New lipstick shades from MAC!! Little Buddha and Pickled Plum

Short and sweet post today.  New MAC lipstick shades make me happy!  I have every MAC lipstick from the permanent range that I want to own so newly launched shades make my heart race that little bit faster.

These two are from the 'Cremesheen Pearl' range and to the best of my knowledge these are permanent.  The Cremesheen formula has always been my most favourite MAC formula for it's luminous bold colour.  Cremesheen Pearl is sheerer but buildable and infused with tiny pearlized pigments.  It's less forgiving on dry lips so moisturise well.

I've started with two shades from the range......

Little Buddha is a sheer pale but face brightening pink.  Pickled Plum is more of a sheer blue based hot pink.  I love both.

Now I know they're permanent I have Star Magnolia, Pretty Boy and Sweet Sakura on my shopping list!

PS-I am thrilled to have been nominated for 'Best International Beauty Blog' in the Bloggers Blog Awards-you can vote for your favourites here.  Massive thanks to Hayley from Tea Party Beauty for all her very hard work with these awards!

Mac Retro Matte collection

Mac recently released a collection of Retro Matte lipsticks-some which would become permenant and some which were limited edition.

I loved RiRi Woo which is the same formula so chose 4 from Marc's new line.

Relentlessly Red is not red-well not in my opinion anyway.  It's a beautiful bright cerise with a velvet matte finish.  The most difficult to apply from the bullet as the formula is very stiff and tugs at the lips-but a lip brush does the job nicely.  A stunning colour-bold and daring but it's very pigmented and did stain my lips.  I applied this without moisturising my lips first and it did cling to any dry bits but did not make them any worse.  This shade is permenant.

Flat Out Fabulous is a blue toned magenta and unique to my lipstick collection.  The softest of the 4 and easiest to apply straight from the bullet.  Glossier in finish than Relentlessly Red and All Fired Up, it doesn't look like a matte lipstick.  Wear time was a massive 6 hours with even fading.  Again this shade is permenant.

Admittedly after 4 days straight of testing matte lipsticks my lips were feeling a bit dry!  This is the matte-est of the four and is a peachy nude.  I did experience a bit of flaking with this lipstick but that could be because I tested it last of all.  It's not my favourite, I am much more drawn to the bright shades in this line.  This is the only one of the four that was limited edition.

All Fired Up is similar to Relentlessly Red-a smidgen darker.  It's very similar in the finish-that lovely velvet matte.  Again I applied with a lip brush for a more precise line as it's quite dry in the bullet and again tugs at the lips.  But I think this is my favourite of the four.

In summary, these lipsticks are bold, bright and long lasting.  I highly recommend exfoliating and moisturising your lips before applying for the best and longest lasting finish.

Here's a cute picture of Ali guarding the lipsticks!