The Makeup Anarchist

Anyone that knows me, understands that I don’t go to sleep until around 8 AM… and on days I go anywhere that closes early, I basically go wayyyyy too long without sleep… Well yesterday my fiance and I went to the nearest MAC and Sephora, which is over an hour away.  I was dying to get my hands on the four new Starflash colors from the Love That Look collection, as well as pick up the new MAKE UP FOREVER HD concealer and the Pure Pigments.

We were sleepy, and that’s a long drive only to find that your Sephora doesn’t have their shipment in… I knew I should have called. But I did pick up the Iridescent Fuschia Star Powder, which is indescribable and the camera doesn’t do it justice.  Before you ask why I don’t order things online, I refuse to waste that much money on something that I haven’t seen in person, but I’ve been dying for a good red and the Pure Pigments come in a rainbow of colors… literally.  Maybe next trip… but here’s a swatch of the star powder I did pick up:

MAKE UP FOR EVER STAR POWDER 951

Huh… just played with the captions… don’t know if I like that yet…

Anyway, on to the MAC eyeshadows.  I had seen some swatches online (like 2) and wasn’t sure if I’d like them. Let me tell you, they’re so much prettier in person.  I picked up Fashion Groupie, Rated R, Strike a Pose, and One Off.  I looked at the Rave and Fly-By-Blu liners, and wasn’t really impressed, the blue was nice, but I’m not a blue liner kind of person. I really wish the Rave had been prettier.  The other eyeshadows were nice, but I’m a sucker for color, if I were to have gotten any others though, I kind of didn’t hate Style Snob or Fashion. Speaking of, the lady actually grabbed Fashion instead of Fashion Groupie… simple mistake (although not the color I wanted to buy)… I don’t know why they’d have two colors named so similarly anyway. I’m glad I caught it before I left. Here’s the best swatches I could get on camera… but seriously, go check them out in person before you make a final decision.

MAC Love That Look Swatches

So, I truly love all I got yesterday.  The colors are awesome, the MAC shadows are nice and creamy kind of feeling, and not to mention metallic kind of finish (which I love).. My Star Powder looks like it glows it’s so bright… so I’m really happy.  I wish I could have gotten the MUFE pigments I wanted as well as tried out the concealer… but that just gives me a reason to go there again…

Other things that happened that day, went to fix my fiance’s brother’s wife’s computer that morning, hit up the bookstore for some Starbucks, got a pink lemonade smoothie from them that they completely messed up my name on.. by the way, my new nickname is Chevy, as deemed by the barista at Barnes and Noble… if they’re gonna write what they want for my name, I’d rather not have them ask me what it is… it’s kind of pointless.  And finished off the day purchasing a new Toshiba netbook and some accessories.  It’s adorable… it should be pink… but since the fiance was the one that actually wanted it, it’s not pink… not until I buy some paint anyway.

If I can get some better pictures later, I’ll redo the swatch images… I need to get a palette for my MAC shadows, I also want to press some pigments… that’s on my to do list for this month… I’m debating getting a real MAC Palette or ordering a larger one on Ebay… I supposed I could DIY a palette… we’ll see…