Re: Naughty Nauticals Discussion
This is sort-of a cut and paste from a post I'd made on MUA, but with added comments. I'm sorry that I can't say much positive about the collection :/
Port Red is too frosty for my liking, and most of the lip colors were pretty ordinary. Not all bad, but nothing I would call a must-have. Though, if I wore pink l/g more often, I might have been tempted by Love Knot. The reflects in LK are gorgeous, so I'm starting to think maybe I should get it.
The eye shadows are some of the worst I've seen in a long time. You know those great big kits of 26 eyeshadows and blushes that you see at drugstores for $5.99? MAC is getting there. The cream-colored veluxe pearl one, Shore Leave was actually decent, but it's hardly unique. If you don't already have one like it though, I really like the finish. I had wanted Submarine but I found it a bit unpigmented and hard to build up the color. Meet The Fleet could have been nice if it had more pigment and went on a little more smoothly.
The nailpolish colors were pretty cool, but I hate MAC's formula and OPI has similar, if not identical, shades in their current India collection. Sometimes MAC puts out nice shades, but, for me, they chip as soon as you breathe or look at them wrong. If you find that MAC polishes work for you, Naughty Nautical, a shimmering blackened cobalt, is gorgeous.
The pigments were the things I was most disappointed with. I'd planned on buying a sample of Mutiny from thebodyneeds, or even a whole jar if I really loved it. In pictures is looks so nice and rich, but I still can't believe what a dry, chunky, gritty mess it was. And it hardly even stuck to my skin, it just brushed around. It makes Kitchmas look smooth, as do Lark About and Lovely Lily (those these were smoother than Mutiny). I found Bell-Bottom Blue to be very dull and frosty, but it might look better applied wet. From listening to others about Mutiny, I think maybe MAC is having quality control issues because some people say they found Mutiny to be like the ones I described, and others have found it to be smooth. Looking at swatches too, some look far smoother than others.