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Sneak Peek: MAC Style Maven Face Kit Photos & Swatches

MAC Style Maven Face Kit
MAC Style Maven Face Kit

As promised, here’s a quick peek at the new, limited editoin MAC Style Maven Face Kit ($49.50 for 0.43 oz.), which includes six eyeshadows, two blushes, and two lipsticks. It’s a cooler-toned, more purple-based palette.

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MAC Style Maven Face Kit
MAC Style Maven Face Kit

MAC Style Maven Face Kit
MAC Style Maven Face Kit

MAC Girls Do Blush Blush
MAC Girls Do Blush Blush

MAC Girls Do Blush Blush
MAC Girls Do Blush Blush

MAC Shy One Blush
MAC Shy One Blush

MAC Shy One Blush
MAC Shy One Blush

MAC Vivacious Vacuum Cleaner Bag Eyeshadow
MAC Vivacious Vacuum Cleaner Bag Eyeshadow

MAC Vivacious Vacuum Cleaner Bag Eyeshadow
MAC Vivacious Vacuum Cleaner Bag Eyeshadow

MAC Malt Eyeshadow
MAC Malt Eyeshadow

MAC Malt Eyeshadow
MAC Malt Eyeshadow

MAC Nearing Dark Eyeshadow
MAC Nearing Dark Eyeshadow

MAC Nearing Dark Eyeshadow
MAC Nearing Dark Eyeshadow

MAC Performance Art Eyeshadow
MAC Performance Art Eyeshadow

MAC Performance Art Eyeshadow
MAC Performance Art Eyeshadow

MAC Shadowy Lady Eyeshadow
MAC Shadowy Lady Eyeshadow

MAC Shadowy Lady Eyeshadow
MAC Shadowy Lady Eyeshadow

MAC Sweet Allure Eyeshadow
MAC Sweet Allure Eyeshadow

MAC Sweet Allure Eyeshadow
MAC Sweet Allure Eyeshadow

MAC Naked Dream Lipstick
MAC Naked Dream Lipstick

MAC Naked Dream Lipstick
MAC Naked Dream Lipstick

MAC Girl About Town Lipstick
MAC Girl About Town Lipstick

MAC Girl About Town Lipstick
MAC Girl About Town Lipstick

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Kuávsui Avatar

You’re probably swamped in helpful suggestions and tips but this palette reminded me a little of Sleek MakeUP’s Eye & Cheek Palettes, of which there are currently four (pretty interesting) colour variations! I have the nude/neutral one (Dancing Till Dusk) and I love it but would love to read your review too if you ever get around to them 🙂

Nancy T Avatar

Eeeks!!! What happened to Vivacious Vacuum Cleaner Bag??? And the other eyeshadows as well? My gosh, they ruined them! And I had been secretly hoping to nab VVCB if it ever got released again, because I didn’t grab it the first time around!

Mesa Avatar

Seeing swatches of those darker shadows remind me of why I seem avoid MAC most of the time. I just can’t get behind such a huge brand that has such all-over-the-place quality control.

Maren Avatar

The palette is lovely, but those names “Vivacious Vacuum Cleaner Bag”? Who at MAC is paid to come up with these? Couldn’t help but laugh when I saw that.

Luis Avatar

These palettes look like hot messes. Nothing is as opaque as I would want them to be. What’s up with the lipstick looking so luminous. Girl About Town isn’t that sheer and luminous. These palettes are just weird.

Katherine T. Avatar

The shadows look embarrassingly horrible, I think a few will score D or F rating. C’mon MAC, are you tone-deaf to all of our pleas to stop issuing so many mediocre or bad collections ???

Johanna Avatar

What is the point of this palette?? That swatch of Girl about Town looks nothing like the original, which is a lovely, quality shade! The eyeshadow swatches are just atrocious… MAC has the most inconsistent quality across collections, I don’t understand it at all.

Shelley Avatar

This palette screams;”El cheapo!!!” As if MAC just shoved a bunch of colors together in 5 minutes and sent it off to manufacturing to mass produce. Not impressed.

Lulle Avatar

Wow, the eyeshadows are a big fail… I think Shadowy Lady (and Carbon) exemplify what you were saying a few days ago about MAC eyeshadow formula needing a reformulation (especially the ones they use in palettes). I mean, seriously, how dare they sell that?

Genevieve Avatar

Oh dear – those eye shadows look terrible in the swatch – very dry and patchy. Besides, the colours are ordinary – let’s face it Colour Pop does them better (And Milani). So no. The blushes look OK. I think I can predict the ratings on the eyeshadows though……

Kelly Avatar

Ahhh too bad…I don’t like lipsticks in a palette but I really liked the colours in this one and would have considered buying it..until I saw how they swatched. I really wish MAC would reboot themselves as a company and release consistently good products. Not holding my breath though.

Nicole Avatar

The Shadows look awful and Girl about Town look nothing like the Girl about Town in the tube which is a gorgeous pigmented color. Total pass..it looks cheap and like they cut the product somehow to make it lower cost. Thanks for getting these swatches up. I looked at that sale and wanted to buy so much! Fortunately, it would have arrived while I was gone so I really could not. Now, you have all these swatches up. So, I can buy smart! Thank you Christine!

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