Today I was able to get my hands on a few of the lip and face items from the mac N collection. If you dont know much about the N collection ….

Seductive and ripe for scandal. A color collection daringly stripped-down, voluptuously finished, with everything you could possibly need to play up the nakedness of your look. Think of it as naked - with coverage.

I didn’t bother with any of the eyeshadows, but I did pick up two lipsticks, N4 and N5, two lip glosses, N3 and N4, and a Mineralize Skinfinish in Warmed.

I think EVERY Chocolate skinned girl like myself should have the N4 lip gloss. It was personally my favorite thing out of the collection. Its always good to have a chocolate-ty lip gloss as a staple in your traincase. Think “Mary J Blidge” brown.  I’ve swatched it with some of the other sparkly brownish staples (and purple-ish Pop Mode) in my collection. Click for a larger picture.

Eww. Sorry for the sloppy lips. Anyway, I swatched N4 lipglass along with Sinnamon (lustreglass), everyone’s favorite Oh Baby, and Pop Mode. If Pop Mode wasn’t a purplish color and was more towards the brown it would be N4. Same texture and all.

As for the Mineralize Skinfinishes I was kinda disappointed with Warmed. I mean, it didn’t have as much glitter as Global Glow which in my book is a good thing, but the darn color didn’t show up well on my NC50 skin. Not even a glow. I think I may have to take a trip to MAC and see if the lighter shade works better. Sometimes light shades with sparkle vanning work well as highlighters. Glissade is one of my faves for highlighting my cheeks. This MSF doesn’t come close.

Why am I saying all of this? To get you ready for my “brown down” tutorial! It should be up by tomorrow!

Hello my lovelees! It feels great to be here, finally getting this site out to the public. If you don’t know me let me be the first to introduce myself. I’m Alyson but known to lots on the web as Allie. I own some other sites as well as this one.

And what is this alll about you might ask? Well this is my very own beauty blog. Make-up is my passion and being a beauty of color I wanted to make a site showing other beauties of color (and everyone else in between my dear!) how to wear make-up for special events and every day life.

Aside from make-up I also  dabble in a bit of hair being that I was (not any more.. though I plan to return by the end of this year or next) in beauty school and know quite a bit about African American hair styles and products.

This site is about 96% done. I still have a few bugs im working out so please be patient! I also have a contest coming out soon where you can win either a $50 M.A.C cosmetics online gift card or a $50 Cherry Couture online gift card. Stay tuned!