How Shabs Sees It: Mac Marilyn Monroe Collection Purchases.

Hi all!

It's been such a long time since I've been inspired to write I just haven't had that feeling about a product or technique that has inspired me to get on here and tell whoever is listening...until now. Yesterday I went to Mac to pick up some bits and do some back to Mac-ing. I've recently depotted some blushes and eyeshadows for my palettes and had aquired a fair few empties. I also wanted to take a second look at the current collection inspired by Marilyn Monroe as there where a few things I was really interested in. I purchased two items from the collection and I'm excited about both. The first thing is the brow finisher which is a clear brow wax in stick form used to hold brow hairs in place. You're now thinking how is that exciting? But for me I've been on the lookout for this sort of product for a while now and had not found anything similar, either I live in a bubble, or this kind of thing is hard to get your hands on. I'm big on brows just in case it hasn't come across before and I've wanted a clear brow wax for ages and although I haven't been on a hunt for one it has always been in the back of my mind. I have pretty thick eyebrows and this is the way I love them. I fill them in sometimes with powder and sometimes with a pencil depending on how I feel that day or how I want them to look. I have always wanted something that will keep them in place without making them look like they're gelled down. I don't like to use brow gel on my brows for this reason I like the hairs to look natural and because the hairs are darkif I use a gel they look abit too much like they've been slicked down which is why I wanted a wax. Instead of the gelled down look it tames the hairs without making them look wet or crunchy and is exactly what I've been after so I'm very excited and glad I've got it.

Now onto the more exciting stuff! The collection has 5 lipsticks. One nude and four red. If money was no object I would probably have picked up a couple. But of course my resistance to buying makeup is getting higher than it used to be as I have so much these days it's more difficult to justify. Although there was one colour I could not resist it's just so stunning! I'm not much of a red lip wearer and by this I mean I don't own or wear red, ever. I do have a few in my kit so have dabbled but never actually worn one out the house. But the times that I have tried them on I realised that for my skintone if I was to ever wear a red it would be a real blood orange red if I ever found the perfect one again something I had it in the back of my mind. Another sidenote I love orange I'm just obsessed with the colour in my makeup world.When I swatched the colour Scarlet Ibis from the collection I was head over heels and it is exactly the colour I had in mind, so of course had to buy it. It's a really beautiful orange red which is creamy and smooth in texture and the colour is vibrant but not fluorescent. Eventhough the formula is matte the colour does not look flat on the lips and it is not difficult to apply or move around the lips in comparison to another red colour I own from Mac called Rubywoo. I really love it and when I got it home and tried it on I was overly excited by it I think the colour is just so pretty and makes me actually want to wear it out the house. So this evening I hope to be doing just that I'm going out to an engagement party and will sporting my first red lip, the excitement wish me luck its going to take some courage but i'm so in love with the colour that I think it's time.