Pinkdollface
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Pure Zen swatch http://mackarrie.blogspot.nl/2012/07/mac-lipstick-pure-zen.html
MAC for Marilyn
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OctoberViolet
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Tx Pinkdollface! I'm not much for nudes/naturals anymore, but Pure Zen is pure perfection in my eyes. I'm still unsure if I want to buy it with the Marilyn collection or just wait and get it in time since it's going to be permanent. Augh! Decisions!!!
OctoberViolet
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Corally
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It's going to be permanent?! What else[COLOR=6600CC]Tx Pinkdollface! I'm not much for nudes/naturals anymore, but Pure Zen is pure perfection in my eyes. I'm still unsure if I want to buy it with the Marilyn collection or just wait and get it in time since it's going to be permanent. Augh! Decisions!!![/COLOR]
I'm prob going to wait buying the lipstick then!
lyseD
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Well said -- I was really hoping for elegant too. Upside I won't buy as much.
Richelle83
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Carine's packaging is classy and sexy, Marilyn's is cheap and tacky looking.
OctoberViolet
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I don't see it as being cheap & tacky. Of course, I'm not a very big decision maker of packaging either so I may not really know compared to more seasoned packaging buyers. I do like the Marilyn packaging. I like the Carine one as well. I'll end up spending money either way. If it were regular packaing I'd still buy. As long as the product is good and/or unique enough I'll spend on it.
Carine's packaging is classy and sexy, Marilyn's is cheap and tacky looking.
MACerette
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True. I would have preferred a picture along the line of my new avatar though. Much more glamorous and so Marilyn. Or perhaps more like... (is checking some Marilyn avatars here). Sorry, forgot whose avatar this is...I don't see it as being cheap & tacky. Of course, I'm not a very big decision maker of packaging either so I may not really know compared to more seasoned packaging buyers. I do like the Marilyn packaging. I like the Carine one as well. I'll end up spending money either way. If it were regular packaing I'd still buy. As long as the product is good and/or unique enough I'll spend on it.
Richelle83
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I'm going to buy it regardless of the packaging, the product is what is important in the end. But it just seems cheap and tacky(for lack of a better phrase) lol comparing the two. They could have done better IMO.I don't see it as being cheap & tacky. Of course, I'm not a very big decision maker of packaging either so I may not really know compared to more seasoned packaging buyers. I do like the Marilyn packaging. I like the Carine one as well. I'll end up spending money either way. If it were regular packaing I'd still buy. As long as the product is good and/or unique enough I'll spend on it.
Richelle83
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I think it's Haven's avatar. For some reason I think of fluffy pillows, warm bed, fireplace going and it's snowing outside whenever I see that pic.
True. I would have preferred a picture along the line of my new avatar though. Much more glamorous and so Marilyn. Or perhaps more like... (is checking some Marilyn avatars here). Sorry, forgot whose avatar this is...
OctoberViolet
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I also had this pic as an avatar for awhile. Now I have a new one. Yes. I do agree. I wouldn't have minded some of her more known pics used for the packaging, but according to paparazzboy these were never seen before/rare pictures. I find them to be typical beautiful Marilyn. As I have mentioned previously. I'm not a big packaging person so I probably don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know cheap looking from regular or amazing looking. Sorry fellow Specktrettes.
True. I would have preferred a picture along the line of my new avatar though. Much more glamorous and so Marilyn. Or perhaps more like... (is checking some Marilyn avatars here). Sorry, forgot whose avatar this is...
MACerette
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Love your choice in avatars
I don't think that it's a matter of knowing anything about packaging. Just personal taste, perhaps with some experience of specktra members in the mix when it comes down to the stickers. Dunno. I don't think the packaging is really bad, I just had diffirent expectations. Perhaps the more stereotypical Marilyn vibe I guess.. That being said, when I see the collection / posts on Specktra, I might just go nuts again...
Mac-Guy
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It looks a bit tacky!
Mac-Guy
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Hehehe, that's how they probaby did it!I am still going to buy things from this collection because i Know I want certain things and I just can't seem to help myself but this packaging looking like stickers is going to help me not spend as much. I could find a marilyn monroe image myself I liked and stick it on there. hell, my 9 yr old could do that. The lipsticks dont seem to bad packaging wise but I think thats because the background is dark so it not so in your face STICKER.
Corally
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It does! The Carine Roitfeld packaging looks so much better!
singer82
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I like the photoshoot but yeah the packaging looks bleh. It looks like they used the same technique as they did for VV. I'm not really a packaging person, it's more about the product for me. But I do like how you can always pick out a certain colors by the packaging amongst the sea of MACs black packaging in your stash.
