Power Hungry

MAC Power Hungry MAC Girls Personality Palette ($39.50 for TBA oz.) is a set warm, light and mid-tone neutrals--there's nothing particularly new or groundbreaking here, but it's a solid neutral palette for someone with fair to medium skin and likes a softer, shimmery look (could easily have used another matte or two!). The palette features a new eyeshadow formula with four finishes--Satin Shine, Smooth Pearl, Foiled Shadow, and Creamy Matte--that are supposed to have a "creamy, silky texture with superior colour payoff" along with a powder highlighter that's described as "lightweight" and has "just the right amount of pearl and pop."

Overall, the formula isn't night and day from the brand's standard powder eyeshadow (and did not seem like they reinvented powder eyeshadow!), but it was noticeably softer, more finely-milled, and the Foiled finishes were denser and very sparkly--almost like an amped up take on their Lustre eyeshadows. The Creamy Matte finish seemed to have more pigmentation and blendability than of the brand's firmer mattes have had. Unfortunately, the quality of each shade varied enough that it was not a slam dunk formulation, but I liked the direction of the formula but would like to see better consistency.

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