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Blooming gorgeous for spring
If you need a fresh new look, regardless of how fresh you feel, MAC has something to offer

MAC released their new spring collection this month and spring flowers seem to be the inspiration, with names like ‘Petal pusher’, ‘blossoming’ and ‘flowerosophy’ describing some of their soft bright colours.

You’ll find soft lilac, blue and orange eyeshadow powders all with the subtlest touch of frost. There are two new blushcreams with pearl and colours that are fresh, subtle and spring like. The new lipcolours represent a feeling of intense yet delicate colour with low level or more obvious frost. I call some of these colours the ‘new 70s and 80s colours, and they look great on younger faces. If you are a normal mortal or just a bit more on the mature side and don’t feel like blue and yellow for your eye-make-up or red pearly lips, MAC has lots of other gorgeous looks to choose from. Lovely browns, taupes and golds teamed with a healthy complexion and neutral lip tones, as the face charts show.

A colour that is very in at moment. Yellow gold looks good on most faces. Team it with neutral blush and lipstick.

Another gold look, this one of a warmer orangey hue. MAC have a good selection of golds at their store in Nicosia.

MAC’s new concepts for spring
SKIN THING

For this look, one needs to make glowing yet natural looking skin the main feature. Make up is fresh but barely there. Foundation should be used very minimally and concealer used on blemishes and under eyes to achieve a flawless yet unmade up finish and blended well into the skin so it looks like a second skin. Eyes are simple and minimal with mascara and a little brown pencil or shadow to enhance and balance the face. Rouge is soft and glowy, using MAC’s new blushers, and should resemble the natural flush one gets after a vigorous walk in the crisp cool air of the great outdoors.

SO SUPER

A more diva-ish look for glamourpusses and vamps at heart. Lashes are enhanced, concentrating on making outer lashes longer. Soft grey brown shadow can be applied to shape and contour eye in an elongated almond shape. Black pencil applied from middle of upper lid and drawn thicker towards and on outer lid and extended beyond to a point completes this eye make up.

Cheeks need more of a contoured shape, achieved with soft matt ever so slightly darker than skin tone colours and blended well to avoid harsh or obvious lines. Lips can be muted warm brown/taupe and warm mauve tones.

INTELLIGENT BRONZING

The new way to look bronzed is not the overbaked, orangey, Carribean holiday tan of old. “Suntans have become too cheap, too footballers wives and Paris Hilton – skin wants to be more taupe-y than tanned now,” quotes make up artist Chalotte Tilbury in MAC’s fashion show looks catalogue. Make up artist Lucia Pieroni, who creates the catwalk make up looks for many of the world’s uberdesigners explains that instead of bronzer, deeper coloured stick foundations are applied to areas of the face which are traditionally dusted with bronzing powders, which subtly suggests warmth instead of screaming “autobronzant” or “fake bronze” colour product. “They give skin a health rather than too much colour,” she adds.

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