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MAC Cosmetics - Solar Field Color Story, Product Photos and Images
Solar Field | May 29, 2008 (Int’l June 2008)
Temptalia brings you this EXCLUSIVE look at Solar Field coming at you this Summer. Please enjoy & credit responsibly. And make sure you share your thoughts and potential hauls!
Solar Bits combines concentrated amounts of powder pigments and pearlized particles to deliver vivid colour and intense shimmer with a soft, smooth, velvety finish.
Solar Bits ($19.50)
- Sunpower Light metallic tan with gold pearlized pigments
- Scatterrays Soft metallic peach with gold pearlized pigments
- Black Ore Rich black with gold pearlized pigments
- Bronzescape Yellow brown with gold pearlized pigments
Get more details and photos…
Bronzing Powder ($20.00)
- Solar Riche Midtone deep orange brown
- Refined Golden Finely spun golden with soft pearlized finish
Brush
- 168
- 239
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Ooh – what’s in the pots? Is it pigments? I love the colours!
New product, so not much info beyond what’s posted!
i got to see them today!!! they are like pigments…TOTALLY awesome!!!
I am getting all 4
Lucky you, Kat!!
I purchased them today!!! Totally awesome
Awesome, Kat! Which one is your favorite?
Black ore is the best…totally neat and great smokey glimmer eye!
The Sunpower is pretty awesome as well.
They are long lasting as well, but I use paint or fluidliner under any pigment to help them stay.
Definitely, it’s such a pretty color 😀
The Solar Bits looks awesome. . has M.A.C. done these before?
Hey Joanne! Nope, brand spankin’ new!
christine….i LOVE you..u even got us product fotos! specktra just got color stories but u came through with fotos too! *mwah* thanks u totally made my day! 😀
i want the volcanic ash, body and lip conditioner, charged water. and it looks like at least one lippy from each collection! 😀
Thank you, Jasmine! It was my pleasure to share 🙂
gosh all these colour stories look AMAZING!!! hehe Christine you have addicted me to MAC!!! (even though my “collection” is lousy…) i just hope we get all of these in argentina…at least i have time to save up!!!
and…i suppose i’d only get one or two things from each collection cause its pretty expensive over here…but i love makeup, and sacrifices are necessary sometimes ; )
thankyou!!!
by the way, what are those solar bits???
LOL! I hope you get them in Argentina, too, hun! But then again, maybe your wallet will thank you if they don’t make it there!
No real clue, I included the official description of them… but they’re brand new!
What’s in the pots?? Is it a shadow??
No clue really, just know it’s a new product, lol.
Look! Up in the sky! Is it a blush? Is it an eyeshadow? No! Its super solar bits!
Depending on what it is, Black Ore has my interest.
LOL! I almost spit out my water, Tekoa!
Yeah, I’m not sure what it is, but it has me excited!
So what exactly are these Solar Bits? Sound like a pigment, but is it for your eyes? I can’t imagine wearing the black one anywhere else. The rest maybe as highlighters or for the eyes, very interesting!
I think they’re for your eyes, Ariele, but not sure!
Look at the model’s eyes! That is probably the Solar Bits. Just a different packaging for pigments? Different formula probably?
Good call, Julia!
Ahhh….so THAT’S what Solar Bits are!! Very interesting 🙂 I can’t wait for this release! Scatterrays sounds lovely 🙂
Me neither! I’m excited about these the most.
very cool 🙂 I really like the orange…so fun and different…makes me in the mood for summer…reminds me of being on vacation somewhere tropical and warm, with a drink that has one of those little umbrella in it. Deep sigh. Anyways I dont think a lot of the actual colors from this line will suit me but I sure am curious to see it and the Solar Bits sure sounds interesting…cant wait to hear more details.
I can’t wait for summer to get here already! At least we are getting a few sunny days here and there.
oh i want the bronzers but i don’t like using bronzers. if the refined golden is really just gold, i am getting it then. thanks for the photos again, have to start saving!!:)
LOL! Interesting, why do you want them then? 😛
Could it be a product like Lorac Glam Rocks? That’s a much creamier, clumpier powder than your average pigment. They’re pretty hard to work with, but man! The payoff is amazing.
That’s what people keep saying! I hope they’re easier to work with if they’re alike!
I wish my birthday was on May 29th. haha =) I know I’m going to have to get my hands on a few solar bits!!
Me too, Solar Bits have my name on them!
Ohh, great! Christine, I love you!
I hope they move up the release date (as MAC so often does), since I´m in NYC from MAY 21 to 25. Oh please, please…
Well, Nell… if you are NYC, they will probably have the May 29th stuff out already anyway, since the NYC PRO store usually has stuff out a week early!
Oh really? That would be so great!
That mask sounds right up my alley! And whatever these Solar Bits are…..I want them! 😀
lol, I know, right? Solar Bits… I want!
POWDERS,UGH,nOT FOR ME!!Im not feeling,like, tempting!!
Pigments r making me wna YEAH YEAH!!
zZAINY.
I lovee more pigments!
I love bronzing powder refined golden! And especially in this packaging!
Do you already have it, Susanne?
Will I survive from this summer? There’re so many coming up from MAC. They’re nice though.
I know I’ll be broke as a joke 🙁
Hi Christine,
I’m at my lunch break now (4:00 pm, yeah I know!!) and I’m just all over your blog. I am gonna be so broke this summer. These solar bits look great. I wonder if they’re cheek products…but then there’s a black one, hummm…Either way I know for sure I would want to try them.
Wow, late lunch for sure!
I think they’re for eyes, look like amazing liners!
Im lemming the bronzer powder!!
Love the orange package,,so nice to carry it around during summer time!
i guess i will go for refined golden, as it should go well on my NC20-25skin
Solar bits look so nice too,,but i dont really know how to use pigment lol
stupid me!
I agree that Refined Golden will work nicely for you!
My guess for the solar bits is a new highly pigmented paint pot. The packaging looks glass and are small like the paint pots but have the description more like a pigment. They are also the same price as a pigment. I agree that the model is probably wearing the Black Ore solar bits on her eyes. I’m curious to see what is in the pot, hopefully something will come to light soon.
I think so, too, Andrea!
$19.50USD is $23.50CDN, for everyone out there who’s Canadian..
For the same price as pigments they better last as long LOL
LOL, very true, Crystal!
Are there any pictures of the bronzing powder when the packaging is closed?
Hi Susanne, not that I know of!
I am so excited to see what the solar bits are! I hope they are like pigments…
Me too, Kat! I’m so enchanted by the idea!
I already know I will be buying the Solar Bits, all of them…anything that is metallic, shimmery & intense I love!
Are we bad or what?? We really haven’t the foggiest clue what these really are, but we still want them!! LOL
LOL, I know, right?
Haha, so very true… that’s me too!
I have always loved the bronzer look when it comes out in photos but how do you get that look without looking darker? What would be a good shade?
Hi Kukuroshu! You have to choose something that’s only a shade or two darker than your natural skintone… if you go too dark, that’s when it looks very dark. Also, shimmer may be helpful in reflecting light, too.
Christine, any more word on what those Solar Bits actually are? Are they like Meteorites? That’s the speculation I’ve heard, but it doesn’t look like that to me, honestly.
They’re actually color to go all over your face (!), and I guess they’re sheerer than they look. They’re similar to pigments, maybe gritter… not like Meteorites…
OMG i so want all of this NOW! I just bought EVERYTHING in the Naughty Nautical collection… they need to span released out a little more! My wallet can’t handle it! Im exciting for Solar bits! & that volcanic masks sounds awesome as well! the MA @ my MAC was telling me about another collection called neo something thats a bunch and red adn bright fun colors! any word on that?!
WOW! I’m so jealous, Mary! Yay for you for such a fun haul 😀
It’s called Neo Sci Fi! We have the info on the blog, just search for it!
I am so excited for this new collections!!! I didn’t get too much of the NN because I felt it wasn’t meant for my medium dark skin…just me. Anyway this warm colors are beautiful, I just called my fav MA at my counter at Nordstrom and she said that the Solar Bits are BEAUTIFUL! she said that they are like pigments but they go on more smooth and they are more pigmented and metallic, she said they have never had something like it! She also told me that the Volcanic Thermal mask is AMAZING, it leaves the skin sooooo soft. Keep saving girls, oh..call your counter because a lot of them (like mine) are launching the new stuff on the 21, YOU WANT TO GET YOUR HANDS ON THIS STUFF, TRUST ME!!!!!
So good to hear, paula! I hope you enjoy the new stuff even more!
I heard the mask wasn’t coming out?!