MAC Beth Ditto Collection Summer 2012 Shade & Smoke Shadow/Liner Swatches and Review

MAC Shade and Smoke Shadow/Liner in Drag, Strip

Smokey navy liner/pale blue shadow (limited edition)

MAC Shade and Smoke Shadow/Liner in Little Miss Moffet
True black liner/true white shadow (limited edition)

Navy greasepaint side of Drag, Strip used as liner.

What I liked:

• Umm.... the names are kinda cool, I guess.

What I didn't like:

• Slanted shadow side is excessively chunky-looking and impossible to blend on the eyelid.
• The shadows had some sort of weird speckled lint all over them ??
• Greasepaint side is weakly colored and doesn't want to stick to the skin. It leaves bald spots no matter how many times I go over the line.
• Neither product is smooth, even or blendable.
• Poor pigmentation and payoff on both the shadow and the greasepaint.

I'm really not sure what I'm supposed to do with these. The shadow end doesn't work as a shadow and the liner end only barely works as a liner. I could neither shade nor smoke with either product. The texture of the shadow looks chunky, chalky and uneven and it's quite uncomfortable to apply to the eyelids. The greasepaint is smoother, but it's not any more even or pigmented. Both of them have a weird sticky yet dry texture and creased badly during the short time that I wore them. The one thing that I have successfully used these for is as a lower lashline shadow base. I lined under my lower lashline with the white slanted side in Little Miss Moffet, blended some of the chalkiness away with a fingertip, and then topped it with a powder shadow. 

As a liner, it's mediocre. As a shadow, it's rather sad. I'd say save your money and just buy a regular eyeliner and eyeshadow. I wouldn't pay $22 for one of these.
 
The MAC/Beth Ditto Collection Shade & Smoke Shadow/Liners are $22 for 0.85 g / 0.03 oz. All four shades (Drag, Strip, Little Miss Moffet, Beth Mask, Beth or Glory) are limited edition.

(This was sent for review.)