MAC Tropical Taboo Collection (2013)

[VioletPearl]

Was a bit nervous I'd get the wrong blush, since it had the picture of SS with Simmer, but I got Simmer! Yay! Not too impressed by my Adored pattern though, lol

Your Adored is beautiful!!!!!! Soo coral!

 

[Naynadine]

I finally received my Adored and Rio. Adored is flippin gorgeous! Everything I hoped for, even though there isn't a lot of coral veining in mine. Glad I'm getting another one from the US.
Rio on the other hand... I'm not really happy with it. I think mine is way too brown. If I swatch mainly the pink part it's a lovely color, but when I use mainly the brown part, which I obviously have to, it's kind of ''dirty'' looking. And also a bit too warm for me I think. I'm afraid it looks like I rubbed chocolate on my cheeks. Oh wellll... I never have much luck with MSF veining somehow.
The formula on both is top-notch though, super smooth.

Excuse the craptastic cellphone camera quality.

 

[Corally]

I finally received my Adored and Rio. Adored is flippin gorgeous! Everything I hoped for, even though there isn't a lot of coral veining in mine. Glad I'm getting another one from the US. Rio on the other hand... I'm not really happy with it. I think mine is way too brown. If I swatch mainly the pink part it's a lovely color, but when I use mainly the brown part, which I obviously have to, it's kind of ''dirty'' looking. And also a bit too warm for me I think. I'm afraid it looks like I rubbed chocolate on my cheeks. Oh wellll... I never have much luck with MSF veining somehow. The formula on both is top-notch though, super smooth. 

Excuse the craptastic cellphone camera quality.

Your Adored is SO white. :shock:

 

[Corally]

And I received my Adored today. I'm pretty happy with mine.. a bit more white would've been great but I can't complain.

 

[Naynadine]

Your Adored is SO white.

Lol, yeah...

But the most important thing is how it looks on the skin and it's beautiful, so it's OK.
I feel like I always get the least veining possible. You should see my Lightscapades. I ordered a bunch of them with every release, all of them are completely beige.

 

[Seven Of Nine]

I finally received my Adored and Rio. Adored is flippin gorgeous! Everything I hoped for, even though there isn't a lot of coral veining in mine. Glad I'm getting another one from the US.
Rio on the other hand... I'm not really happy with it. I think mine is way too brown. If I swatch mainly the pink part it's a lovely color, but when I use mainly the brown part, which I obviously have to, it's kind of ''dirty'' looking. And also a bit too warm for me I think. I'm afraid it looks like I rubbed chocolate on my cheeks. Oh wellll... I never have much luck with MSF veining somehow.
The formula on both is top-notch though, super smooth.

Excuse the craptastic cellphone camera quality.

I agree with this.
My Adored looks very similar. More bright than a coral.

 

[Seven Of Nine]

It's pretty

 

[Gatton]

lol, maybe all the Dutchies who ordered online get coral ones.

 

[Corally]

Your Adored is SO white. :shock:

Lol, yeah... 

 But the most important thing is how it looks on the skin and it's beautiful, so it's OK. I feel like I always get the least veining possible. You should see my Lightscapades. I ordered a bunch of them with every release, all of them are completely beige.

It IS lovely! I wish I got a bit more white/beige actually.. mine is about 2/3 coral. You unlucky girl! I only have one Lightscapade from the first release and all the new ones look so blah compared to that one.

 

[Naynadine]

Ooh, you got a nice one!

 

[Naynadine]

It IS lovely! I wish I got a bit more white/beige actually.. mine is about 2/3 coral. You unlucky girl! I only have one Lightscapade from the first release and all the new ones look so blah compared to that one.

I guess you can wear yours as a blush, whereas mine is more of a highlighter.

 

[Corally]

And I received my Adored today. I'm pretty happy with mine.. a bit more white would've been great but I can't complain.

Ooh, you got a nice one! 

I can get about 3/4 different highlighters out of it so I'm happy! And I love the formula, it's so smooth.:bigheart: I kinda want to go swirl hunting for a really white one but I know I shouldn't. :lol:

 

[Corally]

It IS lovely! I wish I got a bit more white/beige actually.. mine is about 2/3 coral. You unlucky girl! I only have one Lightscapade from the first release and all the new ones look so blah compared to that one.

I guess you can wear yours as a blush, whereas mine is more of a highlighter.

Nah I'm gonna use mine as highlighter, it's too frosty for blush imo (for me at least) so that's a no no.

 

[MACina]

I see, it is really not that perfect for you then

I'm more of a highlighter fan, so more "whites" would've been perfect. But aye, who knows what the pattern will change into later.

 

[MACina]

....glad you received your package and everything was included!

I agree with you that your Rio does really have a lot of brown

Wouldn' t be perfect me either

Maybe you can use it on top of a blush/CC/CB/CCB just to add a hint of bronze???

BUT your Adored is stunning

It would be awesome to have one like yours and one like Gattons

I finally received my Adored and Rio. Adored is flippin gorgeous! Everything I hoped for, even though there isn't a lot of coral veining in mine. Glad I'm getting another one from the US.
Rio on the other hand... I'm not really happy with it. I think mine is way too brown. If I swatch mainly the pink part it's a lovely color, but when I use mainly the brown part, which I obviously have to, it's kind of ''dirty'' looking. And also a bit too warm for me I think. I'm afraid it looks like I rubbed chocolate on my cheeks. Oh wellll... I never have much luck with MSF veining somehow.
The formula on both is top-notch though, super smooth.

Excuse the craptastic cellphone camera quality.

 

[MACina]

Wow, obviously the Netherlands got all the "all over coral" Adoreds

 

[MACina]

Did you order LCs from HW collection?
They had quite a lot of blue veining

Lol, yeah...

But the most important thing is how it looks on the skin and it's beautiful, so it's OK.
I feel like I always get the least veining possible. You should see my Lightscapades. I ordered a bunch of them with every release, all of them are completely beige.

 

[Seven Of Nine]

Adored on teh Cheeks and Dare to Bare on the lid.

 

[Naynadine]

Did you order LCs from HW collection?
They had quite a lot of blue veining

Yes, I did. It's completely beige as well, lol.

 

[MACina]

Too bad with your Rio.As I said, maybe you can try it with a pink base

But since yours does really have SO much brown (haven' t seen such a brown one yet) this might not work...

Hopefully you Adored from the US has more coral so that you have one highlighter and one blush.

I'm not sure if I should keep Rio now. It pulls orange on my skintone. :-( Nothing like other swatches I have seen of it. If I had a better camera I would take swatch pics, but with my cellphone it's kind of useless, because they don't come out colour accurate at all.
On my face Adored looks pretty much just like Lightscapade. Just a bit more silvery/cooler, but it's just a highlight, I don't see any coral color to it. So looking over at my stash of Lightscapade BUs, I technically didn't need Adored, since they're not that different. I do love it though, cause I love Lightscapade, but I did expect Adored to have at least some colour. I applied it with the 187, maybe I need to try other brushes with it.

Yes, I did. It's completely beige as well, lol.

Oh no,that sucks! Mine have pretty much blue.