Here I am wearing MAC's Candy Yum-Yum lipstick from the Quite Cute Collection. I'm also wearing Tarte's Amazonian Clay Blush in Natural Beauty.
AC comes out with new collections almost every single month, but I've been anticipating the Quite Cute Collection (launched in North America April 7) since I first heard about it a few months ago. I just loved the pastel colours of the collection. I was a little disappointed that they didn't do a different packaging than their permanent collection packaging, but that's ok. My most wanted item in this collection was the Quite Cute lipstick (the pale lavender colour). It reminded me a lot of MAC's limited edition lipstick in Lavender Whip. I don't have Lavender Whip so I wanted something similar to that. Plus, one of my favourite lip glosses of all time is Revlon's Lilac Pastelle. I knew they would pair really well together. Considering my anticipation for this launch, I was surprised to find myself only getting 2 things from the entire collection. I bought 2 lipsticks- Quite Cute and Candy Yum-Yum. I just wasn't that impressed with the other stuff. I wanted to love the blushes, but I hate frosty blushes. I'm more of a matte blush person.
Here is the promo picture for the Quite Cute Collection. Love it!
My 2 lipstick purchases. The left is Candy Yum-Yum (matte neon pink) and the right is Quite Cute (creamy bright whitened lavender).
Here it is swatched on my hand. The 3rd colour is a blush that I'm going to get to.
Here is Candy Yum-Yum on my lips. I'm surprised to say that this is my favourite of the 2. It is neon. It is bright. It is matte. All the things that I would stay away from, but for some reason it intrigued me. Plus, I'm really obsessed with the colour blocking trend for spring. I thought that this colour would only suit blondes and fair skinned people, but the MAC makeup artist that was wearing it the day I bought it was ROCKING IT and she had dark hair like me. One thing to note is that this is a cool-toned neon magenta/pink. I find that cool tones look better on me so for those of you who look better in warmer tones this might not be the shade for you... I just checked the MAC website and this colour is the already sold out. That must say something, right? As for the Quite Cute colour I tried it on last night and I wasn't sure if I loved it. I have to play around with it still. The lavender colour really stood out. I for sure need to pair it with a lip gloss to tone it down a bit.
Oh, one more thing! The Candy Yum-Yum lipstick is really long-wearing. I've been wearing it since this morning (9am) and I had breakfast and coffee and the lipstick was still on after I ate. It's almost 1pm now and the lipstick is still on. Very impressive. I think there's a bit of a stain to this lipstick, but not as much as the Cover Girl Lip Perfection lipsticks.
Next I'm going to talk about a blush that I got last week at work. We had a whole bunch of Tarte's Amazonian Clay 12-Hour Blush that we had just shot for the magazine so my colleague was handing it out to see if we wanted to personally try them out. I really wanted the bright pink one, but my colleague had already claimed it. I ended up getting the scary-looking red one called Natural Beauty. It photographed more coral-ly than red, but it is a true strawberry red.
I was hesitant to try this colour because of the red colour, but I only need to dab it lightly with my brush and blend it onto my cheeks. You just have to be light-handed when applying this blush. The great thing about this blush besides the uber cute packaging is the 'Amazonian clay'. I tend to get really oily around the cheek area so this is a great blush to have. Plus, it is free of parabens, sulfates (I didn't know that makeup would have sulfates in it in the first place. Usually sulfates are in shampoos), phthlates, synthetic fragrances, and all that bad stuff.
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