Ok, just before you read this, I'd like to clarify, I didn't really get to do proper MAC counter visiting today, cos my friends wanted to meet up, and they don't really understand the point of me visiting different mac stores across london when 'we could all meet up in selfridges instead'. But, I did have time to spare, since I got to central london way before them, so I decided to do 2 quick visits to the counter at bank, and the one at harvey nichols.
The one at Bank-
Urgh, I should never have gone here. The MAs just do not pay attention to you at all. Kind of like Selfridges really. Then I got the attention of one girl, I asked her for help with choosing e/s. She asked me what colours I liked, so I said green. She picked out swimming, then one matte dark brown shade, and one grey, but then she got a q tip and just swiped the three colours on my hand. Sigh.. She then proceeded to do it with pinkish colours, I got the the whole 'get out of here you're wasting your time' vibe, and so told her that I'd look around. She gave me a tissue (which was no good, I had to get one of those makeup remover wipes instead, unless I wanted to scrape my skin off to get all the e/s off!) Didn't say anything else to me. All the other MAs seemed to see through me. Spent a total of about 3 minutes there.
Harvey Nichols
Given that Selfridges and Harvey Nichols are similar, in that they're both big department stores, very much high end, etc. I thought service wasn't going to be great. I walked in, got to the counter. There was a MA there, but she sort of looked at me, and continued walking round. That counter was pretty busy, with two people having makeovers, and other MAs attending other customers. But then I walked over the the e/s, and then caught the eye of a MA, who walked over I asked if I need help. Ok, so I asked the same qn, as I have done before, and he asked me what colours I like, what occasion it would be for, etc. He picked out swimming, and juxt, cos I said green, but then he also picked out petalescent and hepcat. It was really cool because then he took the initiative to apply those two latter colours to my lid, and then he was really good cos he said that he would apply the two colours differently, on each lid, as there were different ways I could put the e/s on. Silently inside I prayed I wouldn't look like a total weirdo when I looked in the mirror. And then, when he finished, I looked and...
Omg! I actually liked it! On one eye he had put hepcat on the outer lid, petalescent on inner, and then the other eye hepcat on lashline, then petalescent above blended upwards. Usually pink shades like hepcat make me look bruised/swollen, but this guy made me look pretty cool!
I asked him about combining 3 colours together, and then he said, for my eye shape it's good to put a third colour on the bottom lashline. Funnily enough, he reached for freshwater (what is it with MAs and putting freshwater on my lower lashline? See previous post for what I mean!), but unlike yesterday, it actually looked pretty good! I'd just like to note here, that yesterday, when the girl did it, her line was thick, and she didn't actually apply it close enough to the lashline, so there was a 'gap' between the lashes and the line. But with this guy, the line was thin, and accurate!
At this time, I had to go meet my friends, I was already late, so decided not to do a haul. I asked the guy's name, and it turned out he was a freelancer
And he had to rush off too, to go to another store... What was so nice though, was that he wrote down everything he picked out for me, including the brushes he used. As I walked out, I noticed the two girls having makeovers looked pretty good with their new m/u on, and the MAs seemed cheerful. I can't truly say whether this will become my counter though, I think I needed to spend more time there to truly decide.
But right now- HN and Convent Garden are now my top two. I think I have time tomorrow (haha half term is great!) so I will go to convent garden and does the whole question thing again. And then go to HN again, see if I get the same sort of treatment I got today. I have to say though, I'm quite surprised that I got good service at HN, I wasn't expecting it at all, I guess I thought there would be a very snobby atmosphere, but there surprisingly isn't. Any stuff you want to ask, go ahead, my account of today wasn't detailed as yesterday's, I think
