MAC Me Over Collection Details, Official Product Pics, Winner Bio's and a Q&A with MAC Creative Director James Gager - Makeup and Beauty Blog

The rundown on MAC'due south Fall 2011 MAC Me Over collection, bachelor on counters and at MAC stores August 25. Drove details, official production pics, winner bio'southward and a Q&A with MAC Creative Director James Gager.

Concluding fall, MAC held a contest in which gals and guys submitted pictures and videos of themselves using the phrase, "MAC me over because…" and completing it with "style, centre and soul." MAC recently appear the winners, who wait totally incredible in their bio pictures, don't they? At present, they go along to become the face of and inspiration for the upcoming collection.

This is gonna be so cool! 🙂

Icelandic Cool collection details

EYE SHADOW X 4 Lady Grey, $38.00 U.S./$45.50 CDN
All Races — Absurd lite taupe mauve (Matte)
Tendersmoke — Muted silver lilac (Frost)
Lady Grey — Low-cal frosted green-grayness (Satin)
Hazy Day — Mid-tone gray (VXP)

SHADESTICK, $17.50 U.South./$21.00 CDN
Butternutty — Frosted lite neutral beige
Cakeshop — Frosted pewter
Tundra — Icy Silver
Heirloom — Lite icy pink
Street Cool — Mid-tone grey violet taupe

LIPGLASS, $14.50 U.S./$17.fifty CDN
The Wee Coquette — Naked neutral pink
Good Times — Pale mauve
Spite — Muted plum-taupe chocolate-brown

NAIL LACQUER $fifteen.00 U.Due south./$xviii.00 CDN
Repose Time — Biscuit nude (Creme)
Fatigues — Regular army green (Creme)

214 Brusk SHADER BRUSH, $24.50 U.S./$29.l CDN
226 Modest TAPERED BLENDING Castor, $24.l U.S./$29.50 CDN

New Black collection details

Centre SHADOW 10 four — Evil Middle, $38.00 U.S./$45.l CDN
Evil Center — Deep yellow grey (Matte)
Palace Pedigreed — Deep berry with dark soft pinkish pearl (Satin)
Spellcaster — Blackened violet (Matte)
Moody — Blackened green (VXP)

FLUIDLINE, $15.00 U.S./$18.00 CDN
Dark Diversion — Darkened Plum
Avenue — Charcoal blackness with gold pearl
Midnight Blues –Blackened blue
Dark Envy — Blackened Dark-green

LIPSTICK, $14.50 U.S./$17.fifty CDN
Rebel — Vivid pinkish-purple (Satin)
Prince Noir — Deep blue-purple (Matte)
Smoked Regal — Deep eggplant imperial (Matte)
Delinquent Cherry — Rich cerise-blue (Satin)

NAIL LACQUER, $15.00 U.South./$18.00 CDN
Purple Majesty — Deep purple (Creme)
Deep Body of water — Deep teal (Creme)

211 POINTED LINER Castor, $18.00 U.S./$21.50 CDN

MAC Basics collection details

M·A·C Basics EYE SHADOW, $xv.00 U.South./$18.00 CDN
Creamy Bisque — Muddy ivory with pearl (Frost)
Moleskin — Nude brownish (Matte)
Outré — Muddied mustard (Matte)
Satin Taupe — Taupe with silver shimmer (Frost)
Mythical — Frosty coppery cerise (VXP)
Carbonized — Frosty dark chocolate-brown (VXP)

EYE KOHL, $15.00 U.Due south./$18.00 CDN
Teddy — Intense bronze
Smolder — Intense black

LIPSTICK, $14.l U.S./$17.50 CDN
Surreptitious Lover — Pale pink with yellow frost (Lustre)
Peachstock — Neutral peach (Satin)
Offshoot — Mid-tone neutral pink (Cremesheen)
Oh, Oh, Oh — Plum bronze with pearl (Lustre)

LIPGLASS, $14.50 U.S./$17.l CDN
Illicit — Creamy neutral pink
Social Light — Neutral pink with pearl
Curvaceous — Light grey pink
Plum Fun — Neutral plum purple with pearl

LIP PENCIL, $14.00 U.South./$17.00 CDN
Spice — Pinkish cinnamon stick
Chestnut — Intense brown

Foam COLOUR BASE, $17.00 U.Due south./$20.fifty CDN
Take Root — Rich red dark-brown (Frost)
Seaside — Soft peach rose (Frost)

Powder Blush, $19.50 U.S./$23.fifty CDN
Equilibrium — Light statuary (Satin)
Stunner — Light coral pink (Satin)

STUDIO FIX FLUID in NW20, $26.l U.S./$32.00 CDN
STUDIO Fix POWDER in NC35, $26.50 U.S./$32.00 CDN
STUDIO Cease CONCEALER in NW25, $17.00 U.S./$21.00 CDN
116 Chroma BRUSH, $34.00 U.S./$41.00 CDN

Icelandic Cool product pictures

Center SHADOW Ten 4 Lady Grey

Butternutty

Cakeshop

Tundra

Heirloom

Street Cool

The Wee Coquette

Skillful Times

Spite

Quiet Time

Fatigues

214 Curt SHADER Brush

226 SMALL TAPERED BLENDING Brush

New Black product pictures

Heart SHADOW 10 4 — Evil Heart

Dark Diversion

Avenue

Midnight Blues

Dark Green-eyed

Insubordinate

Prince Noir

Smoked Regal

Runaway Red

Royal Majesty

Deep Bounding main

211 POINTED LINER BRUSH

MAC Nuts product pictures

Creamy Bisque

Moleskin

Outré

Satin Taupe

Mythical

Carbonized

Teddy

Smolder

Secret Lover

Peachstock

Offshoot

Oh, Oh, Oh

Take Root

Seaside

Equilibrium

Stunner

Illicit

Social Lite

Curvaceous

Plum Fun

Spice

Chestnut

Studio Fix Fluid in NW20

Studio Fix Powder in NC35

Studio Finish Concealer in NW25

116 Chroma Castor

190 Foundation Castor

MAC Me Over bios

A Star is Born — Shirely Daley

Cleveland native Shirley Daley has a truly inspirational story. The 29-year-quondam grew upwardly in foster intendance and was driveling at the age of four. "But I'thousand a survivor!", she insists. When she was 6, her new foster mother saw that she had talent, and encouraged her to sing in church building. Later on she enrolled in the Cleveland Schoolhouse of the Arts, which she attended from elementary until graduation. As a classically trained vocaliser, she was accepted into Morgan State University, where she toured the globe with the schoolhouse's choir. "My number ane favorite identify is Paris, it just oozed glamour!" Later she joined Group Therapy, a gospel-influenced troupe that performed equally background singers and for diverse BET programs in San Diego, California. She now lives in Newport News, Virginia and is married to a Naval Petty Officer 1st Course and meteorologist, but nevertheless works with Grouping Therapy, who just recorded an album to be released later this year.
A cocky-described "M·A·C fanatic," the makeup junkie nigh missed the opportunity to enter the makeover competition. "My friend forwarded me the email assuming I'd already applied, merely I actually had no idea that the contest was going on." Shirley made certain she wrote in, and earlier she knew it, establish herself flying to New York for the photo shoot. "I'm a girly-girl, I love to clothes upwards, I honey the drama of it and trying all kinds of unlike glam looks. Patently, makeup fits correct in, and when it comes to M·A·C, it doesn't become any more than dramatic than that!" Currently, she's pursuing a degree in the music business organisation and then she will be meliorate equipped to manage her own career.

Hidden Talent
"Something many people don't know about me is that I accept a secret passion for acting."

Favorite Song
"Always" past Stevie Wonder

Fave M·A·C Product
"Without question, Studio Fix. That compact is like a badge of honour. Once you observe your number and get your beginning compact, you officially become a M·A·C Diva… I'thousand NW45."

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Vintage Diana Ross. "I love her look with assuming lashes with eyeliner, no shadow, a little blush and a lip color. It's classic, simple and dramatic at the same time."

Who Would Play Yous in a Movie?
Jennifer Hudson. "Only who knows, I may do information technology!"

Superlative Makeup Tip (you learned from M·A·C Me Over!)
"To brand your eye shadow pop with shine, dab a tiny bit of articulate Lipglass on it. This adds drama!"

Favorite Magazine
Essence

Winning Entry
"I am going to change the world, 1 smile at a time."

The Glamourous Gunslinger — Nicole DiCrescenza

Nicole DiCrescenza, twenty, is 1 tough chick. The sometimes model and straight-A Communications and Journalism major at Neumann University in Aston, Pennsylvania has an unlikely hobby for such a makeup-loving glamazon: Ane day she tagged along with her boyfriend to a shooting range and discovered that she was a perfect shot. "I beloved shooting guns! I collect shotguns and rifles, amid other firearms," she confesses. If that doesn't make her enough of a badass, she likewise drives a huge baby blue ‘81 Oldsmobile Regency that she named Belladonna. "My dad likes that I am protected by this majorly heavy steel," she explains. She claims that winning a spot in M·A·C Me Over! means she can die happy. "I'm non kidding," she says. "My absolute goal in life was to model for M·A·C. It is literally a dream come true." Later on her makeover experience, which she deemed "transformative," now she'southward focused on her ideal task, which is to piece of work in public relations for the visitor someday.

Nickname
Bling Bling

Hidden Talent
Makeup artistry

Fave M·A·C Product
M·A·C Studio Sculpt Concealer and Skinfinish Natural Pressed Pulverization

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Kim Kardashian

Favorite Designers
Marc Jacobs, Christian Louboutin, Jimmy Choo

Who Would Play You in a Movie?
Cher

Acme Makeup Tip (you learned from M·A·C Me Over)
"Curl your lashes with mini-spoon."

Favorite Magazine
Vogue

Spider web Obsession
MACCOSMETICS.com

Winning Entry
"I want to spread the versatile, unique and creative philosophy that M·A·C Cosmetics illustrates! M·A·C products allow me to imaginatively morph my original look into a multitude of unique appearances. My features offering a universal quality that tin can be manipulated for the futurity world of M·A·C designs."

Equally Smart as He Looks — Ian Marc Saisselin

The closest Connecticut resident Ian Marc Saisselin, 20, always came to wearing makeup would exist as a toddler, when he gained some experience with the earth of NYC editorial and commercial photograph shoots via the occasional jobs he picked up as a child model with Ford. That all inverse when he became a new face up for M·A·C Me Over afterwards his mother and sister, both M·A·C enthusiasts, encouraged him to enter. Subsequently, he has developed a new appreciation for the art course: "I never realized how much the face is like a sheet," he admits. "Information technology was really interesting to encounter how the colours and textures come together to create a certain expect." Recent high schoolhouse graduate and self-described "figurer geek," the new college student is more comfy with computer games and edifice robots than lipsticks and mascaras. Still, that didn't end him from wearing his makeover, what he calls a "sort of dark, vampiric David Bowie kind of look" out on the streets of New York on the afternoon following the shoot. "People were definitely starting at me, though it was unclear whether they thought I was a rock star or just a freak," he says. Some other lesson he learned about a full face of camera- set up makeup? "It's hard to get that stuff off. I must have used at least xx remover wipes!"

Hidden Talent
Web designer

Favorite Volume
Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

Ideal Meal
Chicken parmesan with spaghetti

Fave M·A·C Product
Facial cleanser

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Albert Einstein

Astrological Sign
Cancer

Favourite Magazine
Popular Science

Web Obsession
BBC.com, Engadget

Winning Entry
"With my American/French genes I feel I stand for a worldly look. I am a higher student majoring in English with a Philosophy minor. I am a dedicated volunteer, humanitarian and lover of animals. I am a potent still sensitive type, which I think truly shows in my eyes. I would honey to exist M·A·C's new face up."

California Girl — Rachel Martinez

Rachel Martinez is your typical Due west Coast gal. The 27-twelvemonth-old L.A. built-in-and-bred beauty loves hanging at the beach, and cites the "slap-up weather and laid-back attitude" among her favourite aspects of living in Southern California. Mayhap it was the restrictions of her all-girls, Catholic school upbringing that propelled her toward the world of makeup artistry. "In high school my makeup was pretty modest," she admits. "Only after I graduated did I commencement getting into it." The pastry chef also acknowledges that her involvement in baking coincides with beauty equally well. "It's a similar passion," she explains. "With makeup, there are so many unlike colours and looks and if you add or take abroad a product you lot tin can create something unlike. Same with cooking, where you take one ingredient and you could make a whole new dish." Flying to New York for M·A·C Me Over! made her recall her all-time favourite movie makeover, when tomboy cop Sandra Bullock becomes an overnight beauty queen in the movie, Miss Congeniality. "They gave me this bold red lip look and now I have been rocking 1 ever since."

Hidden Talent
Cooking and baking

Favorite Book
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Ideal Meal
Sushi. "Only I dearest all kinds of food!"

Fave M·A·C Product
Lipglass

Astrological Sign
Taurus

Favourite Designer
Stella McCartney

Who Would Play You in a Flick?
Ellen Folio

Top Makeup Tip (y'all learned from M·A·C me Over!)
Apply lipstick with a lip castor.

Favourite Magazine
Cosmopolitan

Web Obsession
Food Network.com

Winning Entry
"I think I have a bully personality, and I'thou like shooting fish in a barrel to become along with. I beloved my family and I'm grateful to the people that have stood by my side. I work in a baker and blueprint the best cupcakes. I accept strong values that I inherited from my grandparents."

Sis Deed — Xee Lo

20-seven-yr-old Xee Lo might never take discovered her love for makeup artistry had her little sister non dragged her along to a M·A·C counter for a makeup lesson a few years agone. "Ever since then, I started buying lots of M·A·C products and wearing a lot more makeup!", she laughs. Growing up in Stockton, California, where she worked in restaurants after the schoolhouse solar day, didn't leave a lot of time for extracurricular pursuits. The ability of cosmetics was an outlet. "When I wear makeup, it makes me feel a lot more confident. It's truly an art form, like painting." Currently going to school in Georgia in order to obtain a nursing degree — "It makes sense, I accept four brothers and three sisters, so I have ever been taking care of people," she explains — she entered M·A·C Me Over on a whim. When she was notified that she had won past email, she thought someone was playing a joke on her, and deleted it. "Luckily, they got in bear upon over again," she says. Though she'south always maintained a fairly natural look, post-M·A·C Me Over! she's feeling a niggling more experimental. "I'm definitely playing with colour more these days!"

Hobby
"Shopping! I have over 20 pairs of shoes."

Favourite Vocal
"Grenade" by Bruno Mars

Ideal Meal
Chocolate chip waffles, scrambled eggs and a cold glass of fresh OJ.

Fave M·A·C Product
M·A·C Studio Sculpt Foundation

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Christian Dior

Favourite Designer
Christian Louboutin

Who Would Play You in a Movie?
Zhang Ziyi. "Because she's beautiful and talented."

Tiptop Makeup Tip (you learned from M·A·C Me Over!)
"Defining my eyebrows to frame my face. I usually continue them light and simple but I noticed a dramatic change in appearance subsequently Brigitte finished doing my brows the day of the shoot. Now I use my M·A·C Forehead Pencil daily."

Favourite magazine:
Nylon

Winning Entry
"M·A·C gives me the conviction to feel beautiful in my skin."

Dazzler Before Age — Sharon Marcus

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Reference librarian and Rockville, Maryland native Sharon Marcus surprised herself when she entered the M·A·C Me Over! contest. Hardly a beauty junkie, she says "I don't really wearable tons of makeup, and I quit dyeing my hair a few years ago. I sent in my photograph on a lark." Nevertheless, the 59-year-erstwhile isn't a total novice. Growing up in the late ‘50s and ‘60s, "I was very sparse and identified with models similar Twiggy. I guess I was inspired to start playing effectually with makeup then." She claims that she never thought almost aging until she turned fifty, when she started to get more than conscious of it. "But and then I went to my 30th Peary Loftier School reunion and looked around and thought, ‘Hey, we don't look and then bad.' That's when I realized that I may exist getting older, simply I've too get more confident." Besides her weekly belly-dancing class and maintaining a "childlike marvel near the world" at all times, she swears by the post-obit fountains of youth: "Stay out of the sun, too much alcohol will historic period you lot and so be moderate, and don't sleep on your stomach because it smooshes your confront into the pillow and tin cause wrinkles!"

Hidden Talent
Making custom birthday cards

Favourite Song
"Wild World" by Cat Stevens

Ideal Repast
Greek food

Fave M·A·C Product
Cream Colour Base of operations

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Audrey Hepburn

Astrological Sign
Gemini

Favourite Designer
Donna Karan and Calvin Klein

Who Would Play You in a Movie?
Penelope Cruz

Top Makeup Tip (you learned from M·A·C Me Over!)
"It's very important to prepare the skin before applying foundation."

Favourite Magazine
A tie between Vanity Off-white, Real Simple and Oprah Blog/Website, Beloved Now Smell This, Makeup Alley and Osmoz

Winning Entry
"I am 58-and-a-half years of age and I am wearing no face up makeup…only M·A·C Cyndi Lipstick…and my hair is uncoloured and in its natural but-shampooed state — and I clean up real nice (I'1000 serious). I desire to exist an case to show women my age that a woman can look her best without having to be xx."

Q&A WITH JAMES GAGER, Senior Vice President and Creative Manager, M·A·C Cosmetics

How did the thought to practise a sweeping search for new M·A·C faces emerge?
Well, part of the thought was the unproblematic fact that everyone loves a good makeover. Just look at all the tv shows and magazines that comprehend the topic! And of class, when it comes to the idea of transformation, who ameliorate to do it than M·A·C? All the same instead of but making up a pretty face and concentrating on ane facet of a makeover, I really wanted whoever won our contest to exist involved in a full transformative process, which meant the makeup and the hair, the clothes, the mental attitude, the feel of being in New York and working with an A-list team of Michael Thompson (photographer), Paul Cavaco (stylist), Brigitte Reiss-Andersen (makeup) and Serge Normant (pilus), and how this team and photographer would interpret their look. Who wouldn't want to win that experience? It's all about living out a fantasy.

You received thousands of entries. What was the process of combing through them like and how did you make your selections. What was the criteria?
I asked a very trusted member of my team, Executive Managing director Rory Gevis, who worked equally Style Director at W every bit well as other way magazines, to help by doing some pre-selecting for me. Afterwards she narrowed the entries downward, I evaluated whom we had and found myself more than interested in the reasons why they wanted a M·A·C Me Over!, not only their looks. It had to be more personal than that, so we focused on the "I want to be a function of this because…". It worked out that the M·A·C mantra — All Ages, All Races, All Sexes — was definitely represented in the chosen winners.

M·A·C is famous for working with celebrity spokespeople and collaborating with creative luminaries. How was working with boilerplate American M·A·C lovers dissimilar for a modify?
People living and working in New York and especially this manufacture can get a scrap jaded, merely these people were not taking a 2nd of this experience for granted. Bluntly, that's very refreshing. I think when they all arrived at the photo shoot and walked in the door, they didn't have a inkling of what was going to happen to them! When you arrive and you're the star being treated like one by all these amazing people, y'all really have to trust and hand yourself over. Each of them really went for it. It was just great to be amongst people that were so excited. I think that level of appreciation happens in our stores a lot, when a makeup artist creates a look on a customer and they not only look good, they feel wonderful. Information technology gives them
a confidence boost. And so this was a taste of that commutation, which is thrilling!

At the shoot, how did you and the creative squad determine who would correspond what look?
The best way to draw it would be to say it was like going on a bullheaded date! You didn't know what you were going to encounter or what to expect. Obviously, we had photos of them beforehand. Paul had some ideas of how he was going to style, and they had some of the makeup looks assigned to them, but on the twenty-four hours of the actual shoot we chatted with them and tried to understand their personas and where they could become, transformation-wise.

What was the goal of the makeovers? How did people feel in one case they were transformed?
The general feeling was,"I never idea that I could expect similar this." They were exposed to a different way of seeing themselves and their full potential. Some people were really amazing on camera too. Xee, for example, was a natural. I was like, "Take you done this before?"

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