MAC Nocturnals: Lip Gloss Set in Nude

Today, MAC released a new collection called Nocturnals, which features a variety of mini sets and is the third and final part of MAC's Holiday 2013 offerings. The packaging of this year's holiday collections are inspired by the elegance and geometric designs of 1920s Art Deco, as well as the lavish lifestyles of the Studio 54 era. Nocturnals consists of seven kits, and sees the release of three new and limited edition lip gloss sets. Each lip gloss set features three shades of Cremesheen Glass and one shade of Dazzleglass. Cremesheen Glasses come with doe-foot applicators and Dazzleglasses come with brush applicators; both formulas are vanilla-scented but taste-free. They are housed in special edition tubes with black caps embellished with white and gold, and matching secondary cardstock packaging. Each lip gloss set contains a total of 9.6 grams of product, and retails for $38.50. 
Phiff!, Boy Bait, Over Indulgence, and Richly Revered
Phiff!, Boy Bait, Over Indulgence, and Richly Revered

Phiff! is a peachy beige-tinted clear base with silver and gold glitter in the Dazzleglass formula. This is a re-promoted shade from 2011's Dazzlesphere collection, and is limited edition. The texture is lightweight but slightly tacky, and it goes on smoothly and evenly. It has low pigmentation and sheer colour pay-off. It is slightly peachier than Sugarrimmed.

Boy Bait is a light-medium warm peach-beige in the Cremesheen Glass formula. This is a permanent shade. The texture is lightweight and creamy, and it goes on smoothly and evenly. It has low-medium pigmentation and semi-sheer colour pay-off. It is slightly darker and more beige than Fashion Whim, and more opaque and more peach than Paper Lantern.

Over Indulgence is a medium-dark rose-tinted brown in the Cremesheen Glass formula. This is a permanent shade. The texture is lightweight and creamy, and it goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-opaque colour pay-off. It is darker and more brown than Deelight, and more sheer than Spice Lipglass.

Richly Revered is a dark reddened plum in the Cremesheen Glass formula. It is a re-promoted shade from 2011's Semi-Precious collection, and is limited edition. The texture is lightweight 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 much sheerer and more red than Rebel Lipglass, and similar but more sheer than Desire Lipglass.

The nude lip gloss set that MAC came out with this year is nothing terribly new or exciting — two of these shades are re-promotes and two of them are permanent. That having been said, I do appreciate the range in shades in this year's nude set even though one of them is technically a plum and not a nude at all. I also like that there's something here to suit every skintone, as a "nude" set should. As always, the holiday lip gloss sets in general are always a really good value. The Dazzleglasses in these sets actually have more product than their full-size counterparts (2.4 g vs. 1.9 g), and the Cremesheen Glasses are actually full-size (2.4 g). In total, you are getting $98 worth of lip gloss for $38.50! If you like the formulas included in this set and you like at least two of the shades, it's definitely worth getting, especially if you don't already have any of these or you do have one or more these and need a replacement.