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MAC Starflash Eye Shadows

The Love That Look collection features 12 shades ranging from the now famous Smoke & Diamonds to Style Snob. There is no color theme to this collection really. There are dirty shades along with trippy greens. There are also highly wearable and useful shades such as Grand Entrance(a peachy beige) and Unbasic White.

The quality of starflash shadows is the real story. The texture can be rhapsodized as being similar to marshmallow fluff to cloud cushions. They feel buttery and creamy by shadow standards. They glide on and stay put. Heaven in a pan!

They retail for $14.50 and are currently at your local MAC counter.
The shades are as follows:

Grand Entrance: A frosty peach based beige
Dreammaker: A frosty yellow gold
Smoke & Diamonds: A dirty taupe that is essential in a smoky eye collection.
Glamour Check: A frosty reddish brown
Strike A Pose: A dirty deep blue green
Ego: A light yellow pink

Fashion Groupie: A more blue based plum
Unbasic White: Bright off white
One-Off: a kelly green with silver pearl

Rated "R": A bitter yellow green with flashes of yellow
Style Snob: A slightly woodsy brown with a pink cast that flashes gold pearl. This is a fabulous brown shade.




Fashion: A light mouse gray with flashes of green (wet and dry swatch)

Disclaimer: A press sample of this product was provided by MAC cosmetics

Hot Pocket

MAC's Hot Contrast

Of course, I had to cave on MAC's Hot Contrast Mineralize Eye Shadow mostly due to the skills of FOTD regular Nova Baby. It creates a fabulous smokey eye with a mixture of ash, soot, plum and red. It is just all kinds of fabulous.

I wish I would have opened several Hot Contrast boxes to see which one had the most red pigment. Mine relies heavily on black and pink with just a splattering of red.

Credit: Blogdorf Goodman

Disclaimer: I purchased this shadow from my local MAC counter.

MAC's StarFlash Collection

This is the latest eyeshadow collection currently at your local MAC counter. This formula is creamy, highly pigmented with a pearly finish. It has all the power of a pigment and feels like a sliver of velvet. I thought the colors looked familiar until I tested them side by side with their dupes. Talent Pool is nothing like Parrot. This sparked a lengthy discussion at my local counter. Smoke & Diamonds will cause beauty junkies to argue. Is it a taupe or is it gray?
It straddles the line between both.

It is genius along the lines of Lancome's Erika F.

Is it as good as Erika F?
I would say No.

However, it is gorgeous and should be snatched up before it disappears. I think it has the potential to be legendary.

Star By Night: A mid toned blue. This is very metallic to my eye.

LotusLand is a pinkish lilac. The pigment power is not as strong as the other shadows. It is whispery and pretty. I have posted two photos of Lotusland. The first one is without flash.

Top Hat is described as a dirty indigo. I thought it was a smokey blue violet. The MAC SA's layered this shade with Smoke & Diamonds. It was gorgeous!

Sunset B is a mid tone pink. This is brighter than Pink Papillon. It is less metallic than the Fuchsia pigment.
MAC always surprises me with their pinks. Just when you think that they can not create another unique pink...they go and do just that.

Mink & Sable is an olive shade. However it is more olive than MAC's Sumptious Olive. It is very close to Bobbi Brown's Metallic eye shadow in Forest. Close but not exact. There is more yellow in MAC. There is more shimmer in Bobbi Brown.

Smoke & Diamonds is described as a frosty dirty taupe. It is mouse-like. I have been testing it against Lancome's Erika F, MAC's Sweet Sienna, Becca's Lame, Shu Uemura's ME Brown 850, Prescriptives Smoking Gun, Estee Lauder's Mocha Cup and Stila's Diamond Lil. The shade that comes close is Diamond Lil.

Dreammaker is the sleeper hit of the collection. This is a frosty yellow gold that does not rely on shimmer or spark. There is no coin or metal in this shade which makes it unique.

MAC makes the best teals on the market. Many have said that Talent Pool comes close to Parrot. I think it has way more green and gold in it. There is also a metallic sheen to the formula. My local MAC SA used it as a liner. It was like the bright crystal- clear water in Bora Bora. This is perfect for the remaining month of summer.

Grand Entrance is described as a neutral peach beige. I thought it was champagne-like but without the pink.

Bold & Brazen is a copper with some red and pink thrown in. I thought it was copperplate-like.

Go is described as a frosted bronze. I think it is more a standard mink brown.


Glamour Check is reddish brown. The pigment power on this one is "out of this world" amazing! If you are a brown shadow gal...you need to add this to your collection.

These retail for $14.50 and are currently at your local MAC counter or online. If you are lollygagging on Smoke & Diamonds...you are playing a dangerous game my friend. This will not last long. My other picks for "sell out" status is Dreammaker and Top Hat.

Credit: Blogdorf Goodman

Disclaimer: I purchased product along with receiving some press samples of the collection. All pictures were from my local MAC counter.