Green duochrome appears throughout the whole collection. I found that kind of cool
The Shadesticks: You need them all. These shadesticks are beautiful and slide onto the skin like butter. The color selection is gorgeous too! I am thrilled to see shadesticks make their triumphant return!
My favorite colors had to be Red Velvet, a midtone matte pink and Lemon Chiffon, a frosty pale gold that will make a beautiful everyday color. Penny is a lovely metallic cool gold. Butternutty is your go to neutral beige, and cakeshop has a gorgeous green duochrome to it which naturally makes me want to put aquavert and club over it.
Of the eyeshadows, Dear Cupcake and Aquavert were my favs. It could just be me, but Aquavert seemed much greener this time as opposed to Lure's original release. Then again I am used to seeing aquavert in aqua lure packaging and it could just be the contrast with the black thats tricking me. Either way aquavert is frosty seafoam green gorgeousness while Dear Cupcake is creamy pinkness.
I did compare Dear Cupcake to Sushi Flower. While they are incredibley similar, I would classify Sushi flower as warmer while dear cupcake is cooler. I also got better payoff from Dear Cupcake, but that could be because it was new.
Don't bother with sugarshot. It is a craptastic lustre. The tester had a crust on top and ugh, fallout and crappy payoff were plentiful. Club is an awesome smokey color and stars and rockets is a fun duochrome shade of pink but we knew all that already
On the tricolor lipglasses. I'm not bothered by a tri-layered gloss, but I am also not a fan of these. These are way toooo sheer, and we all know how I feel about sheer lipglosses (read, I hate em). The only one that gave me a decent payoff was Tasty, but I already have more bright pink lipglasses than I could shake a stick at! Of note is that these smell really strongly of vanilla, though I can't tell if its a stronger vanilla than that of regular mac lip products.
The lipsticks:
Bubbles is a fun, pale and frosty shade, but I just don't need another lip highlight shade as I already have that covered my MUFE. Lollipop loving is a gorgeous coral with subtle green pearl. It is a glaze, which means subtle payoff and lots of shine. I am not a fan of the lustre formula but the color is too unique and lovely to pass up.Touch is a blah cool bronze and Sweet Thing is another lustre bright pink. Neither seemed unusual or particularly awe inspiring so I skipped over those. The star is St Germain imo, with its milky pink fabulosity! I cannot wait to play with this one
It is a gorgeous milky Barbie pink color!
On to the mineralized skin finishes.
Refined seemed a bit too warm on me, but I find that to be the case with most brown based mineralized products. I am warm toned and I just feel like these turn orange and muddy on me, although the milky pink veins running throughout do help turn this shade to a more flattering peach.
Perfect topping is a pretty light pink with peach and lavendar veining. The end swatch is a light pink frosty highlight color. This is comparable to petticoat, but not as metallic and frosty and a touch cooler. It would make a good highlight on my nw20 self.
Of note, the texture on both msfs was lovely. Not gritty or glittery, just smooth and slightly frosty.
Nail polishes- Fun colors, but I just can't get excited about mac lacquers because they don't last more than a couple of days without chipping. And while the colors are fun and the green is unusual, I just can't hop on board or picture myself with green nails. Pass!
In short, I loved this collection and got most of it! I walked away with 2 lipsticks (St Germaine, Lollipop Loving), all the shadesticks, and 2 of the eyeshadows (Dear Cupcake and Aquavert).
Would love to know what you are all hauling ;)
From the back ;)
L-R: Evelina, Me, Nayia, Nile, Christine and Sariah
Nayia and I
Our fab DJ for the evening pumping out top hits with some good old 90's flavor hip hop thrown into the mix
My makeup lovin' kindred spirit, Nile and I
