How did you guys first discover MAC??

[mrsjeffhardy]

I remember it like it was just yesterday...(lol)

I was 15 and I got a job in the mall @ Auntie Anne's Pretzels. During breaks,I'd walk around the mall,and end up spending my paychecks in the mall stores lol. I just randomnly walked into MAC one day because of all the makeup. (I had no idea of the phenomenon it was,I just loved makeup PERIOD. I,like most of you I'm sure,have loved makeup since I was a wee tot lol.) I ended up buying Jubilee lipstick and a purple e/s that I, for the life of me, cannot remember (I gave it to my friend. It didn't suit me,it was kinda pinkish.) After that day,I kept buying and buying and never looked back and that,my friends,is where it all started....

Along with finding MAC through my little teenager job,I also found my husband there,too. (He worked @ Auntie Anne's Pretzels.)
Now,6 years later... I have 2 kids and lots of MAC.
hahaha!!!

share your MAC-cherry poppin' experiences puhweeze!

[glam8babe]

Well it was about 2 year ago and Forbidden on myspace [Christina Dolce] had all these amazing pictures of her and her makeup looked flawless, amazing and professional. I found out she used MAC and Chanel makeup and i then looked into MAC by googling it and found out it was a fave of many celebs and professional makeup artists. Then last year i found out i had a MAC counter in the city closest to me and i bought my first MAC item [Eager lipstick] and fell in love!
now i have like 4 l/s, 8 e/s, 1 l/g, a quad, 4 brushes, blusher, MSF and a few other bits n bobs. Not much in my eyes but im slowly building my collection!

ohh and im soooo SOOOOOooooo glad i found specktra its like my bible

[mrsjeffhardy]

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Originally Posted by glam8babe

ohh and im soooo SOOOOOooooo glad i found specktra its like my bible

hell yes! me,too!!!

[Danapotter]

It was when Barbie Loves MAC launched. I walked past the MAC store in the mall and said, look at the bright colors!

Then, I took money from my ATM, spent $100, came home, and my mom said "Return it". And I did, being the good teen I am. (Even though those e/s were beautiful). I was banned from going into that store until about a couple weeks before C-Shock.

Now, a couple months and $360 later, I am fully addicted.

[glam8babe]

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Originally Posted by Danapotter

It was when Barbie Loves MAC launched. I walked past the MAC store in the mall and said, look at the bright colors!

Then, I took money from my ATM, spent $100, came home, and my mom said "Return it". And I did, being the good teen I am. (Even though those e/s were beautiful). I was banned from going into that store until about a couple weeks before C-Shock.

Now, a couple months and $360 later, I am fully addicted.

OMG i cant beleive you returned them! you should of just hid them lol i know i would of

[Danapotter]

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Originally Posted by glam8babe

OMG i cant beleive you returned them! you should of just hid them lol i know i would of

Yeah. I cannot disobey my mom. I would end up blabbing to her anyway. I cannot tell a lie. Except, now I buy my MAC in secret.

[susanks1]

I was looking on line for a Philosophy discount code and saw another makeup board. They talked about MAC. So I went to the counter at Nordstroms, bought a bare canvas paint, and then I was hooked. I have been buying MAC for 1 1/2 years now.

[choseck]

Many many years ago - I saw an ad for Viva Glam II in a magazine and thought the color was super pretty. The only MAC location at that time that I knew of was at the Nordstroms counter at the Mall of America. I was too young to drive, so one time I was there with my parents and bought it.

Fast forward to a couple of years ago when Marshall Fields (Now Macys) at my nearest mall got a MAC counter, I got Honey Lust shadow and the rest is history!

MAC is so awesome - I'm continuously impressed by their products

[mariecinder]

I had always thought MAC was overrated and that my high end Sephora stuff was so much better (lol) but then I found Specktra though another forum website. After looking at all of the beautiful faces and colors MAC created, I had to have it! My first MAC purchase was at the counter in Macy's. I bought Honey Lust, Mulch, and Gleam e/s. I looooved them. My next haul was at a CCO where I walked away with Idol Eyes, Mancatcher, Star! beauty powder, Shell Peal and many other things that I can't remember. lol I'm so hooked now most of my traincase is MAC!

[PRiNCiPESSAx4]

pink freeze lipstick! so im guessing around the time of the puppy love collection, so about 2000. this would mean i was in fifth grade haha..my mom bought me and my cousin of the same age a lipstick and this is what i picked haha..i still have it too, a full stick..i dunno what she was doing, letting a 5th grader buy such a bright pink haha it was for fun though ..then in 9th grade i really started buying, then stopped for a bit, and now am completely smitten once again! im currently a sophmore in college, so ive been a huge fan for about 7 years. it really started up again once i got my license and could drive to the mall, as this was also around the time i got my job haha

[macaddict_xo]

It was 6 years ago, I saw this girl at school with nice black eyeshadow on, so I was like....hmmm I have to get a black shadow... So I went to Toronto to go visit my granpa & he gave me $200 to go buy clothes and stuff...
I was walking by and the MAC store caught my eye with the range of colors they had... Walked in, only looking for a shadow..the woman that worked there kept saying..oh you need this...and this... and this... got everything she said... & was hooked ever since

[MAC_Whore]

About 15 years ago. I was shopping at Nordies in Seattle and look who showed up in the cosmetics section....MAC. Like a moth to a flame. I instantly snatched up Russian Red LS and was ADDICTED from that point on. Later, I did MAC for my wedding makeup. I picked up a ton of goodies and brushes at that point as well.

A bit more time passes and I decided to take a year and a half +/- off of the career path to have some fun and work as an MA for MAC.

And now......the monster......My Train Case :shedevil:

Funny thing is, those pics are outdated. I have a lot more now. Come on get down with the sickness.

[erine1881]

it was the beginning of 1998. my sister (8 years older than me) was going thru her makeup getting rid of stuff she didn't use anymore. she gave me magrittes & stilife paint and club, sprout & fiction shadow. the first time i went to a mac counter was when salsabelle came out the summer of 2004. it all went downhill from there. i was hooked. i would go into mac about once every two weeks to buy new stuff. i was in there for every new collection. nearly 10 years later, i have more makeup than i know what to do with (literally), and have been working for mac now for a little over a year. and so it goes, my collection continues to grow...

[BunnyBunnyBunny]

Well, honestly, I learned of it because Jeffree Star said he wore Electric Eel shadow. When I was in NYC in December 2005, I picked it up. And I've been addicted ever since. :3

That particular eyeshadow shattered because my jerk of a cat was batting it around on the floor one day, but I now have the MAC 1.6, a BUNCH of shadows, lipsticks, glasses, blushes, brushes, foundations, powders... I have too much! xD Getting more every month too!!

[girlsaidwhat]

True story.

I was having a makeover done in a salon, by a visiting artist who works on a lot of big names (Kim Catrall, Catherine Zeta Jones, I don't remember who else...).

He seemed like a fun sort...kind of like a club kid dressed for his day job... : ) Feeling frisky, I decided to ask him a question of the lurid variety.

Me: "So.....what kind of makeup would you recommend for someone, who, say....wanted it to stay on during hot sweaty messy sex?"

Him: ::looks slightly taken aback for a hot second::
"You didn't hear it from /me/....but MAC."

I've been using it ever since.

[BunnyBunnyBunny]

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Originally Posted by girlsaidwhat

True story.

I was having a makeover done in a salon, by a visiting artist who works on a lot of big names (Kim Catrall, Catherine Zeta Jones, I don't remember who else...).

He seemed like a fun sort...kind of like a club kid dressed for his day job... : ) Feeling frisky, I decided to ask him a question of the lurid variety.

Me: "So.....what kind of makeup would you recommend for someone, who, say....wanted it to stay on during hot sweaty messy sex?"

Him: ::looks slightly taken aback for a hot second::
"You didn't hear it from /me/....but MAC."

I've been using it ever since.

OMG xD that reminds me, at MAC basic training, we became really friendly with the trainers... and I got so comfortable, that I asked if Face & Body Foundation is really made for the body, like... say for the butt crevace, or for the breasts. xDDDD Mary said that she wasn't sure and she'll have to ask a higher up if it's been tested for those areas. LOL!!

[rouquinne]

^^^ it actually is - i can't remember which magazine, but it was years ago and there was a picture of Madonna naked, having MAC Face & Body being applied to her.



waaaaay back in 1984, i had moved into my first little apt in downtown Toronto and i was shopping one afternoon in Cabbagetown. i ran into someone i knew slightly from opera school and he introduced me to the friend he was speaking to at the time - Frank Toskan. i've never forgotten that meeting... mainly because Frank T's first words to me were -

that lipstick colour is all wrong for you; here's my card, come see me and we'll find the right stuff to make you gorgeous.



i wasn't *too* insulted and i did go to see him. i bought stuff from him and Frank A directly, then would go to the very first MAC retail location at the old Simpson's store in downtown Toronto when it opened in 1985.

[glam8babe]

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Originally Posted by BunnyBunnyBunny

Well, honestly, I learned of it because Jeffree Star said he wore Electric Eel shadow.

god i love his makeup! i found his myspace profile ages ago and just couldnt stop looking at his pictures

[fresh76]

my momma loves their foundation.. and for my grade school graduation, i had my makeup done at some random place at the mall, but i hated it so much that it ruined my day. my mom took me home and applied her (MAC) makeup on me, and from that day, I associated "saving the day" to MAC...

And, 10 years later, it hasn't changed! It still saves the day

[glamqueen1]

when I lived and studied in Amsterdam, MAC moved in to the nearest depertmentstore, called Bijenkorf. Eventhough I hardly wore any makeup at all in those days (mid 90's) I used to sneak around that counter, loving everything I saw and dreaming of a prettier me (sad, really). Years later, back in Stockholm, I wished for a MAC lipstick for my birthday (had been wanting it since Amsterdam), NY Apple.
Now I'm older and richer, and I can finally be the prettier me..

[gabi1129]

I have been a big Macy's shopper and there is a counter there. It always looked so fun but i never had a reason to buy makeup. Last october i decided to drag and every queen i talked to said go to MAC, and i did. Ive been addicted ever since, at least its not drugs!

[Ernie]

I worked across the street from the original and only Mac store In NYC on Christopher street. Yup, that's how long ago.

[FacesbyNiki]

It was back in 1998 and I was hanging out with my friend Jennifer. She said she had to stop by the MAC counter to pick up some stuff. I had no idea what she was talking about but agree to go. We walk into Nordstrom and all I saw was a sea of colors. There was beautiful make up everywhere. Lashes as far as the eye can see. It was a saturday and now I know them to be theme days. Jennifer looked at me like, "You don't know what MAC is?" I was like no but I think I've found heaven. LMAO I purchased Delish lipstick, chestnut liner (remember when the packaging for liners was silver???), clear gloss, bronze and shroom shadow. LOL

Even when I worked for Clinique, I would still wear Chestnut and tell people it was Clinique's Chocolate Chip liner.

And now look at me, I work for the company and love it. And Jennifer, she's a counter manager now. LMAO!!!!

[nunu]

six years ago i was in london with my sister, we went into selfridges and there was a little MAC section in there. my sister was busy with the MA buying make up for her wedding. Four years ago it opened in a mall 15 minutes away from me. My first purchase was studio fix foundation (i was always into getting the basics first). 8 months ago i found specktra, last month is when i REALLY got obsessed with MAC.
thank you specktra!

[Hilly]

I always saw MAC at Marshall Fields, but I was so intimidated. I made my first purchase June 2005 with a gift card from my Fiance to Marshall Fields.Shimmermint SS and Teddy EL.