RiRi Hearts MAC Holiday Collection Review

Again, I am late with this but I wanted to finally post the Holiday edition of the RiRi collection with MAC. I wasn’t impressed by the liners, shadows or other products from this collection so I decided to stick with the lipsticks and to try the polish out. I was in line opening day for this collection and was a little shocked to see an actual line when I got to my MAC store. Fortunately there were only like ten people ahead of me but Bad Girl RiRi sold out just before it was my turn to checkout, so I only bought Pleasure Bomb and another RiRi Woo for the pretty packaging. Before leaving I swatched Bad Girl RiRi on my hand and instantly fell in love and decided that I NEEDED it! But since it was sold out and I was tired of stalking websites for it I went ahead and ordered it from Evil-Bay at over double the price *angry glare* But anyway I’m glad I did because I love it! Check out swatches of everything I purchased below.

Glow: The packaging is so pretty, I love the white paired with rose gold! I didn’t photograph myself wearing RiRi Woo because I posted it previously with it’s original release. Let’s jump into the two lipsticks. I’ll start with Pleasure Bomb which is the only color I initially thought I wanted. Pleasure Bomb is a matte fuschia/rose shade, it’s a bit more muted in color than I expected it to be. I definitely like it but it doesn’t necessarily wow me. My favorite is Bad Girl RiRi which surprised me. After swatching the other nude from Rihanna’s Fall collection it made me a bit skeptical about trying this one. I’m so glad I gave it a chance because it’s completely different. What I love most about it is how the color gives off a pinkish/mauve on my skintone. I’ve seen many comparison pics of it and it’s crazy how it looks so different on everyone. I’ve been searching for a brown girl friendly nude lipstick for awhile and this is perfection! I almost hate that I couldn’t have bought a backup of it though.