The M·A·C & Milk Collection: Bringing Backstage Beauty to the Masses.

M·A·C Cosmetics creates the looks on thousands of models each year at various Fashion Week's around the world. I've witnessed the insanity of backstage, and how these artists do their creative work astonishes me each time I witness it. It takes a unique talent and hand to work backstage.

Making it easier, if just a bit on the artists; are some select core products, or backstage basics, if you will, that artists reach for time and time again. To highlight these products,  M·A·C has just introduced the M·A·C & Milk Collection, available exclusively online at MACCosmetics.com. It is named M·A·C & Milk as M·A·C will journey through Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week beginning this week, at Milk Studios, in New York City.

“Radiant skin, smokey eyes and beige lips seem to be a part of the beauty trends every season. The M·A·C & Milk Collection are the iconic products that create these trends. No makeup artist can live without these products during Fashion Week,” says Gordon Espinet, Vice President of Global Makeup Artistry, M·A·C Cosmetics. 

Take a look at the entire collection to see what you will need to stock up on for your very own backstage beauty basics.

SKINCARE

Strobe Cream – $29.50 – The ultimate quick fix for skin. This cream brightens and clarifies with iridescent particles and antioxidants, enhancing the effect of light on the skin.

Fast Response Eye Cream – $30.00 – This caffeinated cream de-puffs, firms, soothes and softens skin around the eyes.

Fix + – $18.00 – One spritz of this vitamin and mineral blend of green tea, chamomile, cucumber, and a scent of Sugi leaves the skin radiant and fresh.

EYES

Kohl Pencil in Smolder – $14.50 – This intense black eye pencil lines, defines, and shades with rich colour and a silky smooth finish.

Brow Set in Clear– $14.50 – This brush-on clear gel grooms and slicks brows into shape without flaking or stiffening the brow.

Eye Shadow in Copperplate and Brown Down – $14.50 each – This teddy bear brown and muted mid-tone grey are highly-pigmented shadows, apply easily and blend well to create a sultry, smokey look.

MASCARA

Zoom Lash Mascara in Zoomblack – $13.00 – This smudge-proof and long-wearing mascara provides instant volume and length to the lashes in a rich black shade.

FACE

Mineralize Skinfinish Natural – $25.00 – This luxurious face powder contains baked in minerals that provide a dimensional yet natural-matte finish. Perfect to set and fix foundation.

Face and Body Foundation – $32.00 – This water-based and water-resistant foundation provides sheer, natural looking coverage in a long-lasting formula.

LIPS

Lipglass Clear – $14.00 – Containing Jojoba Oil to help soften and condition the lips, this clear gloss creates a high gloss, glass-like finish that lasts.

Lipstick in Fleckletone and Fleshpot (PRO) – $14.00 each – These neutral peach and soft pinkish-beige lipsticks provide colour and texture that is guaranteed to stand out on the runway.

TOOLS

Brush #187 Duo Fibre Brush – $42.00 – This large full circular brush made from a soft blend of goat and synthetic fibres can be used to blend face powders or pigments to create soft layers or add textures.

M∙A∙C Studio Fix Lash.

"Dramatic, daring Lashes have been a chic and urbane part of the modern Artist’s persona since Edie and friends made it all happen Downtown, on block-print canvas or grainy 16-millimetre film. Multi-media, counter-culture, the ultimate cool. In The Studio is the epitome of the look updated, featuring new Studio Fix Lash in Black Fix or Studio Brown, with the latest thermoplastic synth-rubber moulded brush, designed to kill clump as it separates lashes. Go for the bold stroke, as they do In The Studio."

In a word, this new M∙A∙C mascara is divine, and I am happy to report that it is a welcome addition to the M∙A∙C permanent collection.

I am using Studio Fix Lash in Black Fix, and I could not be happier with this beauty. The bristles on the wand are very short, stiff and are rubbery. This lengthens my lashes and keeps them separated like no-one's business. Take a look at my lashes with just one, quick and simple stroke.

 

I usually go for more of a full lash look, but the utter ease with dramatic length and separation make for a welcome surprise, and I am loving the look. For $13.00 each, this is just a few dollars more than my go-to drugstore mascara, and I have no problem penny-ing up for this one.

Studio Fix Lash is available right now at your favorite M∙A∙C counter, store and online at M∙A∙C Cosmetics.

*Press sample submitted for review by brand or brand representative.

Tha All New M∙A∙C in Lillyland Collection.

This new M∙A∙C in Lillyland Collection could not come at a better time in my life. I am heading to south Florida in a few weeks, and I am taking these beauties with me.

 
"When M∙A∙C meets the lore and legend that is Lilly Pulitzer, you get a fabulous and funky fun new chapter: a bit of Mar-a-Lago, some well-to-do winky-wink, and a dash of retro-modern pop culture mayhem in prints and colours that make it hip to be in permanent happy land! A collaboration that feels like the best tongue-in-chic resort retort, with all the wonderful prints and Key West colour combinations Lilly has done so beautifully since, well, forever! Fly down to South Florida, with M∙A∙C in Lillyland!"

Brushes

• 168 LARGE ANGLED CONTOUR - $32.00
  For expert application of cheek contour. This brush is and are soft and firmly bundled.
• 239 EYE SHADER - $24.50
  Soft and dense to shade or blend eye shadow or emollient-based products. This brush has a tapered, rounded edge with smooth, firm, fine fibres. It can be used to build intense colour on the eyelid.

TECHNAKOHL LINER - $14.50

• Purple Dash Intense aubergine
• Graphblack  Rich graphic black

LIPGELÉE - $14.00

• Resort Life Off-white with pink pearl
• Lush & Bright Bright pink-yellow-coral with pink pearl*
• Preppy Blue-pink with pink pearl*
• Shift to Pink Light violet with silver pearl

NAIL LACQUER - $12.00

• Coconut Ice Light yellow-peach-pink (Cream)
• Steamy Hot pink (Cream)

PAINT POT - $16.50

• Bare Study Soft beige with gold pearl (Frost)
• Rubenesque Golden peach with gold pearl (Frost)
• Fresco Rose Pink with matching pearl (Frost)

PEARLMATTE FACE POWDER - $27.00*

PEARLMATTE EYE SHADOW - $19.50*

CREMEBLEND BLUSH - $18.50

• So Sweet, So Easy Light yellow-pink*
• Optimistic Orange Bright coral
• Joie-de-Vivre Peachy coral*
• Florida Bright fuschia

M∙A∙C in Lillyland is available right now, for a limited time at M∙A∙C stores and counters nationwide, as well as online.

*Press sample was provided by brand.