MAC has a new collection of 28 eye-popping, jaw-dropping, hyper-pigmented matte shades in every colour a girl (or guy - hey I see you male beauty aficionados!) could dream of. MAC hit up your green-haired gal and I just love when a brand "gets" me. I'm either all about bright, vivid rainbows or complete goth darkness and Colour Rocker has both sides of the spectrum covered. No matter what complexion you have, you'll find something that pops perfectly on you.

MAC makeup artist, Clanelle Burger, gave me a closer look at the collection by working her magic to give me a moody ombre lip to match my hair. I LOVED the look so much that I even did a look post that will be live soon. Forget matching your nails to your lipstick, I say match your hair to it.

I took home 5 shades that I'm very happy to add to my arsenal; Instant Icon (bright baby blue), Into The Madness (bright lime green), Frosting (neutral white), Bunnybeams (pinked lavender-purple) and Gritty Girl (light cool brown). While I was in-store I also picked up some of that heavenly MAC Mineralize Skin Hydrating Mist - so great for priming dry skin.

Matte is where it's at, no matter your lip size. There's a universal idea that glossy is great for small lips because the shine can make them appear larger but gloss comes off so quickly, so I prefer to over-line my modest lips and rather add some powdered highlight in the center to make them look their best.

The Colour Rocker lipsticks are as wonderfully creamy as you've come to expect from MAC and although I do love a matte liquid lip, I find that matte lipstick is easier to re-apply on the go because it's not as drying. The pastel shades pack a surprising punch and the darker shades are positively dreamy. I'm already excited to experiment with looks built around the colours I have. I think my favourites so far are Bunnybeams, Instant Icon and Frosting. Frosting especially excites me because a white lipstick is very handy to have in your makeup kit; you can lighten up any colour, use it as highlight for a subtle ombre lip or even use it on your brow bone to give a great contrast to your eyeshadow.

The lipsticks are priced at R240 and you can shop all shades now at https://www.maccosmetics.co.za. I've ordered with them before and they were lightning-fast with delivery.

Thanks to MAC South Africa, Kim Morton and Clanelle Burger for letting me play in the Colour Rocker world!


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Hey! So I sort of disappeared for a while. Last year, I did freelance writing for a few clients but I left my blog alone for a bit because I needed to re-group and spend some quality time with my loved ones. It was interesting seeing blogger, Essena O'Neill have her epiphanies in the midst of my decision to go dark because, while I think she went overboard and had some problems seperating her identity from who she was online, I did understand that she was in pain and that her life had stopped making sense to her. Mine had stopped making sense to me too.

I would never demonize social media or blogging as some sort of dishonest, soul-crushing thing because everything in life is what you choose to make it. I was disillusioned with my entire life between 2014 and 2015, and while it had little to do with the internet, I wasn't going to use the internet to pretend that things were awesome, so I decided to hit the proverbial reset button. 

How do you hit the reset button on your life? You subtract everything that you possibly can. I stopped working. I stopped playing. I stopped going to events. I stopped socialising. I became an agoraphobe for a hot second. I ignored the internet. My intense unhappiness meant that the stakes were too high to give a shit over whose email I was missing or whose party I wasn't going to, and you know what? That was a beautiful and liberating thing.

I don't think it's just one aspect of modern life that is making everyone more stressed and anxious these days. I think it's a combination of them because there are pros and cons to almost everything. Even if you throw your phone in the ocean, delete everything and relinquish wi-fi, shit still happens. When I was in a place that felt too hectic, I found a lot of peace in shutting everything down, both online and in real life.

I stopped talking (and writing) about changing my life and actually started taking steps to change it. It took a long time and I'm excited to write about that whole journey but the conclusion of it was that once my life looked less like a mess and more like a fresh template, I began to add in only the things that my heart wanted. Now I'm at a point where I feel so much better. I'm excited about my life again and I know what I need to focus on in order to stay excited about it.

If something stops being fun, stop doing it. If a relationship doesn't make you happy anymore, bow out of it. If you hate your job, find another one. If someone's social media feed makes you feel shitty, unfollow. If the latest trending topic upsets you, stop reading about it. I know that some things are easier to do than others but the more time that you invest where you shouldn't, the worse you will feel. Don't worry about disappointing others when you should first be worried about whether you're disappointing yourself. Don't fight against your heart, be kind to it when it tells you what it wants. You can always take a break from something instead of denouncing it altogether because that can help steer you in the right direction too. Change isn't instant but it is so rewarding.

I've madeover my blog with a new theme and I'm going to post about whatever I want. I've always had trouble writing an 'About' section and I think I know why, I needed to figure myself out more. I'm not the same girl who started this blog and I'm ecstatic about that. I know it sounds silly but writing that section made me feel so me and I think that taking time off not only helped me get to know myself, it helped me start writing in a way that feels effortless again. Evolving is fun as hell so I'm excited to see what happens. Here's to a new era!

Mary Scary is so fierce. These are the lovely Jasna's shots from a MAC makeover I did with BoldDigital at Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town. You can check it out in the clip above at 08:35.

Tomorrow I'll be posting a new D.I.Y. ahead of my appearance on the Expresso Show this Monday. It's about time for a new one! I'm so excited for the show, I'll also be returning again later this month so check out SABC 3 in the mornings. 

Yesterday I participated in the judging for the annual FEDISA fashion show. We witnessed all of the hard work that the first year's put into their "Mythomorphisis" collection. I can't wait to attend the final show and share it with you in November. Judging from the first years, I have no doubt that it's going to be amazing. I wish everyone could have seen all 70 of the students' garments but the running order will be cut down to 28, to present the very best of the best. See what else I'm getting up to on Twitter and Instagram - @safashiongirl.