Archive for the ‘Makeup How-To + Demos’ Category

You know that at Spirit Beauty Lounge, we actually love and use all of the carefully chosen products we sell.  In fact, testing new products is probably the most fun part of what we do and nothing is more fun to test than eco and organic makeup! Since shopping online for makeup can be pretty confusing, we have always offered, FREE samples with every order and the option of picking out a custom sample kit filled with all the colors you want to try. But still, we noticed you have A LOT of questions about how to use it and what it really looks like so we decided to bring it to the blog with our new feature: Makeup Monday, where we’ll show you before and after pics and real-life demos using only our natural, organic and non-toxic makeup from brands like RMS Beauty, Nvey Eco, Vapour Organic Beauty & more. Here’s where you come in: we want YOU to send us your photos of your gorgeous self wearing the makeup you’ve purchased from spiritbeautylounge.com and if we use your pics, we’ll send you a $10.00 e-gift certificate to use any time at spiritbeautylounge.com on any order!

To submit your photos, please cut and paste the following, with your answers to:
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I_(First and Last Name_, am at least 13 years old and hereby grant Spirit Beauty Lounge
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About Me: (Share any information you feel comfortable with such as age, occupation, why you use organic beauty products…)
Produts Used: (Please include details such as brand, exact color name and where you used it, i.e. upper eyelids/ lower eyelids.)

If we use your image, your notification and gift certificate will be sent to the email address your submission comes from.

We can’t wait to see you!

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Back in Beauty School, nearly 15 years ago, Makeup was always my favorite lab. I would study the flawless faces in Vogue magazine and meticulously try to recreate them on my lab partners and myself. One of my greatest inspirations was the work of the late and now legendary, Kevyn Aucoin. I don’t mean to use Aucoin’s name to endorse a product that didn’t exist in his time, but when I found out that Aucoin’s right-hand-man for a over a decade of his career, Eric Sakas, was behind a new organic makeup line, I knew this would be a must-try. What I didn’t know was that I was about to discover some of the most beautiful cosmetics I’d ever used, organic or conventional.

All Vapour Organic Beauty products are mineral pigments suspended in a base of skin hydrating and antioxidant certified organic botanicals. Each product except their lip gloss, comes in stick form which I’ve always loved – there’s  no fumbling with sponges and brushes, especially helpful in a rush! The product from this line that I think stands out the most; the product that I urge everyone to try, is the Atmosphere Luminous Foundation. I realize a lot of women don’t even wear foundation these days but this isn’t like any other foundation. What I like to call this product is “skin on skin.” It’s your skin, perfected. I know part of the reason we don’t wear foundation is because we don’t like to look inappropriately “made up” or like we’re wearing a mask of makeup, we don’t like the way it feels, and we don’t like having to put it on. What we would like, is to have perfectly toned, smooth skin, without discoloration or fine lines and this is the product that instantly gives you that. Not too powdery, not too greasy, the finish it is an exact replica of that of perfectly hydrated skin and the pigment is always a perfect mineral blend of multi-faceted color, never leaving you looking masked. The coverage can be built – I can glide on just enough to even out my tone or enough to completely hide my freckles. In the pictures above, I used nothing but Vapour products with a little Nvey Eco Mascara.  The best part is, each look took about 5-10 minutes to complete!  Wouldn’t it be nice to look like you have perfect skin in just 5 minutes? I sure think so!

Colors Used in Look 1: Stratus Instant Skin Perfector, Illusionist Concealer in 020, Atmosphere Foundation in 130 & 140 (I often wear two colors), Trick Stick in Dazzle,  Aura Blush in Torch, Mesmerize Eye Color in Trance, Siren Lipstick in Knockout (LOVE this lipstick), Elixir Gloss in Hypnotic.

Colors Used in Look 2: All the same as Look 1 except: Mesmerize in Smolder and no gloss.

Vapour Organic Beauty can be found at Spirit Beauty Lounge. For help picking colors or putting together a sample kit, be sure to check in with our specialist over Live Chat.

When Jasmin Malik Chua of the hot, new Eco Fashion and Beauty blog, Ecouterre asked us about our favorite NYFW inspired lip looks, we were all too axcited to divulge. Read the brilliant tips offered by makeup artist Jessa Blades and others HERE and find the rest of ours HERE!

We love that lips are back for Spring 2010 and we are ready for these looks now! Whether they are soft and barely-there pink or Grace Jones black. We were getting very bored with the nude lip!

Jason Wu wowed with these perfect, painted-on, goth, plum colored cartoon lips that we think could translate beautifully into real world beauty with defined, lustrous, rich, dark lip colors for Fall. Instead of almost-black, sheer but dark burgundy colors like RMS Beauty’s Illusive, can work on all skin tones. The key to this look is perfect application. Use a lip brush to get it just right and avoid looking like a zombie.

Marc by Marc Jacobs celebrated with super bright, optimistic, retro red lips which we think anyone can wear. The key to bright lips is to go really low-key with the rest of the face palette and to even out the skin with a matte mineral powder foundation so that the lips really pop. Alima Pure Satin Matte Foundation and Nvey Eco’s Lead-Free moisturizing lipstick in 369 are perfect for this Mad Men look.

Finally, our friends at Tuleh created this pretty 1950′s shimmery soft pink. Beauty can be sort of counter-intuitive in that dark and bright lips are actually best for day and soft, sultry, light pink lips are actually best for a kittenish evening look. To get this look, start with RMS Beauty in Muse or Smile for a sexy, opaque base then layer Nvey Eco’s Lip Lustre in Amour Rose or Barely There over the top for the pink shimmer. The secret to this look is the base. You don’t want bubble-gum pink and pink lip gloss can look too immature without the base.