YES! M.A.C Gift with Purchase!

Woo hoo! A REAL MAC gift with purchase! Spend AU$75 to receive your Rebeleyes gel eyeliner! Totally made my day. Better get it before it turns into a pumpkin!

Plus I have updates on the release of Spellbinder and Nutcracker Sweet Collections! Subterfuge at its best.  Remember to follow me so I can keep 💜💛💚💙❤ you!

xoAllisonWonderland

What Collection Are You Hanging Out For?

Christmas is just around the corner and the means....holiday collections! I am soooo excited about the MAC Nutcracker Sweet and Spellbinder collections but I can't seem to find an Australian release date anywhere! MAC, please put me out of my misery!

Care to share in my pain or make me drool over another collection? Don't keep itself to yourself, share with us all!

The Cosmetic First Aid Kit

We have all experienced it. Spent the night out instead of going home and ending up sleeping on somebody's couch, only to remember a commitment that doesn't allow you enough time to swing by your place to shower, change and apply fresh makeup. Well, after watching this video, may you never be caught with your pants down again.

The products included in my Cosmetic First Aid Kit are as follows :

1. Clarins (sample size) Hydra Quench Rich Face Cream
2. Clarins Lip Balm Crayon in Soft Coffee
3. Dior 5 Colour Iridescent Eyeshadow mini palette
4. Estee Lauder Softsmudge eyeliner crayon in Black
5. M.A.C sample false lashes mascara in Extreme Black
6. Nurtimetics lip pencil in Watermelon
7. M.A.C Limited Edition Star Trek lipstick in Where No Man Has Gone Before (get it before its gone!)
8. M.A.C Blot Powder
9. Dr Bronner's Magic Soap.  1 soap for 18 uses (this came in a David Jones deluxe tote bag)
10. Perfume miniature or atomiser

What is in your cosmetic First Aid Kit?

Don't forget to follow me for the latest updates! That's the little button on the right hand side bar. A girl needs a little love.

xoAllisonWonderland

The Cosmetic First Aid Kit

We have all experienced it. Spent the night out instead of going home and ending up sleeping on somebody's couch, only to remember a commitment that doesn't allow you enough time to swing by your place to shower, change and apply fresh makeup. Well, after watching this video, may you never be caught with your pants down again.

The products included in my Cosmetic First Aid Kit are as follows :

1. Clarins (sample size) Hydra Quench Rich Face Cream
2. Clarins Lip Balm Crayon in Soft Coffee
3. Dior 5 Colour Iridescent Eyeshadow mini palette
4. Estee Lauder Softsmudge eyeliner crayon in Black
5. M.A.C sample false lashes mascara in Extreme Black
6. Nurtimetics lip pencil in Watermelon
7. M.A.C Limited Edition lipstick in Where No Man Has Gone Before (get it before its gone!
8. M.A.C Blot Powder
9. Dr Bronner's Magic Soap.  1 soap for 18 uses (this came in a David Jones deluxe tote bag)
10. Perfume miniature or atomiser

What is in your cosmetic First Aid Kit?

xoAllisonWonderland

Bare Bones to Business Bold Makeup Tutorial

Well, I have finally pulled my finger out and put together a couple of videos on how I go about my daily work makeup routine. It has been separated into two parts,  one for eyes and the other for face. I would like to say that I separated them in case you only care about one or the other, but if I had to be honest, it's because I'm not all that fast and also because I'm not high enough up the YouTube food chain to get more than 15 minutes in the spotlight. 15 MINUTES!!! For MAKEUP !!! Yes well, um, I like to take my time, and as my mother said to me a few weeks ago 'oh, so that's why your eye makeup always looks better than mine. You spend a lot of time on it! I just grab some blush and swipe it on'. I'm am trying to convince my mum to spend more time on her eyes because, frankly, it is akin to blasphemy to be born with an awesome eye structure and never work with it.  It's like my kids having a French father and they can't be bothered learning French.  I had to learn about makeup and spend time in uni and France to learn the language! OK, calm down  or this will turn into a Mad Hatter type rant.

Without further ado, I present to you:

The Eyes Have It 

and 

Face Time

Products used (all M. A.C unless otherwise stated)

• Strobe Cream (optional)
• Prep & Prime Fix + (optional) before and after applying makeup
• Nutrimetics brow pencil (optional)

Eyes

• Prep + Prime 24 hour extend eye base (or paint pot if desired) using fingers or a small brush
• Studio Careblend or other pressed powder to fix eye base with small brush
• Vanilla all over eyelid to brow bone with a shader brush 
• Copperplate from corner to crease with an angled brush or a business card and pencil or tapered brush 
• Satin Taupe to blend crease (optional) using a tapered brush
• Sweet Illusion or some subtle sparkles under brows (optional) using any type of shader brush
• Gel Eye-liner in Blitz & Glitz using an angled brow brush or other eyeliner brush
• Extended Play Gigablack Lash mascara

Face

• Pro Longwear Nourishing Waterproof Foundation - use pea sized amount with fingers or brush if desired. Remember - you can always apply more but too much is a just a shame (in terms of it running down the drain...)
• Studio Conceal and Correct Palette - Light (optional). Using a concealer brush, apply pink based shades to counteract any bluishness under eyes and set with pressed powder using a shader brush. Buff during the day if it settles into fine lines. Use lighter shade than your normal foundation shade as a highlighter along the cheekbone under corner of eyes and along the nose. The yellow based shades can be used to counteract redness or other marks you would like to conceal.  To counteract the dark trenches under my eyes, this is the best concealer I have ever used.
• Set foundation and concealer with a powder. I have used Mineralize Skinfinish Natural in Light with a large powder brush.
• Contouring and Blush (optional) : Using the Contour and Sculpt Yourself Palette (refillable and really really good value), use an angled brush with the sculpting powder in Sculpt to create some cheekbones, buffing along the hollow of the cheekbone to line up with the corner of the eye. Next use a blush brush to create a soft flush along cheekbones, I have used Fleur Power and Sunbasque. To highlight between the cheekbone, eye and any other areas you would like to highlight, use an angled brush with Emphasize and buff along the top of the cheekbone, around the outside of the eye, forehead, nose and chin.
• For a bit of a glow  (optional), use your blush brush to apply an iridescent pressed powder (I used Sparkling Rose from the Fairie Whispers collection) over highlighted area above and along cheekbones to tie the whole look together.

Lips (totally up to you!)

• Apply a lip balm or Prep & Prime Lip to hydrate and prepare lips. The Prep + Prime product is supposed to prevent feathering and and improve the appearance and longevity of lip products. Or so the SAs have told me. 
• Line lips with a lip pencil and fill in the lips to assist adherence of lip products. I have used a very old Nutrimetics pencil in Watermelon.  
• Apply your lipstick - I have used the new Liptensity Lipstick in Marsala. 

I hope you enjoy the videos, if you have any questions, just submit below or on YouTube.

xoAllisonWonderland

AllisonWonderland & The Mad Hatter Present : Save Victoria Beckham!

The new Victoria Beckham Estée Lauder collection has been launched! You too can bend it like Beckham if you have a lot of spare cash to splash to keep poor Posh in the manner to which she has become accustomed. Only thing, make sure you're looking for Kendall Jenner's mug when you try to find it at the shops... Something is rotten in the State of Denmark...

Milky Feet Experiment

Keep you socks on! Actually, no, don't. You'll need them off to try this experiment. Cursed with the driest of dry skins and the many awful nicknames that go with that (I imagine a few more will come from this vlog), I decided to give Milky Feet a go. I never expected it to be so....awesome...and mesmerisingly disgusting. There. You have been warned. Enjoy!

Already tried Milky Feet? Good? Great? Bleh? Share your experience with me!

xoAllisonWonderland

Just In! M.A.C Liptensity!

A quick and dirty overview of the new M.A.C Liptensity lipsticks which have just hit the shelves in Australia. I managed to snag mine in Marsala. Photos and swatches to come, in the meantime, here is a teaser...

M.A.C Liptensity in Marsala, so pigmented it needed  just one swipe

M.A.C Liptensity in Marsala, with primer after 3 hours wear

M.A.C Liptensity in Marsala with primer after 3 hours wear

xoAllisonWonderland

Getting Started with M.A.C (from crap to M.A.C)

So you  have seen the light and want to start using M.A.C? Take a journey with me through mistakes of makeup past whilst I went from Crap to M.A.C!

Feel free to make fun of my apparently very Aussie accent, my husband has. Quite personally, I thought I was channeling Kath and Kim...

Please leave me any comments or questions, and hit subscribe to catch my next video blog which should please all those who like new ways to care for their feet... or have an odd fascination for the somewhat gross. I'll leave it at that I think.

xoAllisonWonderland