8 posts tagged “mac”
So these are the newest additions to my selection of dazzleglasses.
From top to bottom: Funtabulous, Love Alert, Utterly Posh, Smile and Baby Sparks.
I love them. There isn't much to say beyond that, they really speak for themselves.
As for the eyeshadow comparison, I found Bitter to be very pale and difficult to build. It’s hypnotizing in the pan, but swatched on my skin the pigmentation was very poor. I remember hearing stories about this, but I’ve usually had pretty good luck making MAC’s eyeshadows work, but not so in this case.
It was returned shortly afterwards, so sad.
At the end of the swatching frenzy, I walked away with five new glosses: Baby Sparks (baby pink), Smile (peach), Utterly Posh (coral), Love Alert (red) and Funtabulous (fushia).
Moth to Flame was very similar to Stila's Silk Shimmer Gloss in Kitten, which I already have. Money Honey was pretty, but it wasn't enough to warrant a purchase when compared with the others. Goldyrocks caught my attention too, but it was too much like Spring Bean (lustreglass). There were a few others that caught my eye, but I figured that five was more than enough.
And on a whim.. I also picked up Bitter e/s, which I will be comparing to Sharp e/s from the Tempting quad.
Photos to follow soon.
Shortly I’ll be off to my local counter to browse the newly released Double Dazzle collection. A lot of hype surrounds these reflective goodies, but I must say that as an owner of four (Pleasure Principle, Miss. Dynamite, Get Rich Quick & Date Night), I do enjoy them in moderation. Moderation seems to be a contradiction to the ultimate in glitter for your lips, but that’s how they work best for me. All I can manage is a thin layer, or I get the dreaded white ring of death.. which is never, ever cute.
So while the collector in me, would love nothing more than a full collection to use as a decorative flair.. I won’t be going crazy, with these new colours. In fact, I’ll be taking my four with me.. to swatch in comparison to the new colours. Lately, I’ve been focused on finding colours that are different to what I already have.. and since these glosses are mostly glitter, I think that quite a few are too similar to justify buying more than one in a particular colour family.
When I was in the other day, I was lucky enough to get to look at them before they went on sale.. and came up with a list of colours I’m interested in, which should help bring down the excitement and in turn the dreaded impulse buy. I’ll be looking at: Love Alert, Smile, Utterly Posh, Moth to Flame, Funtabulous, Money Honey and the legendary Baby Sparks. There are also a few others, but I think that these will be my main focus, which hopefully I can pare down with my currents in tow.
I’ll be back later with photos, when I can find my camera charger..
- photos courtesy of temptalia.com
It's been a minute, but I had to throw this out there.
Down through the makeup network, I came to find out that MAC is having their friends & family sale from January 6th to January 8th. It applies only on their website - http://maccosmetics.com - and it's 25% off everything!
Just thought I'd pass on the good news.
I was browsing my youtube subscriptions, when I came across one of Debbie's videos with swatches of Pure Luxe mineral eyeshadows. The photos were absolutely gorgeous, and so I headed over to the website and started looking through their selection.. which is massive!
Between what caught my eye on the video, plus my own preferences.. I ended up with a list of 40 shadows! LOL - yes, I have an eyeshadow addiction. However, what I love is that they offer sample sizes in 2g jars for $1 (USD)! There are few shades that are $2 - but still, that's a great deal since I don't tend to use much when applying loose shadows. Yes, 40 shadows seems like a lot, but for about $50 all in with shipping.. that's a lot of product for the price. Now all that's left to do is to look up some more reviews on the line, and then when it checks out.. it's time to buy.
And then.. dun dun dun..
..I checked Twitter. Only to find out that one of the recent updates on Temptalia is for the new releases from MAC. The website has the Emanuel Ungaro collection available, plus the Halloween face charts AND coming soon photos of some of the holiday sets. I saw the three brush sets, the lip & eye compacts and the Adoring Carmine lip/gloss sets.
Admittedly, I'm surprised. I thought I'd be lusting after more. As it stands, I'm only interested in one of the brush sets, the neutral lip set (Adoring Carmine), maybe the smoky eye compact.. maybe. That will change when the lip/pigment sets are released. ;)
At least for a moment today I was able to feel like I found a good deal, but now my wallet is doing some pre-emptive wailing.
A while back, I picked up samples from the Overrich pigment collection. While I do enjoy all of them, I fell hard for Blonde's Gold. So hard in fact, that I actually went back and bought the full size. The story thus far is all well and good, but when I opened it for the first time the other day I was shocked. It looked like there was about 1/4 missing!
I do know that pigments are sold by weight, and I have heard people talk about receiving jars that are less than full. My experience so far has been that the matte formulations 'drop', but even my last pro pigment was full up to the brim.
I'm going to call the counter today to inquire, to see if any of the others were so low.. and if not, I'll be running over today or tomorrow for an exchange.
Tonight I received a gift card, and decided that since I told myself I wouldn't be hauling from this paycheque.. I would haul from the gift card instead. I love me some free makeup.
- blot powder (running very low)
- sea & sky me/s
- sketch e/s
- beauty marked e/s
- raven kohl power e/p
- blonde's gold p/m
- lovely lily p/m sample
- steel blue p/m sample
I was out running errands yesterday. I was actually returning some things, and then ended up dropping my the MAC counter.. and of course, ended up walking away with a bit of a haul. I initially wanted to check out the pro longwear colours - but then was drawn to the Starflash collection, and a few perms. It was nice though since it was relatively quite, I got to spend some time chatting with the MA's, one of which showed me the stock (tucked away for now) for Cult of Cherry collection - squee!
- mink and sable e/s (starflash)
- glamour check! e/s (starflash)
- go e/s (starflash)
- bold and brazen e/s (starflash)
- rule e/s (matte)
- coppering e/s (veluxe pearl)
- post haste e/s (matte2)
- flammable paint
