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Originally Posted by
gracie90 
Your haul is to die for!! If I was you I'd just spend hours on end staring at all the pretty swirls - that's what I do with mine anyway 
Light Year is my favourite MSF too! I'm so glad you managed to snag backups of all of your favourite things, tracking them down later on would be a major pain!
I've slowly begun to use my swirly goods because I literally did just stare at them for days! They're all so pretty! I'm glad I got BUs, too! I wanted 2 Venus once I swatched it in person and the counter only had one :( so I bought it anyway, and I'm so glad I got one at the MAC store, too. Those two places are literally the only counters I go to, the others are on highways I'm not too familiar with or parking is varied and I didn't feel like hopping all across town looking for a lipstick lol.
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Originally Posted by
PixieDancer
I "LOL'd" when I read this...
Oh the days gone by where you were skipping! I'm so glad you didn't! I imaging these products look superb on you! And you obviously will NOT be running out anytime soon! Great Haul and AWESOME lack of restraint duckrodeo!
It's a lot more fun to have you on Team "HAVE TO HAVE MOREEEEE SWIRLSSSS!"
Ohhh yes, I am stocked up on my MSFs for sure! Usually I stop at one BU but something was nagging me to buy just one more of Star Wonder and Light Year! I had some will-power that was slowly chipping away lol and I finally cracked after reading all the glowing reviews of Venus and couldn't pass it up! Team Hypno-swirls is oodles more fun than Team Will-power LMAO!
I took some pictures of comparisons of Venus to some perm line lipsticks (except for Sweetie because MacAddictNurse is awesome and already took a pic!)
On the top is Venus, on the bottom is Lovelorn:
Lovelorn is definitely pinker, and you get that sort of berry-pink showing through on Venus which is what reminded me of Sweetie!
On the left is Venus, and on the right is Chatterbox:
Chatterbox is an amplified creme whereas Venus is a lustre. Their colors are definitely in the same family, but Chatterbox of course wins out in the pigmentation department. That little sliver on the left was me experimenting with Venus layered over Chatterbox, which didn't really add or subtract anything, so that's why I cropped out as much of it as I could!
My perty perty items and their swirls that I added to my collection today, minus one Venus lipstick because that baby's staying in the box til Venus #1 gets used or lost, or melts, or whatever may happen in its lipstick lifetime lol.
I tried to get a Stratus with as little of the brown as possible, but most of them did have a considerable amount. I feel that the one I chose has less swirls of colors so if I really wanted, I could get a smaller brush and dab at the purple on the edges. Most of the swirls did not have much variety (for either item, MSF, Blush or shadow), so it's literally like they were produced in the same section and then packaged up and sent to the locations, because most of them looked identical. I didn't get to pick out the Light Year since it was the last one in the store, but the Nordstrom I went to before the full MAC store was sold out of Light Year, so I can't complain that I was able to score another BU, plus I'm satisfied that this Light Year is light on the gold.
My Light Years & Star Wonders! The ones I picked up today are on the top. The other two Light Years were from mac.com, and the two Star Wonders were from my local Nordstrom for in-store pickup!
My Magnetic Attraction!
The Nordstrom counter had a MA shadow that was more on the yellow side and swatched pretty pale-peachy pink. The full-sized store had a MA that was similar in swirls to the one I picked out, and it swatched this gorgeous berry pink color that was amazing! I didn't realize until I looked over the picture that mine has a little chip taken out of the edge :( but it's really miniscule so I guess it will have to do! Again, most of their MAs looked pretty similar. There was one with more vortex-looking swirls and I was curious about it, but I didn't want to BU an MES, because I don't feel that Iuse them enough to warrant a BU (same with MBs), even though it might have looked like a different color, there was no way for me to know unless I bought it, and I didn't want to feel buyer's remorse if I didn't end up loving it separately from the MA I knew I wanted for sure!
I've been following this thread for quite some time and I finally thought... I'm gonna join!
can't believe I didn't buy another one!
Why must you make a point of how much I own? Ugh. And to be frank, I have a baby collection compared to most makeup addicts! When I say that though as an answer I get "Yea, but for being a makeup fiend, in 2 years thats a lot of stuff" -.- It's like fuck you. I know my limit, even though I'm only 19, I'm smart about my purchases.... 99% of the time! :p 
Oh I wish I wan't on campus so I could go stare at my swirls 
After staring I can start my genetics readings for my exam on Monday... 100 pages worth D: I 'd rather stare at my swirls :p Is that sad?
