Topic: M.A.C.

Shopping Guide: Our 20 Favorite Spring Beauty Products For A Fresh Face

Shopping Guide: Our 20 Favorite Spring Beauty Products For A Fresh Face

It’s Springtime! That means a big change to makeup routines: gone is the matte skin, the moody ’90s lip colors, the heavy mascara, the cat’s eyes. Instead, skin gets dewier, cheeks get highlighted, liner is going from black to electric blue and moss green and lips are getting real, real bold.

This is the first of a few Spring beauty features we’ve got planned for May–first, we’re focusing on the face. Ahead, our 20 favorite Spring beauty products for emphasizing your beautiful face, featuring foundations, blushes, highlighters, moisturizers, and masks from brands like Hourglass, Make Up For Ever, Kiehl’s, Tom Ford, Juara, Tarte, MAC and more… More »

Shopping Guide: 12 Fantastic Last Minute Gifts For The Make-Up Obsessed

Shopping Guide: 12 Fantastic Last Minute Gifts For The Make-Up Obsessed

The holidays are all about friends, family and… spending money like water. No matter how hard you try, you’re always astonished/horrified by the amount of money you burn this time of year. Lucky, cosmetics offer an easy out–many of the most opulent designer lipsticks, for example, hover around $40. If you plan on gifting some loved ones, here’s a guide with lots of options (in lots of universally flattering shades) but really, you should just be gifting yourself something nice before the money runs out. Good luck! More »

Nicki Minaj and Ricky Martin Team Up For MAC’s Viva Glam Campaign

Nicki Minaj and Ricky Martin Team Up For MAC’s Viva Glam Campaign

MAC is pretty good at distilling the brand in its campaigns: here’s Ricky Martin and Nicki Minaj tooling around on a motorcycle in leather with comically oversized cosmetics against a backdrop of what would happen if a first grader ate too many Crayons and threw up on an autoshop. Regarding Martin’s white leather jacket/vest, we’ve no clue what’s going on there. More »

Gallery: Cindy Sherman’s Collaboration With M.A.C. Cosmetics

Gallery: Cindy Sherman's Collaboration With M.A.C. Cosmetics

Chameleon-like artist Cindy Sherman uses various dramatic self-portraits to interact with and comment on society. M.A.C. cosmetics sells makeup to people. According to some academic articles I just Googled up, Sherman’s work functions seamlessly and successfully within the economic framework of late capitalist society, so it’s not surprising at all that she’d accept an offer to partner with M.A.C. in creating (and modeling) several different color palettes. Here they are. More »