MAC Alluring Aquatic Collection (May 22, 2014)

blondie929

blondie929

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Dolly Snow said:
I rarely sleep, I've always been this way since I was small. My family hated me lol I'd just sit in my bed with the lights on!
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me too! i was such a party animal! and by party animal i mean sitting in the dark with the tv on almost on mute eating chips as quietly as i could which is impossible lol
 
blondie929

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NaniLovesMAC said:
If I miss out on AS i'll grab Golden, and If I miss out on See Me Hear Me i'll grab an e/s. Getting my second string list ready! Game Plan, lol
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i wish it was the 4th quarter already but it looks like this game is gonna go into overtime lol
 
DILLIGAF

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I have my list and I'm sticking to it. No matter how much I want that Compact I know for a fact that I can't use either bronzer. I have Matte Bronze here already staring at me and I rarely use that. It will be Lippies and eye products all the way.
 
MakeupQueen4

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blondie929 said:
me too! i was such a party animal! and by party animal i mean sitting in the dark with the tv on almost on mute eating chips as quietly as i could which is impossible lol
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I go through random nights of insomnia where I sit up and read a book and finish it or most of it all in one night. Because I'm a nerd lol. Harry Potter series when I was younger!?! Sure did!
 
rae_rae21

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DILLIGAF said:
I have my list and I'm sticking to it. No matter how much I want that Compact I know for a fact that I can't use either bronzer. I have Matte Bronze here already staring at me and I rarely use that. It will be Lippies and eye products all the way.
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Talked myself outta of the bronzer. I love the compact, but the bronzers are permanent and I'd rather have the other stuff. But...don't quote me on that...sigh..
 
DILLIGAF

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MakeupQueen4 said:
I go through random nights of insomnia where I sit up and read a book and finish it or most of it all in one night. Because I'm a nerd lol. Harry Potter series when I was younger!?! Sure did!
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I would stay up to either read or finish video games. And I wondered why my mother didn't let me take my playstation to college.
 
Beautybuyer

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blondie929 said:
me too! i was such a party animal! and by party animal i mean sitting in the dark with the tv on almost on mute eating chips as quietly as i could which is impossible lol
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Lol I'm a night person too! It's how I discovered santa wasn't real! I faked my mom out when I was like 8 or 10. When I'm sick I'm a baby and by baby I mean still have to do everything! So I'm tired at night lol When I was 15 I'd stay up all night and drink beers from the garage...joke was on me when my mom found bottles in the empty backpacks is hide them in LOL
 
DILLIGAF

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rae_rae21 said:
Talked myself outta of the bronzer. I love the compact, but the bronzers are permanent and I'd rather have the other stuff. But...don't quote me on that...sigh..
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Other people are getting the compact and planning on replacing the bronzer with something else they like. I'm too scared I'll break it.
 
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HA HA HA. My n1ish daughter just informed me she wants the compact and a bronzer, lippies, a brush, and Lorelei.
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The bronzer is the funniest thing she might have ever said to me.
 
MakeupQueen4

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DILLIGAF said:
I would stay up to either read or finish video games. And I wondered why my mother didn't let me take my playstation to college.
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lol! My mom told me I had to stop reading books so fast because she wasn't going to keep spending $200 in Barnes and Noble. So I just started getting longer books lol.
 
hopefulheart

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liba said:
878 new posts since this morning???? Oh helllllllllz no to reading all of it before posting. I did see the whole collection today and will be somewhat brief: First off, I dunno…the COMPACT didn't thrill me to death. Honestly preferred the Proenza packaging. I think I liked the way the packaging worked the best on the lipsticks, to tell the truth. But, packaging be damned - it's what in them that counts (to me!) So, Aphrodite's Shell: I loved it. It's not quite as wonderful as my dearly beloved Lush Light Bronze, but it didn't pull orange on me at all (NC15), nor was it unmanageably dark, stiff, hard to blend or shimmery, glittery or even sheen-y. It's a fine addition to the Extra Dimension line. I wasn't going to buy a bronzer, but AS was really excellent, especially the finish on the skin, which was super duper natural, even less light reflective than the Careblend bronzers, but not matte or heavy looking at all. For someone who hasn't bought a new bronzer since Surf Baby and LLB, and wasn't planning on buying another unless I was very impressed - well, I'm buying it! It is good. It had a very classy and realistic, nude pink pale tan effect on me - even more subtle than LLB, in fact. I was sold. I was really hoping Delphic would work too, since it doesn't look orange-y in the pan, but it did in fact pull a little too orange on me. My MA liked it, but I much preferred AS. Another gal was in there trying things on who was NC35 and Delphic looked PHENOMENAL on her - it was so beautiful on her. If you are NC35 or NC40, Delphic is for you and you will go bananas over it. These are the nicest bronzer finish MAC has come out with since the Careblend ones, imo. 
  • The lipsticks didn't much work for me, sorry to say. Mystical had just a twinge too much brown although it was SO CLOSE to being a fantastic MLBB like my favorite One of a Kind. It could be dealt with with a pale pink lip pencil, but I don't need to hassle with that. If you're more medium skin toned, it'll be great and it will definitely look much pinker on deep skin tones for sure.
  • Siren Song reminded me very very much of Tropical Mist from Carine Roitfeldt. That wasn't the perfect nude for me and SS wasn't either, but if you are NW and fair, you will love it. It will be an excellent replacement for TM, perhaps just the teeniest bit warmer than that one, but not so much it'd be bad for NW.
  • Enchanted One was very similar to Cozy Up, but a little bit browner and darker (just by a hair). Cozy Up is better on me than EO, which is going to be a HG matte nude for people with deeper skin than mine. Again, if you're NC35-40, or even darker, this is one to give a major major look at. It might be OK for fair NC people if you wished Cozy Up was a little browner and less peachy - it's going to look more orange on NW, but not necessarily in a bad way - but buyer beware and try before buy and all that. Personally, I love Cozy Up, but Runway Hit is even better for me and I don't need EO.
  • Pet Me Please is the same old PMP - I love this one very much and it will look especially awesome under the very pearlescent lip glosses in this collection. I already have a tube of it from its first release, though. I've used quite a bit of it, but I'm not sure I need a BU. I'm considering it, since PMP is quite unique in it's frostiness and grey nude lilac undertone. It's best under lip gloss, but it's not a dry frost, it looks and feels moist. 
  • I did looooove Goddess of the Sea, though. It's the only lipstick of the whole bunch I am going to get. On my pigmented lips, it looks the way my dearly beloved Flaunting It does, but with more violet and less brown. It's like a cooler, more violet Flaunting It or a less reddish, softer Bust Out, and for this, it is LOVE LOVE LOVE. Super soft and pretty and smooth. Looks amazing under some of the glosses, like Clear Water and Modern Lure. This is the lipstick for me!!
Those glosses….let me just say, this is the first MAC collection I can recall where I loved the glosses MORE than the lipsticks. Who would've thunk it? All of them, other than Peachstock, are either highly pearlized - like massively more than any others with that finish (which I love) or super glittery - they all reminded me of Lip Gelee style. Peachstock was the one I wasn't going to bother with, but after I tried it on, I decided it was on too - it's outrageously pigmented, didn't settle into the lip lines, looks like a wet look lipstick almost. I just ate dinner with it on and it's stayed on! I'll go on about everything else in the next post.
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liba said:
Oh dear! Red lipstick is for the party afterwards! Keeping the lips softer for the ceremony will look more beautiful in photos, in my opinion! You will be gorgeous no matter what! AS is Liba approved for lighter NC and neutral people!!!!! I'd be a little wary if you are a pale NW. Although I will say, I'm NC15 most of the time, but wasn't at all in the liquid Mineralize foundation. NW20 was OK on me, but a little bit "sporty" and only for summer. I finally got to try the NW15 and NW18 versions today, and NW15 was perrrrrrrfect on me. Perfect match with my neck. I'm wearing it right now!
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I may need to get color matched again. I think I'm around NW 15. I may be lighter than that. I never seem to be color matched correctly though. For all I know I may be NC! I wear matchmaster 1.0 which is perfect for me but I don't know what undertone I am. I am really liking AS but I'm not sure if it'll work for me. I got so excited when you said it was close to Lush Light Bronze which I thought someone said is perfect for pale NW.
 
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