I did too. It's like that awful Allglam website, they just stole content from everyone (including me)! Glad that site got shut down. Hope this does too.
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That's what I was thinking of. I have used Avenue quite a bit, and I don't have a BU.
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Wow, this confirms the beauty of it and the mattene finish will be perfect for fall lips. TY for the great swatches.
Nice swatches. I thought from the description it was a fluidline version of Desires and Devices and the color is really close. This is going to be a popular fluidline for me.
Does anyone else think it looks like Bite of an Apple on her? Maybe I better rethink skipping it...
I'm not sure I'm reading this comment right. Maybe I didn't label the pic correctly. Just to be sure. Sweet Sage fluidline on the top, then come avenue and local wares (side by side) then under that are Desires and Devices and Treat Me Nice on the very bottom.
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I misread the label.
Avenue and LW look like the closest dupes.
However, LW looks like what I wanted D&D to look like. (like the outside of the tube) the actual swatch looks more gold than green.
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Oh good. I'm glad I cleared that up.
Did you do overnight? I ordered when the collection went live. I think it was 6 or 7pm Wednesday. I did not get an email shipping confirmation until 8:30pm the next day(Thursday). That is almost a full day later. In fact, I was surprised to see the confirmation this morning since I could have sworn I checked until pretty late last night. I got my box around 11:00AM today (Friday). I think you can't go by those shipping emails especially if its overnight delivery.
I have it and just by eyeing the pans, Bite of an Apple is way more coral.
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Oh good. I'm glad I cleared that up.
Did you do overnight? I ordered when the collection went live. I think it was 6 or 7pm Wednesday. I did not get an email shipping confirmation until 8:30pm the next day(Thursday). That is almost a full day later. In fact, I was surprised to see the confirmation this morning since I could have sworn I checked until pretty late last night. I got my box around 11:00AM today (Friday). I think you can't go by those shipping emails especially if its overnight delivery.
I have it and just by eyeing the pans, Bite of an Apple is way more coral.
I got my shipping notification 3 hours after I received my package.
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Woowww Yazmin!! I love hidden treasure on you I ordered mine last night and looking at your swatches makes me think I might get a back up as well, how did you like the eyeshadow duo u got the one I been thinking about getting but wanted to know someone's opinion who is close to my complexion before getting it
Hidden Treasures is beautiful. I'm so glad I got a backup.
The duo is not particularly unique, but I didn't have another orangey-gold in my collection like Chessa; and while I have plenty of warm browns in my collection, Indie Spirit had enough of a different nuance in it's tone, that I wanted that color as well. I haven't used the duo in any eye looks yet.
Indie Spirit did remind me a little of Brown Script, which I know is more red-toned, but I pulled it out for comparison. They look similar in the pan, but you can see the difference when swatched. It was difficult to get a really good pic to capture the true color of these shadows, but it'll still give you an idea. The only other shadow in my collection that I think may be similar is from my NARS Surabaya duo, which I can't seem to locate right now so I can't say for sure - just recalling from memory.
Without flash
Right: Brown Script, Left: Indie Spirit
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Bite of an Apple's in here, and as icecaramellatte said, it's definitely way more coral than HT.
http://www.temptalia.com/mac-venomous-villains-evil-queen-review-photos-swatches
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That's exactly the reason why I do not post any more swatches, especially before collections are released, in the near future. It's too annoying to deal with intellectual property theft. 
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Not identical just darker/smoker compared to Avenue.
Bite of an Apple was more cooler coral pink tone but with a light hand both would look similar on the skin even with the different finishes. Love to see Bite of an Apple repromoted some day.
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Here is my haul. I just ordered Fashion Nomad and a back of Hidden Treasures, so they are not pictured below.
Swatches (NC50 for reference):
Hidden Treasure
Supercontinental
Eden Rouge, Ready to Roam, Marche' Aux Puces (Chessa/Indie Spirit), Local Wares, Dark Diversion (with flash)
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HT is gorgeous on you. SO is MAP.
I'm still not interested in anything.
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The problem I have with palettes (apart from the fact that I immediately want to depot them) is that there's often one shade that I don't like or that isn't as good as its partner. I like a couple of these shades individually; I may end up getting Swiss Chocolate instead of Indie Spirit, for instance. Not an exact dupe, but a nice alternative.
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Thanks! That will justify the purchase right?

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Finally saw the whole collection yesterday! 
A few quickie thoughts:
Last year, Delectable did not work on me at all - it was too flat and dead looking. This year, the formula feels much creamier and it goes on smoothly and not chalky. Suddenly a color that was pretty blah looks very flattering. I'm getting it this time around. It's like a more mellowed, fall-sy Salute. Very attractive!
Fun Finds had more of the flat, drab effect on me like the light colored mattenes from last year, although it'd probably look better on a more NW person. It's a color/texture that will be awesome on just the right person and kind of a let down if not. I'll stick to my Restrict.
Fashion Nomad is 100% awesome. It's bright but with some very subtle brick undertones that differentiates it from Sail La Vie and other summer oranges. My favorite lippie from the whole collection. Also very smooth even application, which isn't always something you get from mattenes.
Camden Chic was too reminiscent to Legendary and Unknown Pleasures from last year, but the formula is very good - unlike the dark mattenes from the past, it applies very smoothly and evenly - you don't need to baby it onto your lips.
Local Wares: I really like this one better than Avenue. It applies MUCH more smoothly than Avenue, also it's much more opaque in a single pass. If you remember French Quarter greasepaint stick, Local Wares is lighter, but has a very similar type of sparkle - same sparkle colors, but just a bit more finely milled. The sparkle definitely shows up on application if you are winging it out and not just doing a very fine line. I saw Christine gave it an A, and although I'm not into grades, this is a superior fluid line, especially the excellent texture and ease of application.
Eclectic Edge and Ready to Roam are hard for me to decide on. They're very similar to the orange and red glosses from Hey Sailor!, just a tiny bit less brassy, opaque and dense. Also a teeny tiny touch less bright. Ready to Roam, in particular, looks gorgeous in the tube. At first I was thinking, oh these are too similar to Hey Sailor to bother, but there is one particular factor that may make me wind up getting one or both: unlike the Hey Sailor ones, these actually blot down really well, without leaving a crumbly sensation, so you can wear them gently as a subtle gloss, rather than va-va-voom or nothing, like the HS ones. Meanwhile, Restless is very pretty and less typical, but it looked a bit dowdy on me...I don't do well with a lot of brick red lip colors. I think it would pop fantastically on NW people, also I think it would be awesome on a wide variety of Asian skin tones.
More musings later! 
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I love both of these colors, but the payoff on both these shadows sounds awful. The duo with Star Myth is gorgeous, but looks like half of the the Call me Bubbles quad and I don't need dupes. I ended up ordering Marche Au Pauces (spelling?) because it looked unique and good fall colors with good pigmentation and texture.
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OK, more musings 
I just read Temptalia's reviews of Marche aux Puces and On the Hunt and I have to disagree a bit here.
For On the Hunt, Star Myth is just incredible - I thought I had a small enough amount on my brush that it would go on sheer and lightly...WOW I was wrong. This one is so pigmented, so buttery and soft and smooth, with a mega metallic finish that is still super smooth and forgiving of skin texture. It's very blendable and I had zero fallout during or after application, without anything underneath but moisturizer that had been fully absorbed. Raving Mad was phenomenal too - it went on a tiny touch lighter in color than I expected from the pan, but it certainly did not need any special tricks or packing on. Not only did it go on smoothly, it had just the right ratio of stiffness and softness for my taste, so you can get a really excellent crisp contour, cut crease or wing out of it - the texture lets you place it very precisely, rather than just going on too softly and all-over-the-place diffuse. Finally, omg the staying power was remarkable - I had no base on underneath and I honestly could not get Raving Mad off without remover - I wore it all day and even went to an outdoor concert in the evening and it stayed on through everything without any fading or losing the crisp contouring I'd done with it. LOVE IT. I wasn't too sure I was going to go for any of the duos, but this one is a no brainer and a definite buy for me.
Marche aux Puces performed exactly the same as On the Hunt, as far as the textures and blending ability goes, though I didn't get to wear it all day. I'd say the shades are a bit more common than On the Hunt, if you can only pick one or the other, but these two were the best MAC duos I've seen this whole year.
P.S. I used 242 and 252 for these. I think a 224 would be nice for a softer veil of the frosted colors.
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Finally saw the whole collection yesterday! 
A few quickie thoughts:
Last year, Delectable did not work on me at all - it was too flat and dead looking. This year, the formula feels much creamier and it goes on smoothly and not chalky. Suddenly a color that was pretty blah looks very flattering. I'm getting it this time around. It's like a more mellowed, fall-sy Salute. Very attractive!
Fun Finds had more of the flat, drab effect on me like the light colored mattenes from last year, although it'd probably look better on a more NW person. It's a color/texture that will be awesome on just the right person and kind of a let down if not. I'll stick to my Restrict.
Fashion Nomad is 100% awesome. It's bright but with some very subtle brick undertones that differentiates it from Sail La Vie and other summer oranges. My favorite lippie from the whole collection. Also very smooth even application, which isn't always something you get from mattenes.
Camden Chic was too reminiscent to Legendary and Unknown Pleasures from last year, but the formula is very good - unlike the dark mattenes from the past, it applies very smoothly and evenly - you don't need to baby it onto your lips.
Local Wares: I really like this one better than Avenue. It applies MUCH more smoothly than Avenue, also it's much more opaque in a single pass. If you remember French Quarter greasepaint stick, Local Wares is lighter, but has a very similar type of sparkle - same sparkle colors, but just a bit more finely milled. The sparkle definitely shows up on application if you are winging it out and not just doing a very fine line. I saw Christine gave it an A, and although I'm not into grades, this is a superior fluid line, especially the excellent texture and ease of application.
Eclectic Edge and Ready to Roam are hard for me to decide on. They're very similar to the orange and red glosses from Hey Sailor!, just a tiny bit less brassy, opaque and dense. Also a teeny tiny touch less bright. Ready to Roam, in particular, looks gorgeous in the tube. At first I was thinking, oh these are too similar to Hey Sailor to bother, but there is one particular factor that may make me wind up getting one or both: unlike the Hey Sailor ones, these actually blot down really well, without leaving a crumbly sensation, so you can wear them gently as a subtle gloss, rather than va-va-voom or nothing, like the HS ones. Meanwhile, Restless is very pretty and less typical, but it looked a bit dowdy on me...I don't do well with a lot of brick red lip colors. I think it would pop fantastically on NW people, also I think it would be awesome on a wide variety of Asian skin tones.
More musings later! 
ok, bying local wares now. LOL
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