More MAC Haulage and Foundation Dilemma...

I must have been a very good girl this year, as Santa brought me (amongst other things) £50 in MAC vouchers - YAY! (Other makeup I got was from Bare Escentuals - I got the rocker eye kit and the Gold Gossamer set, and also a Buxom gloss in the shade Dolly - Reviews of all to come!)

So anyway, I went to the MAC store in Liverpool yesterday. My current makeup obsession is getting flawless skin, and playing around with different foundation looks, so I'm trying to build up my collection of foundations etc, and I had my eyes on a couple from MAC. I know a lot of people have bad reactions/breakouts with MAC foundations, I don't seem to be affected by this, but I don't usually wear liquid foundation every day - I usually wear mineral foundation for work or just casual looks. I do like to go for it some times though - nights out and special occasions. Anyway, I'm going off the point as usual. So to cut a long story short I recently got studio tech in NC20. I previously had it in NW20, which initially looked ok but I started to notice it was getting too pink on me. When I went yesterday I asked to be matched for studio fix fluid, and also full coverage foundation. I told the MUA I'd recently been matched for NC20 in the studio fix. She said that the other foundations were usually a close match shade wise and painted them both on with a 190 type brush. In studio fix fluid, NC20 made me look like a Simpsons character, while NC15 made me look like a ghost. The MUA suggested that I should try NW's, NW20 and NW15 both looked good but I went for NW15, as I thought it looked slightly more natural, I also like the fact that my skin is quite pale, I don't want to look tanned or anything, just flawless...

So we soldiered on to the full coverage - wierdly in this I matched NW20 the best.

Anyway, I was trying the studio fix fluid at home again today - initially it looked perfect, I really like the finish of this foundation. Then about half an hour later - I noiced a very slight pink look around my jaw. It seems to match my skin perfectly in the middle of my face - but look slightly pink around the jaw, probably no one else would notice, and I don't know if I'm being too picky. My boyfriend said it looked fine, but please bear in mind that this was after he commented "oh, I didn't realise you had makeup on...".

I think my skin is really awkward to match. I have both golden and pinky tones on my face and body. My neck is really pale in comparison to my face too...

I'm wondering if anyone else has used the full coverage foundation. I'm worried in case it runs dark and looks even more pink on my jaw. I'm not sure whether to keep it or take it back and get an NC colour... Oh dilemma!

Anyway, I also got the much coveted 109 brush. I tried it with my foundation today. It is really good, but I think might work better with a creamier foundation as studio fix seems to set too quickly to get the full benefit of the blending abilities of this brush, so I'll carry on using my 187 with this foundation. I'm glad I got the brush though... I also got fluidline in blacktrack, as I never had this before ( I know, I can't believe it either!), and a pan for my shadow palette in humid, which is a gorgeous green shade...

Oh and on the subject of MAC - I am NEVER going to that store in the school holidays again. It was full of adolescents in groups competing to be the loudest and shrieking at each other about lipglosses. One of them managed to throw a whole pot of loose powder over some other poor customer. The MUA's looked really pissed off, and I don't blame them. Also this guy came in who obviously liked to wear makeup, and most of them were just really rude and staring and sniggering about him. I was mortified on their behalf! Anyway I got out alive... with sanity intact... just about xxxx xxx xxxx