I have been waiting for this collection ever since I first read about it on a blog early this year. The MAC Marilyn Monroe Collection did not disappoint! Here is a look at the products I purchased and my thoughts about them!
I picked up 2 lipsticks, 1 blush, 1 eye shadow, and 1 Dazzleglass. I refrained myself from going too crazy, which was quite difficult in this chaotic event.
I've heard many people complain about the packaging for this collection, but I quite like it. There are different unreleased photos of Marilyn on the varying products, and I like the classic touch they give to MAC's standard black packaging. All casing is glossy and has red writing.
Up first, are the blush and eyeshadow. I chose The Perfect Cheek blush and Preferred Blonde eyeshadow. The blush I chose is matte and is the pinker of the two, the other one available, Legendary, being more coral. They were both quite similar, so I couldn't justify getting both, and I prefer pink blushes.
The blush isn't extremely intense, but you can easily build it up. Please excuse the cat scratch in the swatches below! :)
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| The Perfect Cheek, indoor lighting. Left: heavy swatch, Right: blended out |
Preferred Blonde is a gorgeous shimmery champagne color and is a veluxe pearl finish. I also wanted the dark, blue-gray shimmer in the collection, Showgirl, but figured I'd get more use out of the champagne color. These are enlarged eyeshadows and contain 3 grams of product compared to the usual 1.3-1.5 grams that regular MAC eyeshadows contain.
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| Preferred Blonde eyeshadow, indoor lighting |
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| Preferred Blonde eyeshadow, indoor lighting |
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| Preferred Blonde eyeshadow, indoor lighting |
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| Preferred Blonde eyeshadow, indoor lighting |
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| Preferred Blonde eyeshadow, indoor lighting |
Up next, are the lip products!
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| Pure Zen & Charmed I'm Sure lipsticks, indoor lighting |
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| Pure Zen & Charmed I'm Sure lipsticks, indoor lighting |
The two lipsticks I picked out were Pure Zen, a light, peachy nude (cremesheen) that gives a nice light lip without washing you out, and Charmed I'm Sure, a dark, matte true red. There were also three other reds in the collection, Scarlet Ibis, a bright orange-red, Love Goddess, a pink-red, and Deeply Adored, a deeper red with brown undertones. Charmed I'm Sure looked the best on my ~NC20 skin tone. It is a blue-based red. Both lipsticks appear lighter and brighter in person than they appear on camera. The swatches are more color accurate:
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| Phiff! Dazzleglass, Charmed I'm Sure & Pure Zen lipsticks, indoor lighting |
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| Phiff! Dazzleglass, Charmed I'm Sure & Pure Zen lipsticks, indoor lighting |
Lastly, I picked out the Phiff! Dazzleglass, which is a light yellow/peach with beautiful multi-colored sparkle. The other Dazzleglass in the collection, Little Rock, had the same sparkle but was more of a sheer white gloss. Phiff! looks great over the Pure Zen lipstick, and would look great over any lipstick because of its glossy sparkle but not necessarily for its color pay-off. This is my first Dazzleglass purchase (I'm more of a lipstick girl,) and I love the formula!
Lastly, the inner packages have these adorable lipstick prints on the inside.
On a side note, I almost didn't even get these!
I went to a launch party for the Marilyn Monroe collection at my nearest MAC store and was surprised to see how crazy it was upon my arrival! I expected a busy launch event, but it was just chaotic. Hundreds of people showed up to the event, and the line began to wrap around the mall. By the time I got into the store (I wasn't too far back in the line,) all the products I wanted had sold out. I had scheduled an appointment for the release of the collection at a MAC counter in Nordstrom a few days after the launch in case this happened, and I got so lucky! On my way back to my car (sad and down trodden,) I walked through Nordstrom and decided to stop by the MAC counter and ask if they were taking pre-orders. To my surprise and sheer good fortune, the counter had opened up their stash and began selling products about 10 minutes before I arrived! I was able to get my hands on what I wanted and was so relieved! If I would have left a little earlier and bypassed the counter, not only would I have not gotten these products as soon as I did, they would have been all sold out by the time I showed up to the appointment!
Thanks for stopping by! Did you manage to snag anything from this collection? :)
- xx, Eviola
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