Mac lipstick collection

The other day, in the middle of 'doing work' I decided to get all of my Mac lipsticks out for a play, and to distract myself further I took pictures for this post. I think I did a similar post near the begginning of my blog but this is just my Mac lipsticks, and since then I have bought more..and lost a couple (cut a caper, impassioned and Innocence beware were the losses) :(
Anyone who is addicted to Mac lipsticks will know that the lipstick addicts collection is always a work in progress so this is definatly not my final collection but I am happy with what I have for now :)

The lipsticks attacked my work!
L to R: Prolongwear lipcream-overtime, Viva Glam gaga I (lustre), Chatterbox (amplified), Fusion Pink (amplified), Girl about town (amplified), sheen supreme- supremely confident, Honeylust (matte), Vegas Volt (amplified)

A few honourable mentions:
- Out of these pinks/neutals/peach my most used lipstick is probably Chatterbox. Its a really under-rated shade and for me its the perfect not-too-barbyish barbie pink.
-I used to love Viva Glam Gaga 1 when I had red hair but find it's not as flattering with my brown hair..So I save it for when my hair is red.
-Fusion pink is my newest lipstick out of these and is the most standout of the lot, its definately a daring one.
-Supremely confident is pretty boring by itself but I have recently discovered that it is AMAZE over Mac Dervish lipliner. (or any neutraly-pink) A great layering shade.
-And Vegas volt is the most amazing summer shade.

Swatches:

L to R: Prolongwear lipcream-overtime, Viva Glam gaga I (lustre), Chatterbox (amplified), Fusion Pink (amplified), Girl about town (amplified)
sheen supreme- supremely confident, Honeylust (matte), Vegas Volt (amplified)

The purples-red:

L to R: Pro Longwear lipcream- Goes and Goes, Rebel (satin), Pro longwear lipcream-prolong, *Depotted* New York Apple (Frost)

Swatches:
L to R: Pro Longwear lipcream- Goes and Goes, Rebel (satin), Pro longwear lipcream-prolong, *Depotted* New York Apple (Frost)
Honourable mentions:
-Goes and Goes had become my go-to halloween lippy!
-For a while I wasnt keen on the satin formulation of Rebel but recently I've made it work for my by patting it into my lips and is one of my current faves- great winter berry shade
-Prolong is just an amazing red. I know its my only real red but I feel like its the only one I need, Its the perfect blue-toned red and the pro longwear formula means its amazingly longlasting-just what you want from a bold red.
-Poor little melted New York Apple. Love the name of this lipstick and this was my first Mac lipstick, so although I never wear it I am sentimentally attached to it!

So those were my Lipsticks! As you can see I'm pretty fond of my bold colours, I love wearing them on nights out! I never really buy neutrals from Mac because they kind of bore me and I feel like I should take advantage of some of the unique bolder shades Mac has to offer if im going to treat myself to one.
If you havn't already guessed it, Amplified is my favourite finish. The amplified lipsticks are the most pigmented of them all and the colour range is gorgeously bold & right up my street, with a really nice creamy longlasting finish.
I have three of the pro-longwear lipcreams and am really impressed with them. If the colour range of these were better I would have loads.
Another one of my absolute favourites was the limited edition Innocence, Beware! (from the venemous villains collection) which I recently finished/lost the last bit of in a club. It was a creamsheen finish and was a really flattering nude. Please re-promote it Mac!

What about you, Do you have any of these shades?
And What are your favourite Mac Lipsticks?

Rachy xxx

A few recent FOTN's

Hello bloggers :) Seeing as the weather in England is rubbish as usual and by the time I get in to take photos all lighting has gone, I thought I'd sift through a few of my recent photos from nights out and show you some of the makeup looks I have worn out recently.
There were an alarming number of photos (I think I need to stay in a bit more) and none of these were intended to be blog-posy so with a bit of carefull selecting/cropping drunken friends out I have scrambled together a few of looks, forgive any silly faces! You'll also notice alot of smokey eyes, I felt like it :)

In all of these pictures I am wearing Estee Lauder double wear foundation in shell, Rimmel lash accelorator mascara and Illamasqua brow cake in thunder on my brows.(thought I'd get that bit out of the way).
This first look is probably the most simple one. I'm wearing Mac Satin taupe e/s with Sketch in the crease and Nylon on the brow bone. Mac dark diversion fluidline and YSL waterproof eye pencil in plum in the lower lash line. On the lips I have Mac Dervish lip pencil and sheen supreme lipstick in supremely confident.

Heres a cheeky snap of me from haloween doing my friends makeup. I made my skin as pale as possible with white powder and used all kinds of grey eyeshadows for spooky contouring. The hint of red you can see on the lid is Urban decay Last call And on my lips I have Mac pro longwear lip cream in Goes and goes.

In this look I have on Bare Minerals loose eyeshadow in nude beach (if you can see a hint of glitter on the lid-thats it) and a grey inglot eyeshadow in the crease. On my lips is Mac Girl about town. The lace dress Im wearing I actually bought from Tesco's recently for £20 and I love it!
On my eyes in this look I have the Teal shade from Nars' Misfit eyeshadow duo with a matte black from a Sleek palette to smoke it out. On the cheeks I had Bourois Delice de soleil bronzer and Natural collection peach melba blush. Again on the lips I have Dervish and supremely confident.

For this look I felt like playing with lashes so I wore the Eyelure Naturalites Intense. The eyeshadow I used was from my new Too faced sweet dreams palette- the shade Cop a teal (an amazing eyeshadow! ) with smoulder in the crease. On my cheeks I had Tarte Amazonian Clay blush in Blissful (not that you can see it) and the lipstick is Mac Pro longwear lip cream in Overtime.
The final look! I used the Wet n wild trio in Im getting sunburned (the lid and crease shades). I have on the same bourjois bronzer and Mac MSF in soft and gentle. Thought I'd stick a couple of gems on my face as well ;)

So there you go, thats a few of my looks from recent nights out..hope this wasn't too long-winded for you! Let me know which look you like best :)
Rachy xxx

FOTD using Stila Natural eyes palette

Hello everyone hope you are well. Todays FOTD was done using the Stila natural eyes eyeshadow palette (it also seems to be known as 'in the light' on the internet). In the palette there are 10 gorgeous neutrals going from light to smokier shades and a full sized smudgestick waterproof eyeliner in damsel.

This is also the makeup look that I wore to my boyfriends graduation yesterday so the palette is perfect for creating subtle occasion looks as well as every day and evening looks..a very versatile palette.
Without further ado, here is a picture of the palette followed by my FOTD pictures:

L to R: Bare, Kitten, bliss, sunset, sandstone, champagne, gilded gold, luster, night sky, ebony and smudges tick waterproof eyeliner in damsel.

From the palette I used bare (browbone), kitten (lid), bliss & sandstone (crease & outer v) and the damsel eyeliner smudged along the upper and lower lash lines.

Overall this is a lovely palette, great for travelling. I also think it would make a really nice Christmas gift for any makeup lover. You can buy it from feel unique:
http://www.feelunique.com/p/Stila-In-the-Light-Eye-Shadow-Palette?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=gen

What else I used in this look:
Eyes: Collection 2000 lasting perfection concealer- 1 fair, Illamasqua brow cake-thunder, Too faced shadow insurance, eyeshadows shown, Rimmel lash accelerator mascara, Clinique bottom lash mascara.

Face: Bourjois healthy mix serum gel foundation- 51 light vanilla, Bourjois delice de soleil bronzer, Tarte amazonian clay blush- blissful, Mac msf- soft & gentle.

Lips: Smashbox lipgloss- radiant.

And for those of you who are interested I've done a tutorial for this look on my youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opzc4O8Whzc

Rachy xx

Current favourite Lip & Eye combos

Hello everybody! First of all I have a big fat apology to make.... You may have noticed that I have been MIA for quite a while now and the only excuse I can give is that since I've come back to university for my 3rd year I have really been working my arse off and trying so hard that I just got into a bit of a non-blogging cycle :(
I'm back now, and I can't promise that my posts will be as regular as they used to be, but I definately have a few good ones in mind so watch this space.

With that out of the way, it's time to show you my current FAVOURITE eye and lip combosthese are things that I have discovered look lovely layered over eachother and actually take very little effort with a pretty result.
Here's the look:

On the lips I am wearing MAC Dervish lip pencil all over the lip topped with MAC sheen supreme lipstick in supremely confident.

And on the eyes I am wearing Topshop silky cream shadow in Glint covered in MAC sable eyeshadow.
L to R: Mac sable, Topshop Glint, Mac supremely confident, Mac Dervish.

The thing I love most about this look is that it really is minimum effort. You literally layer the products over eachother and it looks like you've spent real effort doing your makeup.

Also, before I discovered this lip combo I was really stuggling to find a way to use the supremely confident lipstick because it is just too pale alone, but over a pinky/neautral lip liner like dervish I think it looks amazing and makes my lips look really plumped.

What else I have used:
Eyes: Collection 2000 lasting perfection concealer, Illamasqua brow cake-thunder, Mac Nylon e/s (browbone), 17 liquid liner, Rimmel soft kohl-black, Rimmel Lash accelerator mascara.

Face: same concealer, Mac matchmaster foundation-1.0, Bourjois delice de soleil bronzer, 17 peach melba blush, Mac MSF-soft and gentle.

Lips: combo shown.

Thanks for reading!
Hope you havn't forgotten me!
Rachy xxx

Lisa Eldridge inspired 'Metallic smoky eye'

If you follow beauty youtube gurus, or are interested in the world of beauty at all I'm sure you are familiar with Lisa Eldridge. I was checking my Youtube subscriptions the other day and I was intrigued to see Lisa's 'metallic smokey eyes-dramatic runway version' video. In the video she used mainly a matte black eyeshadow and Mac copper sparkle pigment, which I have. So when I went out shopping and came back with Sleek's 'molten metal duo' I noticed that it would go great with the look and decided to give it a go.
Lisa's version was a runway edition so obviously I toned mine down a little but the similarities are still there.
I am sooo happy with the end result! I wore it on a night out and I felt like I was wearing a superhero mask!
So here's the look I created, followed by a list of the products I used:

And the two most important ingredients in this look were the Sleek Molten Metal duo (£6.99) and Mac 'copper sparkle' pigment (£15.50-but I'm sure there would be a cheaper Barry M dupe):

I absolutely love how the look turned out and it felt like a really nice change to wear bold metallic colours on a night out. I also think it would be really nice as a new years look.
So thankyou Lisa Eldridge for the inspiration!

Products used:
Face: Collection 2000 lasting perfection concealer-mix of 1 & 2, Mac matchmaster foundagtion-1.0, Maybelline dream matte powder- 02 rose ivory, Bourjois delice de soleil bronzer-12 light/medium, Mac cream blush-something special, Jemma kidd dewy glow-02 rose gold

Eyes:Illamasqua brow cake-thunder, Elf eyelid primer, Mac-nylon(brow highlight), Mac blue my mind trio(the black-any matte black will do), Sleek molten metal eyeshadow duo (lighter gold-inner corner, darker gold-patted on centre of lid), Mac copper sparkle pigment (patted on top of the gold), Mac smoulder eye kohl(waterline), Rimmel lash accelorator mascara, Clinique bottom lash mascara.

Lips: Mac lipliner- dervish, Mac lipstick-innocence, beware!

And here is Lisa Eldridges video which my look was based on:

If you've been wondering where I've been I can only appologise and say it has been a mixure of lack of inspiration and moving into my new uni house/settling back in. To help me get back into my blogging mojo I would really appreciate any requests.
Rachy xxx

Girly makeover time: meet this Bright Young Twin

Me and my gorgeous friend Aimee, one half of the vintage blog 'Bright Young Twins' have been having a lot of fun drinking tea and talking makeup in the last couple of days, and Aimee was brave enough to let me do her makeup a couple of times ;)
Aimee has a very specific vintage look already so when picking colours and looks for her I stuck with what I thought would compliment her style. Aimee is the queen of red lips so I kept that in mind and tried out a slightly different plummy/purple shade on her lips.
You'll notice that these pictures are much better quality than my usual photos, this is because we used Aimee's fancy camera..and I am now convinced I NEED one.
Here's my favourites look that I created on Aimee that she then went and wore to her swing dance class (CUTE!):

...Isn't she stunning!
The best part about doing Aimee's makeup is that she has amazing cheekbones to work with!

The products used:

Face: Mac Fix+, Collection 2000 lasting perfection concealer-1 fair, Mac studio sculpt foundation-NC15, Bourjois Delice de soleil bronzer-12 light/medium, e.l.f studio blush- blushing rose, Jemma Kidd dewy glow radiance cream-rose gold.

Eyes: e.l.f primer, Mac eyeshadows: shroom(lid), satin taupe(crease & lower lash line), sketch (outer v), nylon (highlight browbone & inner corner), e.l.f cream eyeliner- plum purple, Rimmel lash accelorator mascara, Clinique bottom lash mascara

Lips: Mac lipliner- beet, Mac lipstick-Rebel.

I'm sure Aimee will pop up again on my blog, but in the meantime make sure you check out her blog with her best friend Harriet, they are the cutest together!

Rachy xxx

Sleek pout paints- Mauve it over & Milkshake

This post is long overdue! I bought my first pout paint in the shade Milkshake 2 or 3 weeks ago and was so impressed, but only yesterday did I get round to picking up another, in the shade Mauve it over. I am absolutely in love with both of these shades and would go as far as to say they are my new favourite lip colours and products.

The Sleek pout paints are amazing value for what they are, they are 4 or 5 pound each and are on a 3 for 2 offer in Superdrug at the moment, so take advantage while you still can!
In each pout paint you get 8ml of product, but you only need the smallest amount to cover your lips, so I am sure each pout paint will last me FOREVER!

So without further delay, here are my 2 pout paints:

Mauve it over, Milkshake.

Mauve it over:

One thing I noticed about 'Mauve it over' is that strangely it really brings out the green in my eyes.

and Milkshake:

I love both shades equally (hmm ok maybe I love mauve it over a fraction more). Although 'milkshake' is quite a neon milky pink, it is obviously the more wearable of the 2 shades, so for those of you who are a little scared of the bolder shades 'Milkshake' would be a great choice.

The pout paints are a really interesting product, being neither a lipstick or lipgloss I really would describe it as a paint for your lips. They are amazingly pigmented and surprisingly moisturising on the lips, but I have also found that if you pat the product into your lips with a finger, it turns into a lovely matte finish.
What I love the most about the Pout paints is the range of colours. There are some really unique bold colours (mauve it over for example) and I am definatly a lover of bold lips.
So overall I am really impressed with the pout paints and I am excited to get a little collection going!

Have any of you tried the pout paints? What is your favourite shade?
Rachy xxx