Man. I have never brought this much from one Mac Cosmetics collection before in my life. I have to say though, I had a personal bias to liking this collection from jump (not just because its MAC lol!). If you follow my regular blog you will see that I have a “thing” for the french artist fafi and her girly world of Faffinettes. When I found out that mac was going to do a collection I had to jump on the bandwagon.

For the most part I liked this whole collection. At first I didn’t think it would be WOC friendly, do to most of the promotional images looking kinda pastelly. A lot of pastels (in my opinion) look chalky on darker skinned woman. I was shocked when I actualy got to see the colors in person just how WOC friendly they actually were. This is one of those rare collection which blurs color lines. You tuber Fauryn78 shows just how WOC friendly the Fafi Eyes 1 pallet is in here tutorial HERE (sorry, embedding was disabled).

Here are some Swatches and comparisons of the lip products. Colors may not be true to life being I used the flash. They are as close as I could get them though. Sorry about that. Click for larger picture.

When I first saw the Fafi L/G “Totally It” I thought of the bright L/G “Love Rules” from the very limited “A-Mei” collection. They look similar in the package, but Totally It is brighter, richer, and the glitter is finner then the fat glitter chunks found in “Love Rules”.

 These are the 4 lipsticks I purchased, though I think im going in for “High Top” when I get some extra cash. Flash-N-Dash wasn’t that orange at all. The flash didn’t capture the true color of that shade at all. The only person that I knew who could rock a orange lipstick that bright and look good in it was my Grandmother (god rest her soul)! Fun N Sexy came out more purple on my skin then bright pink which I thought was beautiful. I love purples!

 When I opened up “Squeeze It” L/G I was sad. It looked JUST like 4N. Then, when I swached it next to 4N and other browns I saw the difference. You can’t judge something just by the packaging. You have to open it up and test it to see the  true color intended.

Maybe my own Fafi Tutorial? I’m thinking about it!

I was eating some skittles and looked on the packaging and noticed the beautiful colors. You know once I see some nice colors I’m out to go play in my make up!

What I used

Primers

1. Urban Decay Primer Potion
2. Eyes, Lips, Face cream shadow duo in Olive (only the green part)

Shadows

1. Mac - Bitter
2. Mac- Wondergrass
3. Mac- Smoking (from Smoke signals quad)
4. Mac- Rice Paper (as a highlight)
5. L’Oreal Hip duo- Riotous (only the green part)

Pigments

1. Mac - Fuschia Pigment

Extras

1. Mac- Blacktrack Fluidline (black eyeliner)
2. Mac- Glitter eyeliner in Wonderwhite
3. Mac- Softsparkle pencil liner in Peacocked
4. Mac- Glitter Reflects in Very Pink
5. Mac- Pro Longlash Mascara in Pitch Black

How It was done

First thing I did was clean up my eyebrows with my Babyliss personal hair groomer (mentioned in the last post). After my brows were looking less “wolf” like, I took my softsparkle pencil liner and dipped it in to the L’Oreal hip duo “Riotous” picking up a little bit of shadow with it. Starting from the inner corner of the bottom lid I lined the bottom of my eye. You can’t see it in the picture, but by dipping my pencil into the brighter and lighter green shadow I gave the line a small gradient of color starting from my inner corner outward. Next, I took my trusted friend, my Urban Decay Primer Potion, or UDPP as it’s more affectionately known as, and dotted some along my top lid, blending upwards to my brow bone. Next, I took my Eyes, Lips, Face, cream shadow in Olive (only the green part) and dotted that on my whole lid with my finger and blended upwards, making sure not to go up too high. I didn’t want it on my brow bone, only on my lid. It was used to brighten up the green parts of the eyeshadow that was placed on top of it. Then, I took the eyeshadow Bitter with a small eyeshadow brush (I think I used my Mac 275 brush) and packed it on to the middle of my eye, making sure to not blend too far upwards. I wanted the color to sit on my eyelid only. Next, I took the same brush and took Wondergrass and packed it on to my outer lid, making sure to blend with Bitter well. Next, I took my Fuschia pigment to the inside corner of my eye, making sure to blend well with Bitter. Next, I took my brush and a small amount of the Fuschia pigment and swept it up and over the crease of my eye. Then I took my 217 blending brush, lightly dipped it into Smoking and blended that on the outside corner of my eye for depth. I used rice paper under my brow for a brow highlight. Now for the fun stuff! I wanted to add a little more punch to this eye so I opted for my Very Pink glitter reflects and I took my finger and dabbed it onto the inside corner of my eye, about 1/3 over the Fuschia pigment. After that I took my 209 brush and some blacktrack fluidline and lined the top of my eye, then I took my glitter liner in Wonderwhite and lined it exactly over the black liner. I finished the look off with (a little too much) Pro Longlash mascara in Pitch Black.

We all want to look nice for the daytime but I know some of us don’t have the time. Or maybe you think you don’t have the time but in actuality you just aren’t using your time wisely. Here are some tips  you can use to help your morning make-up routine run smoother and you look as polished as possible. Read the rest of this entry »