MAC: A Rose Romance.

Suggesting sonnets celebrated for centuries: "Come into my garden, I would like my roses to see you!” poet Sir Richard Brinsley Sheridan once said, and what lady could resist such flattery?

This is A Rose Romance, a new collection from MAC that will be out this week.This collection features the prettiest pink, rose and lilac shades and is perfect for spring-time, summer-time, just about anytime. I can never have enough of a rosey-pink hue. Can you?

This is the prettiest compact I have ever seen. Of course, the Beauty Powder is pretty extraordinary too, but I am coveting these just as collectors pieces.

Here is the rest of the beautiful collection:

LIPSTICK ($14)
Way to Love - Creamy light yellow pink
A Rose Romance - Mid-tone pink with gold pearl
Odyssey - Spiked-up plum

LIPGLASS ($14)
Virgin Kiss - Sheer pale pink with multi-dimensional pearl
Magnetique - Frosted violet fuchsia
Steal My Heart - Sheer bright pink with multi-dimensional pearl

SEE THRU LIP COLOUR ($14)
Loving Touch - Sheer pearly light pink
Tender Tryst - Sheer pearly plum
Secret Crush - Sheer red berry

EYE SHADOW ($14.50)
Of Summer  - Frosted light dirty mauve
Et tu, Bouquet? - Frosted pale pink gold
Creme de Violet - Vivid Pinkish-violet flecked with gold shimmer
Silverthorn - Mid-tone gray with silver pearl
Shadowy Lady - Darkly veiled plum

PIGMENT ($19.50)
Mutiny - Clean sky blue with gold pearl
Circa Plum - Frosty dirty mid-tone lavender

SPLASHPROOF LASH ($12)
Blacksplash  - Black

JUST A PINCH GEL BLUSH ($18.50)
Sheer gel cheek blush in a pot delivers a rosy glow of coverage for a healthy complexion. Dewy texture blends into a thin film on skin, giving low to medium transparent coverage.
Just a Pinch - Sheer red pink tint

BEAUTY POWDER ($22)
Blush of Youth - Clean pink with gold pearl
Summer Rose - Soft violet pink with pearl

FIX + ROSE ($17)
An aqua-spritz of vitamins and minerals, infused with a calm-the-skin blend of green tea, chamomile, cucumber, topped off with the scent of 100% natural rose water. Adds radiance, finishes makeup.

NAIL LACQUER ($11)
Love & Friendship - Creamy dirty mid-tone lavender

CREATIONS HUE : DE JAROSE ($22.50)
A striking bouquet of lush Bulgarian, Turkish and Tea red roses is ruff led with dewy watery and luminous green nuances. Velvety petals of exotic orchid, lily, jasmine and peony are teased with a hint of crimson red raspberry and the gentle texture of pink pepper. The interplay of light and dark woods, weathered teak contrasting with patchouli, adds to the intensity, while hypnotic incense vapours and amber crystals lend a sense of intrigue and allure to this sensuous creation.

A Rose Romance will be available at online at MAC, MAC stores, counters and fine specialty department stores beginning April 23rd.

5 Lip Liners to Love.

Lip liner (when done correctly) is a makeup essential. Lip liner should not be seen. It can either match your lips or lip gloss/stick color. It can be applied all over the lips to make lipstick last liner, or on the perimeter of your lips to keep lipstick from feathering and give a more polished and defined look to the lips. NEVER wear a lip liner shade darker than the lipstick color you are wearing. (It was a few month fad a few years ago, but it never ever looked right.)

Clinique's lip liner application tip, which is the one I find best to explain on how to wear lip liner on the perimeter properly:

Follow "dot-dot-dash" method to ensure ease and accuracy of application: Draw two dots on upper lip's bow, a dash across bottom of lower lip, then connect all three. To extend lip colour wear, fill in lips with liner, then follow with lipstick.

Over the years I have tried many lip liners, and I seem to add a new one into my routine once in a while, but I usually stick to what works best. For me, those are nude colors that match my own lip tone.  Here are my favorite lip liners in the nude color family - which I firmly believe that everyone should have at least one of in their makeup bag.

1. L'Oreal Paris Infallible Never Fail Lip Liner in Nude ($8.99)
   This is a twist up style type of liner that smoothly lines lips and doesn't budge all day. I like to use this over my entire lip area topped with a nude or very light translucent pink gloss for a beautiful, natural nude lip.
2. Clinique Defining Liner for Lips in Berry Nude ($14.99)
   A pencil lip liner with a handy sharpener built into the cap. This liner glides on and really protects lip color from feathering.
3. MAC Lip Pencil in Subculture ($13.00)
   A pink hued nude lip pencil that is perfect to line around the lips. This one is perfect to match more pink lipcolors beautifully. I use this one a lot!
4. MAC Lip Pencil in Spice ($13.00)
   I wear this darker nude lip liner under really light colors to darken them up a bit in the fall/winter seasons. I also wear it a lot on it's own with a gloss. It is also the lip pencil I use most often and have been for years!
5. Lancome Le Lipstique in Sheer Nude ($23)
   Le Lipstique is a very creamy lip pencil lip liner. One end contains the color while the other a brush, as it is almost preferred to be worn as a lipstick base.

MAC Double Dazzle.

Last May, MAC Cosmetics introduced us to Dazzleglass. They have umped the anty for this new offering, as they extended the collection with seven new Dazzleglass shades and revamped their popular Dazzle Lash mascara. This is Double Dazzle.

Double Dazzle will daze the closest competition with colour-changing, light-reflecting pearl-shine lips; paired with a new formula for the ultimate in voluptuous lashes, et voilà! Lips lead: seven new Dazzleglass shades bring the scintillating selection up to 18! The flotilla-of-lights formula imparts the pearl combination with mega-glisten shine, creamy comfort and the subtle sensation of vanilla. Lashes follow: multiplied, volumized, utterly glorified by our newest eye innovation...This sly new small-and-mighty brush has been developed to capture and emphasize each and every lash. Lips, Lashes, Lovers...Look out!

DAZZLEGLASS ($18)
Sugarrimmed - Milky pale pink with red, teal and white pearl
Goldyrocks - Sheer soft yellow with pink and gold pearl
Moth to Flame - Sheer neutral beige with violet pearl
Smile - Light coral with pink and gold pearl
Steppin’ Out - Clean yellow pink with red pearl
Utterly Posh - Mid-tone orange with pink and gold pearl
Love Alert - Raspberry red with red pearl
Date Night - Deep plum with blue and gold pearl
Funtablulous - Purple with violet pearl
Extra Amps - Sheer bright blue pink with blue and pink pearl
Like Venus - Clean light bubble gum pink with red pearl
Stop! Look! - Sheer violet mauve with blue and pink pearl
Money Honey - Mid-tone rosy mauve with red pearl
Rags to Riches - Plummy pink with teal and red pearl
Baby Sparks - Pale pink with violet pearl
Bare Necessity -Caramel apricot with red and gold pearl
Girl’s Delight - Sheer mid-tone tan with gold pearl
Get Rich Quick - Warm yellow brown

DAZZLE LASH ($12)
Star Brunette - Brown
Black Dazzle - Black

Double Dazzle will be out in full force April 30th. You will find it at all MAC locations as well as maccosmetics.com.