I know, I am SO behind on everything, including the latest MAC holiday collections! I made a goal to catch up this weekend on all your questions/emails/comments, as well as all the product reviews you ladies are waiting for. I have TONS of stuff to review it's insane. My vanity and bathroom look like a tornado hit it with all the products just sprawled across his sink and mine, the BF is probably getting annoyed since my stuff is all over the place haha.
Anyway, I bought a few things from this year's holiday collection (last week) of course I had to get my hands on the little darlings collection! I love lippies, so the thought of having the pink and neutral lip/lustreglass set made me giddy! For $29.50 each set, that's a steal considering that one lipglass or lustreglass is around $14.50-$15 EACH. And you get 5 good-sized tubes in the holiday set, and they are all really pretty colors. Last year I passed on the lippie sets and instead got the eyeshadow palettes and the cool pigment set, but this year I went the complete opposite where I bought all lippies, and no pigments. (Sorry I forgot to take a pic of the Coral lip set!)
I also bought the Smokey Eyes Palette, I really wasn't going to get ANY of the eyeshadow palettes from Passions of Red simply because most of the colors are dupable with some of MAC's permanent colors OR they were just bleh to me considering I still have BARELY touched LAST YEAR'S holiday palettes. Even though I have last year's smokey eye palette, I wanted to get this year's because last year's was more on the smokey brown side, rather than the grey's and blacks and I thought it would just be a nice palette to have. (Also in case any of you are interested, I am selling LAST YEAR'S smokey eye palette from the Antiquitease collection since I have only used it twice and probably will never use it again, $30 with shipping, US Residents only, original price was $36, email me).
I also included a picture of the WARM eyes palette that my friend got, she let me play with it to get these pics, LOL.
No base, just lipgloss...
Swatches from the PINK set (my favorite is "Song & Dance" and some of the swatches are crappy since I was in a hurry!):
Swatches from the NEUTRAL set (my favorite is "love nectar"):
Using the smokey eyes palette (inner lid used a bit of "Vex" which is NOT in the palette, but it's a permanent e/s):
WARM eyes:
thanks for the swatches my dear, i was thinking of purchasing the "little darlings" of the pink lipglass and lustreglass it suits you well i might have to get me one of those for xmas for myself hahaha.
ReplyDeleteThank you SO MUCH for these swatches Vanessa!! I've been wanting to see swatches for these for soo long!! :D Have to wait even longer for these to launch here though... the MAC MA told me that they'll only be available a week before Christmas! *wails*
ReplyDeleteLike you i'm skipping the palettes this year, simply because 1. i hardly used the one from last year and 2. this year's colors are a little too "neutral" for my liking! bring on another palette like the Manish Aurora one already! haha!! :D
Have a great weekend ahead my friend! :)
MAC little darlings..all glosses looks WONDERFUL on your lovely lips! And the eye make up you did is wonderful as always!!!
ReplyDeleteHi!!! My name is Amanda and I´m a brazilia girl who loves to read your site frequently. I just luv your tutorials and swatches, you help me a lot when it comes to choose a good product to buy. I wanna buy warm eyes mac holiday and I would like to know if you allow me to use the picture you take of the palette on my site to show the girls the palette I want, with the proper link back to your site. Thanks for the attention! My curretly email is conversadelas@gmail.com and my site nowadays is http://conversadelas.com.
ReplyDeletei got the smokey palette too...it has come in pretty handy for a good old smokey eye...but now you make me want the lippies, i was trying to be good sis! what r u getting from the sephora friends and family sale?
ReplyDeleteLoving Song&Dance and LoveNectar! Also, the eyeshadows look great. I want to get the Smoky Eyes Palette, as Satin Taupe & Carbon are a must have in any beauty kit.
ReplyDeleteArgh! We don't have the Little Darlings here. All we've got is a set with 2 lipsticks and one mini lipglass in, which is £28 - roughly $60, and the lipsticks are normally about £12 anyway.
ReplyDeleteMaybe an American will buy one and post it to me >:
i loove the smokey eyes palette! especially because i didn't already have satin taupe and carbon =] i'm trying to convince myself to NOT buy the little darlinsg! lol
ReplyDeleteso red and pretty! sighs. they all look so pretty! damn you MAC!
ReplyDeleteHi Ness,
ReplyDeleteFunny thing I haven't used my smokey eye palette from last year much either! Soo sad. I probably touched it once or twice as well. I do agree that this year's smokey eye palette is much better in terms of color. Miss ya girl!
song and dance looks really pretty! does it kind of look like sock hop? i THOUGHT i wanted the neutral lips set, but your pink swatches make me want the pink set!
ReplyDeleteI still can't decide if I want to pick up any of the lipglass sets! They sure are purdy... Are they at all sticky?
ReplyDeleteHi Jenna! How are you? Yes they are sticky, I personally like it a bit sticky because it stays on longer for me and the colors are so pretty and pigmented!
ReplyDeletelove the "song&dance" and the pallettes look YUMMY!
ReplyDeleteThe soft sparkle eye pencils look gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteLittle VI looks great! (I could swear I have that one)
Fleur de light looks great on you, too.
Hi! im interested in purchasing your eye palette! i sent you an email, let me know if its still available.
ReplyDeleteYazmin M. :)
i reallyyyyy like ur EOTD! a really good smokey look/effect! look at all those lippies.. i am sOoooo jealous!
ReplyDeleteDear Vanessa,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for keeping me up to date with all the new goodies out for the season! Your blog is one of my favorites! Keep them coming!
I love the pink lipglass set!
ReplyDeleteAck, I had made up my mind that I didn't want the little darlings pink set, but you're giving me second thoughts!!! I already have Magnetique, but it's one of my favorite MAC glosses ever made so a little mini backup wouldn't be a bad idea. Oy.
ReplyDeleteI ADORE that smokey palette. Dark Devotion is my new favorite eyeliner. You are gonna have a blast with that palette...not a single dud shade in the bunch.
Thanks for all the eye candy and swatches!
ReplyDeletei haven't bought anything from mac in a long time either. interesting though..you make me wanna get all these eye liners you've been grabbing.
ReplyDelete& i really love your lips. the shape & volume of them. haha i feel so stupid, i swear i stare at them when you do the lip swatches hahaha ...okay that sounded creepy...
hi vanessa!
ReplyDeleteas usual, I'm lurking at your site again hehe..I stopped lemming for MAC a few months ago because of the high price here but your swatches of the eyeliners want me to go to the nearest MAC store and buy myself a set haha..they are available in little sizes too right? coz I can't seem to finish full sizes stuff anyways :)
wow! you did a lot of MAC hauling! :)
ReplyDeletei love the lipgloss and the eye pencils look nice!
yes yes vanessa, thank u for the swatches. i haven't bought anything from MAC for a GOOOOOOOD minute and am kinda reluctant til maybe the end of this month. i wanna get some holiday stuff but wasnt sure if i wanted the e/s or lippies. i think ima go with the lippies now! xo!
ReplyDeleteLooks like fun! I wasn't even thinking about the Little Darlings lippie set but looking at your post and swatches, gah I might have to! lol Thanks for the review.
ReplyDeleteYay, found another make up blog! HmMm I'm interested in the eye pencils, how good would you say they stay on???
ReplyDeleteI swear, ANY COLOR LOOKS GREAT ON YOU! I want your lips! Your lips put Angelina Jolie to shame!
ReplyDeleteHi Vanessa!!
ReplyDeleteWow I love this collection!!!can I post some of this swatches in my blog??Thank you!!!Many Hugs
Thank you very much!!!I'll link your blog in the swatches that i'll post!!!xoxo
ReplyDeleteHi dear, i found you on blog http://maisquebonitas.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteand i came to add you on my blogroll and to tell that you are wonderful, and so cute!
Kisses, Mirella.
The eyeshadow palettes are really pretty!!! and the lippies look great on you! ^_^
ReplyDeletehi vanessa!!if you can please,post a tutorial of this smoke eye pallete make up that you posted a pic...xoxo
ReplyDeleteThank you SWEET POTATO! You are a gem! :)
ReplyDeleteThe smokey eye palette looks so pretty. I so want that on my wish-list!
ReplyDeleteI love the Smokey Eye palette on you. I didn't get anything from the MAC Holiday collections this year but now I kinda want that palette.
ReplyDeletei love the eye makeup..
ReplyDeleteand the swatches. :-)
thanks for sharing.
Loooove love your site, and the look you did with the smokey palette is to die for, do you happen to have the breakdown?
ReplyDeletethanks a lot!!
thanks for the swatches! the nearest counter didnt have any of the palettes in stock [they were waiting for another order] so i was just thinking about ordering online. i think im gonna have to pass now.. the holiday palettes from last year were so much prettier and the colors and pretty much the same as 2-3 years back.
ReplyDeletei hope a mac collection will come out soon that catches my eye cause lately its just been the same ol' blah =/
great swatches.. i can't decide on a lipglass set cuz i have many of the ones included in the sets from past collections/holiday sets =p
ReplyDeletegirl, i love you! i was desperately looking for the name of my Mac gloss to buy another one and I found it here!
ReplyDeletemagnetique :)