How did you get hooked on MAC?

[bcsweetascandy]

Re: What made you addicted to MAC?

Before I ever purchased my first MAC product, I would always see the ads in magazines and wish I could get my hands on the products because of the pigmentation...I'd never seen anything close to MAC's range of color in any drugstore. There was no local MAC counter in my area up until I graduated from high school in 2001 (Think I just gave away my age :-o ).

I purchased my first MAC shadows and lipglass my freshman year in college, and it's been an it's been an addiction ever since. And of course it doesn't help that I have friends who are JUST as addicted to MAC as myself...they are total enablers! lol

 

[newlymaclover]

Re: What made you addicted to MAC?

Pretty much all that has been said above.

I only really use the MAC e/s pans (though I do have a couple of pigments and have recently brought my first MAC foundation, though not feeling so much love for that one) and I know every time I buy an e/s from MAC, even if it doesn't live up to the hype, it will still be pigmented, apply well and not crease.

I also love the fact that you can get the single shadows and aren't limited to what the company thinks you want in a palette (except of course for collections)...I found with other brands I would buy a palette for one or two of the colours and neglect the rest. I also love the range of colours and the fact that you can make them into your own palette's in any combination you like.

 

[Merry_go_round]

It was a year ago when I started to have a regular job, so I experienced how it is to have a credit card and shop on the internet (the first MAC counter is miles away)

 

[Almost black.]

Well, since I'm a make up addict I've read about MAC a lot, but I never bought anything until December-2008. Actually, my boyfriend bought me Petticoat and since then, I'm really much more into MAC and I follow MAC collections but still don't buy a lot since I have to buy everything online and it can get quite expensive (shipping and fees) but I save money for the items I *really* want.

Although, I must admit I got hooked on MAC 1,5 year ago when a friend of mine (who is a MAC addict) sent me about 10 MAC pigment samples (she has bunch of FS pigments and other MAC stuff) and then I realized - I gotta have more of MAC items.

Now I do, lol.

 

[Blushbaby]

The truth? My MU spending was "normal" before I joined this forum!

 

[Merry_go_round]

Re: What made you addicted to MAC?

At first I bought some MAC e/s and I saw how well pigmented they are and how long they last, longer than some of my high-end products. And than I started buying more and more MAC products

 

[Almost black.]

Re: What made you addicted to MAC?

I'm not addicted *yet* but I love MAC pigments and MSF's.

 

[kareno]

I have just recently gotten hooked on MAC. I started of course (when i was a teen) wearing revlon and then moved to clinique. I wasn't real into makeup as a teen. A few years ago I then switched to Bare Escentuals. Someone was selling some MAC shadows and since I had never tried MAC and I knew alot of gals loved it I bought a shadow. Then I could no longer use Bare Escentuals foundation so I went to MAC and got the Studio Sculpt foundation and picked up some shadows because I was tired of the minerals. From there on out i have sold off my minerals and switched over to MAC and am becoming very obsessed with it.

 

[iaisha26]

My mother started this vicious cyle. They repleaced the Fashion Fair counter with a MAC counter & it's been a wrap since.

My mom started my sister and I...and I started my niece. Nine years old and only wears Dazzleglass, you'll never catch Lipsmacker in her purse LOL

 

[ashtn]

I had bought a product here and there from mac, but it wasn't until i bought mac foundation that i really got hooked. this i because my acne completely cleared up when i started using it and it made my skin look flawless. now i dont buy anything but mac products

 

[Tahti]

I first discovered MAC when I was 14, I walked into a PRO shop in Berlin... LOL I'm so embarrassed thinking about it now, I had purple dreadlocks at the time and was in my scruffy grunge phase...

I loved everything in there, the MUA who was talking to me was nice ^_^ I thought it was so expensive though and that NO WAY would I ever pay 20 euro for a foundation xD But that began my obsession.

My first MAC item was Mi'Lady MES, my friend gave it to me. I became even more obsessed with MAC because she had some (she was in college in the city at this point, so she had access to the stores...) then when I moved to the city, I properly began collecting MAC.

I love it, I love everything about the brand, I love my collection and I will never stop buying it as long as I have the money! ;D

 

[Aliki]

I was going to Greece to meet with my boyfriend and one friend asked me to buy her Violet pigment, saying it's only about ten euros. So, i came in, bought Violet for her, Dark Soul, Kitchmas and 289 (i think) for me.
The bill was 100 euros

I came out crying

My boyfriend almost went in there and asked for a refund

Eventough the unexpected loss of 100 euros almost ruined my vacation, i was hooked

The rest is history

 

[emmemma]

when i started doing makeup, i started using mac, and i was hooked immediately, i was 16 at the time. I'd save up to go to mac!!

 

[saccharinity]

I got into makeup in high school but only wore drugstore cosmetics for a while. Maybe a year and half ago-ish a friend of mine told me about tutorials on youtube that show you better ways to apply makeup. I started watching and saw them using mac brushes its been downhill since then.

 

[love&destroy]

I blame youtube.
I also have a youtube addiction =.=

 

[xphoenix06]

Got into MAC when I was about 3-4 months pregent w/ my 2nd child, I was going through the baby blues faze from my first pregenacy and turned to makeup. At the time MAC was the only brand of cosmetics that I knew made makeup that flattered people with golden/yellow undertones.

 

[MacGoddess21]

I was 12, addicted to fashion magazines.... 17 and the like (my mom would rip out all of the "garbage" so I could read the beauty articles) and my birthday had come and bestowed upon me a gift card to Nordstrom. I immediately went and spent it on Icebox e/s and Violet, Dear e/s, with Pink Freeze, Swish and Sprout to follow soon after. Needless to say, I was hooked and its been love for almost 11 years now!

 

[themaczealot]

A couple of my friends were slightly into mac but I never strayed too far from
the cheaper drug store brands. When Rimmel came out I got into their stuff
but some how I randomly stumbled upon a youtube video by xsparkage one
day. I have no idea how the video came up with the search I was doing but I
thought, hey lets have a look. One year, several british pounds and even
more canadian dollars later I'm fully addicted (although not quite as addicted
as many on here). I'm looking forward to my second holiday collection. My
first mac product was a gift (a lipstick) from the Barbie Collection (forgive
me for forgetting what its called it long since has left my collection when I
lost it somewhere on vacation).

 

[dreamscapemess]

curse Blair AKA juicystar07 on YouTube. i solely blame her for my obsession with mac. watching other beauty gurus didn't help either...
nor did COMING ACROSS SPECKTRA AND TEMPTALIA

 

[vintageroses]

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Originally Posted by dreamscapemess curse Blair AKA juicystar07 on YouTube. i solely blame her for my obsession with mac. watching other beauty gurus didn't help either... nor did COMING ACROSS SPECKTRA AND TEMPTALIA

HAHA i totally second that! Those were the 3 things that made me so obsessed with MAC! & i'm not even a makeup artist or anything! hahas I used to have like 1 blush & 2-3 lipglosses but now it's just out of control! HAHA & swatches oh my they make me weak!