FOTD:- Featuring Mac Marilyn monroe legendary and pure zen and swatches

 I never could have imagined that the mac marilyn monroe collection could be so successful.
But ofcourse I wanted my share of the collection,  unfortunately it was very late before I managed to get to my local Mac counter at my local Debenhams store. And most of the items (that I wanted, anyway) had sold out, boo hoo. but thats another story, because i'd already put in an order for the Lipstick in 'pure zen' and the blush in 'legendary' from selfridges and these are definitely two of my most worn items from the whole collection.

on my face 

Mac pro longwear foundation 'nc30'

Mac pro longwear concealer 'nc30'

Clininque double face powder 'beige'

Mac Blush 'legendary'

On my eyes

Ysl smoky eyeshadow collecter palette (white, silver, black glitter)

Mac fluidline 'blacktrack'

Mac lash primer

Mac mascara 'opulash'

Benefit brows a gogo 

On my lips 

Mac l/s 'pure zen'

Both legendary and pure zen work together in perfect harmony to create a very peachy nude look, and look equally amazing with a nude eye look or a dramatic smokey look, I have kept my look quite light and easily wearable for everyday.

Pure zen is a repromote from a previous collection and so has the only name throughout the collection that has nothing to do with the life of Marilyn Monroe. My personal thoughts for the reason for this is that the pure zen lipstick is such a similar shade to the blush as you can see in the swatches above. 

Mac Marilyn monroe pure zen lipstick swatched on the lips.

I have purchased all of the lipsticks and the two blushes as I feel that this is all that i need from the collection, I did not want to go too mad.

What did you get/miss from this collection?

Raspcherry 

XOXO

FOTD:- A Mac Pro LongWear look

This is a very quick and simple daytime look that is based on mainly Mac pro longwear 

products and featuring the new new Mac office hours pro longwear Blush in blush all day !

On My Face 

Mac Pro Longwear foundation nc30

Mac Pro longwear concealer nc30

Clinique Double face powder 'beige'

Mac Pro longwear blush 'blush all day'

Eyes

Mac pro longwear eyeshadow in 'sweet satisfaction'

Mac fluidline in 'blacktrack' on upper and lower lashline 

Mac mascara

Lips

Gale hayman liplift 

Mac pro longwear lipcreme in 'overtime'

Mac pro longwear eyeshadow in 'sweet satisfaction'

I already had the pro longwear eyeshadow in sweet satisfaction from when it was first launched it and fell in love with it instantly, its a very neutral eyeshadow and its somewhere in between mac all that glitters and mac satin taupe, both of which i own and love and now I love this more. its very smooth and pigmented in fact I like to apply this with my finger onto my eyelid and I have already made a dip into this eyeshadow which is rare for me. 

Mac Pro longwear Blush in 'Blush all day' 

Again, I instantly fell in love with this blush in the same way as i fell in love with the eyeshadow, its a very neutral colour that is a tad peachy, which is very complimentary on my golden beige/nc30 skin tone, so this was a must have for me. I also loved the theme of the mac office hours collection-The story of my life, stationary and cosmetics! if you opened my work drawers amongst snacks you would find a combination of all the stationary you could need as well as all the makeup you could want. 

Infact even at home I often find stationary items creep into my makeup area and my beauty items on my desk -lol!

Mac pro longwear lipstick in 'overtime' 

again I picked this up with the original pro longwear lipcremes, for me this was the best option, its a ery light pink, and is very pigmented and great for covering up pigmented lips like mine. I dont think that these lipsticks should cost more that the normal lipsticks though theyre not that special! this lipstick is like the pink sister of mac 'myth' lipstick. I dont like the packaging of these lipsticks if you bring the lipstick up you have ti push it back down with your finger which is uber-annoying! and its the same story for both shades that I own from this range, the other lipstick is 'good to go' a very orange lipstick that ive already featured in my holiday makeup bag post. 

Most items available from Debenhams,  House of Fraser, 

I hope you enjoyed this post

thanx for stopping by. 

Raspcherry

XOXO

Whats in my Travel makeup bag

Although I would'nt quite call it a holiday,  but we went on an out of town, overnight stay, kind of day out, thingy-ma-bob during the kids school holidays just a good chance for me to get out after the accident and relax a little. 

So I thought it would be a good opportunity for me to share a whats in my travel makeup bag kind of post with you all :) 

For the most part I took my everyday items, as well as my prep and prime products since I want to look good in any holiday pictures, and most o all my most trust worthy and easy to travel items.

Here you can see (almost) all of the cosmetic things I took with me (as stated above the blush seems to have walked off for the family makeup picture)

The Skincare items were kept sweet and simple 

Estee lauder Perfectly clean face wash cleanser 

Dior Capture totale eye serum/ cream

Clinique all about eyes eye serum roll on 

Supergoop SPF30 Everyday moisturiser and sunblock in one 

(I was sent a super tiny sample of this and loved it so much I went out and bought more supergoop products!)

I also took my GHD's because we have a love connection ;)

ohh and LCN nail polish that either I got in my Glossy box or Jolie box.

EYE MAKEUP

Cargo essential eyeshadow palette 

(also works as an eyebrow palette so I left benefit brows a gogo at home) 

Benefit eyeshadow in Leggy and Brandy from Benefit Celebutante

Eyeko skinny eyeliners in emerald green and midnight blue in case I want to add a pop of colour to my eye looks as i'm carrying neutral eyeshadows

Eyeko skinny liquid eyeliner in black

Eyeko skinny brush Mascara 

Mac prep and prime lash primer 

Mac black track fluidline gel liner 

and mini Mac 209 liner brush

Mac eyebrow pencil in spike 

FACE AND CHEEK 

Benefit Hoola Bronzer for contouring (depotted from a benefit blush palette)

Benefit Dandelion as a light subtle baby pink blush/ highlighter (depotted from a benefit blush palette)

Benefit Dallas blush that I love (depotted from the Celebutante kit)

Benefit eyeshadows leggy (nude) Dandy Brandy (brown) from the benefit Celebutante kit 

YSL Blush Variation in Coriandre 

Mac studio sculpt concealer depotted into a mac sample jar 

my holiday was near the time of eid and I was loving orange which I think is clearly reflected

in my choice of lip and cheek colours 

 I think YSL Coriandre blush is a gorgeous near dupe of Nars Taj mahal blush 

but in more convenient and prettier packaging. 

FACE AND COMPLEXION MAKEUP

Mac prep and Prime Vibrancy Eye 

Mac prep and prime face primer -original 

Mac prep and prime face primer spf50

Mac Studio sculpt concealer in NC30

Mac studio sculpt foundation in NC30

Mac Mineralize skinfinish natural in medium and highliter duo

Mac studio fix powder in NC35 I bought this a shade up for extra colour 

LIPS

Lancome (shimmery pink) lipgloss

Revlon just bitten kissable lip stain in rendezvous 

Mac pro longwear lip creme in good to go

Mac slimshine in missy 

MAKEUP BRUSHES

I decided to take my Royal and Langnickel Silk pro brush kit 

It also has extra brushes that I bought individually in addition to the brushes that came in the set 

as well as a Jemma kidd flat foundation brush 

Smashbox eyeliner brush

Smashbox brow brush 

and mac 208, 209 and 210 eyeliner brushes

Cosmetic items bought from Boots, Debenhams, MAC, Benefit, 

I hope you found this post interesting 

Have you traveled recently? What did you take with you? 

What are you loving right now? Do you have any of these items? 

Raspcherry 

XOXO

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Birthday Haul (pic heavy)

MY HUGE COLLECTIVE BIRTHDAY HAUL

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Bobbo brown Gel liners

Benefit Brows a gogo and confessions of a concealeaholic

Clinique ltd ed summer 2010 palette

Nars ltd ed lipgloss set

Ltd ed gift from Lancome bag designed exclusively for Lancome

Frederick Fekkai ltd ed hair kit for Coloured hair also good for dry/damaged hair

Ltd ed Soleil tan de Chanel Bronzer base and liquid illuminator

Spring summer 2010 ltd ed lipgloss by YSL

Summer 2010 ltd ed bikini peach lipgloss by chanel

My regular purchase Chanel lipgloss aqualumiere

Dior Nude compact,

Dior Beige lipstick (regular purchase)

Diors new lace beige lipgloss just launched

Bobbi brown concealer kit in warm beige (regular purchase)

Bobbi brown stick foundation warm beige for palette

Bobbi brown gel liner black and brown (regular purchase)

Bobbi brown gel liners -blue, purple, green

Bobbi brown creamy lip colour -newest fave and repurchase in baby

Mac Brush mini set

Mac trip dazzleglass set

Mac eye set

all ltd ed from CCO

YSL ltd ed collectors kit in YSL case

Faux cils mascara

Touche eclat -regular purchase

and lisse expert -purchased seperately -regular purchase

Lancome ltd ed Genefique beauty set in case

(individual products are regular purchases)

Lancome ltd ed Hypnose drama set

Lancome cleansing oil

HUGE Lancome haul

Serum, moisturiser, foundation, concealer, eyebase,

Eyeshadow, Blush, Eye palette,

Lipstick, lipgloss, juicy shimmer lipbalm

Nail lacquer

(the infamous £300 lancome haul I tweeted about lolz)

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Clinique lipstick collection and swatches

Soo many people have huge MAC lipstick collections

I seem to have collected Clinique lipsticks and I did'nt even know it!

1-All Heart

2-A Different Grape

3-Brownberry Matte

4-Creamy Nude

5-Water Violet

6-Vintage Wine

7-Precious Pink

8-Pink Beach

9-Pink Whisper

10-Dreamy Pink

11-Sweet Mocha

12-Red Drama

13-Blushing Coral

14-Nude Splurge

15-Just Raisin

16-Glazed Rose

17-Raspcherry Glace

18-Bamboo Pink

19-Ruby Glass

20-Delovely (my fave fave fave ever)

21-Blushing Nude

22-Tender Heart

23-Soft Bloom

Do you have any clinique lipsticks?