NYX blue e/s from Jazz Night palette
  • Bodyshop kohl Brilliant Blue
  • Mac pigment in Forest Green
  • Maybelline Great Lash mascara
Hope you guys like it! Feel free to leave a comment and constructive criticism ONLY! 
Thanks.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Sunny Deol, anyone?

I had a pretty bizzare conversation regarding Bakrid, with my mother.

I was just talking to her about how someone should steal ALL the goats before bakrid and then return them after the day of has passed. This way, all the goats get saved and not die.. and it will lead to absolute consternation and probably madness in the goat-slaughtering community.

To which she replied that a LOT of goats DO get stolen because there is such a huge demand for them.

And apparently, these goats are given film star names such as 'Shahrukh Khan' , 'Salman Khan', 'Saif ali Khan' etc etc. And the goats that have these names go for higher prices.

How crazy is that?

My question is, will a goat named 'Sunny Deol' sell for a higher price?