MAC A Tartan Tale: 6 Beauties Play It Cool Eye Shadows Review and Swatches

Try as hard as I might not to get sucked into MAC's holiday kits, inevitably I end up buying one or two (or three). This year my first cave was the 6  Beauties Play It Cool eye palette. Truthfully I scooped this up mainly for one shade, Hold My Gaze, which is an interesting blend of grey, gold and green.

This year, the eye and lip palettes come in small compacts covered in tartan flannel with a gold tone MAC crest on top. The packaging is quite cute, but the sets seem smaller than in years past.



Left to right: Silverwear (F), Hold My Gaze (F), To the Ball (S)

Altered Sate (VXP), Magic Moor (VXP), Heather Belles (S)

Swatch photo taken in natural light, no flash, NC 40 skin.



Left to right: Silverwear (F), Hold My Gaze (F), To the Ball (S)

Altered Sate (VXP), Magic Moor (VXP), Heather Belles (S)

MAC 6 Beauties Play It Cool

Silverwear (F) - a very light, frosty slightly silvered white. Fairly stark.

Hold My Gaze (F) - an interesting green tinged grey with a golden sparkle laced throughout. It puzzles me why this shade is listed as a frost, because it's a velvet (matte with sparkle) or satin if anything.

To the Ball (S) - a pretty mid toned mauvey grey, more matte than satin in my opinion.

Altered State (VXP) - a deep purple shimmer with a slightly black base. Good colour payoff and creamy texture.

Magic Moor (VXP) - a warm, purplely black. My favourite shade in the palette besides Hold My Gaze. Would make a killer smokey eye for any hazel or green toned eyes.

Heather Belles - a matte charcoal with a tiny amount of shimmer. Mediocre colour payoff on this one.

General Comments

A good palette with some interesting, not dupeable shades (Hold My Gaze, Magic Moor). Definitely on the cool side, but not so cool that it excludes any skintones. This would be a great palette for those smokey, dramatic holiday looks. It could do double duty as a daytime palette if you avoided dark contouring. Generally a good buy - my one complaint besides the shrinking amount of shadow is the tiny, useless brush included. Personally I would prefer more product and no brush.

Anyone else pick this up?

J