MAC HOLIDAY HAUL - GLITTER & ICE

For months I have been so good and hardly bought any products but I crumbled in the face of MAC's holiday collection - Glitter and Ice.

Now - my feelings on MAC's CHRISTMAS (holiday - pah!) collections are always mixed. They bring out a load of products, but not all of great quality. We all know the palette shadows are never quite as good as the single ones. Ditto the mini brush collections - they never quite match up to the single brushes for quality. However - the palettes are great value and great for gifting - especially when they look as cute as these ones!

I purchased the Snowglobe eye shadow palettes in Sultry and Warm. They are super cute - looking exactly like the name would suggest:

loving the white and silver boxes and limited edition white and silver snowglobe palettes!

shake and bake baby!

The Sultry palette contains Lightfully, Trax, Fun, Festive Delight, Black Tied and Shadowy Lady shadows. The Warm palette (which I will be gifting) is made up of Buckwheat, Gaelic Gold, Patina, Magical Mist, Winterscape and Midnight Flurry.

oooh pretty things

close up on Sultry - my personal fave!

I personally like the packaging - yes the dome makes the palette a little more bulky but its the most fun holiday aesthetic I have seen (in my opinion) since Fascinating Ruby (2009). Tartan Tale was VILE. 

So what MAC holiday products have taken YOUR fancy?

Until next time...............XO

PROJECT 10 PAN - UPDATE

I have now been doing Project 10 Pan for 2 months. 2 long months of actively using up products and NOT purchasing new ones. I have to say it has been an eye opener!

I have proved to myself I DONT need to buy EVERY single new product on the market. I have discovered a satisfying sense of elation when I use up a product. And I have more space in my flat. Winning!

Here is the picture of the huge amount of products I have used up (yes i know its a terrible quality photo - the point is the quantity not the quality! Plus Blogger wont let me rotate it and I can't be bothered to retake!)

so for me Project 10 pan was a pretty valuable lesson.  I will continue to use products up rather than allowing them to sit in drawers gathering dust and I don't need to buy a new "hype" product just because!

Ironically my next post is going to be a haul....yes I am a giant paradox, wrapped in an enigma

until next time!

XO