MAC Capricious Lipstick Review, Photos, Swatches
MAC Capricious Lipstick
The Sultry Season: MAC Capricious Lipstick
MAC Capricious Lipstick ($14.50 for 0.10 oz.) is a rosy plum with subtle gold shimmer. MAC describes it as a “fanciful rose plum,” and it has a lustre finish. Lustre finishes are “demi-sheer with wet-look lustre finish … Very slick … Makes lips look soft, smooth, ultra-moist.”
If you can’t tell by the photo, Capricious has been a long-time favorite, and I’ve always found it an infinitely flattering shade. It’s got that pop of natural color that enhances lips but never overwhelms a look. It has a cool-tone edge to it but the play of gold shimmer works well to make it very wearable for both cool and warm undertones.
my thoughts on the formula: MAC Lipsticks are vanilla-scented but taste-free. I typically get four hours of wear, but some of the lighter lustre and glaze finishes tend to disappear by hour three. Amplified cremes and amplified finishes, however, tend to go beyond four. I find the formula comfortable to wear and not drying (but not moisturizing–a couple of the matte and lustre shades can be drying).
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- Product: 28/30
- Value: 8/10
- Ease of Use: 4/5
- Packaging: 4/5
final thoughts: Capricious is such a great way to wear plum without being too dark or bold. It is as pretty in springtime as it is in fall. It was one of my first MAC lipsticks and still a favorite.
where to buy: Nordstrom
MAC Capricious Lipstick
MAC Capricious Lipstick
MAC Capricious Lipstick
MAC Capricious Lipstick
Pretty!
ohhhhhhhhh love this !!!
I love when you do reviews of permanent products that you like! Have to say Plumful is one of my favourite go to easy to wear lipsticks!
Plumful is one of my faves, too!
yup, you can just stick it on in work and look polished without being ‘too done’ (I’m the only one who wears proper make up, not just liner and mascara!)
This has just gone on my to buy list! Thanks!
Long-time favorite for me, too – glad to see it get some love!
have it since you recommended it for my skin tone on formspring. LOVE it.
Yayy!! So glad it worked for you 😀
I just discovered this shade about 2 months ago an have worn it everyday since. Beautiful!!
Capricious is the best! But it looks pinkish on me 😉
http://gosteieagora.com/2010/05/14/ameixa-rosado-batom-capricious-da-mac/
The perfect colour! Lustres are my favourites. We don’t have Nordstrom in the UK, though
Just seen it’s on the MAC UK website – yay!
It’s a perm shade so it should be available at all MAC locations 🙂
beautiful color!
I really love this shade!
I have this color, and I love it!
love it! i can totally see this shade sharing the top spot with my fave, Plumful.
TY christine for recommending this. Im throwing it in my MUA arsenal!
How does this compare to Sweetie? Looks like they could be similar.
Sweetie is pinker – no plum!
I love this! what would be a pretty gloss to go on top?
I’d do something like Prrr!
pretty but it’s a lustre… I don’t particulary like the finish D:
This is one of my all time favorites! Looks great with my fair complexion. It also works as a great stain if you just pat some on with your finger. It’s funny that you mention that it has gold shimmer, I can’t see it myself.
This lipstick looks like it’s gotten a lot of love! I love this shade myself. I love when you review MAC’s permanent products. They put out so many collections that the gems in the permanent line get overlooked frequently.
You reminded me how much I like this one! Such a easy, pretty color. On me it is more plummy than on you, but the gold really balances it all out nicely. I think everybody should at least check it out!
How would you say this is in comparison to Cosmo? I have never tried a lustre just cause they’re so sheer, and I have very pigmented lips. Thanks so much! 🙂
Not like it, IMO!
Preety! I must give this a try
wow- love this color on you! very wearable shade. very pretty!
Beautiful but honestly looks like my natural, pigmented lip color lol
Funny how our lips’ pigmentation can change how lipsticks look. Capricious is probably my favorite lip color but since my lips has natural berry pigment Capricious looks darker and plumy-ier on me.
If I want to achieve the lip color you have in the photo I ware Plumful.
Thanks for this review! I’m definitely trying this color on next time I go to MAC!
This is beautiful, Christine! I don’t normally go for lustres. but I might have to for this one!
I agree it’s so cool that you reviewed a MAC permanent product that we can add to our wish list…Capricious is now definitely on mine!
That’s like the perfect color for you, you look so pretty!! THIS might be a product that would suck me into the depths of MAC addiction… 🙂
Nice coverage for a luster. Lovely color.
It looks great on you, but would it work on a fairer+pinker complexion? I really like it.
Yes, it so would!
I love plum lipsticks. I think I need this.
woah – so freaky that i’d actually gone and bought this yesterday (and i love it already) it’s similar to my natural lip colour but looks better
I love this color. It is one of my standbys. On me, it looks more like a soft red. I absolutely love the way it looks on you. I wish it was that way on me. I guess my lip pigmentation pulls it in a different direction.
I think this is a lovely colour. I have it on my wishlist.
I have it and I lovvve it 😀
it suits your skin perfectly christine!!
Capricious is one of my total favourite MAC lipsticks. It’s a fairly “new” acquisition for me (within the last 2 years) – I don’t change or buy lippies very often but my faves from MAC are Craving, Plumful, 2 LE lipsticks (Total Wow and Laugh a Lot) and Dubonnet.
We have very similar taste- those are some of my favorite colors too! If we both like those same lippies, you might like some of my other favorites- can I suggest them to you? After Party, by Clinique. Maybelline Color Sensational Berry Beautiful, and there is this gloss by Evil Shades that is one of my all-time favorites- it’s called Deadly and it’s one of their Wicked Glosses. It’s a great gloss that lasts and leaves a stain behind.
I try to think of the Lustres as stick glosses because I love the colors so much but they wear off so fast, so I have to justify buying them somehow!
cute color
I love pinks like this!
This color looks sooooo beautiful! Amazing!
Only problem is, I can’t have any color of lipstick, if I have lipstick on it’s like I’m a pornstar or something, really annoying :s Maybe this color will work.. Time for another visit to the Mac store! ^^
I agree that Capricious is a long time favorite shade from MAC. I used this color on my best friend for her wedding. It photographed beautifully, and se didn’t require gloss because of its already high shine quality. Looks especially great on olive complexions.
I will definitely check this out this weekend!
LOVE IT.
Wow, I have never been so compelled to rush out and buy a lipstick in my life! I NEED this!
Im totally ordering that color today!!!
I just bought this thanks to you and I love it! Such a beautiful everyday colour. It’s my new HG! <3
I went to the MAC store and I wanted to buy this one since it looks absolutely beautiful on you Christine. But unfortunately, when I tried it on, it was way darker than what I expected it to be. It looked really red on me. And I usually don’t really pull off red lipsticks but the lady recommended see sheer instead and that actually worked well on me.. whew. I wouldve hated leaving the store empty handed!
this looks so pretty!
Can you please make a post on MAC Cosmo?!? PLEASE?? thanks!
I do not own it.
You swatched Cosmo in the Mickey Contractor dupe-post
http://www.temptalia.com/mac-mickey-contractor-comparisons-dupes-for-lipscheeks
I don’t have it any more or lost it, as I do not have it in my collection – sorry!
I already own Plumful…should I get this too?
You could skip if you were on a tight budget!
How would this compare to craving? I’ve been looking for a rosy lipstick for a while now. Do you have any suggestions? I’m a NC25-30. Thanks! 🙂
Craving is much pinker.
I just bought this and it’s so weird. In the tube itself, the lipstick looks like a more burgundy-wine sort of colour. It is really different from how yours look like! Also, when I applied it, it was not as pinky. But still, it is a gorgeous colour.
this is a lovely color, i was looking for a dupe to burberry blush 09, this might do..thanx 🙂