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After about an hour or so of wear the Mulch in my outer V really faded, but it’s still a nice look. Honey Lust is a really pretty color, just wish it didn’t get glitter everywhere.

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I just love it! This also the first time I am posting up a look using Shale. I use Shale a lot, but never seem to post those looks. I’ll have to do it more often

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Sweet, simple, didn’t take a lot of pictures.

MAC Old Gold Pigment
Description: Frosted tarnished gold (Frost, Permanent)

This is a duochrome pigment, and looks either gold or green depending on the angle and light. The base you apply it over can dramatically change the tone, so I decided to swatch over several different paint pots.

My skintone is a MAC NW20 and all photos were taken under “natural light” light bulbs, which mimic natural daylight.

First up is Old Gold applied over Painterly paint pot.

Now Old Gold applied over Artifact, Blackground, Greenstroke, and Delft paint pots.

Blackground and Delft really brought out the green in the pigment, while Artifact enhanced the gold. Always neat to see how paint pots can change a color!

As a side note, the photo of Old Gold on macpro.com looks horrid. It looks like a muted bland pink peach. I have a calibrated monitor for photo editing, so my colors aren’t off… Another reason why I do not go off of the swatch photos on the MAC sites when looking at colors.

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I don’t think the pictures do the look justice

I love Old Gold, I have no idea why I do not use it more often! It’s been just about the only MAC product I went insane trying to get!

MAC Kitschmas Pigment
Description: Light airy shimmering pink/mauve pearl (Frost, permanent)

MAC Milk Pigment
Description: Frosty pale silvery pink (LE: Hello Kitty)

Kitschmas is in the vial on the left, Milk in the full jar on the right.

When comparing them next to each other in natural light, Kitschmas appears to have a more pink tone, while Milk has a more lavender tone. Both have the same frosty & chunky texture.

Swatching Procedure: Both pigments were applied over MAC Painterly paint pot. My skintone is a MAC NW20. Photos were taken under “natural light” lightbulbs, which mimic natural daylight.

Conclusion? I tried hard, I really did! But I couldn’t find a super noticeable difference between the two once applied on my skin. Both look the same frost/glittery pinky-lavender shade to my eye.

So I would safely say that if you have one of these, you do not need both. Milk was a limited edition pigment released in the Hello Kitty collection February 2009. Kitschmas is part of MAC’s permanent collection, and has been part of many collections (my vial is from this past winter’s Mischief Makers “Cool Capers” pigment set). It will be part of the upcoming (and highly controversial) Rodarte collection, launching early this fall.

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It still amazes me how very little pigment it takes when you use it. I’ll never make a dent in any of mine!

So when I saw this combination posted up as a FOTD on specktra.net I had to try it. It’s almost like a neutral look, but still has some color – blue!

I have NO idea what was up with my concealer today… it applied all chunky. So I had to wipe it all off. Not sure if it was due to my brush being uber dirty (today was brush washing day luckily), or if I just sucked at applying it today. So my undereye area looks like poo, just ignore it

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I think I could even wear this to work!! Yay!

this was my first time using Birds & Berries as well, even though I’ve had it since March