Good for you. I cancelled my appointment too and am glad I did. None of the lipsticks really appeal to me and those that do seem to have dupes -- HH was one I really wanted and apparently it is super close to Dish It Up, which I have.
I still plan on checking out the collection but in a less frantic way.
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LinenWhite7
I have gone back and forth over and over again on FoF. My original plan was to B2M for a lipstick or two. My friend who is a MA at MAC put me down for an appt for this collection before I told her I am on a low-buy. So I started to think of things I could purchase to make it to $50 and I snowballed from there. My gut kept telling me to cancel the appt and I FINALLY back to sticking to my plan. I am skipping the appt. I will be out of town until Friday night, so some of the lippies might be sold out when I got to B2M on Saturday - it's just a risk I'm going to have to take. I have run out of a few staples (using my Ulta 20% coupon today) so my $70 budget for February is already almost spent. I am hoping Makeup Geek has a Valentine's Day sale like they did last year because I want to try their shadows with the $23 I have left in my Feb budget.
Congrats to both of you on cancelling your appointments!! They are an absolute
mine field if you want to avoid impulse purchases..
These are all known contributors to impulse buys and retail stores like MAC exploit all of them!:
- time limits which encourage emotional rather than logical decisions
- associating products with positive emotions (like having someone apply your makeup and tell you how absolutely
gorgeous you are - even if that product looks terrible on you, the lighting is so washed out you won't notice and just take their word for it)
- the exclusivity of limited edition products and the status associated with tracking them down
- the social pressure from sales associates and other customers ("the woman who just left bought that same lipstick
and a backup, it's going to be such a hot color for spring!")
- the $50 purchase requirement.. you've already committed to spending $50, so once you've decided to make that initial purchase it's easy to add things on.. especially those travel size items by the checkout counter!
Remember, employees of these companies, from the designers to the sales associates, have been training for their
entire careers to encourage maximum purchasing behavior.. If you don't feel like you can compete with that (and who can?), don't play! Make a list and stick to it, delay purchases until you've had time to really think about them, set rules for yourself, stop thinking of possessions as a collection and instead think of them as tools. Time to take back control!
i havent bought this one but i plan to use this one for my bracelets
the top one is the 2 drawer and the bottom one is the chubby box -chubby box fits your msfs and beauty powders standing up slightly
smaller 2 drawer are on the second to bottom shelf and the bottom shelf has the 2 drawer in the left corner so you can see the size diff. the other deeper small one that are stacked in the bottom towrds the right i use to put my mac lippies in they fit exactly 50 bullets standing up.
one i used for my lippies
smaller 2 drawer
So thank you Pixie for starting all of this!
