Within my vast assortment of MAC lipsticks, there are a reliable few that I always come back to. One of them being All Fired Up. This intense fuschia hue stands out something fierce, and the retro matte formula imparts a smooth and opaque finish that I just can't get enough of. Retro Mattes are actually one of my favorite MAC lipstick formulations. Not super drying or a hassle to apply, awesome color payoff, and feels amazingly comfortable on the lips. Pretty long wearing, too.  Next time you find yourself at a MAC counter, I highly suggest checking out All Fired Up. It's a lipstick that packs a huge punch in all aspects. No joke! It's a huge favorite of mines, and I hope it becomes a favorite for you too. At THE ICONIC we do our best to provide you with accurate information about product ingredients, based on information provided to us by our Suppliers. For the most complete and up-to-date information, please refer to the product packaging. Over all, I LOVE IT! The quality of MAC lipsticks is what attracts me towards them the most. These are well made and do not break off from the bullet or cause reactions or vanish from your lips after a couple of hours. And thats why i think they are a great investment. I do know that not everyone's life revolves around lipstick but I'm a shallow bitch so let's just embrace yet another MAC review, because it's happened, you're reading it and that's something we're both going to have to deal with. Retro Matte Collection. I've been breathing heavily at the screen for some time now waiting for these shades to wing their way from the USA courtesy of Shezza, my ever-resourceful lippy pimp and forsooth, they have arrived. I really wanted All Fired Up due to my fuchsia problem (I can even spell it nowdays) but flip-flopped about Fixed On Drama because I didn't know if I absolutely required another vintage-y dirty red. But let's cut to the chase and take a look at them, shall we? All Fired Up is a very matte (think Ruby Woo) rich, intense fuchsia with decent if not perfect colour payoff and not a chance in hell of migration or bleeding. It is warmer than Full Fuchsia or GAT as you can see below, much warmer than Show Orchid or Magenta lip pencil, and thusly more universally flattering. Colour-wise, anyway- a word of warning here about the total on-face effect; not everyone's going to be able to pull off this sort of super flat, almost cartoon/graphic look. It looks cute swatched, but keep that look at meeee effect in mind when dumping the whole range in your cart. Like I said, very, very matte. Do I like the formula? Yes and no. Pigmentation is typically off the scale but I feel MAC should have addressed the extreme dryness issue by now. Sticks like Party Parrot aren't this texturally murderous, after all. I'm glad to own it because it's almost everything I wanted Party Parrot to be, and under something like Full Fuchsia, All Fired Up will be a truly all-day pink-bomb. It gets my overall seal of approval. Fixed On Drama I wasn't sure about initially. Chromatically, it's less ashy and dead on my very pigmented lips than on the back of my hand, but it's not exactly what I was expecting. Beside it, Sin and Diva look positively lurid but there is something about this shade that's slowly growing on me as I check the mirror for the 156th time. It has a muted, almost coffee-bean aspect that makes it more reserved than its vampier cousins; Fixed On Drama is cooler, more platonic than a lot of them. I think the term I'm looking for is 'grown up'. It's great with red hair and pumps up the green in my eyes. It's even quite possibly safe for work unless you're labouring under some blanket anti-glamour fatwa. On the downside, I'm not crazy about its pigmentation, which is an odd thing to say about a matte; it's a little thinner than All Fired Up- this means you can push the colour around and bunch it up, and it's a dry mofo, that's for sure. I don't regret its acquisition since I really didn't have anything like it after all. *EDIT- after a few months of struggling with this shade I can affirm that it is indeed a difficult bitch- drying and patchy. The colour's pretty unique though, and that's the only reason I'm persisting with it. So there's no unqualified love for these Retro Mattes; they're going to be too much for some who've been sucked in by the purdy colours. And MAC seems to be yanking our dicks over which ones will stay in the permanent range, so if you see something you like, grab it before it's $60 on bloody Ebay. Is Mac Ruby Woo long lasting?A long-wearing Lipstick formula with intense colour payoff and a completely matte finish. What is a blue red lipstick?So, what exactly is a blue-red lipstick? Simply put, it is a red shade with a blue hue base color. In other words, it is a red lipstick with cool undertones. Think of that Marilyn Monroe red lip. There are many shades of red having different base colors to them such as orange, brown, and of course blue. |
