Makeup Art Cosmetics - Official US Release Date: August 20th, 2009
Press Release:
Everything We do at MAC is built around the idea that anything is possible when self-expression is honoured, exalted, allowed to rise to its ultimate aria. This season MAC celebrates the idea of the Artist in every shape and stripe...makeup as art form. We've selected three individuals who exemplify this idea through both the subjects they choose, and the wildly individual styles and colours used to convey them. Bold, heroic, big; giggly, playful, clever; dramatic, original, abstract: Fall '09 as seen by Richard Phillips, Maira Kalman, and Marilyn Minter. Be inspired!
Make-Up Art Cosmetics Fall '09 as seen by Richard Phillips
Andy Warhol did a cameo on The Love Boat in 1985...and in the same spirit, Richard Phillips' 1998 painting, Spectrum, made its debut on the scandelous Gossip Girl - a sign of the times! Need we say more? Recylced and re-imagined '50s,'60s, and '70s ads and images, and every colourful issue ever considered when pondering the question of "identity" is what Richard Phillips is all about. Highly technical, a refinement of precise, academic painting, his bold and beautiful portraits seem so relevant to everything MAC artistry is all about. A collection of eye shadow quads, lipsticks, Lipglass, and The Perfect Cheek Blush just leap off the canvas!
Lipsticks - USD $14.00
Full Body - Deep red plum (lustre finish)
Hold the Pose - Brown plum with gold pearlized pigments (lustre finish)
Front Lit - Light white yellow (frost finish)
Lovin' It - Cool neutral with yellow undertone (lustre finish)
High Strung - Deep pink silver (frost finish)
Lipglass - USD $14.00
On Display - Purple yellow with pearlized pigments (frost finish)
New Spirit - Light yellow coral (frost finish)
Personal Taste - Mid-tone rose with pink and gold pearlized pigments (frost finish)
Young Thing - Yellow Neutral with gold pearlized pigments (frost finish)
Eye Shadow x 4 - USD $36.00
Photo Realism Quad
Photo Realism - Gold shimmer with gold pearlized pigments (frost finish)
Fresh Approach - Cool mint green (veluxe pearl finish)
Image Maker - Mid-tone grey green (frost finish)
Grey Range - Deep blue green (veluxe pearl finish)
In The Gallery Quad - USD $36.00
Lightfall - Pale Pink (satin finish)
Look at the Eyes - Light violet (frost finish)
In The Gallery - Mid-tone blue pink (matte finish)
Private Viewing - Deep brown plum (matte finish)
Notoriety Quad - USD $36.00
Skintone 1 - Light white pink (lustre finish)
Skintone 2 - Mid tone gold (frost finish)
Notoriety - Mid tone brown with gold pearl (velvet finish)
Rich & Earthy - Rich coral bronze (veluxe pearl finish)
Plush Lash Mascara - USD $13.00
Plushblack - Black
Powder Blushes - USD $18.50
The Perfect Cheek - Mid-tone pale pink (matte finish)
Notable - Mid-tone brick brown red (satin finish)
Make-Up Art Cosmetics Fall '09 as seen by Maira Kalman, Illustrator
We still chuckle (along with all of Manhattan) over the now-famous New Yorker cover illustration of "Newyorkistan." Cheeky, witty, always amusing, Maira's illustrations are cute and colourful, wonderfully child-like, playful...and sophisticated all at once. Technakohl Liners and Maira's Magical thinking Eye Shadows are made for the MAC Artist with a sense of mischief and a deep desire to be defiantly different. Warm and eccentric at the same time, Maira's faces are full of cock-eyed optimism, with the tiniest smidge of city-girl-snobbism...simply, scrumptiously, stupendously sublime!
Eye Shadows - USD $14.50
Crest The Wave - Rich yellow frost (frost finish)
Off the Page - Mid-tone mustard orange (frost finish)
Haunting - Light turquoise blue (satin finish)
Violet Trance - Deep blue purple (matte finish)
Purple Shower - Medium-tone magenta with silver pearlized pigments (satin finish)
Maira's Magic - Yellow pink (satin finish)
Technakohl Liners - USD $14.50
Full of Fuchsia - Deep blue magenta (frost finish)
Artistic License - Bright turquoise blue (frost finish)
Colour Matters - Bright lime (cream finish)
Obviously Orange - Dirty coral (frost finish)
Graphblack - Rich graphic black (cream finish)
Make-Up Art Cosmetics Fall '09 as seen by Marilyn Minter, Photographer
There's that famous close-up of Tom Ford's belly button, part of the "Pathology of Glamour" that this artist renders with luminous, almost hallucinatory colour and painterly photo-realism... Erotic imagery that zooms in on a succulently wet, red lip, a dappled, sequined eye, or a silverized stiletto splashing in the mud. The Whitney Biennial Artist says she's "Never met a model who actually thinks she's beautiful," and that observation goes a long way to explain how she connects to what MAC wants to say about all-inclusiveness - we're ALL beautiful sometimes. Pigments in Push the Edge and Copper or Gold Gliter have the power to make anyone feel like they WILL be seen - and desired.
Pigments - USD $19.50
Brash & Bold - Bright magenta (frost finish)
Push the Edge - Deep bright purple with pearlized pigments (frost finish)
Cocomotion - Mid-tone gold bronze with gold pearlized pigments (frost finish)
Heritage Rouge - Mid-tone brown plum (frost finish)
Glitter - USD $19.50
Fuchsia - Sparkling fuchsia
Gold - Sparkling chunky gold
Reflects Glitters - USD $19.50
Reflects Rust - Sparkling warm red
Reflects Copper - Sparkling saffron
Gloss Texture - USD $18.00
Clear Gloss - Clear
