Month: March 2020

MAC’s More than Meets the Eye collection is new for Spring 2020.  They’ve added new eyeshadow shades, a dazzleshadow extreme finish and a fiber brow gel to their lineup.  The collection is available for purchase now on the MAC Cosmetics website.

Disclaimer: I was fortunate enough to be sent a package ahead of the official release to try out 4 of the new eyeshadows.  This was not a PR package, it was sent out to customers and I happened to receive one.  The opinions I offer in this post are my own and I did not agree to feature or speak positively about these products.

The colors pictured left to right are Royal Rendezvous (matte), Shady Santa (matte), Carbon (matte), and That’s Showbiz Baby (frost).  The eyeshadows retail for $19.00 in the form you see pictured here and the single refill pan style retails for $8.00.

The traditional MAC eyeshadow formula seems to have fallen out of favor with some consumers over the years and as such we have seen MAC start to tweak some of their formulas.  As newer shades have been released by the brand in limited edition collections, I have noticed they are not as hard-pressed as the old favorites in the line.  Sometimes this goes over fine for me, but other times I do miss the old formula.  I tend to appreciate a dry/hard-pressed, buildable formula rather than a loose very pigmented one.  For example, I would choose a MAC shadow over an Anastasia Beverly Hills or Lorac shadow.