MAC Cosmetics Style Warrior Collection

Emerging from every corner of the glamorous globe, a new Style Warrior. Made to celebrate the cross-cultural sophistication of the modern Amazon Princess, African Queen, Crouching Tigress…

Never before have we seen the “Wild Things” of the world come together in quite so many bold new combinations. Introducing a dramatically different and deliberately diverse colour story, an eclectic and expressive way to exalt and admire the strength and solidarity of beauty with no barriers. A selection of all-over summer bronzing shades for Lips, Cheeks, Eyes, Nails, featuring the innovation of Impassioned, Bronzescape and Scatterrays Solar Bits – sunbursts to unleash the animal in every woman. All exotically packaged in stylized zebra and leopard prints to keep it wild and free – the way it always ought to be.

Lipstick ($14.00 U.S. / $16.50 CDN)

• Sunsational Sheer frosted beige gold
• Brave New Bronze Creamy mid-tone pink nude
• Purple Rite Mid-tone frosty orchid
• Tribalist Creamy blackened berry

Lipglass ($14.00 U.S. / $16.50 CDN)

• Liberated Sheer yellow gold with pearl
• Gold Rebel Sheer copper bronze with pearl
• Fierce & Fabulous Bright magenta purple with pearl
• Style Warrior Blackened bronze brown with pearl

Eyeshadow ($14.50 U.S. / $17.00 CDN)

• Soft Force Frosty pale white gold
• Bright Future Frosty bright yellow gold
• Tempting Sinfully rich coco
• Vibrant Grape Bright magenta purple
• Night Manoeuvres Deep charcoal brown with pearl

Eye Kohl ($14.50 U.S. / $17.00 CDN)

• Smolder Intense black

Pro Lash Mascara ($12.00 U.S. / $14.00 CDN)

• Coal Black Honest-to-goodness black

Beauty Powder Blush ($18.00 U.S. / $22.00 CDN)

• Eversun Neutral peach bronze with gold pearl
• On A Mission Pearly mid-tone plum

Solar Bits ($19.50 U.S. / $23.50 CDN)

• Scatterrays Soft metallic peach with gold pearl
• Bronzescape Clean yellow brown with gold pearl
• Impassioned Frosty cool taupe

Nail Lacquer ($11.00 U.S. / $13.00 CDN)

• Peaceable Pearly pale golden beige
• Violet Fire Bright creamy magenta purple
• Mercenary Frosted blackened bronze

Brush ($23.00 U.S. / $27.50 CDN)

• 242 Firm Fibre Brush with rounded edge for smooth, even application of powder, emollient and concealer products

Available: May 20th, 2009 in North America. June 2009 internationally. (Yes, the release date has been changed–officially!)

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Just a heads up, but MAC Style Warrior is now available on maccosmetics.com You’ll have to hunt around a bit, going through the various sections to locate the products (e.g. “Eyes” and “Eyeshadow” to see the Style Warrior Eyeshadows). Here are some links to products: Eyeshadows, Lipstick, Lipglass, Blush, Lustre Drops, Bronzing Powder, Solar Bits, Nail Lacquer.

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Review
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Lip Swatches

What are you getting? What are you passing up? What’s appealing/skippable?

Here are four lip combos using MAC Style Warrior products! These are the lipsticks paired with the lipglass that naturally coordinated the most. There are a whole slew of combinations you can do with all of these colors, but here are four to get you started.

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Lip Swatches

Purple Rite Lipstick + Fierce & Fabulous Lipglass

Sunsational Lipstick + Gold Rebel Lipglass

Tribalist Lipstick + Style Warrior Lipglass

MAC Style Warrior Lip Swatches!

Here’s a little run down about how they apply/opacity on the shades first…

• Purple Rite is semi-sheer, provides decent color to lips. Frosty finish.
• Sunsational is a sheer, shimmery peachy-gold. It’s not designed to give you a lot of color.
• Tribalist is a creamy, opaque color. Very deep and better to apply via a lip brush (I did not, as I do these as fast as humanly possible).
• Brave New Bronze is a creamy, opaque color. Will probably lean peach or pink, depending on your skin tones, but it is more peach than pink.
• Liberated is sheer, gold shimmer.
• Fierce & Fabulous is semi-sheer, providing lips with noticeable color.
• Gold Rebel is sheer, peachy-gold shimmer. Like Liberated, but more peach/orange.
• Style Warrior is a semi-sheer, providing lips with noticeable color/darkening. Try it over Tribalist or any red lipstick to see a cool effect. Really — it’s more wearable than you think.

Now, onto the lip swatches!

Sunsational Lipstick

Tribalist Lipstick

Brave New Bronze Lipstick

Liberated Lipglass

Fierce & Fabulous Lipglass

Gold Rebel Lipglass

Style Warrior Lipglass

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MAC Style Warrior Product Photos!

As promised, here are product photos of all of the products from Style Warrior. I’ll post lip swatches sometime tomorrow, just to give you all a heads up!

Lipsticks: Brave New Bronze, Purple Rite, Sunsational, Tribalist

Lipglasses: Liberated, Fierce & Fabulous, Gold Rebel, Style Warrior

Lipglasses: Liberated, Fierce & Fabulous, Gold Rebel, Style Warrior

Bright Future

Bright Future

Soft Force

Soft Force

Tempting

Tempting

Night Maneuvers

Night Maneuvers

Vibrant Grape

Vibrant Grape

Mercenary, Peaceable, Violet Fire

Bronze Hero, Pink Rebel, Sun Rush

Bronzing Powder Packaging

Bronzing Powder Packaging

Bronzing Powder Packaging

Solar Riche

Refined

Beauty Powder Blush Packaging

On A Mission

Eversun

Bronzescape

Impassioned

Scatterrays

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OVERALL, MAC Style Warrior is a good mix of color, neutrals, and perfect-for-summer products. It’s no Neo Sci Fi for me, but I found plenty of new favorites and items I didn’t think I’d love. I think what I liked most about this collection is the majority of products were well-pigmented and color pay off was a dream on many items. I know some were concerned about the collection being too warm and not working on cooler skin tones, but I definitely didn’t get that impression. There are certain items that are more about bronzy, sun-glowing skin, but a lot of them are designed to help you fake-it. The lipsticks were surprisingly pigmented, and the lipglasses coordinated well in a way that wasn’t completely redundant. In the end, I do think Style Warrior is worth a peek or two next time you’re at your local MAC! (As far as the official launch date goes, I have heard May 20th, 21st, and 28th — I’d recommend calling your local store to find out.)

Temptalia’s Recommendations

Must-Haves: Brave New Bronze, Gold Rebel, Bright Future, Vibrant Grape, On A Mission, Mercenary

Nice-to-Haves: Purple Rite, Sunsational, Liberated, Tempting, Night Maneuvers, Eversun, Impassioned, Sun Rush

Skip: Scatterrays, Soft Force, Peaceable

See detailed, product-by-product reviews…

Lipsticks: Brave New Bronze, Purple Rite, Sunsational, Tribalist

Lipsticks

• Brave New Bronze is a beautiful shade of fleshy-peachy nude without really being nude. It’s opaque, creamy, and has a subtle glossy sheen. It’s not an “exciting” shade, but it is really wearable. I, at least, implore you to give it a swatch when you see it and not just pass it up!
• Purple Rite is a soft purplish frost-finish lipstick with a touch of pink in it to keep it from being too purple. It’s more raspberry-pink than previous purple shades like Lavender Whip and Fashion Mews. It is also a bit warmer in tone.
• Sunsational is a sheer, gold shimmered yellow-gold base. It doesn’t give a lot of color, but it can add a lot of dimension when layered with other lip products. I actually liked this one!
• Tribalist is a deep, opaque burgundy-wine with a touch of purple. It’s creamy and incredibly pigmented–definitely not for the color shy!

Lipglasses: Liberated, Fierce & Fabulous, Gold Rebel, Style Warrior

Lipglasses

• Liberated is a pop of sunny yellow gold with gold shimmer. It’s pretty sheer, so don’t expect a yellow pout or anything. Again, like Sunsational, it makes a good way to layer color to get a unique shade that’s perfect for you.
• Fierce & Fabulous is a magenta-pink kind of color with purple and pink shimmer. It looks beautiful, though it’s not a shade I haven’t seen before. It’s not like Magnetique (recently launched), as it is sheerer and not nearly as bright.
• Gold Rebel is a sleeper hit for me. It’s a warmed-up bronzy gold. It’s kind of like a peachy bronze with gold and peach shimmer. I didn’t even notice it before, but it grabbed my attention as soon as I swatched it.
• Style Warrior is a pretty opaque, warm chocolaty brown with micro red and gold shimmer. Kind of hard for me to wear alone — definitely would need to overlay it on top of a lipstick to find a way to make it look good on me.

Eyeshadows: Soft Force, Bright Future, Tempting, Night Maneuvers, Vibrant Grape

Eyeshadow

• Soft Force is a just slightly yellow-tinged white shade of eyeshadow. It’s kind of like Rose Blanc, though probably a little less yellow and perhaps a bit smoother. I didn’t find it particularly unique, because I have several other colors that work just as well as highlighters/lid colors.
• Bright Future is a bright pop of yellow with little shimmer, mostly a sheen. It seems yellower than Going Bananas (from C-Shock), and I definitely urge anyone who missed out on Going Bananas to check out this one in its stead.
• Tempting is a warm shade of medium-to-dark chocolate brown. It’s part of MAC’s permanent range of colors, so no need to rush to get this one (unless you’re dying for the packaging!).
• Night Maneuvers is a dark, cool-toned brown with a little bit of gray cast to it. It kind of reminds me of Mothbrown, but the texture feels different (chalkier). It’s not as pigmented/smooth as I’d like, but it is buildable.
• Vibrant Grape is a pretty medium purple with a little bit of pink tones to it, fairly bright, and just lovely. It’s a satin finish, though it looks and goes on nearly matte. This is permanent at PRO stores.

On A Mission, Eversun Beauty Powder Blushes; Solar Riche, Refined Bronzing Powders

Beauty Powder Blush

• On A Mission is a neutral-to-cool raspberryish-pink shade of blush. It doesn’t have much shimmer (very faint–kind of like a satin eyeshdaow), but the color is rich. It’s not intense, but you get the color you’re expecting from the pot.
• Eversun is a peachy-pink shade with the same finish as On A Mission, so no obvious shimmer/glitter bits. Just a very subtle sheen.

Nail Lacquer

• Violet Fire is a vibrant shade of violet with pink tones to it. It has some shimmer, but it isn’t over the top. Two to three coats should give you a good, opaque finish.
• Peaceable is a metallic-y beige-bronze shimmer. It has shimmer, but it has the metallic finish which results in noticeable brush strokes (for those who mind).
• Mercenary is a gold and bronze flecked chocolate brown. It’s the most stunning of the three, because it really catches your eye, and the way the light plays with it is amazing.

Bronzescape, Impassioned, Scatterrays

Solar Bits

• Bronzescape is a warm, chocolaty brown with a high shine finish. When smoothed on, it goes on and almost looks like liquid.
• Impassioned is a dark, chocolaty brown with the same kind of high shine finish as Bronzescape.
• Scatterrays is a melon-y kind of shade (really does remind me of a poor man’s Melon pigment–perhaps a little lighter, less pink). It’s grittier than the other two, which went on smoothly as I crushed the bits against the skin.

Bronze Hero, Pink Rebel, Sun Rush

Lustre Drops

• Bronze Hero is a richer, deeper bronzy orange highlighter color. Lustre Drops are designed to be used with your foundation/moisturizer to give an all over glow.
• Pink Rebel is a sheer, pearly soft pink. It’s more of a warmed up pink with maybe just a touch of peachiness/gold shimmer in it. I can’t say I’m really won over by the lustre drops, because the tube is so small and the price seems hefty ($18.50), though for sure a little goes a very long way.
• Sun Rush is a peachier/lighter version of Bronze Hero for me. It also seems like it has a little bit less shimmer than Bronze Hero.

Bronzing Powder

• Solar Riche is a sheer, nearly matte brown with a little bit of orange tones to it.
• Refined Golden is a softer, more golden toned bronzing color with a pearl finish.

You can see all of the swatches in the previous post.