It was a hot one here in Novato today!
I mean, it wasn’t triple-digit hot, but it was hot and sticky enough, and there was some perspiration involved, to make me want to wear “minimal” (airquotes) makeup and put the focus on a couple new things from MAC.
One of them was a red lipstick from the Future Forward collection, and the other was a new MAC mascara called Bold & Bad Lash.
Isn’t this a pretty red? It’s matte deep garnet Lee Hi, and it’s from the MAC Future Forward collection. It’s a $17 LE online exclusive, and you can only find it on the MAC website starting June 29th.
Future Forward is that MAC collab with three up-and-coming singers. It started in April, and they release a new product every month. April’s was a purple face powder by Justine Skye, May’s is a sparkly Cremesheen by Dua Lipa (that one’s coming out this week, actually), and lovely matte red Lee Hi is a collab with K-pop star Lee Hi.
“Breathe,” by Lee Hi
Back in the day when I started wearing MAC lipsticks, the mattes were SO drying, but they’re much less drying now, and that includes this one.
This shade looks almost exactly like a NARS matte red I love called Infatuated Red, which I like to wear in the fall with warm red or warm orange-brown eyeshadow, but it works great in summer, too! Try it with bronzer (have you seen the new BECCA Sunlit Bronzers? ERHMAHGOODNESS!) and waterproof mascara. You don’t need much else.
Also, a new MAC mascara
Doesn’t it look cool? It’s called Bold & Bad Lash, and it comes out in June.
The writing on the tube looks like graffiti! Agh!
Sorry…font nerd moment.
The words are also raised on the tube and feel like felt, but that’s not even the coolest thing about this mascara.
The coolest thing is that it works like a two-in-one mascara. Unscrewing the wand from the black band in the cap reveals a traditional mascara brush for your upper lashes, but unscrewing the wand from the smaller red cap at the top reveals a second, smaller, super precise brush for your lower lashes.
The bigger brush is an OK, run-o’-the-mill mascara brush, but the smaller brush? I LOVE!
It’s super skinny and less than half an inch long. It just may be the smallest mascara brush I’ve ever seen, and you can practically thread the brush between your lower lashes like you’re doing embroidery. You can also easily reach into the inner corners and coat those hard-to-get bits from root to tip. It’s kind of amazing.
Basically, this is a great mascara for cool rock ‘n’ roll lashes. The brush for your upper lashes hugs three or four lash hairs and bundles them together so that your lashes look more like spikes, but if you like your lashes to be individually separated, you can always run a lash comb through them.
The formula layers well, too, and you can just keep building and building and building without having to deal with any bumps or clumps.
Hey, let me put on another layer right now. Why not? 🙂
MAC Bold & Bad Lash is $23 and comes in a single color called Bold Bad Black. It’ll be errrwhere and anywhere you can find MAC starting on June 8th in the permanent line.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Who doesn’t love a 2 for 1 deal? And that red? I’m all for it! Yeah, I stopped wearing MAC mattes for a minute till I discovered that my favorite matte, Whirl, doesn’t suck all the moisture out of my lips. I’ll be counting the days till I can at least check these out in person.
That red looks amazing on you and your skin looks awesome btw….
Whirl is super pretty. I get ’90s vibes when I wear it. 🙂
How is prom season going? Are you working lots?
And thanks for the nice compliment on my skin. I’m determined to get it in shape this summer!
Whirl is my “no brain, no thought” nude lip!
I just did my cousin’s prom makeup but you and I need to try to work together to do some wedding makeup!
It’s also my goal to get my skin in better shape so I can just get away with wearing tinted moisturizer and not too much concealer hiding my old acne scars.
Oo, thanks for letting us know about these!
I kinda feel like I need all three music collabs now…
Might as well throw the mascara in my cart while I’m at it lol.
The mascara is very rock ‘n’ roll and would fit with the music collabs. Hope you had a great Monday, Lex!
For a second I thought Connor was looking at your lashes as if to ask, “What are those?!” Haha
Cool concept for the mascara!
That’s a gorgeous red!
I am never a fan of the MAC mascaras, and simply by description I know I won´t even bother to try that one. The lipstick though, such a stunning color, and not one that I have in my (extensive) collection of reds yet. It looks amazing on you.
I do appreciate that the mascara is double ended and with two separate brushes. I don’t normally have any issues applying mascara in my lower lashes using any brush, but smaller ones can inevitably offer more precision. That’s one to check out x
I agree! Don’t remember seeing you with a red lip recently (?) – but you look great !
LOVE that lipstick! I’ve been looking for a garnet red one for a while now. Definitely need to purchase!
That lip looks amazing on you! I’m gonna have to keep an eye out for that – it looks like a red I could actually pull off 🙂
So jealous right now! Such lovely lips and lipstick!
I’m still not sure if it was an allergy to a new product I tried, or if I contracted a virus from the work phone that the public also uses (gross) but my lips are utterly destroyed and I haven’t been able to wear any of my lipsticks and glosses for over two months.
It has been the worst few months of my entire life. It looks like I have a disease. It’s disgusting.
Don’t take your pretty face for granted! At any moment something drastic could change and disrupt your life.