Lavish Living is a medium-dark cool-toned berry-plum with brown undertones and silver and gold shimmer in a frosted finish. This is a new and limited edition product. It has a soft, silky texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is cooler and more plum than Love Joy, and less reddened than Love Thing.
Talk of the Town is a light warm peachy pink with silver and gold sparkle in a metallic finish. This is a new and limited edition product. It has a soft, silky texture, but it can go on a bit unevenly due to the amount of sparkle. It has medium-high pigmentation and semi-opaque to opaque buildable colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is darker and more pink than Soft and Gentle Mineralize Skinfinish, and much lighter and more peach than Warm Soul.
Lured to Love is a light-medium warm pink-coral in a satin finish. This is a new and limited edition product. It has a soft, silky texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is more pink than Melba Blush, lighter and more coral than Peachykeen Blush.
I've always loved Mineralize Blushes for the way they look on the skin, as if it were apart of it rather than sitting on top of it. I've mentioned this before, but because Mineralize Blushes are baked, they have a drier texture than many of MAC's regular powder blushes. You can layer them and layer them and they will always keep that "skin-like" finish, so despite the intense amount of shimmer you can see when they're in the pan, it doesn't end up translating that frosted or shimmery on the skin. Lavish Living, despite look insanely dark in the swatch here and almost bruise-like in the pan, actually applies really beautifully so that it ends up being more of a rosy plum on the cheeks. And because Mineralize Blushes buff out so easily, you can definitely play with the colour pay-off here. Talk of the Town reminded me more of a Mineralize Skinfinish than a Mineralize Blush in the way that it sits on the skin — the intense amount of sparkle does give a much more metallic finish, and the colour itself only shows up on fair to light skintones. On darker skintones, it'll just look like a layer of sparkles. Lured to Love went on surprisingly light initially, but it layers phenomenally so that you can create a really nice soft peach cheek. Fans of Melba and Peaches will love this one. That having been said, my must-have of the three is Lavish Living, which has great texture and pigmentation and will suit all skintones from fair to dark. And it's a surprisingly unique shade that I can't find a good dupe for within MAC's permanent range.
Lavish Living is GORGEOUS. That's my pick as well. I hope it'll be repromoted or made permanent some day.
ReplyDeleteI doubt they'll make it permanent, but it will probably be re-promoted pending on how popular it is from this launch. :) What is it about plums this time of year that makes us go apeshit?
DeleteNot enough plums the rest of the year? lol Saw it yesterday and it's paler than I thought.
DeleteLol, possibly. I don't really wear it the rest of the year, come to think of it.
DeleteYeah, I swatched quite heavily here, lol. It's lighter in person (kinda bruise-like in the pan, actually), but it can execute this dark, in any case. :P
Lavish Living is so, so pretty *_* I also like Talk of the Town, though - such a soft mauvey shade.
ReplyDeleteTalk of the Town looks gorgeous in the pan but it executes really differently, sadly! It ends up being way more peachy-pink than mauve, which is what I'd hoped it to be. And it's a lot lighter than I expected, too. But it actually looks really pretty buffed on top of Lavish Living!
Deletelavish life looks so great! they all do actually.
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They are all rather pretty, aren't they? I don't typically favour such peachy shades as Lured to Love for this time of year but sometimes we need a little light and sunshine when it's gloomy outside. :)
DeleteLavish Living is gorgeous, I will admit! Again, the finish is not to my taste, but that COLOR! Yowza.
ReplyDeleteWeirdly enough, I totally prefer shimmery finishes to my blushes than matte. They just make skin look so perfect and glow-y. Lavish Living would look seriously stunning on you!
DeleteI'd been pretty good about resisting MAC purchases until your recent reviews... gah! I've been having issues applying blush for the last while; it goes on patchy and I end up putting on too much when I try to even it out. I use Melba and my last favourite was Pinch O' Peach so I think Lured to Love would be perfect! Too bad it JUST sold out online, so I'll have to find a store that still has it.
ReplyDeleteLol, MAC comes out with a ton of collections, so it's difficult to pick and choose which ones you should grab product from... I know most locations will be sold out of Lured to Love by now, but it's quite a light shade so you may want to try it on first to see if you're really missing out. Melba shows up brighter and darker than Lured to Love, so I actually like Melba a bit more. :)
DeleteIf you find blush going on patchy, it's likely due to face oils distributing differently on your face. Dusting a translucent powder over your face first will help with it!
Yorkdale has it so I put it on hold and will check it out in-person tomorrow before I decide if I should buy. This is new for me... being so controlled over my MAC purchases. ;) Thanks for the advice! I usually dust Pressed Blot Powder all over my face after primer, before face makeup, but I'll try to add a heavier layer or maybe use loose powder instead and see if that helps.
DeleteTry using your face make-up first, then Blot Powder, then your blush. If you're really oily (which I assume is why you put on Blot first), try something like MAC's Prep + Prime Transparent Finishing Powder before your face make-up. But, generally, you should dust some powder last to set your make-up and so anything powder-based that you put on afterwards (e.g. blush, bronzer, highlighter) will go on smoother. :)
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