MAC Haute Dogs - Posh Pedigree Mineralize Eyeshadow x 4 and Lap Dog Mineralize Glass Swatches & Review

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MAC have been hitting hard and heavy of late with a bunch of new collections hitting counters nationwide, including Haute Dogs on September 7th. I'm obviously a bit late with this review, my youngest is going through a very mischievous, hands on stage and time to myself has been in short supply (and mostly spent sleeping)! Fortunately, this collection is still readily available so there's time to pick up any wishlist items. I have two items to show you today, so let's get stuck into it!

MAC Haute Dogs - Posh Pedigree Mineralize Eyeshadow x 4 and Lap Dog Mineralize Glass Swatches & Review

Haute Dogs is a limited edition canine themed Mineralize collection:

(Wo)man’s best friend is barking up the right tree in a well-groomed collection of new canine-inspired hues from M·A·C, featuring luscious, buttery fur tones, gold-spun sculpting powders, and regal berries for lips.

Posh Pedigree

This is actually my first time trying out MAC's Mineralize eyeshadow formula! I've been a big fan of their Mineralize Skinfinishes for years but hadn't ventured any further into their Mineralize line up until recently. The quad comes in a matte black compact with a decent sized mirror, magnetic closure - and NO dinky applicators! I love that MAC don't muck around with those, mine get passed onto the kids for play makeup (or Patrick tries to eat them).

Swatched on bare skin under daylight bulbs

Posh Pedigree ($118NZD) contains a quartet of mostly cool tones; an ivory with gold shimmer, a cool taupe, a smokey brown and a dark, charcoal hued olive green. They have buildable colour pay off and blend well when applied dry, although I thought they looked quite muddy when I tried wearing them alone; I got cross and started again without taking pictures (bad blogger!). The next time I wore them, pictured below, I layered them over Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy, which is a sticky eyeshadow adhesive that intensifies colour and shimmer. This worked exceptionally well to bring out the colours more. The darkest shade was very stiff to blend over the Epoxy, so I wouldn't try it again with that particular colour, but the others were great.

Lap Dog

If you can't bear the thick, tacky viscosity of MAC's regular lipglasses, you've gotta try the Mineralize Glass. Bearing the same (IMO) great vanilla scent as the bulk of MAC's lip products, the Mineralize Glass formula is thin, lightweight and nonsticky but feels just as cushiony and hydrating as the original Lipglass. I need more of these!

They come in a long tube which is flared like a rather subtle hourglass. The applicator is a paddle shaped sponge which has a slightly concave curve to the breadth of it, helping it to hug the lips as you apply. I find this applicator style prevents you from overapplying, as more of the product is held back than with a traditional doefoot, but this can be a bit annoying as it takes several pulls to pick up enough gloss to apply evenly.

Lap Dog ($58NZD) is a pale light pinky nude with sheer colour pay off. In the tube it has some pretty pink shimmer but this doesn't really translate on the lips, more's the pity - I love some contrasting shimmer! You can see this close up that it settles into lip lines a bit, but I didn't notice it from a normal viewing distance, it's just a lovely milky nude. Lap Dog lasts three hours on me and is hydrating.

What I liked:

Posh Pedigree has buildable colour pay off and blends well (on bare skin or over primer)
Mineralize Eyeshadow x 4 compact has a decent sized mirror and magnetic closure
Mineralize Glass formula is non sticky
Lap Dog wore for three hours
Lap Dog is hydrating

What I didn't like:

Posh Pedigree eyeshadows look muddy when applied alone
Darkest shade from Posh Pedigree was difficult to blend over a sticky base
The Mineralize Glass applicator is shaped so that you need to re-dip several times to get enough product

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