Ram upgrade from 8gb (1333 mhz)

Hi,
Hope you all are doing good
I plan to upgrade my ram to 16 gb from the current 8gb (DDR3 1333 MHz)
However could you please help me with the following
1) Will any ram do or do i need to buy mac specific ram. for example corsair sells normal ram and ram specifically for macs at a premium.
2) Can i use a 1600 MHz ram instead of a 1333 MHz ram as i getting it cheaper without doing any long term damage to my mac other than the speed getting reduced to 1333 MHz
3) which one is better Crucial or G skill as im unable to buy crucial as im on a vacation and crucial is not available
Hope you have a great weekend
Current Os ( Mountan lion)
System Specifications
Macbook PRO Late 2011 (15 inch md318ll/a )
Processor : I7 2.2GHz
Ram : 8gb (crucial)
hard drive : 256 gb (Samsung Evo SSD)

Stick with Crucial or macsales.com (OWC), and get the RAM they recommend. Faster RAM may work, and you may also end up with kernel panics. G. Skill might work, but pretty much all of us here will tell you what I just did.

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