❅ My MAC Holiday Collection 2012 ❅

Hiyah beauties! Okay so here's a look at some of the stuff I picked up from this year's Holiday sets from MAC. I really really really loved everything they came out with this year. The Glamour Daze collection was ahh-mazing but wasn't able to pick up anything! Luckily the bestie Nessa was sweet enough to pick up Dramatic Encounter for me, which looks like it's going to be F A B ! Anyway, these are the three sets I got. I swatched everything below & I also included some thoughts. I really hope I can pick up the Shy Girl lipstick set also before it disappears. If you're not planning on reading anything else below (lol) please at least read this.. If you haven't picked anything up & are debating picking up something. I highly suggest you skip the eyeshadow kits. Lol they suck. Unless it has certain shadows you think you'll never be able to get & you really really really want. OR unless you just want the kit, cause of the cute packaging. Which is what I did. Cause honestly the shadows aren't anything special. I have better shadows in my cheap 88 palettes. So this is definitely "paying for the brand" at its best/worst.

Guilty Passions: Brilliantly Cool

Brilliantly Cool Crush Pigments: This set is awesome! I already had Moss Garden from the Butterfly Party pigments that came out earlier this year with the Vera Collection which I hauled here. The "I've Got A Crush On You" pigment looks so much like their "Blue Brown" pigment. I swatched & compared them both in the pics below. They are almost exact. I think the new one has more green in it, while Blue Brown is more, well.. blue & isn't as obvous as the Crush one. Overall I really love these metallic pigments. I think they're gorgeous.

Luxorious Pink Lip Set.

MAC "Great Catch" • MAC "Call Me Gorgeous" • MAC "Lickable"

MAC "Lickable" alone [left]  •  MAC "Lickable" +MAC "Call Me Gorgeous" [right]

Primped Out Luxorious Pink Lip Set: I loooove this set! This comes with the leopard print cosmetic bag which is so pretty. The lipstick is described as a blue pink & in pictures, it does look like that. But irl, it looks more like a reddish pink on me. This set is genius because if you wear all three things together, it really does look absolutely gorgeous. I highly recommend this set to anyone who loves a pink gorgeous lip. Also, how cute are the bows in this collection? I love it.

Fabulousness: Smokey Eyes

Smoky Eyes Kit: I'll start on a good note. The packaging to these are absolutely adorable. I love the design & the fabric. I love how cute it looks. But I'm telling you now, I won't be using the shadows in this at all. They're not the kind I like. I'm not comfortable using these type of shadows. I don't like the color payoff.. & most importantly I really don't like any of the colors. Spellcaster is not at all like it looks. It looks like a pretty dark purple color but swatched, it looks like a dark gray. Black Slip is prob the only color I'd wear but it's honestly still nothing special. As soon as I swatched this kit, I put it back in its pretty pink box & put it away. I love it for packaging sakes. I think it's gorgeous & I don't regret buying it. But it is pretty useless to me. Haha. These are just MY thoughts though.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed the swatches! xx

MAC Reel Sexy Haul + Winnings. Yay!

Hey ladies! Here's a blast from the not-so-distant past. Haha I think it's time this baby gets posted. I always have a story behind a collection but, yikes.. I don't even remember what was going on two months ago. v.v I do regret not getting Pink Popcorn from this collection. The homita Nessa lol picked it up & blogged about it here & it looks so pretty. Moving right along though, let's get into it!

MAC Lightscapade Mineralize Skin Finish: Mine didn't have a whole lot of blue veining but it's still pretty gorgeous. I use it to highlight the cheekbone area. I'm not even a huge fan of all that but once in awhile it's pretty awesome. I like the subtle effect this leaves on my face. It's really smooth & blends in really nicely. I have nothing bad to say about this product, other than it's overpriced lol.

MAC Reel Sexy: Love this color!! It's a bit light on me but I love the orangey peach tint it has to it. I've been using this a lot for summer so far. This one & Revlon's Prim Rose are probably my most used this past month. I've been keeping the eye makeup to a minimal & the lips, for the most part, to a minimal too. The only thing really bold, I've been rocking is winged black liner & big dark lashes. My boyfriend got me a backup of this lipstick. Which worked out perfectly, I had no idea I was going to love it so much!

MAC Heroine: THIS was my most anticipated piece of this collection! I couldn't wait to see this one in person & even though it's.. purple & pretty dark on me. I really like it a lot. When I first took it out the tube, it intimidated me lol I thought "Ohhh I'm going to hate it!" Don't get me wrong. It's still kind of funky looking. lol But it works for me.. it's fun. It's an interesting shade, to say the least.

MAC Watch Me Simmer: I picked up this one back with the Shop/Cook collection but since it made a comeback in the Reel Sexy collection I decided to include it too! This is a really nice orangy pink, almost? I find that, like most orangey lipsticks.. it doesn't always look too great on me though. Haha.

MAC Screening Room Nail Lacquer: This polish was soooo hard to photograph. The picture looks a little grainy because I messed with the brightness & contrast to try to get it to look as close as the real thing as I could but blegh. For some reason, it shows a lot darker than it really is on my camera. Anyway, I tried to swatch it but that turned out worse lol I will try to include in it a notd, if I can get it show up well. Now the color, is really nice. I thought it would be more teal-ish but it's almost on the forest greens side. It's really nice though & different than the nail colors I'm use to.

For Funsies..

Crystal Stickers: These little suckers are so cute. I recently did this to my laptop because I felt it was girly enough lol. I got these little packets of crystals from a dollar store. I used up 4 little packs & it's not as tedious as it looks. They come in strips! So all you have to do is peel off the strips & line them on as straight as possible. It doesn't take long at all & it looks so pretty once it's done!

I won Monica's birthday giveaway!

LA Colors AD Baby Pink • Sinful Colors Bare • Sinful Colors Mint Apple • Sinful Colors Cinderella • Nabi Multi Star Glitter • LA Colors AD Silver

LA Colors Trios: Tiki Punch, Moon Rock, & Shooting Star

Nail Buffer • Five Double Ended Dotting Tools • Pink Glass File

Great prizes, right?! The nail file is glass & it's amazing! I've never had a glass nail file before. It's so cool, I love it. The dotting tools are so much fun to use. They come in all sizes & really do make a difference in how easily you can create designs. I love them!! The nail polishes are beautiful! I especially love Cinderella & the Multi Star Glitter. It's so pretty. & I finally have Tiki Punch!! Yayy! lol Thank you so much again, for the great giveaway, Monica! xx

 

MAC Chen Man Collection Haul.

I was so pleasantly surprised by this collection. I wasn't sure who she was when I first heard of the collection, so I didn't know what to expect! Color stories don't really get me weak in the knees too much like they do for some girls. Haa! I'm more of a visual person.. so when the pictures came out. I loved everything! I'm not huge on coraly pinks but I wanted Force of Love soooo badly! + it's matte! I was really impressed with the eyeshadows. I have an upcoming look with Pink Union & I love how shimmery & pigmented they are. They're just beautiful. [Click any image to enlarge!] Enjoy ♥ !

Pink Union [Mineralize Eye Shadow]

Love Cycle [Mineralize Eye Shadow]

Pinkly Fresh [Cream]

Budding Love [Lustre]

Force of Love [Matte]

Swatched on Lips: Budding Love [Lustre] • Force of Love [Matte]

[Swatched once & then multiple times to build up color]

My favorite thing from this collection was Force of Love lipstick. I would've never guessed I'd love this color so much. Which makes me second guess my decision on not getting the Nicki Viva Glam l/s because it was too "coraly-pink" lol. Idk, we'll see. I keep going back & forth with it lol. I was just hoping for a more blue based pink. Anywhooo! Hope ya'll enjoyed the swatches. I'll be posting a look I did with Pink Union tomorrow night. Thanks again always, for stopping by. c:

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