Breaking News - MAC and Disney's Venomous Villains Collection

Wow!  MAC and Disney have joined forces to announce the venomous Villains collection, to be released worldwide in September!  This is the first collection in a LONG time that I've been so excited about!

Four villains will be featured (which ones?  They're not telling us yet!) and the collection will have lipstick, lip gloss, powder and blush shades.  I'm thinking dark and vampy...

Check out the teaser trailer here - now, who might those villains be.... let me know your guesses!

RAFW Follow Up - MAC Speaks!

I thought I would share with you some of the information I was just sent by MAC about some of my favourite looks that they created for RAFW.  It's great to know the inspiration behind the looks and the products used, just in case something caught your eye!



Show:     Ginger & Smart
Key Make up Artist:  Natasha Sevorino for M.A.C
Inspiration: “The inspiration for this collection comes from inner feminine strength and self-awareness.  I wanted the make up to be naturally sexy for this show. Skin has been left raw yet made luminous, concealing only minor imperfections. Eye's are defined and sculpted and gold pigment has been used on the eyes and peak of lips to give a 'futuristic goddess' feel to the make up. Soft cream coloured paint has been used as future tribal war paint in the centre of the forehead and temples, to relate directly to ones ‘third eye’ and one’s own self-awareness.  

My take:  I LOVE the gold accents on the inner corner and cupid's bow of the lips.  Such an easy look to recreate at home.  Those of us not blessed with model skin might need some coverage, but keep it as light as possible.

Show: Zimmerman

Key MakeUp Artist: Linda Jefferyes for M.A.C

Linda said the “Inspiration behind the look: Cool and modern. Nothing is overdone or underdone. Strength yet soft. Balanced. Fresh creamy pure skin is highlighted by a strong deep plum lip”.
Description of the look: Perfectly manicured creamy skin. Eyebrow are slightly defined and lips are painted a matt deep plum colour.

Key Products used to create the look:
Face: prep + prime skin, prep + prime lip filler, face & body foundation, set powder invisible and porcelain. Select moisture cover in light colours.

Contour face with sculpting powder pro palette bone beige and shaping powder Lightsweep.
Eyes: Brow set clear, impeccable brow pencil taupe, black dirty blonde. Pro long lash barelash.
Lips: lipmix Burgundy and I mixed some red into the plum lipmix which made it more red/plum

My take:  Those lips are outstanding.  I would be using a lipliner to ensure a crisp edge that stops the colour bleeding throughout the day.  I totally agree with the 'strength yet soft' comment by Linda - exactly what this look projects.  This is also a look you can rock for winter, rather than holding back until warmer weather begins.

Show: Manning Cartell
Key Make-up Director:  Natasha Severino for M.A.C The direction for make up in this collection is one of a polished, modern Spanish woman.

We wanted the make up to be in tonal hues of warm, coffee like colours. The skin is flawless and polished, highlighted in areas to reflect the summer sun. Eyebrows are strong and sculpted to give the make up a sophisticated sexiness.

My take:  Brows.  Make them strong and proud.  As you can see on the image (oh, so Cassie from ANTM did go into modelling...) you don't have to follow your own brow.  Create the shape that you want.  I really like the sweep of the shadow towards the temple too.

Show: Romance Was Born

Key Makeup Artist: Natasha Severino for M.A.C

Natasha said that the “Inspiration for Romance Was Born S/S 10/11 is Renaissance Dinosaur”.  The collection has been broken up into a ready to wear section and 11 Haute Couture, one off pieces.

The RTW section consists of beautiful, ethereal sirens that are adorned with lace body art. Faces are polished and eyes are lined to create mystical beauties.

The 11 one off creatures has had make ups specifically created to be an extension of their magnificent gowns. They are:

Nail Dress

Dino Bird

Crystal Dress Volcano Girl

Snake Guts

Dino Tail

Kate Tribute

Renaissance Dino

Dino Slut

Renaissance Bride

Scale Girl

My take:  Dino Slut!  LOL!  Just looking at this pictures makes me sigh with delight.  And readjust my creative boundaries.

New MAC comp - New York Fashion Week? Yes please!

Hey all!

If you didn't win the chance to be the MAC correspondant at RAFW, then dry your eyes as you could be jetting off to New York Fashion Week and experiencing the thrill of a fashion show for yourself!!!

Simply enter at www.maccosmetics.com.au/rafwsweeps - and according to the terms and conditions you can enter once a day, so add it to your bookmarks and put a reminder in your calendar!

Entries close May 7th - good luck everyone!!

Want to be the official MAC correspondent for Australian Fashion Week??

Would I lie to you about such an amazing opportunity??
I am NOT KIDDING PEOPLE!! Get aboard this gravy train NOW!!

Here's the scoop directly from the mouth (ok, email...) of Hannah from Splendid Communications:

I thought your readers might be interested in a competition MAC cosmetics is set to launch  - it’s a very exciting opportunity to win the role of official Rosemount Australian Fashion Week correspondent for MAC Cosmetics. For any budding journalist or writer, this will be a one-off opportunity which involves a VIP access pass to the shows with all their fashion week musings posted on the official MAC cosmetics Facebook page. All they have to do is explain in 100 words or less why they should be MAC’s official Rosemount Australian Fashion Week correspondent.

Excited??  Me too!  Head here for the scoop:  www.maccosmetics.com.au/rafwsweeps
Are you entering? I will be!! Best of luck to everyone!!

MAC 'Naked Liner' lipliner, 'Myself' lipstick and a Lip Tar experiment

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As soon as I saw the Too Fabulous collection from MAC I knew this was a collection calling my name. Gorgeous creamy textures, soft colours and a very girly feel. That being said, I'm trying to behave myself and not spend so much on makeup, so I limited myself to the one product that immediately drew me in.

'Naked Liner' seemed to be the nude I have been looking for - so often a 'nude' lipliner is too dark, especially for people who have naturally lighter lips. This looked perfect!

This is my natural lip, then with Naked Liner applied:

  

Yeah - it's REALLY nude.  As in skin-colour nude, not lip-colour nude.  This freaked me out at the counter, but now I see so many uses for this.  Not only is it great for cancelling out your lip colour altogether, but it's great to totally block out your natural lip shape so you can then redraw it!  The touch of pink works really well to avoid looking deathly.

To prove this I did a little experiment.  I lined half my lips with Naked Liner:

Then I added RX Lip Tar:

Can you see how much smoother the texture is?  The colour more vibrant?  And it was so easy to get the intensity with the liner, in comparison to the non-lined side which took a lot more blending and layering.  And added bonus is that the liner gets rid of any redness or discolouration around the lip, so your lipstick line looks really crisp.

And just for fun, I added Anime Lip Tar to the bottom lip:

It constantly amazes me how versatile Lip Tars are.  The colours blend well whether you're mixing them first or just applying straight on the lip (like I did here).  I've got ten colours, but there are new ones coming out - I'll see if I can swatch them for you!

Anyway, back to MAC...

While I was at the counter I looked for a nude lipstick (I don't own one - what's with that??) and I picked up 'Myself' lustre lipstick from the All Ages, All Races, All Sexes collection.

  

I really like this colour!  It's nude, but it's more on the mauve-side so it's still interesting to wear.  The tiniest amount of shimmer keeps it from looking too flat.  Really like!

Here is Naked Liner with Myself lipstick:

I'm really glad I got these two colours.  Naked Liner is probably a little too 'nude' on it's own for me, but it makes other colours so vibrant and your lip line so clear.  Myself will now live in my handbag as my go-to lipstick, as it's so versatile.

MAC can be purchased all over the place, and the Lip Tars were from the lovely Rachael at Makeup and Glow - www.makeupandglow.com.au.