Biggest Disappointments of 06

[MAC_Whore]

We have had a lot of threads talking about what where the best products of 06, but what do you think tanked?

Personally my big let downs were:

Wait til Dark ES-I normally love dark blues, but was just underwhelmed by the crappy payoff and dusty velvet texture.

Insert Random Pink Velvet Shadow Here-There were too many bland, powdery, velvet pinks. None of them work without a base and even then. Meh.

Which brings me to my MAC conspiracy theory: There were so many powdery, velvet eyeshadows released last year! Like I said, they all NEED a base. MAC is making these shadows so you have to buy a base. It is a way to increase sales. They have other shadows: matte, satin, veluxe that aren't shimmery, but give decent colour payoff. Why not use those formulas? And visually, velvets look pretty in the pot and suck you right in to buy them, huh?

OK, crazy cat lady rant over.

Pigments being released that look like other pigments.

Liquidlast Liners-Gorgeous colours, but so cumbersome to apply and you need a pressure washer to blast them off your eyes.

And along the lines of my Insert Random Pink Velvet Shadow Here is my Insert Random Light to Mid-Tone Pink Lustre Lipstick Here. For me, they all looked like the same lipstick.

Out Loud Lash Mascara-Meh...sucked.

Discontinuations- I know they mean new products, but I loved Blu-Noir, Fiction, Felt Blue, Graphito, Pixel, Shimma and all of the Shadesticks! Waaaah!

Think that's about it. What's on your shit list?

 

[jillianjiggs]

i only started collecting mac in the late summer (even then i wasn't really into it until maybe september)

but i wasn't really all that impressed with nocturnelle or jewelescent. the only thing i looked forward to and actually bought plenty from (and still want from) is danse.

i'm really looking forward to this year though

 

[Macnarsandlove]

i was disapointed at technocolor for the colr payoff in the shadows. I thought they would be more vibrant. Also COPPERCLAST PIGMENT. I thought it wa going to be another color from the description. Sunpepper looks the same to me.

 

[DaizyDeath]

I have to say I thought id get a ton of stuff from the Nocturnal collection but the only thing i got was the black nail polish hahaha the only nail polish i own.

Out Loud first off i would never wear colored mascara ok i lied i wore it when i was 12 my dad and i went to the mall and my dad got me some blue mascara but i was 12 then! Now that i know makeup black is the only color i want on my lashes haha

Danse Im sorry but ugggh i dont like msf's i think its just a huge hype and nothing more personally i own all the msf's which ive now traded for things i actually use haha. & the colors in this collection were horrid pinks browns blues and greens are my nightmare


Jewlscent another blah i dont think i got anything for this collection.

Technacolor this was the worst collection ive ever seen the color pay off of the colors was horrible and they were so chalky i was expecting to come out of the store with alot of the colors and came back with none.


I think most of 06 collections sucked. hopefully 07 will be better.

 

[lvgz]

i agree with most of the picks.

TOO MANY VELVETS. okay, yes i bought two of pompous blue, wait til dark, and many others.. but wait til dark wasnt all that, and i was really excited about the color too. andd jeweltone?!! I WANTED THAT SO BADLY.. but too bad it looked and felt like chalk. talk about hard to work with!

the pigments in danse.. looked like azreal blue and golders green. no. please, pigments rock. give us some variety!

the turquatic line.. just.... no comment. turquatic e/s wasnt a very unique or pretty color.

Porcelain Pink msf. I LOVE MSFS. shooting star, shimpagne, glissade.. most msfs were so nice. but porcelain pink was such a huge let down.. so much for color payoff.

i did not like both of the untamed pallets. colors.. clashed. not my taste.

too many pinks and blues this year. really. i LOVE blues, but my gosh. turquatic line, sweetie cake, technacolor.. blah blah blah. variety? ohhh yeah. i love mac bc of their exotic, different e/s colors. the limited ed. lines this year though.. with all its pinks and blues.. i thought there were more existing colors! haha.

well end rant. i love mac, but lemme tell you. all that stuff ^^, saved my money.

 

[greatscott2000]

Danse didn't do it for me, neither did Hook, Lure collection , She shines or Sweetie Cake.
I think they need to repromote old colorstories and add new colors

 

[Cocktail_party]

My disappointment of the year was not so much a particular product persay, but the how I wish I had bought more from the Sweetie Cake collection because I really loved it. Meh.

 

[d_flawless]

technacolor...and the culturebloom e/s

but let's be positive, i loved lure and also the catherine d. icon collection...

 

[Starbright211]

Glimmershimmers that came out with various collections... THEY BLOW IMO... Why, Why, Why do they keep pushing them on us???

 

[Winthrop44]

Liquidlast Liners and Lip Varnishes - hated 'em both!

 

[gretchygretch84]

Danse. Too pale, too chalky, too cool toned. Neither of the MSFs shows up at all on me either and I'm not even that dark! (NC 25/30)

Copperclast. It was Sunpepper with a different name, and I agree with the other person who said I thought it'd be something else entirely.

Discontinued Products. Seriously, GOLDEN LEMON? Mangomix? Crimsonaire? These are 3 staples for me!!!

 

[MAC_Whore]

I forgot about:

Studio Fix Fluid-Too orange for this NW25.

Studio Mists- I kind of say that with hesitation. I love the formula and look, but light-med is too orange on me and they smell kind of ooky.

Catherine Deneuve Beauty Powders-Just OK

I liked the See Thru Colour Lip Stains and Cheek Colourwashes, but you don't hear about them being discussed much. Did anyone love,like,hate these?

 

[MissMarley]

Glimmershimmers- they are so nasty and greasy and useless!
Sweetie Cake Pigments- these sounded beautiful to me. But they were the horrible chunky texture, with the exception of Pinked Mauve, which made me look like I had some horrible disease around my eyes
The freaking velvet shadows- seriously. they look SO pretty. but when you're getting ready for work and have five minutes, you can't screw around with bases and such. not fair, mac.
Nocturnelle- that's how you used Dita, MAC? What a waste of a fabulous spokesperson...

 

[MAC_Whore]

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaizyDeath I....Out Loud first off i would never wear colored mascara ok i lied i wore it when i was 12 my dad and i went to the mall and my dad got me some blue mascara but i was 12 then! Now that i know makeup black is the only color i want on my lashes haha...

I feel pretty much the same way, but will sometimes use all black mascara and then just colour the tips of the lashes with coloured. It is much more subtle and less 12 year old looking. No offense to any of the 12 year olds! You just can't pull off 12 when you are 35!

 

[Cosmopolitics]

The multitudes upon multitudes of velvet shadows. I cannot stand the way velvets go on. They are so tempting in the pan, but applying them is a pain in the hooha.
Danse. It was way overhyped. Pigments that look the same as the She Shines pigments, crappy eyeshadow colors and textures, and I'm not too fond of MSF's. End of story.
Technacolour See also: crappy velvet shadows. I thought the collection was going to be more vibrant and vivacious, with a name like Technacolour! What a massive disappointment!
Too many boring, uninspired, and redundant collections. And too many collections in general.

 

[jenii]

I have to agree with the Velvet eyeshadows (although I really like Wait Till Dark). Other than Wait Till Dark, I wasn't interested enough to buy any of them.

And how about all 12,000,000 "mid-tone coral pink" lippies they released? It's like, I don't need another Wonderstruck. One is enough.

I tried the Liquidlast liners, didn't like them at all.

However, I'm in the minority about the Danse collection. I love pretty much all of it, except the lipsticks. The lipsticks were awful, IMO, and the only lippie worth getting was Pas-De-Deux. Otherwise, I liked the e/s (although I avoided Scene 1, since MAC pinks never show up, even on my pale lids), and I loooved Lightscapade.

 

[Kim.]

The fact that Mac is whipping out so many collections in a month and that they are always sold out within 2 days everywhere...

Lip varnishes...ew really tacky texture just a bad product
Studio Mist blushes- I'm not sure if the MUA just put too much on or what but they made me look like a tangerine and really funny..

 

[medusalox]

Technacolor = crap. I was so excited for it, picturing bright, fun colors. And they looked so pretty in the pot...but applied? TOTAL CRAP. Grrr. I also have not been impressed with most of the LE pigments, particularly Copperclast. Accent Red, too. Not what I expected.

 

[maxcat]

I must be the only one who likes the velvet textures... Pompous Blue is my absolute fave.
However.
That bloody g**dammed effing stupid Jewelescent glitter. It's not eyesafe... so wtf is it *doing* outside the Pro shops?
The one thing it was good for was embedding in my clothes and getting everywhere else.

 

[bruinshorty]

velvet eyeshadow overload. I totally agree with that one. They look so pretty in the pot, but trying to put them on is uugggggh. Some of the permanent velvets are very nice (trax, beauty marked, sketch), but these new ones suck so bad. I barely touch my brush to sketch and it shows up so much, but I pack on Slip Pink with a sponge tip and it doesn't show up, even over frostlite fluidline.
multitude of light pink/purple lustres. I hate these just as much as the velvets. No color payoff, worst texture EVER, and just blah. They make an okay highlighter, but other than that they're useless. Actually, every lustre this year was horrible, with the exception of Terre a Terre from the Danse quad.
pink lipglass with gold pearl with like... every collection. Seriously, how many can they make? I have Pink Meringue and didn't bother buying any other ones because I'm sure once it's on your lips they all look the same.
culturebloom eyeshadows. ugh, don't even get me started on these. I have 5/6 of them and the only one that's decent is overgrown.

I didn't even bother looking at a ton of the collections (redcocco or whatever it was called, turquatic, technacolor, nocturnelle, jewelescent, who knows what else).

That being said, the barbie collection better not disappoint. i will be very very upset.