NOTE: Swatches of these products can be seen
HERE.
Here are product photos of
Chill and
Dame Edna collections from MAC. If I were to choose between the two collections, I'd pick
Chill over
Dame Edna because, as I said, I already own many colors that are similar to those of
Dame Edna. However, if you are just starting with makeup, these collections have a good balance of both neutral and fun colors that are staples in every makeup traincase.
Let's start off with
Chill. I'd mentioned previously that I fell in love with
Arctic Grey, and I still am up to this day. It reminds me of dirty snow - a dirty greyish silver, and its name probably conjured images of ice and snow in my head. Applied on, it is beautiful without being overly shiny or garish on the lids. I have many MAC shadows, but this particular one is unique. I have silvers and greys, but not this kind of in-between, dirty snow color. Love it.
Mont Black is a beautiful black with a lot of sparkles (or multi-dimensional pearl) in it, but I believe the light captures them as goldish sparkles, which are gorgeous. This is similar to
Black Tied, but the sparkles in the latter are somewhat one-dimensional silver shimmer. If you have either, though, you can do without the other.
Mont Black would give depth to those sultry smokey eyes and you can also use this to contour the crease.
Okay, I think I'm pretty qualified to review the new liquid liner from MAC called the
Penultimate Eye Liner in Rapidblack, as I wear liquid liner about four times a week. I really like my
Almay Liquid Liner in both
Black and
Brown because I am always in a hurry in the mornings, and the liquid liner gives me a very smooth, slick, perfect line in three seconds flat. I love that I don't need to scrounge around looking for an eyeliner brush. I don't need to dip it in any gel liner pot. I just unscrew it, and the cap has a felt-tip applicator built into it, and I just effortlessly glide it on my lashline for a smooth line. Personally, I believe once you get the hang of it, liquid liners are less cumbersome and more convenient than gel liners. Really. So anyways, I tried the
Penultimate liner in
Rapidblack and compared it to my favorite
Almay liquid liner. They both have the same felt tip that I love that gives the ease in applying the liquid liner. I swatched them on my hand and this is what I got:
Almay gave a thicker line since I had to reapply it around 3 times because the first coat was kinda sheer.
MAC Penultimate yields a very thin, heavily pigmented line, mainly because of the finer tip. I also love the fact that
Penultimate is a lot darker than
Almay, so just one application should be enough. I apply two lines of my
Almay liner on the lashline to have the desired effect. All in all, I still like my
Almay because it gives me the precise line that I like in less than five seconds, but the
Penultimate is a winner as well because you can create precise, very fine lines with it because of its fine tip and very dark pigment. I am really loving it as well. The raves were true: The
Penultimate rocks! I just hope that it lasts a long while because looking at the pen, you really wouldn't know how much is left in the tube.
I used
Penultimate today, intending to post a look using this, but I forgot my camera. Bummer! Will be doing looks using it soon.
Dame Edna is such a fun collection. I love the little cards stuffed into the boxes with little quotes from
Dame Edna, kinda like cosmetic fortune cookies, haha! The names are a hoot as well.
Splendid is a pretty coral that I liken to some of my favorite coral lipglasses like
Orangedescence.
Kanga-Rouge is a dark blue red that would look nice on my skintone because warm red colors make my skin look dirty and yucky.
I like the idea of mixing a robin's egg blue color with silvers and greys for a pop of color in an otherwise boring neutral/smokey palette. As I said, if you already have similar colors (like
Silver Ring, Knight Divine), you can skip this trio, but the combination of colors is pretty cool. You can use
Wisteria on the lid and
Fineshine and
Divine Night on the crease and outer V, or you can use the latter two on the lid and apply
Wisteria on your lower lashline for a pop of blue.
