MAC Makeup

A few weeks back, I attended a special event in the beautiful Balboa Park. Since I had just woken up around an hour prior, I did not have time to whip up a good make up look (and I was kinda a bit lazy to do so lol). Given the circumstance, I opted to go with my basic make up look.

12/06/2014

Look: The Basics

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Now this review is about the cooler toned MAC 15 pan palette recently released in the UK. You can read my post on the MAC Eye Shadow x15 Warm Neutral Palette. In contrast to the golds and bronzes in the previous palette, the MAC Eye Shadow x15 Cool Neutral Palette houses predominantly silvery and grey shades which are still in the neutral spectrum.

29/03/2014

MAC Eye Shadow x15 Cool Neutral Palette Review, Swatches!

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MAC Eye Shadow x15 Warm Neutral Palette Review, Swatches!

MAC Cosmetics has recently released a duo of 15 pan eyeshadow palettes - one with warm neutrals and another with cooler toned neutrals. What I have here is the MAC Eye Shadow x15 Warm Neutral Palette which is definitely a feast for the eyes, and even better swatched!

MAC Eye Shadow x15 Warm Neutral Palette Review, Swatches!

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Well-done for clicking! Welcome to our MAC Makeup Giveaway!



I'm so thrilled to finally hit the 1M mark for page views on The Skin and Beauty Blog, and I thought what better way to thank you my blog visitors than to host a giveaway with my passion that started it all - my love for MAC makeup!

This giveaway will be for my beauty addicts anywhere in the world! 

Here are 8 ways to get more MAC makeup in your life. The products I've picked out will suit most for a gorgeously girly Barbie-esque look of hot pink lips and soft eyes that's oh so perfect for the coming Spring!

The winner will receive:

  • 1 MAC Candy Yum Yum Lipstick (£15)
  • 1 MAC Jete Eyeshadow (Limited Edition) (£12.50)
  • 1 MAC Eye Kohl of your choice from the MAC Permanent Collection (£14)

a Rafflecopter giveaway


05/02/2014

The Skin and Beauty Blog MAC Makeup Giveaway !

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MAC Cosmetics has teamed up with Proenza Schouler to launch a colourful makeup collection in Spring 2014. MAC has supported Proenza Schouler by providing makeup in their catwalk shows.

The MAC Proenza Schouler Collection features the return of Ombre Face Powders (yay!), lipsticks, pro longwear eye liners, lip pencils and nail lacquers. The face ombres look promising and so do the pro longwear eye liners. The amazing MAC pro longwear lip pencils in Dynamo and High Energy will also be re-promoted in this collection. I've never been a fan of the MAC nail polishes as I find them overpriced for quality so I will probably skip these. I am also not a big fan of the packaging.

MAC Proenza Schouler Collection!

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I have been a makeup addict collector for about 5 years now *whew time does fly fast!* and here's a collection of my lip liners/pencils. These are from various brands including Barry M, MAC, Sleek MakeUP, Maybelline, Rimmel, NYX and 17 cosmetics. I initially swatched this for my own purposes, and then I realised someone else might find them useful too. I hope the swatches will be useful somehow!

MAC Mouth Off, Barry M 24, Barry M 12, MAC Magenta, 17 Valentine

Sleek MakeUP Mossberry, NYX Currant, NYX Mahogany, MAC Mahogany, MAC Life's a Breeze, MAC In Synch, MAC Pink Treat

MAC Test Pattern, MAC Stripdown, MAC Oak, MAC Subculture, Rimmel Tiramisu, MAC Naked Liner,MAC Redd, MAC Cherry, MAC Brick, Maybelline Red Glamour

Here are some notes on a few of them:
* MAC Magenta is a hot pink with a purple frost. A duochrome lip pencil.
* Sleek MakeUP Mossberry is actually an eye liner, but also works as a lip liner, albeit a rather rough one. It serves as a good lip liner for the matching lipstick from the collection.
* Sleek MakeUP Mossberry looks similar to NYX Currant.
* MAC Life's a Breeze is a light pink with a slight frost.
* MAC Naked Liner - I sometimes use this on my lower waterline as a nude pencil to brighten my eyes and make them look more wide and awake.
* MAC Pink Treat is my only mechanical pencil - ie. twist up nonsharpen pencil.
* Most of my nude lip pencils look really similar. I think I should give some of them away.
* Rimmel Tiramisu and Maybelline Red Glamour are soo soft and easy to apply on the lips.

I quite like lip pencils as they are useful to provide a defined lip line *essential for reds and darker lipsticks*. If the colour pay off is good, they are also good to fill the lips instead of using a lipstick. I have done this a lot in the past, so easy to use on the go. Line and fill for a *usually* matte finish, or top with a lip gloss for a shiny finish.



  What do you think? ♥


20/01/2012

My Lip Pencil Collection and Swatches

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