Swatch Watch: MAC Pigment Collection

You guys loved the MAC eyeshadow swatches, so I thought I'd swatch my pigments for you too!

So here we go, brace yourself for a photo overload...

Please be aware that some of these are limited edition, and most of them are in the old packaging.

First up is:

Your Ladyship (Antiquitease Collection LE) - creamy white with a gold pearl

Quick Frost (Rush Metal LE) - creamy white with soft green pearl

Naked (Permanent) - fleshy beige with pearl (matte)

Melon (Permanent) - soft light golden peach

From left to right: Your Ladyship, Quick Frost, Naked and Melon

Swatches:

Next up:

Blonde's Gold (Permanent) - light tan with gold and white pearl

Jigs & Jive (LE from the Smoky Thrillseekers Pigment/Glitter set) - naked taupe

Vintage Gold (Overrich Collection) - tarnished gold with green pearl

Old Gold (Permanent) - high frosted tarnished gold

From left to right: Blonde's Gold, Jigs & Jive, Vintage Gold and Old Gold

Swatches:

Kelly Green (Permanent) - granny smith apple green infused with small pearl particles

Teal (Permanent) - medium blue/green with pearl

Golden Olive (Permanent) - high frosted green/gold

Mutiny (Naughty Nauticals Collection LE) - sky blue with gold pearlized pigments

From left to right: Kelly Green, Teal, Golden Olive and Mutiny

Swatches:

Next: 

Rose (Permanent) - rose with copper sparkle

Violet (Permanent) - vivid bright violet purple

Mauvement (Overrich Collection LE) - cool taupe with gold pearl

Blue Brown (Permanent) - brown with blue/green pearl

From left to right: Rose, Violet, Mauvement and Blue Brown

Swatches:

Lastly,

Accent Red sample (Rockocco Collection LE) - red deep magenta with red and yellow pearl and purple/blue reflection

Smoke Signal (Smoke Signals Collection LE) - deep maroon (matte)

Silver Fog sample (Permanent) - platinum silver

Dark Soul (Permanent) - charcoal black smoked with gold

Black Ore Solar Bits (Solar Field Collection LE) - rich black with gold pearlized pigments

From left to right: Accent Red, Smoke Signal, Silver Fog, Dark Soul and Black Ore

Swatches:

And that's all the pigments I have collected so far! I've got a few more I'd like to get at some stage, but I'm trying to refrain myself hahaha

Thanks for viewing!

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My June Favourites!

First day of July! (Here in NZ anyway!) I can’t believe how fast this year is going!
Here are my favourite products from the month of June:

• MAC Pigment in Violet
  
  
• Ben Nye Neutral Set
  
   
• Designer Brands Lipstick in Lilac Mist
  
   
• Neutrogena Rapid Clear Spot Gel
  
  

What were your favourite products in June?
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The Latest MAC Additions To My Kit

With it being ball season here in NZ, I’m trying to stock up on eyeshadows and pigments (what a great excuse!), and to be completely honest with you MAC is basically the best you can get when it comes to eye makeup, atleast in New Zealand it is anyway. I’m so jealous of all you people who have access to Make Up For Ever and Urban Decay and all those other amazing brands!!

Anyway, onto what I got:

 
Top Row, L – R: Bio Green (Pro), Steamy (can be seen in my FOTD here), Greensmoke, Red Brick (Pro), Handwritten.
Middle row, L – R: Beautiful Iris, Creme De Violet, Woodwinked, Honey Lust and Goldmine
Bottom Row, L – R: Ricepaper and the yet to be depotted Carbon.

And the pigments:

Top Row: Mutiny (Rose Romance collection) and Kelly Green (Pro)
Bottom Row: Golden Olive, Violet (can be seen in my FOTD here)

My wallet is hurting right now. Lol :P
If you wanna see swatches of everything, let me know! Thanks for viewing!

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M.A.C Pigments – swatches and a review!

Well I’m still sick :(
This is going to be a big post.. with quite a few pictures.. So I hope you enjoy it!

Pigments are highly concentrated loose coloured powders that contain ingredients to help them ‘stick’ to the skin.

They are multipurpose products that can be used in a variety of different ways.
Most commonly they are applied wet or dry as eyeshadows but can be mixed with a mixing medium and applied as a liquid liner or coloured mascara, mixed with lipmix or any lip gloss/balm and applied to the lips, can be applied dry to the cheeks as a blush/highlighter, mixed with strobe cream and applied to the cheeks as a cream blush, mixed with clear nail polish to create new nail colours and the list goes on! 

Pigments are what initially got me interested in MAC, they come in these huge 7.5g jars and are PACKED full of product. The colour is so intense and a little goes a long way. I am a HUGE fan of pigments, they are on the expensive side, but considering that they contain so much product, they are great value for money.

Onto the colours:
Smoke Signal

   
Smoke Signal pigment is a very deep plum burgundy colour. It is a matte pigment which I think is pretty cool. Matte colours are a little harder to use than shimmers though, so keep that in mind before purchasing them. It was released as part of the Smoke Signals Collection in 2007 and is LE, so might be hard to find.

Your Ladyship

Your Ladyship Pigment is a gorgeous creamy white colour with a gold pearl. I only recently bought this off Trademe for $30, it’s a LE colour that was released in the Antiquitease collection in 2007. I’ve used it as a highlight colour on my brow bone almost every single day since I bought it. It is sooooo pretty. If you can find this anywhere, get it.

Swatches, L-R:Smoke Signal and Your Ladyship (hasn’t shown up too well)
 
Melon

Melon is one of my favourite pigments. It is a stunning bright golden peach colour. Looks gorgeous on the eyes, amazing on the cheeks and beautiful on the lips! Suits almost everyone and it’s permanent so it’s not hard to find! :P

Blonde’s Gold

I bought Blonde’s Gold when it was released with the Overrich Collection last year. It’s a MAC Pro colour and is described as a light tan with a white and gold pearl. I really like it and think it’s a great neutral colour to have.

Swatches, L-R: Melon, Blondes Gold

Old Gold

  
This was the first ever pigment I ever bought! I LOVE Old Gold. It is by far my favourite. It is an iridescent gold with green reflects. It is such an amazing colour, you have to see it in person to fully appreciate it. Layered overtop of a black base it goes this brilliant emerald green colour, so gorgeous!

Vintage Gold

 
This is also from the Overrich collection but is a MAC Pro colour. Vintage gold is a tarnished green with a gold pearl. It is soooo pretty. The texture is so smooth and luxurious and it applies like a dream. Really flattering colour on brown eyes.

Swatches, L-R: Old Gold, Vintage Gold

Blue Brown

Blue brown is such a neat colour. I’ve found that if you pack on the pigment when applying this to your eyelids, you get a true representation of the colour, if you use it more sheerly the red really shows through. Applied over a dark base, the blue really shines through and looks gorgeous! You can achieve a lot of different looks with this. It’s a permanent colour so it’s easy to get a hold of which is always a bonus.

Mauvement

Mauvement is this really gorgeous taupe kinda colour with a gold pearl in it. It has a chunky texture which a few people don’t like.. but I think it’s easy to use once you get the hang of how to apply it. It’s a really nice shimmery colour and was also released with the Overrich Collection last year. I think it might be LE, but I’m not sure.

Swatches, L-R: Blue Brown, Mauvement

 
Rose

Rose too is one of the ‘chunky’ pigments, but it’s one of my favourites. It is a rose colour with coppery-gold sparkle and is sooo gorgeous as a lip colour and blush. I also love it on my eyes with melon over top. I think I heard that it’s not safe for the eye area? If that’s the case, it may not be a good idea to use it on your eyes.

Swatch:

I also have three pigment samples of Accent Red, Silver Fog and Dark Soul, if you’d like to see a review of those let me know!

Thanks for viewing!
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FOTD: Smokey eye!

Smokey eyes and nude lips! (The token porn star look, Lol)
I even curled my hair a little. Needed to try out my new rollers. xD
Anyway, time for the close ups?

  Gosh. I am so terrible at taking close up pics. Oh well.
Onto what I used!

Face:

• MAC Face and Body Foundation in ‘C2’
• Revlon Age Defying Powder in ‘Sand Beige’
• Ben Nye Concealer Palette
• MAC Hello Kitty Blush in ‘Tippy’
• Estee Lauder Brilliant Shimmer All Over Powder in ‘04 After Hours’

Eyes:

• MAC Paintpot in ‘Painterly’
• MAC Eyeshadow in ‘Knight Devine’ all over lid.
• 120 Palette – Shimmery Black on the outer corner and in the crease as well as underneath the eye
• MAC ‘Your Ladyship’ pigment as the highlight
• Shiseido Liquid liner
• Avon Ultra Luxury Eyeliner in ‘Black’

Lips:

• MAC Lipstick in ‘Fleshpot’
• Revlon lip gloss in ‘010 Shine City’

Hope you like it!

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Mixing pigments!

Hey all, you may have noticed that I've changed my layout! I had to do that because the 'pyzam' ad along the top of my blog was starting to annoy me. xD

Anyway, this is just a quick post!
I've been playing around with my mac pigments and decided that I would mix a few of them together to see what colours I could come up with!


From left to right:

• Accent Red mixed with Your Ladyship
• Melon mixed with Rose
  
• Dark Soul mixed with Old Gold

How cool are they?! I especially love the last one!

What colours have you come up with before??
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Kryolan Eye Dusts – Haul and Review!

Recently I purchased three Kryolan Eye Dusts off Shrinkle on Ebay, and I am LOVING them!

For $7 USD ($14 for us NZ folk) you get a huge 3 grams of pigment! That is insanely good value for money, and in my opinion Kryolan is one of the greatest professional makeup lines out there.

Here are the three colours I purchased:

Robins Egg Blue Eye Dust

This is my least favourite out of the three I bought. It’s a gorgeous turquoise blue colour, but I haven’t really played around with it much yet. The colour pay off doesn’t seem as good as the other two and is also a little harder to apply if you’re using it dry.

Pink Sunset Eye Dust

I LOVE this colour. It’s a gorgeous blue toned pink duo chrome that turns a stunning purple when applied over a black base. I love playing around with this colour, it’s just too cool! Would definitely recommend this to everyone.

Colour-changing Jade Eye Dust

This amazing eye dust changes colour with friction!! Can you believe that? It’s sooo awesome! It starts out a very yellow green (as you see in the picture above) and then the more you rub it with your brush or finger, the greener it becomes! You could come up with so many different looks with just this ONE eye dust, it’s great! If you do not already own this, then hurry along to Shrinkle and get your own, this is a must have item!

With all of these eye dusts I highly recommend applying them over top of a base, so they have something to stick to. In my swatches below, I did NOT use a base and I applied them dry. You can imagine how intense they’d be applied over a base and/or wet!

From L-R: Robins Egg Blue, Pink Sunset, Colour Changing Jade Before friction, and then After friction.

I will definitely be buying some more colours once I get some more money, and be sure to keep an eye on my blog for upcoming looks I’ll be doing using these!

To get your own, head over to Shrinkle! Some eye dusts are available at Minifies in New Zealand and also on Trademe, but to the best of my knowledge they do not stock the colours I got.

Thank you for viewing my blog, I hope you enjoyed this haul and review!

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