MAC X Bao Bao Wan Collection (March 5, 2015)

montREALady

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Forbidden Sunrise is so pretty but I tend to shy away from oranges.
I think you would look good in it
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ladyd12

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I got LJ lipstick and ST and KB nail lacquers! The only things I also wanted was sold out was SO and IG :(
 

Siobhanne

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I'm still waiting for the beauty powder, but got BK in the mail today. I was hoping it would be a pink on me. It is straight up neon orange! So weird. It must be because I am so pale? I'm not sure I'll be able to wear this at all - it looks really crazy on me. I do love the formula - awesomely smooth feel.
 

Audrey C

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My Romantic Breakdown just arrived. Like most pale nudes, I need a lipliner to make them work or I find that my mouth lacks any definition. On its own, meh.Too milky for me. Paired with Spice liner, much better. Layered over Chicory liner (over full lips) - awesome.

Great layering shade, but not a colour I'd wear on its own. Not a replacement for French Kiss (although I wear that with Spice as well).
 

elegant-one

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Love ur swatches I get my order tomorrow got the BP FS and RB I'm glad I got RB wasn't getting much love but looks like a great everyday color!
Thanks hun! I hope you love it on! It turns my very pigmented lips such a lovely shade. You're right, it's everyday wearable. I'm going to try some liners under it to see what happens.
 

luvlydee

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I wasn't interested because it's a lustre but it looks nice. I find Free as a Butterfly from the Cinderella collection milky on me. It's paler than this one.
I think its more pigmented than macs usual lustres but the color wasn't so flattering on me at all. I ordered Royal Ball from Cinderella and I'm thinking its going to be the same problem but at least with Cinderella i like collecting certain mac collections and that was one of them so I won't be as upset because I would just depot the lipstick and put in a different mac color that i have in reg packaging.
 

luvlydee

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Hmm...this is probably how it will look on me. I think I'll just switch the bullet and pop Toying Around in the Bao Bao tube. A poor girls Burmese Kiss
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thank goodness we know how to switch out lipsticks because lord knows how many special packaging bullets that doesn't have the original color it came with hahaha
 

Audrey C

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If Free as a Butterfly is milkier than Romantic Breakdown, my daughter won't like it at all. I'll compare them (without swatching) before I put it aside for her. I don't want to try a highly coveted shade only to send it back when I could sell it at cost to someone else.
 

mercede466

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Summer Opal - a beautiful pale beige baby rose gold with beautiful golden shimmer which is not glittery or over the top. On my skin, its a beautiful soft pale slight rose glow.
BK - It looks more pink/red on my arm, but on my pigmented lips is definitely a pinked coral with red undertones. Its actually quite beautiful on. I think it looks better & less bright if you do the dab & smoosh.
Romantic Breakdown - is such a very pretty pale dainty beige rose. I love the subtle nude/rose/pale dusty pink shade it gives my lips.

The texture is soft creamy & smooth for all products. I'm quite happy with all of it.

Really cloudy dark here today so the pics....























^^^this pic is better color wise.
gorgeous!! you always have some of the best swatch pics @elegant-one!! i am still sad that i missed out on BK......I do really like my RB though :)
 

elegant-one

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I'm still waiting for the beauty powder, but got BK in the mail today. I was hoping it would be a pink on me. It is straight up neon orange! So weird. It must be because I am so pale? I'm not sure I'll be able to wear this at all - it looks really crazy on me. I do love the formula - awesomely smooth feel.
Hmmmm, I am extremely pale too & it definitely isn't orange on me. Try a bit on your lower lip & then smoosh your lips together to see if that makes it more wearable to you.
 

123blueandwhite

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Got my Spice, BK, LJ and FS this morning! Threw on my BK before I left today and I love it! Can't wait to play with the rest when I get home.
 

elegant-one

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If Free as a Butterfly is milkier than Romantic Breakdown, my daughter won't like it at all. I'll compare them (without swatching) before I put it aside for her. I don't want to try a highly coveted shade only to send it back when I could sell it at cost to someone else.
I didn't think FAB is milkier. Its quite sheer barely-there shade but still pretty. They aren't close imho.
 

luvlydee

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Did you try just a couple of light swipes & then let it warm up to your own lip shade? Sometimes too much of the ls on in these shades doesn't work. I'm not saying you used too much ;)

I think it actually looks pretty on you.
thank you but my sister told me i looked a hot mess lmao she said it actually looks decent in the pic compared to the mess it looks in person. bleh! lmao I think it doesn't help that the color of my natural lips are like a dark purplish brown. I don't know if you remember the lipstick Tropical Mist from the Carine Roitfeld collection but that lipstick had a milky look to it but what it did was just mute out my lips. This color makes me look like a crackhead in person lmao
 
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