For Lips to choose a Hip Victoriana Aesthetic: The MAC Ruffian Collection Lipsticks

using MAC Ruffian Gold Lipstick, $14.50

Slowly however surely, one Marshall’s go to at a time, I’m moving away from my natural tendency to gown like a 13-year-old skater young boy from The Valley as well as toward a ideally much more stylish future as a 30-something-year-old lady with killer shoes as well as a quirky Cali woman sense of style…

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…she wrote, sitting at her desk in an over-sized O’Neil surf tee as well as a pair of board shorts with cargo pockets.

LOL! Okay, it’s a process. A really, truly sluggish process.

But one of the very best parts of this slow-going effort to take my wardrobe much more seriously has been figuring out what makeup to wear with different looks.

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Like for my present fashion phase, beachy summertime dresses, I’ve been gravitating toward neons as well as brights.

How long the phase will last, however, is difficult to say…especially now that I’ve seen the new MAC Ruffian collection.

Looking for a lipstick to wear with a streetwise Victorian style? Something to go keeping that tweed jacket as well as that top with the bell-sleeves as well as ruffles, perhaps?

If so, it’s MAC Ruffian time.

The six-piece on the internet special is a partnership between MAC as well as Ruffian, the NYC-based style duo of Brian Wolk as well as Claude Morais. Their clothes have an upscale, vintage vibe, with ready-to-wear (but difficult to afford) pieces ranging from $800 for a t-shirt to $1,800 (!) for a jacket, as well as fans include edgy actresses Maggie Gyllenhaal as well as Kirsten Dunst.

For the MAC Ruffian collection (available on the internet now in North America, as well as concerning choose worldwide MAC places this September), Brian as well as Claude directed their style aesthetic into three Lipsticks ($14.50 us as well as $17.50 CDN) as well as three Ruffian Manicure sets ($25 us as well as $30 CDN) in classic, ageless shades of red, gold, beige as well as peach.

From the left: Ruffian Gold, Ruffian Red as well as Ruffian naked Lipsticks

I took a break from summertime brights as well as neons today to try the three lipsticks, as well as the very first thing that concerned mind: Chanel. as well as then Sir Arthur Conan Doyle… Or something he may have written, had Sherlock Holmes investigated a criminal offense against Chanel (NO!). “It has long been an axiom of mine that Chanel ought to influence much more things.”

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The red as well as gold are reminding me of 2010’s Shanghai-inspired Chanel Noir’ Et Or.

Here are some private thoughts on the three Lipsticks (Ruffian Manicure evaluation coming soon!)…

Russian Red devotees, there’s one more blueish red in town, as well as this likewise has a matte finish. I believe Ruffian Red shows a bit much more blue than its Russian cousin as well as seems somewhat much more advanced as a result. makeup as well as charm blog RATING: B+

With that beautiful glossy surface as well as those flecks of glitter, Ruffian Gold should moonlight as a Chanel Rouge Coco Shine! Oh…I believe it might look truly quite paired with bronze eyeshadow as well as coral blush. makeup as well as charm blog RATING: A

Unlike Ruffian Red as well as Gold, Ruffian Naked, the pale peachy matte, doesn’t light my fire. I like the color, however it reminds me as well much of MAC myth from the fashion sets release as well as pro Longwear Lipcreme in You’re ideal Already. It’s likewise not the smoothest feline in town, as well as I discover it rather drying. makeup as well as charm blog RATING: C+/B-

Clockwise from the red tube on the left: Ruffian Red, Ruffian naked as well as Ruffian Gold

Swatches from the left: Ruffian Red, Ruby Woo, Russian Red as well as MAC Red; Ruffian Naked, You’re ideal already as well as Myth; Ruffian Gold

Ruffian Naked

Ruffian Red

With these colors, it’s as if MAC took existing shades as well as just modified them a little, as well as I’m alright keeping that (this time), since there’s something ageless about the colors, as well as it makes them shades I understand I’ll wear.

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If you’re believing about skipping summertime as well as getting an early begin on fall, they might likewise be great colors for something like that.

The entire MAC Ruffian collection includes…

Lipstick in Ruffian naked ($14.50 US, $17.50 CDN): a pale peachy nude matte

Lipstick in Ruffian Gold ($14.50 US, $17.50 CDN): a gold glittery metallic frost

Lipstick in Ruffian Red ($14.50 US, $17.50 CDN): a traditional rich blueish red matte

Ruffian Manicure in Spectator ($25 US, $30 CDN): cream with a black half moon, black French suggestion as well as black Ruffian Ensignia

Ruffian Manicure in Demoiselle ($25 US, $30 CDN): Ruffian Red with a white half moon as well as a black French suggestion

Ruffian Manicure in Demilune ($25 US, $ 30 CDN): Mattet svart med krom gull Half Moon

Ditt vennlige samfunn sjarmavhengig,

Karen.