The Bite Magazine Issue 17

Nutcracker Sweet Holiday Colour The new Christmas collection from MAC is definitely flamboyant and glam- orously pretty in pink. It is really a festive collection full of sweet candy colours and deep, intense dreamy nightshades. The Nutcracker collection embraces all fantasies and creatures of all types with something perfect for everybody. This particular limited collection offers gorgeous shimmery Dust Eye Shadows from light pink in Dance Flowers Dance, peachy gold shimmer in Forward March, and purple in Dark Lullaby, to black with gold sparkles in Mustache, which are sophisticatedly matched to their lipstick shades of soft pink in Kingdom of Sweet, and deep coral in Saucy Little Darling, to intense red in So Good For You, and deep plum purple in Leap Of Delight. Nutcracker Sweet Kits This is where the real magic really starts, and is endless. The Nutcracker Sweet Kits have a combination of pal- ettes for eyes, lips and cheeks for day and evening looks, completed with two sets of brushes. The pink packaging is brilliantly colourful and full of happiness, simply impossible to resist or even to pick from, as every palette has its own character and vibe. I can see my Christ- mas list growing and growing. Nutcracker Sweet Lip Bag The lip bags come in two shades: the Red Lip Bag has everything you need for a real vamp, chic red lips look, with Vamplify and Lipstick in intense blue-red Suggestive and Candy Cane, along with a matching Pro-Longwear Lip Pencil in bright cool red cream in Trust in Red. The Sweet Nude Lip Bag has the warm cocoa spice hues of Vamplify in mauve-nude Magic Spell and Lipstick in rosy-nude In Tuned, complete with Pro Longwear Lip Pencil in brown-mauve In Control. Nutcracker Sweet Eye Compact These eye shadow compacts have such a great combination of colours and tex- tures to really express and design any eye make-up look and cater for any taste. The compacts are available in three dif- ferent shades and have eye shadows in ten colours each, from matte, lustre, satin and shimmer finishes, allowing all sorts of combinations and colours to be mixed and matched.The compact is completed with a mirror and a dual-ended brush in 213 & 214, for an easier application. The compact sets are presented in colour coordination such as NUTCRACKER SWEET COOL EYE COMPACT with shades of pale- pink shimmer, charcoal plum, plummy taupe and mid-tone lilac while the NUTCRACKER SWEET WARM EYE COMPACT has a warmer feel to the shades rich in gold, metallic silver and browns to shimmer beiges and black with gold pearled shades. The NUTCRACKER SWEET SMOKY EYE COMPACT has exquisite shades to recreate any gradient and intense smoky eye effect, from bright apricot, soft peach and light beige shimmer to deep browns, stone and blackened brown. Nutcracker Sweet Face Compact This Face Compact kit has everything for cheeks in two gorgeous shades: Peach and Copper. Peach Face Compact has an