Collection Remix: Naughty Nauticals

This collection from May 2008 was inspired by colors traditionally worn by sailors with a resort twist. Most of the eyeshadows and quads focused on cool eyes with a glint of gold. While most people were fawning over Bell Bottom Blue and Mutiny pigments all of my attention was on Port Red.

Collection Remix

If you could do a MAC collection over again, which one would it be and what would you change? With all of the collections that are coming out one after another it can be hard to say, but I think that there are certain collections that just jump out at you.

Personally I can think of several collections that I would want to do over again and for different reasons. Some of them I just think would have been more exciting if I knew what I know now at the time of the release. Others, I was just really excited for but they turned out to be completely disappointing. Then there are others that are parts of anniversary collections and I would take elements from the different releases.

I think that once a month I will do a post featuring a "collection remix" which is not only a chance to shop my stash, but also to take a new twist on the different collections.

Ring the Alarm: It's Hourglass Siren

I just got my hands on the famous Hourglass Siren. I have never seen a lip gloss like this. I knew I had to have it when I saw it on Temptalia and even though I was first a little iffy because of the price, when I put it on I knew it was worth every penny.





This gloss is really opaque (I'm not wearing a lip liner or anything)! This is a very yellow based red, which I love. As you can tell this red has much more of a metallic sheen to it whereas Cult of Cherry gloss is more of a pearly red (in my last FOTD). I can't wait to try this over Port Red!

Got the Blues Again

So today I was going out to dinner with my friends so I decided to do something fun. I think this also saves me from the Peacocky collection! :)

New Year's Eve FOTN

Well I hope you all have a wonderful New Year's Eve. I'm getting ready to head out, but I wanted to get these photos up before I went. I decided to go with a classic pinup style eye and red lips. I went with my go to red lip combo:
Cherry lip liner
Port Red lipstick
Cult of Cherry lipgloss





You can tell that Zorro is just thrilled to be ringing in 2011.

After Christmas Collections and Dupes

I am back from my mini vacation. Today I went down to check out the after Christmas collections and something really struck me. This really seems like the Riveting Collection cut in two. The mix of the metals, frosts, and pop of bright colors is what did it for me (although Riveting did have more matte colors). But onto the collections.

Cham-Pale

Very Important Plaitnum (left) and Soiree (right)

Revlon Steel-Her Heart (left) and Revlon Silver Screen (right)

I expected to like nothing from this collection and I was almost dead on except for falling in love with the nail polishes. I found that Soiree reminded me of a shiny gold version of Studded (silver from Riveting). I also liked Very Important Platinum, but it reminds me too much of Revlon's Steel-Her Heart and Silver Screen which also have very poor drying times. I guess it's just something about metallic polishes.
I also decided to pick up Feline eye kohl as I need a new black pencil and everyone raves about this one.

The Highlight Powders were way too glittery with too little pay off. The paint pots are nothing new under the sun as there are some shadesticks in those colors.

Stylishly Yours


I was also looking to avoid a lot from this collection. I only was interested in the paint pots and that's all I got. I tried the Beauty Powders, but they were very boring. I find that if I need subtle shimmer, I will stick to other products like the magically cool powder. I got Dark Diversion (bottom) and swatched it next to Macroviolet (top).

I'm 'bout to run away

As the semester is almost over, I will be on a bit of hiatus soon. I will have one more post before checking out for a bit. In the meantime, if you like electric music, then enjoy this music video. It quite accurately summarizes how I feel with finals looming: energetic and ready to run away.