How did you guys first discover MAC??

[ClaireAvril]

OMG I don't even remember..
I know it probably had something to do with the Studio fix foundation that was probably my first purchase.
I was probably in a mall and saw the store and took a peek.. wow.. like meeting your soul mate for the first time........love @ first sight

 

[doll.face]

Just from walking around the mall, I guess. I can't really remember exactly. I'm pretty sure my first eyeshadow was Pink Freeze and I think I got it in either.. 7th or 8th grade.

 

[brokenxbeauty]

I actually first heard about MAC online, I think it was on a message board that I loved posting on when I was younger. I always knew that it was supposed to be really good but I didn't think we had one here and knew my mom wouldn't let me order online. I found Specktra and became even more obsessed, and maybe a month or two ago I found out we had a counter about 30 minutes away from my house!

 

[AdlersMommy22]

We dont have one anywhere around where I live (central IL)... and I was in tampa visiting my ex-- one of his friends from h.s. had the most AWESOME eyeshadow--and she was super tan like me (it was retrospeck) and so she took me to the Countryside mall in tampa bay--- I bought retrospeck, strobe creame, 188 brush, ladyblush cremeblush, hyperreal foundation, shell CCB, the 150 brush, and the 224 brush. I spent over $300 and when my ex asked me how much I spent I literally thought he wanted to hit me.. LOL! But I got back to his house and just sat there and looked at all my pretty new stuff.. LOL! Ive been hooked ever since-- except for now I have to buy all my stuff online!!! :-(

 

[chdom]

I'll blame my co-worker for this one. I've always admired how she did her makeup. Asked her about it one day & it was all downhill from there. LOL I still remember her telling me "I use MAC. You've got to try their brushes. Yeah, they're expensive, but it's the shit!" I just gotta laugh!

 

[kittykit]

Back in 2002. Some girls on my Livejournal were big fan of MAC and they've really pretty makeup

 

[Ruby_Woo]

Well when I was walking into Nordstrom, I saw MAC. I had never stopped to see colors or anything, but I was feeling depressed and stuff about my situation back then, so I was just at the mall cus my hubby took me shopping to make me feel a little better. A girl asked me what I was looking for, what colors I liked, really engaging me in convo.

I ended up w/ Phloof!, print, electra, black tied and Amberlights. My hubby bought em for me. Which was super sweet because for us at the time $14 an eyeshadow was much for us ( 17 &18). And I use to say I would never spend a lot of money on makeup! lol now its pretty much my life.

And that is my story of how I fell in love w/ MAC.

 

[capmorlovesmac]

It was just a couple of weeks ago MAC got me. I was searching for something on youtube - I guess it was some reviews or so about Body Shops seaweed stuff - and I saw some haul videos and they included MAC. Then in the related videos it started. Talking about MAC, tutorials with MAC, more MAC hauls... and.. I got catched! I saw reviews about some MAC stuff in magazines before but youtube was the start.

The first time I went into a MAC Pro store and counter (yes both at the same day

) I felt like: I wanna live in there!
I bought the Nocturnelle e/s first with the 224 and 225 (I should have skipped the 225 and bought the 217 instead

) and lots and lots of more stuff over the next couple of weeks. I saw CoC and went totally crazy about it. Ohh I love this brand

I just bought two plastic boxes with drawers and I hope they'll arrive today (not that easy to find those simple boxes that I saw in the videos from US that you can buy at walmart or target for maybe 10$ here in Germany

) so that my new beloved stuff has a nice new and tidy home

on my commode.

 

[versace]

on specktra

i found it cause of make up tuts

 

[GlossyAbby]

My friend worked for a high end store called the Clothiery in AZ and she worked w/ girls there that wore mac and the mac store was just a few stores down....She ended up buying some brushes and quads and I wore her mac in 2001 for halloween and loved it....I didn't actually buy any mac til 2002 and I got way too much stuff but first hauls are like that...my friend was with me and she was like you need this and this and the MA was running around making me pretty...my first eye shadow was carbon....Fast forward a few years and I am a full blown addict my friend isn't even as obsesed as I am and I have converted 3 other friends to mac so far it is my duty to spread the good word of mac so if you see me knocking at your door holding a traincase please let me in and share the good word

 

[chantel25]

I was actually watching a video on youtube, and they had a list of what they used then I goggled MAC and went to the site and been hooked ever since. I have 2 e/s palletes 7 blushes 3 brushes 7/8 l/s & l/g and it is growing but my hubby puts me on a budget lol I would blow my whole check on MAC if I could

 

[hawaii02]

The MA who did my wedding makeup used MAC. That's how I was introduced to the color selection. Her enthusiasm for the line got me into the store when I ran out of foundation (after many years of the wrong color via the drugstore). Addiction happened in February after a makeover at my local counter.

 

[Ladydee91500]

So in either Allure, or Glamour they featured the clear lipglass tube and I fell in love. Found the counter and never stopped LOL. Its been over 5 years and I'm fully addicted. I've met some great girls and even guys in that time and officially have about 1/3 of the counter

I have to say I am a sucker for those limiteds.

 

[LadyFaenyx]

About a year ago, I won a $100 gift card somewhere, and bought a few eyeshadows with it, and now i'm addicted, haha.

 

[malteze_bubbleg]

the first product i purchased was clear lipglass and i found about MAC when i came to the US. i was in atlanta (mall close to the airport) and my bfs friend went in their to buy herself some makeup and so i bought something small....but i became obsessed with MAC throught the internet (Myspace & Specktra mainly).

 

[pinktraits]

I can't pin point the exact time because, as far as I can remember, I've always known about MAC. I think my mom is the one who would mention it when she'd talk about makeup (back when she wore makeup, so, about 18 years ago). I only started actually buying it at around the begining of September of this year and I have been spending a hefty amount ever since.

 

[miss_bailey]

it must have been about 1999, my stepdad was travelling alot for work, every month or so and there was a MAC at the airport. He would always bring me back something, pallettes or bags. A MAC opened at the mall near me and the rest, as they say, is history.

 

[JupiterRising]

I discovered it in Macy's somehow. It was right around the Adorn launch, many moons ago. My first purchase was Pink Venus and Vex eyeshadows.

 

[jaclynashley]

My mom used a few MAC things like Studio Fix and stuff like that and I remember spending two hours at a MAC counter when my mom got a makeover during the 2005 Holiday Collection.
I didn't think much of eyeshadows because I was like 10 years old and only liked lipgloss and sparkly nail polish.
Then one day I was searching on Google for really good eyeliners and found MAC and asked my mom to buy me one.
I got "Phone Number" eye kohl and my mom gave me her brand new Ramblin' Rose lipstick.
Then my friend and I went to the MAC counter and I bought Viva Glam VI SE Lipglass and Zoomlash and it all began...
Now my mom asks me if I'd rather have dinner or get a new MAC eyeshadow.

 

[xxAngelxx]

As a teenager, I had seen the Viva Glam ads in magazines with RuPaul and Elton John, but I had never seen a MAC store in my small town. I had just figured it was some crazy expensive makeup, so I never really thought about it. Fast forward to age 22, a friend of mine and I were playing with makeup. She had some MAC and I loved it! She had 2 Honesty eyeshadows and gave me one. I've been in love ever since!