MAC Fashion Set Lipsticks: Heroine and Silly

I have never been so excited to receive a package in my life waiting for these!

If you are an avid MAC follower, you are probably aware that the fashion sets have sold out all over the place and are proving to be massively popular products. As soon as I saw them when they came out in the US I fell in love. I couldn't even decide which colour I like the most! So imagine my face when I went on the MAC UK site to find they'd all sold out too. However, using the magician that is eBay, I managed to get my hands on two of the lipsticks, Silly and Heroine. I'm not even going to say how much I paid for them because it even appalls me so I'll leave you to guess. However, if you are lucky to find one in a MAC store, they retail at £14.

Here we have Silly, which is a very bright almost neony pink. I love how bold the colour is, definitely a great way to be a bit braver if you're not quite up to trying anything to drastic. I usually really don't like matte lipsticks because I find them too drying on the lips, but Silly sits really well and doesn't flake. Even after a few hours in work with it on, I'd check up on it on my break and find that the colour had still stayed put even though I hadn't reapplied it since the morning. I think Silly is a great colour to wear anytime and it isn't too out there in comparison to the purple of Heroine. Everyone loves a good pink and Silly is definitely a pink I'll be using a lot.

Today I'm wearing Heroine, which I think has to be my favourite shade of lipstick EVER. I absolutely adore the colour! It's a much brighter purple than for example Rebel, but it's still so wearable. I have it on today with a tiny bit of MAC Snob lipstick in the centre of my bottom lip to make it slightly more day-wear. I think most people went mad for Heroine when they first saw it, as that seemed to be the shade that went first and I think I'm going to be joining them. Again, it's a matte lipstick, but like Silly I don't find it drying and the colour stays on for hours after application. I think that Heroine would look great with darker skintones too. I've seen it on a few people on instagram with darker skin and it looks phenomenal.

Not too sure what'll be coming up in the next few weeks. I'm hoping to maybe take a step away from MAC and see if I can find some dupes at a lower cost brand. Perhaps I'll do a look as well to pass a bit of time until I get some more money, as I'm so skint until pay day and have a holiday coming up! Keep looking out for me.

 

Girls Night Out Make Up

So now I'm back home and free apart from work, I'm so excited that I get to spend more time with my girls.
As much as I love Liverpool and my uni girls, there's nothing quite like home and the people that come with it. I'd been looking forward to a return night out ever since we planned it and finding that I was off work, we were out for the Saturday night.

One of my favourite things about getting ready for a night out is doing my make up. I always find that it does take a bit of planning, like what colours will look right with what I'm wearing? If I have dark eyes can I wear a dramatic lip or will it look too much? You get the idea.

For last night's make up I wanted to use two of my new investments. I'm finding that eBay is great for buying MAC stuff. You can end up saving yourself a few quid which is a good thing in the long run. I'd bought two now shadows off eBay, Carbon and Shadowy Lady. Everyone needs a good standard black, so Carbon is perfect for creating smokey eyes or if you want a softer look liner rather than a gel or liquid liner. I bought Shadowy Lady, which is a dark plummy purple, because I thought that a lot of my shadows tend to be browns and goldy shades. Purple is a bit different and I think it's great used in the crease as a cut or to put a twist on a smokey eye if you don't want to use a black.

Anyway, here's what my eye make up for the evening looked like:

I started with MAC Ricepaper all over the lid and up to the brow bone getting right into the inner corner. I think Ricepaper is a great colour to begin any look and it can be used as a highlight as well as I have done here. On the lid I blended Casino, again by MAC, from the centre outwards. I then took Mulch and blended it along the crease about 3/4 of the way inwards. Using a 214 short shader brush, I used Shadowy Lady right in the outer corner of the crease, blending it together with the Mulch. I then added Carbon on top of this again in the outer corner. To finish, I took Amber Lights and added it to the lower lashline and reapplied Ricepaper in a small V on the inner corner of the upper and lower lashlines. I lined my upper lashline and waterline with Blacktrack before smoking out the upper lashline with Carbon. I applied mascara on my lower lashline and used Millie Mackintosh lashes in Shoreditch.

For my brows, I shaped up the bottom with my Stud pencil and pencilled in the tail end. To give my brows more of a natural fade, I used Brun eyeshadow to fill in the rest of my brow before blending using a brow brush. I then finished them off using concealer to define the shape.


On my face, I used MAC Studio Fix foundation in NW25. I usually use NC25 but I find NW matches my skin better when wearing fake tan. I applied extra foundation under my eyes to cover any bags and left it for a short time to set before using a 188 duo fibre brush so that it looks natural.

I always use two types of powder bronzers. My favourite product, possibly of all time, is my Extra Dimension Skinfinish Powder in Superb. It was a limited edition product so I will probably cry when it runs out! I use that under my cheekbones and sweep a small amount of Skinfinish Natural in Medium Deep on my temples and along my jawline. I then used the 188 brush to blend it all together. I added Hush Cream Colour Base as a highlight and then used Nars Mata Hari blush, which I LOVE.

My lips have been filled in with Beauty limited edition glaze lipstick and pencilled in using Pink Treat cream liner. I then added Impassioned lipstick on top when I actually went out.


Here is the finished make up. I think I need to invest in some Fix Plus to make sure everything stays in place because at the moment I'm just using hairspray! If I get hold of that I'll definitely review it on here. I've seen loads of palettes that I've fallen in love with with really bright zingy colours by a brand called Bitchslap Cosmetics. It's only available in America so I'd have to order it in. Don't know if I'll be able to resist the temptation so you might see them on here soon!