As you can see, I bought 5 of the Extra Dimension eyeshadows and all 3 fluidlines from the collection. I decided to skip the silver, black and burgundy ones because I felt that I either have similar colours or won't wear them anyway. The fluidlines were just too sparkly to leave behind.
The eyeshadows I got are A Natural Flirt, Ready To Party, Stolen Moment, Divine Blue, Stylishly Merry. They are all pretty pastely colours except for Stolen Moment which is a gorgeous taupe. First of all, let me just say, these eyeshadows are absolutely tiny. The eyeshadows originally released in the In Extra Dimension collection were 2 g whereas these are 1.3 g, but the price remained the same (£16.50). Not cool, Mac. They are still bigger and cheaper than the Estee Lauder Gelee Powder eyeshadows which are only 0.9 g for £19.00, so I guess that's something. It's not that you necessarily need 2 g of eyeshadows, but if you reduce the quantity, then reduce the price as well!
Anyway, now that's out of the way, these are actually rather lovely and if you haven't tried the liquid powder hybrid formula, then they're worth checking out. These ones didn't feel as soft as the Estee Lauder ones to me, but I didn't actually re-test the EL ones, so my memory could be tricking me. They're not cream eyeshadows, but they are very smooth and buttery, and even the lighter colours are pretty well pigmented. I wore them over primer (Too Faced Shadow Insurance) and they lasted well all day without fading or creasing. I wore Stylishly Merry in the crease by the way.
I also got all 3 fluidlines: Catch My Eye, Little Black Bow, Feminine Edge. They are all very sparkly, in particular Catch My Eye and Feminine Edge. Little Black Bow is the least unique, it's a dark grey with sparkles, pretty, but not that special. Catch My Eye is a gorgeous sparkly taupe and Feminine Edge is a very shiny, sparkly cool pink.
I've only worn Feminine Edge so far, it was a quite hard to spread smoothly and the line ended up broken with chunky glittery bits rather than a smooth line. I think that shade in particular would work better as cream eyeshadow/base. It stayed on my lids and didn't fade or crease as a liner, but I haven't tried it as cream eyeshadow yet. (EDIT: I've been wearing Catch My Eye as a cream eyeshadow today (Sunday) and it's stayed creaseless and hasn't had any fallout all day.) You get 3 g of fluidline for £15.50 which is definitely a better deal.
So here you go. I will aim to do a post about the look I did with most of the eyeshadows and Feminine Edge fluidline tomorrow and will also review the nail polish you can see in the pictures soon.
In the meantime, see loads more pictures after the jump!
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| A Natural Flirt, Ready To Party, Stolen Moment, Divine Blue, Stylishly Merry Taken with flash |
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| A Natural Flirt, Ready To Party, Stolen Moment, Divine Blue, Stylishly Merry Taken without flash in natural daylight |
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| A Natural Flirt, Ready To Party, Stolen Moment, Divine Blue, Stylishly Merry Taken with flash |
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| A Natural Flirt, Ready To Party, Stolen Moment, Divine Blue, Stylishly Merry Taken without flash in natural daylight |
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| A Natural Flirt, Ready To Party, Stolen Moment, Divine Blue, Stylishly Merry Taken without flash under strong indoor light |
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| Catch My Eye, Little Black Bow, Feminine Edge Taken with flash |
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| Catch My Eye, Little Black Bow, Feminine Edge Taken without flash in natural daylight |
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| Catch My Eye, Little Black Bow, Feminine Edge Taken with flash |
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| Catch My Eye, Little Black Bow, Feminine Edge Taken without flash in natural daylight |
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| Catch My Eye, Little Black Bow, Feminine Edge Taken without flash under strong indoor light |
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| One for the sparkles :) |
I love A Natural Flirt e/s and Catch My Eye Fluidline. However I'm too annoyed with MAC making the e/s smaller to buy it!
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These all look wonderful - I got most of them myself, but, like you, my house is also pretty busy and I haven't had chance to play properly. I have tried the Feminine Edge as a base, and found that I had more fall out than I am happy with, though my seventeen year old DD thinks it is wonderful, and will probably get it - sadly she has a lot more Christmas parties to go to than I!!!
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