MAC Shy Girl Lipstick Review, Photos, Swatches

Christine — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:00:49 +0000

MAC Shy Girl Lipstick

MAC Shy Girl Lipstick

MAC Shy Girl Lipstick ($14.50 for 0.10 oz.) is described as a “creamy neutral coral beige” and has a Cremesheen finish. It’s a soft beige peach with a hint of pink. I’d say it’s coral in the very vaguest kind of way. It’s not really peach, nor is it beige, so coral may be the easiest way to describe it, but it doesn’t have quite enough pink in it for it to be a real coral-like shade. There is a soft white shimmer and reflective sheen to the finish. It’s one of MAC’s top-selling shades, and I can see why; the color isn’t too warm, so it should easily flatter a range of skin tones. MAC Gotta Dash is brighter, lighter. YSL Tender Peach is more opaque and peachier, while YSL Peach Passion is pinker and more opaque. Illamasqua Brink is brighter, more orange. MAC Fashion City is more orange.

The Cremesheen finish is supposed to yield full color coverage with a “soft and supple shine.” The color coverage is mostly opaque, though you can see a hint of my lip freckle peeking through. It applies evenly and fairly easily, though I find Cremesheens to be drier than they are creamy. I wouldn’t describe the texture as dry, but it does catch occasionally on the lip when I pull the angled tip across. There are a lot of shades with this finish that I think are gorgeous, but this finish is noticeably drying on my lips–not the worst and certainly not like a really dry matte finish, but it is drying. My lips always feel worse-for-the-wear after wearing one. Shy Girl wears three and half hours on me. MAC lipsticks are vanilla-scented.