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MAC Nocturnal Instincts and Seductive Intent Mattene Lipsticks Reviews, Photos, Swatches

MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick
MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick

Taste Temptation with Nocturnal Instincts and Seductive Intent

MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick ($15.00 for 0.08 oz.) is described as a “mid-toned greyed lavender.” It’s a pink-lavender with a semi-matte finish. There’s a definite gray tint to it, as it reads cool and a little neutral. It was opaque on the lips. MAC Budding Love is a little pinker. MAC Blooming Lovely is less pink and lighter. MAC I Like It Like That is pinker, more blue-based. MAC Dress It Up is pinker.

MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick ($15.00 for 0.08 oz.) is described as a “vivid purple.” It’s a vibrant magenta purple with strong red undertones and a natural sheen. It had full color coverage when applied. MAC Heroine is just a touch darker. MAC Violetta is darker and has shimmer. I believe MAC Up the Amp is duller, less magenta.

Both shades were fully opaque on the lips, and they had a soft, creamy consistency that enabled great glide during application. They weren’t so creamy that they felt thick or moved around once on the lips. Mattenes tend to be longer-wearing, and Nocturnal Instincts wore well for five hours, while Seductive Intent lasted for six and a half and lightly stained. They are vanilla-scented but have no noticeable taste.

MAC Nocturnal Instincts and Seductive Intent Mattene Lipsticks Reviews, Photos, Swatches

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Pigmentation
9.5
Texture
9.5
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MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick
MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick

MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick
MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick

MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick
MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick

MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick
MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick

MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick
MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick

MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick
MAC Nocturnal Instincts Mattene Lipstick

MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick
MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick

MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick
MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick

MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick
MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick

MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick
MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick

MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick
MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick

MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick
MAC Seductive Intent Mattene Lipstick

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Wenz Avatar

UGH! Im such a sucker for MAC Mattenes…Nocturnal Instincts looks a little too cool for my nc42 coloring.. BUT Seductive intent will be mine!!!

Esme Avatar

You’re right about Up the Amp–it’s a little paler, and definitely less bright, than Seductive Intent. It’s closer to a true purple than to magenta (though it still has a good deal of pink).

Veronica Avatar

Very pretty! If I wasn’t on a lipstick hiatus, I’d be all over Nocturnal Instincts – such a perfect, plummy pink. (This being said, it still baffles me why they just don’t make this finish permanent!)

Erin Avatar

Ugh, sold out on the MAC site already?? Every place I could find said it was going on sale on 12/6. Is that normal for it to go on sale earlier than was advertised?

Kafka Avatar

It’s so funny how these colours are appearing on my new phone (which is throwing colours off for everything, btw). There, the Nocturnal Instincts is a gorgeous soft rose pink that made me sit up. Here, on my laptop, it’s much more cool pink with a mauve undertone! The next lipstick is almost neon magenta-pink-red on the AMOLED phone screen, here it is a more purple-y magenta. I think I preferred the phone versions. I wanted them both.

But forget all that. You’re wearing Kevyn Aucoin’s Natura!!!! From what little I can see just on one cheek, it looks fabulous on you! (On both screens!) A microscopic, almost invisible shimmer — just a glow really. And it blends in almost like a powder, more than a blush! (On me, it shows up a wee, wee bit more, because I’m a bit paler and much more olive/yellow than you.)

Christine Avatar

I might, but I can’t commit to a certain time frame or that I will at all, so I prefer not to get anyone’s hopes up and either not do one or take a long time before one goes up. Let’s just say that I test two or three times as many products I actually have a chance to write about. And I photograph four or five times what I write about, LOL!

Wwendalynne Avatar

Gotcha I thought it might be 😀 It makes your skin look amazing and it also looks like a particularly good and imperceptible match for you too. I have this on order as I had to try it.. crossing my fingers it’s nothing like luminous silk foundation ….

Bea Avatar

When will this collection be available online at Nordstrom or Macy’s? These colors look beautiful on you btw! – I could only get my hands on the Nocturnal Instincts & the Unconventional Blush. (I wasn’t too thrilled with the Passionately Tempted.. so I passed on it.) 🙂

kate Avatar

Beautiful shades! Trying to figure out if I need Nocturnal Instincts, since I already have Blooming Lovely and Up the Amp- which would sort of combine to equal this. Still, these look really amazing.

Pami Avatar

Why wasn’t this post, and the one with the MAC Perky Lipglass in your “Daily Feed” email?
I rushed to purchase all three, but Seductive Intent is sold out 🙁
I’ve been looking forever to find a lighter, slightly pinker version of my favorite Violetta, and this looks like THE ONE! Agggh!

Anyway, I’m still happy I was able to get two out of three, and hoping Seductive Intent will come back in stock.

Pami Avatar

I just read my comment below, and I’m so sorry if it comes off like I’m angry with you Christine. I’m not! Just mystified as to why they weren’t in the emails. So happy, I looked at the blog and found them!!!

Also forgot to add that I think Nocturnal Instincts looks very much like Bobbi Brown’s Lilac 17 Rich Lip Color, which I have and love.

freshpinklips Avatar

Nocturnal Instinct appears to be similar to a MAC permanent lipstick called Faux, described as “muted pinky-mauve” which kind of describes this mattene shade. I have Faux and this is how it looks like on me in pictures.

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