the Blackthorn Orphans
  • B L O G
  • The Blackthorn Orphans: read it onsite
  • The Blackthorn Orphans TRANSLATIONS PAGE
  • Lovely R BLOG
  • PHOTOESSAYS
  • SELECTED RAVINGS: essays & opinion
  • RUBYHUE Lipstick Review
  • blackthorn ROSE REVIEW
  • KITCHEN BITCH: Recipes etc.
  • verse
  • Hostile Witness FILM REVIEW
  • ALOES & SUCCULENTS
  • Blackthorn Perfume Review
  • B I O
  • C O N T A C T

RubyHue Lipstick Review: Mac D for Danger (matte)

22/10/2015

 
Picture
MAC mattes still take some beating.  My experiences with both their Retro and just plain recent mattes have been pretty positive and I'd rate the ones I've encountered personally in the nineties out of a possible hundred.  You can count Studded Kiss and Fixed on Drama out of that circle of awesomeness- they are wonderfully complex colours cursed with frustrating technical issues and that really pisses me off.

​MAC D for Danger has a similar intensity to these last two offenders, so I don't understand why they look like a balding concrete driveway after half an hour while the latter is so silky smooth.  The difference must lie in the opaque brown pigments that are problematic in many MAC mattes, given that dirty reds and purples are the primary perpetrators.

Happily, D for Danger is a different beast.  I picked it up pretty blind because I love all things fuchsia and fruity; it's a safe category for me, so why the hell shouldn't I wedge yet another variant into my ridiculously oversized collection in the spirit of sober practicality?  There's plenty of sister-wives waiting to keep it company, as you can probably see from the swatches.  Lol.  Excessive.

Picture
This colour fam isn't for everyone and I can understand the reluctance.  Exhibit A- MAC Fuchsia Lipmix and its ability to hijack an entire bitch's face on a sunny day (see swatches).

D for Danger may be a lot of look but I recommend it to fuchsiaphobes with the assurance that it won't eat the rest of your situation for breakfast.
A shade description is easy.  Double-down fuchsia. Bloodied fuchsia.  A tall glass of fuchsia hit with a single shot of wine.  Like staring into ten fathoms of pure distilled fuchsia in the slanting light of afternoon.  Or if MAC Glam and MAC Diva had a past-term, twelve pound baby.

​It heads in a very slightly coolish direction that's balanced by imposing saturation, so unless you're intensely yellow-warm, you shouldn't have a problem with the tonality.

D for Danger sets itself apart from the monster-pink herd by being both rich and yet somehow sedate, backing off the shrieky brightness that can afflict these sorts of shades, she says, giving MAC Full Fuchsia stink eye.  It's deep and clean and probably as adult as fuchsia can hope to be
Picture
Picture
So for those trying to break a basic habit and get into serious colour, DfD is a good place to start, sharing a relaxed, non-shrill quality with MAC Petit Red, which I praised for its balanced, beyond-25 wearability.  Wear it casual-daytime with a bare face or trick it out with a monochrome eye.

I get a dewy, comfortable off-matte finish, four hours of wear, no bleeding, a decent resistance to a hot lunch and only moderate staining.  It doesn't settle into lines or clump on lip flakes. 
Picture
The closest thing in my collection is possibly MAC Salon Rouge (LE), but like so many swatch half-siblings, they're nowhere close to lip-twins.  Salon Rouge reads a definite rose red, whereas D for Danger pulls far more obviously fuchsia.  MAC Glam (the LE re-released version) is a tonne pinker.  Bite Cranberry High Pigment Pencil isn't a billion miles away but again, it is less blue and more conventionally rosy so the effect is not the same.  D for Danger is even further distant from the other recent MAC mattes like All Fired Up and Flat Out Fabulous so don't worry about their being dupes.  I love the everliving shit out of it.
L2R in neutral outdoor daylight (MAC unless stated)
Russian Red, D for Danger, Petit Red, Bite Cranberry, All Fired Up, Absolute Power, Flat Out Fabulous, Salon Rouge, Glam.
Please do not use these images without permission.
Picture
Picture
< Postscript: when the sun came around the front of the house, I threw a stroke of Mac Fuchsia Lipmix (gold standard true intense fuchsia) and Julia Petit Acai (very close to the generally familiar Rebel) on top to see how much it had in common with those two.

​Not as much as I would have thought.

<  Mac Fuchsia Lipmix, Julia Petit Acai.
Russian Red, D for Danger, Petit Red, Bite Cranberry, All Fired Up, Absolute Power, Flat Out Fabulous, Salon Rouge, Glam.
Above - cool midday shade.  Below - full warm midday sunlight.  I do not use flash.
Picture
I think almost all these shades are looking fairly true to life in the final shot below- moderate neutral outdoor shade.
Russian Red, D for Danger, Petit Red, Bite Cranberry, All Fired Up, Absolute Power, Flat Out Fabulous, Salon Rouge, Glam.
Please do not use these images without permission.  Ta!
Picture

*   More RubyHue Lipstick Review   *  Perfume Review   *   Selected Ravings   *



Comments are closed.

    RSS Feed

    Picture

    Independent Creativity
    Hi-Fi Introversion

    ORIGINAL CONTENT
    HONEST REVIEWS
    VELVETEEN VERBIAGE
    VISUAL LUXURY
    MORBID IDLING
    THE NATURAL WORLD
     
    ​photography  
    film
    flora  fauna  culinary
    ethnography  objet
    ​

    modest living
    ​vintage shit

    A U T H O R
    Picture
    K ✂︎ l l y
    congenital delinquent
    Human Durian
    celebrating
    glorious deviation in the land of
     the long white cloud

    -  New Zealand  -


    - T h e   B o o k -

    Picture
    T H E  
    B L A C K T H O R N
    O R P H A N S


    What is freedom, when it is
    all that remains to you?
    In exile two brothers pursue an anarchist's trajectory,  from an old world into the new, from East to West, subject always to the pleasures & horrors of an enduring flesh, to the ironies of karma & impunity. Love bears thorns, the lost return & the dead are haunted by the living. 
    ​

    E P I C   D A R K   F I C T I O N
    *   R E A D   *
    T H E
    B L A C K T H O R N 
    O R P H A N S
     O N S I T E  

    H e r e



    Picture

    Selected
    ​Ravings

    opinion essays observation private regret public 
    exaltation semicoherent speculation 

    Picture

    Photoessay​

    epic undertakings
    documented

    ​
    Picture

    Hostile Witness FilmReview

    Cruel but fair

    Picture

    RubyHue 
    ​
    Lipstick Review

    Lipstick: love it
    ​

    Picture

    Our Photography​

    we've seen worse
    ​

    Picture

    Port Chalmers​

    Dunedin, New Zealand
    ​

    Picture

    Blackthorn ​
    ​Rose Review

    Garden Hoe Wisdom
    Picture

    Verse​

    Loss, love, truth, beauty everything, everything
    ​
    Picture

    The  Lovely R's Blog​

    Likes photography  Knows a bit about it

    Picture

    We Liked This​

    Amazing things from other people
    ​

    Picture

    Cacti, Aloes
    ​&
     
    Flora​

    Our garden & general vegetal splendours
    ​

    Picture

    KitchenBitch

    Home cooking
    & raw ingredients
    ​
    Picture

    Ethnographic​

    Strange wonderful things from elsewhere
    ​

    Picture

    Jewellery
    ​

    Picture

    Tiny Little 
    Dinosaurs
    - a book for children -


    All images & text property of the authors 
    ​
    unless stated

    © us
    & original sources
    All Rights Reserved



    Picture

    Privacy Policy
    ​This is a noncommercial site.
    No ads. No shady data jacks. 
    No interest in your bizniz.

    ​We don't personally view, utilise or sell your data, apart from occasionally checking totally anonymous + super basic site view stats. We don't even know how to monetise that stuff, so don't worry.  Everyone's privacy is important to us.

    Our platform is probably harvesting your data, though, via their cookies. Look at their privacy page so you can see what they're up to.

    Please use Adblock or something similar.
    ​
    Google et al superimpose ads that we never see a penny from so fuck them.

    Picture

    Archives

    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    September 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013


    Picture

    Categories

    All
    A Thing Of Beauty
    Blackthorn Orphans
    Blackthorn Rose Review
    Cacti & Aloes
    Ethnographica
    Flora
    Hostile Witness Film Reviews
    Jewellery
    Kitchen Bitch
    Make Up Review
    Maximum Respect
    Perfume Reviews
    Photo Du Jour
    Photo Essay
    Places & Things: A Blackthorn Review
    Port Chalmers
    Remembering Dreams
    Roses
    Selected Ravings
    Softcore Rendition
    Sweetmeat
    Textiles
    The Lovely R
    Verse
    We Liked This

    Picture
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.