I think this is a beautiful color on it's own, it's not a primer like Painterly, for green eyes. It is Bare Study but strong peach, not dark just peach, instead of champagne as Bare Study. I am suprised it does not have better reveiws. Its MUCH lighter than pictures show on the computer screen and it is not at all glittery but certainly not matte. Just on the lid is perfect.

I love MAC's Paint Pots, and I tend to use them as a shadow more so than as a base for other shadows. Rubenesque has an orangey, golden color to it which is perfectly suited for warm-toned people. This has good staying power, if used with a primer. A perfect dupe for it in another line is Urban Decay's X eyeshadow. Although X comes in loose pigment and pressed shadow form, it is identical to this color.

This is a beautiful pink golden peach color in the pot. On my NC20-25 asian skin tone it transfers more golden and can sometimes look a tad too orangey during the winter when I don't have a tan. However I tend to wear this in the summer and it looks amazing! Beautiful consistency and is very creamy. Has golden shimmer throughout it and is sheer, but can be built up a bit. I prefer to wear this alone or layered under eyeshadows. Either way though you definitely need a primer under this because it creased on me within 3 hours. Then again all of the Mac pain pots do, and I do not have oily lids. UDPP alone will keep my eyeshadows from creasing. Eyeshadows are relatively easy to blend over this. Has lasted me a long time and I still have a lot of product left. Overall a great product and a definite repurchase! Spring/summer is almost here in SoCal and I can't wai to bust this out again.

I was so excited to try out this product. I even checked reviews and swatches before purchasing it. At the MAC store, a very kind MUA swatched it on the back of my hand and i was totally sold in 1 sec... i bought it. As soon as i got home i decided to apply some of that beauty on my eyes. But alas...! The consistency was a bit weird... or should i say tricky? The product didn't seem even at all, it also looked patchy and flaky. So i decided to use a brush instead of my fingers... to come out with the same result. Then i decided to use a spongetip aplicator... same result. Then i decided to follow a tip i read somewhere about this paintpot... which basically is layering the product... to wait for each layer to set and then to go over it again. Sadly i got the same result but now with better color payoff, however the flaking effect was even more noticeable which also made my upper eyelids look kinda old and wrinkly!!!! Sigh... the product in the pot looks so gorgeous, i really wanted it to work but it did not... no matter how i tried to use it. And well, to be honest, for a product above 15 dls i am expecting it to work as it is intended to. Not to use a million tricks to make it work.
In the end i exchanged it for a Fix + and i went back home happier but still letting out a sigh about that beauty that looked too good to be true :( I am giving it 2 lippies because of the packaging and the color itself, but those are the only good things about it.

As the other reviewers have mentioned, this is absolutely gorgeous in the pot, its a golden pinky/peach color. The color reminds me a lot of Nars' orgasm lipgloss and blush. On my lids, its a pretty golden tint with hints of pink. I love the paint pot formulation for its staying power and its defence against creasing. I can see this color as working really well with tanned and warm toned skin. I wore this often with Cover Girls' country woods eyeshadows and it looked great, and changed the depth of rubenesque. Noting other review's advise about these drying out, I'm keeping them upside down in my organizer.

I was disappointed. This product was supposed to be a great base product, but it's a bit tricky to apply and the result was pretty uneven and flaky. Besides it didn't last all day but started to crease after a couple of hours. Also the color is a bit too orange for me. I noticed that you really need to close the pot properly or it totally dries out, as mine did after a couple of months.

This is a go to product for lazy people!
If you don't have time to do your detailed makeup just smudge a bit of this on your eyelids.
Blend a little with Buck or Smog from the Naked Palette on the crease area, add some mascara and a bit of smudged eyeliner and you're done!
Good staying power, and comes in a cute little glass jar pot. It also lasts you a long time (I've used it for three weeks now and I haven't even made a dent).
Definitely worth a try, guys :)

I am an NW20 in MAC and this is my go-to eyeshadow for every day! I apply it using my fingers and just wear it on its own, but it also works great as a base for other colours. This is the only shadow that can last all day on my oily eyelids without creasing, which is a huge feat unto itself. Only apply a light layer - putting on too much of this can look too orange. I bought mine over a year ago and there is still a good amount left, so this stuff lasts a long time. When I finally do run out, I will definitely repurchase this great product!

This is a 50/50 product for me because i like it and i dont like it....it goes on patchy but i love the stayingpower and the sunkissed peach color.

the color is really pretty..it a peachy color with gold shimmers. its a nice product to wear alone or as a base. However, i do find that it makes my lids oily after wearing for about 4-5 hours. I don;t think thats quit bad and to b fair my lids are quite oily to begin with...
I do recommend this and I think its quite worth the 17.50 that i spent on it.

Beautiful colour! You can apply this as a base under eyeshadow for a bold intensity underneath or on it's own for a quick wash of colour. The shade is a gold shimmer with a tinge of pink. In consistency, it is a smooth and blendable product, it may appear stiff in the pot but it doesn't crease lids. And it lasts all day, and the product itself will last years because there is so much of it in the pot! I brought this because I was so impressed with Bare Study paint pot, which I use everyday and Rubenesque definitely matches up to the quality of that. I could not recommend this enough, Rubenesque is so beautiful and glamorous for day or night.

The first paintpot I have ever purchased and i love it!! I use this paintpot every day as it makes me look more awake and brightens my eyes. Rubenesque is a goldish/pink and looks great on my skintone which is nc35-40. I simply add mascara and i am ready to go. It doesnt budge once it is on and doesnt come off till you take it off so its great, I would definetly repurchase and would recommend to people like me who just dont have the time to spend ages on trying to look good.
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Looks gorgeous on the pot. I would say this is the trickiest paint pot for me to use. This little guy looks like orangey shimmer on my eye. If I layer shadow over it, it gives the shadow a bit of oomph. I like my paint pots to be able to stand alone, and look great even without any eyeshadow on top, and this one just takes too much work to make it look great.

This product is a lot more sheer consistency than their other paint pots. It goes on sheer with some gold shimmer. It's really pretty and helps shadow adhere. I just wish it was a little more pigmented. However, its good to use as a highlighter for medium skin to darker skin

I love this paint pot. I prefer my paint pots to have some color or something extra to them rather than a plain base (aka Painterly), but that's just personal preference. It's a beautiful, unique color that really is great as a base for other eyeshadows or as a simple all over color, which is what I usually do for a quick and easy, cute eye look in the summer. Definite must get!!

I like this color a lot, I just wish that it was as creamy as my other paintpots. I own painterly and nubile and they both have a concealer consistency but this one is a lot drier for me for some reason, I dont know if it dried out of not, but this has just been my experience.

This is my very first paint pot and I'd like to know where it's been all my life. I will probably be using paint pots as bases instead of using plain primer most of the time. I love the champagney-gold colour of this paint pot. I've been using it with my Autumn eye looks and it makes the golds/berries/bronzes more vibrant. I will be re-purchasing this when it starts to run out because I never want to be without it.

I love PaintPots! Especially rubenesque. It is a perfect peachy pink champange color, in a long lasting shimmery cream eye shadow. Great base and also really pretty on its own. If your only going to get one paint pot go for this one.

What a great everyday base shade! If I dab this on before smudging on a darker shade (Constructivist PP or brown liner), I'm set for the day. It's an essential daily product for me and I love it more than UDPP.

Ok so I was lemming Rubenesque for a really long time. I did a CP with a lady in the US and seeing as MAC is cheaper there, I figured I'd ask her to swap me for it. So here I was really excited to get it and I was over the moon when it came to my door but I'm so disappointed with this product. I think I actually dislike/don't use most of my MAC products because they can be sooo hit and miss, the only thing I KNOW I like are the lipsticks.
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I read the reviews here and saw people complaining that it applied patchy and stuff, well I didn't take it that seriously because I was so in love with the pretty Rubenesque I had swatched in store. I just had to have it. I'm so disappointed because It applies so patchily and uneven! I can't get an even wash of colour on my eyelids at all. I've tried applying with my fingers, with a dense concealer brush, with primer, without primer, with moisturiser and without, you name it, I have really tried to make this work because it is very pretty. Such a disappointment. Although I don't like it, I will give it one point - it doesn't crease when used over primer. I know people like to use this as an eyeshadow base but I can't vouch for its effectiveness as one, I just intended to use it as a cream eyeshadow. The patchy and uneven application actually makes my eyelids look horrendously dry, flaky and crusty. Lol. What a disappointment.
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Packaging's good, this is just a little glass jar with the black lid, pretty typical of MAC, nothing special or OTT about it.
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Would I buy this again? LOL wut, never in my life. When I finish 6 of my other MAC products I'll gouge this crap out of the pot with a smile on my face and take my containers back for a pretty lipstick. BACK TO MAC YOU GO.