Coral Crazy - Mac Ever Hip & Dupe?

So, maybe painting my bedroom a shade of coral has given everyone a clue that I went a bit crazy for coral this summer (I think I go crazy for coral every summer, but each year it's like a new discovery!)
I've always found coral lips a bit daunting though.  I am so very very pale, this blog is photographic evidence of that, and colours always look very bright on me as a result.  Coral can either look completley orange or too pink but with the rave reviews of Mac Ever Hip with the Liberty Collection last summer, I was determined to get brave about coral and give it a go.

Despite turning up to MAC the day Fashion Flower was launched, Ever Hip was gone!  I became swayed into buying a Sheen Supreme in 'Gotta Dash!', found Ever Hip in a different Mac shop a day later and am now suddenly the owner of 2 coral lip colours...woops!

In pictures however, the 2 lipsticks look like such good dupes for each other I thought I would do a post for anyone who missed out on Ever Hip or was interested in the difference.

(L-R) Gotta Dash! - Ever Hip

Yes that is a glimpse of my coral bedroom in the background!

(Pictured here with flash)



What Mac says:

Gotta Dash -  pale clean coral.  Sheen Supreme combines colour of a lipstick with shine of a lipglass

Ever Hip - Bright creamy coral. 

Main differences:

Ever Hip is a cremesheen texture and finish and Gotta Dash! is a Sheen Supreme, slightly glossier and sheerer but very easy to build the pigment.

Gotta Dash is slightly more orange making Ever Hip a better choice for me.

The packaging though it's hardly worth noting.

Both lipsticks were £13.50

Gotta Dash! is probably the closest Mac has got to Ever Hip in another shade but I have to join the bandwagon and say Ever Hip is pretty hard to dupe.  It is beautiful in that it is a little brighter and less orange based than Gotta Dash and it isn't as full on as something like Mac's Vegas Volt either.

Gotta Dash swatched on the left and Ever Hip beside it.

I am still playing around with both shades at the minute and while I love Ever Hip, I am not ditching Gotta Dash completley.  I like the Sheen Supreme texture and Gotta Dash is easy to sheer out so still a good one for those a bit scared of coral lips.
I would like to do a proper makeup look to accompany this post, but I have had such skin issues recently I have been quite makeup free the past 2 weeks so will have to leave you with this scary picture of me wearing Ever Hip...

Not very flattering and purely for educational purposes!  It does look quite different on my skintone than in pictures I had seen of others wearing it online, but I was still surprised at how much I love it.

I will try and get a picture up of me wearing Gotta Dash to compare this week.  In the meantime, another coral love.  Beautiful bright C and C california vest top bought on Ebay for so cheap..perfect find!

Keeping summer alive with coral until the end of August, rain or shine...

xox