I’m so excited that I just can’t hide it…..
This is the way I feel about the eye palettes in the holiday collection. I’m an NW45.
EYE PALETTES: I bought the cool, warm, intense and smoked eyes. Out of the 24 shadows in the 4 palettes, I already owned woodwinked, embark and club. So this was a bonus for me [I just started using MAC Feb ’06; so I don’t have the collection of some of the members]. I went Thursday to pick them up from MAC, Belk’s, Destin, FL. I was so ambivalent about getting them because of all the putdowns on Specktra about how everyone already owned the colors and so many were repromotes, blah, blah, blah. And when I saw the pictures posted here, I thought they looked blasé and uninteresting. Well to my amazement my eyes almost popped out when I saw them! I wore the cool eyes Friday and got sooo many compliments. I played with the warm, intense and smoked eyes over the weekend. I am so excited because there are so many ways to wear the color-combinations and if ever I needed a desert-island product, it would be one of these palettes and UDPP. I ordered extras of the warm and cool eye palettes [I didn’t want to bewail and bemoan 2 years from now that I “shoulda” gotten them]. The “surprise” colors for me are nocturnelle, limo, vex, gentle fume, smut, nightbird and gallant. All of the colors are rich, but these were surprisingly so. I tried several CCBs under each and was pleased with the intensity or subtleness you can achieve. I thought the well-plumed and take-wing quads were good, but these palettes are great! It’s giving me an opportunity to try out many colors without having to think about the color combinations…..I’m actually going to buy some of the single-shadow colors in the palettes – if I can find them. At the rate I’m going in using them, I know I’ll hit pan by the end of the year on any one of them. (Hmmm, thinking about buy extras of the intense and smoked yes, now)
LIP PALETTES:
I swatched the lip palettes and the only one I liked was the VIVA GLAM [got it]. I have full lips and they offered no flattery to them.
TAN, PEACH and RED Lips: I thought the tan and peach were too light, but I got the red lips. I am not thrilled about the red set, though; but they’re wearable when I want muted-red lips.
I feel the Nocturnelle and Holiday Collections were made for us dark-skinned beauties. I’ve never seen such a color as entremauve – got 2 of them…..but I’ll save my review for later.
HTH
Sorry for the novel…..But did I mention how excited I am about the eye-palettes???!!!