MAC Barbecue, Oxblood, Tenor Voice, Victoriana Lipsticks Reviews, Photos, Swatches
MAC Barbecue Lipstick
MAC Barbecue Lipstick ($17.50 for 0.10 oz.) is described as a “vivid orange red [with a Matte finish].” It’s a brightened, medium-dark orange-red with warm undertones and a satin finish. The color payoff was intense and yielded full color coverage that applied easily without dragging on the lips. It wore well for six hours, and while it wasn’t hydrating, it wasn’t drying either. See comparison swatches / view dupes.
MAC Oxblood Lipstick ($17.50 for 0.10 oz.) is described as a “light peachy nude [with a Matte finish].” It’s a light-medium, peachy-brown with a hint of pink with a semi-matte finish. It had good color coverage with a lightly creamy consistency so it glided on without tugging, but it didn’t slide around once on. It was comfortable to wear and was neither drying nor hydrating, and it lasted for almost five hours, which is a little longer than average for a mid-tone shade like this. See comparison swatches / view dupes.
MAC Tenor Voice Lipstick ($17.50 for 0.10 oz.) is described as a “true classic red [with a Matte finish].” It’s a rich, brightened red with very subtle cool undertones–it’s almost neutral, but I think it leans a bit blue–with a matte finish. It had full color coverage that applied smoothly and evenly without trouble. It wore well for six hours and left behind a stain, and it wasn’t drying (though not hydrating either). See comparison swatches / view dupes.
MAC Victoriana Lipstick ($17.50 for 0.10 oz.) is described as a “mid-tone pink red [with a Matte finish].” It’s a slightly muted (relative to the rest, really) pinky-red with cool undertones and a matte finish. The consistency is lightly creamy, which made it apply evenly for smooth, even color application. It was intensely pigmented and lasted for six hours without being drying. See comparison swatches / view dupes.
Barbecue
LELimited Edition. $19.00.
Oxblood
LELimited Edition. $19.00.
Tenor Voice
LELimited Edition. $19.00.
Victoriana
LELimited Edition. $19.00.
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OK, yeah. Oxblood is coming home with me. It’s a dupe for First Time, if I add maybe a little bit of Whirl liner or Cranberry liner underneath. It’s perfect!
Yayyy!! 🙂
Aw heck I just love them all. BUT. I am showing restraint. None for me!
Good for you, Ginny!
Oxblood looks just like “Enchanted One” from the Alluring Aquatic collection which is awesome for me, because I love that color and have almost used it all up. I thought “Kinda Sexy” would be a good dupe for “Enchanted One” but I think this one might be better.
That’s great!
I was waiting for your reviews and I am loving them all…you look fab in all of them
Thanks, Parmita!
Awesome swatches! My plan was to get Oxblood and Sin, but I think that Oxblood will be too pasty on my NW47 skin.
You’ll rock Sin for sure!
Oxblood might be right on the fence – I could see it going well/badly, lol!
I’m NW 45 and I was thinking the same thing but with a dark lip liner such as cork or chestnut, it should work.
I’m so fed up with MAC and their monthly limited edition releases, everything looks the same, I wish they would just concentrate on limited projects and come up with something exciting or even worthwhile.
I do enjoy your posts and the effort that you put into every post regardless.
They’ve been doing a lot of reds these days!
Oxblood, while grossly misnamed, is definitely going on my shopping list. They are all very beautiful colors but I feel like I already have a ton of red lipsticks so I’m going to hold back on those.
There are sooooo many reds here.
I just can’t get over the name “oxblood”. It’s the least oxblood like shade of them all. What were they thinking? *shakes head*. Nice neutral, though.
LOL! It makes me wonder if something got switched early on in development. Oops!
I’m convinced they mixed up Sin and Oxblood when they named the colors.
Maybe it’s just my mood today but didn’t MAC just do these (almost exact) colors twice (at least) last year. Not that they aren’t lovely…but I bought these in 2014…
They have been on a red lipstick spree these past few months!
Oxblood? That color is nowhere NEAR oxblood! What the heck MAC?
It’s so weird!
Oxblood is gorgeous, but I feel like it’s relatively easy to dupe.
It was more dupable than I thought!
WOW! The swatches are amazing! I will need to look carefully at the swatches comparisons before going to the store or I might come back home with a few of them!
Good idea! 🙂
Thank you SO MUCH for this review and also for your Dupe machine. I am trying to decide between Barbecue and MAC Lady Danger. Hnnnghhhh I can’t make a decision! I know that LD is permanent so I could go back for it anytime, but I don’t want to buy two near-identical colors. I’m not sure which I would like more. I am NC25. I really love mattes because sometimes I find bright satins move around outside of my lips. BUT your description of bbq (lol such a weird name) confirms that it probably will stay put. Gah! 🙂
(I used the Dupe machine for MAC Relentlessly Red vs. Victoriana and I definitely prefer RR. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!)
So glad I could help, Sarah! 🙂 These are all technically mattes, though I find some of them have a lil’ more sheen than you’d expect in a true matte. And given you love your mattes, RR will be lovely for you since it is ultra matte!
lol – dupe machine! Love it! I think Christine and her team are the dupe machines?! 😀
I think I might just have to pick up Victoriana! It’s a sort of pink/red that is really interesting to me. I’m so glad this collection turned out so well.
It is a very interesting mix of pink/red/mutedness (but not really a soft or subtle color either).
These colors are stunning! You look beautiful in every lipstick color – they all suit you !
Aw, thanks, Peggs! xo
Oxblood looks so pretty! Might wanna get that one.
It is a nice shade!
Oh, my, MAC knocked it out of the ballpark with these lipsticks! Great job, MAC !
They definitely bright mattes pretty well!
OMG!!! I want them all. It has been awhile since I’ve been excited about a MAC collection.
Awesome to hear 🙂 Which shade do you like the most?
Barbecue
OMG they are gorgeous! This time, I have no choice, I will need to take them all! *-*
lol!
Very nice lipsticks this time around but MAC isn’t releasing any unique shades with this set. With a name like Barbecue I was expecting a molasses or charred pepper color. Or I’m just hungry.
Tenor Voice is just too dupe-able for me, especially considering I already own MAC Kinky. I love Oxblood but sounds like everyone is going to be after it as well! I was all excited for these and I’m happy to hear they perform well but I might be picking up some of the blushes or shadows from this collection instead.
I wish my grades would look like that after finals 😛
Nice to see Mac putting out quality products again. Pretty colors + a good formula??? A girl couldn’t ask for more!!
I’m not a nude lip person, but Oxblood is quite pretty. Unfortunately, I just don’t like the packaging at all.
Yay!!!! Was so looking forward tos seeing this, thank you as always Christine! Oxblood and barbeque will be mine!!!#
I love every single one of these. Victoriana’s red-pink matte is really calling to me. I don’t think I have a red matte like that.
omg!!! i love victoriana even more in lipstick from!!!
Victoriana & Tenor is coming home with me!
I still can’t get past them naming a nude lipstick “oxblood,” that’s like naming a pink lipstick “tangerine.”
As I suspected, OxBlood is a gorgeous nude. Thats’ the one that may come home with me if we see this collection here. Despite it being dupable, you can’t go wrong with a great nude. 🙂
Ooo, Barbecue reminds me of my all time favorite red, Sail la Vie! I may need to pick it up! My two tubes of Sail la Vie are getting low! lol
Love the last 3 on you!! I thought I would love Barbeque but something seems a bit off – maybe it looks a bit to orange on my monitor. I loved the back story behind Isabel’s different iterations of red lips 🙂 I have more interest in this collection because THEY are more interesting to me!! 🙂
They are all wonderful shades. And they all look fabulous on you 🙂
I really appreciate the dup’s as a feature of your reviews too.
Those are all lovely. I like the finish of each as well!
hi! everything looks amazing on you I can’t decide! Thank you for your review!!!
If Im NC30/35 which two would you suggest?
Thanks 🙂
Any of these would work, really!
Woooo will be getting all of them as well as 2 lip glasses. It just strikes me as funny that opera and tenor voice are dupes for each other haha.
Just one question, button is way too pasty / light / bright for my skin tone, hence is oxblood deeper or just as light? I was initially set on it but the moment I saw button on the dupe list I’m like ermmmmn.
Tenor Voice is certainly my favourite and it looks great on you too Christine.
It is really nice to see an A rating on an affordable lipstick! I hope Mac continues to produce more of these. I love all of these shades. I probably have a dupe or two for each. I am not sure if I will get any or not. Need to check my unorganized stash for possible dupes. I am guessing i have more of the reds than the others. But, upon looks, I am thinking Oxblood and Barbecue will be likely suspects for me. Those are the lipglasses I liked to because of the ratings factor. I have only a handful of Mac’s lipsticks. Hard to pas up a nice lipstick at a good price. I see these and a 9/10 score and wonder what it is that makes Nars audacious or a Guerlain Rouge G better? Just out of curiosity..I have been debating on buying a Rouge G .It would be a sight un-seen purchase for me. Just swatches and Christine’s lips! Are they worth $51..why? I love just about everything Guerlain. So,it’s not a hard sell. Thanks for the review Christine!
oh..all mattes..harder for me to dupe in my messy drawer!I So are the dupes in the dupe list all matte too Christine? I may try to pick these up If I can. But , if not it’s nice to know you have alternates that are permanent ready for us..u da bomb!
This release is… amazing!! I am going to try to get my grubby hands on Oxblood and if I can’t control my impulses, also Barbecue. I love all these colors and the packaging.
Really liking barbeque and victoriana! Also I have dupes for oxblood and tenor voice 🙂 MAC may be putting out a lot of red lippies lately, but at least the ratings are good!
Welp, I’m in trouble! I was hoping some of these might turn out to be rubbish, but I kind of want them all (except perhaps barring Oxblood, which might be too nude for my liking). MAC seems to be releasing a new collection every month or so, and I wish a little that I’d take some time out to manufacture something… I don’t know… different from all the reds and mattes I’m seeing. I feel like the Toledo collection is one of the more exiting ones I’ve seen in a while.
Your Foundation looks really good– not that it doesn’t usually! But it looks different, like you’ve been tanning while I’m freezing my buns off! Oh and BBQ is nice too.
So these aren’t coming to Mexico? 🙁
I actually like all of these lol. Barbecue is my favorite but Oxblood is very pretty too
Barbecue is nice and I was thinking of getting it because the lipglass version of it was coral (I LOVE the way corals look on my NC20 skin and cant get enough of them!) but it looks like such a standard orange red in lipstick version that I’m losing feelings for it. Does the lipstick packaging in this collection feel cheap btw? I’ve heard people say in previous collections that the cap isnt as sturdy as the regular MAC packaging is.
Victoriana!❤ I love Pink-Reds, my favorites are Love Goddess and Ronnie Red! Thankfully this collection also has a pink-red color! I noticed that Opera and Victoriana swatches on your arm look very similar! But the Opera is a true red when on lips! I love them both, probably get them! Haha
Which is more red, Scarlet Ibis or Barbeque? And which is more matte? Thanks!
Tenor Voice is lovely! I’ve got too many red lipsticks to count now though 😐
I think ‘oxblood’ is for the oxblood orange (rather than oxblood the color).
I’m glad they did the lipsticks well! I quite like the look of Victoriana, and pink reds nearly always look great on me. I like Tenor Voice, too, but it looks like it would be quite similar to Clinique Soft Matte lipstick in Matte Crimson, which I already have… so, while it would be fun to pull out that great packaging, I don’t think I can really justify the cost, when there are so many other things I want. Barbecue would be great if I was in need of an orange red — but orange-pinks look much better on me than orange-reds do.
Can you tell me, please, if Barbecue is similar to Sail la Vie from MAC? Thank you!
Here you go! http://www.temptalia.com/submit-dupe?sbs=1&pid=188769&dupe=107560
Oh, thank you very much! You’re so kind! What a nice tool! I can see that it’s not a dupe.
Sorry it took me so long! 🙁
It’s ok. You needn’t have to. 🙂
All easy passes for me. I would grab Tenor Voice if I had the money almost solely to get the packaging… But that’s not really a good enough reason for me to break my budget right now.
Victoriana is my favourite of these shades (and it is very pretty), but really the only thing that’s keeping me awake over all these repetitive reds is the mild annoyance over the whole ‘Oxblood’ naming thing. 😛
That all sounds quite harsh now that I re-read it, LOL! It wasn’t meant to be, but really…more reds?!
Oxblood looks so pretty! It’s tempting me hard…
Do I NEED these? No. Do I WANT these? Well, given I’m passionate about opera and am a Metropolitan Opera subscriber, guess which shades I’m buying. 😉 And I carry a tote with my binoculars (because I’m way up in Family Circle) and (unwrapped) candies and a makeup case; Opera and Tenor Voice will be stashed in the makeup case so I have always have the appropriate lippies.
These all look fab on you Christine! Was gonna order Oxblood sight unseen but SO GLAD I waited to see your dupes. I have Tom Ford’s First Time-& it’s not a good look on me. Must be my dark pigmented lips. Maybe need a primer? So pass on that but the other 3 are beautiful! Thks for the review 🙂
All getting an A.. thats impressive.. So many pretty reds this collection has.. making it hard for me to pick just one.. 😛 ..
Though oxblood is no doubt one of best here and standout from the rest 😉 ..
I am in love with Oxblood. I am really tempted to buy this product goes on sale. Would the color look good on my pale skintone?
Oh MAC… when one of the dupes for Tenor Voice is another lipstick in the same collection (Opera), it’s time to back away from the slightly blue-leaning reds…
(that said, I really want Victoriana…)
Thanks for these swatches! Do you think you could tag these under Isabel Toledo (or have it show up under the launch)? I had a hard time finding the reviews on the actual products! Appreciate your hard work!
Victoriana! I love Pink-Reds, my favorites are Love Goddess and Ronnie Red! Thankfully this collection also has a pink-red color! I noticed that Opera and Victoriana swatches on your arm look very similar! But the Opera is a true red when on lips! I love them both, probably get them! Haha
This is really silly for me to say it but I’m getting Victoriana because well… Hehehe, personally reasons. And also the fact is so gorgeous! It’ll be my first Mac product to ever own and everything. :3
Do you know how oxblood compares to MAC kinda sexy? Thanks!
I don’t have Kinda Sexy! 🙁
How’s oxblood similar to kind sexy?
Sorry, I don’t think I have that shade!
Mine finally arrived today and I am happy that the lip glass oxblood is not a dupe for MAC Bijou. Love the design of the packaging what I don’t like is that the texture of the packaging is similar to NARS products which means it will get dirty easily.
Phew!
Me: “I don’t really NEED any of these….” *Ends up in MAC, tries on Victoriana.* “Well I look incredible. So much for saving my money.”
These are all great colors! I’m debating between Victoriana and Damn Glamorous. How similar/different are they? How similar/different is Barbeque from Lady Danger? Thanks!
http://www.temptalia.com/submit-dupe?sbs=1&pid=188769&dupe=107294
http://www.temptalia.com/submit-dupe?sbs=1&pid=188772&dupe=176537
Hello.. I am really confused between Opera and Tenor Voice.. I am looking for a bright red lipstick like that one actresses wear in theater at Opera.. I thought Opera would be the brightest as the name suggests but someone just told me Tenor Voice is more bright.. Please help me out.. I am NC 30 (South Asian) ..recently got tanned and have pigmented lips ..thanks
Here are the two side-by-side: http://www.temptalia.com/submit-dupe?sbs=1&pid=188588&dupe=188771
First Ms. Temptalia, I am a Google queen and your page is my go-to for all things makeup. Thanks for always being on top of these releases. I just got barbeque today and I realized I got mangrove last year. I really can’t tell much of a difference between the two and they’re both matte.
They’re definitely similar! Mangrove reads less red – almost looks pinkish – on me in comparison!