Review & Swatches: MAC Glamour Daze Lipsticks

Availability: MAC Stores & Online, Nordstrom
Price: $16.50

This review is for the five (5) lipstick shades releasing with MAC’s Holiday Glamour Daze Collection. This post includes photographs and swatches of the following colors:

• Glamourdaze: Midtone creamy plum (Cremesheen)
• Beauty: Pale cool pink (Glaze)
• Dramatic Encounter: Deep purple (Amplified)
• Innocence: Soft coral (Frost)
• Outrageously Fun: Midtone magenta violet (Cremesheen)

Packaging: 9/10

These lipsticks come in standard MAC packaging but have shiny black plastic as opposed to MAC’s traditional matte plastic.

Quality: 9.25/10

Glamourdaze is a medium caramel-rose shade that leaves a slightly glossy finish to the lips. This shade is more impressive applied than it appears swatched. The shade is opaque and imparts pigmented color. I found that the formula for this Cremesheen lipstick was noticeably stiffer than what I usually experience with Cremesheen formulas and compared to the other Cremesheen lipstick in this collection–Outrageously Fun. It didn’t make a huge difference in application, but it does tug more than Outrageously Fun does.

Beauty is a very pale, yellow-based pink shade. This is my least favorite color of this set of shades. It’s so pale that I think many people will have a hard time wearing it without looking washed out or ghostly. You can alleviate the unflattering effect somewhat by applying a very sheer layer of the color. What I also dislike is the way this shade makes my lips look very flaky, even though they’re exfoliated.

Dramatic Encounter is a rich, deep, almost opaque dark purple shade that leaves a glossy finish to the lips. This shade will definitely achieve a vampy look if that’s what you’re going for. You can also apply it and dab the color off for a less dramatic appearance. This color leaves a very light stain behind on the lips. The formula is very creamy and glides on very easily.

Innocence is a light apricot shade with tiny, tiny orange shimmer particles that don’t show up very prominently on the skin. This is a semi-translucent shade. It also makes my lips look flaky, though not nearly to the extent that Beauty does. When I saw this shade in the tube, it reminded me of MAC’s Lollipop Loving. But on the skin, Innoncence is more orange.

Outrageously Fun is a vibrant pink shade with fuchsia undertones. Despite the boldness of the color, this shade has a translucent finish. This color is a cross between MAC’s Candy Yum-Yum and MAC’s Play Time lipsticks, both of which were released with the Quite Cute Collection.

Ease of Use: 9.25/10

These transfer onto the skin well because of the creamy formula. The only exception was Glamourdaze, which I found to be stiffer than usual for MAC’s Cremesheen formula. Even though I apply these shades from the tube for purposes of photos (I want to give you a practical and realistic idea of what it will look like), I’d suggest using a lip brush for Dramatic Encounter because it’s such a deep, dramatic color.

Price: 8.5/10

These lipsticks cost $1.50 more than usual, even though the only difference from MAC’s regular lipsticks is the shiny black plastic used in the packaging.