MAC Holiday 2008: Passions of Red Collection Eyeshadow Palette Reviews and Swatches

Over the weekend, I attended a preview party for MAC’s upcoming Holiday Collection, Passions Of Red. Read on to see reviews and swatches of some of the products!

Eyeshadow Palettes


Devoted Poppy: 6 Classic Eyes comes with 6 new and limited edition colors. While the two more interesting colors, Fall Deeply and Awaken, look pretty in the pan, they are semi-sheer and slightly chalky. The real winners are Amourously and Sweet Eyes but even with that, you can easily find dupes of them.

• Young Thing – Light creamy peach
• In Awe – Intense black with gold pearl
• Fall Deeply – Frosty bright blue with white pearl
• Amourously – Frosty antique gold
• Sweet Eyes – Shimmery muted golden beige
• Awaken – Frosty light green with golden pearl

Intriguing Scarlet: 6 Warm Eyes too contains 6 new and limited edition colors. It is a nice palette if you are into warm colors. My favorite colors are Real Drama, Warm Suede and Sweet Joy.

• Warm Suede – Frosty antiqued golden olive
• Grand Entrance – Dirty deep green with green pearl
• Real Drama – Dirty burgundy with red pearl
• Gentle Heat – Light muted grey taupe
• Well Spiced – Frosted warm peachy brown
• Sweet Joy – Frosted creamy pale gold

Infatuating Rose: 6 Cool Eyes
This is my favorite palette out of them all and the only one worth getting! Not only are the colors all new and limited edition, they are smooth, decently pigmented and easy to blend. My favorite ones are Platonic, Deep Feelings and Feast.

• Platonic – Frosty greyed perwinkle
• Cavort – Cool dirty lavender orchid
• Satisfy – Slightly shimmery pale ballet pink
• Bon Fete – Frosty neutral mid-tone pink
• Deep Feelings – Dirty deep violet indigo
• Feast – Frosty pink plum

Fascinating Ruby: 6 Smokey Eyes
This palettes comes with two permanent colors, Satin Taupe and Carbon. All the colors go very well with each other and they do make a great palette for smoky eyes. The color that stood out to me the most was Ambiance. It reminded me a lot of Gentle Fume from the Velvet 6: Smoked Eyes that was released with the MAC Holiday 2006 Formal Black Collection, only better. I also really liked Scant and Gorgeous. They are both great highlighting colors with good pigmentation.

• Scant – Creamy white with pink pearl
• Satin Taupe – Taupe brown with silvery bronze shimmer
• Dark Devotion – Black brown
• Gorgeous – Light silver with white pearl
• Ambiance – Cool mid-tone grey with silver sparkle
• Carbon – Intense black

More pics and swatches!


Classic Eyes and Warm Eyes


Cool Eyes and Smokey Eyes

Devoted Poppy: 6 Classic Eyes Palette

Intriguing Scarlet: 6 Warm Eyes Palette


Infatuating Rose: 6 Cool Eyes


Fascinating Ruby: 6 Smokey Eyes Palette

See more previews of the MAC Holiday 2008: Passionately Red Collection and
MAC Holiday 2008: Adoring Carmine Collection!