M-A-C Cosmetics Fafi Collection--Advice Sisters Products of the Month!

MAC Cosmetics is always coming out with fresh, trendy, exciting collections. That's why we're making M-A-C Fafi the Collection of the month this March. It's a limited edition collection that debuted next month, so hurry and get the items you want before they're all sold out!
Fafi is a collaboration between M-A-C Cosmetics and a 32-year old graffiti artist called Fafi. They're created a very colorful, young, fun, 35 piece collection of both products and accessories.

Fafi was born and raised in Toulouse, France, and is best known for “images of sexy and liberated Japanese anime girls called “FaFiNETes”. the Fafinette characters have adorned Diet Coke cans in France and sneakers and even hoodies for Adidas and Fafi sells her characters on a variety of T-shirts at http://www.fafi.net/

Just in case you haven't been clued-in yet, and you're wondering what a FaFiNETte is.....? FaFiNETte's are "nymphets with a Ph.D. in passion,” who live in a fantastic, magical realm called the Carmine vault. They live there, but check in our us mere (and less colorful) mortals. The FaFiNETes look like little girls, but upon closer look, they're pretty sexy. Each has a distinct personality. MONokA love to read the classics but has a weakness for 50's era French Erotica, and likes rap music, girly lingerie, and sleeps with her high heels on. ErmINe: likes to hang out in Brooklyn and eat Indian food in Jackson Heights, Queens. She's into snowboarding and likes the smell of gasoline. eRiKo: hails from Japan, but is a Francophile who likes ethnic cuisine and collection blue ashtrays, and baking life-size gingerbread men.

The spirit of this collection is pure, youthful fun, but the colors are for the most part, glamorous if you wish, natural if that's your thing, and colorful and bright, if you choose. All Anime girls have sexy, exaggerated lips and eyes, so the collection focuses mostly on these areas, but there's something for everyone. As you'll see from some of the photos below, the collection features compacts and tubes that are emblazoned with "Fafi" characters, and all of the other cardboard sleeves feature the colorful characters on a white background. These products as far as actual colors are concerned, are pretty, and not cartoon-ish. They're the same, good quality, high-performance products you expect from M-A-C. The collection includes: 6 lipsticks, 4 Lipglasses, 2 eye shadow quads, 6 eye shadow Paint Pots, a black eyeliner, 2 kohl pencils, a black mascara , 2 blushes and (for fun): 3 Fafinette dolls, 2 make up cases, a tote bag, t-shirt and a scarf. The best thing is that most items are modestly priced from $14.00 to $17.50 (the brushes and some of the accessorees are more).

Here is the Advice Sisters rundown on the entire line, with our particular favorites.

FAFI LIPSTICK- $14.00

These lipsticks that range from pearly blue pink to coral, rose and strawberry, super-glossed with M-A-C's signature lipglass in bright, pearly colors. They are: Fun ‘n’ Sexy Blue pink with blue pearl (glaze) , Not So Innocent Sheer tan with pink and peach pearl (glaze) , Utterly Frivolous Rosy coral with pink pearl (lustre), High Top Grey purple with blue pearl (glaze) , Flash-n-Dash Intense tangerine red with pink pearl (glaze), Strawbaby Coral rose with rainbow pearl (lustre). My personal favorite is Utterly Frivolous," a sheer, lustre lipstick that looks moist, but not slick, and in a gorgeous, pink/coral that will look nice on just about everyone. "Flash-N-Dash is a Glaze formula that's an intense tangerine red with pink pearl --try this with a tan!

FAFI LIPGLASS $14.50

These are super-patent-leather shine magenets. They're wanded tubes of high-shine glassgloss that look great as-is, or over one of the lipsticks. Cult Fave Blue mid-tone pink with white pearl (frost), Sugar Trance Creamy soft pink with white and rainbow pearl (frost), Squeeze It Brassy plum (frost) , Totally It Sheer bright pink with intense pink pearl (frost). My pick is the shockingly cool on cool-toned skin color "Totally It," a sheer, super-bright pink frost with intense pink pearl,

FAFI EYE SHADOW X4 (#1) $36.00

Four silky, blendable shades of powder shadow give you a range of shimmer that look natrual to intense, depending upon how you apply them. Howzat Deep grey with silver sparkle (satin) , Hey Neutral tan with white pearl (veluxe pearl) , Pink Venus Washed pink (lustre) , Vanilla Soft pale-peachy-ivory flecked with shimmer (velvet)

FAFI EYE SHADOW X4 (#2) $36.00

*the three FaFiNETtes are features on these black mirrored compacts. They're so cute you can't help but have fun with them! This compact features: Bold as Gold Yellow gold with gold pearl (lustre), You’re Fresh Pale green with silver sparkle (lustre) , Shockwave Intense orange with silver sparkle (velvet), Prankster Muted dark blue (satin)

FAFI PAINT POTS $16.50

Smooth these on like cream and get intense, lovely, lasting color. Choose from Fafi's Nice Vice Dirty purple with purple pearl (frost) , Girl Friendly Creamy grey pink (cream) , Layin’ Low Creamy beige (cream), Cash Flow Green gold with gold pearl (frost), Perky Cream coral with white pearl (satin) , Rollickin’ Aqua blue green with white pearl (frost)

FLUIDLINE $15.00 Blacktrack --Solid flat black

EYE KOHL$13.50
Smolder Intense black and Fascinating Snake-eyes matte white
ZOOM LASH $11.00 Zoomblack -- Rich black

POWDER BLUSH $17.50

Hipness is a chic, intense coral with soft white pearl while Fashion Frenzy faltters cool skin with a mid-tone blue pink

IRIDESCENT PRESSED POWDER $21.00

Use your imagination, and dust these super-sheer, super-shimmery pressed powders wherever you want to glow like the star you are. Colors include: Sassed-up Soft coral pink with gold sparkle , Verve-acaious Intense yellow gold with gold pearl and (my favorite), Belightful Gilded peach bronze.

NAIL LACQUER $10.00

Spring and Summer are on the way, and you're going to be wearing peep-toes and sandals. Coordinate your look with both of these fun colors. Girls Will Be Girls Pink is a ladylike mediuim pink with lots of coral pearl which looks amazing on pale skin, great with a tan. Boom! is a bold, rich eggplant with purple pearl that'll look great with gold and silver sandals for special events, and it'll take you all the way into Fall.

BRUSHES:

210 Precise Eye Liner Firm $17.00 (extra-fine tip brush for precision lining with emollient or water-based products. *this is a replacement for the old M·A·C 210 Eye Liner Brush)

208 Angled Brow Brush Firm, angled tip Brush $17.00 (for precision application of brow and eye-lining products)

182 Buffer Brush $45.00 (super-soft, large, rounded dome tip brush for use with powder face and cheek products). This one is perfect for all your powder bronzers, shimmer powders, and anytime you want to diffuse color over a large area. It's definitely one you want to add to your collection....

...but if you're just going to splurge on one, I'd suggest the 129SH Powder/Blush (with decorated pouch featuring the three fafi girl's faces) $17.00. A classic M-A-C- brush..soft and easy to use for all powder blushes and highlighters. It's a must-have in your makeup bag.

I don't have photos, but there's also a Fafi Tote $60.00, Fafi Dolls $9.00/each, Fafi T $38.00, and a Fafi Scarf $15.00. These accessories are bound to become collector's items.

Get the collection in M-A-C- boutiques in major department stores, as well as online at http://www.maccosmetics.com/