MAC x Brooke Shields Collection for September 2014
MAC x Brooke Shields Collection for September 2014
M∙A∙C partners with Brooke Shields to create a limited-edition colour collection of shades and finishes chosen by Brooke herself, inspired by her own favourite looks for day and night – easy, modern and beautiful. This limited-edition Beauty Icon collection is made all the more special with Brooke’s signature embossed on light grey packaging with brilliant orange accents.
Lipstick ($22.00 U.S. / $26.00 CDN) (Limited Edition)
- Excite Bright orange-red (Cremesheen)
- Gospel Sheer rich burgundy (Lustre)
Lipglass ($22.00 U.S. / $26.00 CDN) (Limited Edition)
- Artful Soft mid-tone coral
- Knockout Bright orange-red
Veluxe Pearlfusion Shadow Palette ($44.00 U.S. / $53.00 CDN) (Limited Edition)
- Trusted Instinct Beige, taupe, plum, brown, gray
- Mortal Beige, peach, pink-peach, brown, plum
Bronzing Powder ($27.50 U.S. / $33.00 CDN) (Limited Edition)
- Scone Neutral tan
Nail Lacquer ($17.00 U.S. / $19.50 CDN) (Limited Edition)
- Dignity Soft coral (Cream)
- Pricey Deep burgundy (Cream)
Brow Set ($17.00 U.S. / $21.00 CDN) (Permanent)
- Clear Colour-free
Veluxe Brow Liner ($20.00 U.S> / $24.00 CDN) (Permanent)
- Brunette Muted mid-tone grey
Cream Colour Base Duo ($31.00 U.S. / $37.00 CDN) (Limited Edition)
- Cherished Bright coral pink/soft burgundy rose
Gravitas Eyeshadow Palette ($85.00 U.S. / $102.00 CDN) (Limited Edition)
- Pretty Soft golden peachy beige (Satin)
- Soft Brown Soft golden peachy brown (Matte) (Permanent)
- Expensive Pink Pink with duochrome (Veluxe Pearl) (Permanent)
- Clove Mid-tone golden brown (Satin) (Permanent)
- Satin Taupe Taupe with silver shimmer (Permanent)
- Canter Soft neutral gold (Frost)
- Luscious Neutral bronze (Frost)
- Antiqued Ash brown with bronze (Veluxe Pearl) (Permanent)
- Psyche Shimmering golden olive (Frost)
- Carbon Intense black (Matte) (Permanent)
- Shroom Soft beige with shimmer (Satin) (Permanent)
- Persuade Mid-tone cool grey brown (Matte)
- Plummed Shimmering dark plum (Veluxe Pearl)
- Lofty Cool blackened brown (Satin)
- Pepper Dark charcoal (Velvet)
Availability: Online September 25th, 2014; in-stores October 2nd, 2014 (North America), October 2014 at select international locations.
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MAC x Brooke Shields Collection for September 2014
MAC x Brooke Shields Collection for September 2014
MAC x Brooke Shields Collection for September 2014
MAC x Brooke Shields Collection for September 2014
MAC x Brooke Shields Collection for September 2014
MAC x Brooke Shields Collection for September 2014
MAC x Brooke Shields Collection for September 2014
MAC x Brooke Shields Collection for September 2014
MAC x Brooke Shields Collection for September 2014
The Gravitas palette is my dream but it’s so expensive!
It’s actually not a bad price, $5.60 a shadow…originally I believe it was supposed to be $120. For full MAC shadows that is a pretty good deal. It is slightly expensive all at once…but imagine buying them separately…
^^ this!! it’s a great deal.
I was looking forward to swatches 🙁
I wish I could say this looked interesting (I like Brooke) but it looks just bland to me…Sadly not even the package is exciting….Maybe the swatches will convince me but for now it’s a miss for me.
I am excited about the collection, the palette and lipsticks look very promising but I must say, I hate the packaging. That grey just doesn’t excite me and looks kinda, cheap (ouch)..
I kind of like it because it allows the warm tone in this collection to really pop. But grey not a common colour for packing because it reads too industrial to most people.
It looks like the old Prescriptives packaging.
i thought the same!
I think it is industrial but interesting. Already placed on hold at a MAC counter!
Everyone is excited for Rocky Horror… I couldn’t give a rat’s patootie (its this years Rick Baker IMO). I’ve been excited for this one for MONTHS! I will be so sad if it sucks 🙁 Hehe Squee! So excited!!!
Only two brow product for a Brooke Shields collab? Why??
I am really loving that US price for the Gravitas palette… 85 Dollars?! Here in the Netherlands it will be 130 euros, which is about 168 dollars…. Too bad the US website of Mac doesn’t ship to the Netherlands. I really want it if I could get it for 85, but for 168, not so much….
I know right?! It’s so unfair how everything is crazy expensive over here 🙁
Indeed! Especially with Mac, it’s just insane, about double the price on that Gravitas palette. I would love to get it for 85 dollars, even for 100, but I simply refuse to pay double simply because I don’t live in the US….
*Pats shoulder sympathetically* We over here in New Zealand feel your pain! It’ll be the same deal for us.
Which is a shame, because Brooke Shields is awesome.
Oh, I know this feeling all too well. I’m slightly envious every time I see how much make up is in the USA. I’m one of these days going to make a short list just to compare.
Even drugstore brands ar on teh expensive side here.
LOL, I was in the pharmacy just yesterday, and the new Revlon Moisture Stain gloss things have arrived – at $30 each! 😀 Revlon managed to hold it together with the matte and lacquer balms ($18 each), but they’ve jumped the shark on this latest release…
Yep, don’t know what it is with MAC, but their pricing policy outside of the US and Canada is insane! See how much patience I have for this before I give up on the brand and just start leaving my money at multi-brand stores.
I can’t wait to see swatches of the lipstick!
So, the colors that are not marked permanent are LE? Isn’t Antiqued also perm? I am confused why she/they put Mac’s popular perm colors in the palette?
This is a really pretty collection though
I’ve heard so many different price points regarding the Gravitas palette! The one Canadian magazine I read listed it as around $130! I wonder why there is such confusion. Nevertheless, it’s listed on the website (and here) as $102 so I’m thankful for that (although I’m debating purchasing from the US site with that price differential…) Oh the woes of being Canadian
I am definitely getting that palette now, since it includes all the permanent MAC shades I’ve been eyeing (except Rule). Even if the price is fairly high here it will almost certainly cost less than getting those individually.
I actually really love how the products have been photographed for this collection, it looks so chic and tranquil, and really 80s (but the classy 80s not the bad taste 80s).
I need that palette, even though I have some of the colors…
Is it just me or does Brooke look a heck of a lot like Maria Shriver??? Especially in the right hand pic at the top of the page…
Lots of oranges and corals in this collection – SO not my colours. And the eye shadow palette – I already own several of them so even if the price weren’t insultingly inflated for Canada (hello, MAC – where exactly did you get your start and where is your manufacturing facility???), it would be a no-go for me. Passing on this collection but I am happy to see once again a woman who isn’t barely out of her teens as the face of a collection.
It is he first thing I thought when I saw that pic on the right: Why does Brooke look like Mara Shriver?
Maybe MAC is going for 2 looks in one?!
I´m not feeling this collection. Especially the grey and orange packaging is off putting.
I find the lack of more brow products disturbing.
I NEED THAT PALETTE!
I really wanted this eye palette but I already own 7 of the 15 colors. Not sure it’ll be worth it.
I can’t wait to see these swatches
I’m really hoping that the Gravitas palette performs really well!
I can not stand the color of the packaging or the style either. It is awful.
The only thing appealing to me is the cream blush duo. There should be more brow products!
Gorgeous collection! Am I the only one that thinks she looks like a man on the right though?
The eye shadow palette is an amazing value (U.S. price). I only own three of the ones included so I may consider it. Does anyone know if the shadows are removable or is it like those other palettes that came out last year where the shadows are permanent affixed?
I want to know the answer to this too!! It would be amazing if you could switch them out.
Christine, I hope you will be reviewing the eyeshadow palette. I’ve been looking for a good not Naked one for awhile now. Had been hoping for vice 3 til your review.
There’s something fake about the second photo of Brooke Shields on the right. It looks photoshopped or else was resized to narrow her cheeks and nose.
majorly: i noticed that before the m/u. it’s the equivalent of the model with the outrageously skinny arms… makes her look ill or starved + I suspect she’s neither, just soignee + toned. She remains drop dead gorgeous. Does a stand-alone store get a promo/demo prior to release? This MAC release thing tires me out. I get the LE concept, but the reality is fairly insane. Is the thing to do: make a fake cart, save it, then replace that cart with your selections the minute the thing drops? Lovin’ those l/s, though, both.
Photoshop AND Botox, most likely. They don’t let any model over 35 appear unretouched in cosmetic ads.
I was thinking it doesn’t even look like her.
I thought so, too. It’s a shame, since she really doesn’t need it. She’ll be gorgeous no matter how old she gets.
That Gravitas palette is absolutely gorgeous. Wearable, professional colors. I’m glad I decided not to get Vice3 after your review.
I saw this collection when I was in MAC store last Sunday. It is really stunning. The eyeshadow palette is gorgeous, burgundy lipstick beautiful perfect for fall and the bronzing powder really good too. I can’t wait to buy those three.
I think what I love more than the products is the fact that they didn’t photoshop Brooke Shields to look 20 years younger than what she actually is. She gets more and more beautiful with age, and I love that they didn’t try to completely hide her age in their ads.
Love this!! And .. it’s about time Mac recognized an iconic beauty xoxo <3
Monica.
I think I’m going to pick up Gospel sand the blush duo. I love the packaging I think it’s simple and chic it fits Brooke.
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Dispite everything in this collection colour wise i would go for I’m just not feeling (probably because i have alot of products already in these shades.)
I might get the Veluxe Pearlfusion Shadow Palette in Mortal because I haven’t tried anything in this formula yet. Plus it’s all peach tones. *__*
I’m passing on this because of the packaging. I don’t know what possessed them to do gray and orange. It looks like the old Prescriptives stuff.
I’m curious to see how the eyeshadows perform.
I like the product colors. I want the Gravitas palette, but the price: Yikes! I really like how orange pops against gray, but other than that the packaging is kind of boring. I agree there is a lack of brow products. Brooke Shields’ most famous feature should have required more attention.
I’ve been waiting for this ever since I saw pictures of the gravitas palette a few weeks ago.
Frankly, I didn’t give much thought to the prettiness of the packaging as I was concerned with the shades themselves, the only time I found the packaging a bit problematic was when I felt I couldn’t see one eyeshadow shade because of that orange square.
The orange square seems a bit too large, a smaller icon would have worked better, I feel.
Having a complete day and night look in a palette at this price point is an attractive idea but the MAC site states that these are cool shadows which is the only thing worrying me as I prefer warm shades. But I am glad to see so many permanent shadows which are well reviewed, giving more confidence in the quality of the palette, I think it also helps with palette sales at times, although some people (those plush with mac shadows) may avoid a palette of shades they already have.
I wanted to start my MAC collection with one or two 4-pan custom palettes, which are nearly $50, so I think this is good value if I can get even half the shades close to what I would have liked for my custom palettes. Antiqued is one and Soft brown was an option among a few browns. I would have liked Expensive pink and Carbon though I might not have bought them individually.
I’m hoping Clove, Pepper and Luscious and Plummed will perform well.
If that happens, it makes the palette a good value and I might just get away with buying none or one 4-pan with a couple of warm browns and burgundies.
Orange, or any shade thereof, is a warm colour, so why MAC would claim these are cool colours I don’t know. Peach, yellow and gold are also warm. Burgundies are usually cool but some have a rust base which makes them warm. My monitor reads warm so I can’t be sure from the photos. Taupes are cool by definition – if they are warm, they become beiges. It seems to me most so-called experts can’t tell the difference between warm and cool these days. Greys and blacks can be warm or cool depending on the amount of yellow or blue in them. “Trusted Instinct” looks cool, “Mortal” warm. I don’t think the oranges flatter Brooke. She’s stunning but cool colours suit her better. I hope the quality of the pigments is better than the packaging – it really looks cheap to me.
Will Pro discount apply?
Got an email from MAC today, no pro discounts on these 🙁
I can’t fathom the idea of Brooke Shields in bright orange. It looks completely wrong on her. I can’t be the only one that sees it!
I’m looking forward to seeing these swatched. It seems like a nice daytime friendly collection though.
Overall, this seems quite a pretty collection! I’ll have to wait and see if it will be sold in Mexico, but I would like to get a few items, if possible. However, the price increase for packaging always bugs me!
When I see the promo pics, especially the first one, I can’t help thinking about Orange is the New Black show…
I’m tempted to get the big palette. $85 for the palette and 15 shadows is a great deal.
Gravitas Eyeshadow Palette is gorgeous but I’m not sure I can spend $85 on it!!
I am definitely going to get the Gravitas palette. Perfect way to build my MAC eyeshadow collection without spending a ton of money. The $85 is worth it to me because I don’t have any of these colors and I see a few that Ive been wanting
I really love the Gravitas palette, but I already own all of the permanent colors in it- so it would be $85 for essentially 9 shadows… Not really sure it’s worth it, I’ll just have to wait for the swatches to see if anything jumps out at me
The packaging looks like a science fiction dystopia. Which would be cool, if that was what they were going for.
Brooke look so sad in these pictures.
HA HA In Greece we are ages- centuries back… now launched A Novel Romance!
You are not alone 😉 Novell Romance has juuust launched here and they still have Osbourne collection on display (though the lipsticks and Kelly’s powder are sold out) 🙂
Osborne collection will not launched in Greece.
The 15 shadow palette is gorgeous!!
I hope you get these so you can swatch this collection. I like the Graviatas palette, and I think I only have two of the eyeshadows in it. The Veluxe Pearlfusion Shadow Palette’s also look interesting, but with MAC you never know. I also like the Gospel lipstick.
I’m in love with the Gravitas palette!! I might just get some of those permanent colors to fill in the MAC palette I already have, though.
Products look nice, although I am not feeling that matte silver packaging… but what an odd collaboration… aside from selling Lazy-Boy furniture, you haven’t really hear much of relevance from Brooke Shields in many years… Although, I have always liked her… she went to my highschool lol
Oh, the Gravitas palette! I was excited about this but I’m a little put off that it includes so many of MAC’s best selling and permanent shades that I already have. I’m not crazy about the gray color of the packaging either. For some reason, it looks cheap.
I swatched these today if anyone is curious. trusted instinct swatched beautifully but Mortal did not. Skip mortal and get trusted instead.
The cream blushes were a bit on the bright side. Glosses are gorgeous.
All in all, you can skip this collection. There is nothing unique about it but it is very nice.
Christine, do you know if the bronzer is online only? That was the only item Macy’s didn’;t have and manager said it might be online only.
MAC didn’t note that anything was an online exclusive that I can recall, though on some of those types of details, the press releases aren’t the best source of info!
When will this be released in the uk? Its the 25th today and its not on the website.
i just ordered the gravitas palette, I’m so excited.
I adore Brooke Shields! However, of the products I would want in this collection, the colors are not anything I’m particularly lusting after… wish I was more interested in the shades available! Cool collab though, love Brooke forever!
The palette sold out already 🙁
It will be in stores next Thursday right?
When will this collection release on the Nordstrom or Macy’s webiste? And what time do they usually release at?
While some makeup looks alright and svelte in that gray taupe packaging, I can’t over how awful the promo pic is. She looks sordid I’m an orange prison jumpsuit.. It does nothing for me.