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Debenhams are beginning to put up the Mac collections. It seems I'll be able to pop to Kingston this afternoon, so I will check out the edes and the rest of Glamourdaze in person and buy them at the counter, then order the pigment sets from Debenhams later.

Debenhams had the main pictures up in the early hours of this morning (by around 3am) but no products.

 

I see HoF are putting the products up now, too.  I will order through HoF as I will get more points through them, even though TopCashBack is lower.

 

 

 

Edit:  How strange.  The HoF page had loaded words, but not pictures, and I could see the word Primped clearly amongst the jumble (the CSS hadn't loaded properly).  When I refreshed the page and it loaded properly, 'Primped' was gone.

I just got my fluidlines through from the MAC site and i am pretty disgusted that they have charged £1.50 extra just for a shiny outer box which will just get thrown away anyway! I thought they might have at least put a cute sleeve around them like they did for the Shop/Cook collection.

 

Feminine Edge by the way looks similar to the Maybelline Color Tattoo in Pink Gold and as i've read the fluidlines are pretty useless as actual liners it might be worth skipping and picking that up instead if anyone was thinking about it.

Edited by mushroomteagirl - 11/1/12 at 4:49am

Thank you for sharing this. I think I will pick Maybilline color tattoo instead.. Did you get your MAC order with yodel or postman, if you bought online??

With the postie in a jiffy bag which i was suprised about as it's always come in a black box with Yodel before.

A few people here have gotten their MAC packages with posties recently.. I wonder if they don't use Yodel anymore.. I wondered because if my package gets delivered with a postie tomorrow and I'm not it, I can pick it up from a post office on sat, but if yodel will try to deliver, I will have to wait till monday. I doubt I will get it today though.

I love Maybelline's Pink Gold.  Is it very close to Feminine Edge?  If so, I might pick another Pink Gold instead and save some money.  Feminine Edge looks so pretty and sparkly, though

They're not exact dupes but i think close enough. The obvious difference is the sparkle factor in Femine Edge and that it's more pink wheras pink gold is a little more rosey and a bit darker and much more pigmented in my opinion.

Sets are starting to appear on HoF.  None of the individual items yet, though

From the swatches I've seen they're nothing like each other. Pink Gold hasn't got glitter in it at all.

 

I did say they were similar and not exact dupes but here they are side by side:

 

 

 

 

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Pink Gold on left, Feminine Edge is on the right

 

 

Sorry not the greatest swatch pic of all time but the light is shocking today and having flash makes them go haywire!

I walked to the counter at lunch, only picked up 2 things as planned, the EDES in stolen moment and natural flirt. I know I will wear these lots.

 

Stolen moment reminds me of style snob from starflash but a touch darker and maybe a hint more purple?

 

Counter was empty which surprised me for a launch day.

 

The brush sets look pretty but I passed as the mineralise one I bought last year have leaked dye. I hope this years quality is better.

Just seen that Sinfully Chic is exclusive to Selfridges, if anyone was looking for it http://www.selfridges.com/en/Beauty/Brand-rooms/Contemporary/MAC

Glamourdaze is finally up on debenhams if anyone is waiting. And there is a points offer on as well... 750 points for £40 spend. Too bad nothing in the collection excites me enough to spend £40 ... only got Superb

House Of Fraser are giving a free set of Biba false eyelashes with a £75 beauty spend lol.

I don't see the Paramour Pink set on either HoF or Debenhams

 

If anyone is wanting Endless Night, and wants to save money on it, they still have it on the HoF site at £9.  The Glamour Daze version isn't up yet

Edited by rockin - 11/1/12 at 8:29am

Going to pop into town to take advantage of the Boots points event

Just made my first order from Debenhams - Stolen Moment and A Natural Flirt EDES, the pink brush set, and the Lavish Rose lipglosses. Not sure what else I want!

The Chanel holiday collection is realised on November 9th, right? It's going to be my first time buying Chanel. I just can't resist Stardust and Malice. Do Chanel collections sell out as fast as MAC collections online?

Yes, November 9th for Chanel.  I don't know how quickly they sell out, though.

 

Just looked at the MAC site again, and the Divine Desire sets, including Paramour Pink, say Exclusive, so I'm guessing that means only available on the MAC website?

I went to the counter in Kingston and ended up buying 5 edes, the 3 fluidlines and the black glittery nail polish. Before I left I ordered the 3 pigment sets from HoF. I'm still thinking about which brush set to get, I had no problems with the mineralize one last year, but I don't want that, I want either the pink or the green one, but not sure which.

 

I went to Boots and bought a few things including the Babyliss hair styling brush thingy I really wanted, plus the Too Faced Bon Bon set. I ended up with £27 worth of points, thank you very much. :)
 

They have Glamour daze and the other collections at your mac store?

I must go tomorrow!!

Of course! First Thursday of the month is always release day. :)

 

Ooh, that got me!!  I went for the three fluidlines, that I've been indecisive about - at least this way I get the 750 points too!  If I do decided to get more, tomorrow, will I get another 750 points, or is it strictly one set of bonus points per card?  Still thinking I might get some fo the EDES and maybe Feline (though I have a couple of backups already - that seems to come out quite often lately).

I'm pretty sure it's one a day. You also get an extra 500 points if you spend the £40 on Guerlain! Shame I've already bought everything I wanted form the Guerlain collection.

 

I ended up ordering the coral lipgloss set and the pink brush set for the 750 points, even though I do have about £200 worth of points I can't even get at. I hate it that you can only spend £15 of it per month. I used my HoF card when paying at the Mac counter and also Boots, that should boost my reward balance, I actually find the HoF card more useful nowadays. Also I can't spend my Debenhams points on Guerlain or Chanel unless I go to London, but the HoF in Guildford has both counters plus Mac!

 

Hmmm - might give it a try - though I've also got a lot of points stored up for 'one day'!!!  Our Debenhams is truly hopeless - I'm thinking that I'll spend the £60 currently available on the new Clinique Chubby Sticks when they come out.  This is making me think that maybe I WILL get that Guerlain Calligraphy palette that I'm coveting - I didn't get the other ebay one, and am too impatient to wait for the sales :)

My issue with the Debenhams points is that I have about £80 worth on my card, but as I only get £15 at a time, I spend that and end up earning the points back also! So I have a lot stored up that I can;t get too :(

As I thought I had a missed parcel today.. I'm sure it's MAC.. At least I don't have to wait till monday to get it, I will pick it up tomorrow..

I had ordered the sets from HoF yesterday before I found out that Debenhams had the points offer.  Never mind, I ordered the individual bits from Debenhams.

 

Today I collected my HoF purchases.  I have swatched the Sweetly Smoky Crushed Metallic Pigments set on my hand, and they are beautiful.  I'm liking the pink brush set, too.  I also got the Endless Night nail lacquer, since it was only £9 at HoF, from the previous release.

 

Argos have the Enrapture Jumbo Waver for just £29.98, instead of £74.99.  Since I had £17.50 in Nectar points available, it only cost me £12.48 - absolute bargain!  I reserved it before I went, going through TopCashBack, which currently gives you 75p for completing the purchase of the reserved item.  Obviously there's no cashback on the price of the item itself, as payment is not online, but 75p is better than nothing.

I wish HoF would upload the mac holiday collection! I know the lip bags and glosses and pigments are up.
I've been stalking the site every couple if hours