MAC Heroine Lip Pencil ($15.00 for 0.05 oz.) is described as a “bright purple.” It’s a magenta purple with a matte finish. I’m not as familiar with lip pencils as I am with other lip products. I don’t have it, but from what I remember, MAC Magenta should be somewhat similar–perhaps a bit purpler, rather than as red as Heroine.  If you know of any potential dupes, feel free to sound off in the comments!

It had excellent color payoff, even in a single pass, and it applied mostly evenly. It was the creamiest of the four pencils released in Fashion Sets, but it’s not my favorite lip pencil formula just because it pulls and drags on the lips. I usually save lip pencils for the end of a swatch session, because they’re rather rough on lips. This was the last shade I swatched from the collection, and it really was creamier than the others. It is a really good match for the lipstick, though, and if I had to say they differed in any way it would be that the pencil pulls redder. MAC’s Lip Pencils wear like iron normally, but they’re uncomfortable and drying over time–underneath a lipstick, I don’t experience these issues, but alone, I can’t wear them without paying for it later.

MAC Heroine Lip Pencil

MAC Heroine Lip Pencil

MAC Heroine Lip Pencil

MAC Heroine Lip Pencil

MAC Heroine Lip Pencil

MAC Heroine Lip Pencil

MAC Heroine Fashion Set

MAC Heroine Fashion Set: Lipstick, Lipglass, Lip Pencil

MAC Heroine Lipglass over Heroine Lipstick over Heroine Lip Pencil

MAC Heroine Lipglass over Heroine Lipstick over Heroine Lip Pencil

MAC Heroine Lipglass over Heroine Lipstick over Heroine Lip Pencil

MAC Heroine Fashion Set