Craft Paper Couture – an inspired idea cut like a pattern and whipped up into a frisky little “funny face” frock. Then, strip it back to its essence for Summer 2010 for a Pret-a-Papier colour collection. It was a Project Runway challenge of sorts, with paper as the source, the instigator of ideas, the beginning of something simply, basically beautiful. Lipstick, LipGlass, Eye Shadow, Paint Pot, Chromografic Pencil, Studio Fix Lash, Impeccable Brow Pencil, Sheertone and Mineralize Blushes, and Nail Lacquer in a seamless spectrum of parchment-to-vellum beiges, with an occasional, clever colour spill, coral among the most au courant.”

This collection will be launched in North America on April 22 and internationally in May 2010.

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Have you ever wished someone would make a really perfect quad listing? I mean, insanely thorough, accurate and organized - who would be OCD enough to do that!?

Yep, us. Currently it's saved in excel, and I have uploaded a version that is compatible with Excel 97-2003. If you want the version that's for Excel 2007 (even though the one here will open in 2007), drop me a line and I'll ship it over to you.

You can download the file here! I don't as of yet have it filled in to an online spreadsheet mahjig (any suggestions for a good one?), so I do apologize if you don't have the ability to open an Excel spreadsheet. I love Excel for makeup inventories and whatnots, though, because of how easy it is to sort the info any way you want it.

If you're wondering about the column listing "quad position", it refers to where in the quad the particular shadow resides. See the following diagram for which position is which:

The four upcoming quads we're expecting this autumn season are already listed in this inventory as well. Shadow positions will be filled in once I have them confirmed (2 weeks tops?). In the meantime, if you happen to own "Magical Illusions", "Flutterfly" or "Cool Hypnotique" or can even get me a picture of one or more of them, I'd be quite grateful as otherwise I can't fill in their shadow positions accurately. I'm quite confident the rest are correct.

Any questions?

Here are, to my knowledge, all of the MAC quads (general release time, quad name, shades in the quad). If you would like to contribute photos/swatches of a particular quad so I can assemble a super complete quad reference guide, email she @automaticjacket.com. This does not include trios or other palettes - only those with four full-size round shadows, yo!

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