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MAC Raver Girl Palette, Lipsticks and Lipglasses in Action

October 30th, 2018 by Karen 11 Comments

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Wearing: the MAC Girls Palette in Raver Girl and Lipglass in Bracelets Galore

I’m an NC42, and I’m in my 40s, and the last rave I went to was on New Year’s Eve in 2001 (OMG!), but I still have a thing or two to say about all of the purples in the new MAC Girls Raver Girl Palette, Lipsticks and Lipglasses, which I took for a spin today. Raver Girl is one of three new MAC Girls mini-collections.

First question: What does purple have to do with raves or raving? Is it an influential color among dancing kids? Back in my day (she said, immediately dating herself), it was all about dayglow everything and massive quantities of glitter.

If you’re a young whippersnapper, would you please break it down for me? I’m genuinely intrigued.

I recognize that this could have been user error, because I’m out of practice wearing dark colors in my crease, but I feel like Rave-Cave and Wild Card, the dark purples in the $41 Raver Girl Palette, aren’t easy to blend out. I used a pencil brush to apply both of them in the outer corner and within the crease on my hooded lids to deepen my eyes, and then I feathered the edges with bright purple 120 BPM.

Some parts ended up looking less blended and patchy than others. In the future when I wear this palette — and I will wear it again because I do like it, even with my blending issues with the darker shadows (which, like I said, could just be a matter of me needing to practice) — I’ll stick to using those shades as liners.

It’s weird, but it seems like every time MAC comes out with a new batch of MAC Girls products they change and evolve the formulas, because they get better and better with each new iteration. The last batch of Girls palettes were just messy and kicked up so much powder, but that didn’t happen this time with Raver Girl. I experienced hardly any fallout or messiness from the Raver Girls shadows at all, and the mid-toned and lighter colors were a breeze to blend, which was great!

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The Raver Girl Palette, Lipsticks and Lipglasses

I was worried that the purples in Raver Girl would irritate my sensitive eyes, because my eyes would water all day long when I wore older versions of the Girls Palettes (especially ones with purple), but I mushed and smudged dark purple Wild Card like BAM-BAM-BAM on my upper lash line and had no problems with it. And I REALLY got in there, man.

Bottom line: Raver Girl is good — like really, really good — and if the other two palettes (Smarty Pants and Pretty Punk) are of similar quality, this will be the best batch of MAC Girls yet.

There are also two Raver Girl Lipsticks and two Lipglasses (sold separately from the palette), and I feel silly in all of them except hot pink Bracelets Galore gloss. The others are a tad too frosty and too much on the corpse-y side of purple for me, and I just can’t pull them off. If you have a serious edge to your look, you can probably go there better than I can.

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Lipglass in Deep Set

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Lipstick in Who Wants Kandi
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Don’t ask me why I’m pretending to take a yearbook photo here… The Lipstick is Rave Chic, by the way.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

MAC Raver Girl Palette, Lipsticks and Lipglasses in Action / Originally published October 30th, 2018

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  1. Kelly says

    October 30th, 2018 at 7:48 pm

    That is a gorgeous look on you! Purples really suit you. I wish I could pull off those half as well but these days those plummy colors make me look sallow. I feel much better in neutrals–navy, black and taupe. Thanks for the tips on the UD KL palette. I will try that this week!

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    • Karen says

      October 30th, 2018 at 8:17 pm

      Send me a pic on Insta when you do the liner! I wanna see it. 🙂

      P.S. What are you guys doing for Halloween?

      Reply
      • Kelly says

        October 31st, 2018 at 5:20 am

        Will do! Halloween is just another day for us except that we pass out candy. I’ll wear subtle Halloween colors today but that’s about it. Hope you guys have a lot of fun Trick or Treating!

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      • Kelly says

        October 31st, 2018 at 8:52 am

        Lol! I couldn’t wait to try. It worked great over black liner! Perfect smoky look for Halloween! Sent you a pic on IG. Thanks!

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  2. LindaLibraLoca says

    October 30th, 2018 at 9:55 pm

    I am of your age, so I am at loss what the cool kids do on their raves (ask again in 10 years time, when my daughter starts going), but I thought it was the glittery aspect more than the purple that made it a Raver Girl palette?
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  3. Ruchita says

    October 31st, 2018 at 10:38 am

    Such a pretty look! I really like the bracelets galore gloss. Seems like a very wearable pink shade.

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  4. Miki says

    October 31st, 2018 at 11:36 am

    I don’t know if purple is particularly a raver’s color, I just like purple haha. But ravers are all about color right?! Or being other-worldly LOL. I don’t remember those years any more. The raver girl lippie should suit a raver, or, ahem, me very well though.

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  5. Michele DiCola says

    October 31st, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    I love the purple on you . Gonna get that lipstick ? too !
    My cousin was Sandy too . We Karaoke and she sang “ I got chills their multiplying !”

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  6. Sherry Rooney says

    October 31st, 2018 at 5:24 pm

    I especially love Who Wants Kandi!! It looks great on you!! Now, I want to buy it. So pretty!!

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    • Karen says

      November 1st, 2018 at 7:30 am

      That one has a very ’80s vibe to it, Sherry! It’s so fun. It also layers well underneath pink/hot pink glosses. 🙂

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  7. Joyce says

    November 1st, 2018 at 9:22 pm

    Whoop! The purples look awesome on your Karen! Thanks for the makeup inspo with this palette!

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