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More MAC for ya, boo! Peep three of the six MAC Cremeblend Blushes ($19.50 each).
The collection blooms onto MAC counters and stores on March 3, 2011.
MAC Cremeblushes clockwise from left: Brit Wit; Posey; and So Sweet, So Easy
MAC Cremeblend Blush in Brit Wit
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Denim clad divas, please momentarily tear your eyes away from those Pajama Jeans (don’t lie, I know you want a pair!), and take a second to check out these swatches and product photos of some pieces from the new MAC Jeanius Collection (launches March 3 in North America; some time in March internationally).
For starters, and I write this with a tinge of sadness, the pattern on the eyeshadows is just an overspray… 🙁
Eye Shadow in Motorhead
Eye Shadow in White Jeanius
Eye Shadow in Diva in Distress
Eye Shadow in Stovepipe Black
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For every contour control freak, for every persistent perfectionist comes this wondrous way to play with blush that gives you the most magnificent flexibility you’ve ever had…Starts creamy, stays creamy and proves once and for all that powder is NOT your only prerogative. You can get back to a new build for that retro “rouge” look — Old Hollywood Glamour made modern — or stop at subtle and natural; it’s all in your hands. In three aspects, two shades of each: One matched to skin, one for a brighter glow and one darker for cream contouring, it’s perfect for all skin colours, minus the silicone, particularly adept at preventing ashiness on darker complexions. Make powdery a thing of the past.
Cremeblend Blush, available March 3, 2011 at all MAC locations in North America and internationally in March 2011 ($19.50 U.S./$23.50 CDN)
So Sweet, So Easy
Something Special
Posey
Ladyblush
Brit Wit
Tea Petal
Gloss is good, but there’s nothing quite as wonderfully, worldly cinematic as a Lipstick — and they’re coming back! We’ve updated formulas to make it all plausible. Sheen Supreme is the combination of the strong, sensually saturated colour of, say, Tilda Swinton’s I Am Love Milanese Lipstick, leavened with the light feel and clear vibrancy, the see-through sheen of a modern New York City Girl Gloss. Imagine no muddy undertones, gliding in pearl or creme finish, moisturizing with no sticky/ tacky feel. It’s a new medium, with MAC in the lead. This is retro/modern — and devastatingly chic.
LIPSTICK, available March 3, 2011 at all MAC locations in North America and internationally in March 2011 ($14.50 U.S./$17.50 CDN)
Supremely Confident
Bare Again
Can’t Get Enough
Behave Yourself
Gotta Dash!
Full Speed
Insanely It
Ultra Darling
New Temptation
Quite the Thing!
Impressive
Look at Her!
Can’t Resist
Good to be Bad
Colleges could teach courses in ways to pair MAC Subculture Lip Pencil ($13). Seriously, I wear this warm rosy nude with practically everything. EVERY. FRICKIN’. THING. I use it so much that I’ve gone through about four sticks of it over the past few years. It’s a regular Ms. Versatility, boo, and if you two haven’t met, it’s high time ya did.
Many gals, myself included, feel that Subculture’s color matches the natural color of their lips perfectly, which, I know, seems counterintuitive. I mean, why buy a lip pencil in the same shade as your lips?
Well, for the definition, doll. 🙂 I use this creamy, long-wearing, non-feathering pencil to define my pucker with crisp edges when I wear lipsticks and/or gloss, and I also think my lips look smoother and plumper with it on.
I have always clung to the belief that a woman can never have too many black shoes, black purses or black eyeliners. It’s a world view I sometimes refer to as “smart hoarding,” and while it makes perfect sense to me, non-believers like El Hub consider it just plain ridiculous. 🙂
Maybe it is, but that doesn’t change the fact that I was pretty much pre-ordained to like the new 3 Assorted Black Eye Liners boxed set from the MAC Packed To Go collection of travel exclusives (click here for a full list of boxed sets in the release).
What are MAC travel exclusives?
Well, MAC isn’t the only brand with them, but travel exclusives are individual products (and sometimes entire collections) sold primarily through domestic and international travel hubs like airports and duty free stores. Prices and availability can vary widely, but tracking ’em down can be a lot of fun!
This particular boxed set, one of many in MAC’s new lineup of spring 2011 travel exclusives, comes with three full-size MAC eyeliners — the Kohl Power Eye Pencil in Feline, Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved and Penultimate Liner in Rapidblack — in subtly different shades of black.
squishy tum. It’s a long-wearing pencil perfect for those days when you go straight from work to the gym. Oh, and if you’re looking to just get this pencil on its own, it’s also available now on the MAC website.
MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipglass atop MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipstick
What’s the story, morning glory? Happy Thursday to ya. 🙂 You know how much I love MAC Viva Glam, right? I thought that maybe you’d like to check out their latest VG color, MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2, available now in both a Lipstick and Lipglass ($14.50 each).
Unlike last year’s pale pink Viva Glam Gaga shade, the new color’s more of a flesh-toned nude. Check out the swatches below and let me know if you think it’s a go (ooh, call me MC Karen ’cause I just made a rhyme!).
MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipstick
MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipglass
Top: MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipstick; Bottom: MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipglass
MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipstick
MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipglass
MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipglass atop MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipstick
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MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipstick ($14.50), available now at maccosmetics.com.
Top: MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipstick; Bottom: MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2 Lipglass
For full face shots and lipstick swatches check out MAC Viva Glam Gaga 2: Swatches and Pictures.
