How did you get hooked on MAC?

[Lauren1981]

i'm interested to know how your MAC addictions got started.

mine started when i was 17 and wearing WHITE wet 'n' wild eyeliner on top of silvery white eyeshadow....yes i know... f*cking horrible.
my godmother (and my mom of course) HATED it. PLUS i was getting ready to be in a Cotillion, and i had prom and graduation coming up so my godmother took me to a MAC counter inside of Nordies (back in OP, Kansas) and i've been hooked every since then.... and it was my b-day so i've been officially hooked since October 4th, 1999 (my 18th birthday. its when i became a woman in my eyes. lmfao!!)

when did you guys get hooked??

 

[MissResha]

i started using cheaper brands (and heck, i still do). but when you go from a Wet n Wild lipstick to a MAC lipstick its like, a huge quality upgrade!

 

[nursee81]

Mine began almost 8 years ago. I was pregnant with my daughter and felt horrible, fat and swollen and told my husband that I need make up and that I need to feel pretty. So he took me to MAC and bought me everything I wanted and since then I haven't gone back. I loved everything about it.

 

[MissResha]

^^what an awesome hubby!!

 

[nursee81]

^^ thanks. He's good when it comes to cheering me up. He really doesn't say much about my hauls to this day.

 

[gildedangel]

I stole my mother's Studio Fix Powder foundation out fo her makeup drawer when I was 17 (I asked permission later haha). She wasn't using it and I wanted to try makeup because I had very severe acne and redness (I looked sunburned all the time haha!). It's funny because I used to be VERY anti-makeup. Obviously I fell in love with the product and with the brand. I have been using that foundation for two years now and I only recently switched to studio sculpt. I have been an official addict for a year and a half now.

 

[NernersHuman]

Ah, I remember it like it was yesterday, and trust me, it wasn't.

It was springtime, 1990. I was reading People magazine and they were talking about this new, underground makeup line that was created by *gasp* a real live makeup artist! Anyhoo, the thing that really caught my eye was that Madonna had used Russian Red lipstick exclusively for her tour that year, so being the celeb-obsessed young'in I was, decided "Well, if MADONNA likes it, it must be good!" At that time, it was only sold at one store in downtown Chicago, I'll be damned if I can remember the name of the store now. I went down, bought Chili, Russian Red, and Twig lipsticks, and I was hooked for life.

 

[vita cooper]

nernershuman i must have been reading the same article because that's EXACTLY when i started being curious about MAC & then my supervisor at this part-time job that i had gave me MAC red lipstick because i always wore red & she said she had this HAWT red that didnt look good on her but would look smokin' on me & the rest is history!!!!

 

[pdtb050606]

Well it was prob 9 years ago, I had a makeover with an artist named Norma. She completely transformed me, I absolutely fell in love with everything about the brand. I have NEVER had a makeover since then that was as good and now she's in another state

but she got me hooked.

 

[NernersHuman]

Heh, small world! I remember when I actually went and bought those lipsticks, the MUA who helped me was this really tall gorgeous woman who had shaved her head bald and I had never seen a woman who had done that before, and it looked amazing on her! Up until that point I was used to store MUA's being pageant contestant wannabe's.



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Originally Posted by vita cooper nernershuman i must have been reading the same article because that's EXACTLY when i started being curious about MAC & then my supervisor at this part-time job that i had gave me MAC red lipstick because i always wore red & she said she had this HAWT red that didnt look good on her but would look smokin' on me & the rest is history!!!!

 

[Ruby_Woo]

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Originally Posted by nursee81 Mine began almost 8 years ago. I was pregnant with my daughter and felt horrible, fat and swollen and told my husband that I need make up and that I need to feel pretty. So he took me to MAC and bought me everything I wanted and since then I haven't gone back. I loved everything about it.

Seriously that's my story! Now try, pregnant, young and lonely lol. None of my usual friends would hangout w/ the pregnant girls. So my hubby tried everything to get me to cheer up, and would take me shopping all the time. I needed an eyeliner and stopped at MAC. This girl showed me and explained the product to me (I had actually never heard of MAC. Growing up poor, you usually don't) and 3 years later, I am now an employee and still addicted!

 

[n_c]

I was hooked after I purchased my very first grown up foundation in 1998. It was Studio Fix (powder).

 

[Lauren1981]

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Originally Posted by n_c I was hooked after I purchased my very first grown up foundation in 1998. It was Studio Fix (powder).

that was the first thing i got too!!!

 

[tepa1974]

I started wearing it around 1995-1996 but didn't seriously get hooked until last summer (no thanks to Youtube videos! LOL).

 

[buddhy]

I think it must have been when I got some pigment samples from the Lush forum.

I then got a brush and it went from there. As soon as I realised there was another option over a sponge applicator for eyeshadow I knew there was a future for me and e/s.

 

[Lauren1981]

^^ i know right? brushes are hella expensive but i will NEVER go back sponge app's for eyeshadows. the only sponge i use is the one with UDPP.

 

[buddhy]

I'm ALWAYS telling people that they should try brushes but some of my friends even use their fingers... don't get me started.

 

[nursee81]

My first items were a viva glam gloss, wedge, brule, malt and some other plummy e/s in a quad and studio fix powder, 239 brush and a l/l.

 

[GlamQueen21]

I started out with cheaper brands and bought a lot of drugstore brands and when I rediscovered MAC, I fell over heels and was hooked on it back in July of 2008.

 

[Whisperwar]

I blame youtube! I don't even remember how I did it, but I came across Allthatglitters21's videos, and was addicted! And then I branched out and subscribed to a load of other beauty gurus.. and then of COURSE I needed to get me some mac. Specktra followed shortly afterwards and hasn't helped in my addiction! Thanks guys!