yeah it's going to be rough for me to pass on even one, this time…although I still need to go back and try them all on my lips. I didn't manage to try them all on the other day. At NC15, ll these colors work really well for me…a couple might be on the light side if your skin tone is deep, considering this is a formula that is pretty solidly opaque for most of them. I feel a lot of them will either work or won't work as is, rather than adapt to your natural coloring due to sheerness.
There are a few shades that are very close to some Huggable colors:
Revved Up is very close to Fresh & Frisky (this is the only one I tried so far on my lips that I thought the Huggable was a better match for). There's another that looks close to Out for Passion - Pleasant- but I didn't try that one on yet.
Teen Dream and Go For Girlie are beautiful and bright…very bright, actually. Teen Dream is very much in the Sushi Kiss and Sweet Grenadine sheen supreme department, sort of a cross between the two with a touch more Sweet Grenadine. I love colors like that and it works great in this formula, super saturated with that moist finish. Go For Girlie is also super, it's very much like Betty Bright - a touch pinker, like BB mixed with Flamingo.
Innocent is lighter than Touché and more beige, but I found it very flattering on my skin tone and again, the texture suits the color really well. It won't be for people who don't like a pure nude lip, though, and will look very light on darker skin tones. It's the one that looks the sheerest when swatching on your hand, and on the lips, I felt it looked best on me with an extra layer, but it definitely covers up all the red in my pigmented lips.
Kittenish and Patentpink were everything I was hoping they'd be. Soft but with some brightness but not with those white undertones that can make pastels look chalky. Unlike so many versions of colors like these, they don't go milky or settle unevenly. These (and all the colors) apply super duper evenly - definitely one of the characteristics of this newfangled formula. Not a single shade is patchy, even Sultana. Patchiness is just not a factor here, either with one layer or built up. Both of these colors are in the same level of brightness and lightness, but the lavender comes out quite well in Kittenish. It doesn't read purple, though…it's more pink than Evening Stroll, but it's still got a little of it in there. I didn't like What a Feeling! on me - something about the cast of the color combined with the finish, but Kittenish looked great and I preferred the finish which reads a little more subdued.
Sultana was one I didn't get to try on yet. It looks really brownish in the pencil, but swatched on the hand, it loses that. On the hand, one layer seemed very much on the warm side, but as you built it up, it became more evenly balanced between warm and cool. It's definitely in the purplish plum vampy department, rather than wine or berry, but again, it's not PURPLE, there is some red in the mix. It's as dark as Yung Rapunxel (and it reminded me of it, but it still needs the lip test for that). I need to try it on for sure, but I was just trying on the lighter colors, since I always go from the lightest to the darkest when I try a ton of lippies on. If you have a lot of vampy colors, you will probably have something similar, but not in this unusual finish.
I didn't try Berry Bold yet, but one look at it on my hand and I said "OK good, THAT is a good red for me". It's an orangey red, but it reads RED, not orange. It's not crazy bright like Scarlet Ibis. The Huggable reds didn't flatter me, but I'm betting this one is going to be perfect.
Spontaneous may wind up being a perfect MLBB for me and for many people with more heavily pigmented lips. It's not a flashy as some of the others, but once it gets on my lips, I have a feeling it's going to be "Hello, where have you been all my life". It does not run brown at all! It's cooler than Sultana (as well as being not nearly as dark, of course), but it's got red in there - it won't read bluish. I'm really looking forward to trying it out and won't be surprised if it turns into the sleeper hit that you wind up effortlessly wearing all the time for all sorts of situations. It's going to probably read as more "mature" on pale NWs, though. I'd test it in person if you are NW10 or NW15, because it'll probably go really vampy and maybe aging on a skin tone like that, the way Private Party looked really different on many people. It's not as brown as PP, though, so it will be a little more wearable for the NW crowd. It's a try before you buy if you fit in that category, though.
I have to give Fearless and Hopelessly Devoted a little more careful observation. They're pretty common colors we've seen from MAC a lot (and usually not the ones I gravitate towards, even though they usually look really good with my green eyes - I guess I wore these shades to death for so many years, I rebelled against them). They will drive you Team Fuchsia people silly, though, because even if you have a ton of these shades, I bet you won't have any in this kind of finish. There weren't even any Kissables in this department, so yeah, definitely worth a look.
all in all, the color range here is more youthful than the Huggables and the texture really suits the colors to a T. Like I was saying, it's pretty doubtful I will pass on any of them, although I could possibly see myself skipped Revved Up, since I've got that one in a few other formulas I think work even better (being sheerer) and perhaps HD and F, as I was saying. I'm not quite sure yet about back ups. I think it will be pretty easy to run out - seems like a formula that could be easily run through quickly. The lasting power is good, but I didn't get to test that too well because I had lunch after and wiped my lips off before I ate. I don't mind eating with many types of lipstick, but I really do not like to eat with gloss and these definitely touched that same nerve with me. You can't really blot them down to the point where they feel like they won't mingle with your food.
Teen Dream and Go For Girlie are the ones I'm interested the most and definitely want. I'm ready for that Betty Bright + Flamingo hybrid!
