MAC describes Fluidlines as:
Ultra-smooth, Fluidline’s gel formula provides the precision of a liquid liner with a silkier, softer finish. Goes on “foolproof” with a brush in an easy dip-and-stroke action. Long-wearing. Smudge-proof. Lines up in a rich array of colours and finishes. Brush sold separately.

MAC Dark Diversion Fluidline
Description: Blackened plum. (LE: Stylishly Yours)

MAC Blacktrack Fluidline
Description: Solid flat black. (Permanent)

Swatching procedure: My skintone is a MAC NW20 (maybe a bit lighter due to it being winter). All photos taken under “natural light” bulbs, which mimic natural daylight.

Dark Diversion was an impulse buy, but I think I can get some use out of it… if I remember I own it. I hardly ever use my other two Fluidlines I own (Blacktrack and Sweet Sage). Blacktrack is really intense, but works AWESOME on the waterline, despite adhering to contacts and dryness that I’ve mentioned before.

MAC Dangerous Cuvée Paint Pot
Description: Frosted cool grey. (LE: Cham Pale)

MAC I Get No Kick Eye Kohl
Description: Metallic nude (LE: Cham Pale)

MAC Retrospeck Eyeshadow
Description: Beached blonde (Lustre, Permanent)

MAC NC15/NW20 Chromagraphic Pencil
Description: A highly pigmented wood-clenched pencil with a firm lead and silky soft application. Use for outlining, defining and drawing. (PRO, Permanent)

Swatching procedure: My skintone is a MAC NW20 (maybe a bit lighter due to it being winter). Retrospeck is applied over Painterly paint pot, so results may be different if applied on bare skin. All photos taken under “natural light” bulbs, which mimic natural daylight.

I Get No Kick currently sold out on MAC’s website, and I can see why! I think it’ll be the perfect eye kohl for brightening and highlighting my eyes (besides my usual NC15/NW20 pencil that I use on my waterline). Tomorrow I might use Dangerous Cuvée for both work and then my NYE look. Very excited to play around with these new products! ‘Bout damn time I got some new MAC

Retrospeck I use as a highlight color often. For being a lustre finish, it doesn’t get too messy on my face.

Wow, this is the first time I’ve bought a considerable amount of products from MAC that weren’t everyday use items (foundation, concealer, etc), since this past spring!

Have to wait for the UPS man, which is the sad part, but I got:

Dangerous Cuvée Paint Potn – from Cham Pale collection
I Get No Kick Eye Kohl – from Cham Pale collection
Dark Diversion Fluidline – from Stylishly Yours collection
Bulk Wipes

Dangerous Cuvée was originally all I was after besides the Wipes, but I saw some looks with I Get No Kick and liked it. And Dark Diversion is just interesting… kind of a stupid purchase since I hardly use liners. Oh well

I’ll have my own set of product photos and swatches once I get my stuff.

To my horror the box was half opened and crushed in… wtf? Luckily everything was in there and nothing was broken (mostly due to what I ordered, no pressed powder products). Still made me sad to see the sorry shape the box was in

I immediately jumped to try to the skin corrector and concealer.

MAC Studio Finish Skin Corrector in Pure Orange is helpful for concealing blue under eye areas (along with blue/black tattoos, or so I’ve read). This is a problem that plagues me, and my concealer just wasn’t cutting it so I decided to give this a whirl. I stuck the pan in a depotted 4-pan eyeshadow palette. The product is very creamy, and just the tiniest dab is all I needed. When I first applied of course it was neon orange, but it blended in easily with a MAC 194 concealer brush. The blue tinge was reduced considerably.

I have always used the discontinued MAC Studio Touch-Up Stick Concealer, but as of late I have found it difficult to work with… dry and scratchy. (Which totally could be due to the age of the product, I’ve had it for over 3 years.) So I threw the MAC Studio Sculpt Concealer in NW20 in my order as well. I applied it over the Skin Corrector. This product is deliciously creamy and easy to apply and blend in. It combined with the skin corrector definitely brightened up and improved my under eye area!! Now only time will tell how long the product holds up, and if I’ll look like a mess in a few hours or not.

Only thing I don’t like about it is that it looks like the Painterly Paint Pot. I think I’ll have to write a big “C” on it so I know it’s my concealer

At last, more foundation! Oh how I’ve missed it, especially since it’s my sunscreen since my skin gets rather finicky about moisturizers/skinscreens. As you can see, I don’t use the foam applicator it comes with. I yank that sucker out, and I shoved the temporary sponge up in the lid. I’ll see if this helps when I accidentally tip over the container. I love this foundation, but I really wish MAC offered a better container for it

I am very pleased I got 1.5 years of use out of my first foundation. Of course I wasn’t using it daily, but even with daily use, that’s still like a year or so! Definitely not bad

And the rest of my goodies, which are backups for existing products that are soon to run out, or will in a few months. Since I don’t live anywhere near a MAC store (100 miles to the nearest), just counters which won’t accept my Pro Card, I decided I’d just order up some replacement stuff. I figure if I don’t open it it’ll stay fresh just fine

I should do a comparison picture of a brand new Clear Brow Set, and my existing tube! My existing tube is light brown from all the shadow the wand has picked up. Quite amusing, at least to me.

And those are my new goodies Time to update the collection list!

PRO1DAY is the code.  Only good through 11:59pm on today’s date.

I did a rather large order to stock up and replenish some things, as well as pick up a few items that were either out of stock at the Las Vegas store when I was there, or didn’t think of getting.

On it’s way…

• Studio Sculpt Concealer in NW20
• Studio Finish Skin Corrector in Pure Orange
• Plush Lash Mascara
• Prep+Prime Lash
• Bulk Wipes
• Brow Set in Clear
• Mineralize SPF 15 Foundation/Loose in Medium

Nice little haul

I did visit the Las Vegas store in early June.  It’s a  pro store, but not as cool as the NYC Pro store.  But the employees are 10000% friendlier than the ones at the NYC store!  Definitely great service!

In Vegas I picked up:

• Chromagraphic Pencil in Black Black
• Chromagraphic Pencil in NC15/NW20
• Prrr Lipglass
• Plush Lash Mascara

Black Black has turned out to be a disappointment.  Great black on waterline, but smudges all over my face in about 20 minutes of wear.  Guess Urban Decay’s Zero is just meant to be my HG black waterline pencil…  NC15/NW20 pencil gives a lovely “perky” look when applied on the lower waterline.  Great for my early mornings at work!  Prrr is great, nice pop to my lips without a ton of color.  Definitely worth it to purchase.  And Plush Lash… well, not as great as MUFE’s Smoky Lash Mascara, which is what I use to wear, but $8.10 is definitely better than $22.00.  And when applied over MUFE Lash Fibers and really bulked up, it makes my lashes look great.  Gotta make some sacrifices sometimes, and buying a $22 mascara was getting really really old!

Now to just wait for my package   My foundation is nearly out, so I hope it arrives fairly quick!  And I can’t wait to give Pure Orange skin corrector a try on my blue undereye circles!

Stopped by the CCO today…

A few weeks ago my Perfect Topping MSF fell off my bathroom counter and shattered So I figured instead of repressing it, I’d just pick up a new one at the CCO, and try to sell the shattered one. Lucky me, they had two left, and one of them had a lot of purple veining. Score!!!

So I got…

MAC Perfect Topping Mineralize Skinfish
MAC Spiritualize Pigment (LE: Metal Urge)
MAC Cool Capers Mini Pigment Set (Fuschia, Grape, Deep Blue Green, Reflects Transparent Teal, Holiday 2009)

You know the story behind my Perfect Topping MSF repurchase. Spiritualize was a random buy, I found it pretty and original jar pigments are so sought after now I feel the need to buy them up, haha. And I’ve wanted the Cool Capers set since last fall, but didn’t want to pay full price.

Just a tiny little haul, nothing else really caught my eye at the CCO (either had it or not interested). I’m really after cheek products and pigments lately instead of shadows, so that’s killing my hauls, haha.

My new favorite combination is MAC Patina all over my lid, and MAC Quarry in the crease. So pretty! I’m in love with Patina, I think it’s one of my favorite eyeshadows ever!

Last weekend I did a small CCO haul. Mostly impulse buys, but they’re working out I think My friend wanted me to pick up a Sea Me shadestick, and I ended up getting one for myself although I’m sure I”ll never use it…

I got:

Personal Taste was a bit pink for my liking when I first try it, but I think I can make it work. I love Warmed MSF, brings a nice glow to my face without looking like a strong bronzer or fake. Sea Me I might just sell or swap. And I haven’t used Phloof! yet, and not quite sure why I grabbed it, LOL

I haven’t bought any makeup since I picked up Hypnotizing eyeshadow in December… so oh boy did it feel good!

I had 6 empties to trade in for B2M, and a $25 gift card from Christmas, so that definitely helped out.

I got from MAC…

Eyeshadows
Saddle
Lucky Green
Patina
Shale
Quarry
Birds & Berries (from the Give Me Liberty of London collection)
Bought Grey (from the Give Me Liberty of London collection)

Paint Pot
Artifact (discontinued, but my store still had it!)

I also swung by Sephora and picked up a new tube of Make Up For Ever Lash Fibers. Finally! My existing tube was about a year old and getting really weird, so definitely time for new!

First off, my Melon look! I do not have pictures of how I made it more “night,” but what I basically did was smoke it out with MAC Indian Ink eyeshadow in the outer V and crease, and darkened up the MAC Cranberry eyeshadow that was already there. Then I added MAC Goldmine eyeshadow under my lower lash line! Nothing too extreme, but it did change the look!

On my way to my friend’s I stopped by a CCO. They had a huge selection of stuff, but limited myself to Perfect Topping Mineralize Skinfinish. I sorted through what they had and chose one with lots of purple veining. I’m not sure why I am so into cheek products lately, but it’s fun! I used Perfect Topping to complete my night Melon look.

Then we stopped by a freestanding MAC store. To my surprise the Love Lace collection had released early (it was suppose to release December 26th), so I picked up Hypnotizing eyeshadow, which was the only thing I really had my eye on. Rounding that out, I picked up some Studio Moisture Cream moisturizer. I love my Studio Moisture Fix, but it’s been struggling against this dry climate. Hopefully the new stuff can help!

I don’t have pictures of Saturday’s look, but I did MAC Beautiful Iris eyeshadow over my lid, and then MAC Hypnotizing eyeshadow in the crease. I darkened it up with a touch of MAC Indian Ink eyeshadow in the outer V, and used MAC Shroom eyeshadow to highlight. Fairly simple.

Finally, when I came home I had a package waiting for me! I had swapped my Pearl Cream Colour Base for a Cakeshop Shadestick on makeupalley.com Cakeshop is a very unique color, I look forward to playing with it!

So that’s my weekend wrap up!

I’ve been wanting a matte-ish pink blush for awhile now, and have been going back and forth on some MAC suggestions, but then I ran across Cantaloupe from MAC and I HAVE TO HAVE IT. But it’s not pink! That’s when I realized I could pick up one of the Mary Kay mineral ones, and have my cake and eat it too!

I decided on Mary Kay Pink Petals mineral cheek color, and Beach Bronze lipgloss.

Oh, so about yesterday’s look! IT LASTED ALL DAY! No creasing! Maybe I was just using too much of the Eyesicles product when I tried before. I was quite surprised. Not that I’m going to be giving up my paint pots anytime soon… just an observation and correction on something I said in yesterday’s post!

So those are my new goodies! Now I have a pink blush that isn’t frosty like my Blonde MSF, and a new lip gloss!