Before I get into the post proper, a bit of scene setting, if you will:

As you might have guessed, I’m a little enamoured with makeup. Oh, alright, make that obsessed!

And one of my biggest obsessions? MAC. Yes, I simply can not get enough of the oh-so-chic and colourful pots and palettes that the wonderful people at Makeup. Art. Cosmetics (to give it its rather threatical-sounding official title) like to provide us with in the name of beautification.

So, you see, MAC can do little wrong in my eyes.

Or so I thought until I opened up a mailshot inviting me to gaze in lust over their newest collection:

Dame Edna

Please do not adjust your monitor. You did read that correctly. Dame Edna. As in Barry Humphries’ very loud, very purple, very, er, female alter ego.

Now, the collection itself isn’t all that bad- mauve and variations thereof seems to be the dominant colour theme, as you’d expect and there’s a decent amount of products- it’s the principle of the matter.

How, I asked myself, could MAC go from sultry siren Dita Von Teese to this? What next? MAC presents Lily Savage?

And, don’t even get me started on the packaging. No, really, don’t.

I can safely say that I shall be going cold turkey (Possum?) on this latest offering. But, if you’re a braver woman (or man) than I, you can take a look at the collection in its entirety over on the MAC website.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Someone hold me. The Christmas collections are coming out, folks. Christmas. Collections. Now, this depresses the hell out of me, because I’m one of those annoying, Scrooge-like creatures who really wishes Christmas could just be confined to December – actually, I’m still shopping for a winter sunshine break so I can have an excuse to put it off for even longer, if I can.

However, I know some of you have already started to do your holiday shopping, and God knows, many of the cosmetics companies have started to get their holiday collections ready. One of the first off the mark is Elemis, with this Revealing Beauty Christmas Collection which contains:

Full Size Tri-Enzyme Resurfacing Facial Wash 200ml
Special Size Liquid Layer SPF 30 15ml
Special Size Pro-Collagen Marine Cream 30ml
Tri-Enzyme Resurfacing Serum 10ml
Tri-Enzyme Resurfacing Night Cream 15ml

This is just one of the gift collections Elemis are doing this year, so rather than me listing them all (yes, I’m lazy), the Elemis website is your best source of all the news.