MAC Betty Bright Lipstick - Review, Photos, Swatches, FOTD

MAC Lipstick Betty Bright (available here) - $16.50

Beautiful Blonde-Next-Door Betty inspires a limited-edition colour collection with a soft, innocent sexiness.  Lipsticks in peaches and pinks beam bright under layers of Lipglass in girly shades.  Limited-edition packaging features Blonde-Next-Door Betty.

MAC Lipstick - Betty Bright (Archie's Girls Makeup Collection)

MAC lipsticks have been a bit of a hit or miss for me, and Betty Bright lipstick from MAC Archie's Girls Makeup collection is just one such case.  This limited edition shade comes packaged in an all-white Archies-inspired packaging featuring Betty.  MAC describes this satin finish lipstick as a "light vibrant peach."  I find this a bright coral with a hint of pink to it that's more obvious on lip swatches (perhaps because the underlying lip color shows through).

MAC Betty Bright Lipstick - Swatches

MAC Betty Bright is a perfect-for-spring (or summer) sort of bright coral that is refreshingly light yet packs a lot of pigment.  While this color, on its own, doesn't do me any favors, I think it does look good topped with a lipgloss.  What I do have an issue with is the formula of the lipstick itself.  I find that it goes on patchy and really horrible looking, and even the tiniest dry flake just exacerbates the problem.  I have read that exfoliating and using a lip primer helps with this, and I have found filling in the lip with a neutral/nude liplner to be another way to use this lipstick.  I really don't feel I need to put in that much of an effort to make any lipstick work, though, and that's just my personal opinion.  The color can be really pretty on a lot of skin tones and is not one easily found in a drugstore brand, so if you like the color, you might want to give this lipstick a try.  Here's how the lipstick looks on me:

Wearing MAC Betty Bright Lipstick (Archie's Girls Makeup Collection)
I have applied a very light layer of the lipstick and almost patted it into place.
I find that thicker, more opaque layers just exacerbate the patchiness,
but a heavier application does bring out the true coral color of the lipstick.
Again, this might just be an issue I have, so please do give the lipstick a try in store :)

While I am not a huge fan of this lipstick, like I mentioned earlier, I do think the MAC Betty Bright lipstick is a very pretty color and one that would be a perfect pick for spring. The limited edition packaging is something that I quite liked, though I know some people do find the plasticky look a bit tacky (personally, I find the regular MAC packaging boring - and something else, but let's keep that for some other time :P).  For swatches as well as comparisons with similar MAC lipstick shades, I would suggest checking MAC Betty Bright Comparisons and Swatches at Life's Entropy.

MAC Betty Bright Lipstick - Ingredients

MAC Betty Bright Lipstick - Ingredients

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