MAC Huggable Lipcolour: Part II

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Last Thursday, MAC launched a new collection featuring a new lip product called Huggable Lipcolour. It is "a new formula inspired by Asian trends, hugging your lips in twelve hues that stay bright and luminous for up to six hours." Huggable Lipcolour features "an array of creamy emollients... [that] provides a lasting, glossy finish that leaves lips smooth and sculpted." All twelve shades in this collection are new and limited edition. Like all MAC lipsticks, they are vanilla-scented but taste-free. They are packaged in a cylindrical metal tube like that of the Sheen Supreme Lipsticks, but these come in a gunmetal colour. Each Huggable Lipcolour comes with 3.2 grams of product, and retails for $24. Due to their limited edition nature, these lipsticks are not applicable for the Back to MAC recycling program.

Out for Passion, Love Beam, Feeling Amorous?, and What a Feeling!

Out for Passion, Love Beam, Feeling Amorous?, and What a Feeling!

Out for Passion is a medium warm coral-tinted pink with a glossy finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. The texture is soft and creamy, and it goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-sheer to semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. It is more pink than Crosswires, and more muted than Grande Dame Mineralize Rich Lipstick.
Love Beam is a medium warm reddened pink with a glossy finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. The texture is soft and creamy, and it goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-sheer to semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. It is more muted and more sheer than Full Speed Sheen Supreme Lipstick, and cooler than Elegant Accent Mineralize Rich Lipstick.
Feeling Amorous? is a medium-dark muted slightly cool-toned fuchsia with a glossy finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. The texture is soft and creamy, and it goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-sheer to semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. It is similar though slightly warmer than Speak Louder, and slightly cooler and more muted than Insanely It Sheen Supreme Lipstick.
What a Feeling! is a medium blue-toned cotton candy pink with a glossy finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. The texture is soft and creamy, and it goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-sheer to semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. It is more muted than Divine Choice Mineralize Rich Lipstick, and darker than Behave Yourself Sheen Supreme Lipstick.

When I first saw these, I thought it was going to be very similar to the Sheen Supreme formula. I mean, these come in the same tubes (except gunmetal instead of black), and they both have a glossy finish with medium buildable coverage. But you can actually tell the difference the moment you apply these. There's a slight tacky feeling to these that's not uncomfortable or sticky, but contributes to the wear-time of the formula, which is about three to six hours (lighter shades will wear less, but the brighter and darker shades will wear longer). The Sheen Supreme Lipsticks by comparison wear about two before wearing off because they're so creamy. The Huggable Lipcolours have a kind of strange consistency, where they tug a little bit at first because there's very little slip; it really feels like they are clinging on the lips (I guess that's where the "huggable" part comes in), which I found actually helps these colours from bleeding.

I didn't really get what MAC meant by "lip-sculpting collagen" until I saw what these looked like on my lips about five minutes after applying them (once my lips warmed up the lip colour). Aside from making lips look juicier and more plump overall (they have a more gel-like look than creamy), I found that these have an almost "blurring" effect, smoothing out the texture of my lips completely so they look... perfect (a great feat in this weather!). These aren't immediately hydrating like the Sheen Supreme Lipsticks or Mineralize Rich Lipsticks, but I did find that they were hydrating over time. These are great for those who like a glossy finish to their lipsticks, but want something a little more long-wearing than the typical shiny lipstick formula, or want a glossy lipstick that doesn't bleed.
2 comments on "MAC Huggable Lipcolour: Part II"
  1. So, this is very strange, but I've suddenly fallen for pinks and fuchsias... as long as they're not too pale, like the fourth shade here. Love the other three!

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    1. LOL!!! I remember when you were anti-pink. Oh, how fickle our make-up habits are!

      What a Feeling! actually isn't that pale, but it IS very blue-toned, which you might not like. I think, given what you've told me here, that you'd love Out for Passion. :)

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