MAC Venomous Villains: 101 Things You Didn't Know - Makeup and Beauty Blog

Um, do you feel that…?

The tingling in the air? It feels familiar, like something I've felt many times before. It'south chosen Disney magic, and right now it's everywhere! 🙂

In what turned out to be the BIGGEST post I've always written for the web log (and so big, in fact, that I doubtable the server may crash), here are 101 things y'all probably didn't know most Disney and the upcoming MAC Venomous Villains drove (but certainly will now).

The collection launches in the U.S. on September thirty and internationally in October.

1. MAC used the original Disney Pantone shades to develop the colors

When designing the four Venomous Villains sub-collections — The Evil Queen (equally far every bit we know, that'south her phase name) from 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Maleficent from 1959's Sleeping Beauty, Cruella de Vil from 1961's 101 Dalmations and Dr. Facilier from 2009'due south The Princess and the Frog — MAC based the color stories on the original Disney graphic symbol sketches and Pantone color guides.

They took information technology all into consideration — the attitudes of the characters, their pare tone, clothes and style — and not merely the colors Disney used to ink them.

Every bit a lifelong Disney fan and fine art fanatic, I've been looking forward to this collection for months!

Last June MAC revealed details nigh the upcoming release at an issue in Los Angeles. Here are some pics from that effect and a whole bunch of other stuff, too. 🙂

Relish!

Speakers from the left: Johanna Mooney, Director of Disney Beauty; Nicole Masson, VP of Product Development at MAC; and Gregory Arlt, Director of Makeup Artistry at MAC

ii. Outrageously wear

MAC could have gone the safe road with this collection. In collaborating with Disney, they could have chosen to base of operations the new products on beloved characters similar Cinderella and Ariel, but they had something darker in heed — villainy.

They approached Venomous Villains believing that every makeup lover would be able to chronicle to at least one of Disney'due south bad girls (or bad guys). James Gager, senior vice president and creative manager for MAC, put information technology this fashion: "I'chiliad sure every woman in the world has a little villain in her somewhere, whether she wants to acknowledge it or non!"

My inner Venomous Villain looks like this…

It's a HUGE drove, too, with something for everyone. Feeling fantastically artistic? Consider Maleficent's makeup, which features enough of purples, blackened shades and pearlized nails; or Dr. Facilier's collection, with its more vivid shades.

In the mood for something less dramatic? Bank check out the sets for Cruella de Vil or the Evil Queen. Both offering many products congenital for archetype looks (like red lips).

Maleficent, from Sleeping Beauty

Dr. Facilier, from The Princess and the Frog

Cruella de Vil and the Evil Queen, 101 Dalmatians and Snow White

3. Where femme fatales and the '80s meet

MAC incorporated mod runway makeup trends with a dose of the 1980s — strong brows, lips, eyes and cheeks — with no detail feature dominating the others. Information technology's a powerful wait, still i that remains pretty.

four. BIG brows

Besides a penchant for evil-doing, these Venomous Villains also beloved strong, powerful brows. To get the expect, attempt using MAC's Penultimate Brow Mark to draw brows into a dramatic shape. Plus, the long-wearing formula lasts upwardly to 12 hours.

5. A long time coming

Venomous Villains wasn't a spur of the moment idea, either. MAC Creative Director James Gager said the idea percolated for seven long years.

6. A challenge, makeup-wise

MAC Director of Makeup Artistry Gregory Arlt's challenge was to create blitheness-inspired looks in stride with today's rails trends and in sync with what existent woman desire to wear.

For the Dr. Facilier look, Gregory considered the doc's facial expressions, his demeanor, and his mustache. He envisioned the dark lines of the mustache as strong lines around the eyes and brows fatigued with chichi eyeliner. The goal was to create a look that reflected inner power, and for many of the products he chose colors similar bronze and gold.

vii. A tip from Gregory

To add dimension to lips, employ a generous amount of Resort Life Lip Gelee to the heart/middle of both lips, on pinnacle of whatever other lip products you might exist wearing. The texture feels flossy, not sticky, and it bestows a pearly sparkle and shine.

The Dr. Facilier makeup look

For the Evil Queen, the '80s makeup and burgundy lips seen on the runways at last fall'southward Manner Week served as Gregory's inspirations.

MAC Director of Makeup Artistry Gregory Arlt doing the makeup for the Evil Queen expect

A model wearing the Evil Queen makeup

The Maleficent look go-go's dorsum to the '60s. Gregory's tip: for a quick wash of colour for the eyes, take a fluffy brush like the MAC 224, and employ Maleficent'south Baked Eyeshadow.

A model wearing the Maleficent wait

A model wearing the Cruella de Vil expect

With the beautiful MAC Venomous Villain models; yes, I'm wearing three-inch platform heels in this picture…

viii. Apparently, imperial is an evil colour (who knew?)

MAC sought to take total advantage of purple in the collection, as 3 of the four villains characteristic the color (Cruella doesn't). They wanted to maintain a cohesive color theme that remained distinct for each of the characters.

For Maleficent, they went with absurd plums; for the Evil Queen, warm, smokey plums. With Dr. Facilier, they choose to go with brighter shades of imperial.

9. Sheer ain't hither

Potent textures and intense colors play a big role in the entire collection — lots of flossy satins and full intensity colors.

No worries, though, if you prefer something subtler. You could always utilise the colors start, then buff them downwardly, or employ a light hand. All this stuff's flexible like that. 🙂

10. Um, that's a lot of artwork!

The Roy E. Disney Animation Research Library in Los Angeles, where many of the original drawings MAC used to create MAC Venomous Villains reside, houses some 60-65 million (!) individual pieces of artwork.

Disney keeps everything, sometimes referencing a drawing years later for creative purposes or problem solving.

In front of the Roy Eastward. Disney Animation Enquiry Library during the MAC Venomous Villains printing trip last June

11. The OG MAC Venomous Villain

The Evil Queen, from 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was the starting time villainess to star in a full-length, feature motion animation moving picture.

Ladies who dejeuner…

12. Lips and robes

The peach shade in the Evil Queen's color story came from Disney's original drawings of her. In the pictures, her lips are comprised of several shades; MAC picked the lightest 1 — a peach.

The smokey purples in the rest of her color palette were inspired by the Queen's nightmarish capes and robes.

13. A number of firsts

Snow White holds titles for a number of firsts. It was the the first total-length cel-blithe (the old-fashioned style of animating) characteristic in motion picture history, the get-go animated feature moving-picture show produced in the United states and the first motion picture produced by Walt.

Surprisingly, Walt'due south brother and business partner, Roy Disney, and his wife, Lilian, tried to talk him out of producing the motion-picture show. Lilian reportedly told him, "No one's ever gonna pay a dime to come across a dwarf picture show."

Luckily, he disagreed; Snowfall White is one of the summit 10 highest grossing American films of all time.

14. She's so bad!

The Evil Queen ranks tenth in the American Motion picture Institute'due south list of the 50 Best Flick Villains of All Fourth dimension, and she's the highest-ranked ane who's blithe.

Just how bad is she? In an alternate cutting of Snow White, she captures the Prince and holds him convict in her dungeons, where skeletons dance around and torment him.

15. A blush for pale princesses

Oh And so Fair Dazzler Powder, i of nine pieces in the Evil Queen collection, should exist able to be worn well by women of all skin tones, but MAC Managing director of Makeup Artistry Gregory Arlt says it'due south really corking for pale pare — especially when worn as a cheek blush, where information technology delivers a "lit from within" look. Pair it with a strong, dramatic eye and oral cavity.

xvi-26. Production pictures

Beauty Powder in Oh Then Fair, $25

Beauty Powder in Oh Then Fair, $25

Powder Blush in Bite of an Apple, $19.50

Pulverization Chroma in Bite of an Apple

Eyeshadows, $15.50 each

Eyeshadows clockwise from left: Vile Violet, Vainglorious and Her Modify Image

Lipsticks, $15 each

Lipsticks in Toxic Tale (left) and Sinister (right), $15 each

Lipglasses in Strange Potion (left) and Hot Firm (correct), $15 each

Lipglasses in Hot House (left) and Foreign Potion (left)

27-33. Swatches on NC35 skin

Eyeshadows from left: Her Alter Image, Vainglorious, Vile Violet

Dazzler Powder in Oh So Fair (left) and Pulverization Blush in Bite of an Apple (correct)

From left: Lipstick in Sinister, Lipstick in Toxic Tale, Lipglass in Hot House, Lipglass in Foreign Potion

Lipstick in Sinister

Lipstick in Toxic Tale

Lipglass in Hot Firm

Lipglass in Strange Potion

34-36. Swatches on NW25 pare

Swatches from left: Lipstick in Sinister, Lipstick in Toxic Tale, Lipglass in Hot House, Lipglass in Strange Potion

Eyeshadows from left: Her Change Image, Vainglorious, Vile Violet

Dazzler Powder in Oh So Fair (left) and Powder Blush in Bite of an Apple tree (right)

37. Maleficent's fantasy color story

MAC calls Maleficent's (aka the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil") collection the "fantasy" colour story, with its fun, striking, intense shades. To reference her signature greenish pare, MAC included ii Mineralize Eyeshadows with light-green tones.

38. Bug antennae and a bat headdress

During the earliest stages of the artistic process, animators will try anything to flesh out a new character, exploring and refining different designs until they observe the terminal one.

Early on drawings of Maleficent looked wildly different from the final version seen in Sleeping Beauty. In some of the early versions she had bug antennae; in others, a bat headdress. Eventually, Disney artists decided to go with Maleficent's signature horned hat.

39. Red robes

Besides in those early sketches, Maleficent'southward robes were red. Animators settled on purple and black to ameliorate fit the background colour palette of the film.

twoscore. A different visual style

Walt Disney wanted Sleeping Beauty to be Disney's most cute film to date, and he wanted information technology to contrast with the ii previous fairy tale features, Snow White and Cinderella. The animators wanted the film to look similar a cantankerous between a medieval tapestry and popular '50s art. The artwork was more angular than that of the kickoff films — which was perceived as more elegant and sophisticated than the earlier rounded shapes.

41. Lasts, just non least

Sleeping Beauty was the last fairy tale produced by Walk Disney, although after his decease, the studio returned to the genre with 1989's The Little Mermaid. It was as well the concluding Disney characteristic to use paw-inked cels.

42-48. Maleficent product pictures

Beauty Pulverisation in Briar Rose, $25

Mineralize Eyeshadow in She Who Dares, $21

Mineralize Eyeshadow in My Dark Magic, $21

Lipsticks in Violetta (left) and Nighttime Act (right), $15 each

Lipglasses in Wrong Spell (left) and Revenge is Sweet (right), $xv each

Clockwise rom left: Lipstick in Violetta, Lipglass in Incorrect Spell, Lipglass in Revenge is Sweet, Mineralize Eye Shadow in My Dark Magic, Beauty Pulverisation in Briar Rose

49-57. Swatches on NC35 skin

Mineralize Eyeshadows in She Who Dares (left) and My Dark Magic (right)

From left: Beauty Pulverization in Briar Rose, Lipstick in Dark Deed, Lipstick in Violetta, Lipglass in Revenge is Sweet, Lipglass in Wrong Spell

Lipstick in Violetta

Lipstick in Dark Deed

Lipglass in Revenge is Sweetness

Lipglass in Wrong Spell

Blast Lacquer in Dreamy

Nail Lacquer in Formidable!

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Nail Lacquer in Bad Fairy

58-60. Swatches on NW25 skin

From left: Lipstick in Dark Deed, Lipstick in Violetta, Lipglass in Revenge is Sweet, Lipglass in Wrong Spell

From left: Mineralize Eyeshadow in My Nighttime Magic, Mineralize Eyeshadow in She Who Dares, Beauty Powder in Briar Rose

Nail Lacquers from left: Bad Fairy, Dreamy, Formidable!

61. Cruella de Vil — a lady in red

The color story for Cruella de Vil (a play on the words "cruel" and "devil") was inspired by her signature red. To strengthen the theme, MAC even included a blackened red eyeshadow.

Kickin' it former school…

62. A Cruella world

MAC says Cruella's was the most hard of the four colour stories to create. They didn't want to be too obvious and just copy her green eyeshadow, so they dug deeper into her character instead (hence the reds).

63. Modern times

101 Dalmatians, released in 1961, was Disney's first movie ready in mod times. It also marked a alter in the Disney fashion of animation, as the studios started experimenting with Xerox photography to accelerate the process.

To reflect the look of modern, overcast London, Disney used a grayish color palette (Cruella's color palette in the film has grayness tones in it) for the backgrounds and scratchy pen-and-ink style drawings, which were hallmark looks of British cartoons at the fourth dimension.

64. A MAC fave

Cruella de Vil also happens to exist a favorite of the MAC creative pros who designed the collection. "She really knows how to enter a room and makes some of the best movie diva entrances of all time," says MAC's James Gager, "and it but then happens she has ulterior motives…"

65-74. Cruella's product pictures

Beauty Powder Blush in Her Own Devices, $25

Beauty Powder Blush in Her Ain Devices

Pulverization Chroma in Darkly My Dear, $xix.l

Powder Chroma in Darkly My Dearest

Eyeshadows clockwise from upper left: Sweet Joy, Carbon and De-Vil, $15.l each

Eyeshadows clockwise from left: Sweet Joy, Carbon and De-Vil

Lipglasses in Wacked Ways (left) and Devilishly Stylish (right), $xv each

Wacked Ways (left), Devlishly Stylish (right)

Lipsticks in Heartless (left) and Innocence, Beware! (right), $xv each

75-81. Swatches on NC35 Peel

Eyeshadows from left: Carbon, De-Vil, Sweet Joy

Beauty Powder in Her Ain Devices (left), Powder Blush in Darkly My Dear (right)

From left: Lipstick in Heartless; Lipstick in Innocence, Beware!; Lipglass in Devilishly Stylish, Lipglass in Wacked Ways

Lipstick in Heartless

Lipstick in Innocence, Beware!

Lipglass in Devilishly Stylish

Lipglass in Wacked Ways

82-84. Swatches on NW25 peel

Eyeshadows from left: Carbon, De-Vil, Sweet Joy

From left: Lipstick in Innocence, Beware!; Lipstick in Heartless; Lipglass in Devilishly Stylish; Lipglass in Wacked Means

Beauty Powder in Her Own Devices (left) and Blush Powder in Darkly My Dear (correct)

85. The newest villain

Dr. Facilier is the newest/youngest of MAC's Venomous Villains, introduced in 2009'due south The Princess and the Frog.

86. Not only for women

To coincide with their motto, "All Ages, All Races, All Sexes," MAC added Dr. Facilier to the Venomous Villains roster.

87. Dr. Duvalier?

Similar all of Disney's villains, Dr. Facilier's grapheme underwent many rounds of discovery and redesign. He originally was a bald homo with an ear piercing and a double necklace fabricated of teeth. He was likewise originally known past a different name, a Dr. Duvalier, but the name was inverse to Dr. Facilier when Disney discovered a existent life voodoo practitioner of the same proper name (ha!).

88. Why Facilier?

The proper noun is based on the word "facilitate" — because he makes things happen.

89. Warm information technology upward, doctor! (I'1000 almost to)

If y'all wearable warm shades well, then yous might like Dr. Facilier's makeup, with its warm ambers, reds and purples.

90. Magically Cool

MAC introduced a completely new production in the Dr. Facilier collection called Magically Cool pulverisation. Since the powder contains lxx% water, it creates a cool, refreshing sensation on the pare.

Wear Magically Cool nether makeup for a luminous wait, atop foundation to prepare makeup, or on naked skin to add dimension.

91-96. Dr. Facilier'southward product pictures

Magicallly Cool Powders, $29.50 each

Magically Cool Powder in Truth & Calorie-free

Magically Absurd Pulverization in Cajun

Greasepaint Sticks in French Quarter (left) and Slick Blackness (right), $17.fifty each

Pigments clock wise from bottom left: Melon, Brash & Bold and Push the Edge, $19.l each

97-99. Swatches on NC35 skin

Pigments from left: Brash & Bold, Melon and Push the Edge

From left: Magically Absurd Powder in Truth & Lite, Magically Absurd Pulverization in Cajun, Blackface Stick in French Quarter, Greasepaint Stick in Slick Black, Lip Gelee in Resort Life

Lipgelee in Resort life

100-101. Swatches on NW25 pare

Pigments from left: Advised & Bold, Melon, Push the Edge

From left: Magically Cool Powder in Truth & Light, Magically Cool Pulverisation in Cajun, Blackface Stick in French Quarter, Greasepaint Stick in Slick Black, Lip Gelee in Resort Life

Well, what do you think? Are your eyeballs intrigued or tired? Seriously, sorry about the monumental-ness of the post, but I didn't want you lot to miss a thing!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

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