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Halloween Makeup Q&A With Luc Bouchard
ARTIST’S NAME: Luc B., MAC Senior Artist
LOCATION: New York City
STARTED 1984
ODD HABITS: Humming while doing makeup.
FUN FACTS: If there is a dog in the room, I ignore people in favour of the dog!
Q: What’s so special about Halloween?
A: Halloween is exhilarating makeup time! It’s the time of year when you can let all your alter egos come out! Whether your thing is drag, scary monsters or celebrity impersonations, just have fun!
Q: What are you planning to be for Halloween?
A: I don’t dress up! I just love watching all the action in the streets. I live in the East Village in New York, and the fun part is just watching everybody come out and play. Even if sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s a Halloween look or just a colourful neighbour.
From villainous vamps to dolled-up demons, M∙A∙C Senior Artists Bianca Alexander, Luc Bouchard, Keri Blair, Sandy Joseph and Chantel Miller revel in the ghouls – and glamour – of Halloween
Q: What are the products you most often use during Halloween?
A: I would say I love MAC Studio Finish SPF 35 Concealer as a base. That way, you basically have a blank canvas and you can create anything you want. Also, all the MAC Pro Lipmix colours are great if you want very rich, creamy colours that will make a statement. Prep + Prime finishing powder can set anything into place and make it last all night.
MAC Cosmetics Top Halloween Makeup Looks: Step by Step Instructions
If you are a MAC lover and also looking for Halloween makeup inspiration, you don’t want to miss MAC’s video: MAC Not Afraid To Be Freaky!
Spooky-kooky to ga-ga gorgeous, the top looks of Halloween are here as five MAC Senior Artists demonstrate how monstrously fun and devilishly do-able our looks can be! For more inspiration, go to Photos tab http://www.facebook.com/MACcosmetics … and pick your look from our monster roster of 21 Face Charts.
Here are some highlights of how to get some of MAC’s top Halloween makeup looks or faces:
From the album: “TOP HALLOWEEN LOOKS + FACE CHARTS” by MAC Cosmetics
Exotic Zea (look featured in the video)
Look created by M·A·C Artist: Franklin Betancourt
Location: Shaumburg, IL, USA
Follow the step-by-step and M·A·C products listed below to achieve that look.
Click here for a printable version of this look to bring to a MAC Artist in a store near you; links to the products used are also included: http://www.maccosmetics.com/halloween1
Or visit http://bit.ly/maccosmetics to purchase these products online or find a store near you. Pro products can be purchased in any MAC Pro store.
Step-By-Step Instructions:
MAC Magic Mirth And Mischief
MAC Magic Mirth And Mischief
Brush Bags
The Magician’s tricks are all in the bag – a sleight of hand that provokes the question, “How did you do that?” The answers have been gathered together in three different techniques, with three different effects: Do-the-Trick Buff and Line Brushes, containing 168SE, 187SE, 209SE, 219SE and 252SE tools; Wave Of A Wand Sweep and Define Brushes, holding 129SE, 190SE, 212SE, 227SE, 275SE tools; and finally, Morning, Noon & Knight Everything Eye Brushes with 194SE, 204SE, 224SE, 266SE and 275SE tools. All sparkle with the irresistible spirit and decorative shine of the season.
Lip and Eye bags
The Fete Set needs their party favours – little pick-me-ups and help-me-alongs that keep the swish in swing, the glamour going all night long. High-tone metallic bags for Lips and Eyes, everything you need to make mirth, all in one place. Get your hands on Put A Spell On You Pink or House Of Mirth Deep Lip Bags, all with Lipstick, Lip Pencil and Dazzleglass in tow. Add Naughty Noir and Alakazam! Chocolate Eye Bags, both with Fluidline and 209SE Brush, Pigment and Zoom Lash accoutrements. lip eye and face kits Eight precociously pretty new holiday kits, presented and packaged with bubbly optimism, sophisticated and amusing as a New Yorker cartoon. For Eyes: 6 Devil May Dare Warm Eye Shadows, 6 Mystic Cool Eye Shadows, 6 Smoke and Mirrors Eye Shadows, and 6 Sorceress Eye Shadows. For lips: Heavenly Dish Neutral Lip Kit and Possessed by Pink! Lip Kit. Finally for face: Hocus Focus Colourful Face Kit and Fab-racadabra Bronze Face Kit. Each a world of wonder, to collect and give – but only to the most delightful of the deserving.
MAC Holiday 2009 Collections
MAC Holiday Collections focus on festivities and the fabulous this Holiday. Shimmery silvery compacts, makeup bags and boxes adorned with playful bubbles encase MAC’s most merry hues. There is something for everyone with holiday makeup shades, gifts that give back and holiday gift ideas!
MAC Holiday Colour:
Magic, Mirth, and Mischief
Inspired by a holiday spirit that’s impromptu, unstuffy and informal, this Holiday collection focuses on FUN! Cheeks are coloured with Mineralize Blush featuring a crescent full of sparkle to add Holiday wonderment. Choose from two of the most popular glosses: lusciously moist Cremesheen Lipglass or startlingly sparkly Dazzleglass, each creating a polished pout that stands out. Or choose from seven pouches to target eyes or lips or fulfill all your makeup brush fantasies. And there are Lip, Eye and Face Palettes that put a bevy of glorious colours in your palm. Available October 15, 2009 at all MAC locations.
MAC Viva Glam: Gifts That Give Back:
Miracles Can Happen Viva Glam Lip Kit
Believe in miracles large and small, in magic of all kinds, and give a gift that also helps others. Featuring Lipstick in Viva Glam V and VI and Lipglass in Viva Glam V, this deep red compact contains some of our most popular shades. Every cent of the selling price of Viva Glam Lipstick and Lipglass is donated to the MAC AIDS Fund to support men, women and children living with HIV and AIDS. Available October 15, 2009 at all MAC locations.
MAC Dazzleglass Creme
MAC Dazzleglass Creme: Flashing flecks of lustrous glimmer give lips a new kind of high-beam shine, while the balm-effect of the pillow-top comfort creme keeps the supple going and going.
Ultra-luxurious, no sticky smack or drag, Aloe and Vitamin E enriched, keeps lips lightweight but strong-willed, for long-lustre, ultimate luminosity. Wear it alone for medium-sheer, dewy coverage…. For dazzle with absolute comfort, it’s better than brilliant. And the accompanying applicator brush is a dream.
Dazzleglass creme
Sublime Shine Light coral brown with gold pearl
MAC Zoom Fast Black Lash
Anyone who thinks Black is Black hasn’t got their hands on Zoom Fast Black Lash, our newest mascara designed for voluptuous night-sky volume, length like a glamorous, never-ending asphalt highway!
This is the deep end of the Dark View, the night charm of every neo-Goth night crawler, and the most dramatic statement black could make for the Film Noir way of life. Day or night, sweep it on, and don’t stop there…a second coat before twilight will make the evening all the more exciting. It’s intense. Fast. And blacker than black. Zoom!
ZOOM FAST BLACK LASH
Deepest black
Suggested Retail Price $13.00 U.S./$15.50 CDN
MAC DSQUARED2
MAC DSQUARED2: Every season the fashion crowd is up and on the run, crazy for the fierce and sexy fun we’ve come to expect from designers Dan and Dean Caten, the Canadian twins who know how to pack a punch – and throw a party! With their haute hi-jinx and body-beautiful clothes for boys and girls, a collaboration with MAC simply could NOT be avoided!
“DSquared² and MAC are on the same trip!” says Dan. It starts with a strong, sooty, blackest-ever wild-child eye… a new Greasepaint Stick also in blue and violet versions, and Pro Gloss to create it. Neutral and perfected skin will get more drama with highlighting and low lighting from Sculpt and Shape Powders and the 165 Tapered Cheek/Highlight Brush all the better to achieve it. And finally, the totally nude Pro Lip Erase does its stuff, followed by a light Lipstick and Lip Conditioner to put the lilt and lift back in…. But the cynosure of this season’s scintillating collaboration is the daring, dramatic, slightly demented DSquared² eye. Have fun with it!
LIPSTICK
Nude rose Sheer light neutral pink (lustre)
MAC Style Black
MAC Style Black: From towering ink-jet beehive and eyeliner to Steven “80s” sprouse-in-the-house kohl and fringe, to street-smart London new goth, black is simply beyond!
The ever-overlapping worlds of Fashion and Art may choose to revel in a Technicolour dream or a day-glo fantasy from time to time, but deep down, as Amy Winehouse likes to say in her wicked, wobbly way, it’s always “Back to Black.”
We first saw it in Milan for Jil Sander, in the spectacular living sculptures Raf Simmons chiseled from supple, constructed ebony curves and seams, each with an occasional fiery ruffle and flourish. We loved it at Calvin Klein, in boxy structures that echoed artist Richard Serra’s epic shapes in their steely, outright boldness, eyelashes like the black widow spiders of sculptor Louise Bourgeois’ sexy, sinister giant tarantulas….She mates, and she kills! And we were bouncing like black espresso beans at the New Goth youthquake we saw stomping down the runway at Gareth Pugh in London – the black market equivalent of a boot-leg Clash LP, all slick black vinyl and cool indignation. Quite simply the most intriguing new take on what “Goth” can be in the New Century, the Modern Black-o-Sphere.
MAC Style Black: MAC Young Punk Eye Shadow
I love these three products from the NEW MAC Style Black makeup collection: Young Punk Eye Shadow, Glimmerglass Blackfire, and Greasepaint Stick! They are the perfect black purple shade, or eggplant. Great color to add to your fall makeup bag!
Images below were taken for Talking Makeup’s Twitter!
From left: Young Punk Eye Shadow, Glimmerglass Blackfire, and Greasepaint Stick
The MAC Greasepaint Stick is an amazing eye liner! If you are looking for The eye liner you might want to give this one a go. It has a bit of a thick point, yet super easy to apply and to get that perfect line on top of lids, or even bottom lids. And the pigment is to die for. It’s super dark purple with black. This MAC eye liner takes the black eye liner into a whole new level.
MAC Tone: Grey Eye Shadow x4: MAC F/W 09-NEW
Hi Guys! Hope all is great!!
Here is a photo I took with my Blackberry for Talking Makeup’s Twitter: www.twitter.com/TalkingMakeup of MAC Tone: Grey Eye Shadow x4 from the NEW MAC F/W 09 makeup collection.
I often take images of some of the hottest new makeup, skincare, and hair care products on Twitter, so make sure to follow me!:)
