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Temptalia Top Secret Project: The Temptalia Gallery (Beta) Launches

For the past several weeks, we have been working nonstop on creating, developing, and tweaking a project very near and dear to our hearts — a high quality gallery for beauty product photos and swatches. If you’ve been following me on Twitter, I’ve been hinting at a top secret project, and this is it!

Today, we are launching the Gallery into beta, so we have an opportunity to address bug fixes and the like, and we are not finished adding to content or implementing some more advanced features — but there are over 1,000 products/looks/swatches currently available for your perusal!

Visit the Gallery!

Just a Few Neat Features Live Today…

  • Browse through Temptalia’s Looks from 2008-2009
  • Browse through Temptalia’s Lip Combinations from 2008-2009
  • Browse through hundreds MAC Product Photos by Type
  • Add your own product reviews/thoughts

Preview of (Some of) What’s to Come

  • Non-MAC brands’ product photos/swatches from the blog
  • More MAC swatches from past collections
  • Submit Your Product Photos/Swatches
  • Popular Tags List in Sidebar of Each Category
  • Additional tags in place
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B. Avatar
B.

Just when you thought Temptalia couldn’t get any better…BAM!! she kicks it up a notch 🙂
Thank you for the awesome cohesiveness that is your site !

Ariana Avatar
Ariana

OMG Christine, that is freakin awesome!

I’ve been developing a website for work, and I know how much time and effort something like that takes. And it came out amazing! Can’t wait to make use of it! Congrats!

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bam432

Absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G Work! I can’t imagine how long this took you to put together but it’s wonderful! Thank you so much Christine-you must be SO proud of yourself!!!!

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Roxanne

A waste of time? I most definitely think not! This is really useful, Christine! (and kinda funny too, seeing your eye staring at me like a teal dream twenty times)

Congrats on your new baby!

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liz

holy moly christine!

i love this idea and it makes it easier to see much better swatches/product photos than on the company’s websites. fantastic. thanks!

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Mara

It sounds super-great… Unfortunately, I’m a little reluctant due to the lack of response I’ve had from Temptalia.com, overall. I’ve been trying to register for the forums for a couple of weeks, and sent 4 emails, so far. Christine, I think you are extremely talented and smart, but I am so disappointed regarding the complete absence of customer service. 🙁 I really hope this can be remedied. Congrats on your newly launched gallery.

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Mikki

This sounds so amazing. I hope everything goes well and that you don’t have too many bugs etc!

Now I’m going to visit the gallery! Hooray

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Kristen

I just took a look at this and it’s great! It’s so great that you’ve given an up close look at the actual MAC shadows (as the MAC website doesn’t seem to translate shadow colours just right) and I love that I can click on a colour look and pull up all the looks you’ve done. Super job!

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SarahT

I am super excited for this, what an awesome idea! Thank you for all your hard work – you’ve made this site my all-time favorite, it is such an amazing resource I hardly go elsewhere for makeup info 😉

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claudia

Hi Christine,
It’s absolutely great. You have no idea how helpful your swatches are – specially when there’s no mac shop around the corner. Awesome work !
thank you so much !!!

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Aubree

I love it!

But you accidently put the Hello Kitty Glitter Eye Liners under Lips. =\

Other than that, I love it, Christine! n_n

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Luv J

Wow Christine I applaud you for this! Now if only the MAC website (or any other website for that matter) will use this concept! This is so consumer-friendly! Great job!!! 😀

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Nicole15

The more I browse this gallery, the more I know it will be my go-to spot to find out what MAC colors really look like. The swatches & product photo close-ups are ten times more helpful than anything I’ve ever seen. Thanks so much for this Christine! This is going to be something that will be used widespread for sure. The girls at my MAC counter already give your website out to customers, now they really are going to have your back. Amazing accomplishment!

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Michelle

This is amazing! What a talent — thanks for sharing it with all of us! I love that it is so easy to browse all of your looks.

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xdwlx

I love the Gallery! It’s so easy to navigate and it’s truly a great source of inspiration!
It’s certainly going to be my number 1 stop when I’ve run dry!

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