MAC Moons of Jupiter Full Face Kit Review, Photos, Swatches
Moons of Jupiter
MAC Moons of Jupiter Full Face Kit ($40.00 for 0.33 oz.) includes two Cream Colour Bases and one Sculpting Powder. The Cream Colour Base formula is supposed to have sheer, buildable coverage with a dewy finish that lasts for “eight hours on face and body” and has “lasting wear for hours on eyes. I tend to prefer Cream Colour Bases on cheeks for better wear and application, but for use on eyes, they’re best used as an all-over wash of color or on the brow bone to add shine. Both of the Cream Colour Bases in the palette were easy to blend out and had a dewy finish with buildable coverage, but the Sculpting Powder was incredibly difficult to blend out.
Moons of Jupiter
LELimited Edition. $40.00.
Ganymede
Ganymede is a golden bronze with warm undertones and a pearly sheen. It had semi-sheer, buildable coverage–up to semi-opaque opacity–with a creamy, lightly emollient consistency with a touch of tackiness. It applied well to bare skin, though on my complexion is was more like a highlighting bronzer than adding a lot of color. On fairer complexions, this might add more noticeable color. As a blush, the product stayed on well for seven hours, and on the eyes, it started to crease after six hours of wear.
Top Dupes
- MAC I'll Hold My Breath #1 (LE, ) is less shimmery (95% similar).
- Urban Decay Paranoid (DC, $26.00) is more shimmery, darker, more pigmented (90% similar).
- MAC Semi-Sweet (LE, ) is less shimmery (90% similar).
- ColourPop Santos (LE, $8.00) is more shimmery (90% similar).
- MAC Cheek Pollen (LE, $24.00) is more shimmery, darker, more pigmented (90% similar).
- MAC Cloudy Copper (LE, $31.00) is more shimmery, lighter, warmer (85% similar).
- Laura Mercier Seduction (P, $45.00).
- Melt Cosmetics Lynx (P, $22.00).
Ganymede
LELimited Edition. $21.00.
Callisto
Callisto is a medium-dark, reddish copper with warm undertones and fine red and gold pearl. It had sheer, buildable coverage–up to medium opacity–with an emollient, lightly tacky consistency that was easily patted onto cheeks as a blush. It lasted for seven hours as a blush and six hours on the eyes.
Top Dupes
- Surratt Beauty De Cherubique (P, $32.00) is lighter, warmer, less glossy (90% similar).
- Tom Ford Beauty Pink Glow #5 (LE, $60.00) is less glossy (90% similar).
- Tom Ford Beauty Ravish (Discontinued) (DC, $60.00) is less shimmery, more pigmented, less glossy (90% similar).
- MAC Love Thing (P, $29.00) is more shimmery, more pigmented, less glossy (90% similar).
- NARS Realm of the Senses #2 (LE, $30.00) is less shimmery, darker, more pigmented (90% similar).
- NYX Apricot (P, $15.00) is less glossy (90% similar).
- NARS Deep Orgasm (LE, ) is more shimmery, warmer (85% similar).
- KKW Beauty Cherry (PiP, ) is more shimmery, darker, warmer (85% similar).
- Sephora Brick (PiP, ) is less shimmery, darker, warmer (85% similar).
- NARS Kuala Lumpur II (PiP, $19.00) is less shimmery, darker, warmer (85% similar).
Callisto
LELimited Edition. $21.00.
Galaxite
Galaxite is a deep, chocolaty brown with a mostly matte finish. It had an intense color payoff, but it was, unfortunately, very dry and stiff to work with; this powder just would not diffuse, blend, or sheer out at all. The only way I could get it to not look like a big smudge on my cheek was to apply the teeniest, tiniest amount using a fan brush and then used my fingertips to blend out. The color did, however, wear for a solid eight hours.
Top Dupes
- MAC Richly Honed (LE, $20.00) is warmer, glossier (85% similar).
- NARS Melina (Contour) (PiP, ) is lighter (90% similar).
- elf Vacay Mood (P, $7.00) is more shimmery, lighter (85% similar).
- Tom Ford Beauty Moss Agate Sculpt (LE, ) is lighter, cooler (80% similar).
- Dior Independent (823) (LE, $48.00) is more shimmery, lighter, cooler (80% similar).
Cream Color Bases are so versatile for me. Either on my cheeks for some gleam and sheen, or on my eyes to anchor and intensify an eyeshadow that is fallout prone. So I do like this one quite a bit for those. However, the contour powder is just a PITA, it sounds like. And because NC37 really isn’t as dark as it may sound, this would even be too dark for me even if the texture of this powder was more usable.
Not a fan of the contour powder’s texture at all!
While I love anything space themed, this will be a pass 🙁
Aww!
The 2 other colors are very pretty (agree with other reader they sound like NARS shadow colors) but wow, how unfortunate about Galaxite. The swatch says it all 🙁
Galaxite was SO hard to work with!
This is a really interesting product and would certainly suit those with darker complexions.
The range does look like it would work on darker skin tones!
Something about those dark matte browns makes them so hard to blend. The worst ones tend to have this dark spot that sits right where it was initially applied and doesn’t budge. When I saw that contour swatch I immediately knew what kind of formula you were dealing with. It’s something awful!
Exactly, Claudia!!
I love the name Ganymede (for the Shakespeare connection, not the astronomical one) and Callisto (didn’t Nars already corner that name for an eyeshadow?) looks really nice but I think I prefer its dupe in MAC Love Thing. That brown powder….no thank you! And I guess I am starting to embrace burgundy eyeshadows somewhat because I thought the 2 smaller pans looked like an interesting eyeshadow duo!
Yay for burgundy eyeshadow, at least 😉
LOVE the astronomy theme 😀 That alone makes me want this.
I wish the insides were better though!
Had hopes for this one, but the powder is waaay too dark and finicky. As I am determined to get TF Ravish and Savage this year, and I’m a newbie to CCB, think I’ll pass. Another offering that makes me sorry I waited too long on that CP set with Santos and New Lowes. Biggest m/u mistake of that year…. hope those cheek shades reappear.