MAC Alluring Aquatic Collection (May 22, 2014)

[Dolly Snow]

Was playing around with Pet Me Please and different liners to see what I came up with (I like it alone but I'm a tweaker lol). This was one of my fave mixes. PMP with Lasting Sensation lip pencil

Great combo!

 

[butterflyeyes]

Yes!! lmao!! I made the correction after I typed it hahahahaha!! brain fart :lol:

:lol: I had to go back and see if one of the glosses was named Sensual Sparks or wondered if they repromoted it lol

 

[Dolly Snow]

You are allowed Dolly, what aren't you liking about the packaging (other than the pesky fingerprints)?

Probably the finger prints and the bumps seem bumpy over water droplets.

 

[lipstickaddict]

Yay...I'll think you'll like it! I was skeptical, but I ended up loving it!

I applied more the second time around in store and it did look a lot better! I do love it, so I will definitely make it work!

Pet me please was also awesome. I wore frosts in the 90's but am loving them once again

 

[rae_rae21]

I applied more the second time around in store and it did look a lot better! I do love it, so I will definitely make it work!

Pet me please was also awesome. I wore frosts in the 90's but am loving them once again

Girl...I'm kinda digging the 90s come-back stuff happening now. I was also a browney/frost-loving girl back then..so it feels a bit nostalgic! LOL

 

[maybeline46]

Happy Belated Birthday! Now that would have been the best present--but the day after isn't bad

Hope you had a great one!

THANK YOU!!!!! It was pretty great!

 

[lipstickaddict]

Catching up on posts. Is SS dupe able? I have A LOT of nudes, so I don't want to buy something just like what I have.

Good question! I don't know---nothing that I have in my expansive lip collection is like it... It is a sheer frost that shows the natural color of your lip if applied lighty. It really is quite gorgeous. I say check it out in person if you can, because with a smokey eye, it will be stunning!

 

[lipstickaddict]

Girl...I'm kinda digging the 90s come-back stuff happening now. I was also a browney/frost-loving girl back then..so it feels a bit nostalgic! LOL

Me too! I'm lovin the throwback as well. Did you get pet me please?

Wait---You did get it didn't you? And you were having trouble making it work and I suggested using a liner? Was that you? LOL Too many posts!!!!!

 

[awickedshape]

Ah... I'm not feeling that youtube video. I can't swatch very many products and only in MAC but I still check blogs and youtube and Google for swatches. Even the swatches on the site can help. Sometimes you still get a dud or it's not flattering on you. But to not even look at anything. If you can afford it, great. I just think it's a waste :-(

 

[LARAELYSE]

I like to play Russian roulette with some items im not freaking out about... ill go back in a few days & see if anythings left! Lol in the meantime I did get RG, delphic, gots, mystical, FD, LL, SS & slv sun oh & the beautiful 127! I left EO behind & will sea (lol) if it wants me to take it home over the weekend! Love to everyone & their hauls!

 

[rocksteadybaby]

Ah... I'm not feeling that youtube video. I can't swatch very many products and only in MAC but I still check blogs and youtube and Google for swatches. Even the swatches on the site can help. Sometimes you still get a dud or it's not flattering on you. But to not even look at anything. If you can afford it, great. I just think it's a waste :-(

You would think by having a channel on You tube doing Make up reviews you would do some research...I just had to turn it off when she started talking about the Bronzers I was cringing I couldn't watch it any longer.

 

[Dolly Snow]

Okay, so I just went back for SS I WILL make it work damit!

lol is it working?

 

[lipstickaddict]

lol is it working?

It is!!!!

 

[MandyVanHook]

EO is def your color!! so pretty! Don't you love when things just fall in your bag!! How did that get there? oops

Enjoy!!! Mystical looks so pretty & love your polish!

Thank you, the polish is KBShimmer Shipwreck! Kind of goes with the theme!

 

[lipstickaddict]

Probably the finger prints and the bumps seem bumpy over water droplets.

LOL

 

[Dolly Snow]

It is!!!! :haha:

Lol told ya

 

[Dolly Snow]

LOL:lol:

lol well they are

 

[Ajigglin]

Well I just got a call from my uncle.....My grandmother is in the hospital and yea so um he told me to just buy my stuff and have fun because I deserve it....uh yea what do I do This day seriously went from bad, happy now worse!

How's Grandma doing now? Any news?

SS is really meant for the natural lip color to come through. I'm not a big fan of caked on lip stick, but try to neutralize your lips with either WCN or LE in Pale, but VERY LIGHTLY, especially if you follow with a nude l/s. On mauve colored lips, WCN take a minute or two to neutralize (in the same way as a color correcting powder takes a bit of time). Personally, I find it easier to work with WCN, but if you prefer a brush application, then go with LE. HTH

I'm going to take your advice on SS, because I just tried it now and was not impressed, and I always swipe 53 times.

Aargh! Now i'm "only" 700 messages behind. I give up. (throws hands up into the air, then catches them) So i got to my local MAC this AM around 9:15. I was the first one there. Whew! But, what do i see? The Allluring Aquatic display is already out! And some of the slots are not filled? How can this be? Another woman shows up around 9:30. She's on her cell. She walks to the door and peers in, then crankily asks when it opens. She's in front of the sign on the door that tells the hours. I say, "10 AM." She gets even crankier, "Why can't the open sooner?" Then she goes to sit in her car and wait. I'm still sitting out in the cold and i left my hot coffee in my car. What was i thinking? A young woman shows up and sits not far from me on the bench, face down into her cell phone - i think she's Facebooking, but i'm not sure. I recognize a MAC SA coming down the street. She recognizes me and says "Hi!"... then she tells me that the collection went on sale YESTERDAY!!!! Wednesday! Yesterday!?!?! I hope they aren't sold out of anything i want... Maybe that explains all the empty slots in the display... Why didn't know!?!?!? I make the face in the Edvard Munch painting, "The Scream". It's not much different from the face Macaulay Culkin made in "Home Alone". I feel a faint sense of panic. I have been Low Buying all year so far - skipping some collections, buying one or 2 things from others. I get out my cell phone and check Alluring Aquatic stock at Nordstrom, Macy's, Bloomingdales, maccosmetics.com. Nearly everything is sold out, even the nail polish i want!!! Another young woman arrives to wait in the cloudy cold. Finally it's 10, the doors open, and i rush in waving my list. My intention is to have the SA pull the stuff, then i'll swatch and put a bunch of it back. The cranky woman who was on her cell comes in after everyone else. The young women are swatching. She's still on her cell, and she is even crankier. In a loud and crotchety voice she complains that she was there ahead of everyone but me (which is true) and she *demands* to be waited on. And she is still on her cell. Meanwhile my SA is pulling my stuff and I am swatching lipsticks and lipglosses and AS ED bronzer. I make one change - i ask her to put Water Deities back and get me Seductive Sound instead. Otherwise, i don't ask her to put anything back, and i buy waaaaaaay too much beautiful stuff -- think i may even have gotten the last Aphrodite's Shell, which will work on my neutral toned skin. Except for one thing... they were OUT of Fathoms Deep ED e/s. Nooooo! Aargh! But the SA is sweet and calls another MAC counter. They have Fathoms Deep, but they won't hold anything because it's a new collection. It's about a 30 minute drive there at best - and today is not the best. There's plenty of crazy traffic. I finally see the mall but i take the wrong exit, because i've never gone to that mall. I drive around looking for it, for what feels like a long time, through suburban style residential neighborhoods. Finally, i see some businesses and, in desperation, i enter a fast food drive-thru and ask the girl who takes orders how to get to the mall. I'm sure it isn't far away. She sounds a bit puzzled by my request, but she tells me. Meanwhile i have to wait for the guy in front of me in the giant pickup truck to get his order. I finally get to the mall and find the Macy's. I park near a door. But there's a sign on the door saying for MAC Alluring Aquatic people should line up at another door far far away. I walk into that door anyway, through the men's wear dept., through most of the cosmetic department and finally see the MAC counter. They want to help me. They want me to buy more, more! All i want is Fathoms Deep and i get it. The traffic is still crazy in the other direction going back. Fathoms Deep is beautiful. Still I suspect it may not have been worth driving through crazy traffic for a total of about 70 miles.

That recap was epic.

Yeah, same for my local MAC....and yesterday was my BIRTHDAY! I would have loved to have gone on my actual birthday but I had no idea they were releasing early!  Fortunately they had not sold out of anything and expected to have everything available through the weekend.

Happy belated, mama!

 

[rae_rae21]

Me too! I'm lovin the throwback as well. Did you get pet me please?

Wait---You did get it didn't you? And you were having trouble making it work and I suggested using a liner? Was that you? LOL Too many posts!!!!!

lol..that was PMP! Not digging that one just yet (need to play with it) but I just got my 2 Siren Songs today and I totally love em!

 

[jenise]

wow im so upset! Just got my second order from Nordstrom which included Enchanted One AND IT WAS NOT IN THE BOX, although I was still charged for it. All they said they could do was credit me since its sold out now

whatever, love all of my other AA goodies!