MAC Cult of Cherry Review and hey, long time no post...

Wow...I am so sorry for the loooooong delay in posts here. August has been crazy with Otakon, a min-vacation, and some other crazy odds and ends...but I am back and should be posting once-bi-weekly again. YAY!!!

Anyhoo....at least I come back with a RAVE review for MAC's first line for Autumn 2008. Cult of Cherry:





Cult of Cherry is a collection of deep burgundy, gorgeous browns, a really scary shade of lime green, and cherry reds which wet my lips as soon as I saw the promos for it. Nothing says fall like deep shades of brown and red.

Shades of Lust:
My former inner goth child and 16 year old self fell immediately in love with the Mattene lipsticks in Kirsh (blackened cranberry) and Bing (Blackened Eggplant). I did return Bing because it was a bit too purple on me, but I ADORE Kirsh. I already own Russian Red lipstick, so I opted out of purchasing it.

Jampacked (sheer grape) lipglass looks great on it's own or over any of the really dark shades of lip colors that are available in this collection. I also picked up Cult of Cherry (Clean red) lipglass. It is a really flattering shade of red that when placed over Russian Red, makes a very sexy red lip. I like to wear CoC alone for glossy, cherry stained lips.

I only bought one of the eye quads. Spiced Chocolate is the most beautiful shades of brown, burgundy, cream, and rust I have ever seen. The other 2 quads available had shades I already own or, scared me (I am looking at the green shade in the Tempting Quad here)

Anyhoo, on to the Face of the Week:

I was inspired by the Cherry Blossom look from the CoC faces MAC had on the site. I recreated the eye look seen there.




Eyes: MAC Spiced Chocolate Eye Quad

Highlight: Nanogold
Lid and lower eye: Sweet Chestnut
Contour: Spiced Chocolate




Cheeks: MAC Mineralize Blush in Gleeful

Lips: MAC Mattene Lipstick in Kirsh
MAC Lipglass in Jampacked

So..did you haul any MAC Cult of Cherry

Tell me what you think.

<3
~MC

MC'S Face of the Week: MAC Neo Sci Fi and MAC Solar Field

Life has been a world wind of beach, work, and preparing for Otakon, so I apologize for the lack of articles. Rest assure though, I have a few that I will be pumping out in the next week. ^_^

This Face of the Week came from a comment I left on the lovely Muse's blog combining colors from MAC's Neo Sci fi collection and MAC's Solar Field Solar Bits Pigments collection. I already mentioned that I am a sucker for a good smoky eye and this is currently my favorite smoky eye to rock for the summer. It's not to heavy and yes, I do wear this during the day into the night. MAC's Black Ore Solar Bits have a gorgeous golden sheen in it which makes this very wearable in the daytime.

Anyhoo..on to the pictures. ^_^



Close up on my eye.



Full face. Excuse me for looking tired and blah. It is hot as hell where I'm at and I was "glowing" (sweating) lol. My hair is also pulled back because it's hot out. :(

Colors and Products used:

Eyes
Highlight: MAC Solarbits in Scatterays
Contour, partial lid, and lower liner: MAC Solarbits in Black Ore
Inner Corner: MAC Neo Sci Fi eyeshadow in Expensive Pink (I order everyone reading this to go out and get that eyeshadow color NOW!!! It is by far the most versatile eyeshadow color you will ever own.)
Mascara: Dior Diorshow Blackout Mascara (review will follow for my quest for the perfect mascara)

Cheeks:
Pout Cheek to Cheek Cream Color in Coral Nymph and Bronze Siren (Sadly, Pout does not make cosmetics anymore. :()

Lips:
MAC Cremestick Lipliner in Beurre
MAC Neo Sci Fi Lipstick in Sci Fi Delity
MAC Neo Sci Fi Lipglass in Soft and Slow

And because I am such a show off, here is my new haircut/style for the rest of summer:



Well? Tell me what you think.

Do you have your MAC on?

Thumbs up?

Thumbs down?

^_^

~MC <3