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MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick Review, Photos, Swatches

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MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick
MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick

MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick

MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick ($14.50 for 0.10 oz.) is described as a “warm terracotta-plum with pearl,” and it has a lustre finish. Lustre finishes have sheerer color coverage, and it is definitely true with Viva Glam VI. This is a very easy to wear color, because it’s incredibly neutral–not just in the color itself, which is a rosy terracotta, but it”s not too warm or cool. Like many of the other shades in the Viva Glam family, it is wearable across skin tones.

It wears just under three hours on me (I typically average four), and I find that lustre finished lipsticks are not moisturizing.   I also find that this particular finish doesn’t always apply evenly.  It is vanilla-scented, like other MAC lip products are, and the tube has metallic red detailing in the logo and inside the tube in the spirit of Viva Glam. 100% of the selling price of each Viva Glam lipstick goes towards the MAC AIDS Fund.

MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick
MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick

MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick
MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick

MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick
MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick

MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick
MAC Viva Glam VI Lipstick

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Carrie Ann Avatar
Carrie Ann

This is one of my favorites. I have a light skintone w/ warm undertones, and I find this lipstick very flattering & easy to wear. It’s funny that you don’t find the lustre finishes very moisturizing because my lips tend to be dry and MAC’s lustre finish is my favorite. It feels very comfortable, almost glossy on my lips and doesn’t dry them out. I never have to wear lip balm under a lustre finish lipstick.

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Kelly C.

This is an everyday color for me, I love it! I get really nice color, but then again my lips are a lot more pigmented than yours. While lustres might not be moisturizing, I like then a heck of a lot better than creamsheens, which just slide around everywhere.

Mars Avatar
Mars

This & Viva Glam V are 2 of my favorite lipsticks that MAC makes. I can make it be any color I want depending on what lipliner I put underneath. I’ve worn it with everything from Vino to Cherry to Chicory & it always looks amazing.

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Fadya Syarmeen

This one is one of my HG lipsticks surprisingly! 🙂 I love how wearable it is on my NC30/NC35 complexion. Great enough to be an everyday go-to-lipstick for me. Lustres are my favorite and the one that I have currently is very moisturizing and it sits comfortably on my lips too 🙂

Leticia Avatar
Leticia

This was the first MAC lipstick I got and still one of my favorites! I also love the fact that it’s a Viva Glam, so I’m sure I will repurchase it.

Marissa B Avatar
Marissa B

Too bad it doesn’t look more like it does in the tube, because I’d wear that color in a heartbeat. Swatched it’s just “meh”, oh well, it’s not like I really “need” another lipstick…

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Alexis

This is one of my favorite lipsticks. It does not look that sheer on me at all. it is a very nicely pigmented plum color on me. I love it and although I agree about the lustre finish lipsticks, this one isn’t that drying (maybe I got a good one of the batch). Maybe it looks different on me because I am also light with warm undertones.

Sabrina Avatar
Sabrina

Its really strange that people dont find lustres moisturizing. I mean if you look at the ingredients there is nothing that should be drying…. actually the opposite.

Neha Avatar
Neha

I love MAC Viva Glam Cyndi, luckily my Nordstrom had plenty of it available last week.. I bought 4 of them, but seriously MAC shd make permanent.

Andrea Avatar
Andrea

Hi Christine. I asked this on another post but I’m not sure you saw it. I’ve noticed that at lot of my lipsticks, my MAC cream colour bases and Illamasqua liquid metals seem to be “sweating” (despite it not being that hot in the UK!). Is this normal? Will they be OK if I leave them like that?

Thanks!

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