Lit series: No Glitter, No Glory + Giveaway!!!

Lit Cosmetics jars

 "Glitter is good for the soul. Something happens when you add a little glitter to your day. It gives you a smile, a good energy and just pumps you up and makes you feel glam, bam, thank you ma'am! Life is too short to be boring or to simply be bored." - Jodie Perks

So couple of weeks ago I made my first order from Lit Cosmetics, i´m so exited! I have mentioned them once before in my blog, haven´t I? The company makes all kinds of make-up glitters you can dream of. You can actually choose from the 300 different colors and materials, even from the cut size and they do have a quite convenient online brochure. This is going to be a quite thorough review so bear with me :3

Lit products are made with all natural ingredients, they´re water based, alcohol free, paraben free and propylene glygol free! It is also cruelty free.

When I tried to decide which colors to order first (yes, I intend to get a bunch of these) I noticed that there aren´t that many swatches to be found online! Which is such a shame, because these products, I tell you, are to die for.

As I mentioned, there are few "materials" to choose from. And by "material" I mean the glitter material. They have 4 different glitters, in 4 different sizes. All of my sizes (I just realized) are size 2. But not to worry, I´ll be soon to make a new order, with more different sizes ;)

Shimmer - Which is a see trough sparkle. I hear that the neon shimmers glow under black light ;) I actually didn´t order any of these, so I don´t have an opinion about them. Next time!
Solid - Pure glitter ♥. This time I got three of these, and I´m in lllloveeeee~
Metallic - A shiny sparkles with metallic finish. These I´m also a fan of. Got also two of these, both of which work really well with darker colors. They really stand out!
Electrics - Mainly bright colors, these should also glow under black light! These are like eyeshadow dusts, but just in a bigger cut size. And way more pigmented, you`ll see.

So the four cut sizes; the smallest is 002 x002, the second 004x004, the third 008x008 and the fourth 015x015. I don´t actually get what the cut sizes are, mm?

After I placed my order, at first I got a confirmation email from them, pointing out the products that I had ordered and the price in the Canadian Dollars, of course. Then, right after that, I received another email from them! This time from Jodie Perks - the owner and the founder of the company, thanking for the order and indicating the exact time they would ship it out! How great is that? And also the email was not sent by a machine, because she wrote my name as Mary-Liis (how cute is that!) and I did write on the order "Mari-liis". I think that companies who still have time to do these simplest things such as personally respond to customers, deserve some more credit. It means that they really care about their customers.

 It actually took only 4 days for the package to arrive!!!! I love it when a package arrives on time. Or maybe even faster than what you had hoped.

The box was surprisingly big for my order. And man was I suprised when I opened the box :D

So what was in the box? Drum-roll please.....

Ta-daa!

All kind of goodies wrapped inside pink wrapping paper ~

The Multi stack Lit Kit

..which includes

- 5 optional Lit glitters

- 30 ml Clearly Liquid Glitter Base

- Two Lit Brushes (Liner and a round brush)
- a Sparkle duster

- In a silk tote bag :)

The glitter packaging is so classy - the glitters are packed inside super cute ice-cubes! :3

Litstack!

You can easily stack these quys! BTW. Lit cosmetic glitters have such an awesome names! So the glitters I got were Champagne Wishes, Heavy Metal, Pink Flamingo, Roxy Rolla, Elton Jon, London Calling and Reboot ~

From left to right: London Calling (electric), Reboot (electric), Pink Flamingo (Solid/2), Elton Jon (Metallic/2), Roxy Rolla (Metallic/2), Heavy Metal (Solid/2), Champagne Wishes (Solid/2). Don´t you just love these?! No wonder Cirque du Soleil uses Lit Cosmetics!

★ Close-up! ★

★ Close-up! ★

About the glitters; I´ve done at least one make up look with every color I received, but since I don´t want this entry to be any more picheavy than it already is, I´ve desided to divide all the looks into "Lit Series" -entries! So, for the next 7 days or so, I will be posting one look per day and a detailed pictures of the product! (hopefully I´ll have time to finish the entries on time!) :3 And I have some really exiting looks for you!

On with the review, so what else came with the Multi stack kit?

Clearly Liquid Glitter Base 30 ml

This product smells sssoo good ♥ It just feel wet (duh) when applying, but nothing else. It doesn´t irritate my eyes - and I have sensitive eyes. But if you do add a little bit too much of this product, you may feel that you have extra thick layer of make-up on your eyes. So it just needs a little bit rehearsing.

Lit brushes ~

On the Lit Cosmetics website, they indicate that these brushes are made with PBT - the highest quality of synthetic bristles, which promises perfect product distribution. My opinion? These brushes are super soft and easy to work with. But when I was working with these glitters, I was left missing a bigger brush. For example, when I put the glitter on my whole lid, at first I used the round bush (which is the bigger one of the two of which they have) but the applying was so slow and you could not take enough of the product on the brush. So in the end I used one of my own eyeshadow brushes to work with.

 Two sizes

The only thing that I don´t like, is that these brushes are made in China :( All of these products should be made in Canada. Or US. NOT in China.

★ A sparkle duster ★

 ...and then there was the mesh ball :D This is a small genius invention, which is made with a little bit of mesh and a cotton ball. You can use this to swipe off any excess glitter from your face.....if there would be any when using the Lit cosmetics clearly liquid glitter base !

Dicections :D How cute!

These are things I ordered. BUT. You may have noticed that I actually have two more colors than what the 5 Lit Kit should have contained. For my suprise the whole big box was full of stuff!! Jodie was so kind that she added a LOT of extra things in the package!

Travel size glitter base and travel size/sample of water resistant glitter base!

So besides the two additional glitters, I also got a travel size Glitter Base and a water resistant Glitter Base as an sample. I think they are coming out with this water resistant base in Summer 2012.

Also two travel size brushes!

...and a fan!

There was also a fan inside! My first impression, I have to confess, was laughter. I might have tought the idea to be a bit ridiculous. But actually, the first time I tried the Lit glitter on with their base - I automatically waved my hand in front of my face to dry the result. And then I remembered that I actually got the fan! Haha.

THE GIVEAWAY

I will be giving away this MiniMe Lit Kit! It contains one Solid Lit glitter; Beach Baby, 30 ml Clearly Liquid Glitter Base, two small brushes and a sparkle duster, all in a silk tote bag!

Beach Baby, Solid size 2

 So I did not swatch this - just because of hygienic reasons. I only took these pictures to show you how incredible this glitter is. I think it could be used in everyday looks, as well for a night out. Or on a beach :D It seems like a fun easy glitter to start with.

How to enter the Giveaway
1. You have to be a reader on my blog (it´s easy - just click "Join this site" and follow the instructions.)
2. Comment below (on any of my Lit Series entries), what Lit Glitter/Color did you like the most.
3. Like Lit Cosmetics on Facebook (Not mandatory to win, but would be nice :3)

Not so hard, huh? :) This is also my first giveaway, so all comments are welcome!

Contest Details:
- So the prize is the MiniMe Lit Kit which is shown above
- I will pick a random winner using www.random.org on the 27.11.2011
- The contest will last for a month, starting now and it will end on 26th of November
- I will announce the winner on my blog and send a message to her/him
- Open internationally!

So the winner gets the prize as an early Christmas present ;) And for those still wondering - YES THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY. I personally think that it´s rude to make a giveaway and then announce it´s (for example) for US readers only. There are a lot of bloggers outside the states, you know? :D

Few rules: Please don´t spam. Open for all ages and genders. One entry per person. If you have multiple comments about the favorite glitter, I´ll count them as one. Good luck to all!

Be sure to use this if you order :)

Don´t forget to check out the Lit Cosmetics website, and to follow them on Facebook! They are coming out with the water resistant "Clearly Liquid" glitter base and some temporary glitter tattoos in summer 2012!

 xoxo
Mari-Liis

ps. When you go to the "history" part on their website, they play ABBA´s Dancing Queen ♥!

I´ll be dancing in the flames

I hear Halloween is coming!!

Lime Crime - Candy eyed Eyeshadow helper ★ Primer
Nyx Jumbo eyepencil - Milk ★ Lid
Inglot - Matte 383 ★ Lid
Sugarpill - Bulletproof ★ Crease
Sugarpill - Tako ★ Brow highlight, all around the web
Illamasqua Presicion Ink - Abyss ★ Eyeliner
False lashes from Ebay 

 We don´t actually celebrate Halloween that much in Finland, but since everyone else is so hyped, I tought I´d make at least one look too :) Didn´t feel like doing any skulls or anything ugly, so just basic halloween colors.

My Illamasqua Precision Ink somehow has turned into horrible stuff : < I don´t know how to explain, but the thingy that squeeses off the excess product from the brush when you pull it out, is broken and it has sinken to the bottom of the eyeliner bottle. So the liner has became not so precise and really messy : (


Last week I got my first crackle nail polish! It took me this long, because when the first crackle came to Finland, it was Isadora´s and I didn´t quite like the colors. So suddenly in a few months all the polish company´s came up with their own crackle. So when the new Katy Perry´s nail polishes by Opi came to Nelly.com, I ordered some :)

 Sun worshipper by China Glaze & Black Shatter by OPI

I´ll be showing the other Katy Perry polishes soon! But before that, I have this big review coming up (the one I´ve been hyping now) and I have also mentioned that I have a little surprise for all of my readers :3  
A GIVEAWAY! Right now I´ll only tell you that it´s a make up related and I think you´ll be as exited as I am! So stay tuned~

xoxo
Mari-Liis

I´m little bit of extraordinary

Lime Crime - Candy eyed Eyeshadow helper ★ Primer
Inglot - Pearl 420 ★ Outer corner, crease, lower lashline
Inglot - Pearl 444 ★ Lid, inner corner
Inglot - White shimmer (cannot remember number) ★ Eyebrow highlight
Lime Crime - Siren ★ Eyeliner (used wet)

*Teheee* I mentioned some a while ago that I haven´t shown you Lime Crime´s Siren eyedust yet.

Dirty looking hair o_O

 Honestly, Lime Crime shadows work so well with water, it´s amazing! I actually like the Lime Criminal the most (it´s the lime green one). And Empress (the violet).

Mmm...

Cute :3

How do you like my new banner? :3 Who can guess what is in the picture?

In bad light !

So the front page of my blogger page says that I have made already 70 entrys! But only 60+ is visible to you! Why? Because I have a few suprises ahead.... a few entrys stacked up waiting. :3 I´ve been so exited to announce something for a week already, but I´ll keep it a secret for a few more days. Just until I´m totally finished with my project. We are living exiting times!

xoxo
Mari-Liis