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Are there any hc-Mac-collectors here? I wanted to hear some thoughts of the serious collectors.

Do you buy every single item of new collections, regardless if you like the colour or if you have dupes? Or have you done that in the past? Are you aiming to own every permanent Mac eyeshadow/lipstick/pigment etc., or have you met your goal? How long have you been collecting? What whole collections do you have? Do you use the products or do you just keep them BNIB in you collection?

I have never bought a whole limited edition collection, but the idea of doing that interests me. Sometimes I have played with the idea of owning all the permanent eyeshadows, but I guess it's not going to happen because it would be silly to buy the ones I most likely would not care for (like the bad lustres).
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^I've been wondering about this lately, too. Would love to know more.
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I know Temptalia is a serious makeup collector (not just MAC). Check out her site: Temptalia’s Collection – June 2010
post #4 of 68

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Very interesting. There must be some hardcore MAC collectors out there. It seems hard to collect everything, but I think some people have nice collection of pigments, MSF, blushes, and so on.
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if i was rich enough i'd be a hc collecter! but sadly i'm not. however i do 'collect' pigments. so i have about 80+ now.... i freaking love them! and yes i buy some even if they are similar to another colour i have just because it's a pigment!
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If I was rich enough I would buy all eyeshadows - perm and LE

But no, I have never bought an entire LE collection.

I just buy those shades and colors which suit me, which I love and which I will wear. Independent from a hype around a product. For example I have passed Marine Life with To The Beach. And I am not a huge fan of neutral collections.

But if I love a shade, I also buy similar colors
post #7 of 68

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I wouldn't say I am a hardcore collector (I don't buy things just to have them... I buy them because I like them). Still sometimes I do look at all my stuff and feel like it's a bit out of control. I definitely collect things I like though like MSF's and Pigments. I am curious too to hear if anyone buys whole collections just to own them.
post #8 of 68

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I've brought the entire Starflash collection (2008), and Cool Heat.
It was lots of fun.

I own all permanent eyeshadows (based of the MAC COSMETICS AUSTRALIA SITE) with the exception of about 50 colours (most being lusters and a few satins).

I love eyeshadows and I love collecting them.
post #9 of 68

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I used to be several years ago, I added it up and had around $25,000 worth 9sad!... then i realized alot of the colors were very similar so i stopped buying as much. Another bad thing happened recently too.. alot of my lipsticks and lipglosses went bad at the same time and i had to back 2 mac them. I got 5 eyeshadows at the counter!! Sure it's good to get something free out of it, but I really didn't need so many similar colors of a product that doesn't last long in the first place. I really only buy colors I don't have anything similar to or I rebuy my favorites if i run out and i stick to powder products for the most part now.
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There were only 2 times I nearly bought entire collections.

1. Retroactively buying the McQueen collection. All I'm missing is one lipstick and one gloss.

2. Retroactively buying all of the Matte2's, save for Pen-n-pink, because I reeeeally dislike that color.

IF I had droves of money, I'd buy a lot more than I do now, but not necessarily everything.

Although the entire Maleficent collection in VV will be mine. No joke.
post #11 of 68

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i guess i'm more of a makeup collector than mac collector. other brands make certain items better than mac (like chanel lip products, MUFE eyeshadows, most other HE foundations) so i try to only buy the things i love. pigment is probably my favorite thing from mac, so i'd never miss any of them. i used to buy every single blush too, but i've been on a "blush + lipgloss rehab" for the last year
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I wouldn't mind being able to buy all perm eyeshadows and all LE shadows that come out. I'm a huge shadow whore--by far my favorite kind of makeup to buy! And MAC is my favorite. I don't think there's ever been a shadow I didn't at least sort of like. I only buy the stuff I love because it's easier on my wallet, obviously.

I'm a looooongg way from owning all the perm shadows tho
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Besides that it's very expensive collecting every LE collection, it's also a storage problem, atleast for me. I think I would buy more if I had more room to keep them in, but I already have so much make up, that pretty much every shelf, traincase, drawer etc. are full. Even here, I'm embarrassed to reveal how much there actually is. Of course it differs people to people, some might faint if they saw it, others would say I beat you easily!

I have yet never liked every product in a collection, but it would be fun to have one. Maybe one of the smaller ones so it wouldn't be too crazy to buy it all.

I have also recently been conserned about lipsticks and glosses going bad. I realized I have to slow down buying them or they will go to waste for sure, unless I give/sell some away first.

And Lyssah - I'm right there with you, about 50 shades lacking (mostly lustres for me too or others I have dupes of) of having all the permanent shadows (quickly looking up from the Mac US site)!
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I've been buying (collecting ) Mac for about 10 yrs...I've never bought a whole collection but have come close. I do try to avoid colors that I don't think will look good on me. I've recently made a list of my eyeshadows & piggies (248), 120+ lippies, 100+lipglosses, (I've NEVER had any of their lippies/glosses go bad luckily)..30+ blushes, MSFs.....I don't keep the boxes but kinda wish I had when I see all the great storage ideas where people cut the boxes in have to hold their lippies....I wear everything I have (at least once) but I definitely am motivated to buy to enlarge the quantity of my stash...I can't go into that store & buy 'just one thing'.


@ Strawberrymold...I feel the same way..
I would LOVE to see a pic of someone's stash who had every permanent E/S...
post #15 of 68

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I feel same way about the lip products, PinkBasset.
Lately I kinda hesitate buying more lipsticks especially. I already have so many, and I want to finish (if it's possible!) what I have. I only buy the products I'll use. I guess I am not a collector.
post #16 of 68

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^I am half collecting/half buying what I will use. For example, since I love purple lips, I will buy all of MAC's purple lipsticks. But, I wouldn't ever buy a coral lipstick just to have it. You know what I mean? I collect colors, I guess you could say. Usually black and purple and red
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^ I know what you mean. Yeah, you could say that I'm collecting pink lipsticks. Pink anything. Collecting colors, yeah, I agree. But still in a small scale.

BTW, Black, purple, and red sound HOT!
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I wish I could afford to be a hardcore collector! I usually just pick one thing from each collection that I "can't live without" as my grandma would say! haha. Someday I am hoping to own every permanent eyeshadow, but it's going to take a long time, especially since I only have Wedge! haha
post #19 of 68

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^^peachsuns: I know

I went through a phase where I was all about light pink lipsticks. I still wear them, but not so much in fall. The purple is my current phase.
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Hmm.. My goal is to own every perm eyeshadow available in my country.. We don't have THAT much.. I will never be able to own a complete collection because I cannot use ANY mac lip products.. From Prep and Prime to the conditioner to the lipsticks, lipglasses, cremesheen.. Anything, you name it.. If it's a lip product and it's MAC my lips start to peel almost instantly!
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Originally Posted by kaylabella View Post
I wish I could afford to be a hardcore collector! I usually just pick one thing from each collection that I "can't live without" as my grandma would say! haha. Someday I am hoping to own every permanent eyeshadow, but it's going to take a long time, especially since I only have Wedge! haha
Your grandma rocks!
I have only 5 permanent eyeshadows: Tete-A-Tint, Yogurt, Shimmermoss, Stars N' Rockets, and Free to Be. And I bought all from LE collections. (Well except Tete-A-Tint which I thought it was part of Pret A Papier collection because it was in the display! ) Yogurt was from Hello Kitty, Stars N' Rockets was from Sugarsweet, Free to Be was from Give Me Liberty of London, and Shimmermoss was from To The Beach. I don't mind buying permanent stuff from LE collections.

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Originally Posted by laylalovesmac View Post
^^peachsuns: I know

I went through a phase where I was all about light pink lipsticks. I still wear them, but not so much in fall. The purple is my current phase.
I like to wear berry colors (but not too dark) in fall. I guess those purple and berry colors go well with the fall fashions.

Hope to see some hardcore MAC collectors out there some day.
post #22 of 68

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I collect beauty powders from special edition sets like Hello Kitty, Style Warriors etc...I only buy a shade that suits me though and I usually don't get more than one of the same special packaging. Lucky for me the VV collection has different characters!
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I've come close to buying a whole collection or two (Moonbathe, Neo Sci Fi, Heatherette) because I really loved everything in those collections.

I have all but 2 of MAC's paint pots ever released (the two I'm missing are perm, so I'm not in a rush to get them). And I have all but 7 or so of MAC's pigments (missing 1 LE and the rest are olddddd dc mattes).
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Like someone else wrote, I'm more of a MU collector not limited to MAC. So no, I haven't purchased an entire collection, and I can't see myself ever doing so. For MAC, my focus is primarily on pigments and glitters, of which I am only missing about 10 or so, and MSF, of which I have all except the natural ones and the ones that were split natural/shimmer. I have all the Tony & Tina UCDs except two, and nearly all the MUFE loose pigments and glitters, and all the Becca loose shimmers in the old big size. I really like the defunct Stephane Marais line, I have all the bronzers and powder/cream blushes from him, and I'm starting on Paul & Joe pressed shimmers and Cleo Art blushes.
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i'm also getting into msf's and have about 12 of them now and i keep trying to older ones
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hmmm, i think i'm more of a cheek person. So i collect most MAC blushers / cheek products except those really dark colors.
post #27 of 68

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Even if I had the money, I don't think I could be a hardcore collector. There's no way you can use it all up before it expires

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Originally Posted by Lyssah View Post
I own all permanent eyeshadows (based of the MAC COSMETICS AUSTRALIA SITE) with the exception of about 50 colours (most being lusters and a few satins).

I love eyeshadows and I love collecting them.
Omg that must have cost you so much :| (considering Aussie prices...). I guess if you love collecting it's worth it then hey?
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I don`t collect cause I can`t afford it but i`m sure would be every make up fan dream to afford everything you want and all of it. i`m sorry I missed the pictures of MAc_whore collection I remember she was a collector but I don`t see her in here anymore so no luck with that
post #29 of 68

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Well, I never thought of myself as a hardcore MAC collector or MU collector in general but I guess maybe I am?

I only buy what I like and always use the products I get (so I never buy them to just sit prettily in the boxes) and even though I've never bought an entire collection, I've come pretty close. Hello Kitty comes to mind, when I bought everything but 3 products, Starflash, Style Black and Cult of Cherry (when I got the majority of the collection) but these were very special collections

I would also say that I have the majority of MAC perm. e/s, l/s (which is not hard to do if you depot the aforementioned e/s ), and oh well, pretty much everything but I've collected all these over the years. Oh and samples of pretty much all the pigments. I definitely don't aim to own everything, I only care about products that I like and think that will suit me.

I find that I buy a lot less from the new collections than I used to because I already own similar things. And of course MAC is not the only brand I'm interested in, I'm always looking around
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I'm not really a hard core collector, not in this circle anyway "Normal" people would disagree, I'm sure. My MAC collection has exploded in the past year, but I try to only buy or swap for things I will like. Especially when buying full price from new collections, I'm extremely picky, and only buy less than a dozen items a year at full price. My weakness is the Toronto warehouse sale, and swapping.

I don't collect for the sake of collecting, but I do find it harder to let go of special packaging LE stuff. I recently swapped both of my Rose Romance blushes; I was debating keeping at least one for my collection, but then sensibility won.

My weakness tends to be eyeshadows - I depot most of them, so I can't get decent swap value for them anyway, and I always feel like I should keep the colours I don't use just so I have a little bit of every colour, and a good variety (eg. bitter, going bananas, off the page, I never use these but like to have them in my palette). But if I barely swatched a shadow and haven't depotted it yet, then I do try to swap or sell.

I also love MSF's, and I do have a decent size collection, but I have swapped away ones that don't work for me, and I wouldn't hesitate to do so again.
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