MAC Styledriven Collection for Fall 2011 Swatches, Photos & Review
MAC Styledriven for fall 2011 is packed with tons of color and all in the Pro Longwear formula.
We’ve got Lipcremes, Lipglass, Lip Pencils and Eye Shadows and lots of ‘em!
Pro Longwear Lipglass
Pro Longwear Lipglass
Show Me!, Full Speed Ahead, Driven by Love, Lasting Achievement
The texture of the Prolongwear Lipglasses for me is near perfection. These are thick and opaque but not nearly as sticky as the regular Lipglasses. While they’re thick, they go on very smoothly and cover easily.
When I first opened the tube up, I saw one of those paddle shaped applicators that everyone seems to be gravitating towards now. I was not pleased until I realized it’s actually pretty great! Because these are really thick, almost like lipstick, you can flip the paddle to the thinner edge when going around your cupid’s bow and outside edge of your lips to get a nice even line. So you don’t have to use a lipliner or lip brush to get a great shape.
These are SUPER shiny and they really blew me away. They rock.
Show Me! is a medium pink/nude with a hint of shimmer. It’s absolute perfection on me I love it.
Full Speed Ahead is a bright blue-based pink. No shimmer just pure pink shininess. Like plastic!
Driven by Love is a bright, cool cherry red with red shimmer. This color is in a word amazing.
Lasting Achievement is a deep kind of warm purple/red with red shimmer. I had a harder time getting this one to apply evenly so I had to work a little more with it. Great color, maybe a little dark for my skin tone on an average day.
Show Me!
Full Speed Ahead
Driven By Love
Lasting Achievement
Pro Longwear Lip Pencil
Etcetera, Nice ‘n’ Spicy, Staunchly Stylish, What A Blast!, Kiss Me Quick, Bittersweet
The Pro Longwear Lip Pencils claim to last up to 15 hours and I believe it! These babies go on smoothly, are opaque and feel like they have serious lasting power.
Etcetera is a medium nude/beige color
Nice ‘n’ Spicy is a medium brown/pink color
Staunchly Stylish is a light pink/beige color
What A Blast! is a bright orange
Kiss Me Quick is a medium red
Bittersweet is a dark opaque brown
I have always loved MAC Lip Pencils because they are creamy, last a really long time and come in a pretty vast range of colors! I have yet to try these ones out to see if they really do last 15 hours, but my guess would be they do.
Pro Longwear Eye Shadow
Pro Longwear Eye Shadow
Pro Longwear Eye Shadow
Carefree
Sweet Satisfaction
Hot Paprika
Tease With Ease
Weathered
Make Your Mark
Carefree, Sweet Satisfaction, Hot Paprika
Pro Longwear Eye Shadows are super soft, super pigmented and probably my favorite eye shadows from MAC. Payoff is really amazing with these and they come in a great array of colors to boot.
Carefree (frost) is a pale white gold. Gorgeous.
Sweet Satisfaction (frost) is a very pretty neutral shimmery taupe.
Hot Paprika (frost) is a shimmery burnt orange. This color is SO amazing, my favorite one here.
Tease With Ease, Weathered, Make Your Mark
Tease With Ease (frost) is a bright shimmery fuchsia.
Weathered (frost) is a medium bluish grey. Really pretty!
Make Your Mark (satin) is a deep, dark chocolate brown shimmer. Saturated and fabulous.
Pro Longwear Lipcreme
Pro Longwear Lipcreme
Pro Longwear Lipcreme
Soft Cell, To The Future!, Positively Dashing, Soulfully Rich
The Pro Longwear Lipcremes are some of my favorite lipsticks from MAC because they are extremely soft, creamy and moisturizing.
Soft Cell (cream) is a light pretty ballet pink. Looks great with my skin tone.
To The Future! (frost) is a medium pink with pearly shimmer. This one is really pretty and looks almost neutral on me.
Positively Dashing (cream) is a medium pinkish-red. This comes off as almost a raspberry color on my lips.
Soulfully Rich (cream) is a dark purple/brown. This one is really too dark for me and I had some issues getting it completely even.
Soft Cell
To The Future!
Positively Dashing
Soulfully Rich
Overall:
I love Pro Longwear!! I think there are some really great things here. I love the Lipglasses the most, but also the eye shadow, lip pencils and lipcremes are pretty great also. There wasn’t anything here that I didn’t like the texture, feel and saturation of, so that’s a huge bonus!
Availability: September 22nd in North America, September International
Pricing: $17-$20
Please let me know in the comments which of these you liked or might try! Comments mean everything when I work hard on these MAC posts, and I would love to hear from you guys! 
-Kelly
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Wow, super excited for these….they look awesome!
Show Me lipglass, To The Future! and Positively Dashing lipcremes are the products I like most. The eyeshadows’ colors are great also, but I preferred if they were matte.
Holy cow, I need Hot Paprika if nothing else! What a great shade!!!
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I love pretty much everything here! Gorgeous colors, and they look great for fall! I particularly like Show Me!, Sweet Satisfaction, Weathered, Make Your Mark & To the Future! Good stuff!
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I’m really excited about all the lip products – thanks for the swatches!
Sharp swatches as always. Thanks, Kelly!
It’s good to know that the lipglasses aren’t as sticky. The regular formula is sticky, which I can deal with, but if it’s not as sticky, that’s even better!
Lasting Achievement looks hot.
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I hope I didn’t read over, but are all of these going to added to the permanent collection?
Hi Sass,
I believe so but not 100% positive.
Sweet Satisfaction and Make Your Mark look amazing! I do not own any MAC eyeshadows, but I really like those two!
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Sweet Satisfaction looks beautiful and I love Lasting Achievement though my lip gloss phobia spoils that! Cat hair sticking to lip gloss *shudder*. Fab swatches as ever ….
Do you think you can B2M for these? Great swatches!
Hi Kerri,
Hmm let me see if I can find out!
Those lipglasses look beautiful.
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I want all of the Lipglasses lol, they look amazing. Show Me looks like such a pretty, wearable color. LOVE!
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i love the dark shades!
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Totally digging Show Me, Sweet Satisfaction and To the Future! Making a MAC run when the collection comes out.
I have to snag all of the lip glosses and most of the shadows. Gorg.
Hot Paprika and Positively Dashing are on my shopping list! I appreciate all the work you put in, Kelly. These swatches are a big help in deciding what to buy.
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These swatches are awesome! I always love your lip swatches, because we have similar coloring and it’s great getting to see what a product would actually look like on me.
I love love love the lip glasses in Full Speed Ahead and Driven By Love.
Gorg.
Love your swatches. I must have Hot Paprika, Sweet Satisfaction, and Carefree!
The glosses look a bit meh to me, but the lip liners and lipcremes are VERY tempting … must not give in … must not give in … !
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show me and positively dashing are PERFECT for you! look great
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I really hope these are all in fact permanent. I’m falling hard for too much of this line to buy it all now. The lipglosses are all gorgeous, especially with the stunning shimmer in Driven by Love!
I LOVE LIPGLASS … win!! you did a great job with these posts Kelly!!!
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Gorgeous! I’m loving the first two glosses — Show Me and Full Speed Ahead. Your lip swatches are always so perfect! Positively Dashing lipcreme is also fantastic. Good lord there are too many MAC lippies coming out this month!
Your killing me! I want all of these also. It’s be a long time since I’ve wanted a complete collection. Now all I need is someone to drop a load of money my way! Love the glosses & lipsticks. They’re my first loves.
Lipglasses look neat. Like the paprika and tease eyeshadow. Soulfully rich lipstick looks so different on your lips than your hands.
Awesome collection. Just lovely.
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I think Driven By Love Lipglass has to come home with me!
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Full Speed Ahead and Driven by Love are both too gorgeous, love it!! Oh, and To the Future looks so pretty on you…Fantastic photos & swatches, as always!
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Oh, Kelly! You have made me fall in love with Show Me! It is so gorgeous!!!! I have to have it!
LOVE Soft Shell, Show Me!, and maybe even Driven by Love… grr to myself! I’m not supposed to be buying anything!!
Hi Kelly!
Everything looks so beautiful on you! You helped me choose Carefree, Sweet Satisfaction, Hot Paprika & Tease With Ease eye shadows (plus!…)
The Pro Longwear Lip Pencil in Nice ‘n’ Spicy and Show Me! Lipglass…
I can’t wait!
I hope Show Me! looks at least half as good on me as it does on you ;b
It’s so pretty, Finally a medium pink/brown neutral lipglass…
Okay, one question before I press the purchase button at MAC-
(oh, I hope you see this post really super soon!)
Do you think that Sweet Satisfaction looks too close to Era (only with a bit more frost)
to own both? Or is Sweet Satisfaction more like Satin Taupe’s lighter baby sister?
Thank you for all your hard work! You really help with my shopping
(((hugs!)))
hi again :b
Just got my order yesterday including everything mentioned in my last comment…
I LOVE everything! Since moving in with my sister; I now live in a very small shopping area (county/cow-country) It’s difficult not trying b4 buying!
I search out blogs & reviews before purchasing anything. So I hope this helps someone out there like me
After receiving my Sweet Satisfaction eye shadow, I found it is similar to Era (I like Era much more tho) But Sweet Satisfaction is a lil’ bit lighter. It has a Golder tint to it, and is a lot frostier. Kinda like a combo of Naked Lunch & Era…
Too bad I already have both. But it’s still a pretty shadow.
Why does my soft cell not look anywhere as close as amazing as yours does
Mine is almost a berry pink…..it looks like such a pretty like pink on you 