Release dates for Germany

[Chester]

Wow, I had no idea bloggers collection is US/Canada only. Guess I will skip this then.

Also, it seems I / we have been waiting for Fashion Flower for years now. At the beginning I wanted so many things but now there's only one or two items left, Ever Hip l/s if it looks good on me, and maybe one e/s, Groundcover probably (although I have more than enough eye shadows). May to kill my lemmings, MAC.

Honestly I think they should have switched Surf Baby and Fashion Flower around. Fashion Flower looks much more early summery to me and Surf Baby more like a July-August collection.
@Anneri, you're right. It's not like these are terribly unique colors. I'll just keep on enjoying my Surf Baby haul then.

Chester

 

[Naynadine]

Wow, I had no idea bloggers collection is US/Canada only. Guess I will skip this then.

Also, it seems I / we have been waiting for Fashion Flower for years now. At the beginning I wanted so many things but now there's only one or two items left, Ever Hip l/s if it looks good on me, and maybe one e/s, Groundcover probably (although I have more than enough eye shadows). May to kill my lemmings, MAC.

Honestly I think they should have switched Surf Baby and Fashion Flower around. Fashion Flower looks much more early summery to me and Surf Baby more like a July-August collection.
@Anneri, you're right. It's not like these are terribly unique colors. I'll just keep on enjoying my Surf Baby haul then.

Chester

I totally agree. My FF list is also shrinking the more fall previews I see and rather want to save my money for those. For me it's Ever Hip and Alpha Girl for sure, Summer Shower and Budding Beauty are maybes. With Semi Precious in the same month I might have to limit myself to 2 items maximum.

 

[Anneri]

Does anyone watch the finale of Germany's next topmodel right now? I've had the feeling that the girls wore Candy Yum-yum?!

The only things I want from FF are right now Ever Hip and Alphagirl, and from Semi-Precious Golden Glaze and one of the Cremesheens. And that's it.

MAC has made a lot of strange decisions lately, of which the release dates of FF and the US only bloggers collex are only tips of the iceberg.

 

[bis]

[quote name="Chester" url="/forum/thread/108370/release-dates-for-germany/1560#post_2128219"] Wow, I had no idea bloggers collection is US/Canada only. Guess I will skip this then.

Also, it seems I / we have been waiting for Fashion Flower for years now. At the beginning I wanted so many things but now there's only one or two items left, Ever Hip l/s if it looks good on me, and maybe one e/s, Groundcover probably (although I have more than enough eye shadows). May to kill my lemmings, MAC.

Honestly I think they should have switched Surf Baby and Fashion Flower around. Fashion Flower looks much more early summery to me and Surf Baby more like a July-August collection.
@Anneri, you're right. It's not like these are terribly unique colors. I'll just keep on enjoying my Surf Baby haul then.

Chester
[/quote] So true, I feel like the time for a Spring collection is over. Although Alpha Girl is really nice. EH was a bit a let-down, I feel it's overhyped and pretty light. And Groundcover looks like Copperplate more brown with worse texture. Can someone please check my pulse?! What's wrong, I am not excited about a MAC collection. Well, I guess Chanel will make up for it

 

[Anneri]

Well, I guess Chanel will make up for it

 

[*JJ*]

i'm getting a cp for the blogger collection. i like the colors, i feel like this collection is more unique than most things mac spit out recently. i'm not getting jealousy wakes because i don't wear greens but i love the color, i don't remember any mac e/s like this. i'm getting parisian skies and hocus pocus and then start saving for semi-prescious

 

[Anneri]

Okay girls, I need your help. Money is a little tight right now (you know - no job at the moment), and I can't decide what to get from the next collections.
I don't like mineralize products that much, but I always blamed myself for not getting Gilt by Association and Golden Glaze might be a good substitute for that? Also, I've never tried Cremesheen Glasses - maybe I should. Then, the brushes. I fell they're gimicky and wouldn't know what to use them on, but maybe they're better than sliced bread and I'll get flashes of regret when they're sold out?
I'd have bought loads of FF if it would have been released in Spring. My initial list was Alpha Girl, Ever hip and Bows & Curtseys. Well. Can Alpha Girl be duped? Me of Innen und Außen was not really impressed with it.

And then the dratted Bloggers Collection - I feel really drawn to Karen's and Christine's products.

What to do? I'm prepared to spend maybe 50 to 70 Euros on everything, but can't for the life of me decide. Please help me decide!

 

[Naynadine]

Okay girls, I need your help. Money is a little tight right now (you know - no job at the moment), and I can't decide what to get from the next collections.
I don't like mineralize products that much, but I always blamed myself for not getting Gilt by Association and Golden Glaze might be a good substitute for that? Also, I've never tried Cremesheen Glasses - maybe I should. Then, the brushes. I fell they're gimicky and wouldn't know what to use them on, but maybe they're better than sliced bread and I'll get flashes of regret when they're sold out?
I'd have bought loads of FF if it would have been released in Spring. My initial list was Alpha Girl, Ever hip and Bows & Curtseys. Well. Can Alpha Girl be duped? Me of Innen und Außen was not really impressed with it.

And then the dratted Bloggers Collection - I feel really drawn to Karen's and Christine's products.

What to do? I'm prepared to spend maybe 50 to 70 Euros on everything, but can't for the life of me decide. Please help me decide!

I have also trouble to decide, because my budget is tight too. I feel the same way about FF, I like that collection so much and would've bought a lot if they released it earlier. Right now I will only get Alpha Girl and Ever Hip. Summer Shower is still a lemming, though. I believe Alpha Girl is pretty, I've only heard good things about it. Plus the beauty powders are always good value, you get 10 gramms of product for 22 Euro.
Semi Precious is difficult, I really like Mineralize products. If I wasn't a fan of Mineralize products in generell, I would skip the MSFs and blushes, but still get one of the MES, they seem to be really nice. I also want to try a Cremesheen. I will skip the brushes, they look gimmicky to me too. I still need to build my brush collection, but the permanent ones are great and you can get them anytime you want. I don't think these ones can do anything the regular ones can't.

I'm going to ignore the Blogger's collection, allthough I like some of the products. But it's not available here anyways, so why chase the products if they don't make them available for us? I'm sure they gonna repromote some of them at some point.

If I was you, I would get two or all three items from FF and one MES, and skip the rest.

 

[Anneri]

Thank you Nadine for the input! I think I'll follow your advice, though I'm still itching to get a CP for some Blogger items.

And of course, now there are the Glam Glosses...

BTW, I meant to ask for a while now: Does anyone know where Susanne is? I miss her. She was such a staple around here!

 

[Naynadine]

I've also been wondering about Susanne, i noticed that I didn't see her post anything for a while and I think she used to post a lot before. Hope she's allright.

 

[cutemiauw]

^ So do I! I've been wondering about that for quite some time too!

I'm not excited with MAC either somehow... Also felt a bit tired of chasing after the release date just to get a certain item. *sigh*

 

[Chester]

I hope Susanne is alright. I miss her input.

On the MAC note, I've vowed to only buy what really wows me in person. I won't hunt for anything. There are better (read: more sensible) things to do with my time.

Chester

 

[Naynadine]

I agree, I plan to select more carefully what products I buy. Simply because there are so many collections and new products coming out, not only MAC, but Chanel, Givenchy etc which I like too, it would be insane buying all the ''it''-items from every collection. I do not have that much money, and also not the nerve to hunt down everything.

Besides that I'm really frustrated with the confusing infos about MAC's release dates. The latest rumours I heard were that Fashion Flower was pushed back until August, or that it will only be available in selected stores.

 

[Anneri]

I agree, I plan to select more carefully what products I buy. Simply because there are so many collections and new products coming out, not only MAC, but Chanel, Givenchy etc which I like too, it would be insane buying all the ''it''-items from every collection. I do not have that much money, and also not the nerve to hunt down everything.

Besides that I'm really frustrated with the confusing infos about MAC's release dates. The latest rumours I heard were that Fashion Flower was pushed back until August, or that it will only be available in selected stores.

WHAAAAAAT?! This is isane. What's the matter with MAC?!

Otherwise, agree with you on all counts. Chanel, Guerlain, Burberry and Armani - here I come!

 

[cutemiauw]

Totally agree! I know Chanel/Armani stuff isn't cheap, but since they are not in such ridiculous amount of LEs and conflicting release dates, not to mention the quality. I think it's better

Uh, and I can't believe they postponed Fashion Flower again

. For sure nobody will buy a spring collection so close to fall :-/

 

[Naynadine]

Ok, last things I heard are that FF will release on July 1st in (Pro?) stores, but not on Douglas counters. And online also in the first week of July. But if it is stores only and not Douglas, then maybe online it's also MAC exclusive and not on the Douglas site? Also the last few collections were so late on the MAC website, I do not trust the release dates for that site.
But since a lot of people got different information, who knows when and where it will really launch. I'll just wait and see, if stuff isn't sold out by the time I see it online, I'll order Ever Hip and Alpha Girl (maybe even only Ever Hip), and that's it. My excitement has died down almost completely.

 

[Anneri]

Thanks for the info, Nadine!

Like yours, my excitement is quite dead now - and like you, I'll likely get only EH. I tried to search for comparison swatches of AG, but can't seem to find any, and I've really more blushes and BPs than I'll ever finish. So - yeah, if they had released it earlier, I'd have gotten AG for sure, maybe even Summer Shower and Bows & Curtseys, but now?

 

[Anneri]

Okay, I just got the following info from the live chat today:

Hallo. Danke für Ihre Interesse an MAC Cosmetics. Mein Name ist 'Melanie'. Was kann ich für Sie tun?
Dorit: Hallo, ich bin Dorit. Ich habe eine Frage zu den kommenden Kollektionen. Könnten Sie mir die release dates von Semi-Precious und Fashion Flower geben? Besonders bei Fashion Flower gab es ja ein paar Verschiebungen.
Melanie: Richtig! Das On Counter Date für beide genannten Collectionen wird vorraussichtlich der 11.07.2011 sein!
Dorit: Danke, Melanie! Ich finde es schade, dass Fashion Flower als Frühlingskollektion nach Surf Baby veröffentlicht wird - so ganz scheint es nicht mehr zu passen. Könnten Sie das vielleicht ans Management weitergeben? Ich hätte definitv von FF mehr gekauft, wenn sie früher rausgekommen wäre.
Dorit: Werden beide Kollektionen überall erhältlich sein? Counters, Stores und douglas.de?
Melanie: Ja, lt. unserer Infos soll das so sein!
Dorit: Danke! Bis zum nächsten Mal!

 

[Naynadine]

Yep, today I heard it too, that both will launch on the 11th. But I have gotten wrong infos from maccosmetics.de before regarding release dates, so I'm not trusting any info 100% right now.
All I know is that it's gonna be an expensive day if both FF and Semi Precious launch on the same day.

 

[Naynadine]

Anneri - No, I've never ordered from Parfumdreams before, but I always want to. I've been wanting to order the Guerlain Meteorites compact forever, plus maybe a Rouge Automatique. Because you get a 10 Euro discount when you order for 60 or 65 Euro, I think. But I never manage to have the money for it between all the MAC collections, and Chanel and other stuff.

I have absolutely no idea why I can't order from Pieper, if I place an order it gets cancelled a second later, saying something is wrong with my information. Which can only be my address or my bank account number. And I'm pretty sure I know them both ;-) Funny thing is, my dad made an account there and tried to order and has the same problem. I called their CS once and they were kinda rude, didn't know how or didn't want to help me, kind of hinting that it must be something wrong with my bank account. Umm, no. Well, it's their loss, they lost a good potential customer. Don't know why they don't offer other payment options like Paypal, or per Rechnung like Douglas anyway.

If I can find Douglas vouchers before Semi Precious, I'll post them here.