Which MAC items do you wish you hadn't bought - Spin Off

[wilhelmina]

Beige-ing Shadestick, my first and last shadestick. Seemed so handy when I watched all the makeup tutorials on youtube. When I got it, used it twice and I already hate it. It messes up all my beautiful eyeshadows and I end up having this one big glowy stain on my eyelids

Starlet Kiss from Heatherette. Pretty pink but just doesn't suit me

 

[christineeee_]

club e/s, blue brown pigment, rubenesque paint pot

 

[pinkxsushii]

Melrose Mood from Heatherette

 

[FiestyFemme]

Quote:

Originally Posted by darkishstar Hate myself for getting suckered by packaging.

Me too!
Not that I immensely regret my Fafi/Heatherette purchases, but if they hadn't been in that packaging, I doubt I'd have bought half of what I did.
I'm sure I'd have been able to talk myself out of it.

Lesson learned.

 

[sharkbytes]

Any of the shadesticks...I know a lot of my fellow Specktrites LOVE them, and I just absolutely hate 'em. I'd rather use a paint, paint pot, or a CCB as a color base, I think they work much better.

Also, Copperized pigment. I thought it would be a gorgeous, coppery-gold, but instead it's a greenish color, basically what happens to copper when it oxidizes. I haven't been able to get it to work with anything :/

 

[magia]

Beige-ing Shadestick - didn't show up at all
Paint Magrittes and Stilife - wrong colours to me and don't like Paints
Pink freeze e/s - too cold shade for me
Rushmetal pigment - luckily it was a sample, but it's awful, texture is nothing but smooth
Pink plaid lipstick - too cold colour and looked violet, not pink
High tea lipstick - there wasn't enough colour or pigment

 

[Blushbaby]

Snowgirl lipgloss - I've never used it
Chintz lipstick

There are a couple more lipsticks whose names escape me. They're all going to be used for my next B2M splurge at Xmas!

 

[fashionate]

the lipglass pencils from the 3-D collection, i bought a bunch and used them once....they've been accumulation dirt ever since :s

 

[kimmy]

i probably shouldn't have bought the loose mineral foundation. i've used it like once since i got it, and now that everyone knows it isn't all mac claimed it would be, it's a bitch to get rid of. i bought it at a pro store far from me, so i couldn't even return it.

not a good use of thirty bucks.

 

[MAChostage]

^^ ITA about the mineral foundation. Awaiting this thing's release I was a fan and a half, I anticipated it so much! I expected something different, better.

 

[lovecb06]

swimming e/s-doesn't look good on me.

electro l/s-it looks kinda ridiculous on me.

stars n rockets- my ben nye palette has a similar color to it but is more pigmented.

 

[Mabelle]

fountain blue eyeshadow
i just got talent pool... i think i have shadows that are pretty similar. if i return it (even if ive never opened the box) will they throw it out? i don;t want a perfectly good product to be put in the trash cause i made a hasty decision.

 

[purrtykitty]

^^Yeah, they'll chuck it. You might just try swapping or selling it here. I'm sure someone will want it, especially if it's BNIB.

 

[Mabelle]

aww no

what a pain in the ass. thanks for the suggestion though!

 

[lipglass_junkie]

I actually don't regret buying full size pigments, but I buy most of mine at CCOs, so that makes a difference.

I actually am happy with almost everything I have bought from MAC. A couple things, like Patina and Mauvement, I didn't like at first, but now I love them! (for those that don't like Mauvement, try it in the crease to blend out a shadow on the lid. I've done this a couple times, first with illegal cargo and then with copperized p/g, and I loved it)

However, I DO regret a few things, mostly Pastorale pigment. I cannot get that to show up, and its one of the few pigments that doesn't like being applied wet.

I have corn shadestick, but I hate the thing, and I regret architecture paint, its nice, but too much trouble. I've decided that I'm sticking to UDPP as a base. I also am not really liking Lollipop loving l/s still, but we're working on it

 

[Sanayhs]

Quote:

Originally Posted by fashionate the lipglass pencils from the 3-D collection, i bought a bunch and used them once....they've been accumulation dirt ever since :s

Dude, I know I'm totally in the minority, but I love those things. I have 5 different colours and wish I had more!

 

[HoTPiNk2]

I bought FAFI EYES 2 Quad. I'm wishing to trade it for something else!! I haven't touched it, after I bought it I realized the colors didn't really worked for me. Do you gals have the link or can tell me how to post it to see if I can trade it for something else?

 

[xxAngelxx]

My MAC collection isn't very big, but I still have a few things I wish I hadn't bought in the first place...

Ornamental lustreglass: just too dark on me, was the first MAC item I ever swapped away
Bateaux lustreglass: just came up metallic orange on me - not pretty; the first and only return I've done

Jewel Blue and Electric Eel eyeshadows: so matte... I want these to work, I love blues... but its just not happening

 

[Lexxiii]

Lotusland... It's almost so shiny that the color doesn't show up!
Violetta Lipstick... Pretty but I almost never wear it unless I'm going for a bright raver look, which is almost never!
Sharkskin Shadestick... made me realize I do NOT like shadesticks!

 

[nazia]

Inky Liquidlast (just...GAH!)
Rich Ground Fluidline (looks odd on me)
Painterly Paint Pot (waaaay too pale for me! Layin Low is perfect)
Mellow Mood Lipstick (Doesn't show up on my lips)