Originally Posted by deja1214
I was bit disappointed on the brush front, not very many at all. At Portsmouth they had the short handled 129, a fan brush and a full size brush set for £110 (or somewhere around this price) amongst a few others. Bicester didn't have too many brushes either and I can't remember any standouts. |
Here's what I recall seeing:| Originally Posted by EmilyIsElectric
I'm going to the York outlet this Saturday. I'm a bit nervous, I haven't really heard anything about how much MAC they have there so I'm trying not to get my hopes up. Cheshire Oaks is the only other one I've visited, and I'd have to catch 2 trains and travel for two and a half hours to get there :| Which sucks, because the last time I went it was like heaven! haha. So, I'll let everyone know what I see there! :] |
| Originally Posted by seabird
i went to bicester today, and i really wish i had more money! i thought it was really well stocked for once. what i remember them having: posey blushcreme, merrily mineralize blush, blunt blush and blooming. they had loads of eyeshadows: newly minted, blanc type, brown down, sunset b, the dark blue and dark purple from naughty nauticals, silver ring, pen n pink, another light pink, femme fi, ricepaper and a few more i can't remember. they had select nc20 and loads of foundations in the nc30 range. they had the aircan foundation in all colours. in pro pans they had omega, brun, cork, juiced, primary yellow and embark. they had loads of lipglasses, a few lipsticks including electro and show orchid. i know in the lipglasses they had naked space, florabundance, snow girl.. they had loads of paintpots, all the fafi ones and rubenesque as well and girl friendly i think. they also had a few pigments, frost, violet, golden olive and a few more i can't remember. hardly any brushes, but they did have the pink handled 109sh.
i got cash flow paintpot, naked space lipglass, silver ring and cork pro pan. i would have got more had i the money! |
| Originally Posted by deja1214
Sooo, two CCO's in one day! At Bicester I was a bit disappointed. They a measly amount of eyeshadows: Time and Space, Firespot, Bisque, Cork, Brun, Electric Eel, Chrome Yellow etc. A few paintpots: Indianwood Rubenesque Rollickin Nice Vice A Fafi quad, some holiday sets, the eyelash set Not much by the way of lip stuff a few tendertones, a few lipsticks including Fafi and some pinky glosses Light Flush MSF Mineralize Skin Finish in Medium Dark At Portsmouth things were very exciting Eyeshadows: Meet the Fleet, Submarine, Scene 1, Bisque, and lots others I can't remember. Eye palettes for £7! 16 Pro pans including orange, cork, brun, velvet moss, juiced and some others About 20 or so Pigments (Sorry my memory is a sieve at this point) Paint pots in Nice Vice, Otherworldly, Pharoah, Delft, Moss Scape and some I forgot A couple of cream blushes, blush in Trace Gold, Light flush MSF, 8 nail polishes Lip stuff was pretty much the same as Bicester There were a few eyelashes too. |
| Originally Posted by RedRibbon
I'm planning a trip to the Bicester Village CCO and I was wondering whether you could answer a logistical question for me.. It will cost me £30 in petrol to get to BV and I'm not even sure how much I will spend once I get there, I'm looking to get some MAC shadows, a pigment and some Bobbi Brown stuff. I was thinking about this this morning, is it worth shelling out £30 quid to drive there when I won't really be after that much, moneywise. I understand that eyeshadows are roughly 4/5 quid off and so I'd have to buy five shadows just to cover the cost of getting there. I suppose the question I'm asking is, how much of a discount can you get on BB stuff and is it a well stocked CCO? Thank you
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| Originally Posted by anita22
I went to BV for the first time a couple of weeks ago and there wasn't much there I wanted to buy ( MAC-wise, it was mostly LE stuff and holiday sets - brush sets, holiday palettes, etc, which I either had already, or I'd passed on the first time they came out). There was a lot less Bobbi Brown than MAC, it was really only about 5 small shelves. I'm afraid I can't remember prices, but I'm also a Bobbi fan and there was nothing that stood out for me. There were some LE items from the past year or so (palettes & glosses), a few lipsticks and skincare. Also a few of the smaller brush sets (I think the one that came out with Pink Quartz last year, or something similar). And a few concealers, foundations, etc in random shades. The MAC eye shadow pots were £6 from memory (a saving of £3.79) so going by that you would have to buy 8 just to cover your costs. So if you're not planning on buying much, I don't think it would be worth £30 to get there. There is a bus from Oxford which is about £5 (return I think??) so if you can get to Oxford cheaply via public transport, that might save you $$? |
| Originally Posted by RedRibbon
Thanks
I've been figuring it out and I think I may either just go to the MAC counter in Selfridges on the way home from work/get public transport. I figured out that I would end up spending 60 quid getting there and buying those few eyeshadows when I could spend less than that actually going to the concessions in the stores so that's what I think I will do
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| Originally Posted by RedRibbon
Can you still shop in there if you don't have that MAC Pro membership card? |
