Sunday 26 October 2014

MAC: The Matte Lip Collection

So a couple weeks ago my little black box arrived bearing my spoils from the MAC Matte Lip Collection! As many makeup lovers do, I adore a matte lip and usually find them to be irresistable. Therefore, as I predicted when I first heard of this collection months ago and in keeping with my self proclaimed lipstick junkie status I got all the colours with the exception of Heroine which I already own. 




I scrambled at work to order my lippies from this collection when it launched as I assumed that it would have been one of those collections which sold out within half an hour. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the collection was available for a long while after, hopefully because MAC has decided to listen to customer complaints about the availability of their limited edition collections.

I picked up the lipsticks:

  • La Vie En Rouge
  • Fashion Revival
  • Nouvelle Vogue 
  • Pander Me
  • Damn Glamorous 
  • Styled In Sepia 
  • Living Legend

Below are my swatches of the lippies! I'll eventually update my thoughts on each individual colour but I must say that these mattes are an improvement on MAC's somewhat stiff matte formula. They are creamy and glide on easily making them an ease to wear! Though the colours may not be all that unique to my collection there are some that I especially loved including Nouvelle Vogue and Pander Me!


L-R: Damn Glamorous, Living Legend, Styled in Sepia, Pander Me, Nouvelle Vogue, La Vie En Rogue, Fashion Revival. NC42/43 squinting

Same order as above, different lighting with MAC Nude to the bottom of Styled in Sepia for comparison!

Picture taken with flash! Same order are previous pictures with MAC Nude from the Rihanna Collection  to the bottom of Styled in Sepia for comparison!

Leave me the details on anything you guys picked up from the collection and what if any are your faves! 

I'm back and i'm finding my voice!

Firstly, to all my readers out there I just want to apologise for my lengthy absence! Life took over and then I was on a purely relaxed mode! I've graduated from law school and I'm waiting to be called to the bar. I've started a new job and I know that i'll be extra busy because of that! However, I think posting and updating my blog will be a means of retaining an identity outside of just being an attrorney-at-law!

I've made lots of purchases in the past few months and have lots to share with you guys! My posts may be a lot less but i'll try to keep you guys updated with quick posts and swatches.

As I write more and more posts, it has become clear to me that finding my voice is not as easy as I thought it would be. For some reason, whenever I mentally dictate my posts my inner voice comes across as bubbly and ditzy and I feel that this translates into my posts. There's nothing wrong with being either of those things but I do think they are a little stereotypical of what persons think the beauty industry and all related things are about. 

I feel as if this stereotype has seeped into my own work and as such i'm going to make a conscious effort to channel myself and my own voice and style into this blog. 

I'm not sure if i'm thinking too much into this but I think it all goes back to the fact that we, and well especially me in this situation, need to trust our voices, trust in ourselves and who we are and most importantly trust that that person staring back at you in the mirror is enough.