Mischief Minx is a medium warm brightened orange with a gold 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 darker and brighter than Suspiciously Sweet, more orange than Fashion Field's Day, and darker and more orange than Paradisco.
Natural Tease is a medium warm amber gold with gold-copper 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 golden and more sparkly than Mischief Minx, brighter and more sparkly than She-nanigans, and more sparkly than Amber Lights.
V Frisky is a light-medium warm yellow gold with champagne gold 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 texture, it can be layered easily but difficult to blend out. It is more sparkly than Goldmine, warmer and more sparkly than Gorgeous Gold, and lighter and warmer than I Like 2 Watch.
She-nanigans is a medium-dark warm muted reddish copper with gold 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-high pigmentation and semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. Due to the texture, it can be layered easily but difficult to blend out. It is darker and more copper than Natural Tease, more sparkly than Texture, and darker and more copper than Honey Lust.
Flaming Femme is a medium-deep warm terracotta red 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 more red than Brown Script, brighter and more red than Swiss Chocolate, and lighter and warmer than I'm Into It.
Schemer is a dark warm chocolate brown 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 more neutral than Embark, warmer than Brun, and darker than Brown Down.
Been There, Done That is a dark neutral-warm brown with a bronze 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 more pearlized than Schemer, warmer and more pearlized than Brun, and warmer and more pearlized than Concrete.
Totally Trouble is a deep dark neutral-warm blackened brown 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 warmer than Carbon, darker than Brun, and more brown than Shadowy Lady.
Stride of Pride (Highlighter) is a medium warm gilded peach with a gold 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 darker and more orange than Beaming Blush, more orange than Global Glow, and lighter than Cheeky Bronze.
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.
Given how popular warm and red-toned shades are right now, the Mischief Minx palette is definitely going to be the bestseller out of the six palettes, and it'll work on all skintones from fair to deep dark. The highlighter here is definitely going to be more of a blush on fair to medium skintones, and a true highlighter on dark to deep dark skintones — but as the highlighters have been tested for the eye area, they can also be used as eyeshadows. Again, I have to reiterate that this palette would've really benefitted from the addition of a mid-tone matte shade as a transition colour, something like Soft Brown or Saddle. (Though I am sure that if you are one of the many that loves these types of shades, you will already have a plethora of warm transition shades to pick from.) Other than that, I can see this palette selling out fast at all locations, but don't worry — Mischief Minx is permanent and will be re-stocked.
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