MAC Indulge: Eyeshadow in Divine Decadence, Sex & The Oyster, Eat, Love, and Beluga

This coming Thursday, MAC will be launching a new collection called Indulge at all locations. Indulge is MAC's main fall collection for this year, and is inspired by "a dinner of supreme decadence, where no taste is too extravagant and no behaviour beyond limits... Indulge is a surreal feast for the senses, as we set out a magical banquet where food, lust, and laughter combine to produce a palace of temptation that defies you to resist." Indulge is comprised of 30 products — 19 of which are new and limited edition, six of which are re-promotes, and five of which are permanent. Indulge will see the release of eight shades of single powder eyeshadow, of which six are new and limited and two are re-promotes. Each eyeshadow comes in regular black packaging, contains 1.3 to 1.5 grams of product, and retails for $18. These shades are applicable for the Back to MAC recycling program at participating locations.
Clockwise from left: Divine Decadence, Sex & The Oyster, Eat, Love, and Beluga
Swatches: Divine Decadence, Sex & The Oyster, Eat, Love, and Beluga

Divine Decadence is a medium-dark warm copper-bronze with gold and bronze micro-shimmer in a Veluxe finish. It is a new and limited edition shade. It has a silky, soft, almost buttery 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 slightly lighter and less reddened than Antiqued, and darker and more reddened than Bronze.

Sex & The Oyster is medium smoky blue-grey with a hint of teal in a Veluxe Pearl finish. It is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft, silky texture, and goes on smoothly and evenly. It has high pigmentation and opaque colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. There's nothing really similar to this shade in MAC's permanent range; it is darker and much greyer than Steamy, and much bluer than Silver Ring.

Eat, Love is a blackened green with emerald green sparkles in a Satin finish. It is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft, silky 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 black and much less metallic than Smutty Green Mineralize Eyeshadow, and much more green than Black Tied.

Beluga is a dark cool-toned brown with with gold and olive sparkles in a Veluxe finish. It is a new and limited edition shade. It has a slightly drier, stiffer texture, but goes on smoothly and evenly. It has medium-high pigmentation and semi-opaque to opaque buildable colour pay-off. It can be layered and blended out easily. It is darker and less metallic than Greensmoke, and darker and more sparkly than Charcoal Brown.

It seems that MAC is putting a huge focus on eyes this fall with a whopping eight shades of single eyeshadow. I love that they made these available individually rather than in palettes, so you're not stuck with shades you don't like or won't use. It may seem a little odd that these shades are being released together in the same collection, but I find they work incredibly well with the colour story — there's something very lush and luxurious about these shades, and I find that they create very rich, dimensional looks when used together. All four shades went on beautifully; even though Beluga has a slightly drier, stiffer texture, I didn't find it very hard to work with, as it still applied smoothly and evenly with good colour pay-off. Even though Divine Decadence has the smoothest, most buttery texture (probably the best in terms of texture out of the eight shades in this launch), I find it to be an incredibly dupeable shade, even within MAC's permanent range. My must-haves from here are Sex & The Oyster and Eat, Love, if only because I find them to be really unique shades that look stunning both in the pan and in execution (also, don't you just need an eyeshadow called "Sex & The Oyster"?).