In The Spotlight: MAC Club Eye Shadow

Welcome to another edition of "In The Spotlight" and today we are featuring MAC Club eye shadow. When you google MAC Club, you come across mixed reviews about this shade and almost negligible reviews from Indian blogs. We Indians are I guess still exploring the possibilities with makeup and tend to walk on the safe path... Especially for products that cost the earth, we like to checkout reviews online extensively and look at swatches after swatches and then finally go with a shade that seems to be the most popular with all beauty bloggers... We all end up with similar shades of eye shadows like Naked Lunch, Mythology, Expensive Pink, Cork, Carbon Black, Folie, Texture, Rice Paper to name a few...

Now this doesn't quite work for me... Why, I don't know but it just doesn't... Now am not saying don't read reviews on beauty blogs, rather if I said that then I would be putting my feet on the "kulhari" myself :P But what I want to tell you all is that read reviews about a product, but check out swatches in person at the store... For example, review of one MAC eye shadow will be the same for all eye shadows! They are awesome! PERIOD... Browse through various EOTDs but swatch them on yourself before yo buy it cause when you go on a swatching spree at MAC you discover hidden jewels like Nylon, Club, Patina, Green Smoke, Ego, Honesty to name a few :)

So anyways, I got myself this magical eye shadow quite a while back and have even reviewed it here...
REVIEW OF MAC CLUB

The "magical" thing about this eye shadow is that on its own its a pretty, light mossy green eye shadow but when you apply it over a black base, then the shade of green that it takes on is just plain exotic and mysterious :)

Take a look at my EOTD below... It's an attempt at smokey eye and quite a good one that too... Yup I have always been the humble one ;) Now would you believe it if I said that only one shadow i.e. MAC Club has been used to create this smokey eye and no other eye shadow.. Not even black... Yes of course I have used a highlighter shade but thats it! The dimensions this eye shadow gives you is just unparalleled and I am totally smitten by it...

 
Do let me know what you think of the EOTD and the eye shadow :)

In The Spotlight: Nivea Fruity Shine Lip Balm

I am here with another cult favorite product of mine which is "In the Spotlight" today... Nope it isn't a fancy product like the MUFE Star Powder I talked about in my previous "Spotlight" post, rather it is the very unassuming and very easily available Nivea Fruity Shine Lip Balm... Now Nivea as we all know comes out with these various flavored lip balms but here in this post I am talking about only the fruity shine ones and that too the Guava flavor, which they previously sold as "Dragonfruit Flavor" :P The Nivea Mint Lip Balms are yum too but I find them kind of drying and they tend to get over very soon :( But not this one! Ladies this one sure is a keeper :)

What I really like about these balm sticks are that they are very light on the lips and yet give a sudden surge of moisture to my lips so much so that they feel soft, supple and yup even plumped up! They do not tend to become dry in the tube like my FabIndia and even TBS lip balms do in their jars.

Apart from being moisturising they give a healthy pinkish gloss to my lips so much so that people often come up to me to ask what gloss I have applied! He he he.. I find it perfect for travelling since I try to keep my makeup to a minimum during long flights and bus journeys. I find them perfect for when I hit the gym and I find them perfect over a matte lippy for that subtle sheen :) It truly is a must have product :)

Price:
It costs INR 129/-

Would I Recommend:
Yes! I recommend it to everyone! It is easily available and is super affordable. Why don't you just run out to your nearest grocery store and get yourself a tube? :)