MAC - Endless Night

Today I have for you 'Endless Night' by MAC . For christmas, I was lucky enough to get a $100 MAC voucher and I was so excited because I've never tried MAC products before. I did a little research and the recurring theme seemed to be that MAC nail polishes can be a little "iffy" in terms of formula. I thought seeing as I had the voucher I might as well form my own opinion. So here it is....

MAC 'Endless Night' is part of the 'Daphne Guinness for MAC' collection for Winter, released in America in December...

 'Endless Night' is a pinky grey with a very fine micro-shimmer that leans very slightly to the purple side of pink. The shimmer is very subtle and seems to just give the polish a slight glow or sheen.

You can see here, when seen indoors without direct light, you tend to lose the shimmer and the polish appears to look more like it has a crème finish. The colour also becomes a little more "nude" without a lot of light hitting it. I found the true colour of this polish in shade really hard to photograph. In reality 'Endless Night' is a little less tan and a little more mauve.



'Endless Night' is a nice polish but I'm not overly inspired by it (hence the slightly shorter and less excited post). I've been wearing colours lately that excite me, that I will catch myself looking at during the day, but this one... not so much. So... nice, that's how I can describe it. I generally really like these sorts of colours - the nudes/beiges etc - as I think that your nails can become a beautiful extension of your hand rather than making a feature of them, so for that purpose this colour is perfect.

As for the formula... I was all ready for it to be a bit of a nuisance to apply. But with a sigh of relief, it was not half as bad as I expected. It was a little streaky and tended to want to pull a wee bit around the cuticle area, but I've learned that these are things that pale polishes are often prone to. This was three coats in order to have an even covering and a decent opacity. I used Essie 'Millionails' for my base and Essie 'Good To Go' as the top coat.

Overall I'm happy with MAC so far. I have two other colours that I got at the same time as 'Endless Night' - they are 'Hyperion' (also from the 'Daphne Guinness' collection) and 'Nightfall', which I will no doubt be showing you at some point soon. I also got a new 'penultimate' liquid eyeliner which, I'm happy to report, I love, but I think as far as reviewing make-up goes I'm definitely not your go-to girl so I'll leave that up to the many fabulous beauty bloggers out there!