[gummybug]

I think the palettes are plastic. I have the cool Viva Glam one, and when I tap the top with my nail it sounds like hard plastic to me. I also just tapped the bottom of it (which looks more like metal than the top) and that's plastic also. Thinner plastic than the top. I was hoping for metal because I love the feel of the packaging of my Patternmaker lip palette a lot.

I really dislike the look of the silver palettes especially. Which is too bad because I could really only wear the cool colors. This whole collection looks cheap to me, save for some of the gold brushes and the VG palettes. The rest looks like poorly painted plastic (not even as cute as a shabby-on-purpose kind of paint job).

The VG palettes are actually cute. A dark vampy maroon red. And I like the size... I think I'll be bringing this with me more often because I won't feel like I'm pulling out a whole makeup arsenal in public.

But packaging aside... the pink lip palette is nothing special at all. Run of the mill pinks you can find anywhere. Red lips has two reds and one gold... the middle red shade looked like a gorgeous pop of bright red in the pan, but it went on very very blue toned. I'm cool so this would normally be a good thing, but it was just too blue here. To the point that it went on pink/fuschia despite looking nicely red in the pan. Coral lips is nice. I didn't try this on because it's not the kinds of shades that are flattering on my complexion, but it seems like the nicest of the lip palettes so that's a good one for you warm toned ladies.

Several of the shades in the cool eye palette are too basic. Matte flat black? Thanks, I've always had one or two in my case since I started wearing makeup at 15... Almost primary purple? Yeah, same. Light pink... *yawn* The light silvery gray is very nice. The navy with a pink cast is the most original shade. Looks great in the pan. I can't wear blues, but great for those who can. And finally, I'd only wear the bright pink as a blush.

The basic brush set in the canister looks and feels great. The eye brush set felt like poor quality to me.

The mineralize eyeshadow duos are near useless to me as a cool toned person. There's one that'd suit me well, Family Silver... but what do I find in this cool silvery gray when I apply it? Yup, chunky super warm bronze glitter. Well thought out, MAC.

The Uppity fluidline is a gorgeous yellow gold. I'd definitely get that if I could wear it, so that one's a keeper for warm people.