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What Do You Think? Has MAC Released a Shade of Red For Every Heart?
Wearing MAC Cremesheen Lipstick in Hang-Up
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, love. It’s one of my favorite holidays, and not just because it makes it totally legit to eat an entire 1-pound box of See’s Candies in a single sitting (something I’ve done multiple times).
How many pounds of chocolate candy are sold during Valentine’s week in the U.S.? (Click here for the answer)
I also love it for the red!
It’s everywhere — red valentines, red hearts, red candy and decorations. Oh, and let’s not forget lips.
And should you need a little help deciding on a particular shade of red to wear on or around the Big V, MAC has nine suggestions: A Shade of Red For Every Heart. The nine-piece release for lips and nails, available now online, includes some seriously saturated reds, some of them brights and others dark crimsons, and it even features a few former lovers like Cockney Lipstick (remember this beauty from Euristocrats 2?).
When it comes to lips, it’s hard (although not utterly impossible) to go wrong with red; it makes my willpower wilt. Have a look at these four items, which are some of my faves from the launch, and let me know if anything shoots an arrow of lust through your makeup-lovin’ heart.
From the left: Lustre Lipstick in Cockney ($14.50), Cremesheen Lipstick in Hang-Up ($14.50), Prolongwear Lipglass in Driven By Love ($18.50) and Prolongwear Lipglass in Lasting Achievement ($18.50)
Swatches from the left: Lipstick in Cockney, Lipstick in Hang-Up, Prolongwear Lipglass in Driven By Love and Prolongwear Lipglass in Lasting Achievement
Lipstick in Cockney
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Chuck Says Hi
LORAC’s new Lips With Benefits in Chuck ($18), a shimmery rosy brown.
This gloss makes me think of caramel and milk chocolate. Clearly I’ve been hanging out at See’s Candies way too much…
Bucking for Best Dressed of Spring 2012: Tarte Maracuja Divine Shine Lip Gloss
And the award for Best Dressed Lipgloss goes to…
The Tarte Maracuja Divine Shines ($21), yay!
[INSERT RAUCUS APPLAUSE]
How exciting! 🙂 I love it when something really girly and pretty wins.
The 10-piece release of moisturizing lip plumpers just launched with Tarte’s spring 2012 collection, and I can’t get enough of that floral design.
But what about the other categories, like Best Hydrating Lipgloss, Best Lipgloss with a Funny Name and Best Wear Time? Does Maracuja deserve any of those nominations?
Well, perhaps one of them…
But first, what the heck is maracuja?
The answer to that: passion fruit. Maracujá oil is derived from the seeds, and it’s added to Maracuja Divine Shine Lip Gloss. Tarte claims that it makes these glosses highly moisturizing with a high dose of essential fatty acids and vitamin C.
RANDOM FUN FACT — While Cujo, the rabid St. Bernard from Stephen King’s book of the same name, bears no resemblance to these glosses, it is very easy to mistakenly type “maracujo” instead of “maracuja.” In fact, I’ve done it at least 10 times.
These do feel fairly moisturizing to me, but after wearing them for a few hours, I notice some flakes…
Brushes with Color
The Story of Burberry Beauty Pale Barley Eyeshadow No. 22
Their love was forbidden, but they could no longer deny their passion.
By day, they sat across counters from one another, so close but yet so far, sneaking glances here and there whenever no one was looking. But at night, after the store lights dimmed and while the other eyeshadows slept peacefully in their pans, MAC Pro Longwear Eyeshadow in Sweet Satisfaction would sneak over to the NARS counter to meet Cyprus Eyeshadow, her one true love.
It was a clandestine affair, and it continued until Sweet Satisfaction started showing signs of a telltale bump…
Knowing that their families would never accept their cross-counter love, they boldly left the worlds they knew and sought refuge in a place called Burberry Beauty.
Burberry Beauty’s family had only settled the region in July of 2010. They did not yet have a competitive wall like the older, more established lines, but they greeted Sweet Satisfaction and Cyprus with open arms, making them feel at home.
Several months passed, and then, in the spring of 2012, Sweet Satisfaction gave birth.
She and Cyprus decided to raise the lovechild as a member of the Burberry Beauty clan, dressing the little one in Burberry Beauty’s distinctive family garb — a gunmetal case with a check pattern — and when they asked the Burberry elders to christen her, they agreed.
They named her Sheer Eye Shadow in Pale Barley No. 22 ($29) and added her to the spring/summer 2012 collection.
Burberry Beauty Sheer Eye Shadow in Barley No. 22, a new shade from the spring/summer 2012 collection
From the left: MAC Sweet Satisfaction, Burberry Beauty Pale Barley and NARS Cyprus
Swatches from the left: MAC Sweet Satisfaction, Burberry Beauty Pale Barley and NARS Cyprus
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Easy Does It With NARS Makeup Removing Water
Ahhh… If my dry skin could talk, that’s what it would say about new NARS Makeup Removing Water ($29).
Gentle. That’s the figurative word here and what I like most about the product, thanks to soothing botanical ingredients like cucumber, chamomile and hyaluronic acid. It works without any soaps, oils, fragrances or alcohol to remove makeup while, according to NARS, toning and moisturizing the skin.
And, even better, it’s supposed to work without scrubbing/rubbing.
MAC Cleanse Off Oil/Tranquil and I have been in a hot-and-heavy relationship for a while now, but when I heard that François was releasing a new makeup remover that wouldn’t require rubbing, I was intrigued…
When I turned 36, fine lines seemed to crop up overnight! — so things like being able to remove my makeup without having to tug at my skin are suddenly a lot more important to me now.
And to remove long-wearing eye makeup, like waterproof mascaras, eyeliners and highly-pigmented eyeshadows, there’s NARS $25 Eye Makeup Remover. Described as a “high-performance, extremely mild makeup remover that removes all types of makeup, including waterproof,” the non-greasy, oil-in-water formula glides across skin, leaving a silky, smooth feeling without leaving a residue behind, and it contains soothing natural ingredients like aloe and cucumber to calm sensitive skin.
When I’m out running errands and wearing a moderate amount of makeup — maybe a primer, a little bit of tinted moisturizer, powder, eyeshadow, blush, gloss and mascara — I’ll soak one cotton round with Makeup Removing Water, and that’s enough to do the job (without my having to scrub/tug) in between 1-2 minutes.
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MAC A Shade of Red For Every Heart
Thinking about wearing red lips for Valentine’s Day? How about one of these lipsticks and/or glosses from the MAC A Shade of Red For Every Heart collection?
From the left: Lustre Lipstick in Cockney ($14.50), Cremesheen Lipstick in Hang-up ($14.50), Prolongwear Lipglass in Driven By Love ($18.50) and Prolongwear Lipglass in Lasting Achievement ($18.50)
Swatches from the left: Lipstick in Cockney, Lipstick in Hang-Up, Prolongwear Lipglass in Driven By Love and Prolongwear Lipglass in Lasting Achievement