MAC Alluring Aquatic Collection (May 22, 2014)

[Dolly Snow]

That looks great on you Dolly! Finally-AS!!!:train:

Thank you! Yes AS finally :train:

 

[rocksteadybaby]

Lipstick Heroine and lipglass Clear Water over Heroine

I'm in love

I always love your pics

 

[Dolly Snow]

Catching up.... EO looks perfect on you!!! Pretty pretty!!! Delphic looks great on you! SAS looks great on you!!!! Great idea keeping a baby fix plus and blush brush in your bag! Fantastic haul!!! Everything looks so pretty! EO looks really nice on you! I am the same way! I hate returning makeup if I don't like it. It's such a waste when they throw it out. I'd much rather give it to someone or sell it. That way it gets some love! I have a bag full of makeup (drugstore and mid/high end) that I've cleaned out of my makeup stash because they weren't getting any love. Clear Water looks so amazing! I'm kinda regretting skipping it but it was so sticky when I tried it on. I hate how sticky their lipglasses are. Both of these look so nice on you! I'm loving the red hair girl!! That's so sweet of you!! Too funny!! SS looks so good on you! Perfect description of this collection!

Thank you!

 

[lipstickaddict]

as on too and as on my eyelids too!

Looks great! Hope you are surviving the new course!

 

[butterflyeyes]

Was playing around with Pet Me Please and different liners to see what I came up with (I like it alone but I'm a tweaker lol). This was one of my fave mixes. PMP with Lasting Sensation lip pencil

 

[lilinah]

When you're black, you know theres a risk with those types of colours

lmao!! I love that little man to pieces

He's taller than i am. But he looks better in lingerie than i do

 

[rocksteadybaby]

He's taller than i am. But he looks better in lingerie than i do

Lmao!! I'm 5'9 so to me he's little

 

[hopefulheart]

Using my new eyeshadows today! Legendary Lure in the crease and outer edge, and Silver Sun on the lid, with a little bit of Modern Pewter and Omega to blend it out. Love it! Also, popped a tiny bit of Sea Me Hear Me and Delphic on .

Everything looks fantastic on you! Those eyeshadows really bring out your eyes.

Aargh! Now i'm "only" 700 messages behind. I give up. (throws hands up into the air, then catches them) So i got to my local MAC this AM around 9:15. I was the first one there. Whew! But, what do i see? The Allluring Aquatic display is already out! And some of the slots are not filled? How can this be? Another woman shows up around 9:30. She's on her cell. She walks to the door and peers in, then crankily asks when it opens. She's in front of the sign on the door that tells the hours. I say, "10 AM." She gets even crankier, "Why can't the open sooner?" Then she goes to sit in her car and wait. I'm still sitting out in the cold and i left my hot coffee in my car. What was i thinking? A young woman shows up and sits not far from me on the bench, face down into her cell phone - i think she's Facebooking, but i'm not sure. I recognize a MAC SA coming down the street. She recognizes me and says "Hi!"... then she tells me that the collection went on sale YESTERDAY!!!! Wednesday! Yesterday!?!?! I hope they aren't sold out of anything i want... Maybe that explains all the empty slots in the display... Why didn't know!?!?!? I make the face in the Edvard Munch painting, "The Scream". It's not much different from the face Macaulay Culkin made in "Home Alone". I feel a faint sense of panic. I have been Low Buying all year so far - skipping some collections, buying one or 2 things from others. I get out my cell phone and check Alluring Aquatic stock at Nordstrom, Macy's, Bloomingdales, maccosmetics.com. Nearly everything is sold out, even the nail polish i want!!! Another young woman arrives to wait in the cloudy cold. Finally it's 10, the doors open, and i rush in waving my list. My intention is to have the SA pull the stuff, then i'll swatch and put a bunch of it back. The cranky woman who was on her cell comes in after everyone else. The young women are swatching. She's still on her cell, and she is even crankier. In a loud and crotchety voice she complains that she was there ahead of everyone but me (which is true) and she *demands* to be waited on. And she is still on her cell. Meanwhile my SA is pulling my stuff and I am swatching lipsticks and lipglosses and AS ED bronzer. I make one change - i ask her to put Water Deities back and get me Seductive Sound instead. Otherwise, i don't ask her to put anything back, and i buy waaaaaaay too much beautiful stuff -- think i may even have gotten the last Aphrodite's Shell, which will work on my neutral toned skin. Except for one thing... they were OUT of Fathoms Deep ED e/s. Nooooo! Aargh! But the SA is sweet and calls another MAC counter. They have Fathoms Deep, but they won't hold anything because it's a new collection. It's about a 30 minute drive there at best - and today is not the best. There's plenty of crazy traffic. I finally see the mall but i take the wrong exit, because i've never gone to that mall. I drive around looking for it, for what feels like a long time, through suburban style residential neighborhoods. Finally, i see some businesses and, in desperation, i enter a fast food drive-thru and ask the girl who takes orders how to get to the mall. I'm sure it isn't far away. She sounds a bit puzzled by my request, but she tells me. Meanwhile i have to wait for the guy in front of me in the giant pickup truck to get his order. I finally get to the mall and find the Macy's. I park near a door. But there's a sign on the door saying for MAC Alluring Aquatic people should line up at another door far far away. I walk into that door anyway, through the men's wear dept., through most of the cosmetic department and finally see the MAC counter. They want to help me. They want me to buy more, more! All i want is Fathoms Deep and i get it. The traffic is still crazy in the other direction going back. Fathoms Deep is beautiful. Still I suspect it may not have been worth driving through crazy traffic for a total of about 70 miles.

WOW!! What an adventure you had! I've never experienced the craze that comes with new collections. I haven't been into MAC that long and only just started following MAC collections earlier this year. I'm glad you were able to get everything you wanted! I hope you like your goodies and feel that they were worth the trouble, particularly Fathoms Deep.

 

[Genn]

I made it to my Mac counter at 11:30 . I was able to get Soul Serenade and Sea Worship, the only two EDES I dint order online. They had 2 of each left. I thought they would be sold out but decided to check anyway. I also bought Siren Song and AS. Good thing too since my Belk order still says "in process". My final haul

1 each of all EDES
PMP
SS
Mystical
AS
WD
SMHM
127 brush I am done

 

[BeautyBorn]

Idk how I feel about the packaging

You are allowed Dolly, what aren't you liking about the packaging (other than the pesky fingerprints)?

 

[lipstickaddict]

Exactly, only go in store if you can. I am not saying fuck work and go lol
Anyways I love SS lol

Okay, so I just went back for SS

I WILL make it work damit!

 

[maybeline46]

Aargh! Now i'm "only" 700 messages behind. I give up. (throws hands up into the air, then catches them)

So i got to my local MAC this AM around 9:15. I was the first one there. Whew! But, what do i see? The Allluring Aquatic display is already out! And some of the slots are not filled? How can this be?

Another woman shows up around 9:30. She's on her cell. She walks to the door and peers in, then crankily asks when it opens. She's in front of the sign on the door that tells the hours. I say, "10 AM." She gets even crankier, "Why can't the open sooner?" Then she goes to sit in her car and wait. I'm still sitting out in the cold and i left my hot coffee in my car. What was i thinking?

A young woman shows up and sits not far from me on the bench, face down into her cell phone - i think she's Facebooking, but i'm not sure.

I recognize a MAC SA coming down the street. She recognizes me and says "Hi!"... then she tells me that the collection went on sale YESTERDAY!!!! Wednesday! Yesterday!?!?! I hope they aren't sold out of anything i want... Maybe that explains all the empty slots in the display... Why didn't know!?!?!? I make the face in the Edvard Munch painting, "The Scream". It's not much different from the face Macaulay Culkin made in "Home Alone". I feel a faint sense of panic. I have been Low Buying all year so far - skipping some collections, buying one or 2 things from others.

Yeah, same for my local MAC....and yesterday was my BIRTHDAY! I would have loved to have gone on my actual birthday but I had no idea they were releasing early! Fortunately they had not sold out of anything and expected to have everything available through the weekend.

 

[rocksteadybaby]

Ok! So I decided to try to stop by the store when I get off of work..Hopefully they have stuff left. I'm thinking of getting SS I can't decide which one would look best on me I'm a NC30-NC35.

 

[lipstickaddict]

It is similar to kinda sexy and honeylove, and I have both of those, so I almost didn't get it, but after I swatched it in store I felt it was different enough to get it.

And also cozy up from Apres Chic! I have all three lipsticks too, but also bought EO. It looks AMAZING with Water Deities

 

[lipstickaddict]

Yeah, same for my local MAC....and yesterday was my BIRTHDAY! I would have loved to have gone on my actual birthday but I had no idea they were releasing early! Fortunately they had not sold out of anything and expected to have everything available through the weekend.

Happy Belated Birthday! Now that would have been the best present--but the day after isn't bad

Hope you had a great one!

 

[butterflyeyes]

Ok! So I decided to try to stop by the store when I get off of work..Hopefully they have stuff left. I'm thinking of getting Sensual Sparks & a blush but I can't decide which one would look best on me I'm a NC30-NC35.

Did you mean Siren Song?

 

[rocksteadybaby]

Did you mean Siren Song?

Yes!! lmao!! I made the correction after I typed it hahahahaha!! brain fart

 

[DarylandCarole]

I second this. It's the most subtle sexy color.. I think it's creeped its way to the top of my favorite lippies! Exfoliate first and don't over-apply.. but definitely get it!

Catching up on posts. Is SS dupe able? I have A LOT of nudes, so I don't want to buy something just like what I have.

 

[lilinah]

I'm NEVER going to catch up with all the posts, but i DID look through the photo gallery of "images in this thread".

I think this collection has pretty much something for everyone, even if no one wants a lot of stuff from it. The blushes and bronzers are a bit on the warm side. But the lipsticks and glosses have both warm and cool tones, as do the eyeshadows - and i really like ED eyeshadows.

Everyone looks so beautiful! I am basking in the glow of beautiful lips and eyes and cheeks! And all the lovely faces of other Specktralettes. I love all the pictures. Thank you all for sharing!

 

[rae_rae21]

Okay, so I just went back for SS

I WILL make it work damit!

Yay...I'll think you'll like it! I was skeptical, but I ended up loving it!