Super quick pictures and swatches of six of the 12 Mineralize Eye Shadows ($20 US/$24 CDN each) from the upcoming MAC Semi Precious Collection, which launches in North America on July 7 and internationally sometime in the same month.
Don’t they look like works of art? Unsurpassable reminds me of a Monet waterlily painting.
From the left: Blue Sheen, Hint of Sapphire and Jade’s Fortune
From the left: Rare Find, Smoked Ruby and Unsurpassable
Swatches from the left with the flash: Blue Sheen, Hint of Sapphire, Jade’s Fortune, Rare Find, Smoked Ruby and Unsurpassable
Without the flash
Wet with the flash
Wet without the flash
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Dont you feel like they kind of lack of pigmentation?
I agree !
I am not excited over these. It doesn’t seem as bright and vibrant as I was hoping. I am estatic about the brushes and charged water coming back though, so luckily I won’t have to waste that much money on this launch!
Thanks for swatches hun! Gosh everything looks great!
Hmmm see, I find those eyeshadows gorgeous to look at in the pot, but I’m not really interested in wearing them. And the glitter looks too chunky for me in the swatches.
But in the pot they remind me of illustrations of planets I had on a poster in my room as a kid – loved it!
The mineralize shadows look better if you wet your brush first and they are more vibrant then. I do that with almost all of my mineralize shadows.
They look so gorgeous in the pot but I’m afraid they would end up at the bottom of my makeup bag unused. These colors might look ok in the crease or all over as a wash for a special occasion but I’m not sure I would be able to use them on a daily basis. I’ll have to wait and see them up close. Thanks for the sneak peak!
These look pretty sheer, so I’m wondering what they’d look like over primer or wet. I think Jade Fortune looks the most versatile, because you should be able to use the separate colors to get a nice eye look using if you use a small brush.
Maybe they will look more intense when used wet. Karen, will you be reviewing the brushes?
Hm, they don’t look very pigmented. But then again they are baked so I bet they would look amazing foiled!
I actually quite like them when dry as they are more subtle and like many have said if you want them intense just foil them 🙂 lovely swatches now off to count my pennys and hope I can get them all haha! x
I have to buy hint of sapphire now! Especially applied wet!
Smoked Ruby looks gorgeous (could be more pigmented, though)… the others I find kinda meh…
YES Please! Love these!
To be honest, I’m actually not that excited about these shadows…which isn’t exactly a bad thing because I need to save up for all the gorgeous fall collections!
They look gorgeous in the pan…but I don’t know…I think I need to see them in person to make a final judgement!
And I totally agree! Unsurpassable does look like Monet’s waterlilies paintings! Especially this one! http://www.arttoheartweb.com/images/Claude%20Monet%20Water%20Lily%20Pond2.jpg
These look gorgeous in the pans but the swatches disappoint 🙁 plus I loaded up on UD palettes over the holidays (Naked and BOSIII) so I’m definitely not in need of any eyeshadows haha
I love your blue sheen – on the pan with streaks of pinks(?) lovely. I was hoping hints of sapphire will come out more…different but yea, just lovely on the pan as well.
They all look so beautiful that I couldn’t imagine ruining all those pretty colours by actually using them!
I really like Smoked Ruby and totally agree that Unsurpassable in the pan looks like a Monet. Hint of Sapphire kind of has that Starry Night vibe, too. 🙂 My first reaction (pan) was that they reminded me of when the kids would squash all the play-doh together, but your artistic take is much nicer.
Have you ever done a fotd with red shadow?
Oh, btw, your summer makeup post inspired me to wear my orange shadow today. I’m such a little, makeup sheep. 🙂
Yes, these are beautiful I the pot, but that’s not why I buy eyeshadows. When I saw the actual swatches, I was very disappointed with the blah colors. My reaction was, “Wow, those look muddled!”
jade’s fortune reminds me of that one van gogh painting, starry night
Oh, they look so gorgeous when use wet.
ooh pretty. I think I will be picking up the light purple-ish and the green one.
THe only one that really looks like it isn´t a glitter bomb is the ruby one…but they definitely look great in the pot. :o)
Most of them seem sheer but wow Smoked Ruby! Gotta have it! Unless it’s really similar to that red eyeshadow in the Chanel pre-fall collex.
gonna need to wait and try IRL to see if these are worth it…..
My favorite is rare find!
Those colors are amazing!!
They look pretty in the pan! But I feel when swatched, they kinda lack the oommph!