10 Must-Haves from the MAC Shiny Pretty Things Holiday Makeup Collection
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The MAC Holiday Collection is here. In fact, it has been here for a few weeks now and I was a lucky few to preview the collection.
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Party Perfect: MAC Snow Ball Holiday Makeup Collection.
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If there is one holiday makeup collection that I look forward to each year, it is MAC's holiday makeup collection. This year's holiday makeup collection from MAC is called Snow Ball and it's full of beautiful, glistening gold packaged makeup and a slew of gift sets (I've already posted many of my picks in the gift guide). When I first saw the Snow Ball makeup pieces, all I could think of was wearing it to all of my holiday parties because the products are definitely party perfect.
Read MoreHoliday 2015: MAC Enchanted Eve Warm Eyeshadow X 6.
/For holiday this year, MAC has an Enchanted Eve gifting collection. Part of the collection are an array of compacts for eyes, lips and face. Knowing me and how much of a neutral girl I am, it should be no surprise that I would be drawn to the Enchanted Eve Warm Eyeshadow X 6 compact.
This eyeshadow compact is filled with six (obviously) shadows in neutral shades from the really light to smokey brown that will easily do an every day that can be smoked up for evening.
The shades include:
Seasonal Spirit - warm yellow-tan (veluxe pearl)
Moodmaker - rich oak-brown (frost)
Sax Appeal - soft taupe-brown (satin)
Bewitchin’ - warm chestnut-brown (vel vet)
Charcoal Brown - muted taupe-brown (matte)
Retrospeck - beached blonde (lustre)
The compact even includes a mini double ended blending brush/small angle brush.
The shades are overall pretty well pigmented and do last all day, but I found them not to be totally up to regular MAC shadow standards when it comes to blending. MAC shadows are normally one of my favorite shadows so I don't know why MAC isn't giving us regular quality here. I still wouldn't hesitate on gifting this or even picking it up for yourself as it is filled with great shadow colors and with a little work, they do blend, just not as easily as with a normal MAC shadow.
Buy the Enchanted Eve Warm Eyeshadow X 6 for $39.50 at all MAC locations in Macy's, Nordstrom, MAC stores and online at maccosmetics.com.
