OK, LADIES!!! I wound up seeing most of Playland today!
The only things that weren't in yet were the two Casual Colors, Young at Heart and Hi Jinx. For Your Amusement was already in.
Wellllll…this was a collection I wasn't feeling particularly desperate about. I just had a bit of a been there, done that feeling about it. However, I have to report that the quality of the lipsticks and glosses are very high and the colors, while not 100% unique, are only similar to colors we haven't had that much of in the first place, and not in the Amplified finish. As pretty and pigmented as the lipsticks are, when you match them with the glosses, they take on an incredible, mega-high gloss shine and a traffic-stopping depth of color, that the gloss or the lipstick on their own can't match.
I wasn't planning on buying much, but it turns out I will go out on a limb and get quite a bit more than planned, but I still think that if you want to be conservative about your spending, you'll be able to hold back, if you don't care about colors like these with plenty of fabulous gloss and shine.
I'll go over everything in another post, but for now, let me just add that Hi-Def Cyan pigment is simply beyond. It is every possible thing an intensely bright cerulean blue pigment should be. It performs spectacularly, even if you want to smudge it on with a darn Q-Tip. It's finely milled and drenched in saturated color. It's easy to apply without fallout. It's staying power is extreme, even without a base or pencil underneath. Mixed with a little of the new yellow pigment, you get an incredible, eye-searing candy apple peacock green (I think you could still get more or less that color if you already have Lilly-White or True Chartreuse though, in a pinch) Not for the faint of heart. It felt so pigmented, I bet I could even get it to show up in my black hair, mixed with some hair gel and then sprayed into place with hair spray. This is exactly what pigments should be. Totally breathtaking product and my honest pick for the best product of the entire collection, strictly basing it on quality.
The yellow pigment is not quite as saturated, but it's very pigmented too. It's a frost just like the green one from FoF, only much more opaque. MAC is going to wind up luring me back into buying pigments again, because these are everything they should be.
ompom:
