Ok, Tiktok, you did it again, you sold me on this new MAC MACStack Mascara. As you know, last year KVD Good Apple Skin-Perfecting Hydrating Foundation Balm went viral on Tiktok and sold out quite quickly. At the time, I was a naysayer. I’m not one for balm foundations! I have plenty of experience with them and I know they are incredibly heavy, drying, and accent every single flaw on your face especially if you have drier skin. But none the less, everyone was raving it as the new must have foundation of the season.

I dodged a bullet.

I didn’t give into the hype and later on the really bad reviews starting pouring in and I may have been a really awful person and sat back and thought, “I told you so”! Please don’t judge me for that moment.

Now, Tiktok is back at it, and they are currently selling me on MAC Macstack Mascara.

Did I buy it?

I’m such a stupid ass. I brought it. I should know that buying MAC mascara anything is such a bad idea. MAC isn’t exactly known for great mascara formulas and I’m personally had zero success with them but Tiktok strikes again and here I am eagerly awaiting a mascara that’s been over-hyped to death which will I’m almost positive I’ll hate.

What’s so different and exciting about MACStack Mascara? It’s a contiounously building mascara that allows you to apply layer after layer after layer of the formula without causing it to clump up. Apparently the more layers you do the better the volume and length. It defies clumps and is clump-resistant no matter how many layers you do. Will it work? That’s to be determined as I stalk the UPS man and await my order.

Bets it sucks?

Bets it works?

Who’s in?

Tell me your thoughts on the new MAC MACStack Mascara.

Overhyped or is this the revolutionary mascara formula we all wanted but didn’t ask for?

Where to buy

Nordstrom Ulta Macy’s

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Guys! Let’s say screw this nude game we’ve been on! Why are we being so boring lately? Let’s embrace the color in our lives! I went ahead and purchased that MAC Botanic Panic Eyeshadow Palette and I have no regrets! It’s available now at macys.com!

There’s still so much Summer left so why not enjoy some pretty, vibrant shades. The dark Fall aesthetic will be setting in soon! Dark shadows, vampy lips, it all comes with the cooler weather! But for now I think I can really get on board with this blooming floral select of shades in pretty, vibrant tones.

Shades include:

• Keep on Twinkling: Light pink with pearl (Lustre)
• Jam Session: Cool purple (Frost)
• Magic Mushroom: Warm mid tone purple (VLXP)
• Aqua: Seafoam (Matte)
• Magnetic Field: Green gold (Matte)
• Royal Woo: Bright yellow (Matte)
• Picnic Panic: Lime green (VLXP)
• Surf USA: Turquoise blue green (Frost)
• Marigold Digger: Warm gold (Frost)
• Botanic Panic: Peachy red (Matte)
• Floral A Go Go: Coppery pink (Frost)
• All Thorns, No Rose: Orange (Matte)

It’s been forever and an age since I purchased a MAC Eyeshadow Palette but I decided to just dive in today!

MAC Botanic Panic Eyeshadow Palette is available now with free shipping!

Anyone haul it?

Where to buy

MAC

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As you know MAC Lustre Lipstick was discontinued and replaced with a new MAC Lustreglass Sheer-Shine Lipstick. I happen be the only person in the known makeup universe that liked the lustre finish. Oh my god nooooooooooooo! Really!? BUT WHYYYYYYYY!

No but seriously, I never had beef with Lustre Lipsticks. I thought they had a rather nice balm-y finish that felt rather nice on my drier lips.

The new Lustreglass Sheer-Shine Lipstick replaces that old formula and apparently it’s better than ever before and hey, maybe that means I can tempted you over to the dark side to try these out. I haven’t tried the new formula yet but I have some winging there way to me from Nordstrom.com that I ordered.

The new formula contains a ton of oils including jojoba, raspberry seed, virgin, and coconut. They also contain hyaluronic acid as well as shea butter. The new formula is lightweight with a shiny finish and a moisturizing consistency.

MAC launched these in twenty shades and they are $21 with free shipping at Nordstrom. I grabbed up the shades Business Casual and Flustered. I have a feeling I’m going to love these as much as I did the old formula.

Are you intrigued by the new MAC Lustreglass Sheer-Shine Lipstick?

Did you like the old Lustre Lipsticks?

MAC Lustreglass Sheer-Shine Lipstick are availble now!

Where to buy

Nordstrom

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Uber Eats and Estee Lauder partnered up to start delivering makeup and beauty to your door with same day delivery recently. I slammed the service on Instagram a few short weeks ago because I felt like it was ridiculous and in some ways I still do. Living in New York I pretty much have easy access to just about everything I need and it’s no great chore just going to the store to picking up what I need. I also have really great success with both Sephora and Ulta and getting my packages very quickly if I order online.

Estee Lauder recently announced that they would be partnering with Uber Eats to allow quick deliver of Jo Malone and Origins. Why they limited it to those brands is beyond me! Apparently during the soft launch that will be all they offer and if they see good results they’ll add more brands. Honestly? Jo Malone and Origins are the two brands I’d likely never need immediately. This feels destined to fail if that’s what they decide to test this market with.

Anyway, click, buy, and pickup curbside has become a standard way of living during the pandemic. Everyone from Lowes to Cheesecake Factory to Nordstrom has curbside available! But what if it’s late and you just don’t want to drive to pick up that item your inner makeup addict demands it needs to satisfy it’s need for instant gratification?

Yesterday, I got this intense need to pick up MAC Black Mirror Paint Pot after seeing someone on Tiktok use it as a base for black eyeshadow. People, when the hell have I done a smoky eye in the last year? Really now? But the makeup addict wants what the makeup wants! So, I headed onto Nordstrom.com clicked, purchased, and drove over to pick it up after work. I actually hauled a lot of the new Spring 2021 matte shades but Black Mirror just passed by my radar because I knew I’d rarely use it! But I felt compelled to do some sort of sultry eye look with it suddenly. This is one of those moments I’d probably totally do an Uber Eats for makeup! I sort of hate Nordy’s curbside as they say it’s ready and you head over but you’re idling in the car for a while before they bring it out and I’m one of those un-aggressive people that will patiently wait and not bother anyone to ask after the order.

Uber Eats would be quicker and easier!

So, yeah, maybe…maybe…I’d use Uber Eats to order up some makeup in the future.

Would you?

P.S. You need to go buy Black Mirror now so we can smear this all over our eyes to make ourselves look seggy!

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MAC Love Me Liquid Lipcolour is a new argan oil and shea butter infused creamy lip color with a satin finish that launched in 14 shades today at ulta.com and some shades are already sold out. Who even sees MAC Collection sell out anymore? I better get the shades I want before now. I really like Love Me Lipstick so I’m hoping this new liquid version is just as nice.

Apparently the wear for 12 hours but I sure hope it’s not a super dry experience. They do have a pretty exciting blend of hydrating ingredients like argan and coconut oil as well as carnauba and shea butter.

MAC’s promoting some sort of new ColourCling Technology that has an advanced polymer which will provide the lasting, 12 hour wear. They do come with a built in primer which allows them to remain in place while providing a smooth, seamless finish. They are full color, pigmented liquid lipsticks.

Shades include:

• Adore Me (rose)
• Bated Breath (rosy nude)
• Coffee & Cigs (grey brown)
• Defy Me (yellow red)
• E for Effortless (deep burgundy red)
• Feel Me? (greyed yellow nude)
• Hey Good Looking (bright fuchsia)
• Hey Frenchie (warm pink nude)
• It’s All Me (orange)
• Laissez-Faire (cool nude)
• Marrakesh Me (deep burnt orange)
• My Lips Are Insured (rose)
• Still Winning (Rosy Pink)
• What a Doll (midtown blue red)

Some small part of me wishes these had a shiny finish! They seem like a better Fall launch due to the deeper shades and the satin finish!

MAC Love Me Liquid Lipcolour are available now at Ulta.

Are you picking any up?

Where to buy

Ulta MAC

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MAC Love Me Liquid Lipcolour is on the horizon for a release shortly and is a new liquid lipstick infused with argan oil and shea butter. The creamy formula has a “powerful” satin finish according to MAC. Mmm they had me at creamy and moisturizing but lost me at satin. I’d love something shiny! As a fan of Love Me Lipstick I’m expecting great things from a liquid version of it! So, what are you serving me up MAC? Maybe surprise me with something that is creamy and maybe has a hint of shine even though you’re promoting a satin!

Here’s what I’m thinking MAC….something along the lines of NARS Lip Lacquer. All pigmented and shiny gorgeousness!

And listen, you really disappointed me with those Black Cherry Extra Dimension Blushes so you have to better this time as I’m losing faith over here.

MAC Love Me Liquid Lipcolour is coming soon and hopefully as brilliant as they sound!

What do you think?

Yay or nay on this launch?

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Squeee! The Kakao Friends X MAC Lipsticks are now available. I just grabbed both! As a Kakao Friends fan and a little kid at heart I totally needed these.

There are two shades (I’m sad so we didn’t get the whole collection) one is Thanks a Million which is a warm-toned red and Times Infinity which is a bright red orange! These are $21 each and available for a limited time.

Enjoy!

Where to buy

MAC

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MAC Black Cherry Extra Dimension Blush recently launched in three shades here in the US for Spring 2021 and I immediately had to have all of them! The promo images made these look like shades I’d totally love especially the shade Look, Don’t Touch! which is the shade I’m featuring in this review.

I’m probably in the minority here but I was so disappointed when these arrived. I was expecting luminous glowy blushes but they actually apply quite flat and almost matte. Also, the colors are misleading in promo images. Love, Don’t Touch! looks like a glistening golden apricot in pictures but it applies more like a cooler, sheer pink. I think I commonly associate shimmer with the MAC Extra Dimension Blush and the combination of that plus the shade offering in the Black Cherry Collection is what tempted me to grab all three colors but I have some regrets about that.

MAC Black Cherry Extra Dimension Blush is $31 and 0.14 oz. It comes packaged in a limited edition pink metallic case with a gorgeous cherry blossom face plate. This is seriously one of the very few MAC Collections that’s tempted me a while. The packaging, the colors, it all really spoke to me.

Look, Don’t Touch! is described as a soft coral apricot. It does have elements of apricot but not coral in my opinion! It has a bit of pink in the packaging and I think it applies very pink on my cheeks. The surface a hint of a sheen but it applies almost matte on my face and quite sheer. I was left wanting more shimmer, more glow, more luminosity after applying the color. It just fell flat on my cheeks and looked rather meh. You can actually see it has a nice soft sheen on my wrist swatch but that fails to appear after I apply it on my face.

The powder is fairly dense but has a very smooth consistency that was easy to pick up with my brush and it blended and applied very easily. It didn’t have a single bit of powdery kick up no matter how hard I swiped across it with my brush. Once applied it wore quite well without fading for a solid several hours and had a very smooth finish that didn’t adhere to drier areas on my face and cheeks.

This was just not what I was expecting for some reason. It might look nicer on a different skin tone than my own! It looked like a very sheer, dull pink on me. I wish it applied more apricot but it sadly did not. I think Extra Dimension Blush is a formula I commonly associate with a pretty glow and that’s likely one of the biggest faults I found with this shade (and the others from this collection). There’s no glow or pretty shimmer here!

Oh well!

Did anyone grab any of the MAC Black Cherry Blushes?

Did you like them?

Where to buy

Saks Ulta MAC

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Hurry over to ulta.com as the MAC Black Cherry Collection is back in stock! You may have heard me rant on Instagram about the MAC Black Cherry Blushes selling out in less than an hour the day before! Thankfully Ulta now has them available but hurry as who knows how long they’ll be around!

Enjoy!

Where to buy

Ulta

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MAC Paint Pot shades available for Spring 2021 in a variety of new shades for $23 each and will be part of MAC’s permanent collection! Interestingly enough these got an early launch at Ulta.com but are not yet available anywhere else including from MAC directly.

I do so wish they’d bring back MAC Paints. I didn’t think I’d miss them as much as I do but here I am several years after they have been discontinued yearning for them and thinking about the fact I never gave them enough love when I did own them.

I’ll make do with MAC Paint Pots though! There are some very nice shades available in this launch not to mention some are matte which makes them a great pick to use as a base.

New Shades:

• Current Affair
• Bougie
• Born To Beam
• Black Mirror
• Ultaviolet
• Silver Screen
• Currant Affair
• Brick-A-Brac
• Moss Definitely
• Babe In Charms
• Let’s Skate!
• Contemplative State
• Tailor Grey
• It’s Fabstract
• Princess Cut
• Peachy

The new MAC Paint Pots for Spring 2021 are available now!

Where to buy

Ulta

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One of the weirder items launching this year is the is the new, limited edition The Sims x MAC Cosmetics Eyeshadow Palette. You’re not doing so good here MAC! You already pissed me off with that Glitter Eyeshadow Palette launch and now this!

Ok, just to clarify I used to be obsessed with the Sims. I still am on some odd level as I do play from time to time but not sure I really need an entire eyeshadow palette inspired by the game especially one that’s sort of mediocre looking!

That being said one of the cooler things coming out of this launch is that your actual Sims can wear MAC now too! The Sims is making MAC Cosmetics the first ever makeup brand available within the game! Now when you head over to Create-A-Sim mode you’ll have the option for a free MAC makeup using some of MAC’s iconic products and shades on your Sim creation! The in-game makeup was designed by Romero Jenning, the Director of Makeup Artistry at MAC Cosmetics. This is pretty cool but the eyeshadow palette I’m not completely sold on sorry MAC!

The Sims x MAC Eyeshadow x 9 Palette contains nine different shades available in exclusive Sims box. I have to admit I am somewhat over saving every single box makeup comes in which makes it disappointing that the compact isn’t designed around the Sim’s but only the outer box. Of course, I’d totally keep the box if I purchased this and wouldn’t toss it but it wouldn’t really cost much more to actually put a bit more effort into the actual eyeshadow compact and make it as fun as the outer packaging. Right? The palette features nine shades as I said and will set you back $32 which is thankfully the same price as a standard x 9 Palette so you aren’t paying extra for the outer box!

The shades include:

• Moon Rock: Frosty bright white (Veluxe Pearl)
• Copper Aura: Pastel coral (Lustre)
• Blackberry: Muted burgundy-plum brown (Matte)
• Sugared: Light frosty pink (Lustre)
• Quarry: Soft, muted plum-brown (Matte)
• Metalmauve: Soft lilac (Frost)
• Soot: Cool grey (Velvet)
• Lunar Cycle: Frosty muted teal (Frost)

It looks a little dull to me but you can never quite go with MAC promo images as they are grossly misleading.

The Sims x MAC Cosmetics Eyeshadow Palette is available now.

What do you think of this launch?

Where to buy

MAC

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MAC still has 30% Off sitewide at maccosmetics.com plus they are guaranteeing that your shipment will arrive in time! Not only that but select MAC Holiday items are on sale:

• Extra Dimension Skinfinish Holiday 2020 Shades $22
• Powerpoint Eye Pencil Holiday 2020 Shades $12
• Extra Dimension Foil Eye Shadow Holiday 2020 Shades $12
• Lipglass Holiday 2020 Shades $11
• Lipstick Holiday 2020 Shades $12

There are also a lot of lipsticks on sale in the Goodbye Section including Love Me Lipstick which is amazing! It’s $12.60!

Finally, you can select two full-size lipsticks at checkout if you spend $80. The shades are listed in the image above that are available for free!

Enjoy!

Where to buy

MAC

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I know I have a lot of makeup already but I have to admit I love purchasing makeup around this time of the year because of all the sales. The interesting thing about this time of the year is that I’m not really out their grabbing all the new Holiday sets but I sort of browse through and explore a brand’s core catalog because that’s where the real gems are. I’ve been disenchanted with MAC for a while. They may catch me here and there with a new highlighter or a blush but their limited edition eyeshadows are sort of meh as are some of the eyeshadow palettes they do. Thankfully MAC is one of the brand’s that really slowed their role. MAC Collections always came fast and furious even before fast and furious was a thing MAC was churning out collections like four times a month (slight exaggeration) and like many makeup junkies I lived for it. MAC has definitely timed their releases better and they aren’t nearly as plentiful as they once were.

MAC is having their 30% off sale at the moment (no code needed) and I decided I would explore some of their single eyeshadows during this time because you can score them at such a deal ($12 each).

So here’s one of my favorites (more to come) if you love a good matte brown!

Would the reader that said to me, “When you’re older you’ll appreciate matte eyeshadows!” please step up? I was all about sparkle and shimmer and glitter when I started this blog and oh now things changed. I think mattes eyeshadows when I started Musings of a Muse were horrible. They were just so dry and patchy to apply. They have evolved so much in the past ten plus years.

I wanna say my matte eyeshadow life started when Urban Decay Beware came into my life. It’s such a great muted matte brown that works so well for my eyes. It took me down the rabbit hole and I found myself exploring any and all brown eyeshadows. Many years have passed since that discovery and it’s still a fond favorite!

If you want something a little less deep and a little lighter MAC Soft Brown is perfect. It’s a very natural lighter brown that’s perfect as a transitional shade or all over the lid for a simple nude look! It’s one of my favorite shades because not only does it flatter my brown eyes but also, because it’s testimony that MAC does do good eyeshadows. It has a firm texture with a soft, silky consistency that isn’t powder and applies flawlessly with an airbrushed finish. Definitely one of MAC’s better formulas.

If matte brown eyeshadows are your thing I’d recommend checking out Soft Brown for yourself.

Try it! You may like it!

Own it already?

Tell me about it!

Where to buy

MAC

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If your $15 coupon from Ulta is still burning a whole in your wallet the MAC Boom Boom Wow Mini Advent Calendar ($99) just launched at ulta.com and might be something you’d like to pick up! I got the MAC Advent Calendar one year and quite liked it. If you’re a MAC fan it’s def one you’ll want to grab! It actually has several full-size items in it making it a great deal! One full-size item is MAC Velvet Teddy Lipstick which is truly a great nude lipstick!

Here’s what’s inside:

• Full-Size MAC Lipstick in Velvet Teddy (matte)
• Mini MAC Lipstick in Cockney (lustre)
• Mini MAC Lipstick in Diva (matte)
• Mini MAC Lipstick in Craving (amplified)
• Mini MAC Strobe Cream in Pinklite
• Mini MAC Lipglass in Spice
• Full Size Eyeshadow in Carbon (matte)
• Full Size Eyeshadow in Wedge (matte)
• Full Size Eyeshadow in All That Glitters (veluxe pearl)
• Mini MAC IED Mascara in Black
• Mini MAC Lipglass in Oyster Girl (lust)
• Mini MAC Lipglass in Magically Delightful

Anyone plan on picking up the MAC Boom Boom Wow Mini Advent Calendar?

Grab it now at Ulta!

Where to buy

Ulta

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Just a heads up the MAC Holiday 2020 Collection launched at Ulta.com today! The damn Surefire Hit Mini Lipstick Vault is so tempting! I got the one last year and loved it but I also just hauled the Bare Minerals Lipstick Vault!
Ha…!

Does anything from MAC Holiday 2020 catch your eye? Curious minds if you’re liking this launch!

Where to buy

Ulta

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