Mega Moody is a medium cool gunmetal grey with silver sparkle in a Foiled finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft, creamy texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium-high pigmentation and semi-opaque colour pay-off. Due to the finish, it can be layered easily but is difficult to blend out. It is more silver than Say It Isn't So, more sparkly than Evening Grey, and darker and more grey than She Sparkles.
Gilty as Can Be is a light warm champagne gold with silver sparkle in a Foiled finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft, creamy texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium-high pigmentation and semi-sheer buildable colour pay-off. Due to the finish, it can be layered easily but is difficult to blend out. It is more gold than She Sparkles, lighter and more silver than I Like 2 Watch, and more gold and sparkly than Moon Rock (Solar Glow x 9).
Bleached Out is a light cool ivory with soft silver sparkle in a Foiled finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft, creamy texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has low pigmentation and sheer buildable colour pay-off. Due to the texture, it can be layered easily but is difficult to blend out. It is more silver than Dazzlelight, more muted and more sparkly than White Frost, and lighter and less sparkly than She Sparkles.
Denim Genes is a medium-dark cool cerulean blue with a soft sheen in a Satin Shine finish. This is a new and limited edition 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 muted than Electric Eel, darker and more matte than How Royal, and darker and more matte than Teal Appeal.
Bikers & Babes is a medium cool muted teal with silver sparkle in a Foiled finish. This is a new and limited edition 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 is difficult to blend out. It is lighter and more sparkly than Teal Appeal, and cooler and more blue than Try Me On.
Rockin' Rebel is a medium-dark cool muted jade green with a subtle sheen in a Satin Shine finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a slightly dry, powdery texture, and can go on patchy. It has medium-high pigmentation and semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. Due to the texture, it can be difficult to layer and blend out. It is lighter and cooler than Humid, and warmer and more muted than New Crop.
Bad Influence is a deep dark cool soft black in a Creamy Matte finish. This is a new and limited edition 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 similar to Typographic, slightly lighter than Carbon, and darker than Print.
Blk-ish is a dark cool muted navy blue with a subtle sheen in a Smooth Pearl finish. This is a new and limited edition 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 muted than Deep Truth, more muted and more matte than Lunar, and more blue and more pearlized than Contrast.
Let It Rock (Highlighter) is a light white gold with a gold reflective sheen in an Opalescent finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft, finely-milled texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium-high pigmentation and semi-opaque buildable colour pay-off. It is similar but less metallic than Double-Gleam, and more gold 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.
The Rockin' Rebel palette is definitely for someone who likes bright peacock shades and cool-toned sparkles — in other words, it's not subtle and it's not for everyone. This is a fun, bold palette for special occasions, but the shades do work well together to create cohesive looks. Note that this is one of two palettes that are limited edition, so if you like this colour combo, go snatch it up now — it will not be restocked.
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