6 AUTUMN MAKEUP LOOKS TO TRY THIS SEASON
August 29, 2024 by Cat Quinn
Combine your Glow Play Blush and Serumizer for a custom Blue Smoothie.
HOW TO GET THE BLUSH SMOOTHIE TREND
This blush makeup trend improves your skin while you wear it. Inspired by the viral “skincare smoothie” – created by cocktailing serum and moisturiser – Blush Smoothie is a good-for-you blush combo that mixes Glow Play Cushiony Blush with Hyper Real SerumizerTM Skin Balancing Hydration Serum. “We want blush to be the same texture as the skin – so we’re making our own liquid blush,” says Terry Barber, M·A·C Creative Director of Makeup Artistry. “It’s plump and balloon-like on the cheeks.”
Glow Play Cushiony Blush
£21.00
A bouncy, buildable blush that gives a cheeky flush of soft colour – now in a lightweight formula with skin-loving ingredients.
Hyper Real Serumizer™ Skin Balancing Hydration Serum
£32.00
The new, never-before-seen serum-moisturiser hybrid! Its breathable formula improves skin texture and strengthens skin barrier, to reveal petal-soft skin for a makeup-ready canvas.
- Mix a drop of Hyper Real SerumizerTM Skin Balancing Hydration Serum with Glow Play Blush in Groovy using your fingers or a brush. Tap onto the apples of your cheeks, working upward towards the temples.
- Then smooth Glow Play Lip Balm in Photogenic onto your lips.
Hyper Real Serumizer™ Skin Balancing Hydration Serum
£32.00
The new, never-before-seen serum-moisturiser hybrid! Its breathable formula improves skin texture and strengthens skin barrier, to reveal petal-soft skin for a makeup-ready canvas.
Glow Play Cushiony Blush
£21.00
A bouncy, buildable blush that gives a cheeky flush of soft colour – now in a lightweight formula with skin-loving ingredients.
Glow Play Tendertalk Lip Balm
£16.50
A PH-activated lip balm that gives a unique custom glow. Conditions and strengthens the moisture barrier of lips.
Tilt is the perfect frosty light blue eye shadow for the look.
HOW TO GET THE INGÉNUE BLUE TREND
- Prep your lids with Prep + Prime 24-Hour Extend Eye Base.
- Sweep Eye Shadow in Tilt – a light blue eye shadow – onto your lids using a 242S Shader Brush, bringing the colour along your lower lash lines.
- Coat your lashes with a generous amount of MACStack Mascara.
Prep + Prime 24-Hour Extend Eye Base
£16.50
A shadow primer specially formulated to prolong the look of your eye makeup.
242S Shader Brush
£15.75
A firm brush shaped for the smooth, even application of powder or emollient products.
MACStack Mascara
£20.25
An endlessly buildable, non-clumping mascara that stacks on infinite layers of volume and length. Now available in Chesnut Stack, our brown mascara!
Show off your luminous complexion with the Pearl Skin trend.
HOW TO GET THE PEARL SKIN TREND
- Prep and hydrate your complexion with Hyper Real SerumizerTM Skin Balancing Hydration Serum.
Hyper Real Serumizer™ Skin Balancing Hydration Serum
£60.00
The new, never-before-seen serum-moisturiser hybrid! Its breathable formula improves skin texture and strengthens skin barrier, to reveal petal-soft skin for a makeup-ready canvas.
- Even out your skin tone with Studio Radiance Serum-PoweredTM Foundation.
- Tap Strobe Cream in Pinklite onto the high points of your face, then sweep Extra Dimension Skinfinish in Double-Gleam overtop.
Studio Radiance Serum-Powered™ Foundation
£29.25
A moisturising foundation with buildable coverage in 56 luminous shades. Features a 10% hyaluronic acid solution to deliver plump, hydrated skin with all-day radiance, it smooths skin texture and evens out skin tone.
Strobe Cream
£24.00
An illuminating primer that hydrates, brightens and clarifies skin with a mega-dose of vitamins and green tea. Iridescent particles reflect light for a revitalised, radiant glow.
Extra Dimension Skinfinish
£25.50
A liquid-powder highlighter that gives skin a metallic-glow finish.
Go grunge with 90s M·A·C essentials, including Lip Pencil in Stone.
HOW TO GET THE QUIET GRUNGE MAKEUP TREND
- Line your upper and lower lash lines using Eye Kohl in Feline, smudging out with a 231S Small Shader Brush.
- Layer shade Showstopper from the Connect In Colour Eye Shadow Palette: Encrypted Kryptonite overtop your liner, blending the edges. Then, sweep shade Power Mode through the creases.
231S Small Shader Brush
£12.38
A pro-quality brush that lets you apply and move around colours like an expert.
Connect In Colour Eyeshadow Palette: Encrypted Kryptonite
£24.00
A smoky-toned 6-pan eyeshadow palette innovated with our most pigmented formula to date. Create limitless makeup looks – from subtle to dramatic.
- Line your lips using Lip Pencil in Stone, then smooth on MACximal Silky Matte Lipstick in Honeylove.
Lip Pencil
£15.00
An ultra-precise lip liner with a creamy formula in a wide range of shades, designed for shaping, lining or filing in lips.
MACXIMAL SILKY MATTE LIPSTICK
£18.75
Our iconic Matte Lipstick is now bigger and better – with more colour, more comfort, more wear. The matte formula you know and love is upgraded to a silkier, smoother texture in pigment-rich hues – from iconic to new. Glide on for maxed-out colour with 12hr wear.
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HOW TO GET THE CRANBERRY MAKEUP TREND
Vampy Cranberry Makeup is back, along with the juicy burgundy lipstick that has defined the look since the 1920s. The colour on everyone’s lips: MACximal Silky Matte Lipstick in Diva. “Diva is one of the original MAC lipstick shades that’s stood the test of time and gets constantly reinvented,” says Barber. “Pair Diva with smoky eyes for film-noir glam or with a stripped-back face for a minimal 90s makeup look.
MACXIMAL SILKY MATTE LIPSTICK
£18.75
Our iconic Matte Lipstick is now bigger and better – with more colour, more comfort, more wear. The matte formula you know and love is upgraded to a silkier, smoother texture in pigment-rich hues – from iconic to new. Glide on for maxed-out colour with 12hr wear.
- Sweep shade Haux from the Connect In Colour Eye Shadow Palette: Embedded Burgundy across your lids, then define creases with shade Mega Mocha.
- Coat your lashes with a generous amount of MACStack Mascara.
- Tap Glow Play Blush in Big Diva Energy onto the apples of your cheeks using your fingertips.
- Then smooth MACximal Silky Matte Lipstick in Diva onto your lips.
Connect In Colour Eyeshadow Palette: Embedded in Burgundy
£24.00
A burgundy-toned 6-pan eyeshadow palette innovated with our most pigmented formula to date. Create limitless makeup looks – from sultry to sophisticated.
MACStack Mascara
£20.25
An endlessly buildable, non-clumping mascara that stacks on infinite layers of volume and length. Now available in Chesnut Stack, our brown mascara!
Glow Play Cushiony Blush
£21.00
A bouncy, buildable blush that gives a cheeky flush of soft colour – now in a lightweight formula with skin-loving ingredients.
MACXIMAL SILKY MATTE LIPSTICK
£18.75
Our iconic Matte Lipstick is now bigger and better – with more colour, more comfort, more wear. The matte formula you know and love is upgraded to a silkier, smoother texture in pigment-rich hues – from iconic to new. Glide on for maxed-out colour with 12hr wear.
HOW TO GET THE MIXED-METALS TREND
- Line your lower lash lines using Eye Kohl in Feline, gently smudging with your fingertips.
- Press Pro Longwear Paint Point in Born To Beam overtop.
- Line your upper lash lines using Dazzleshadow Liquid in Rayon Rays.
- To finish, press Dazzleshadow in Oh So Gilty onto the inner corners.
Dazzleshadow Liquid
£16.50
An ultra-shiny liquid eyeshadow that glides across lids for a wash of brilliant colour that keeps its splendour for up to eight hours.
Dazzleshadow
£16.50
An eye shadow with rich, stay-true pigments that impart a beautiful, twinkling sheen.
