Beauty

MAC Retro Matte Liquid Lipsticks New Shades

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MAC Retro Matte Liquid LipsticksMAC Retro Matte Liquid Lipsticks launched new shades at the beginning part of 2017, and while they do look pretty bold in the tubes, some of the shades I got I might actually wear in public! Lol.

MAC Retro Matte Liquid LipsticksWhile the Retro Matte Liquid Lipsticks are in fact matte, they’re not uncomfortable. A little dry on the lips, but that’s the nature of the game with liquid lipsticks. I’m going to be honest — I don’t know if it’s only my lips but the colours don’t seem to last the intended time on me. I get a funny lip-liner look when I wear them for more than an hour. I haven’t tried wearing them with lipliner, but perhaps that’ll be my next experiment with these.

MAC Retro Matte Liquid LipsticksThe formula is easy to apply, and it blends smoothly and the pigmentation is substantial with intense colour payoff with one swipe giving you a completely matte finish.

Onto the swatches of the three unique nude-brown-grunge shades. Don’t forget to scroll to the bottom to see my short YouTube video of them, too!

MAC Retro Matte Liquid Lipstick Cafe Au ChicMAC Retro Matte Liquid Lipstick| Café Au Chic · Greyed beige

MAC Retro Matte Liquid Lipstick Ess-pressoMAC Retro Matte Liquid Lipstick| Ess-presso · Deepened chocolate brown

MAC Retro Matte Liquid Lipstick Uniformly FabulousMAC Retro Matte Liquid Lipstick| Uniformly Fabulous · Blackened grape

Thinking the middle shade (Ess-presso) would be the easiest colour to wear on my complexion, I was wrong. I much prefer the cement-grey called Café Au Chic, and the blackened grape shade took me by surprise too, sure it’s a bold lip but that’s all in right now!

A few questions for you: What are your thoughts on this formula from MAC? Do you own any? Would you wear any of the shades I have on my lips, above? If you were to select any of the three above which would you choose?

Watch the short video!

Shop MAC Retro Matte Liquid Lipsticks| $25 CDN · $21 USD

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Disney

Mary Poppins returns

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Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) returns to the Banks home after many years and uses her magical skills to help the now grown up Michael and Jane rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives in MARY POPPINS RETURNS, directed by Rob Marshall.

Well have I got some supercalifragilisticexpialidocious news for you! Take that spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, and get ready for it because Mary Poppin’s is returning to theaters.

Being on the Disney PR list is exciting, mainly for the fact I get a heads up when the newest releases are coming out, and this one in particular brings me right back to being a child. Disney’s 1964 film MARY POPPINS is making a comeback, and it’s going to star Golden Globe® winner Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins. It’ll also be starring Colin Firth and Meryl Streep.

The film, which introduces three new Banks children, played by Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh and newcomer Joel Dawson, also features Dick Van Dyke and Angela Lansbury (who remembers her from the 80s show, ‘Murder She Wrote’? I used to watch that all the time with my Dad!).

The film is set in 1930s depression-era London (the time period of the original novels) and is drawn from the wealth of material in PL Travers’ additional seven books. In the story, Michael and Jane are now grown up, with Michael, his three children and their housekeeper, Ellen, living on Cherry Tree Lane.

After Michael suffers a personal loss, the enigmatic nanny Mary Poppins re-enters the lives of the Banks family, and, along with the optimistic street lamplighter Jack, uses her unique magical skills to help the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives. Mary Poppins also introduces the children to a new assortment of colorful and whimsical characters, including her eccentric cousin, Topsy (Streep).

MARY POPPINS RETURNS will be released in U.S. theaters on December 25, 2018!

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Daily

Upgraded to luxury for a week

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2017 Volvo S90 T6A taste of Swedish luxury for a week, with the 2017 Volvo S90 T6 AWD Inscription. So I’m just going to roll with it — or rather, I did roll with it for the week (ha! get it… car… wheels… rollin’)!!

Some days I laugh too hard at my own jokes. What can I say, I’m easy to please and when it’s luxury I get giddy. Volvos makes me giddy apparently. As a matter of fact, it made Alfie giddy too. It’s been pouring non-stop since before Christmas here in California, making it go from a severe drought to devastating floods, so I haven’t been gallivanting around with Alfie taking him on adventures because neither of us wants to give him endless baths because it’s so mucky and muddy out.

2017 Volvo S90 T6 rear

2017 Volvo S90 T6 interiorBut the rain stopped for a bit! And Alfie got many adventures in. (Hit “read more’ below…this post is long!)

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