To this day, MAC continues to put out professional quality, MUA-approved longwear products that are not only hitting the latest trends but performing as we’d expect from a seasoned cosmetics brand like MAC. The lip liner in shade Spice and the Lustreglass Sheer-Shine Lipstick in the shade Spice It Up! specifically were staples in the makeup room of the award-winning show. MAC Cosmetics took the makeup market by storm in the ’90s when they were confirmed to be a part of Rachel Green and Monica Geller’s looks from the hit show FRIENDS. They celebrate individuality and expression, giving bold and pigmented makeup that you can experiment with to find your signature look. Their makeup blends current trends, street style, and glamour for a carefully formulated but relevant line of products. Whirl I think is more of a pink toned brown whereas Kiko‘s 300 is definitely more brown but it pairs up with Velvet Teddy beautifully providing a great base as well as a great outline of the lips to provide that much sought after shape rather than a lipstick mess.MAC Cosmetics has been dominating the beauty product world since the ’90s.

I involved a Kiko haul/product review on here a little while ago ( here) and I do genuinely think you can’t go wrong with their lipliners (or any of their products in fact). The lipliner that it has been paired with ( Mac’s Whirl) is now possibly more elusive than Velvet Teddy but I think I have found a decent -cheaper- alternative in Kiko‘s Precision lip pencil in 300. What has suprised me most though about this lipstick is how deliciously buttery and creamy it is once applied and it lasts extremely well -not of course that I would have expected anything less from a Mac product. Velvet Teddy is a very workable, everyday nudey colour. In fact, those that were championing Velvet Teddy long before the craze I salute you! I think laid out amongst other more vibrant colours, Velvet Teddy wouldn’t have jumped out at me or been a shade I would have thought to try however, I can totally see how people go nuts for it once they make the discovery with or without the influence of Kylie Jenner. To say it was added swiftly into my basket is an understatement and I half expected Mac to email me later to say there had either been a mistake or that stocks had suddenly diminished. Like everyone else, I struggled to get hold of it and even sent my Mum off to the States to see if she could track it down to then by chance, see it was available (and still is I believe) on the Mac UK website. Possibly one of if not the most sought after ( Mac) lipstick of 2014-present and I have managed to get my little mits on it! I have known of its existance for ages but -and I’ll be honest with you here, Sweeties- it’s only since the world went totally crazy for Velvet Teddy that my own intrigue ramped up like, massively.

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