HOLIDAY! CELEBRATE!

Hey everyone!

I'm a bad bad girl.

I don't post here at all but I do think about blogspot a lot and how much I miss doing my blog.

So, the holiday collection by MAC came out and like every year, I'm drawn to the glitter, the lights, the brightness of every holiday collection (even though its the same colors every year, just different names). I really don't care because to me, I will forever be a MAC addict.

I got two of the palettes. One eyeshadow and one lip palette. I also bought the one with one of the blushes...I believe the pink one but I returned it because the blushes were wayyy too sheer for my skintone. It would've been a waste and sat on my desk forever.

I also bought the gift set with the fluidline, zoomlash mascara, mini 209 brush, and mini makeupbag. I actually regret not leaving the packaging alone because I wanted to return it. But oh well at least I have a new little makeup bag. It's kinda cute but I really do love the fluidline and pigment.

As you can see the bag is small but it fits a lot of stuff if they're small enough. I was able to fit a lot of things in there. The makeup bags this year are way better than the ones last year. Last year's suck!

Left: Rich Ground fluidline: "Reddened coco with frost." -MAC website
Right: Melon pigment: "Soft bright golden peach." -MAC website

Now for the palettes.

I didn't like any of the eyeshadow palettes except the Devil May Dare 6 eyeshadow palette:

Clockwise starting from top left: Oh My Darling (Frost), Sorcery (Satin), Prankster (Veluxe Pearl), Devilishly Dark (Frost), Gold Tease (Frost), Dare Ya! (Veluxe Pearl).

I am in love with this palette. It's such a perfect travel, evening, daytime, all occasion eyeshadow palette. The only thing I don't like is that there is no MATTE color. If it had that then it would be flawless. Other than that, these colors are really nice for the fall/winter season. MAC matched these colors well.
Another thing I love is that it the mirror stands! You can do your makeup with this on your desk and look into the mirror without holding it up. Other palettes especially last years sucked! Remember the big jewel in the front (which I removed)? They are not stackable. These are! and I love the packaging. Really sturdy and cute. The brush is bleh like most of their travel sized brushes in a palette.

The lip palette I bought was the VIVA GLAM palette! I think Viva Glam lipsticks are one of the best lipsticks MAC makes. Especially one of my faves: Viva Glam V! I ran out of my tube of this so I decided to buy the palette that comes with Viva Glam VI lipstick and lipglass:

From left to right: Viva Glam V lipstick, Viva Glam VI lipstick, Viva Glam VI lipglass

Swatched in the same order as the palette on my lips.

Here are looks I did with the eyeshadow palette. The left eye has the three top colors and the right eye has the bottom colors. I know it looks scary but I didn't want to keep using my eye makeup remover and cause irritation to my eyes:

Here they are upclose. This is the greenish gold colors

Products used:
Too Faced Eyeshadow Insurance
MAC Lucky Jade shadestick
Devil May Dare eyeshadows:
Gold Tease e/s to inner 3/4 of eye
Devilishly Dark e/s to outer v
Dare Ya! e/s to tear duct
Rich Ground fluidline
MAC Zoomlash mascara
MAC Graphblack liner
MAC Llama e/s to highlight.

Here is the top row of eyeshadows.
Here is what I used:
Too Faced Eyeshadow Insurance
MAC Perky paint pot
Devil May Dare Shadows:
Sorcery e/s to inner 3/4 of eye
Prankster e/s to outer v
Oh My Darling e/s to highlight and tear duct
Prankster e/s used wet for liner
Prestige liner in Powerful Purple
MAC Zoomlash mascara

So there is my mini haul and looks for today. I love eyeshadow palettes. I've recently been purchasing more and more since you get more for your buck. I'll be showing more and more looks from palettes. They're so great for everything! All the colors are matched and in a compact you can carry with you everywhere...love 'em!

Till next time,

peace.love.makeup.