Mac Auburn Lip Liner

Auburn lipliner is one of my favourite MAC lip liners! It looks great with red, terracotta, peach and netural shades. Its a liner I use to mix with many different lipsticks. Recently, I've been using Auburn with Ravishing lipstick by MAC - the combination is just so lovely and perfect for both a day and evening look. Ravishing is in the warm coral family and Auburn is a reddish-orange-brown shade, so the mixture of these two shades is perfection on anyone with a warmer skintone. Its also a great 'coral-red' for summer!!!

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Mac Currant Lip Pencil

A lip liner designed for shaping, lining or filling in the lip. Our Lip Pencils have a smooth, creamy texture that is perfect for outlining lips or colouring them in. Available in a wide selection of colours that each work well with many different lipstick shades. MAC lip liner and pencils shape, line and fill in lips with creamy colour-true formulas that glide on fluidly with a long-lasting finish.

For this look I started with my basic face (tinted moisturizer, concealer, powder). I then used Bobbi Brown's Tawny blush as a contour, Makeup FOr Ever #10 gold shadow as a highlight (and eyeshadow base shade) and MAC's Melba blush. I then applied MAC's Soba shadow from lid to crease and lined the top lasline with Make Up for Ever 5L eyeliner (an olive shade) and smudged NARS glapagos into the lashline. I applied Laura Mercier's Brown Copper to the lower lashline before finishing with mascara. I then lined my lips with Auburn lipliner and topped it off with Ravishing Lipstick (both MAC)!!!

If you have ever met me in person, then you know I am a lip product fiend. I love lipsticks, lipliners, liquid lipsticks, lip conditioners, lip balms, lip gloss etc etc. Well, you’ll also know that I love ALL makeup and skincare, but something about lipstick calls to me deep in my soul 😉

I’ve said this to many people, that if you’ve got a lot going on and are juggling lots of things (let’s be honest, this is most of us right?), then sometimes taking 30 seconds out to apply a power lip can make all the difference.

I’m a MAC lipstick lover from way back. I haven’t officially counted my collection, but I have a significant amount. Put it this way, if they ever got stolen I would need to make an insurance claim!

This combo is one that I actually didn’t pick for myself. Instead, I went to the Pro Store with two girlfriends and met the loveliest makeup artist who urged me to buy products that complemented my already large collection.

But, let’s not talk about what else I bought (ahem). This post is all about the lipstick!

Strength is a coppery coloured Frost. Yes, you heard it right. Frosts are back in! And this one is amazing. It’s a glorious colour that works well on my NC40 skintone.

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The makeup artist paired this with Auburn lipliner – one I already had in my collection but hadn’t used very much because I felt it didn’t suit me well (it looks amazing on my Mum who is a couple of skin tones darker than I).

For this combo we applied it all over the lips first, then applied the lipstick over the top. Holy moly! They work together like PB & J, like Fred & Ginger, like rum and coke … you get the idea.

Mac Currant Lip Pencil

Here they are swatched on my skin and then I’ve shown how they look applied.

Thanks to Claire and Laura for ‘peer pressuring’ me into buying the lipstick. You were right 🙂