Biggest Disappointments of 06

[coachkitten]

I agree on Technacolor. I was really looking forward to this collection as I gravitate to bold colors, but it was an overall disappointment w/ the texture. I do love pompous blue.

I also was really disappointed with the LE pigments that came out this year. She Shines pigments were slight variations of existing ones & red accent looks just like ruby red.

I just wish there was more variation from collection to collection. And if they can't do that then maybe they should wait a little bit longer to put out another collection. They really all seemed to run together this year.

 

[stephbunny]

haha. i agree with many of you...
I don't understand how MAC promoted lip varnishes as "non-sticky" and intensely pigmented. They seemed exactly the same (or dare I even say worse than) the lipglasses to me!...for bigger price tag and for something that visably separates in the tube after 12 or so hours. =(

i love the liquidlast liners...only because I have asian eyes and somehow our eye shapes make it so that even if we have dry skin and we've primed our eye areas, our eye makeup will transfer.. I have not found anything else in the world that doesn't smudge or run. Yes. the texture is goopy, and
it does take EXTRA long to apply precisely. but i guess that's the payoff. LLL comes off with my shu uemera skin purifier cleansing oil...so I guess I've found a way to work with these things. I own 7 of them!

Danse: Yawn.

I returned my studio mist blush after trying despserately to make it work. I'm addicted to blushes... but when i returned it, even my MA said "I don't blame you". HAHA.

Thanks MAC_Whore for explaining why I keep reaching for those velvet eyeshadows at the counters only to be dissapointed when I get home. I, too, am a sucker for how they look in the pot. Now I can break the cycle!

I love my blurberry shadstick. *snif*

 

[jpohrer]

I returned Iris Print (too chalky and no color pay-off), Interview/Purple x(lacked pigment), Jewel Blue (too chalky), and Moonstone (no color pay-off). The shadows do not seem to have as much pigment in them as in the past. The new lip gelees are so sheer that they don't show up! The liquidlast liners are too hard to remove. I swatched one on my hand. It did not come off for five days-- and I bathe daily! Deja Rose smelled old lady-ish.

 

[saniyairshad]

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Originally Posted by 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.

GIVE ME UR PORCELAIN PINK...please?

 

[Katgirl625]

Glimmershimmers. What a pointless product. Does anyone even use these?
See Thru Color cheek tints - it's a rarity that I'm able to look at a Mac product and immediately say "no thanks" without even giving it a chance. This was one of those products.
The Nordies Anniversary sets. They just seemed so "eh" to me - and the quality on those effin brush sets/bags was heinious.

And did I miss the boat somewhere - are shadesticks being discontinued? do I need to immediately go out and buy all remaining stock of Taupeographic? That is my true love!

 

[jess98765]

one thing that springs to mind are the SFF!!! initially they looked perfect on my skin and i was so sure that this would FINALLY be the PERFECT foundation ever. however after a couple of uses later, i find that it turns ORANGE on me!! arghhh. BIG BIG disappointment. Back to hyperreal foundation for me

 

[geeko]

Definitely Iris Print. Looks nice in the pot....but sucks to the core when applied. The eyeshadow base didn't even help to bring out the color.

 

[redambition]

i won't have many, as i haven't been a mad collecction-looking-at-person for very long.

most of nocturnelle... i walked out with just entremauve pigment (i don't own grape)

plushglass - love the product, the texture is awesome (although it does go a bit funny after you've been wearing it for a while)... but the SMELL. i hate it. i rarely wear my plushglasses because i have to psyche myself up for 1/2 hour just to put it on.

glimmershimmers - i just don't understand them.

i also agree on the pink lipsticks.

 

[user79]

Studio Fix Fluid - Nothing useful at all for us fair skinned ladies.

Nocturnelle & Jewelescent - Didn't buy anything from these collections

Sweetie Cake Glitz Glosses - yuck

 

[wannabelyn]

nightfish fluidline.
no idea what came over me

 

[jenii]

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Originally Posted by Katgirl625 And did I miss the boat somewhere - are shadesticks being discontinued?

No, it's just a few colors being discontinued. You'll be glad to know that Taupographic is not one of them.

The only ones I see with the Dreaded Triangle next to them are Blurburry, Cedarrose, Mangomix, and Shimmermint.

 

[lsperry]

I really only got into MAC during the Sundressing collection; so I missed out on what came before it!

Doubly disappointed w/studio mist foundation – MAC was too limited w/the colors. Ordered the dark and sent it back – Yuck! Tried the deep dark on in the store and it didn’t work. Why would they make a foundation that limited the number of people who could use it? I’m an NW and I believe only NCs could use the stuff.

Technacolor - Didn’t like Zeal ES from Technacolor. Didn’t show up on me. But I love jeweltone, B-rich, pompous blue (have 3 of these; 2 from a CCO), and blue edge (2). I have no problem working w/velvets.

Jewelescent - What’s up w/jadeye FL? I wanted a color as vibrant as blue beep and what I got was a watered-down version. I was so disappointed when I wore it that the next day I wore blue peep just to take the bad taste out of my mouth! AND, YES, COPPERCLAST IS SUNPEPPER! On me I can’t tell the difference!

MAC Couture - MAC Couture mystery powder. It’s a mystery to me why they made such a product. There was nothing “special” or “couture” about it! It muddies up my blush! The lipglosses were nothing special either. But I love, love the highlighters and got all of them except the silver one.

TURQUATIC – Didn’t get anything from this collection. Although, I had only been using MAC for a few months, I already had similar colors when these came out. Can we say Aquadisiac?

DANSE – From looking at the promo pictures, I knew DANSE would not work on my dark skin tone, but when I saw aire-de-blu swatched on dark skin, I decided to get it and pastoral. I love these 2 piggies and am pressing them this weekend. Also, I got the corps de couleur quad. The only color that disappointed me in the quad was Vapour (it appeared as white on my dark skin). I popped it out and put pompous blue in its place and I have a rocking beautiful quad of colors. Got loads of compliments when I wore them. And when I visited a MAC counter, I swatched terre a terre and club and couldn’t tell the difference! MAC and its same color, different name thing again!

Okay; I want to end this rant on a positive note: NOCTURNELLE IS LOVE, I am NOCTURNELLE. This was my fav, fav collection of the year. Back-ups galore ‘cause I know MAC will probably never produce a collection like this again!

 

[Cruella]

The pigments and the fluidlines were very disappointing to me. However, I just love Iris Print from the CultureBloom collection - I use a sponge applicator to apply & it is so pretty.

 

[Twinkz]

jewelescent was a big let down in my eyes

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[veilchen]

I'll definitely agree for the Liquidlast liners (as was said, pretty colours but hell to apply because they're so gunky and then terrible to get off) and Technacolour (some nice colours like Pompous Blue but the texture sucked).
Also: Studio Mist Blush ... I don't see the point of spraying it onto my hand and from there applying with a brush. I can just as well get creme blush or powder blush as the colours were not that special to me either and leave out a step which costs me just extra time.

 

[Chic 2k6]

Technacolour was a disappointment i got Full Flame & Peppier. got Pompous Blue but i hate it :|

i avoided Nocturnelle cept for Passionate e/s i think that was the only brights this year lol

Out Loud. end of.

 

[Showgirl]

DEFINITELY the Studio Mist foundation. The MA showed it by spraying it on her hand, mixing it up, swirling it around a bit, then applying it with a brush, and I was like "hold on.... what's the point of that? Doesn't that mean the texture's just the same as any other liquid foundation? Does that not mean the can's a bit of a gimmick really?"....

 

[pumpkincat210]

Chromeglasses, Sundressing, Liquid last liners, and Nocturnelle were big dissapointments. The no payoff velvets also annoy me.
Another thing that bothers me is the exclusiveness of the collection. Now they sell out in a week, everyone rush buys and then regrets it.

 

[MAC_Whore]

Yeah, I forgot to mention just how bad Zeal looked on me. I really have to tweak it to make it work. I have already promised it to someone. I don't want it to taint my eyeshadow drawer with its ugliness any longer!

 

[MAChostage]

For me, it was DANSE.