The great thing about MAC is they not only do makeup, they do everything about make up! Besides a whole range of lipsticks and pigments and yummy Glimmershimmers, it also has a line of brushes and make up tools, keeping it all together with all sorts of bags and cases. But that's not enough, apparently, as MAC has an extensive skincare line with moisturizers and fixers. And to add more protection for your skin, MAC also has these ingenious primers for your face, lips and nails!

Primer for your Face and Lips

MAC primer is not makeup, it's a conditioning moisturizer that you wear under makeup to further protect and nurture your skin, as well as to smoothen out your skin and lips, ready for application of make up. MAC makeup has Prep + Prime Lip for longer lasting lip color, extending the already extensive durability of MAC lippies, something we just never thought possible!

For the face, MAC has two products: Prep + Prime Skin and Prep + Prime Face Protect SPF 50. Prep + Prime Skin is a lotion that offers both moisturizing effects and oil control, while Face Protect SPF 50 is an amazingly light oil-free cream that has oil-absorbing ingredients to prevent oil from appearing on your face throughout the day, as well as protection from the sun.

Protect Your Eyes

As great as the product sounds, you can't use Skin and Face Primers for your eyes, where skin is particularly thin and sensitive. So MAC came up with Prep + Prime Eye to protect your lids. It also clears out the color and textures of your eyelids, and shadow is much easier to apply when your lids are primed. And the colors are guaranteed to stay on for longer!

Also use Prep + Prime Lash for your lashes, before putting on mascara. It's white when it comes out of the tube, but after it dries on your lashes, it clears out. That's just the conditioner working. The formula magnifies the effects of your mascara, making for longer, thicker lashes. And it helps keep your mascara on your lashes, and off your face. Or his shirt.

MAC for Nails, too!

If you're already a fan of MAC Nail Lacquer, with their wide assortment of the glossiest, richest, to-die-for colors like Steamy, Gee Whiz, Dark Angel and Hi Lily, Hi Lo, you'll be excited to find out that MAC has designed protection for your nails, too!

Underlacquer strengthens and moisturizes the nails before you apply Nail Lacquer, while also working to give the lacquer something to latch on to, making for durable color. Unlike other base coats, Underlacquer is already high on the gloss, which helps up the shine on your nails by a hundred percent.

Overlacquer, on the other hand, even manages to heighten that gloss factor some more, while keeping the nail color protected from your inevitable everyday tasks. It also has an extra shield from ultra-violet rays, keeping your color beautiful and brilliant for longer. You'll change manicures because you want to try out a new color, not because, "Oh look, my nails have faded and chipped so ugly already, must change it before I'm seen in public." MAC keeps your life exciting!

Peter Vaughn
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