Wow! Are you guys easy to string along!
The Japanese site's collection was just a few little things MAC would NEVER release here! The pallet looks like a bootleg; it may well be a site selling fakes. The whole Fifty cent gumball machine bubble, I doubt you'll see that. What I saw in the legit looking pic was a work in progress, some colors hand mixed to try out an idea last March. Do you think it's going to be that easy?
Given the economy MAC wants to stir up the same frenzy as it did for Hello Kitty. Remember going nuts and buying it all? MAC staff here had never, ever had people waiting in a mob at the doors before. Remember how sucky Witches and Bitches looked last October? It was awesome and I bought way more than I planned. I also use it all the time.
I'm thinking David Bowie in the Ziggy Stardust phase. Yeah, The Seventies. Glam Rock, before disco. Some glitters, definately metals, and Queen's Sin for a gay spokesman? You betcha! OCC already did a tribute collection this fall - Pretty Boy. Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Dot Com I think. A lot of great stuff went on in the Seventies having nothing to do with "disco". It was a fun as all h*(( time, too. We were all poor in a terrible recession but no cell phone, cable, working moms, microwaves and MAC was not even thought of. Nor was Internet or DVDs. No Make Up Primers! Few fat people and nobody worried about Flawless Skin. We were busy having conversations. And condoms were not required!
And simpler, but awesome make up! The promo pic is very Bowie. And Brit Punk; The Mohawk is part of a social protest that Vivienne Westwood designed the look for. Seriously! She and a buddy put together the Sex Pistols as a voice of protest; she may have invented bondage pants. Betsy Johnson was in-house at Warhols' Factory. These are fantastic references for a make up collection built around a man.
But Bowie in make up should be plenty. He was amazing!
