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Wednesday 23 February 2011

MAC Cosmetics At London Fashion Week

Aloha Bloggerinos,


As I mentioned in my recent Red Lipped FOTD, I was one very lucky lady and was invited to a tres swanky MAC Event at London Fashion Week on Saturday. Despite being 9 months pregnant, I knew this was not to be missed and waddled my massive self there and had the BEST DAY EVER!


There were 5 other gorgeous Beauty Bloggers there and I'm sure they will do a write up of the day, so check them out too- Milly, Princess Livia, Jen, Zara, Shirley and Sammi. I sat next to Milly and Jen and we had a hoot (after a brief scuffle with a very huffy woman at the fashion show who refused to move, despite us having tickets for those seats. I of course said rather firmly "Well I'm 9 months pregnant!" and sat down. Ha!). Jen and I had a little chitchat before the whole day got started and she seemed so nice, I could've talked to her for hours.  


Oh how I wished I'd picked up some of these. You know how I feel about peacocks :(
So, I waddled in a few minutes early and was greeted at the MAC Media Booth by the really nice PR girls. You know when you see slim, pretty, 'together' type girls and you feel a bit intimidated? (this could just be me because I'm a bit larger and not Mrs Fashionista, but let me know if you get my drift). Well they were the opposite of this. They were sooooo friendly and offered me drinks and asked lots about Baby Glitter and how often I blog and all that kind of thing. I wish I'd taken a picture of them to show you.


Once everyone had arrived and we'd been served fancy nibbles (see embarrassing story at the bottom re canapes), we were shown a video on the upcoming makeup trends that we can expect to see for AW11.  The three to look for are 'Pop', 'Raw' and 'Copper'.

Pop was described a kaleidoscopic explosion of colour, fluro, neon. Raw as skin that changes as it passes through light, muted pastels, texture and Copper as amazonian goddesses, seashell shades, 70's. I think Pop excites me the very most- fuchsia lips, here I come!!

After the video, we were introduced to Terry Barber, Director of Makeup Artistry at MAC (oh me oh my) and he proceeded to show us one of the new looks that is going to be very on trend for AW11- reds, golds, yellows, rusts etc. Now, I was quite sceptical about how he was going to pull red off, but after working his magic, he bloomin' well did! It was watching this makeover that gave me the confidence to ask for a red lip look on my makeover.

Already prepped and primed and ready to go go go!


Bringing the red pigment out into the temples. Terry explained that for runway, you must really over exaggerate what your brushstrokes and be BOLD.

You see that red lipstick in Terry's left hand? It's a prototype for next season. The Makeup Artists often 'trial run' the prototype products-my dream job!
How beautiful does she look?! I thought she was one of the runway models and was totally shocked when she told me she wasn't and actually works in the Head Office!
He was really chatty all the way through, it was like listening to a chum really. He told us lots of interesting snippets from his experiences in the industry like how Diana Ross had the biggest false eyelashes he has ever seen and how Grace Jones did her own highlighting using foundation meant for whiter skin tones.

Terry's table. Ooohh I would've enjoyed a play with all that!

Terry, The Bump and I.
After marvelling at his creativity and seeing the finished look, we were ushered off to watch the Betty Jackson catwalk show. I've never been to anything like this before and felt somewhat frumpy in my Next Maternity jeans, but alas, what can you do? It was great to watch and see all the outfits and do a bit of celeb spotting and all too soon it was over.

We headed back to the MAC Media Booth, where it was time for makeovers- yeeaaahhhhhh! I have already done my little post on this, which you can see HERE. I am now lusting desperately over Cherry Lip Liner, Red Russian Lipstick, Prep & Prime for lips and a Clear Lipglass. Oh dear.

I could have easily stayed in there all day and played with the makeup and chatted to everyone but I had to wizz off for a nice lunch with my Daddio at nearby Cotes Cafe. Have you been there? It was tres nice.

I know I keep saying it but the whole thing really was brilliant, by far the best thing I've ever been too and I can't thank the MAC Ladies enough for inviting me!

Of course you will all want to know about the AMAZING goodie bags (I know I always do anyway!), so I have done a YouTube video for you HERE and will no doubt be reviewing the products soon.

Toodlepip!

xx

As promised: I always try and be cool at these things, but never quite manage it. At the beginning, we were offered lots of very swish canapes and I thought "haha I'm not fooling for this, I won't pick something crumbly or something that I might not like (like at the Eyeko Event and I actually had to spit it into my hand when no-one was watching!!), I will pick something easy and sophisticated". So, I picked a little glass of berry smoothie. Wrong. It was really thick and yoghurty and I couldn't seem to get it out of the glass and ended up half licking it (bet that looked good) and half trying to knock it back like a shot. Needless to say, I did not look cool. *sigh*

19 comments:

  1. I love this post, I love how you're so relaxed about yourself. I like those kind of girls, the ones who don't take themselves too seriously. It made me laugh heaps!
    You look so lovely, pregnant girls always glow like that!
    Awesome post, it looks like you had an amazing time! Tiiiiny bit jealous. xo.
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  2. Love your little story at the end haha, kind of thing I would do! :P Looks like you had a good time though :) x

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  3. Aww looks like much fun was had, good luck with the birth :)

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  4. Sounds like you had a super fun day! & lmao at the little story at the end.. totally something I would do!

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  5. Wow looks like you had an amazing time!
    Loved your canape story at the end, I would have gone to knock it back and ended up with it all over my face, so you're way cooler than me! x

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  6. I love this post. :) Its a good thing I didn't pick up those smoothies then! I was contemplating that and eventually thought not to... haha ;) I did enjoy their salmon, cheese and crackers though! Even though its pretty basic x

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  7. wow looks amazing!! so jealous!!

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  8. What a cheeky madam! You should have just sat on her, lol!

    Loving your bright lips in the video, they really suit you. Glad that you had a good time!

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  9. Honey, you look like you held your own with those fashionistas. I always think 'baby glow' is a myth, but you DO look positively glowing. How can a skinny bint compete with that?
    And SO pleased you (politely) told arsey woman where to go. How rude was she? Hope she ened up in the back row...behind a column!!
    That goodie bag was A-MAZE-ING! Lucky girl. Can you take me with you next time?
    Z xx

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  10. Love this post! Looks like you had an amazing time! Wish i could go to something like that! Next year though maybe :o) xx

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  11. fabulous post sweetie, you did look stunning with your glossy red lips! thank you for the link and i loved your video too. wish i had been there to witness the yoghurt licking!! xo

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  12. Sorry so late on this but lovely to meet you at the MAC/LFW thing! Hope you and the bump are fabulous!xx

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    And I love these pictures of your Mac cosmetic at fashion week I do remember the video very much as i was laughing so hard about your time trying to eat your yogurt :D

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  14. this post is amazing i love that girls make she was so so pretty and hope you had an amazing time.

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  15. Looks like you had a great time! :)
    xo,
    ~Pauline @ MAC Philippines

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