All I Want is a light warm peachy champagne beige with pink and silver pearl in a Frost finish. This is a re-promote from last year's Mariah Carey collaboration, and is limited edition. 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. It is darker and more peach than Tanarama, more gold than Gel, and lighter and more gold than Jist.
Bit of Bubbly is a light warm peachy beige with a soft sheen in a Cremesheen 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 to opaque buildable colour pay-off. It is similar though more sheer than Myth, lighter and more beige than Japanese Maple, and darker and more beige than Fleshpot.
Dahhlinggg! is a light warm pinky-peach beige with a soft sheen in a Cremesheen 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 to opaque buildable colour pay-off. It is more pink than Myth, lighter and more pink than Japanese Maple, and darker and more peach than Fleshpot.
MCizzle is a light-medium warm pinky-peach beige with a soft sheen in a Cremesheen 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 to opaque buildable colour pay-off. It is lighter than Pure Zen, darker and more pink than Japanese Maple, and darker and more pink than Creme d'Nude.
I Get So OOC is a medium-dark warm plummy brown with gold and red pearl in a Frost finish. This is a new and limited edition 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. It is more brown than "O".
Not gonna lie, I'm a little disappointed with the overall variety of lipsticks in this collection. And by "variety," I really mean "lack of variety," because Bit of Bubbly, Dahhlinggg!, and MCizzle are all very similar in colour and very light — you'll only really see the difference in hand swatches (seriously, Bit of Bubbly and Dahhlinggg! look almost identical on the lips). On their own, the three nudes are definitely more suited for fair to light skintones, which I find odd given Mariah's own complexion (medium-dark with golden/olive undertones). For everyone else, they'll look very much like you're wearing concealer on your lips unless you use a lip pencil for definition and depth (which makes sense, because there are two new and limited edition lip pencils in this collection) or a lip gloss for dimension (which also makes sense, because there are five glosses with this launch). I personally have been using the nude shades on top of darker lipsticks (my current favourite combos are MCizzle on top of Velvet Teddy, and Dahhlinggg! on top of Viva Glam II) to change up the hues.
Moreover, I wish that they had made the nudes in different finishes rather than all Cremesheen (which are semi-opaque with a soft sheen); a matte or a satin would have set them apart more and therefore be worth purchasing more than one shade. Weirdly enough, All I Want and I Get So OOC — both of which are Frost finish — are the most unique of the bunch. MAC recently discontinued a lot of their permanent Frost shades, so for those who are fans of metallic lipsticks, you'll definitely want to take a look at these two. Fans of Frou, Gel, Jist, and Tanarama will love All I Want (which was released as an online exclusive shade last year in collaboration with Mariah), and fans of Fetish, Plastique, Chintz, and "O" will definitely want I Get So OOC. That having been said, I do find that MAC and Mariah did a fantastic job with the packaging, and the overall aesthetic of the lipsticks — the butterfly motif imprinted on to the bullet is an adorable whimsical touch — will have a lot of people clambering to buy these. As it is, though, you definitely don't need all three of the Cremesheen shades in this collection unless you're a MAC collector, serious nude lipstick fanatic, or Mariah worshipper.
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