MAC x Marilyn Monroe Collection

This month, MAC Cosmetics is allowing you to channel your inner blonde bombshell by celebrating Marilyn Monroe's iconic beauty look with a limited-edition collection. The collection features over 30 pieces, including lipsticks, nail lacquers, eyeliners, and eye shadows. MAC x Marilyn Monroe Collection is now available on maccosmetics.com and MAC stores, as well as Nordstrom, Dillard’s, Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s.

ELLE.com chatted with MAC's director of makeup artistry, Gregory Arlt, who created some of the collection's lip and eye shades. He shared some of the iconic star’s beauty tips and secrets. Check them out below.

“When I was researching this collection and when I was researching her and going in deep about her makeup secrets, I read that she and her makeup artist would collaborate and do like five or six different reds—like one deeper on the outer edge of her mouth, another one in the center just to make her lips look really dimensional. They'd overdraw her lip to make it look more sexy.” - Gregory Arlt

“I found out she would use Vaseline all over her face, under her makeup, before she went on camera because it gave her a glow that she really liked. She also used this sort of like hormone cream that made her skin tighter, but the hormones in it actually gave her quite a bit of peach fuzz on her face. The director would try to get her to remove it, but she insisted on keeping it because she thought it gave her a nice sort of a fuzzy glow around her face to make her look more ethereal. And it worked! You know, we all think of her using black eyeliner, but she actually used a dark brown eyeliner and used a white pencil on the inside of her eye to make her eye look larger.”- Gregory Arlt

Lipsticks: In Deeply Adored, Charmed I'm Sure, Scarlet Ibis, Love Goddess, and Pure Zen, $16.50 each

Lip Pencils: In Beet, Redd, and Cherry, $17.00 each

Nail Polish: Orange Kid, Vintage Vamp, Stage Vamp, Flaming Rose and Rich, Rich, Rich, $16.50 each

Eyeshadows: How to Marry, Preferred Blonde, Showgirl, and Silver Screen, $21.00 each

False Lashes Extreme Black Mascara, $20.00
Eye Khol In Smolder and Fascinating, $15.00 each
#35 Lash False Lash Strips In Forever Marilyn, $16.00
Penultimate Eye Liner In Rapidblack, $19.00

Penultimate Brow Marker, $19.00
Brow Finisher In Clear, $15.00

Powder Blush In Legendary and The Perfect Cheek, $22.00 each
Beauty Powder In Forever Marilyn, $28.00

Dazzleglasses: Phiff! and Little Rock, $21.50 each

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