Follow the Light

Well, once you've gone over the cliff, the second time is a breeze....

After emphatically declaring to Princess S. on Saturday that nothing caught my fancy in the Cindy Sherman (snicker, snicker) collection, especially all the hyped colors, along comes an email from MAC on Monday offering free second day so of course I succumbed.

Isn't she lovely?

I think Lightscapade is just divine and truly delivers on all it's hype.

I tossed it on my cheeks and just sighed with delight over it's creamy highlighting loveliness.

There is Something About MAC....

There is just something about MAC that  makes me happy, and here are some of the lovelies that have joined the collection.

Princess A. spent forever trying to teach me how to do a winged liner and even with her instructional card I remain hopeless, but I do adore the Blacktrack and the 266 brush for my feeble attempts.

I can not sing the praises of the Soft Ochre paintpot. Why did I wait so long? It is just a perfectly neutral canvas whether I wear it on it's own or as a base. Do not even get me started on Genuine Treasure...I have never worn the same eye look 3 days in a row until this little pot of yumminess came home with me.

 Powersurge is the perfect bronzey liner that I was searching for and the Smoked Ruby MES sends be boomeranging around the moon, I love it so...

 I kinda really like how much Sunbasque makes me feel all bronze cheeked and beachy it really is a lovely cheek.

CB 96  rescued me from ponying up 32.00 for a Dior lipstick that B. used with her Mitzah eye creation.

And finally, I wanted a red lip, I was scolded by Princess S. for not having a red lip, I finally have a red lip.

I adore Eden Rouge from the color, to the texture, to everything about how it looks on me...Kiss Me Quick (aside from the too cute name) is the perfect liner to wear with Eden Rouge.

There really is just something about MAC, they're always there when I am looking for a little something and I just adore all the girls at my counter...

Oh So Sleekly Summer

This summer was lovely beyond belief with both of these palettes...

I absolutely adore the Monaco palette for the lovely bright colors that somehow are also subdued, like a lush shady garden.

The Oh So Special palette is beautifully neutral yet somehow a bit more, hence the name?
I love the Santorini blush it is just perfect in that bright summer way.

Cats & Sprees & Dior....Oh My!

I was so happy to see B. at Sephora on Saturday and beyond excited to get the Mitzah palette. It is amazing but not nearly as amazing as the look B. created with the shadows and the new Mint eyeliner.

I absolutely adored the look and the green on the waterline just sent the whole shebang over the moon. 

She also of course layered multiple lipcolors and once again MAC delivered...

CB96 layered with my Dior Nude lipstick created the same feel that B. concocted. I also had to get the Buxom liner in Blue Jade which the exact color I have been questing forever and a day for....

There seems to be a cat theme running thru my collection...

MAC Leopard Luxe, Bare Escentuals Pussycat Eyes, Dior Mitzah

Jack & Katie

Toujours Dior....

Well how about a lovely Dior spree or two to end the summer...

I went by to see the girls and simply had to have the Pink in Love blush, finally a truly pigmented and lovely blush from Dior! I also chose the Lifting Grey quint which to me is the ultimate ladylike eye. There was an event going on so I also received a Dior box which has the most adorable little removable velvet jewelry pouch She also threw in a mini Diorkiss lipstick as well as the Diorshow Maximizer. 

On Friday J. called to say that the 3 colors had finally arrived so Saturday I voyaged back over and got the Smoky Khaki which is just lovely and I am in love with the sliding popping case.  She also said the were discontinuing the duo's so I finally picked up the Tropical Look duo as I have been wanting it forever and a day. I also was questing for a lipstick to finish this monochromatic look that I am trying to create and Mauve Mirza is the perfect shade. Then J. lost her mind and said do you want this? How about this? And I ended up with a Rose Diamond powder as well a Rosy Nude quint both brand new and untouched till I gouged my fingers into both of them and the shadows more than once, oopsies! Here how about some stickers too?

Swoon...

Then of course it was time for some arts and crafts for my new swag.

Finally the monochromatic look...MAC's Smoked Ruby, Lancome's Rouge Glow. and the lovely Dior Mauve  Mirza. 

Perfection..