MAC Stylishly Yours Collection Swatches & Review

It’s been a serious flurry of MAC-ness lately hasn’t it? Well I’ve got one more collection for ya for 2010!

MAC Stylishly Yours is a bright colorful collection created in order to give some “oopmh” into your modern life.

While the colors look extremely bright and perhaps a little extreme in the containers, I found most of them surprisingly wearable and more subdued on the skin.

I am getting a strong “Mad Men” vibe from this collection for some reason, I think it’s from the fabulous lipsticks.

The entire Stylishly Yours collection includes:

Cream Colour Base ($16.50)

• Virgin Isle – vivid bright coral (cream)
• Tickle Me Pink – poppy creamy bright pink (cream)
• Movie Star Red -  Medium tones blue red (cream)
• Madly Magenta - Vivid Pinkish purple (cream)

Fluidline ($15)

• Dark Diversion - blackened plum
• Blacktrack - solid flat black

Brush ($17.50)

• 209 – eyeliner

Zoom Lash ($14)

• New Hue – blackened burgundy

Zoom Fast Black Lash ($14)

• Zoom Fast Black Lash – deepest black

Lipstick ($14.50)

• Neon Orange – bright clean orange (amplified)
• Something New – creamy bright blue pink (amplified)
• Cockney – sheer yellow red with multidimensional pearl (lustre)
• Style Curve – bright clean violet purple (Cremesheen)

Lipglass ($14.50)

• Clear

Pigment ($19.50)

• Electric Coral - bright coral with small pearl particle
• Madly Personal – bright pink
• New Fixation – bright fuchsia red with soft pearl
• Violet – vivid bright violet purple

Beauty Powder ($22)

• Play It Proper – pastel soft pink with sparkles
• Too Chic – soft peachy cream with fine shimmer

Lipstick

Cockney, Something New, Neon Orange, Style Curve

Cockney, Something New, Neon Orange, Style Curve

These four lipsticks looked insanely bright and neon in the tubes so I was a little apprehensive about them. In fact the one I was the most nervous about was Style Curve, which turned out to be the least crazy of them all!

Cockney and Style Curve are both a bit sheer and you have to work a bit to get the color more opaque. Both are gorgeous colors and super wearable. Cockney is described as being a yellow red, but it worked great on my skin tone.

Something New might be my new favorite lipstick. It’s the ultimate shiny, creamy, bright yet not overly bright, blue-based pink. Two HUGE thumbs up!

Neon Orange is exactly that: NEON. It’s extremely bright and creamy and really pretty despite the “glow”!

FYI for the looks below I am wearing a bunch of the new MAC stuff:

Lids: Paint Pot in Chilled On Ice (Cham Pale) and Fluidline in Dark Diversion (Stylishly Yours)
Lashes: Zoom Lash in Blackened Burgundy (Stylishly Yours)
Cheeks: NARS Deep Throat with Special Reserve Highlight Powder in Chez Chez Lamé (Cham Pale)

Cockney

Me in Cockney

Something New

Me in Something New

Neon Orange

Me in Neon Orange

Style Curve

Me in Style Curve

Pigments

Follow Your Fancy, New Fixation

Follow Your Fancy

New Fixation

Follow Your Fancy, New Fixation

Even the pigments were not as crazy bright as I had expected after I swatched them.

Follow Your Fancy is actually really kind of subdued and wearable. It’s a great coral color.

New Fixation is a really pretty subdued cherry red/pink. Those who want to work a little red into a look without looking like Ronald McDonald’s hair, might find something like this a little easier to work with.

Cream Colour Base

Madly Magenta, Movie Star Red

Madly Magenta

Movie Star Red

Madly Magenta, Movie Star Red

Can I just first say *WOW*. These blew my mind, they are SO amazingly colorful, soft, smooth, pigmented and gorgeous. This swatch photos is just one very slight swipe across the color and you get *this* much impact!

I am extremely impressed with these and these actually do come off a lot more true to what you would expect from what they look like inside the packaging. Very bright, but again wearable.

You can wear these colors on either the lips or cheeks, but not eyes. Some of the Cream Colour Base’s cannot be worn around the eyes or lips, you have to check the insert of each one to see what areas it is safe for.

For my swatches I just applied them with my finger, but if I was going out I would probably use a brush. They are so creamy and pigmented you only need a bit. They can definitely stain if you wear them for longer than a couple minutes. They feel very creamy, like a lip balm on, with no stickiness at all.

Madly Magenta is an amazing pink/purple, again blue-based and perfectly suited to fair skin tones.

Movie Star Red is a deep, yet bright true blue-based red. Sigh, this collection seems totally tailored to my skin tone.

Madly Magenta

Me in Madly Magenta

Movie Star Red

Me in Movie Star Red

Zoom Lash

Blackened Burgundy

Blackened Burgundy is a really dark burgundy purple color. I happen to really like the regular black Zoom Lash, so I assumed I would like this as well. I did.

The color for me is dark enough to wear on it’s own, which is rare for me. Normally if wearing a colored mascara I use black first because I like my lashes really dark. This was dark enough to use alone, though you can’t really see the color unless in the sunlight.

Fluidline

Dark Diversion

Dark Diversion is a very dark blackened plum color. I am an avid Blacktrack user, and found this one to be really great also. It’s nice and dark, but doesn’t look black or brown, so it works well on blue eyes. I always find these plum colors make my blue eyes pop a little.

Overall:

I think this is a really nice collection, especially for those who like a little color in their lives. Even those who are on the fence about wearing brights shouldn’t be scared off by some of the colors here since they are totally workable for every day life. I mentioned above that I get a strong Mad Men vibe off this. I can totally picture Joan wearing Movie Star Red or Cockney and Betty could easily rock Something New.

This collection will be available December 26th in North America and in January Internationally.

Let’s hear what you think!

And…

Have a great Christmas, I hope you get everything you asked for!

-VV