Sly Girl is a medium-deep cool purple-tinted gunmetal grey with silver sparkle in a Foiled finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a soft, creamy texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. Due to the finish, it can be layered easily but difficult to blend out. It is darker and more grey than Say It Isn't So, more grey and more sparkly than Fathoms Deep, and warmer and more sparkly than Knight Divine.
Tattle-Tale is a light cool platinum with lavender-silver sparkle in a Foiled finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a soft, creamy texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-sheer to semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. Due to the finish, it can be layered easily but difficult to blend out. It is more sparkly and more pinked than Evening Grey, more silver than She Sparkles, and lighter than Say It Isn't So.
Me Me Me is a light cool silvered white with a soft sheen in a Smooth Pearl finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled 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 darker and more silver than White Frost, lighter than Silver Ring, and lighter and less metallic than Evening Grey.
Hell in Heels is a dark neutral-cool burgundy wine with a subtle sheen in a Smooth Pearl finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled 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 than Sketch, darker than Blackberry, and cooler and more purple than I'm Into It.
Ms. Personality is a medium cool taupe with a soft silver to green-gold duochrome sheen in a Satin Shine finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-sheer to semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is cooler and more grey than Era, darker and more brown than Vex, and lighter and cooler than Satin Taupe.
Big White Lie is a dark neutral blackened brown with a gunmetal grey sheen in a Smooth Pearl finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled 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 metallic than Brun, slightly cooler than Smut, and warmer and more pearlized than Black Tied.
Text Me Later is a medium-deep cool gunmetal grey with a soft sheen in a Satin Shine finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled 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 less pearlized than Big White Lie, more matte than Knight Divine, and more pearlized than Print.
Gameplayer is a deep dark neutral-cool black in a Creamy Matte finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled 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 darker and more pigmented than Carbon.
Love This Bitch (Highlighter) is a light neutral-cool pinked ivory with a peachy champagne reflective sheen in an Opalescent finish. This is a new and permanent shade. It has a soft, finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium pigmentation and semi-sheer to semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. It is cooler and more pinked than Double-Gleam, and more golden than Lightscapade.
The MAC Girls palettes mark a very different direction for MAC in terms of aesthetic and curation. For the first time ever, MAC has released cardboard mirrored compacts instead of heavier plastic ones with clear lids, and the shadows come in two different sizes and are placed randomly in the palette rather than in grid formation. This isn't necessarily a bad thing because I do think that these palettes include some fun colour combinations and look very striking, but it is obvious in the much slimmer packaging that they are trying harder to compete with many other bestselling palettes out there, including ones by Urban Decay and Anastasia Beverly Hills. My only pet peeve with the packaging is that the names of the shades aren't actually printed on the palette — they're on a separate clear plastic sheet that sits on top of the shades. Not a deal breaker, but kind of annoying because the shades aren't printed anywhere else on the palette so you have to keep that flimsy clear sheet if you want to know the shade names. But at $48, these also offer more value ($190) than any other palette MAC has released before. And unlike those other brands, MAC released six very different palettes at the same time so that there's something for everyone.
All these palettes feature four new eyeshadow finishes (which are described in the first paragraph) and are all pretty self-explanatory. To be honest, the Foiled eyeshadows disappointed me the most; the finish is absolutely gorgeous, but the colour pay-off is inconsistent and requires effort to build up and layer out on the lids. They work best with fingers rather than brushes (I tried using them with both synthetic and real hair brushes, and both dry and wet, and they go on patchy because the bristles just don't want to pick up the sparkle), and I definitely recommend using a good eye base that has a tackier texture to help with adhesion if you're looking for a high-sparkle, high-metallic finish. On that note, I am very impressed with the Smooth Pearl and Creamy Matte textures, both of which are super-silky and ultra-smooth with high pigmentation. They blend out effortlessly and have minimal fall out, too. My only complaint is that these palettes need a medium transition shade and at least one more matte to create more well-rounded, dimensional looks. As for the new Opalescent finish highlighters, the texture is smooth and silky, but they have a softer pearlized sheen, so don't be expecting that bright, ultra-reflective finish that their Extra Dimension or Mineralize Skinfinishes have.
Basic Bitch is the palette that was first leaked sometime last year that shocked some and thrilled others, making many question whether this palette was real or not. Who would name a palette Basic Bitch? Well, leave it to the brand that has caused controversy since their inception. The name has caused some people to react negatively and some to embrace it with humour, depending on your generation and culture. (As the name of this palette can be seen as offensive, it will not be available in some international markets — likewise, partnered locations in North America, such as Hudson's Bay in Canada, will not be advertising this nor allowing it to be displayed despite having it in stock for sale.) Name aside, I found that this is actually the best palette in terms of texture, pigmentation, and blendability out of the six that came out, so it's actually well worth checking out if you like dark, cool tones. After all, basic bitches always need their smoky eyes.
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