It’s not summer already, is it? It certainly feels like the movie The Day After Tomorrow. But I lit up when I saw images of the MAC Pret a Papier Collection for Summer 2010 floating around on the web so I had to scoop up the deets for my lovely readers.

The inspiration behind this collection is craft paper couture. The idea of making dresses out of paper is not new – but you certainly need the sharp scissors and time for them. The inspiration behind the MAC Pret a Papier Collection is a “funny face” frock and a sort of Project Runway challenge.

The makeup for the MAC Pret a Papier Summer 2010 Collection is basic, beautiful and a cheekful: Lipstick, LipGlass, Eye Shadow, Paint Pot, Chromografic Pencil, Studio Fix Lash, Impeccable Brow Pencil, Sheertone and Mineralize Blushes, and Nail Lacquer in a seamless spectrum of parchment-to-vellum beiges, with an occasional, clever colour spill, coral among the most au courant. I’m digging the names of some of the  LipGlass items: Fold and Tuck Mid-tone bright coral with soft pearl; and Pret-a-Papier Dark reddened bronze with pearl.

Here’s what the collection will contain:

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No one wants to be as pale as alabaster during the summer months. I’m all for porcelain, white swans and Snow-White complexions but the truth of the matter is most fair-skinned goddesses (and I swear I went through a phase in my childhood where I would have traded anything — ANYTHING –to be fair) want bronzed skins. Especially in the summer.

Estee Lauder launched a Bronze Goddess Summer collection in 2009. Remember this?

But this year, they will be offering a coral swirl variation of their 2009 compact. Take a look at the Bronze Goddess Summer 2010 compact:

I think the idea of pairing bronze and pink tones is a particularly great idea because the skin doesn’t look too artificially tan (I also think all skins can wear this compact, even darker skin tones). This is great because even though I adore Estee Lauder I still find the company makes palettes that are much more beneficial toward fairer skin tones (especially their eyeshadows).

Update:

As you can see from the picture above, this bronzed look is island lidded, and pink/ coral lipped. The pinup looks like a segment out of Blue Lagoon.

I cannot imagine, live, breathe a summer without color. So, thank you Estee Lauder for adding such a pop of color with the Exotic Orchid Collection (also part of Bronze Goddess Summer 2010):

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Oh these browns, these dark sienna colors are driving me crazy because they remind me of all the foods and places I adore: cafe lattes, the color of the sand in Goa, India, the shade of clay pots drying in the sun (hence the name Terracotta). The Guerlain Summer 2010 Terracotta Collection has:

1. Six gorgeous Guerlain Terracotta lip glosses with SPF 15. Feast your eyes on them, darlings, because I’d like to drink them up in pitchers because the colors range from sand to a raspberry brown. And the Oriental packaging, with the pentagonal handle, is a beaut.

2. The luminous bronzed moisturizer (Terracotta Teint D’Ailleurs) contains SPF 10, and let me tell you, skin going naked without SPF in the summer is like you going to the office with no clothes on. No bueno.

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