A different 90’s Brown: MAC Bowl Me Over Lipstick
Here’s another review brought to you thanks to my housemate, yay! Sharing is caring. This is a really beautiful red-brown lipstick that she picked up at a MAC Cosmetics counter. I think you will really like this. It’s a nice change of pace from the mass of beige/brown 90’s nudes that are constantly getting talked about. Bowl Me Over is deeper in color and has a brick red undertone. It definitely reminds me a lot of the lipsticks I would find in my mom’s and my friend’s mom’s makeup bags.
Bowl Me Over is listed as a Retro Matte finish. The famous Ruby Woo is also a retro matte. Several people have complaints about this formula, myself included, because of how dry and chalky it is. It’s hard to apply and you have to tug on your lips to get proper color payoff. Thankfully, Bowl Me Over is not like your regular retro mattes from MAC. It feels much more like a cream finish. It’s soft, easy to apply, and does not have the flat look of retro mattes or liquid lipsticks (see the lip swatch).
I love this color, it has a great formula, and I recommend it to anyone who is looking to expand their neutral lipstick collection. It’s a saturated brown-red that works just as well for daytime and nighttime makeup. I also really like how it looked with this hair color.
Have you found any new favorite lip colors from MAC? Share them!
xx Coco
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14 Comments
Bash Harry
16th Jan 2017 - 3:00 pmOh the lipstick looks beautiful on you! I have a few brown-red lipsticks I adore, like MAC Antique Velvet but it's much more brown than red. Bowl Over Me looks like the perfect mix though <3
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TheBeautyMilk
21st Jan 2017 - 12:39 amThank you! Thanks for the rec, I will check out Antique Velvet x
Sara Chergui
16th Jan 2017 - 6:07 pmThis is such a gorgeous shade !
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Jasmin N
16th Jan 2017 - 8:10 pmOh my goodness I need that lipstick in my life asap! Looks so pretty 🙂
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Morgan
17th Jan 2017 - 7:16 amOoh this is a great colour – it's a similar colour family to MAC Chili or Brick-o-la but deeper. I know this is completely at the other end of the scale, but I recently discovered how much I love Girl About Town!
TheBeautyMilk
21st Jan 2017 - 12:45 amI put Girl About Town on my wishlist way back when I first started reading makeup blogs! I ended up getting Impassioned instead because it's similar but warmer. I still love that color though x
Sara PassingFancy
17th Jan 2017 - 11:15 amYou're right, it actually looks much more creamy than regular dry-chalk Retro Matte. However, they seemed to improve formula every once in a while (thank god) and the shade looks amazing on you. You could easily pull it off any time of the day.
TheBeautyMilk
21st Jan 2017 - 12:50 amThank you so much <3
weloveswatches
17th Jan 2017 - 3:50 pmOh my goodness, that is such a stunning shade!!
TheBeautyMilk
21st Jan 2017 - 12:54 amLizz <3 Hope you've been well
The Sunday Girl
17th Jan 2017 - 4:12 pmI really, really love this shade and it is so beautiful with your complexion and hair colour! I might have to use my back 2 MAC empties for this! x
TheBeautyMilk
21st Jan 2017 - 12:54 amYeah 😀
Unknown
6th Feb 2017 - 4:12 pmWhat lip liner did you use?
Ángela González
25th Feb 2017 - 10:14 amI love the brown tones and this is great !! It can´t be prettier 🙂
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