Oh, ’90s vibes. I’m sitting here feeling them wash over me — wave after crashing wave! — and I’m this close to grabbing the darkest plum lip liner I can find and outlining the edges of my lips, and then filling them in with one of the frosty lipsticks from the new MAC Snow Ball collection, because there is frost galore.
Of course I’d leave the lip liner unblended…
I know! I’M A MONSTER. But that’s what ya did back in the day. Makeup trends are crazy, dudes!
Four of the six MAC Snow Ball lipsticks, which are $17.50 each, are frosty, and they go all out. And no, you absolutely don’t have to do the dark liner/no blending thing, but if you wanna do legit late ’90s lips, that’s the way to go. Don’t shoot the messenger.
Depending on the level of pigmentation of your lips, the four frosts will either look very distinctive, or very similar. My lips are pigmented, and I can’t see that much of a difference between the three light pink frosts (Warm Ice, I’m Glistening and Holiday Crush). I think the most distinctive of the frosts is Shimmer & Spice, which is a glittery bronzed rose and the deepest color of the bunch.
I wore Shimmer & Spice the other day and loved seeing the multicolored glitter bits sparkle in the light (don’t worry, the glitter’s dainty, so it looks expensive). I also liked how the frost finish didn’t seem to emphasize my lip lines, although my lips did feel pretty thirsty by the end of the day. They didn’t quite hit flake status, which was good, but I definitely felt the need to smear a thick layer of Urban Decay Lip Love all over them after I removed all of my makeup.
OK! There are also two non-frosty lipstick shades in Snow Ball, and they’re both reds. Rouge En Snow is a bright, festive matte apple red, which seems pretty neutral because it doesn’t skew overly warm or cool. It’s like right smack dab in the middle between warm orange-red MAC Dangerous and cool blue red Ruby Woo. It’s smooth and doesn’t catch on my flakes, and the pigment isn’t playing around.
The deeper brownish red, Elle Belle, is from the Amplified family, which is MAC’s turned-up line of pigmented creamy lipsticks. It likes to move, so if you rub your lips a lot like I do, keep dark red liner nearby. I would do something like burgundy Dionysus from the new Lip Tensity Lip Pencil collection or deep brownish red MAC Mahogany.
I gotta admit that I’m deeply in love with the packaging, and that’s one of the main reasons I want to carry these around!
The MAC Snow Ball collection is out on counters and online now, and it’ll be around until November 30th.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
That really is amazing packaging. They hit it right on with that one! The lighter shades would probably look great under those Becca Liquid Crystal Glow Glosses you reviewed earlier. Very extra! Which you need sometimes. 🙂
Hi Amy,
Great idea! I’m going to try that for fun this weekend. 🙂
I bet they’d also look good (in a totally OTT way) with a MAC Dazzleglass.
Hope you’re having a great week so far. I’m so relieved that tomorrow is Friday…
Such amazing photos Karen!! you always took great shots but lately it has been OMG.. makeup porn! 🙂
Oh wow, thanks Kim! What a nice thing to say. 🙂 When the product packaging is as pretty as this collection is, it’s easy to take nice pics!
I hope your week has been good. Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday! I NEED THE WEEKEND!
Please talk me down from those gorgeous shimmers, because I already have Devotional and Pale Rose.
Okay, I don’t really mean that. Karen, your posts make me want all the pretty things!
I love the packaging, but I feel like the non-shimmer ones are a little boring in terms of color selection. Maybe I will go for Sugar & Spice.
But I will never (again) leave my lip liner unblended!
Love the packaging!
I agree about the packaging – it’s really gorgeous. The lip colors look perfect for winter. There’s definitely a lot of frost but that fits right in with the holidays! 🙂
PS Did you decide if you were going to dress up for Halloween? I can’t wait to see what you’ve picked for Connor. I hope she loves Trick or Treating. 🙂
Hi Kim,
She’s wearing her monkey costume from last year. It still fits and she likes prancing around in it, so I figure I might as well recycle costumes until she protests! I gave her a plastic jack o’ lantern to play with and she thinks it’s a purse, haha. She walks around with it all day like.
What are the boys dressing up as this year?
That is adorable! And, yes, absolutely recycle the costumes while you can. 🙂 I’m sad to report that the boys are not only too cool for school, I think they’re too cool to dress up, too. I try to remind myself that they’re in 9th grade (while internally screaming “But they’ll always be my babies!” HAHA!).
The packaging is absolutely stunning, MAC did a great job this year! I’m really not into the frosty lipstick revival though, I’d rather let it rest in peace, lol!
I would’ve bought at least 3 of these just because the gorgeous packaging…but I’m really not a fan of frosty lippies and have enough reds. Like you -these give me a 90s vibe- or more 80s?
The packaging is so gorgeous. None of these lippie colors really hit home for me though.