What limited edition eyeshadow would you love to see permanent? Share!
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MAC Marvel from Mickey Contractor’s collection. It is the perfect purple for smokey eye.
MAC Elite!!!!!!
Mac Smoke and Diamonds :))
totally 🙂
Agree
Nthing Smoke and Diamonds!
I have Smoke and Diamonds, I think I used it once, and I put it in my pocket cause my daughter was playing with it, forgot about it and when I took it out of my pocket the next day, it was all broken, :(…… I dont know how to save it, can I repress it??
MAC Smoke & Diamonds! What is the shade & finish of Rye?
Mothbrown
i LOVE mothbrown! i use it all the time! good call! xoxo
I agree, MAC Mothbrown!! And MAC Style Snob, both of these!!
MAC’s Firespot! I missed out on that one! 🙁
I second that opinion!
I agree!
I think Urban Decay Jones or X e/s might be close to this shade. HTH!
Neither Jones nor X is anything like MAC’s Firespot. I own all 3.
Hautelook had UD Jones on sale thru today, maybe its still the site.
Urban Decay’s Mushroom! My favorite 🙂
That one is awesome I love the one I have of it but so many people missed out because its only available in 2 huge LE palettes
that’s how I feel about Suspect – it was never available on its own, only in BOS III so a lot of people don’t know how nice it is. I would LOVE to be able to get UD’s Mushroom too but I figure that is beyond impossible, unless they get smart and release it again.
Smoke & Diamonds, Femme Fi, Moth brown.
Agree!
Parrot should bloody well be permanent, as awesome as it is. But personally, I use the DEVIL out of Eyepopping, so I’d love to see that get permed!
Hold the phone that’s not permanent?!?
I lovvvvee parrot and eyepopping!!
Chanel Taupe Gris
mac hypnotizing.
there is no way i’m gonna spend 30 dollars on ebay for it, even though i love it so much.
I totally agree! I’d love MAC Clue too.
you can have mine don’t use anymore!
Smoke & Diamonds!
I’ve been wanting the Kat Von D Memento Mori palette for so long. I gaze longingly at the swatches here at least once a week. I wish it was permanent so I don’t have to pay $50 to the eBay price gougers!
Mac’s firespot and smoke & diamonds.
Oh please please please Odalisque from the Peacocky collection! I missed it and I just absolutely adore the color, texture, and finish!
Mac Seedling eyeshadow.
MAC French Grey!
YES! French Grey
benefit mermaid! also i totally expected you to say femme fi :O
Signed Sealed!
MAC’s Firespot, Smoke and Diamonds, Femme-Fi, Dalliance, Hold My Gaze…etc.!
MAC Grand Entrance
Yes Yes! Oh god yes!!!
MAC 100 strokes,
MAC smoke @ diamonds and all Starflash finish eyeshadows,
MAC Mothbrown
Mac French Grey and Graphology!
Rye, mineralism, innuendo (all MAC)
MAC Grand Entrance, Femme Fi, Smoke & Diamonds, etc.
MAC hypnotising from Love lace collection.
MAC Parrot, Saffron and the Mega Metal Shadows (so gorgeous!).
Mac’s entire peacocky collection should be permanent. All the shadows were pretty andand workable
Remotely Grey
French Grey
Mineral
Time and Space
Cosmic
The entire starflash line. I love the texture.
all the eyeshadows from the Peacocky 🙂
I second that!
MAC Saffron. It would be a good fit in that range. The Mega Metals from Peacocky should be permanent too.
Sweet and Punchy and Firespot
I would love to see “Fashion Groupie” from the love that look-Collection as a permanent collor 😀
It’s a toss up between UD Suspect (only available in the BOS III) and MAC’s Prepped for Glamour. Reading other replies, I have to wonder why MAC doesn’t repromote Moth Brown (which I don’t have) and Smoke & Diamonds (which I do).
MAC Smoke&Diamonds, French Grey, Moth Brown, Grand Entrance and Femme Fi
YES!
MAC Warming Trend please! 🙂
Mac haze eyeshadow. I own it but it’s such a great color everyone should.
femme fi
Birds and Berries from Give Me Liberty of London!
i second that! 😀
as well as strike a pose; either or, they are similar/dupes!
Hi!
I love Mega Meta shadow…… all!!! 🙂
Bye
I just loooved Tweet Me. I really would love if they made Mega Metal Eyeshadows permanent.
I also vote for MAC’s Smoke & Diamonds. I hardly use it, because i’m afraid to loose it. And MAC Next to nothing from the Smoke Signals LE 2007. because it’s so lovely to wear with Satin Taupe.
I have Next To Nothing twice! in Smoke Signals quad and Tempting quad. It is a gorgeous shade, better than Brule
mac grand entrance!
Ones from UD Palettes: Ac/Dc, Mushroom (which is not permanent in a powder shadow form), Rockstar and Loaded
Urban Decay Virgin from the naked palette. Something about the finish actually makes a lovely brow bone colour on my ultra fair skin.
I think MAC shroom is supposed to be a good dupe if you want to check it out 🙂
MAC Goldbit e/s and By Jupiter MES
Agree with Rye, also Mothbrown and Solar White!
MAC puts out fabulous taupes and browns but they are always so limited!!!! It’s such a shame as they would really sell well as permanents.
Femme Fi ftw!
MAC Burmese Beauty from the same name quad, FF
Beautiful cat eyes
All the PEACOCKY shadows!
Mac hypnotizing!
Venomous Villains Vainglorious, I didn’t get the chance to get it and the color looks just gorgeous.
Mac starflash collection, or those awesome metallic shades from peacocky collection!
I agree! The Mega Metals and Starflash eyeshadows are the best ever!
MAC off the page and firespot…I have a thing for oranges 😉
I agree 100% with both of those suggestions!
All the Mega Metal Shadows from the Peacocky Collection! Those were awesome!
Mac et tu, bouquet and channel kaska beige quad
MAC Cloudbound and Up at Dawn from the Pandamonium Quad. Perfect highlight and wash of color shades.
Mac Mothbrown from the Barbie Collection.
PHLOOF! ALL THE WAY! So sad it’s not permanent, it is the perfect highlight color 🙁
Phloof! Is a perm. color.
It is permanent 😀
Urban Decay Virgin – the perfect highlight!
Smoke & Diamonds !!!
Birds & Berries from the Give Me Liberty Of London Collection
MAC’s mineralized duos from the VV collection..they’re look so pretty. Xoxo
I would have to say Sweet Sienna and Night Light Pigments. They came out way before I got into MAC, and they look so pretty from the pictures/swatches I’ve seen!
Ive got night light if ud like a sample 🙂
OMG I have to totally agree with you on Sweet Sienna! I got into eyeshadows way too late and missed that one : (
Nars Rajasthan
I sooooo agree with you. I love that duo! Also, Nars Etrusque. That’s a gorgeous antique gold.
MAC Maleficent!! sooo nice x
UD- Mushroom! (favorite e/s EVER.)
MAC- french grey, clue, mothbrown, night manouvers
i’ll stop there 🙂
It’s gone already but I had the MAC Tease Me palette and I think all the colors in it are permanent-seedy pearl, carbon, some gray color, and the one I liked a lot: parisienne. beautiful purple and its gone 🙁 anybody know of a dupe?HMM??
Dalliance for sures!
MAC Sunday Best!
Phloof, naked lunch, dazzlelight…. NONE OF THEM COMPARE! It makes me sad.
Mac relaxing. I can not find it anywhere and its such a pretty unique color. It looks like it would be easy to dupe but its not.
totally, totally agree. This was probably the first Mac eyeshadow I completely used up, and I didn’t realize it was LE when I bought it. I was devastated to find out I might never be able to get my hands on it again 🙁 Bring it back, MAC!
MAC stormwatch
For me it’s thw Rite of Spring from Mac. I think it is the perfect highlight colour.
MAC Shore Leave…I am scared to use it because I don’t want to run out. The texture and colour are just perfect for me.
MACs Glamour Check. I love it and i’m almost out of it 🙁
Mine are Goldbit, Mothbrown, and Smoke & Diamonds.
The Mac She Who Dares e/s from the Venomous Villains collection. So many friends wanted this but missed out on it…
UD virgin eyeshadow is the most perfect highlight and
MAC Rose Blanc eyeshadow
MAC Poison Pen. perfect purple. perfect formula. It was regular line for a while, but dc’d rather quickly.
MAC Sweet & Punchy. I will cry when I hit pan on that one.
MAC Elite.
MAC Going Bananas! I missed out on that one. 🙁
yep! this is the one for me. 🙁
I’ve been searching and cannot find anything close
MAC Light Ray was my HG highlight and I broke mine! 🙁 🙁
MAC Mega Metal Shadows. Period
Mac femme fi and style snob 🙂
Oooh and gridlock from the first urban decay BOS! Exactally like sidecar but with no glitter!
Mac’s showstopper and buckwheat and signed sealed.
I’d love if they made MAC dalliance & grand entrance permanent!
MAC Starshine Grand Entrance
Urban Decay’s Mushroom for sure! I have it in the Alice in Wonderland palette and i”m afraid i’ll use it all up so i don’t use it often : ( Virgin’s (UD) is awesome too! I’m tan and it looks really great on me too! ummm and even though i’m kind of over Mac I love Modelette ( i have a back up just in case!) and Prepped for Glamour’s beautiful too!
MAC Modelette
MAC Flute.
MAC smoke and diamonds!
However it’s in the “girl next door” travel palette that you can get at airports. Christine…do you have any of the travel palettes or know any information on them? I would love to see a review if you’re thinking of getting one.
Years and years ago MAC had a snake-inspired collection and I got this gorgeous green e/s from there. On a side note they had ridiculously pretty duochrome nail polish as well .
It was the Green Garter e/s from the Snake Eyes collection in 2000. Lovely.
MAC Warming Trend
MAC’s Taupeless and Anti-Establishment as well as UD’s Virgin.
I really love MAC’s Blue Sorcery – particularly the teal part – to me, it’s the perfect blue-teal. Technically I wouldn’t care if they made the shadow itself permanent as if they had something that very same color in the permanent range; the silver foil-esque part of it – I don’t really care for.
In addition, this isn’t technically l/e or discontinued but I really love the turquoise in the too faced liquif-eye palette. It irks me that the shadow is exclusive to the palette, I don’t really want to have dupes of any of the others, and to pay $35 for one small-ish shadow is ridiculous. I’ve tried to find dupes but nothing comes close 🙁
the new laura mercier baked blue eyeshadow is supposed to be a dead on dupe to blue sorcery.
Thank you!:D
Magnetic Fields from Neo Sci-fi, and Style Snob! Love to wear these two with Satin Taupe….
All Mega Metals and Starflash eyeshadows from MAC
Parrot, Solar White, Mothbrown, Aqua and Caviar Dreams from MAC
Mushroom from Alice palete UD
Mac mineralize blush in ‘Nuance’ STUNNING color !!!!
I would like to see all of MAC’s 2007 C Shock Collection become permanent. I loved the eyeshadows such as Bang On Blue, Going Bananas, Eye Popping, Big T, and Wondergrass.
modest tone, rich flesh the perfect nudes!
mac mothbrown
french grey!
I want some old school MAC – Especially Heavenly Bliss eyeshadow. OMG BEST COLOR EVER!!!
MAC has so many amazing LE shadows. Some of these have already been mentioned a few times, but my list would be: Mancatcher (a hundred times!), Wintersky, Illegal Cargo, Fashion Groupie, Talent Pool, Top Hat (most of the Starflash ones, really), Shore Leave, Hypnotizing
I would die to get my hands on MAC Style Snob. It is a truly beautiful color!
All the Mega Metals from Peacocky!!!
Oh and MAC Clone, I used to wear that with Hush l/s in my wild youth.
mac had a mineralize e/s called blue flame, a deep blue with sparkles.. it is amazing. my favourite. and im clinging to it for dear life because its almost finished AND its broken lol.. but its so pretty!
and springtime skipper. i think thats what got me addicted to mac!
MAC Smoke & Diamonds
The MAC Tempting Palette!
Especially the lightest shade, ‘Next to Nothing’… I’m running out and haven’t been able to find a proper replacement yet.
SMOKE AND DIAMONDS !!!!! please maaaac !
Wait til dark needs to be part of the perm collection it is so beautiful and as a brown skin beauty I find it hard to find greens and blues that don’t clash with my red undertones. BUT this one worked awesomely
Mac Smoke and Diamonds as well, please MAC!
The shadows from the Venomous Villains collection! Especially DeVil, if I only could pick one.