MAC Art Supplies Pearlglide Intense Liners

MAC releases so many collections that often I can't remember when I got what, or what exactly I got. Case in point - the swatches of the Pearlglide Intense Liners I took a few weeks ago. I've been blogging less lately due to school, but now that the year's over (!) I can finish off my haul from...what collection were these from? I had to actually check MAC's website! So here's my final haul from Art Supplies.

Photo taken in natural light, NC 35-40 skin.

MAC Pearlglide Liners: Industrial, Petrol Blue, Almost Noir, Designer Purple

Undercurrent and Black Line

MAC Pearlglide Intense Liners LE ($17.50 CA/$ 14.50 US)

Industrial - a blue grey that flashes purple and blue. Incredibly pretty. To see it in action check out C's FOTD using this liner Industrial Eyes FOTD.

Petrol Blue  -  an indigo blue with blue shimmer. A great shade for counteracting bloodshot eyes.

Almost Noir - an odd name for a shade that is a gold flecked plum brown. This is an unusual shade that I think would look really interesting as a soft smokey eye.

Designer Purple - an iridescent grape with purple shimmer. Very purple.

Undercurrent - a bright teal with high shimmer.

Black Line - fantastic colour, a black base with gold and green shimmer. Smoking and versatile.

General Comments

I've loved Pearlglide liners from the first time they were released (Suite Array collection, fall 2008). I think they are a perfect, quick way to add a bit of bling to your daily look without risking looking like a club hopper. Out of the 6 shades, my favourites are Industrial and Black Line. I think Almost Noir may be a sleeper, and I'm thinking of using that one to do a soft, smokey plum eye. Pearlglide Intese Liners have very good staying power and set within 10-15 seconds of application.

FOTD: MAC Industrial Eyes

I checked out MAC's Art Supplies collection the other day and picked up a few products from it, namely the Dirty Greasepaint stick and Industrial Pearlglide Eyeliner. I am not usually a fan of pencil liners, but absolutely love the colour and shimmer of Industrial so I opted to try out a FOTD using it as an all over lid colour to see how it looked and lasted. Light blue is not normally a colour I wear on my eyes, but Industrial is hardly your average light blue.

Industrial is described by MAC as a periwinkle grey, which is accurate (their colour descriptions aren't always). It's a silvery blue but there's actually a lot of purple to it as I look it swatched on my arm right now. I attempted to capture the purple sheen in photo but it didn't come through with flash so I took a photo outside). You can see a bit of the purple in the darker photo. I also used another blue MAC Pearlglide liner on this FOTD so I swatched them both together. 

Fly-By-Blu and Industrial Pearlglide Eyeliners with flash, indoors

Fly-By-Blu and Industrial Pearlglide Eyeliners, without flash, outdoors.

As you can see, with the flash the liner swatches look less solid as light picks up the shimmer and frost. But in lower light (as in the darker photo), the swatches look more solid. It's the same as in the shots of my eyes, below. The liner was more solid like an eyeshadow in real life. 

Industrial Pearlglide Eyeliner

Fly-By-Blu  Pearlglide Eyeliner

MAC Pearlglide liners are impressively smudge-free. Once you've got it on, you don't have long to smudge it as it dries and barely budges. I decided to test this in wearing it all over my lids.

I did not apply it all the way up to my crease simply because I didn't know if it would last and besides, I have deep set creases so you can't tell with my eyes open anyway. I was also wary about wearing blue "eyeshadow" so I tried to keep the look toned down.

I smudged Industrial from my lash line up to almost my crease, blending a bit with a brush and my fingers. For a bit of depth, I smudged Fly-By-Blu into my lashline and blended slightly with an angle brush. I think the darker blue helps the Industrial not completely overpower my eye colour (which is a danger when you match your eyeshadow to your eye colour). 

Here's the full face look. 

My base is Kiehl's Ultra Facial Tinted Moisturizer SPF 15 in Light, Bare Escentuals Foundation SPF 15 in Fair and Bare Escentuals Mineral Veil. Concealer is MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW20. Mascara is Buxom Lash in Blackest Black. Blush is MAC Sheertone Blush in Pink Swoon with MAC Mineralize Skin Finish in Soft and Gentle.

MAC Sheertone Blush in Pink Swoon

MAC Mineralize Skin Finish in Soft and Gentle

C.

MAC: Art Supplies Greasepaint Sticks

Being a practicing visual artist (and makeup artist) I couldn't help but be excited over the title and concept of MAC's latest collection"Art Supplies". Since I already spend obscene amounts of money buying real art supplies, I figured no one would notice if I diverted a little bit of my funds into this collection.

Back in the fall, MAC launched, in my opinion, one of the best and most creative collections we've seen in the past few years - Style Black. With Style Black came the Greasepaint Stick. Greasepaint sticks are sort of a edgier cousin of the now defunct Shade Sticks.

According to MAC, the Greasepaint Stick is designed to maintain a glossy finish. These are a kin to a very fat eyeliner pencil and they set with about 30 seconds of smudge time. Photo taken with flash, indoor lighting.

MAC Greasepaint Sticks (top to bottom): Below Ground, Greengrease and Dirty

MAC Greasepaint Sticks (left to right): Below Ground, Greengrease and Dirty

MAC Greasepaint Strick LE ($21.00 CA/17.50 US)

Below Ground - a very beautiful metallic golden taupey brown. Would make a great neutral warm smokey eye.

Greengrease - a black base with green shimmer.

Dirty - a metallic, silvery taupe, a cool neutral, very pretty.

General Comments

Most of the Greasepaint stick shades are very dark, so they are pretty much limited to creating smokey eye looks. I bought the three I did because they seemed more versatile, also because I love any green eyeshadow. The Greasepaint sticks are fairly creamy to apply, but you need to work fast at smudging them because once they set, they aren't budging. In comparison to the old Paintsticks, this formula is smoother, creamier and much improved.

Anyone use and love these?

J