MAC Paint Pot in Bare Study

Hello everyone!

I have been meaning to do a review on the two MAC paint pots that I have had for a while. The first one that I bought and tried as an eye shadow primer was the MAC paint pot in Bare Study. It is a  very light pink color with tons of shimmer. I have had this for a couple of years and I use it for special occasions because I trust it. Since I really liked the Bare Study paint pot I decided to try another paint pot for those occasions I didn't want all the shimmer because it does get to be a bit much. When I went to my local MAC counter they were sold out of Painterly so I decided to go with Soft Ochre. I will admit that I am not a big fan of the paint pot in Soft Ochre, but I will get to that in my next blog when I review it.

I am thinking that the MAC paint pots vary on how good they are from product to product which I am not a big fan of. I don't like when you buy a product in one color and then you try to buy another color and they turn out to be not as good as the one. You get really excited about it so you want to try out the entire line and it falls flat. It's really disappointing.

Back when I was doing my dicontinued/repackaged series in my blog they still had the paint pots. I just went on the official MAC website and they appear to be renamed and reformulated. That must be a recent development. They are now called MAC Pro Longwear Paint Pots. They do appear to still have Bare Study and Soft Ochre, I think it would be safe to assume that they have been reformulated. As a side note the price also went up by a few dollars.

*Fair Warning: last year when I did my repackaged/renamed/reformulated/discontinued/etc. products they still had the regular paint pots on their website. But it appears the paint pots have been renamed and probably reformulated. The price went up by a few dollars.*

On to the MAC paint pot in Bare Study review.

Rating:

Price: 10/10
Packaging: 10/10
Amount of product: 10/10
Longevity: 10/10
Application: 10/10
Smell: 9/10
Bringing out eye shadows: 9/10
Creasing: 8/10
Different types of lids: 10/10
Overall product rating: 9/10
Would I purchase this again: 10/10
Total rating: 105/110= 95.45%=A

My personal rating: 9.5/10=95%=A

Comments: I don't remember how much I paid for this product, but I want to say somewhere around $17 or $18. My MAC recent has the products listed as numbers and not names so I have no idea. That sounds about right. For the Bare Study quality the price is definitely worth it. The paint pot comes in a glass case. I think it looks cute. I have not had any problems with the product leaking or anything. I think that you get a decent amount of product for the price. The bare study has lasted me a couple of years using it for special occasions. I think that this particular paint pot in Bare Study lasts on my oily lids for about 6 hours if not longer. I have not noticed any major issues with it not lasting a while. The product applies smoothly and evenly on the eye lids. It does have a slight chemically scent to it, but it's not overpowering and will not be noticeable once applied to the eye lids. I think that this product helps to bring out the color of the eye shadows. Some primers seem to dull eye shadows, but I feel this specific product enhances eye shadows, although, I would not wear shimmery eye shadows with this primer because the combination of the two brings a lot of shimmer. I'm not sure how to put it into words, but it does not look very good being used with shimmery eye shadows because it gets to be a bit too much. I don't have smooth eye lids and I feel that this product somewhat smooths out the lines/wrinkles on my eye lids, but not as much as I would like so I had to take a few points off because it leaves a fairly smooth surface to apply eye shadow on. As far as the eye shadow creasing I think that this product does not crease the eye shadow for at least 6 hours. I think that this product works well on my oily lids and because it is so creamy I feel that it would work well on dry eye lids also. I would definitely repurchase the MAC point pot in Bare Study. Now that it is actually advertised by MAC as a pro longwear I will have to when I run out of mine.

Thank you so much for reading. I hope this helps!

Sincerely,
Marina