Beauty|| All To Similar?

 I am now the proud owner of the grand total of three MAC lipsticks, although my collection may be small it will be slowly growing as I have a new found love for MAC lipsticks. The one thing about my lipstick collection, is they are all quite similar.

(left to right) Cherish, Taupe, Velvet Teddy

As you can see I played it safe when separating with that precious £15.50 per lipstick, choosing all nude, 'my lips but better' colours. The first lipstick which I picked up was Cherish, I got this ages ago and reviewed it here. As you can see in the pictures it is the lightest, and more orange than the other colours. It is a satin finish, which means that its semi matte and has a slight bit of a sheen. It is a perfect finish for anybody with dry lips because its nowhere near as drying as matte lipsticks. Sometimes I feel like when I wear this lipstick and if I'm going out, my lips don't stand out as much as I would like they can look like they blend in a bit. However I still like wearing this lipstick, especially in the summer and I often wear it when I'm just wearing simple makeup or for a casual day look.

I mentioned this in my MAC Haul, but I bought Taupe when I wanted to get hold of Velvet Teddy but it had been out of stock for ages and I had given up waiting so went in search of a dupe. Taupe was one which was recommended to me and from the swatches I really liked the colour, even though some people had said it was quite brown I thought it was worth a go. Taupe has a matte finish, but isn't drying at all which I was surprised about because you normally expect that from matte lipsticks. The colour is a pinky brown colour, and looks a lot more brown in the bullet than when you actually apply it too your lips. I like this because although it is natural it makes your lips stand out a bit more and if you are looking for something like velvet teddy but slightly darker this one would be perfect for you.

Lastly I have the one and only Velvet Teddy, again you can read the story about how I ended up with taupe and velvet teddy here. But as soon as this came back in stock I knew I had to have this shade, partly because of how hyped it has been but also I honestly did love the look of the colour. Now out of these three lipsticks this is the pinkier one, although its not like a bright pink more of slightly deeper pink but as you can see it is clearly the pinkest of the three. It has a matte finish and is all that its hyped to be, it wasn't exactly what I imagined but I actually love this colour so much.

So there are my three MAC lipsticks, all very similar but at the same time very different! What do you think?

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