Holy banana-pants, dude. I'm frigging loving MAC's latest addition to the permanent line up at free-standing stores. A mix of new shades, PRO shades and old limited-edition repromote action, it gives us eight vibrant colours to play with - and almost all of them are satins and mattes, score! Sorry these swatches are kind of shabby, but it was middle-of-the-mall-at-night photo or, well, none. I'll do better swatches for you of the few I have soon.

Some of these don't swatch incredibly well, but I imagine they'd apply much more smoothly with a brush. Some shadows I own swatch terribly, but work beautifully when blended out with a brush.

My top three picks from this collection for the average folk? Free to Be, Lucky Green and Winkle. All three are smooth and pigmented, and really quite lovely colours. I personally adore Sunny Spot, too. Beyond that, I'd love to have Atlantic Blue and Sunny Spot, but they don't seem to be as fool-proof as those first three. None of these are skips to me, but I would approach Goldenrod and Red Brick with caution, as they're harder to find everyday uses for, being more unusual colours. Additionally, they're all the trickier for the cool-skinned folks like myself, being so super warm.

Sorry this is a bit slap-dash, but I'm a bit shy on time this week. I'm work 8:30am to 10pm a couple days, eek! (including today) I'll do my best to keep getting stuff out to you all, but if a post goes astray here and there, you'll know why.