Beauty | MAC illustrated by Rebecca Moses Brown Face Kit Swatches and Review

Hello beauties, I hope you're doing well. As usual I keep promising myself that I make sure I post as much and as frequent as I can to make that archive look more attractive! But sadly my uni life gets in the way. But I know next time I'm gonna post, I will be saying the same thing . Lol. 
Today I thought I would share you with some pictures of the new make up kit by MAC Illustrated by Rebecca Moses which I got sent from my sister from Hong Kong :D.  

First of all, I love this limited edition packaging. The packaging was created by fashion designer Rebecca Moses exclusively for MAC. The official black packaging is replaced with white background with sketches of gorgeous eyes, lips and black swirls. The product is adorned with the same design as is on the open ended cardboard sleeve that covers the product. Both the cardboard cover and the product has a beautiful, soft texture and feels so luxurious to handle. 

Just lifting up the lid and looking at the shades inside I was really amazed how all the different colours in the palette were so pretty as if they're complimenting each other. I think the kit is literally a neutral lovers heaven! with collective palette of each prettier than the next. 

So what's inside this kit?

A peachy blush that I gathered is a  MAC Melba which adds a beautiful sheen to your cheeks. Next up we have four bronze/neutral hued eye shadows. Those who have read my past posts, may not be surprised to know that the brown eye shadow in this kit is my favorite. The palette also comes with duo brush and a mirror which is always perfect on the go as well as two Mac lipsticks protected under the plastic flap. 

Mac Melba blush: The peachy blush described by Mac as a 'soft, coral peach' which I think agree with that. Even though personally not being a big fan of blushes, I think this shade suits most skin complexion. It is matte and I think it goes well with most make up looks as the shade is neutral and not too vibrant and noticeable. 

Eye Shadows

The four eye shadows are a perfect combination of matte and shimmer, light and dark. The only eye shadow that I currently use in this palette is the brown which is Smoked Sepia. I'm not a big fan of glitter and shimmer that much as I like my eye make up to be smokey and matt. Even though I don't personally use every other eye shadow, to those who are into these colours/texture, I want to tell you that they blend so effortlessly on the skin and also with each other. Either a ''natural day look'' or ''deepen it up and go dramatic for a night out'', there is obviously a valid reason for these combination to live inside the same palette home. 

This shadow is called Orb and has a matt texture even though it is described as ''soft, peachy satin''. The shadow has the tiniest amount of glitter that it hardly transfers to the skin so I would not describe it having the satin finish. I think I might be using this shadow as a highlighter for my brows sometimes lol.

All that glitters is described as ''beige with gold pearl'' has a goldy shimmer/satin finish look. The two pictures are taken in different lighting. This shadow has become the most hit for many girls but as I am not a fan of glitter at all, this one turns out to be my least favorite in this palette. 

Next up, we have Smoked Sepia which as mentioned earlier is my favorite. It is described as ''rich brown'' and is definitely how it looks and how I would like. Brown eye shadow is something I apply on to my eye lids to achieve that smokey but neutral eyes for everyday look. It is my all time favorite eye colour. Yes I mentioned favorite again.

Described by Mac as 'dark brown', last but not least is the Show Stopper that looks like the darkest shade in brown spectrum.

Lips wear

Last but not least in the palette, the kit comes with two gorgeous MAC lipsticks named Ravishing (top) and Myth (bottom). I love the little plastic flap that is there to protect the lipsticks from getting any fall outs of the powder.

Duo Brush

This gorgeous palette also comes with a duo brush - One end you have 275 SE angled brush which is perfect for applying the shadows over the eyelids. On the other end is the 316 SE brush which is a lip brush. Both the brushes are just amazing, with soft texture and blends the shadows and lipsticks really well. 

So there you are, my review of MAC Illustrated by Rebecca Moses Brown Face Kit, that I been planning to post for ages. Tell me what you think of this gorgeous palette, any yay or nay that you particularly have? And usual thank you for reading my post :) 

Beauty | Nude Brown / Brown Lip liner Swatches

When it comes to brown and nude lips, thats me right there! lol. I just love lipstick/lip liners that can help you achieve that nude brown lips that I want. In fact generally speaking, I love most brown make ups - my pretty much everyday eye look I wear is eyeliner with brown eye shadow (Bourjois Extrait 08). 

I love how lips with nude brown colour looks so simple and elegant as if when you look at it, it conveys that the make up is still there but still leaves you with 'Oh so simple, but such a beautiful make up' on your mind. I love how it's not excessively noticeable like any other vibrant colours such as red as a common. It's just the fact that nude brown lips makes you have that natural look that it almost give people dilemma of you not wearing any lips make up and you can have that 'natural look' as if you nearly inherited.

I currently own few brown lip liner that I want to share with you guys. If you're the lover of brown lips like me and you haven't purchased them before, you'll have a rough idea of how they look. They are:

• Max Factor 14 Brown n Nude
• Max Factor 16 Brown n bold
• Rimmel London 046 Ultimate
• Maybelline New York Eyeliner Matic Brown-Sepia
• SEVENTEEN 17 Mocha

Do note that most of the colours in the swatches sort of tend to look similar. From reddish brown to dark brown. 

Max Factor Color Elixir 14 Brown n Nude

Max Factor Color Elixir 16 Brown n bold

Rimmel London 046 Ultimate

Maybelline New York Eyeliner Matic Brown-Sepia

Yes you may have noticed from the name that this is an eyeliner. It doesn't really matter if you put on your lips though. Doesn't affect you. I loved the colour that this particular eyeliner had for the type of brown lips I wanted to obtain. 

17 Mocha

All the lip liners were purchased on different timings. I don't use the lip liners just to draw the outline of my lips. I literally use them as a proper lipsticks too. They are too pretty to use them for just the out-linings hehe.  Before I start drawing the outlines with my lip pencil, I first apply my lip balm on the lips for the drawing to be smooth and fine. Then I start filling in my lips and I love how with the help of a lip balm, it is so easy to apply the lip liners just like a lipstick without worrying about the lips drying out. Most colour swatches in here look sort of the same or close enough.


Now if you are like me, I have a problem with colours of lipsticks / lip liners not being able to look on my lips how they actual look when you swatch on your hand skin when testing the colour. This is because I naturally have pink lips so when I put them on, the colours do not look the same as it blends with my natural pink lips. Sometimes I try putting concealers on the lips first as the base and put the lipstick later which will help me achieve the 'right' colour on my lips. Sometimes this doesn't work as the concealers really dry my lips out badly which doesn't look very nice. So I have kind of stuck with no choice but accept with the 'blended' lipstick/lip liner colour on my lips. If you have any ideas or techniques you want to share with to help me achieve the best 'true' colour as possible please do leave comments, you're most welcome too : ) <3

Where can you get them?

Max Factor Color Elixir
- Brown n nude
- Bold and brown

http://www.boots.com/en/Max-Factor-Color-Elixir-Lip-Liner_1228319/

Rimmel London 046 Ultimate
http://www.superdrug.com/rimmel-london/rimmel-exaggerate-lipliner-ultimate-46/invt/698860

Maybelline New York Eyeliner Matic Brown-Sepia
http://remakeup.co.uk/eyeliner/23601-maybelline-eye-liner-matic-brown-sepia.html

SEVENTEEN 17 Mocha
Sorry guys I tried my best to find a link where you could buy this one but can't seem to find it. Not even on ebay! I bought this one in boots but even boots website seems to run out of this one. Bad luck :(
However, if you want to check out other SEVENTEEN products here's the boots UK link.
http://www.boots.com/en/17/?cm_mmc=bmm-_-google-_-Boots+Beauty-_-Seventeen+Makeup+-+Phrase

Thank you for reading beauties : D