MAC Graphic Garden and Look in a Box Swatches and First Impressions - Makeup and Beauty Blog

I'm getting fired upwards, fellow MAC fans! Next month two exclusive, Nordstrom-only MAC collections go far, the first for ladies who honey bright colors and the second for gals who gotta go neutral.

Both Graphic Garden and Wait in a Box are Nordstrom Beauty Exclusives, special limited edition items made by large cosmetics lines like MAC and sold only at Nordstrom stores.

If you're on the market for bright summer colors, consider the Graphic Gardens drove'due south blackness and white blossom impress makeup bags and eyeshadow palettes, lip kits and brush kits ($35-fifty) in greens, dejection, pinks and grays.

Or, if you'd prefer basic neutrals for your eyes, cheeks and lips, check out Look in a Box, which offers 3 color-coordinated makeup kits ($sixty apiece, but valued at $100), each i with six pieces — centre, lip and face makeup as well every bit a kabuki castor — designed to create a complete await.

Last weekend I spent a few minutes with both of the upcoming collections — now available for pre-lodge at Nordstrom stores and online (for pick upward or delivery adjacent month).

Graphic Garden

Graphic Garden Palette, $35

I'm a palette kinda girl, so I was most interested in Graphic Garden'south two eyeshadow palettes, Graphic Garden and Fresh Cut ($35 each).

The Graphic Garden palette comes with half-dozen shimmery shadows in cool-toned shades of greenish, blue, gray, beige, purple and blackness. Each of the colors has excellent color payoff (soo rich!), and i could easily mix and match the shades for a variety of different looks.

Fresh Cutting Palette, $35

Now, Fresh Cut kinda fooled me at start. Its pink, bronze and brownish shades looked warm in the pans, but the shadows apply super sheer, requiring several layers on both my tan NC 35 skin as well as lighter NW 20.

Baby Blooms Lip Bag, $35 (includes Lipglass in Baby Blooms; Lipsticks in Soft Illusion, Amplified Spice Bloom; and a blackness makeup handbag with a white floral print)

Summer Ingather Lip Bag, $35 (includes a Lipglass in Summer Ingather; Lipsticks in Semi-Almanac and Garden Bed; and a white makeup pocketbook with a black rose impress)

Define and Blend Brush Set, $50 (includes short-handled versions of the MAC 168 Big Angled Contour Brush, 190 Foundation Brush, 252 Large Shader Castor, 219 Pencil Brush and the 209 Eye Liner Brush, also as a white makeup bag with a blackness rose print)

Shape and Perfect Brush Set up, $50 (includes short-handled versions of the MAC 187 Duo Fibre Brush, 129 Powder/Blush Brush, 275 Medium Angled Shading Brush, 212 Flat Definer Brush and 194 Concealer Brush, as well as a black makeup bag with a white floral print)

Correction: it looks like two of the brushes in the sets were mixed up in the store. The Define and Blend Brush Prepare should accept the 128 Powder/Blush Castor, and the Shape and Perfect Fix should take the 168 Large Contour Brush.

Graphic Garden on NC 35 skin

Graphic Garden on NW 20 skin

Fresh Cutting on NW twenty peel

Graphic Garden on the left and Fresh cut on the correct; both on NC 35 skin

Graphic Garden on the left and Fresh cutting on correct; both on NC 20 skin


Baby Blooms

Summertime Ingather

Look in a Box

Sweet Tease ($60)

I recollect MAC did a fantastic job coordinating the colors for the Look in a Box kits ($60). Each of the three sets — Sweet Tease, Sun Siren and Seductress ($sixty) — features some of my favorite MAC neutrals from the permanent line, like Bister Lights, Shroom and Mulch.

Each box comes with two eyeshadows, one face powder, a lipstick or gloss, a kabuki brush and Zoomlash Mascara in Zoomblack.

To buy the six items separately would cost well-nigh $100, so the $60 cost tag breaks down to a pretty good deal.

My favorite of the three sets has to exist Sugariness Tease. Information technology comes with shimmery pinkish Lustreglass in Honey Nectar, Eye Shadows in Mulch and Gleam (a shimmery brownish and a shimmery gold) and shimmery, calorie-free pinkish Beauty Pulverisation in Trounce.

All of the colors seem easy to wear, and I'm guessing they'll flatter a wide range of peel tones.

Sweet Tease swatches from left to right: Lustreglass in Love Necter, Eye Shadow in Mulch, Eye Shadow in Gleam, Beauty Powder in Crush

Sun Siren, $60

Sun Siren swaches from left to right: Dazzleglass in Get Rich Quick, Centre Shadow in Amber Lights, Eye Shadow in Shroom, Bronzing Powder in Statuary

Seductress, $60

Seductress swatches from left to right: Slimshine Lipstick in Bare, Heart Shadow in Knight Divine, Eye Shadow in Naked Lunch, Iridescent/Pressed Powder in Belightful

Simply another manic Monday

Ladies, I've had i of *those* Mondays — you know the kind — where your every idea comes slowly, and it feels similar yous're swimming through mud.

How's your twenty-four hours been? I hope it'south gone meliorate than mine!

I'll exist happy if I tin brand it to trip the light fantastic class tonight. I haven't gone in FOREVER. Mayhap that'll help me snap out of this funk.

Your friendly neighborhood dazzler aficionado,

Karen

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