Behold - Mac Fast Play

A belated  'Happy New Year'  to all!

I've not updated the blog for the past month, but I'm back in action for 2011.

To kick things off, I just wanted to post my very first MAC lipstick - Ooohh how excited am I about this ha!

Having depotted some eyeshadows, I did the Back2Mac thing & chose what I hope to be a neutral pinky shade on me. Will be trying it out tomorrow for the return to the work grind :)

Fingers crossed I like it - Fast Play / the Amplified lipsticks have good reviews, but it was also FREE so what's not to like?!

Mini Mac Haul

Lately I've become obsessed with blushes. More to the point - of the powdered variety. 

For ages I was only into stains & creams. I found them easier & faster to apply....& I'm rather lazy when it comes to sticking to a comfortable routine!

Behold my new additions to the ever growing makeup collection:

 

The above is without flash, so a bit hard to see the true colours. There's three Mac mineralize blushes & three eyeshadows. There were more that I also wanted, but I had to set a limit on the spending to be sensible :(

This photo with flash gives a better idea of what they actually look like.

Haven't had the chance to wear them properly yet, only had a small play around with two of the blushes.

The blushes appear to be from the MAC Colour Craft collection - released mid 2009.

Style Demon is intense in pigment! I'll need to be very light handed on the application.

Cheek & Cheerful is a lovely light bronzey golden glow. I'm hoping that I might be able to lightly sweep all over my face as a light bronzer, will see how I get on with that.

The eyeshadows were $19 each, which I think is good value considering the RRP in Oz.

The blushes were each $26. Pretty much half the retail price, but also no longer currently available in stores.

Even when checking on US websites - the price is spot on for what you'd be purchasing from over seas.

(or cheaper actually when you take in postage & exchange rates).

I didn't need to purchase any of these, but they were just so darn pretty & cheap in comparison to in store, that I thought sod it - I'm buying em & budget be damned LOL ;P

I'll update on what I think, once I've had a while to wear them all.

I found this tutorial on the US Mac website interesting - on application using the  mineralize products.

Do you have a favourite Mac blush or have you yet to be seduced by them?

Mac Brush Sets

Woohoo - my MAC brush sets goodies have landed in my lap!

Haven't had time to unpack or play with them yet, but here's a (really bad) pic for starters.

They are the following & each set came in their own bag:

Do the trick buff & line brushes
Morning noon & knight everything brushes
Wave of a wand sweep and define brushes

All purchased from The Cosmetics Company Store in the US for $34.75 each.

The handles are shorter than I was expecting (& I knew being sets they would be smaller than the regular brushes), and I also got 3 other regular brushes to compare to my Sigma brushes. All up, still a better buy than purchasing them in Australia! Will post more pics / reviews once I've started using them :)

MAC Goodies to Launch Soon!

Well. I've become a bit MAC obsessive this past week, with compiling my US shopping list (happy happy joy joy). I've stalked the department store counters, checking out brushes, eyeshadows, paint pot colours etc......it's so overwhelming! So many choices in too little time....

And then I spied this online. The MAC Tartan Tale Collection due for release in October....sometime.

I want a little brush set (on the bottom) & the second down eyeshadow set on the right hand side (as you view). Question is - will the BFG still be there in time for the launch ? I'm hoping so! Wonder when the collection will hit Australia at any rate. Would you purchase anything from the above collection?