This creamy matte lipstick features high colour payoff in a no-shine matte finish. The perfect matte formulation of the iconic product that made MAC famous. X men legends cheat codes. The Bold & Beautiful Orange. Orange lips are not for the faint hearted! But those who have what it.
What’s an unsung makeup hero? For me, it’s an oftentimes underrated makeup morsel, a permanent collection product that scoots under the radar screen of many makeup lovers but regularly rocks my world. The long-running Unsung Heroes series features some of my favorites.
MAC has reached its level of domination throughout the makeup community by providing the MAC lipstick shades in the opacity, finishes, color payoff and formulas that they provide. The most popular of these collections have outlasted a lot of competition simply because they provide the options people want to buy and keep around. MAC Unsung Heroes: Smoked Almond Lipstick / Originally published November 18th, 2019. There are 17 comments on this post. Categories: Lips, MAC. MAC Smoked Almond Lipstick ($18.50 for 0.1 oz.) is a muted, medium-dark coral with warm undertones and a satin sheen. It had semi-opaque pigmentation that applied evenly but separated along my lip lines and emphasized my lip texture as a result.
Mac Smoke Lipstick
Warning: do not attempt to picture an almond hunched in a doorway, puffing away at a cigarette when you think of the words, “smoked almond,” because once you see something like that in your mind’s eye, you’ll wonder 1) what would ever possess an almond to smoke in the first place, and 2) why said almond wouldn’t know that smoking was bad for it.
Mac Cosmetics Smoke Lipstick
Every day for the past week before my shift has started at the bakery, I sit in my car in the parking lot and apply a layer of this beautifully bright rosy brown lipstick on my lips, and every time I do this, I say the same thing to myself in the mirror.
And yet despite its intensity, Smoked Almond isn’t one of those tricky lippies that is SO saturated that it becomes a pain in the bum and you end up needing a PhD in chemistry to apply it. You can still totally do it freehand, straight from the tube, while half-asleep, WITHOUT a lip liner or brushes or a Christmas miracle, for that matter. Smoke Almond’s creamy consistency practically melts onto lips the moment it touches them. No dragging whatsoever. Just a smooooove glide.
My lips tend to dry out and practically shout, “MOAR moisture!” from the rooftops, but Smoked Almond, which has MAC’s Amplified formula, has enough hydration to keep ’em happy all day long.
This is a fantastic everyday/daytime color to keep around if you have many rosy or rosy brown blushes like NARS Amour or Charlotte Tilbury Ecstasy in your collection. It’s also long-wearing and doesn’t move or scoot once you lay down a layer, and it feels lighter than a kitty whisker kiss on your cheek.