MAC Punk Couture Collection (December 26, 2013)

[singer82]

Now this is a collection!!!!!!!!!!! My kind of collection at that. Perfect christmas present to top off the fact I am due to have a baby in December too!

-Two purple lippies!!!

Liba, you do it once AGAIN. You are so awesome!

 

[Lipglass*Lover*]

OK NO MORE NEED FOR BOOB TALK (although I sure could add a few giant boob sagas of my own here) PUNK COUTURE INFO IS GO.

All right, I got to see swatches and descriptions of the collection today. Strap yourselves in before proceeding. No arms or legs out of the compartment at all times.

THERE ARE TWO PURPLE LIPSTICKS IN THIS COLLECTION. Plus the black and the red.

Yes, that's right. There are two. One is straight up grape purple. Not blue violet, but not reddish or magenta-ish or any of that sh-t. GRAPE. It's just insanely beautiful. Then, there is a more red purple. It's still 100% purple. It's less red than something like Strong Woman, and it's not like Violetta at all. It's basically the color Heroine would be if it was brighter and clearer and a little less dark. Also, possibly a teeny bit more purple than even Heroine. This one is called Instigator, which I remembered because I think that's a very cool name. I'd call it what Heroine looks like in the tube. The other purple (forgetting the name) is so beautiful too. Again, these are nice clear colors that are rich and deep, but not dark only because someone put a ton of black into the pigment mix. They are deep due to beautifulness and careful color mix, not due to a bunch of black. Very vibrant. All these instagram photos basically make them all look like poo poo caca doo doo compared to the paper swatches, so prepare your wallets big time.

Both purples and the red are retro mattes. The black is listed as retro matte in the book, but they just got a memo from upstairs saying it's actually going to be a matte. I was delighted to hear this, because a matte black will be infinitely more modern and awesome to an old 80's/90's gal like me than a retro matte black, which would be way too flat and heavy. The red, btw, is really gorgeous and again, is not so blackened as all these photos might lead us to believe. It's not a brown or wine base like FOD and it's not purplish or berry like TTT. It is RED. It's a clearer neutral red than Absolute Power. We honestly have seen a lot of reds but this one isn't like any of them - not blue based like Runaway Red, not bright and pink like Ronnie Red. More glowing and bright and rich than Deeply Adored or Charmed I'm Sure, which are much more retro style, classic reds than this one. I can't wait to try it on my lips. It will be very intense.

The black is looking great too - it's not too warm, but it doesn't pull blue either. Just straight neutral black. Very thrilled.

There are 3 cremesheen glasses. They're all less sheer than the glimmer glasses from Style Black but two are similar - there's a sheerish black with subtle pink sparkle, a sheer-ish black with I want to say silver sparkle (but it might have been gold and I'm spazzing out - I'm 85% sure it was silver) and a non-sparkly, much more opaque straight black (MAJOR LOVE THERE). The sheer ones are on the sheer side for csg, but still not quite as sheer as the glimmerglasses.

There are also 3 pigments - one perm one that's escaping me right now, Magenta Madness is back and then there's a new one that's described as a flat, bright chartreuse. That is going to be awesome. There were a couple more descriptors for the chartreuse one (matte? yellow?) I can't quite recall, but yeah, we're in business.

There's also a quad that's made up of some semi-beloved repromotes plus carbon, lol; all in the smokey purple zone. Maybe there was one color that wasn't a repromote. Idol Eyes is in there and also Magic Moor.

It's out the 26th. Serious LOVE. We were tripping out in a huge way.

*~*Thanks for the info!! I for sure want both purples, and the red. For sure.*~*

 

[mosha010]

We need someone to hack macs website or something. Ughhhhh

 

[liba]

Liba, how about that chartreuse pigment? Is it similar to True Chartreuse pigment or is it more yellow?

Didn't have paper swatches of the pigments. I didn't pay attention to the name of this pigment so it's even possible it IS True Chartreuse. I asked my MA if it was a new color and thought he said yes, but you know how it is, getting all caught up in the moment….

I only care about the lippies

Sorry to be vague - I get to take peeks at this stuff because I don't do stuff like write everything down or take photos of the book, or even grab the book out of my MA's hands if the pages are being flipped around for me. I just try to remember as much as I can, plus I have a good visual memory for colors from my fine art background I guess.

 

[ladyarwen]

Hmmm, sounds like this will be a small haul for me. Just the lipsticks and the black CSG.

 

[SandyCervix]

OK NO MORE NEED FOR BOOB TALK (although I sure could add a few giant boob sagas of my own here) PUNK COUTURE INFO IS GO. All right, I got to see swatches and descriptions of the collection today. Strap yourselves in before proceeding. No arms or legs out of the compartment at all times. THERE ARE TWO PURPLE LIPSTICKS IN THIS COLLECTION. Plus the black and the red. Yes, that's right. There are two. One is straight up grape purple. Not blue violet, but not reddish or magenta-ish or any of that sh-t. GRAPE. It's just insanely beautiful. Then, there is a more red purple. It's still 100% purple. It's less red than something like Strong Woman, and it's not like Violetta at all. It's basically the color Heroine would be if it was brighter and clearer and a little less dark. Also, possibly a teeny bit  more purple than even Heroine. This one is called Instigator, which I remembered because I think that's a very cool name. I'd call it what Heroine looks like in the tube. The other purple (forgetting the name) is so beautiful too. Again, these are nice clear colors that are rich and deep, but not dark only because someone put a ton of black into the pigment mix. They are deep due to beautifulness and careful color mix, not due to a bunch of black. Very vibrant. All these instagram photos basically make them all look like poo poo caca doo doo compared to the paper swatches, so prepare your wallets big time. Both purples and the red are retro mattes. The black is listed as retro matte in the book, but they just got a memo from upstairs saying it's actually going to be a matte. I was delighted to hear this, because a matte black will be infinitely more modern and awesome to an old 80's/90's gal like me than a retro matte black, which would be way too flat and heavy. The red, btw, is really gorgeous and again, is not so blackened as all these photos might lead us to believe. It's not a brown or wine base like FOD and it's not purplish or berry like TTT. It is RED. It's a clearer neutral red than Absolute Power. We honestly have seen a lot of reds but this one isn't like any of them - not blue based like Runaway Red, not bright and pink like Ronnie Red. More glowing and bright and rich than Deeply Adored or Charmed I'm Sure, which are much more retro style, classic reds than this one. I can't wait to try it on my lips. It will be very intense. The black is looking great too - it's not too warm, but it doesn't pull blue either. Just straight neutral black. Very thrilled. There are 3 cremesheen glasses. They're all less sheer than the glimmer glasses from Style Black but two are similar - there's a sheerish black with subtle pink sparkle, a sheer-ish black with I want to say silver sparkle (but it might have been gold and I'm spazzing out - I'm 85% sure it was silver) and a non-sparkly, much more opaque straight black (MAJOR LOVE THERE). The sheer ones are on the sheer side for csg, but still not quite as sheer as the glimmerglasses. There are also 3 pigments - one perm one that's escaping me right now, Magenta Madness is back and then there's a new one that's described as a flat, bright chartreuse. That is going to be awesome. There were a couple more descriptors for the chartreuse one (matte? yellow?) I can't quite recall, but yeah, we're in business. There's also a quad that's made up of some semi-beloved repromotes plus carbon, lol; all in the smokey purple zone. Maybe there was one color that wasn't a repromote. Idol Eyes is in there and also Magic Moor. It's out the 26th. Serious LOVE. We were tripping out in a huge way.

Thank you soooo much for this detailed description ...Yes its official. Chartreuse??? Let alone the lippies? Lata peace Divine Night!

 

[BeautyByLele]

Thank you Liba , can't wait now I feel like skipping DN collection and waiting for this one

 

[ChosenOne]

Thank you, Liba!!! Looks like MAC is going for the jugular with this collection. With colors like these, they're not just looking for people to spend their MAC gift cards they got for the holidays. They're after our dept store gift cards, mall gift cards, American Express/Visa gift cards, and any cold hard cash we get as presents too! Just take it all, MAC!!! I'll buy it all and swim in it like Scrooge McDuck in his money vault!

 

[NaomiH]

Ah Liba, thank you so much! Two purple lippies?!?!? I DIE! I'm buying everything!!!

 

[Beautybuyer]

Can't believe I have to wait til after Christmas for these hahha *tears* more time to save I suppose ! I feel I may go crazy and get triples of each

I'm so sad it's forever away!!! I'm going to go cheap on presents so I can buy more make up!! That's the spirit right? Give cheap and buy more for yourself LOL :haha:

I don't normally BU l/s but I'm going to do so for this collection. It's a must!

I think I am too! I'm sure these will fly off the shelf so I'll take two of each purple and one red

-Two purple lippies!!! :thud:  Liba, you do it once AGAIN. You are so awesome!

Yes thank you liba!!! Loving that fine art background!! You give the best descriptions! Are you a writer as well?

 

[liba]

Thank you Liba , can't wait now I feel like skipping DN collection and waiting for this one

Oh don't you even dare. Scene To Be Seen is going to look gorgeous no matter how deep your skin tone, unless you cannot abide by anything with sheen or metallic highlight. It's really beautiful!! Same thing goes for many of the shadows.

 

[Beautybuyer]

Thank you, Liba!!!  Looks like MAC is going for the jugular with this collection.  With colors like these, they're not just looking for people to spend their MAC gift cards they got for the holidays.  They're after our dept store gift cards, mall gift cards, American Express/Visa gift cards, and any cold hard cash we get as presents too!  Just take it all, MAC!!!  I'll buy it all and swim in it like Scrooge McDuck in his money vault!

:haha: they want you to sell/return your presents so you can just BUY MAC

 

[singer82]

Man! So many great things coming up. But I think I'm most excited about this one (still super stoked for PP and YGT lippies from DN though!) And OCC has mini lip tar sets for holiday! Better start saving them monies!


This made me chuckle... "All these instagram photos basically make them all look like poo poo caca doo doo" Oh Liba! You crack me up

 

[liba]

I don't normally BU l/s but I'm going to do so for this collection. It's a must!
I'm a little on the fence about backing up, because let's face it: it's the rare person who wears black lipstick more than a handful of times a year, even if you love it.

I'm thinking I will BU the grape color without question, and will probably BU the non-sparkle black csg, primarily since I go through csgs pretty fast and a good black gloss will be easier to wear for more occasions than any black lipstick. I will have to try it out to see how it applies and wears. Instigator is beautiful, but it's not dramatically different from the other one - either one or the other is going to look better on me, or I suspect this one is going to be like a wilder, crazier Heroine, which I have BUs of. I just may have enough of vaguely similar shades to be able to squeak by without a BU. Again, after I try it on, I'll know more, but this is my guess. Same goes for the red, since I have reds galore - this one will have to look beyond perfectly amazing with my coloring first, then we shall see about the rest.

Quote: Originally Posted by Beautybuyer


I'm so sad it's forever away!!! I'm going to go cheap on presents so I can buy more make up!! That's the spirit right? Give cheap and buy more for yourself LOL

I think I am too! I'm sure these will fly off the shelf so I'll take two of each purple and one red
Yes thank you liba!!! Loving that fine art background!! You give the best descriptions! Are you a writer as well?

I am a writer, as a matter of fact, plus I'm just insane in the brain about makeup

Sometimes I think "won't it be great when things change so drastically in my life that I won't have time to think about makeup anymore and just stop and use everything I already have until it's 100% gone!"

 

[BeautyByLele]

Thank you Liba , can't wait now I feel like skipping DN collection and waiting for this one

Oh don't you even dare. Scene To Be Seen is going to look gorgeous no matter how deep your skin tone, unless you cannot abide by anything with sheen or metallic highlight. It's really beautiful!! Same thing goes for many of the shadows.

Noooooo.... Liba don't say that !! Aiiight I won't bail out on DN just yet

 

[liba]

This made me chuckle... "All these instagram photos basically make them all look like poo poo caca doo doo" Oh Liba! You crack me up

they really look like utter sh!t compared to how those paper swatches looked. Everyone was so busy fiddling around with the liner and gloss and pigment and the whole kitchen sink, too. Just smear that glorious color all over and go, is what I say.

 

[sss215]

OK NO MORE NEED FOR BOOB TALK (although I sure could add a few giant boob sagas of my own here) PUNK COUTURE INFO IS GO. All right, I got to see swatches and descriptions of the collection today. Strap yourselves in before proceeding. No arms or legs out of the compartment at all times. THERE ARE TWO PURPLE LIPSTICKS IN THIS COLLECTION. Plus the black and the red. Yes, that's right. There are two. One is straight up grape purple. Not blue violet, but not reddish or magenta-ish or any of that sh-t. GRAPE. It's just insanely beautiful. Then, there is a more red purple. It's still 100% purple. It's less red than something like Strong Woman, and it's not like Violetta at all. It's basically the color Heroine would be if it was brighter and clearer and a little less dark. Also, possibly a teeny bit  more purple than even Heroine. This one is called Instigator, which I remembered because I think that's a very cool name. I'd call it what Heroine looks like in the tube. The other purple (forgetting the name) is so beautiful too. Again, these are nice clear colors that are rich and deep, but not dark only because someone put a ton of black into the pigment mix. They are deep due to beautifulness and careful color mix, not due to a bunch of black. Very vibrant. All these instagram photos basically make them all look like poo poo caca doo doo compared to the paper swatches, so prepare your wallets big time. Both purples and the red are retro mattes. The black is listed as retro matte in the book, but they just got a memo from upstairs saying it's actually going to be a matte. I was delighted to hear this, because a matte black will be infinitely more modern and awesome to an old 80's/90's gal like me than a retro matte black, which would be way too flat and heavy. The red, btw, is really gorgeous and again, is not so blackened as all these photos might lead us to believe. It's not a brown or wine base like FOD and it's not purplish or berry like TTT. It is RED. It's a clearer neutral red than Absolute Power. We honestly have seen a lot of reds but this one isn't like any of them - not blue based like Runaway Red, not bright and pink like Ronnie Red. More glowing and bright and rich than Deeply Adored or Charmed I'm Sure, which are much more retro style, classic reds than this one. I can't wait to try it on my lips. It will be very intense. The black is looking great too - it's not too warm, but it doesn't pull blue either. Just straight neutral black. Very thrilled. There are 3 cremesheen glasses. They're all less sheer than the glimmer glasses from Style Black but two are similar - there's a sheerish black with subtle pink sparkle, a sheer-ish black with I want to say silver sparkle (but it might have been gold and I'm spazzing out - I'm 85% sure it was silver) and a non-sparkly, much more opaque straight black (MAJOR LOVE THERE). The sheer ones are on the sheer side for csg, but still not quite as sheer as the glimmerglasses. There are also 3 pigments - one perm one that's escaping me right now, Magenta Madness is back and then there's a new one that's described as a flat, bright chartreuse. That is going to be awesome. There were a couple more descriptors for the chartreuse one (matte? yellow?) I can't quite recall, but yeah, we're in business. There's also a quad that's made up of some semi-beloved repromotes plus carbon, lol; all in the smokey purple zone. Maybe there was one color that wasn't a repromote. Idol Eyes is in there and also Magic Moor. It's out the 26th. Serious LOVE. We were tripping out in a huge way.

I'm. Here. For. It.

 

[Beautybuyer]

I'm a little on the fence about backing up, because let's face it: it's the rare person who wears black lipstick more than a handful of times a year, even if you love it.  I'm thinking I will BU the grape color without question, and will probably BU the non-sparkle black csg, primarily since I go through csgs pretty fast and a good black gloss will be easier to wear for more occasions than any black lipstick. I will have to try it out to see how it applies and wears. Instigator is beautiful, but it's not dramatically different from the other one - either one or the other is going to look better on me, or I suspect this one is going to be like a wilder, crazier Heroine, which I have BUs of. I just may have enough of vaguely similar shades to be able to squeak by without a BU. Again, after I try it on, I'll know more, but this is my guess. Same goes for the red, since I have reds galore - this one will have to look beyond perfectly amazing with my coloring first, then we shall see about the rest. I am a writer, as a matter of fact, plus I'm just insane in the brain about makeup :rasta:  Sometimes I think "won't it be great when things change so drastically in my life that I won't have time to think about makeup anymore and just stop and use everything I already have until it's 100% gone!"

I thought so. You make it so easy to picture things! And I don't think that will happen. I have two kids two and under I nanny twice a week for my step mom (well i pick them up from school and watch them for a few hours lol) AND still stalk makeup....yah I'm crazy!!!

 

[hoshiakari_]

Thanks for the info, Liba! What would we do without your beautiful and apt descriptions???
Looks like all the lipsticks for me and possibly that black csg.
Happy birthday to me. -does a lil jig-

 

[MACina]

OK NO MORE NEED FOR BOOB TALK (although I sure could add a few giant boob sagas of my own here) PUNK COUTURE INFO IS GO.

All right, I got to see swatches and descriptions of the collection today. Strap yourselves in before proceeding. No arms or legs out of the compartment at all times.

THERE ARE TWO PURPLE LIPSTICKS IN THIS COLLECTION. Plus the black and the red.

Yes, that's right. There are two. One is straight up grape purple. Not blue violet, but not reddish or magenta-ish or any of that sh-t. GRAPE. It's just insanely beautiful. Then, there is a more red purple. It's still 100% purple. It's less red than something like Strong Woman, and it's not like Violetta at all. It's basically the color Heroine would be if it was brighter and clearer and a little less dark. Also, possibly a teeny bit more purple than even Heroine. This one is called Instigator, which I remembered because I think that's a very cool name. I'd call it what Heroine looks like in the tube. The other purple (forgetting the name) is so beautiful too. Again, these are nice clear colors that are rich and deep, but not dark only because someone put a ton of black into the pigment mix. They are deep due to beautifulness and careful color mix, not due to a bunch of black. Very vibrant. All these instagram photos basically make them all look like poo poo caca doo doo compared to the paper swatches, so prepare your wallets big time.

Both purples and the red are retro mattes. The black is listed as retro matte in the book, but they just got a memo from upstairs saying it's actually going to be a matte. I was delighted to hear this, because a matte black will be infinitely more modern and awesome to an old 80's/90's gal like me than a retro matte black, which would be way too flat and heavy. The red, btw, is really gorgeous and again, is not so blackened as all these photos might lead us to believe. It's not a brown or wine base like FOD and it's not purplish or berry like TTT. It is RED. It's a clearer neutral red than Absolute Power. We honestly have seen a lot of reds but this one isn't like any of them - not blue based like Runaway Red, not bright and pink like Ronnie Red. More glowing and bright and rich than Deeply Adored or Charmed I'm Sure, which are much more retro style, classic reds than this one. I can't wait to try it on my lips. It will be very intense.

The black is looking great too - it's not too warm, but it doesn't pull blue either. Just straight neutral black. Very thrilled.

There are 3 cremesheen glasses. They're all less sheer than the glimmer glasses from Style Black but two are similar - there's a sheerish black with subtle pink sparkle, a sheer-ish black with I want to say silver sparkle (but it might have been gold and I'm spazzing out - I'm 85% sure it was silver) and a non-sparkly, much more opaque straight black (MAJOR LOVE THERE). The sheer ones are on the sheer side for csg, but still not quite as sheer as the glimmerglasses.

There are also 3 pigments - one perm one that's escaping me right now, Magenta Madness is back and then there's a new one that's described as a flat, bright chartreuse. That is going to be awesome. There were a couple more descriptors for the chartreuse one (matte? yellow?) I can't quite recall, but yeah, we're in business.

There's also a quad that's made up of some semi-beloved repromotes plus carbon, lol; all in the smokey purple zone. Maybe there was one color that wasn't a repromote. Idol Eyes is in there and also Magic Moor.

It's out the 26th. Serious LOVE. We were tripping out in a huge way.

....OMG, I am sooooooooooooooooo excited for this collection!!!!

Especially for the lip products and the new pigment.

I am bit disappointed that there is only one new pigment and that the quad does include only repromotes and Carbon,though

Thank you very much for sharing these amazing news, liba