How did you guys first discover MAC??
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lalunia
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I was always into makeup and I think my soph. year of high school I got hooked on Makeupalley and that directed me here to Specktra. I became a member in '05 but did not really get into buying MAC until 2 years later when I finally found a MAC foundation that didn't break me out and made my skin look flawless (Go SFF!).
Now, I'm a sophomore in college and spend waaay to much time and money here and in MAC stores
Now, I'm a sophomore in college and spend waaay to much time and money here and in MAC stores
sugaMAMA
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Re: How you discovered MAC!
Your story is so cute hehe. Well I first figured out MAC when my Mom started snooping around the counters and, BOOM I foudn OH Baby l/g & lipglass. I think the first thing she bought was a palette with a ton of e/s in it. Its REALLY old. I need to examine it again haha.. Its been all down hill with my money since then HAHA. I've had my makeup done at the counters for proms, senior portriats, my graduation.. and I spent almost $200 on makeup for my wedding, which I did myself because my ceremony was too early to go to a counter! =( But I'm still in love with MAC!
Your story is so cute hehe. Well I first figured out MAC when my Mom started snooping around the counters and, BOOM I foudn OH Baby l/g & lipglass. I think the first thing she bought was a palette with a ton of e/s in it. Its REALLY old. I need to examine it again haha.. Its been all down hill with my money since then HAHA. I've had my makeup done at the counters for proms, senior portriats, my graduation.. and I spent almost $200 on makeup for my wedding, which I did myself because my ceremony was too early to go to a counter! =( But I'm still in love with MAC!
NatalieMT
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It was a couple of months before Barbie Loves MAC was introduced that I first discovered MAC. I'd been looking for a foundation that was the right colour for a long time, everything else I'd found was too dark.
I remember I was in Debenhams and I saw the display of all the different MAC foundations and thought there were SO many shades that one of them was bound to be a good match.
One of the MAs colour matched me with NC15 which was perfect and recommended some other stuff. I bought all of it and I guess that was when I became hooked. My first purchases that day were the Oil Control Lotion, Select SPF Foundation, Blot Powder in Light, Select Cover Up Concealor, Pink Swoon Blush, Golden Bronzer and the 187 brush.
Now well I probably have wayyy too much MAC and continue to buy on a regular basis. I'm also now really into all the LE collections which I wasn't to start off with.
One of the MAs colour matched me with NC15 which was perfect and recommended some other stuff. I bought all of it and I guess that was when I became hooked. My first purchases that day were the Oil Control Lotion, Select SPF Foundation, Blot Powder in Light, Select Cover Up Concealor, Pink Swoon Blush, Golden Bronzer and the 187 brush.
Now well I probably have wayyy too much MAC and continue to buy on a regular basis. I'm also now really into all the LE collections which I wasn't to start off with.
zapphire
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It was the summer of 2000…I asked my friend (who is really into MAC) to help me pick out some makeup for a sweet “15” I was going to (my boyfriend’s sister, now my husband). Anyway, we went to the MAC store in the village I believe and I walked out with my first Studio Fix, goldmine e/s (which I still have……do they expire???) and some random lip gloss that I remember had a hint of gold….
A few years later for my wedding I got my makeup done at MAC (slip pink e/s, quarry e/s, naked lunch e/s, nylon e/s) and I’ve been into MAC ever since. I get obsessed for a while, and then I stop……then get obsessed again.
A few years later for my wedding I got my makeup done at MAC (slip pink e/s, quarry e/s, naked lunch e/s, nylon e/s) and I’ve been into MAC ever since. I get obsessed for a while, and then I stop……then get obsessed again.
k.a.t
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Well it was sometime late last year and it was actually because of this site that i discovered MAC. Sometime last year i really got into make up and the like but all i knew about was drugstore stuff
anyways i was searching on google but make up pictures for inspiration and i came across this really nice bright turqoise eye one and i found out that it was from somone's FOTD on this site. So i started looking around the site and fell in love with all the FOTDs and turtorials i saw and then i found out that it was a result of MAc (and of course fantastic make up skills). I then saved up some money to actually go there and got my first products.. Select Tint and Studio Finish concealer
Iam now looking for a job to pay for my newly-found addiction.
Iam now looking for a job to pay for my newly-found addiction.
greekprincess80
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I don't remember exactly how may years ago it was but I remember it was holiday time. I fell in love with the most perfect red lipgloss in the world, New Years Eve! I was just amazed at how good it looked in the tube and on me! I've been hooked ever since. Everyone in my family know MAC is the PERFECT gift for me. My mom is like you probably have over a thousand dollars in stuff and my answer to that is ... I need more!
PhonyBaloney500
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A co-worker always had pretty lipgloss and I asked her where she got it from. Decided to go to Macy's and check it out. Been stuck ever since (that was back in '99 or so!).
KikiB
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Well when I started working at the mall I noticed that Nordstrom had a little MAC outpost-at that time I was like "Damn...a cosmetics counter gets its own space?" Well around March of 07, I decide to go and pick up Aquadisiac shadow after testing a ton of different ones. Then I go back a couple weeks later, get two more, then two more later, then one later on...and forget about MAC for awhile because I got into Urban Decay and then the Lancome GWP's. Well I had been on the MAC site and I was curious about pigments so I stopped into the Freestanding store...and that started my addiction. 6 months and over $800 later...I think I've done pretty well for myself.
KellyBean
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Boy, this brings back memories.
I was 9 and Hilary Duff (by way of Lizzie McGuire) was my absolute IDOL. I had my hair cut like her, wore clothes like her, got the same shampoos, and, yes, makeup. She said that she kept a MAC lipglass in Nymphette in her purse at all times, so, of course, I bought that one. Also, I saw the brightest pink lipglass ever, Pink Poodle, so that was my next purchase. Technically my first makeup ever was MAC!
Then I actually started wearing makeup every day when I was 12. I wore a lot of Maybelline for about 2ish years.
Then, when I was 14, I walked by the MAC counter again. My friend bought a Cream O' Spice lipliner (which she went through every two weeks) and I saw the rack of lipglasses. I remembered how much I LOVED those lipglasses when I was 9. I'd long used up my Nymphette, and so I told the SA that I wanted a new lipgloss. I told her that I'd used Nymphette, and she asked if I wanted another or if I wanted to try something new. She let me try Pinkarat, and I absolutely loved it! Then she asked if I wanted to try anything else, and I said that I wanted a pressed powder and I bought my first blot powder. The next month, I came back for a blush and I've kept going back since!
I was 9 and Hilary Duff (by way of Lizzie McGuire) was my absolute IDOL. I had my hair cut like her, wore clothes like her, got the same shampoos, and, yes, makeup. She said that she kept a MAC lipglass in Nymphette in her purse at all times, so, of course, I bought that one. Also, I saw the brightest pink lipglass ever, Pink Poodle, so that was my next purchase. Technically my first makeup ever was MAC!
Then I actually started wearing makeup every day when I was 12. I wore a lot of Maybelline for about 2ish years.
Then, when I was 14, I walked by the MAC counter again. My friend bought a Cream O' Spice lipliner (which she went through every two weeks) and I saw the rack of lipglasses. I remembered how much I LOVED those lipglasses when I was 9. I'd long used up my Nymphette, and so I told the SA that I wanted a new lipgloss. I told her that I'd used Nymphette, and she asked if I wanted another or if I wanted to try something new. She let me try Pinkarat, and I absolutely loved it! Then she asked if I wanted to try anything else, and I said that I wanted a pressed powder and I bought my first blot powder. The next month, I came back for a blush and I've kept going back since!
euphrosyne_rose
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My best friend that I've had since high school has an uncle that started working for MAC around 2002 or so and her fam always exchanges names for Christmas. I had never heard of MAC before then but her uncle ended up picking her name and gave her a BAG of stuff for Christmas. It had to have been over $150 worth of e/s, lipsticks, etc. She ended up coming over one day with it for me to look through b/c she thought it was all so great and I fell in love with the colors and I thought the e/s pots were so cute. When the first store opened up in our mall, we both went and bought a few things. I bought a quad with Tilt, Beauty Marked, and Tempting and it's been a long standing love affair these 6 years!!!!
reesesilverstar
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I saw them around, but it was Barbie loves MAC that really caught my eye. It was the first time I'd seen somebody do a pink and green (my all time 2 fave colors) together! I was over the moon, but couldn't afford back then
So I started googling the hell out of the brand, found Specktra and Makuptalk (sorry if saying their nams isn't allowed). And I got hooked after that. It's like an addiction now.
So I started googling the hell out of the brand, found Specktra and Makuptalk (sorry if saying their nams isn't allowed). And I got hooked after that. It's like an addiction now.
Reslnt1
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Ru Paul and Saks 5th ave in NYC......
I was reading Rupaul's book ( so about 1996) and he talked about using MAC and taking hours to change into drag...i wanted to purchase it but then i read somewhere else that Bobbi Brown was great for WOC...but when i went to Saks i was highly disappointed b/c the Bobbi counter didnt have foundation in my dark shade so the MUA told me to try MAC, from there on out I've been using MAC
I was reading Rupaul's book ( so about 1996) and he talked about using MAC and taking hours to change into drag...i wanted to purchase it but then i read somewhere else that Bobbi Brown was great for WOC...but when i went to Saks i was highly disappointed b/c the Bobbi counter didnt have foundation in my dark shade so the MUA told me to try MAC, from there on out I've been using MAC
deven.marie
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when i was 13, my best friend's older sister was super pretty and popular in high school, anywho we snuck into her room to look at her $500 prom dress, and she had little e/s pots sitting on her dresser. we thought they were sooo cute so that weekend i bought mulch (my first ever mac purchase!) and she bought 2 or 3 and a brush. now 6 years later we're still best friends and mac addicts!!
lipglass_junkie
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lol, me and MAC have had an off and on relationship...
I first got introduced to it at the start of my freshman year of high school, when my mom thought it'd be ok for me to start wearing makeup. She got me a couple othings to get me started. She may have been a tomboy, but she did know what makeup works and what's just crap. It was a couple shadows (in retrospect, I would never have worn them today), brown eyeliner, mascara, a brush (213, still have it and I just graduated!), cubic blush and 129 SH, and Oh Baby lipglass (I still hate that one!). Eeven tho I had the stuff, I still wasn't really into it, and most of the eye stuff ended up getting stolen by our cleaning lady's daughter, but whatever, I wouldn't have worn the colors today anyway.
Then in 10th grade I got a big giftcard to macys, and couldn't really find any clothes, so I got a bunch of makeup too. That included a clinique tinted mosturizer, a clinique blush (now I think it's crap, but back then I loved it. Then I went to MAC and bought Minted and Foxy Lady eye kohls, Ornamental lusterglass. I liked them, but still didn't buy anything MAC for ages.
So I went on my happy way, wearing the little makeup I had, then finally went back to MAC in the middle of my junior year and bought two eyeshadows, fertile and texture, but again, that's where the purchases ended...
But then during christmas break my senior year I went on a band trip to Disneyland, and I discovered to beauty capital that is SEPHORA! Evrything was just so pretty, I ended up with a big Sugar palette. But what this have to do with MAC you say? Because that palette single handedly started an obsession with makeup. That still exists today, 7 months later. Well, I don't have a Sephora near me (it's 45 mintues away, I still manage to get there every other month tho
), so I decided to go over to the MAC counter 5 minutes away and give that a try. Since then I've ben hooked! It started slowly, with Humid eyeshadow, and now it's exploded, especially after I discovered a CCO ten minutes away from me!! And don't even get me stated about my new obsession with pigments!
Wow, I wrote a frikkin book, but what can I say, MAC captured my heart, even if it took a few tries!
I first got introduced to it at the start of my freshman year of high school, when my mom thought it'd be ok for me to start wearing makeup. She got me a couple othings to get me started. She may have been a tomboy, but she did know what makeup works and what's just crap. It was a couple shadows (in retrospect, I would never have worn them today), brown eyeliner, mascara, a brush (213, still have it and I just graduated!), cubic blush and 129 SH, and Oh Baby lipglass (I still hate that one!). Eeven tho I had the stuff, I still wasn't really into it, and most of the eye stuff ended up getting stolen by our cleaning lady's daughter, but whatever, I wouldn't have worn the colors today anyway.
Then in 10th grade I got a big giftcard to macys, and couldn't really find any clothes, so I got a bunch of makeup too. That included a clinique tinted mosturizer, a clinique blush (now I think it's crap, but back then I loved it. Then I went to MAC and bought Minted and Foxy Lady eye kohls, Ornamental lusterglass. I liked them, but still didn't buy anything MAC for ages.
So I went on my happy way, wearing the little makeup I had, then finally went back to MAC in the middle of my junior year and bought two eyeshadows, fertile and texture, but again, that's where the purchases ended...
But then during christmas break my senior year I went on a band trip to Disneyland, and I discovered to beauty capital that is SEPHORA! Evrything was just so pretty, I ended up with a big Sugar palette. But what this have to do with MAC you say? Because that palette single handedly started an obsession with makeup. That still exists today, 7 months later. Well, I don't have a Sephora near me (it's 45 mintues away, I still manage to get there every other month tho
Wow, I wrote a frikkin book, but what can I say, MAC captured my heart, even if it took a few tries!
LoveMac26
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Like most other little girls, I used to play with my mom's makeup when she wasn't looking. She has a lot of Mac stuff and I always thought everything was so pretty.
I eventually grew out of that stage and forgot about makeup until I was in junior high.
I was at the mall with a couple friends one day and I saw a Mac counter and recognized some things my mom had. So that day, I bought my first Mac items; Honey Lust and Amber Lights eye shadows. I've been an addict ever since.
I eventually grew out of that stage and forgot about makeup until I was in junior high.
I was at the mall with a couple friends one day and I saw a Mac counter and recognized some things my mom had. So that day, I bought my first Mac items; Honey Lust and Amber Lights eye shadows. I've been an addict ever since.
aleksis210
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pretty simple actually about 5 years ago I was at the mall and passed their eyeshadows I bought one (creme de violet) like the next week my best friend showed me an eyeshadow she bought and it was the same one! lol
