MAC Mariah Carey: Powder Blush in Sweet Sweet Fantasy and You've Got Me Feeling

This Thursday, MAC will be launching their collaboration collection with Mariah Carey in stores (it launched online last Thursday and promptly sold out). It includes a total of 23 products, of which 20 are new and limited edition, two are re-promotes, and one is permanent and in special edition packaging. The Mariah Carey collection sees the launch of two new and limited edition powder blushes. They are housed in "luxurious packaging in silver glitter with champagne gold accents and Mariah's signature." Each blush contains 6 grams of product, and retails for $28.50.
Sweet Sweet Fantasy and You've Got Me Feeling
Sweet Sweet Fantasy and You've Got Me Feeling

Sweet Sweet Fantasy is a medium-dark warm pinked coral in a soft 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 more coral than Fleur Power, more pink than Fleeting Romance, and darker and more pink than Peaches.

You've Got Me Feeling is a medium cool cotton candy pink in a soft matte finish. This is a new and limited edition shade. It has a soft, finely-milled 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 cooler than Lovecloud, darker than Pink Swoon, and slightly warmer than Peony Petal.

Both blushes in this collection have a silky texture that go on smoothly, evenly, and with good blendability; I didn't have issues with either of them in application or in swatching. Sweet Sweet Fantasy has more intense pigmentation so I do recommend working in light layers with it; the medium-high pigmentation of You've Got Me Feeling actually works in its favour since it's really easy to over-do bright pinks like this. Sweet Sweet Fantasy will work well on all skintones from fair to dark, whereas I find You've Got Me Feeling is more suited to fair to medium-dark complexions. Again, since both of these shades are pretty bright, I would recommend those with fairer skintones to use a light hand. To be honest, I'm actually surprised at the colour selection of the blushes for this collection, because if you look up photos of Mariah's own makeup aesthetic, she actually favours neutral bronzes and soft roses, which would've worked more harmoniously with the rest of the products in this launch. That having been said, these are lovely if you like a nice pop of colour for your cheeks without being too bright or dark, and the matte finish contrasts nicely to the many shimmery products in the collection.