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Swatch of the Day: MAC Cream Colour Bases

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

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Today’s swatches are my three MAC Cream Colour Bases: Plumed Violet, Pearl, and Premeditated. Cream Colour Base is often abbreviated CCB.

What are Cream Colour Bases? MAC’s description is:
Versatile and multi-purpose, Cream Colour Base can be applied directly to bare skin, or layered over foundation, moisturizer, or powder. Smooth and easy to apply with a brush, sponge, or fingers-colour effects range from a light veil to highly dramatic, depending on method of application. Cream Colour Base is fragrance-free. (The following shades are not recommended for use in lip area: Black, Dusk and Fawntastic. The following shades are not recommended for use in the eye area: Fabulush, Improper Copper, Premeditated and Virgin Isle.)

MAC Pearl Cream Colour Base
Description: Soft pale gold with icy shimmer (Frost)
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MAC Plumed Violet Cream Colour Base
Description: Pro, Discontinued?
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MAC Premeditated Cream Colour Base
Description: A deep, bright vivid blue red (Discontinued?)
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Swatching procedure: My skin tone is roughly a MAC NW20 (maybe NW15 since any tan is fading). Photos are taken in my bathroom under “Natural Light” bubs which mimic natural daylight.

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I did these swatches today because tomorrow I am mailing out Pearl to a new owner. I could never get Pearl to work… it would make my eyelids really greasy and everything would crease… even if I put it over a paint pot. I didn’t have a use for it, so I posted it up for swap. I am getting Cakeshop shadestick in return. I haven’t ever used a shadestick, but figured it could be something neat to try. At the very worse it ends up sitting around like my Pearl CCB has been doing, :D

I have done a few pretty purple looks with Plumed Violet applied as a base. I have never used Premeditated, only swatched it 2 or 3 times. I have Flammable paint, so I don’t really need a red eye base (yeah yeah, they say not to use it on eyes… I’m a risk taker!). So Premeditated also sits around. Maybe some day I’ll find a use…

Let’s play a little catch up!

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

So my problem is laziness. I take pictures, then they sit on the camera. I have pictures on my digital camera from nearly a year ago! So… this morning I don’t have much going on, so I am vowing to go through all the makeup pictures, delete the crap ones, and post up good ones, regardless of how old.

What this means is that I probably won’t remember which products I used. But I still want to post them up since I took the effort to take the pics, ya know? What’s even worse is that my camera’s date kept resetting, so I don’t even have an accurate date for these :( Most will be from March – June 2009.

I run several blogs on a huge variety of subjects, and I tend to neglect them all, so honestly I REALLY need to make a vow to at least stay on top of a few.

First up…

This is from September 22, 2009.

Two words: SPICED CHOCOLATE!

I heard so much raving about this quad, so when I caught notice it was at my nearest CCO, I ran over and grabbed it. I’ve been in such a mood for a “fall feeling” with bronzes and reds, so this really excited me. And it didn’t fail to impress! (Which is always important, as things tend to get hyped up on MAC forums and turn out to be a bust)

I also dyed my hair recently “Deep Burgundy” by Feria. These pictures were taken soon after it was dyed. 1.5 weeks later and it’s faded a bit, but still really red. Maybe I finally found a good red hair dye?! Well, that, and I switched to using a sulfate-free shampoo (Bed Head Superstar) which really helps on prolonging hair color.

Uber red:

September 5, 2009
I went for a strawberries & bananas look this day and ended up messing it up by using a black eyeliner. I don’t like dark eyeliner (as you can tell, I usually don’t line my looks, which drives some people crazy but I like no liner a lot of the time). Therefore, I will only post the open eyes version.

Make Up For Ever #75
MAC Chrome Yellow
MAC Black Russian pearlglide liner (ARGHHHH)
MAC Full of Fuchsia Technakohl liner (trying to unruin the look)

Sometime in August 2009
How great are Taylor Swift dresses?! Haha, I just had to say that!

This was done with some of the Hello Kitty shadows… I’m guessing Too Dolly and Lucky Tom are two of the candidates



Sometime in April or May 2009

Awww, this is sooo pretty, I wish I remembered what I used :( I almost want to think I used Plumed Violet Cream Colour Base, but I am not sure.

April 3, 2009
I remembered the date on this one because this was the night of the Fast & Furious opening, LOL! I was going for the import model look, I guess. I used Too Faced Ooh & Aah duo eyeshadow.

That’s about all! There were other ones, but I either didn’t like how I did the makeup, or it was a repeat of something I had posted earlier.

Whew!

I am going to try to focus on getting swatches and collection photos up. I know natural light is best for that, but unfortunately the weather is quite crappy so I’ll have to see how far I get with that, especially today.

ooo, I like!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Finally I get around to using one of the Cream Colour Bases (CCB for short) I bought at a CCO in March! And I like it! Definitely nice to put shadow over, and it’s been a few hours and still no creasing, so that’s a good sign!

Eyes

  • MAC Painterly paint pot as base (Sephora flat e/s brush)
  • MAC Cream Colour Base in Plumed Violet all over lid (242 brush)
  • MAC Up At Dawn e/s all over lid and Plumed Violet, over crease and up (239 brush)
  • MAC Shroom e/s as highlight (217 brush)
  • Urban Decay Zero 24/7 Eyeliner pencil along upper lashes
  • Make Up For Ever Smokey Lash mascara

I think it looks a lot better in natural light than the camera made it look… oh well! Definitely like it, and it even looks pretty on it’s own!

Also stopped by my local CCO and picked up Sunset B, Gulf Stream, and Reflects Duo Purple pigment.