MAC Autumn/Winter Trend Report

Here's a sneak peek into trends as interpreted by MAC for the Fall fashion season:

"Something shady is going on with eyes for Fall 09. Almost ubiquitously almond-shaped and with decadence in their application, Artists are channeling a dark desire for refined, lined and the most exquisitely intense kind of smoked-out stares."

FACE
Moisturizer: Moisturelush Creme
Foundation: Studio Sculpt SPF 15
Concealer: Studio Sculpt
Powder: Prep + Prime Transparent Powder

EYES
Brows: Defined but natural in tone
Brow Highlight: Mineralize Skinfinish Natural
Eyelid: Carbon Eye Shadow blended over Smolder Kohl. Silver Fog Pigment through the inner corner on upper and lower lashline
Crease: Carbon blended very sheer with strength through the inner and outer corners
Eyeliner: Smolder, set with Carbon Eye Shadow, upper and lower lashline
Mascara: Zoomblack

CHEEKS
Mineralize Skinfinish Natural for a soft contour

LIPS
Prep + Prime Lip with Lip Erase in Dim FACE
Moisturizer: Studio Moisture Fix SPF 15
Foundation: Studio Sculpt SPF 15
Concealer: Studio Sculpt
Powder: Loose Blot Powder

"Call it ‘silk stocking’ makeup. Balanced, beautiful, elegant and perfect. Beauty that’s the epitome of all that’s chic and grown up, and blended with a precision you can’t help but want to emulate."

EYES
Brows: Defined, but natural in tone
Brow Highlight: Yogurt
Eyelid: Smut and Texture, inner and outer corner
Crease: Smut and Texture, inner and outer contour
Eyeliner: Smut and Texture Eye Shadow
Mascara: Plushblack

CHEEKS
Dainty Mineralize Blush

LIPS
Funshine Slimshine
Lip Pencil: Beurre Cremestick Liner FACE
Moisturizer: Prep + Prime Face Protect SPF 50
Foundation: Studio Sculpt SPF 15
Concealer: Studio Sculpt
Powder: Prep + Prime Transparent Powder

"Makeup gets Off the Wall! The Eighties are an essential reference this season, with makeup to amplify your attitude by plugging into a power surge of electrocuted shades and sharp shapes."

EYES
Brows: Defined, and kept as straight as possible
Brow Highlight: Copperplate and Ground Brown Eye Shadows blended through inner corner only
Eyelid: Copperplate and Ground Brown Eye Shadow blended with strength through the inner corner
Crease: Copperplate through inner corner and diffused outward

CHEEKS
Mineralize Skinfinish in Medium Dark or Deep for a soft contour

LIPS
Morange Lipstick followed with a laquer of Pink Poodle Lipglass
Lip Pencil: Magenta FACE
Moisturizer: Strobe Cream
Foundation: Studio Sculpt SPF 15
Concealer: Studio Sculpt
Powder: Prep + Prime Transparent Powder through the T-Zone only

"Natural is a built beauty for A/W09. After seasons where a more scrubbed, virginal pure complexion stood at the fore, what looks new for naturalness now is a distinctly constructed, considered forming of the face."

EYES
Brows: Beguile Brow Set
Brow Highlight: Mineralize Skinfinish Natural
Eyelid: Pearl Crème Color Base
Crease: Fluidline in Dipdown
Eyeliner: Fluidline in Dipdown

CHEEKS
Mineralize Skinfinish Natural in Dark

LIPS
Fetish Lipstick applied with a lip brush
Lip Pencil: Hodgepodge

Stay tuned for my next post which will be featuring one of the looks posted here as interpreted by yours truly.