Mac Currant Lip Liner

In this post I want to let you guys know of the dupes of some of the MAC lip liners.

I love having lip liners that match my lipsticks as wearing lip liners can help to get a more intense colour, help to define the lip line and it also provides a great base and makes your lipsticks last longer !

MAC lip liners are definitely my favourite & if I could I'd buy all of the colours, but lets be honest, €16 is very expensive for a lip pencil, so I always look out for cheaper alternatives & I've definitely found the perfect DUPE for the MAC lip pencils and these are the Barry M lip liners !

MAC Currant Dupes Here are our dupes for MAC Currant, which is a permanent lip liner that retails for $17.50 and contains 0.05 oz. MAC lip liner and pencils shape, line and fill in lips with creamy colour-true formulas that glide on fluidly with a long-lasting finish. MAC Lip Pencil Currant. Vault Exclusive. MAC Lip Pencil Currant MAC Makeup. Continue shopping Checkout. Checking free shipping eligiblity. Add of eligible items to your order to qualify for FREE Shipping! Your order will be shipped for FREE. You might also like. A collection of my favourite warm toned combinations at the moment, something a bit different to what you might normally combine them with! Brighten up those.

I've first tried the Barry M lip liners when I was looking for a lip liner to match my Candy Yum-Yum lipstick from MAC sometime last year. I think the matching lip liner from MAC was sold out at the time or they just didn't have one, anyways, I was hoping to find something cheaper, so I went into Boots and swatched almost every pink lip liner from every brand that was around and then I found Barry M, they only had around 6-8 shades of the lip liners but the one in #12 was just perfect !

It was identical colour to my Candy Yum-Yum & the texture of the lip liner was literally the same as the lip liners from MAC, they were less than €5 as well so with no hesitation I've bought the Lip liner from Barry M.

Barry M lip liners are described as 'Velvety smooth with a creamy texture, these lip liners are firm enough to draw a precise thin line, yet soft enough to blend in.' & I totally agree with it !

Since I really liked the Barry M #12 lip liner, I decided to pick up more different shades & it turned out some of them were the exact dupes for some of the Lip liners that I've already had from MAC.

The first and definitely my favourite was Barry M liner in shade #3 which is the exact same shade as my favourite liner from MAC called 'Cherry'. Cherry lip liner is the perfect match for my all times favourite lipstick- MAC Ruby Woo, which is also the perfect Red lipstick !

Another shade is Barry M #11 which is a perfect dupe for MAC Nightmoth lip liner.

It is a deep, burgundy shade which goes perfectly with dark lipsticks such as Diva or Rebel from MAC.

And last of the dupes is Barry M lip liner in #7 which is identical to MAC Currant lip liner !

It is a dark, deep plum shade and it goes perfectly with MAC Rebel lipstick as well as it could be paired with MAC DIVA.

That was also a few different shades that I haven't got, but guys, you should definitely check these out ! I promise you, you'll love them & it will save you a few €€€ since, they're very affordable and you get the same quality as the MAC lip liners !

As I went through my makeup, I realized that for high end makeup, M.A.C could easily be considered my favorite/most used brand. However for drugstore makeup NYX is one of my favorites…in my world they’re facing competition from L’Oreal and Maybelline as a result of availability, or lack thereof. Here in Canada, I’ve been only been able to easily find NYX in Rexall and PharmaPlus (yes I know that some beauty supply stores may have it but the keyword here is easily*). I figured that since both are good brands, I’d do a few posts comparing some of their products.

NYX Slim Lip Pencil in Nude Beige and Pinky

In 2012, I found NYX Slim Lip Pencil in a beauty supply store in Jamaica, so I grabbed an orange liner as well as the shade 835 Pinky. Pinky, as you probably guessed is a hot pink shade. Personally…I find that it doesn’t really do much for me because I’m actually not a big fan of pink lips on myself. I received the shade 857 Nude Beige in December from my friend, and this is the perfect nude lipliner for us NC45 girls. It works perfectly with any pink lipstick you might have that’s a bit too light, or sometimes I use it to fill in my entire lip and then go over it with a shimmery beige gloss. For recommendations on your perfect nude lip shade, click here.

The texture is fine, but I find it doesn’t always go on as smoothly as the MAC lip pencil. With regards to how long it lasts on the lips, it lasts for the usual lip pencil time (i.e. it will begin to fade after you’ve eaten). That being said, for about 5CDN these aren’t a bad buy if you’re new to lip pencils or want to try a few new colours.

Swatched: NYX Nude Beige, NYX Pinky and MAC Currant

Nude Beige, Pinky and Currant swatches slightly smudged

M.A.C Lip Liner in Currant

Mac Currant Lip Liner

I had been wanting this particular lip liner since last year. I needed it to go with Cyber (my fave) because I’m that girl who wears dark lipstick all year round. Yup, the same girl who would always have people tell her that Cyber is too dark and that it looks like ‘dark, demon lipstick’…but I digress. I finally bought Currant in April this year – it was an impulse purchase actually, because I knew I could always return it. Needless to say, I haven’t returned it and I’m so glad I finally bought it! It works perfectly with MAC’s Cyber, Revlon’s Black Cherry(click to read)and I’ve also been using it to deepen up Maybelline’s Hot Plum(click to read).

It applies so smoothly and the deep plum shade is just gorgeous! (yes that’s my bias towards anything deep purple coming out shamelessly). The thing is – and I say this about almost any pricey cosmetic product, since it’s 20CDN for the lip pencil you have to really make it work for you. That’s why I’ve been trying it with all the lip colours that I own, because you want to know you’re getting the most for your 20CDN.

(I left the lip liners a bit messy – I didn’t bother sharpening them, because I wanted to give a better idea of how the colour would appear)

Tal’s Take on Things

Both lip pencils work well, but here’s the catch. If you buy the MAC lip pencil, you’ll be able to have a MAC artist or sales associate show you which colours it can work with, and you can return it if you don’t like it. The NYX lip pencil cannot be returned, unless it’s unused. You’ll also have to figure out on your own which colours work with the NYX lip pencil that you purchase.

To read more about products by MAC Cosmetics compared to NYX products, see below:

Currant Lip Liner By Mac

xo,

Mac Lip Pencil Colors

Tal 🙂