Makeup Look using MAC Illustrated Rebecca Moses Plum Face Palette and Review

Hello glamour girls!!

As you may have noticed, I changed the layout to my blog, which I mentioned yesterday. I want to assure you that it is just a physical change, I'll still be writing about makeup. I wanted the "look" of my blog to better represent me so I worked hard on changing the style of it and making sure it was up to par. But I still want to know your opinion. Do you like this better or do you prefer the old layout? Thanks for your time.

So for today's look I finally tried out my MAC Illustrated Rebecca Moses Face Palette in Plum. Honestly, I loved everything about it except for the lipstick. I used the red lipstick, Syrup, for this look and it literally turned my whole look into a vampy sort of look. It went from daytime appropriate to night time lady. So I just want to say that if you changed the lipstick, this would make a wonderful day time look. The eyes are soft and totally work appropriate. It's just the lipstick. I wanted to use everything in this palette to you show you, so I kept the dark lipstick. I paired it with MAC Lip Pencil in Soar. This lip pencil is the perfect color to go along with the lipstick, they are really similar in color. Since I'm super pale, obviously it looks crazy on me. But on a medium-dark skin tone, this lipstick would be beautiful. The other lipstick color in this palette is Blankety, which is a nude color. That's the only thing I haven't tried yet in this palette.

The eyeshadows are spectacular. I liked all the colors in it and I really can't say I dislike any of them. Yogurt is a matte light pink and it the only permanent eyeshadow. It makes a good highlight. Plum Reduction is a satin but it isn't shimmery at all, more matte. It is a medium purple with some brown brown in it. It's a good blending color. Romance Me is a lustre and has the most shimmer. It is also a purpley brown, but it is browner than Plum Reduction. Heather Belles is a satin and it is a dark black. It's great for lining the eyes.

Mocha is a powder blush and it is available in the permanent collection. Mocha is a plum-pink color. Personally, I like the color of the blush. It reminds me of other cool pink blushes that I have and this is definitely a color that complements my skintone.

Read on to the end to see if I would recommend this palette or not.




Makeup Look using MAC Illustrated Rebecca Moses Plum Face Palette

Start by priming your eyes with Too Faced Shadow Insurance. Then apply MAC Yogurt from the MAC Illustrated palette with a medium or large shadow brush (Sephora PRO Large Shadow Brush) to the entire eye area, from lid to the brow. Then apply MAC Plum Reduction to the crease with a blending brush (MAC 217). Then go over it with MAC Romance Me and, using a pencil brush or a smokey eye brush (Sephora PRO Smokey Eye Brush) and draw in the line of your crease. Then blend out the color. Go back in with Plum Reduction and a blending brush and blend the two colors together. If you have to, reapply Yogurt under the brow and on the lid. Using an angled liner brush (Sephora PRO Angled Liner Brush) and MAC Heather Belles, line the top eyelid in a cat-eye fashion. You want to extend the cat-eye until slightly past the crease. Line the top waterline with MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved. For the bottom lid, line the outer portion of it with MAC Romance Me. Use a smokey eye brush to apply it so that it is smudged looking. Then apply a mascara like Benefit Bad Gal Lash. The last step is the eyebrows, fill them in with Benefit Instant Brow Pencil. The eyes are done, let's finish the rest of the look.

Start by priming your entire face with Too Faced Primed and Poreless. Conceal your under-eye circles with MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer and by using a concealer brush (Sephora PRO Concealer Brush). Then apply MUFE HD Foundation to your entire face using a stippling brush (Sephora PRO Stippling Brush) for an airbrushed looking finish. If there is any redness or blemishes still showing, apply MAC Studio Finish Concealer onto the blemishes using your fingers. Then set the concealer and foundation with MUFE HD Powder and a kabuki brush (MUFE HD Kabuki Brush) using patting motions. Now, contour your face using Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless and a contour or powder brush squished to make a line (Sephora Collection Powder Brush) and suck in your cheeks (make a duck face) and follow the line as a guide. Contour from the middle of the ear to the edge of the upper lip. Also contour the temples, chin, and perimeter of the face. Then apply MAC Mocha from the Illustrated Palette to you cheeks, blending outward, using an angled blush brush (Sephora PRO Angled Blush Brush). Now, it's time to do the lips. Line your lips with MAC Lip Pencil in Soar and lightly fill in the lips. Take a lip brush (Sephora Collection Lip Brush) and MAC Syrup from the Illustrated palette and apply it to your lips. The look is now complete!

Eyes:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance
MAC Illustrated Plum Face Palette

• Yogurt
• Plum Reduction
• Romance Me
• Heather Belles

MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved
Benefit Bad Gal Lash Mascara

Brows

Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium

Face:

Too Faced Primed and Poreless
MAC Select Cover-Up Concealer in NW20
MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW20
MUFE HD Foundation in 110
MAC Illustrated Powder Blush in Mocha
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Lips:

MAC Lip Pencil in Soar
MAC Illustrated Lipstick in Syrup

Products Used:

MAC Illustrated Rebecca Moses Plum Face Palette - 54$CAD

MAC Illustrated Rebecca Moses Plum Face Palette:
Powder Blush: Mocha
Eyeshadows: Yogurt, Plum Reduction, Romance Me, Heather Belles
Lipsticks: Blankety, Syrup
Dual Ended Brush: 275SE/316SE

MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved - 19$CAD

Benefit Bad Gal Lash Mascara - 12$CAD for mini, 26$CAD for fullsize

Benefit Instant Brow Pencil in Medium - 25$CAD

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless - 38$CAD

MAC Lip Pencil in Soar - 18$CAD

MAC Illustrated Rebecca Moses Face Palette in Plum
Swatches from left to right:
MAC Eyeshadow in Yogurt (barely visible)
MAC Eyeshadow in Plum Reduction
MAC Eyeshadow in Romance Me
MAC Eyeshadow in Heather Belles
MAC Powder Blush in Mocha
MAC Lipstick in Syrup
MAC Lipstick in Blankety

Swatches from left to right:
MAC Powerpoint Eye Pencil in Engraved
Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless
MAC Lip Pencil in Soar

Thanks for reading and I hope you liked the tutorial and review! I personally really liked most of the palette. The only thing I would change is the lipsticks. I would include one lighter shade and one medium shade instead of the two medium shades. It would be more versatile and it would appeal to a bigger customer base. I thought the eyeshadows were great and that the colors really complemented each other quite well. You can go from a soft classic look like mine to a heavier darker look, like a smokey eye. The quality was also good. The blush was a lovely color and and complemented me nicely. I didn't use the brush that was included in the set, I used my own brushes. The palette itself is housed in a nice little compact with a mirror. It is travel size so you can bring it with you for touch ups. For the price, I don't think you can go wrong with this palette. I would recommend this to a friend.

What are your thoughts on this palette? Did you like the palette? Did this look inspire you to want to get the palette? If there was one thing you could change in the palette, what would it be and what would you replace it with? Did you like the look I did?

Thanks again for reading and I have a few more new product review and tutorial in ones, like NARS Fairy's Kiss, etc. I also have a french manicure post coming too.

Steph xo.

Another MAC Haul (and NARS)

Hey my preciouses!!

It's time for another MAC Haul!! I went to MAC today with the intension of building my makeup kit, specifically to check out concealers and foundations so that I can start doing some serious freelance work. If you need to get your makeup done for an event and you live in the Montreal and surrounding area, please contact me! My email is on my Contact Page, or you can just leave me a comment here, or find me on my facebook page. Makeup has always been a passion of mine and I want to share my knowledge with others and make them feel beautiful about themselves by enhancing their natural attributes with makeup.

So I went to MAC and they didn't have the concealer palettes I wanted :(  I wanted to try the Light one first, on myself, to see if I liked it before I picked up all 4. I also have a good idea, based off Dusty O Hunter's MAC foundation palette. I'm thinking of buying a minimum of 6 and possible up to 12 different shades of MAC Full Coverage Foundation, which is a cream, and buying a MAC Pro Palette with a 12 well insert. Full Coverage is a cream foundation, so it's excellent for putting into a palette. I will also buy a White shade so I can mix the in-between shades that I do not buy. Now, I know something like this is ambitious and ridiculously expensive. Obviously I won't be able to buy all these in one day. But every month, I can buy one foundation and within a year or less I will have my foundation palette. To get the foundation in the well nicely, you'll have to scrape out the cream and put it in either a small metal pot, or a microwave safe dish, whichever method you like. With the foundation in the small pot, heat it over the stove. You don't want to "cook" or burn the foundation, you want it to be just melted. Then you will pour it into one well. For the microwave safe dish, put some foundation in it and then put it in the microwave. Make sure to constantly check on it so you do not burn it. When it has all been melted, pour it into one well. You now have your own custom made MAC foundation palette.

Honestly, maybe I should just buy the Bobbi Brown BBU Palette. If you haven't seen it in my most recent Shopping List post, it is a double palette with foundations on one side and concealer and correctors on the other. It's about 250$US. Which is a lot cheaper than making my own foundation palette with 12 foundations. We haven't even factored in the 100$ that it costs for the 4 MAC Concealer palettes!!

I'd love to know where you guys get your foundation and concealer palettes. I'd like to get something from a reputable brand. I like putting a lot of money into one good product instead of wasting more over time buying shitty products that don't work half as good.

So onto the actual Haul portion of this post....


Another MAC Haul (and NARS)

MAC Lipsticks

Sheen Supreme Lipstick in Royal Azalea

This is a lovely blue based pink. It is creamy, but not too creamy like some other Sheen Supreme Lipsticks. I love the color and the texture of this one.

Cremesheen Lipstick in Pink Pearl Pop

This is a nice yellow based pink lipstick. It looks almost as if there could be peach undertones as well. It's different than the usual round of pink lipsticks I have, which is why I chose this one. I had swatched it on my hand and I fell in love with it.

Retro Matte Lipstick in Ruby Woo

For a long while now I've been needing to buy that classic ultimate red lipstick. I think every girl should have a red lipstick in her stash. I prefer a matte lipstick because you have 2 options to wear it. You can wear it matte as it comes, or you can put a clear gloss on top to make it glossy. I really love the color of this lipstick. It's a blue-based red. If you're going to rock a red lipstick, you need a red liner, keep on reading to see which one I bought.

MAC Lip Pencils

Hip n Happy

I've been on the hunt for a while to find a light pink lip liner and I've finally found one! It's a great blue-based pink lip liner and it goes great with MAC lipsticks such as: Snob, Pink Nouveau, Mineralize Rich in Dreaminess, just to name a few. It's the only light pink lip liner that MAC carries. The rest are extremely darker shades compared to this.

Cherry

If you're going for a red lip, this is the perfect lip liner to pair it up with. It's a wonderful blue-based red but with a hint of pink, hence its name. This looks absolutely gorgeous with Ruby Woo lipstick. The pair will be featured in an upcoming tutorial and it is to die for.

MAC Illustrated Rebecca Moses Face Palette in Plum

Of all the current MAC Illustrated sets, this one called out to me the most. Though it's called plum, I see it more as a neutral palette. The brown one they had was just way too brown. The eyeshadows were brown, the blush was brown, and so were the lipsticks. With the plum palette, we see a little bit of variety. There are a few permanent colors in this, such as Yogurt eyeshadow. I'll talk about all the shades more in depth when I do a tutorial using this.

NARS

Fairy's Kiss Eyeshadow Palette

Every time NARS comes out with a palette, I want it. His palettes are absolutely gorgeous. This is my first NARS palette and I'm really excited to use it. I really liked this one for its practicality. You can either go with a very light, day-time look, or you can darken it up for a smokey night-time look. There is so much you can do with this palette and I loved the colors. A NARS palette hasn't screamed out to me quite as much as this one has, so I knew it was meant to be. There is one NARS palette that I've always wanted that I still want, even though it came out a few years ago. That's the Danmari blush palette. If you don't know what it is, google and tell me you don't love it. I can't wait to use my Fairy's Kiss palette and that too will be in an upcoming tutorial.

Thanks for reading and I hope you liked me sharing my MAC and NARS haul with you! I hope you enjoyed the post as well as my foundation palette ideas.

What kind of foundation palette (either bought or made) do you have in your makeup kit? 

What do you think of the lipstick colors I bought? What do you think of the lip pencils? Do you know of any brands that make lighter pink lip pencils?

And lastly, what do you think of the MAC Illustrated palette and the NARS Fairy's Kiss palette? Which MAC palette do you prefer out of the two and which NARS palette do you prefer out of the two, and why?

Again, hope you liked reading about the haul, and I will do makeup looks very soon using the products shown here and I will talk about the colors a bit more once I've had a chance to use them!

I'm not sure what my next post will be, it's either a purple sparkly smokey look or it's a fall look. Both are coming up anyway.

Steph xo.