themakeupnut: MAC

Okay who is this? Girl walks up to the MAC counter and only needs a concealer and walk out with a bunch of other stuff she didn’t mean to get? Oh wait that’s me! Happens EVERY SINGLE TIME!

MAC Stars and Rockets, MAC Pro Longwear NW20, MAC Brown Down

I needed a new concealer. Well not needed but wanted a lighter one. My MAC NW25 Pro Longwear is to dark for me in the winter. It is perfect for summer but winter not so much. Since I love how long lasting the MAC Pro Longwear concealers are I had to get another one.

This time I got it one shade lighter in NW20. Now that’s a perfect fit for my winter skin. Did you know that the MAC Pro Longwear concealer makes a great eyeshadow base as well? It doesn’t crease so it works great in the lid area. With the little pump top, it can be hard to get just a teeniest amount you only need for under your eyes so I use it on my lids as a primer and now I don’t have extra concealer floating around on the back of my hand. I hate wasting that concealer!!

Of course I can’t buy just ‘one’ thing at MAC, especially when I am waiting to be checked out. I drool over all those goodies at the counter. As I was waiting, I started swatching eyeshadows. I knew I wanted a neutral dark matte brown. Even though Brown Down is a Veluxe Pearl, it blends and acts like a matte. Brown Down looks very warm in the pan but swatches very neutral. I think this had been discontinued but my MAC counter still had it so I got it. Not like I really needed another brown neutral but what the hey? Why not?

MAC Brown Down

My other splurge was Stars and Rockets. I have always wanted Stars and Rockets but the last time I remembered to inquire about it, they were out of stock. Now it is mine. I love how this shadow can look so different depending on what base you use it one. Love this shadow so much! LOVE! It’s also a Veluxe Pearl. Stars and Rockets is a lavender purple with pink pearl. Depending on what it is applied over, Stars and Rockets can have an almost duochrome effect. Like when applied over a black base the shadow takes on a blue hue. While not strongly pigmented it can be packed on for full effect.

MAC Stars and Rockets

Swatches:

Here is a FOTD using Stars and Rockets on the lid over my Tini Beauty Violette, with Makeup Geek Duchess and Annabelle Purple (#203) in the crease and outer V area.

Are you like me? Can’t leave the MAC counter with only one item?

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As I previously posted, I gave myself a little Xmas present – a bag of MAC. Wrapped it up and put it under the tree HAHA! Take that Santa! I was at my dad’s for Christmas and he was handing out the presents. He thought it was pretty funny.

When I was at the MAC counter, I had a hard time deciding between this Warm palette and the Sultry palette, which has more mauves and purples. But I chose the Ice Parade Snowglobe Eyeshadow Palette in Warm.

Of the six eyeshadows in the Warm palette, my favourites are Patina (permanent line), Magical Mist and Buckwheat. The first colour I tried was Buckwheat and my first thought was Holy Shit this Damn Good! Smooth, easy to blend, great colour payoff. Then I tried Midnight Flurry and my excitement deflated. It is the only true matte of six shadows and it was chalky and hard to blend. You can see it in the swatch. I really had to work it; layering and blending. I finally got pissed off and damped my brush to get it to show up right. LOL Then I tried Patina and was happy again. Although in the pan, it looks totally different than Patina, Magical Mist is very close in colour to Patina, just a tad greyer. I use it as an upper crease colour to soften out Buckwheat. Winterscape barely showed up and I had a bit of fallout on my cheek. Gaelic Gold is a very pretty yellow gold and it did go on creamy smooth.

For $45, I think it I was expecting perfection but I do really like 3 of the 6 colours. But then I could have just bought 3 colours I really liked for $45. ~~sigh~~ Oh well. The snowglobe on the top is cheesy. I would have preferred a flat top but hey my nephew liked playing with it HA. The little brush it came with is a decent brush. It’s soft, dense and makes creating defined lines easy. Is it sad that I more impressed with the little palette brush that Midnight Flurry?

All in all, I am okay with the Warm palette. It didn’t knock my socks right off but they slouched a bit HAHA.

This is the look I created using the Warm palette. I used Painterly Paint Pot as a base. Patina in the inner corner. Gaelic Gold in the center of my lid. Buckwheat as the major crease colour, with Midnight Flurry as the crease defining colour. Blending the upper crease out with Patina. Winterscape as an inner eye highlight. In the picture, the colours are washed out. In real life, I had a ton of eyeshadow on. For some reason, I cannot take ‘true’ pictures of neutrals looks. Perhaps I need a different base?

My dad had observed me working on this look. He had asked if I was going somewhere. I said no just creating a natural look with my new palette. My dad’s comment on the MAC Warm Palette: That’s a lot of money to look natural.

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