Things you do, and don't like about Antiquitease.

[BloodMittens]

How do you like the MES's? How about the palettes? I have all the MES's right now, but the palettes I'm still iffy on. I can only swatch and look at pictures, but so far I haven't heard anything really good about them.

Are the palettes heavy and real metal? Also, how is the consistency of the shadows and lip colors? I'm so un-decided right now D:

[shadowaddict]

I really like the palettes and they are real metal and heavy. I bought all but the cool eyes. I can't pull off pinks very well. I love my face brushes. I think the brushes are better quality than previous sets and they spent less on the bags, cause they are FUGLY. But that's better than nice bags and crappy brushes. I bought the duo shadows because like my name here I love e/s. I think they are good but maybe not great. My daughter loves the Silversmith I got for her. She also loved the metallics palettes so I bought one for each of us. We used to share but she went away to college this year so I'm buying two of a lot of things. Right now I can't remember what else I bought other than some basic stuff I wanted.

[jilliandanica]

I love love love Mi' Lady MES! I may get a backup because the RED is just too awesome and unlike anything that I've seen released. The colors apply pretty sheer but are very buildable and when applied wet looks even more intense. Mi' Lady is great as a blush too. As for the other ones, I passed because I didn't think they were that unique.

I also picked up the Metallic Eyes palette but I think it's going back because after looking at swatches and looking through my collection, I have colors very similar to the ones included. The palette is GORGEOUS though but I don't think it's enough to make me wanna keep it. Also, I don't think the case is real metal. If it is metal, then it's not very hardy. It looks like well painted plastic. The weight is mostly because of the mirror.

The lip palettes are really pretty but I personally don't like them because lip palettes get messy.

As for the brush sets, I initially wanted to get all of them but I figured I might as well invest in the full-size hand made ones instead. More $$ but better quality.

[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.

[Hilly]

Family Silver sucks imho. It's just doesnt show up on me...with or without a base...hmm any suggestions?

[ms.marymac]

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Originally Posted by Hilly

Family Silver sucks imho. It's just doesnt show up on me...with or without a base...hmm any suggestions?

I am pretty fair and had luck with using mixing medium with it. I blended Black Tied on the outer V and crease to make it pop a little more. If you don't have MM, maybe you could try spritzing your brush with Fix+? I definitely had to use UDPP with it. HTH!

[pokiedot]

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Family Silver sucks imho. It's just doesnt show up on me...with or without a base...hmm any suggestions?

I think Family Silver looks gorgeous over Blackground paint pot. Many colors do actually, I am still surprised how much I love this paint pot!

[aziajs]

I like the MES. The thing is that you have to use them wet. They are very blah when you apply them dry but they look like completely different shadows when used wet. Mi' Lady looks incredible wet, especially the red shade. I use Fix+ with them.

I wish MAC would make MES like the Amuse MES. They were so pigmented and smooth. They were perfect.

[gummybug]

I only use the mineralize e/s wet. Even the duo I have from the previous release was better wet.

[iheartcolor]

I saw all the products online and more photos here on Spektra - but in person they were mostly "blah". I purchsed the cool eyes 'cause I need more variation in dark shades (like the blue and brown). The pink and purple don't apply as smoothly as I would like or have experienced in the past. The lighter highlighter shades are really nice. But I will say that "Mi Lady" rocks the house!

And I agree with the lip palettes - bo-ring!

[BunnyBunnyBunny]

EDIT: Okay so I know you guys don't want intense, in-depth reviews like this but... I got in the ZONE!! xD Sooo I'm real sorry if I'm cluttering up your thread, but I got so excited writing about all the products. This is just how I am everyday at MAC working... xD A kid in a candy store.

Antiquitease Colour

Every day I come into work feeling more and more excited over this collection. The lipsticks are pretty nice. Gilty Kiss is a beigey gold. A very nice color. Since it is a lustre, it has a golden pearl to it, but it is very sheer so it allows the pink/red/brown of someone's lips influence the color, making it much more wearable than a gold that was either a matte or satin formula. Her Fancy is a very pretty pink in the tube, but it is a glaze so it goes on super super super sheer. Not a big fan of this lipstick, reminds me intensely of Hue glaze lipstick. Antiquitease is a very unique shade, a gorgeous frosted copper with a bit of coppery red pearl in it. Totally gorgeous. Queen's Sin is my favorite of the bunch, an amazing red with frosty red pearl. Basically Rocking Chick (from Barbie Loves MAC)'s classy sister. Very sophisticated but modern because of the frost. Budding Lust is a very sheer plum. In my opinion Budding Lust is the most wearable lipstick in this collection, since it seems like it can suit almost anyone, since it's not too dark or too light and not too pigmented, so it lets anyone's natural color shine through but tint it a beautiful plum.

The Lipglasses are equally as pretty. Majestic is the perfect compliment to Gilty Kiss, a warm golden with subtle golden shimmer. Also great for warming up cool lipsticks. Trifle is the Lipglass version of Tongue-In-Chic, super pale pink with a pinky-blue opalescence, and with a slightly lower coverage. Gorgeous paired with pale or nude lips. It was included in the collection to go along with most likely Her Fancy, though in my opinion it's prettier without it. Red Romp is definitely my FAVORITE Lipglass in this collection. The perfect glass to go over Queen's Sin, Red Romp is an intense high coverage red with red shimmer. Definitely my favorite Red Lipglass in a long time. Corsette is, I believe, a repromote from Lingerie. A pretty greyish-brown with a bit of golden shimmer. Almost a Lipglass form of Satin Taupe. A very pretty Lipglass, and especially pretty on Budding Lust. I wish included in this collection was a nice intense copper Lipglass to go along with Antiquitease, but Corsette proves to be very nice over it anyway.

Mineralize Eyeshadow duos make an appearance in this collection as well, now with veining like the shadows from Flashtronic. Each is very very sparkley and shimmery metallic powder and give a sheer or medium but buildable color payoff. Silversmith is a pretty light blue and dark blue, veined with silver. At first I wasn't a fan because Silver-Blue is so generic, but it's really grown on me. The two are very very pretty, but they seem pretty unnattractive when you're looking at the visual I must admit. I especially love it with the light blue on the inner lid, then blended into the darker on the outer lid, along with some Contrast and/or Carbon in the crease. Earthly Riches is a dark grey and deep plum duo with a Cranberry-like veining. It's pretty in the pot, but I find it hard to work with. It's hard to make it work, because I feel like it goes on sort of muddy on some skins. I really like it for an intense smokey eye though. This is one that I do not own, but I'm finding that I want it: Engaging. Engaging is a light beigey pink and very yellowy gold with pink veining. The gold is very very vibrant and the pink is a great highlight color. Perfect for a fan of gold, and for proms/formals. Family Silver is FANTASTIC. I love this one. It's a bright white-silver, and a darker grey-silver, and gold veining. The gold veining makes the colors look much warmer and the color payoff is very bright and noticable. I especially like the colors with Rondelle (from Danse, Smoke Signals, and the Metallic Palette 07) and Carbon. A great silvery smokey look. Mi'Lady, many people's favorite including me, is a vibrant purple and bright red duo with silver veining. The colors are sheer enough to be wearable on many people, but they are also very buildable for the intensity that the shadows are in the pot. Mixed together they make this gorgeous red-magenta that is AMAZING. With Cranberry and (of course) carbon, it is beautiful. These Mineralize Eyeshadows are so versatile and large that anyone can enjoy them for a long time and get great use out of them. I would not suggest these shadows for extremely textured lids or some older skins because all the shimmer and metallic sparkles may emphasize the texture. They are sheer enough to add oomph to matte and satin shadows though, which is what I would use on older women.

Pigments are also in this collection. Gold Stroke is a chocolate brown with gold and red pearl. It is very similar to Twinks in my opinion. I have not swatched them next to each other, but seeing one reminds me of the other. I do love Twinks though, so Gold Stroke definitely catches my eye, but at the same time it doesn't feel like something new if you know what I mean. Your Ladyship is a fabulous pigment, a smooth creamy shade with alot of golden microglitter. Beautiful on the eyes, and it would make a gorgeous sheer Lipglass or nail polish. Sweet Sienna is my FAVORITE pigment though, from this collection, and possibly out of all the pigments that have come out this year. It is a dirty grey-brown taupe with grey microglitter. It's like a pigment form of Satin Taupe, but instead of being a frosty metallic, it's a subtle metallic with intense glitter. I LOVE IT. Great for the lid for a smokey eye.

We have a new Fluidline called Uppity, a bright yellow-gold. I would NEVER use this as a top liner like on the visual on myself, and only on a customer if they insisted, but the other day my friend was golding me up for our Gold/Silver Antiquitease Event, and she added a little on the inner corner as liner on the bottom, and it is a fabulous gold. It is so smooth and pigmented. I really need to get it. I'm sure it'd be a perfect base for an intensely gold eye makeup.

I'm not really feeling either of the Nail Lacquers. Vestral White is an opaque, full coverage white which is almost blinding when on. Trashy in my opinion, though I'm sure if worn right it could look beautiful. Gold Veneer is a green-gold that is very metallic. Again, it is just a strange nail color. It would be beautiful as an eyeshadow color, but on the nails I'm just not a fan. The visual girl's nails look really cool, but really gross at the same time.

So basically, I really really like this entire collection, with the exceptions of a few things. Hope you guys found my loooong review thing helpful!! I do own all of the eye palettes from Antiquitease: Royal Assets, so I suppose I'll go over my opinions of them in the near future!

[BloodMittens]

That was really helpful Bunny Thank you!

[MAC_Whore]

Bunny, you sparked my motivation and got me writing......

Mineralize Duos: I am pleased with these. As with all Mineralize shadows. I expect them to perform in a certain manner. A light wash of colour on their own, or a more opaque and intense version over a base or combined with Mixing Medium. All of these are great on their own. Aditionally, all of them (with the exception of Family Silver) give a great, third option when you blend the two together. My fave combos of both shadows blended together are Mi'Lady (you see both the purple and red-gorgeous) and Engaging - it gives you a beautiful bronzey peachy pink.

Mi'Lady. I am especially, deeply in love with Mi'Lady. The purple is amazing and the red is something that a lot of us have been waiting a loooong time for. I love that Mi'Lady actually holds the silver glitter when applied on the eye. That it doesn't just fall off of the brush as you swipe it over the pot. The colours are very complimentary towards each other. I predict Parrot status for this one.

Earthly Riches: So perfect for a subtle smokey eye on it's own and for a deep, smoldering eye if used over Sharkskin Shadestick, Graphito or Artjam Paint or Blackground Paint.

Silversmith: I am a sucker for blues. Esp the cool, smokey based blues, so I love this. Nice colour payoff for both, even without a base, but I still recommend one to ensure the colour lasts.

Family Silver: A nice, subtle "warmer" silver. Nice on the lid. I also like to add a dab of this to the high plain or rounded part of the lid to give the illusion of more shimmer.

Engaging: The pink is a luminous, light reflecting, soft pink. The Bronze is to die for. Combine the two and you have another amazing choice. I want to play around with this as a blusher/highlighter. I think that it may have too large of pigments for this, but I will give it a shot.

Lips

What's not to love about Queen's Sin LS and Red Romps LG? RED!!!! The LS offerings give a wide range choices for all skin types and lip pigmentations when you consider colours and formulas. Her Fancy is on the bottom of my list. A pink, glaze formula, it presents very lightly on me (NW25-med pigmented lips). IMO, it is too light for lightly pigmented lips and I would imagine could run the risk of being too frosty/icy on darker pigmented lips.

The LG are nice. I love Red Romp. Majestic is hot with a subtle brown liner (oak-perhaps?) and a light shimmer lipstick (Gilty Kiss or Gel) for a sexy nude lip. Majestic is also a great one to add over other lipsticks to tone them down.

Corsette did not move me. I will admit that I went to the counter with a bit of a bias though. When MAC starts out the colour descriptions as, "Dirty grey brown...", it doesn't make me want to run to the counter, snatch it up and slather my lips with it. Dirty, grey brown would describe the colour of something a plumber snakes out of a clogged drain.

Trifle is like a million other soft, icy, frosty pinks that MAC has whipped off the assembly line. I would like to see them just put a pink like this in their regular line on the chance that it may discourage them from cranking one out with every other collection, for example: White Magic, Night Affair, etc.

Uppity fluidline is exactly as Bunny says, great as a base, at the tear duct (upper and lower) and addtionally great as a shadow on its own.

Neither of the nail laquers moved me. Overall, MAC really needs to step up their game with nail lacquer colors. I look back at my collection and I have outgrown or become bored of a lot of the colours. I think that is because at lot of the colours carry the same charecteristics. I am losing interest.

I liked the pigments. Gold Stroke is a nice, warm, red pearl-tinged brown with visible grey/silver sparkle. Your Ladyship is golden white that pulls slightly pink on my skin. Good for an all over lid colour or highlight. Sweet Sienna is my fave as it is unlike any other pigments, IMO. It is a grey frosted brown that looks like, IMO a darker, more grey, more shimmery Patina (when applied to my skin tone). This colour will be great to incorporate into smokey eyes just above the crease (to fade into the highlight colour) or perhaps smudged into Feline Kohl Power at the lower lash line.

OK. Done rambling. My husband thinks I have gone crazy and am in here pounding away at the keyboard writing a manifesto. MY MAC MANIFESTO!

[BunnyBunnyBunny]

Awesome MACWhore. I really appreciated your post! =D

[Beauty Mark]

I have Earthly Riches. I find I like the gray better than the purple, though I originally wanted the purple. I think I might end up buying Engaging, even though I have the feeling I could get similar colors in something permanent in MAC or another line.

I really like Red Romp as is, but I adore red lip products. Corsette, I like wearing it with different things but not by itself. It makes me look dead without another color under it.

I'm East Asian and have medium toned skin.

[jillianjiggs]

when it comes to lips, i am boring, so i saw trifle on the website and immediately wanted it.

i headed down to the store and swatched it, and then oyster girl (my only lipglass) beside it. oyster girl was way prettier, less white... i don't know why i always go searching for a replacement for my permanent love of oyster girl!

i got silversmith because i love smokey colours like that, but i am not loving this. i don't have the heart to return it though. maybe i'll swap it one day.

i have been searching for a white nail polish since summer (when it was the 'in' colour - all the celebrities were wearing it!) and now that dark blues are in for fall, i come out sporting vestral white at the end of october. it is very, very white - like putting white out on your nails! but i am happy with it. i am just confused that it's labelled a frost, when it clearly seems to be a cream...

[BloodMittens]

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Originally Posted by jillianjiggs

when it comes to lips, i am boring, so i saw trifle on the website and immediately wanted it.

i headed down to the store and swatched it, and then oyster girl (my only lipglass) beside it. oyster girl was way prettier, less white... i don't know why i always go searching for a replacement for my permanent love of oyster girl!

i got silversmith because i love smokey colours like that, but i am not loving this. i don't have the heart to return it though. maybe i'll swap it one day.

i have been searching for a white nail polish since summer (when it was the 'in' colour - all the celebrities were wearing it!) and now that dark blues are in for fall, i come out sporting vestral white at the end of october. it is very, very white - like putting white out on your nails! but i am happy with it. i am just confused that it's labelled a frost, when it clearly seems to be a cream...

Yeah. My Vestral White is labeled as a cream Hmm...

[jillianjiggs]

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Originally Posted by BloodMittens

Yeah. My Vestral White is labeled as a cream Hmm...

that is so weird! mine and the store tester was labelled frost!

[courters]

I was actually disappointed with the MES. The gold/bronze shade in Engaging came off looking really garish on my skin tone - it was way too pigmented for that color (for me). I thought I would like Earthly Riches, but it looked too dark and kind of muddy on me (NW15). I did end up getting Silversmith, because on a whim my husband swiped the two together across my hand and it was gorgeous.

I'm pretty sure the palettes are metal...either I'm hallucinating or they definitely make a metallic sound when you close them. They also cool down quickly like a metal does...maybe they are plastic with a metal coating??

I thought the eye brush set felt a lot better than some previous years...I actually compared it to the full size they had on display and they felt just as soft.

I was disapointed with the cool eyes palette...the colors were just too bright for me. Also, with the warm eyes, I already had half the colors so I didn't even bother swatching that. I did get smokey eyes and I am quite happy with it, I am trying to expand my gray selections. I know some people are disapointed because it doesn't give a really dark smokey eye, but this is perfect for me since I never do dramatic makeup!

[ledonatella]

The only things I've liked were the MES & pigments, especially Family Silver and Earthly Riches, that one esp. just makes a totally hot smokey eye. The only ones I passed on of those were Mi'lady and Silversmith because I just have no use for those personally. passed on the glosses, lipsticks except for Budding Lust which is nice but not anything spectacualer, don't do reds so didn't care for Queens Sin, but if I did it would've been hot. Only got 1 palette, Smokey Eyes but might go back and get Cool Eyes too. I'm waiting for the Finery bags and Curiositease honestly. And Metal-X will make my credit card cry!

[aziajs]

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Originally Posted by BunnyBunnyBunny

Sweet Sienna is my FAVORITE pigment though, from this collection, and possibly out of all the pigments that have come out this year. It is a dirty grey-brown taupe with grey microglitter. It's like a pigment form of Satin Taupe, but instead of being a frosty metallic, it's a subtle metallic with intense glitter.

This is the only thing I disagree with you on. This pigment is nothing like Satin Taupe. Yesterday I swatched Sweet Sienna, Stila Diamond Lil, Satin Taupe, the taupe shades from Earthly Riches and Family Silver MES duos and another taupe shade. They are all sooo different. Satin Taupe is so much warmer and more brown. I love Sweet Sienna too. The taupe shade from Earthly Riches is a favorite of mine too. It's soooo pretty.

[BunnyBunnyBunny]

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This is the only thing I disagree with you on. This pigment is nothing like Satin Taupe. Yesterday I swatched Sweet Sienna, Stila Diamond Lil, Satin Taupe, the taupe shades from Earthly Riches and Family Silver MES duos and another taupe shade. They are all sooo different. Satin Taupe is so much warmer and more brown. I love Sweet Sienna too. The taupe shade from Earthly Riches is a favorite of mine too. It's soooo pretty.

Thank you for pointing that out! I hadn't swatched them next to each other, it's just what it really really reminds me of whenever I see it. I am SO gonna swatch 'em! =D

[BloodMittens]

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Originally Posted by jillianjiggs

that is so weird! mine and the store tester was labelled frost!

That is really strange. Maybe someone was playing a prank D:

Thanks for all your information everyone as well! I'm going to go by my Macy's counter on Tuesday, since I get paid tomorrow and I'm going to see how these things will measure up myself. I'm so excited like whoa You have no clue!

[BlahWah]

I may just be talking myself out of them b/c I should save my cash, but the MES were disappointing b/c of the fallout, and b/c it looks waaay too glittery on me. Great swatched on the back of my hand, tho! I really wanted to love family silver but at the end of the day, there's a hairline of a difference between them on me.

The only lipstick I HAVE to have is Antiquitease. It's the coppery lippie I've been looking for - rusty but not too orange or red, frosty but not crazy shimmery, easy to stain on or to create a bold lip. I have Fresh Morrocan l/s and Poetique l/g, both of which I love, but they'll be put on the backburner once I get my hands on Antiquitease!

I'm very intrigued by the pigments. I love how complex Sweet Sienna's turning out - it's been so hard to nail down an exact description of it! On me olive tones come forth, but on others it's more taupe-y... I can't wait to try this with different bases.

The polishes disappointed me. As Jillianjiggs posted, the white one looks like white out! I wish they put a bit of gold/silver shimmer into it or something. Gold Veneer... looked too harsh of a gold, if you know what I mean. There wasn't much depth to the colour, and the yellow doesn't look like it'd flatter any tone. A bit too true to the concept, perhaps.

And Uppity fluidline...mmm... I know I won't be able to use it much regularly, but it's exactly what I want to use for Christmas time. I can't wait to play with it.. a bit on the outer corners, next time on the inner, a thin, slightly winged stroke above the lashes with a bold lip...

[Winthrop44]

I really wanted to love the pigments but as usual (for *me*)...too much glitter; same with Family Silver, which was the only MES I tried. I do love Queen's Sin and Antiquitease lipsticks though!