CCOs in the UK

[NatalieMT]

I went to Cheshire Oaks end of last week, they had quite a lot of stuff. Still the Hello Kitty and Dame Edna which has been there forever now, some To The Beach, quite a lot of perm line e/s and piggies plus some LE ones. I noticed mainly Ungaro. There was also quite a lot of the Graphic Garden palettes/bags and wait for it DUN DUN DUN Azalea Blossom from SCF. That was the last item I expected to see in a CCO!

 

[EmilyIsElectric]

Any updates on the York cco? I'm supposed to be going next week.

 

[EmilyIsElectric]

Actually ended up going to the York cco today, so I thought I'd update you all.
The last time I went to York cco was about 2 years ago and I have to say that there definately wasn't as much MAC this time, and it seemed a bit scattered... lots of things didn't have testers, and there was a lot of random testers lying around for things that weren't there anymore. However there was a lot of things for clinique, bobbi brown and estee lauder.
Heres some of the things I can remember:

Hardly any mac lipsticks, just a very dark mattene and a few lip kit things
-mutiny pigment and quite a few other brights
- universal mix pigment
- glitters in a purple one, reflects copper, reflects blackened red
- lots of the xmas eyeshadow and lip kits from a few years ago with the red packaging with the jewel on
- lots of xmas sets from last year I think? with the circular holes in the box.
- lipglasses in just add colour and fold and tuck
- 2 lip gelees (Cant remember names)
- internationalist dazzleglass
- quite a few e/s, had carbon from venemous villains, a few style warriors, plumage, sumptuous olive, showstopper (there was lots more but cant remember names! mostly bright colours)
- beach bronze (?) blush from to the beach, two cream blush things from that collection too.
- comfort msf
- 2 eye brush sets from different collections
- a few concealers and foundations, not many, all in nc45/55 ish.

They had estee lauder dw foundation in 4w1 and 4c1, dw light in 1,2 and 3.
Bobbi brown foundations in a wide range of colours
Lots of clinique foundations in a wide range of colours.

That's all I can remember, I ended up buying the double wear light, fold and tuck l/g, showstopper e/s, brun pro pan refil and an estee lauder foundation brush

 

[amber_j]

Hello gals and guys! It's been ages since I came on this thread but it seems like the next few weeks might be good for a CCO trip. Is anyone planning to go to Portsmouth soon? I've got a work trip coming up and am thinking of staying on over the weekend to catch up with friends and get a bargain MAC fix. I'd really appreciate any tips or updates from anyone who is going to Gunwharf Quays over the next fortnight. TIA!
 

 

[Eleentje]

I went to Bicester Village one last weekend, and there wasn't a lot of Mac there either.
From what I can remember:
-There were lots of different glitters, but I hardly use them, so I didn't pay any attention to the names
-I saw about 8 or 9 different old style pigments: tan, violet, spiritualize, fuchsia, cornflower...
-Lots of really dark foundations and face powders
-They still had some eyeshadows from Style Warriors, bits and pieces from D-Squared (greasepaint sticks B and V), To The Beach (cream bronzer, both lipliners, Humid and Sand&Sun es, In the Buff np), Venomous Villains (Vainglorious es, French Quarter greasepaint stick, Cajun powder), an eyeshadow palette from 2008 Holiday collection (Devoted Poppy, I believe), some lip palette's and face palettes from 2009 Holiday collection, lipglass from Pret-a-papier, a few Naked Honey bits and bobs, Modern Mocha lipstain marker from Art Supplies and some lonely eyeshadow from Dame Edna.
-Bits and pieces: some pearlglides/softsparkle pencils (Fly-by-Blu, Nightsky...), only about 6 lipsticks, just a few lipglasses, a few mascara's (Dazzlelash), a couple of shadesticks, 2 lipgelee's, 2-3 dazzleglasses (Internationalist was among them, too), some eyeshadows (Showstopper, Antiqued, Bitter, One-off and some other ones), a few eyeshadow suites, Artjam paint and some lipbalms. There was a makeup case kind of thing (I'm not sure from which collection that was) and a small set with mascara, eyelashes, and two other things (I can't remember what, probably because it didn't look like anything special). I found only one full-size face brush by Mac, that's it.

I was a bit underwhelmed by it all, so I only got two things: One-off starflash eyeshadow and French Quarter greasepaint stick.

 

[Shepherdess]

I went to Bicester Village one last weekend, and there wasn't a lot of Mac there either.
From what I can remember:
-There were lots of different glitters, but I hardly use them, so I didn't pay any attention to the names
-I saw about 8 or 9 different old style pigments: tan, violet, spiritualize, fuchsia, cornflower...
-Lots of really dark foundations and face powders
-They still had some eyeshadows from Style Warriors, bits and pieces from D-Squared (greasepaint sticks B and V), To The Beach (cream bronzer, both lipliners, Humid and Sand&Sun es, In the Buff np), Venomous Villains (Vainglorious es, French Quarter greasepaint stick, Cajun powder), an eyeshadow palette from 2008 Holiday collection (Devoted Poppy, I believe), some lip palette's and face palettes from 2009 Holiday collection, lipglass from Pret-a-papier, a few Naked Honey bits and bobs, Modern Mocha lipstain marker from Art Supplies and some lonely eyeshadow from Dame Edna.
-Bits and pieces: some pearlglides/softsparkle pencils (Fly-by-Blu, Nightsky...), only about 6 lipsticks, just a few lipglasses, a few mascara's (Dazzlelash), a couple of shadesticks, 2 lipgelee's, 2-3 dazzleglasses (Internationalist was among them, too), some eyeshadows (Showstopper, Antiqued, Bitter, One-off and some other ones), a few eyeshadow suites, Artjam paint and some lipbalms. There was a makeup case kind of thing (I'm not sure from which collection that was) and a small set with mascara, eyelashes, and two other things (I can't remember what, probably because it didn't look like anything special). I found only one full-size face brush by Mac, that's it.

I was a bit underwhelmed by it all, so I only got two things: One-off starflash eyeshadow and French Quarter greasepaint stick.

They have the cream blush from the TBC collection! Do you have any rough idea of howmuch it was selling for?

 

[LMD84]

i shall be going to the york cco at the end of Feb! i hope that they have flurry of fun gloss! that is the one thing that i really want right now!

 

[Eleentje]

Hey hun,
I honestly can't remember. I don't think I even checked the price for that one. But it will be about 70% of the original price, which was GBP 20, I believe.

i shall be going to the york cco at the end of Feb! i hope that they have flurry of fun gloss! that is the one thing that i really want right now!

 

[pinkiecharm]

CCO in the uk

do they have CCO'S in the UK if so where is the nearest to wales in the uk

 

[fleur de lis]

They do, yep, but not very many. The ones I know of are:

Gunwharf Quays (Portsmouth)
Bicester Village (near Oxford)
Cheshire Oaks (Chester)

 

[Nottsnat]

They also have one at the York Designer Outlet, which is my local one.

 

[hyazinth]

I am traveling to London on March 2nd and maybe want to go to a cco. Is Bicester the nearest to London?

 

[LMD84]

I am traveling to London on March 2nd and maybe want to go to a cco. Is Bicester the nearest to London?

yes i think that bicester is the closest one to london. although i think that if you are going by train people have said that there is a different one that is easier to get to. because i'm not from that area i am not totally sure.

i shall be going to the york cco tomrrow and i am so excited about it! hee hee!

 

[LMD84]

ok i went to the york cco yesterday and here is roughly what they had -

dare to wear shadows
fab felines glosses
coral crepe paint pot
silverstroke liner
pigments from felines and a few older colours
a few glitters
red she said lip bags
holiday 09 eye palettes
tempting quad
dazzlelipsticks
superglass
some shadows from to the beach
bronzers from to the beach
no msf
didnt see any mineral blush either

honestly the selection wasnt that great this time.

 

[hyazinth]

Did you get anything at York cco?
Thanks for letting me know. I found the post you maybe meant. It says that Gunwharf Quays is next to Portsmouth Harbour railway station.
Hmm will have to figure out how long it will take to get there from London and if it is worth the ride.
Has anybody been there lately?

 

[LMD84]

Did you get anything at York cco?
Thanks for letting me know. I found the post you maybe meant. It says that Gunwharf Quays is next to Portsmouth Harbour railway station.
Hmm will have to figure out how long it will take to get there from London and if it is worth the ride.
Has anybody been there lately?

yup i bought a few things at york. i got -
best of breed, so bad, jealous and flurry of fun glosses, atlantic blue, shimmermoss and plumage shadows, liquid lurex lippie and universal mix and hi def cyan pigment.

 

[Anitacska]

I went to Portsmouth in the summer, but I drove so not too sure how close it is to the station. It's lovely though, a big shopping center with lots of outlets. I got a few things from Dame Edna and a holiday palette (2008), some old jar pigments, some lipsticks/lipglosses, but I wasn't too chuffed with the amount they had. The whole store is very small and they also stock, Bobbi Brown, Estee Lauder, Prescriptives, etc., so there wasn't that much space for everything. It's a long drive for me, so I won't go back there in a hurry, but then again I usually buy what I want straight away anyway, so there isn't much I could pick up I don't think.

Did you get anything at York cco?
Thanks for letting me know. I found the post you maybe meant. It says that Gunwharf Quays is next to Portsmouth Harbour railway station.
Hmm will have to figure out how long it will take to get there from London and if it is worth the ride.
Has anybody been there lately?

 

[Eleentje]

As far as I'm aware Bicester Village is the one closest to London, and it's quite close to the station.
I also expected much more from CCO there, but it was kinda "nice, but not overwhelmingly amazing". We went there by car and it took us about 1,5 hour to get there from London, but it will be less by train.
If you do go by train, book your tickets in advance, or the ticket price may make it not worth even going there. Unless you like outlet shopping in general!

 

[LMD84]

the problem i have is that because the florida cco's are so freaking amazing i feel like the uk ones just cant live up to them! i always find something amazing in the florida ones! although that said i did get the spiced chocolate quad from york last year which was pretty neat!

 

[Anitacska]

Ooh, now that you mention Florida, I'm going there at Easter, can you tell me where they are or how I find out where they are? We'll be in Orlando. Thanks!

EDIT: Not to worry, I've found the nearest one to where we're staying! All excited about it now, lol.

the problem i have is that because the florida cco's are so freaking amazing i feel like the uk ones just cant live up to them! i always find something amazing in the florida ones! although that said i did get the spiced chocolate quad from york last year which was pretty neat!