Tuesday, June 24, 2014

MAC Heroine...is it worth the hype?

I am currently obsessing on lip products for the past few weeks. Before leaving Manila, I bought a lot of MAC lipsticks. Panic buying? Well...not really. Okay, let me re-phrase my first line...I am currently obsessed with MAC lippies. HA HA HA :)) 

Anyways, I bought the MAC Heroine before leaving Manila. Pearl from the Sassyfabshop had it on-hand. She is one of my trusted online sellers in the Philippines. All of her items are authentic and most are cheaper than the ones malls. 


Ever since Heroine became a permanent shade, everyone got all crazy about it. It was a limited edition shade before. Everybody in the US were going crazy about this lipstick shade. I had to get one to see if it was something I'd wear. 

To explain why I bought this shade, I have been a fan of Shaaanxo from YouTube and I love how she wears her lipsticks. Shaaanxo is not American by the way. She lives in New Zealand. She doesn't mind wearing bold shades of lipsticks and I find the colors wearable for her. If you put it this way, like if you wear a pale lilac lipstick and you make it work with your makeup, it becomes wearable. That made me buy the heroine shade.


So the formulation of the lipstick is a matte. Mattes aren't easily glide-on formulations. I have to wear a lip balm to hydrate my lips first so that my lips won't look chappy. 


That is how the lipstick looks on me. Up close, it looks really purple and I think the shade works for my skin tone.


That is how it looks like with full make up ensemble. To be honest, this look reminds me so much of Lorde, the singer. The one who sang Royals. Anyway, you know that Lorde had a tie-up with MAC Cosmetics and they released a limited edition lipstick called Pure Heroine and a black eyeliner. I think pure heroine is a darker version of heroine. 

I find the lipstick shade wearable when you incorporate it with the right makeup. I would wear it but not on a daily basis. It's definitely not a MLBB shade. HA HA HA 
I like how rich the pigment is. The only downside I can think of is the application of the color. 


PROS
- I like the pigmentation
- It's a wearable kind of shade

CONS
- hard to apply 
- price is steep 
- you can buy a drugstore dupe for this shade at 1/4 the price

Product Rundown

Product name: MAC Heroine
Type: Matte Lipstick
Price: 
MAC Counter Price
$16 USA
PHP 1,000 Philippines
RM 72 Malaysia
Online Seller Price
PHP 850 to PHP 950
Where to buy: MAC Counters/MAC Website/Legitimate Online Sellers
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 

Disclaimer:
Products mentioned above were purchased by me. I am not sponsored by MAC Cosmetics nor am I paid to do this review. 

2 comments:

  1. Great review - I have been hearing so much about this. By the way, Shaaanxo is a New Zealander, not Australian - same as me!

    Lena :)
    www.lenatalksbeauty.com

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    1. Hi Lena, thank you :) yeah! I totally forgot she was from New Zealand because it got in my head that she was promoting about chi chi cosmetics (from Australia) hahaha :) anyways thank you for correcting me and let me edit that! Hahaha :)

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