ohh was the soho collection one where there was a rather pretty powder compact?
UK Release Dates Discussion - All Brands Welcome!
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lol! i am doing well at limiting what mac stuff i buy - but semi precious is all looking amazing! bes bunch of mineral shadows yet in my humble opinion!^Yes it was! Can't believe I missed out on it! I want to stop my obsession with MAC so I can buy more Chanel!
todays blog post is on mineral shadows - Lou’s top MAC Mineralized Eyeshadows
Alisha1
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lol! i am doing well at limiting what mac stuff i buy - but semi precious is all looking amazing! bes bunch of mineral shadows yet in my humble opinion!
todays blog post is on mineral shadows - Lou’s top MAC Mineralized Eyeshadows
I'm doing well as well because I cut my Semi Precious list down to 5 products and FF to 1 but theres still so much I want from Chanel! And I'm trying not to think about the fact that the money I spent on Byzance would have got me everything in my SP and FF list plus all the ones I cut off!
nazia
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Chanel is so pricey but so beautiful and sophisticated. I love my chanel stuff but my fave top brand has to be Guerlain. Gorgeous! I think when you start to get into the higher end brands you need to limit your lower end purchases - something I don't do and end up spending far too much! Plus the fact that so many 'lower' end items are seriously expensive now just makes my total spendage sky high!
PeachTwist
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I have to admit I'm completely envious of you all being able to buy so much. Then again, I'd totally do the same if I had a job. I applied for one the other day but I've heard nothing back, darnit.
There has to be something out there for me so I can be a bigger addict than I am.
-- Not that I really need the help to be a bigger addict, just need the help to afford my addiction, lmao.
I'm still so annoyed that we have no idea what the hell is going on with SP. I mean sure, I sad in another thread if it does come out on the 30th and I can't get my stuff, I'll just get stuff from the perm line that I want -- but really, who wants to have to settle with that? :lol:
There has to be something out there for me so I can be a bigger addict than I am.
I'm still so annoyed that we have no idea what the hell is going on with SP. I mean sure, I sad in another thread if it does come out on the 30th and I can't get my stuff, I'll just get stuff from the perm line that I want -- but really, who wants to have to settle with that? :lol:
Anitacska
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I'm just like you. I keep buying make up all the time. If I don't go to the shops, I'll buy on eBay or order online. Since Debenhams gives me free delivery every time (I have their gold credit card), I often place orders with them. I have so much make up, I can barely fit them in my room. I have some drawers full of make up, then 16 (!) ice cream tubs under my chest of drawers, some make up in almost every drawer where I keep my clothes, and then literally several bags full in my cupboard. Oh, and a big shoe box full of Mac mes and a whole drawer (my beside table) full of Dior quints. I have literally spent several thousands on make up in the last year, and this has been going on for a few years. My only luck is that we can afford it, because my husband earns very well. Yet, I'm planning on buying every mes and MSF from SP, plus probably 2 blushes, and maybe a lipstick or two. I'm proud of myself though for not buying from the Chanel Byzance collection, so there is still hope for me - maybe...
PeachTwist
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Trust me if you can resist the Byzance collection you are making progress! Try selling some of you old stuff off - atleast that way you can make some money out of your makeup
I can't borrow from siblings, one is back home in Canada and the others are 12 & 14
ooohh don't mention bags to me! they are my other weakness!! and £8 for a bag is brilliant! i still have a £3 one from primark that is still going! hee hee!I can't borrow from siblings, one is back home in Canada and the others are 12 & 14however I have borrowed from my Mom and StepDad on occassion. I don't usually have to "pay them back" in cash, 'cause I usually do a couple shopping trips and pay for that rather than just handing over the cash, and usually I do that more often than I borrow. I am kinda tempted to ask my Mom to at least let me borrow the cash for the sigma brushes I wanted to buy. I need another E40 blending brush and dying to try the F80, E20 & E50. Inc shipping it only comes to £30 or so which is a damn good deal. I do think though after SP and FF I may have to take a break on buying from LE collections. I don't know if I can keep up with them like this, my income just isn't disposable enough. Speaking of bags - I need a new one. Thankfully I don't buy expensive anything unless it's makeup. Shoes, bags, clothes I go for cheap so I can spend my money on MACbut my current bag is falling apart from SO much use. It's been nearly a year so I suppose that isn't too bad considering I only paid like £8 for it, haha.
PeachTwist
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Hehe! I don't often buy clothes. Because I don't have a job and rarely socialise I live in sweat pants & t-shirts. (Not complaining) I have a ton of "going out" outfits for clubs - but I don't drink anymore and it's insanely boring to go to a club and drink water. It's amazing how annoying drunk people are when you're 100% sober and have nothing to cure the annoyance, lol. I do smoke, but I'm working on quitting. I always have it in my mind I want to, and then I get some hard ass news that stresses me to the point of no return and smoking seems like my only way out to calm me down and clear my head. :/
99% sure is superb. I thought it was odd that we'd get it the last week of the month, I saw another girl on a blog say that usually UK release dates are the first Thursday of every month so fingers crossed!
Haha - yes, bags are gorgeous but I see no need in paying a ton of money for them - I have kind of the perfect bag in mind, or I did but can't remember it now but I can't find what I'm looking for anywhere. I may just re-purchase the £8 one I got from Matalan. It's small but has 3 pockets and a good sized middle section with zipper and buckle. Only complaint is I wish it'd be possible to use it as a shoulder bag, too. But it packs a lot in there. When I *did* go out to clubs I'd manage to get in flats, my purse (which is big), my makeup bag with a mini hair brush, lipstick, powder, kabuki, eyeliner etc. my camera and other little bits and pieces in there. For a small bag it packs a LOT.
Random question for everyone though -- if you're in sweat pants & t-shirt or jeans & t-shirt, do you still do makeup? I think it's something I'm having a problem with. I really do live in them but feel like it'd be weird for me to go out with a full face of makeup & a pretty eye look etc on wearing them.
99% sure is superb. I thought it was odd that we'd get it the last week of the month, I saw another girl on a blog say that usually UK release dates are the first Thursday of every month so fingers crossed!
Haha - yes, bags are gorgeous but I see no need in paying a ton of money for them - I have kind of the perfect bag in mind, or I did but can't remember it now but I can't find what I'm looking for anywhere. I may just re-purchase the £8 one I got from Matalan. It's small but has 3 pockets and a good sized middle section with zipper and buckle. Only complaint is I wish it'd be possible to use it as a shoulder bag, too. But it packs a lot in there. When I *did* go out to clubs I'd manage to get in flats, my purse (which is big), my makeup bag with a mini hair brush, lipstick, powder, kabuki, eyeliner etc. my camera and other little bits and pieces in there. For a small bag it packs a LOT.
Random question for everyone though -- if you're in sweat pants & t-shirt or jeans & t-shirt, do you still do makeup? I think it's something I'm having a problem with. I really do live in them but feel like it'd be weird for me to go out with a full face of makeup & a pretty eye look etc on wearing them.
I definitely still do a full face of makeup when I wear jeans & a t-shirt, but will usually keep it low key, e.g. tinted moisturiser and simple washes of colour. That's just a personal preference though - just wear what you feel comfortable in!
On Friday I had to go into London for work and finished early, so I went to Westfield and hit up Inglot. They have their matte shadows in, and they are very pretty - decent pigmentation too. I picked up another 10-pan palette but they have seriously jacked up the prices (I think they were about 30-something and now they're around the 50 mark!! Incredible..). I still got some anyway though as I have relatively few matte shadows in my collection, and then had fun yesterday re-organising the colours in my palettes
Alisha1
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I think everyone treats themselves in a different ways the only other place my money goes is on my phone bill! And my contract should be ending soon so I'm going to shop around for a more reasonable priced one!
I was thinking that also, and if we do get it early I think it will only be on the MAC site and in stores on the 7th which should be good cause I should be able to get everything from my heavily edited list! Lets just hope I order from Debenhams as planned cause I need points for the Autumn collections!
I was thinking that also, and if we do get it early I think it will only be on the MAC site and in stores on the 7th which should be good cause I should be able to get everything from my heavily edited list! Lets just hope I order from Debenhams as planned cause I need points for the Autumn collections!
Alisha1
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Ouch and I was thinking of getting some aswell! Did you check how much single eyeshadows cost? I guess £50 is still ok priced considering your getting 10 shadows but I can't believe they hyked up the prices that much all in one go! They should at least try to sneak in the price increase like other brands!
PeachTwist
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I'm sure this sounds awful, but I honestly can't recall the last time I spent £40 on one single thing, ever. I'm not saying you're wrong or whatever for doing it, to each their own! I'm just sitting here really trying to rack my brain and then I realised every single thing, apart from my makeup, I buy on sale.
Yes, everyone does! Life is stressful in my house at the moment but I never allowed myself to treat myself, now I do. As I'm looking for work I get my benefit payments every 2 weeks.. and every 2 weeks I allow myself to splurge on MAC and the rest I use to help my family out. I feel like it's a win-win. I help out, but I also get to treat myself - even if I do feel guilty.
Anitacska
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Yeah, I'm working on it, I've just sold my Chanel Kaska Beige quad on eBay for £33 which is really good, but you're not supposed to sell used stuff, so it's not that straightforward. The trouble is, I actually like most of my make up, just have too much, so I have a hard time of deciding what to sell, lol. I have a lot of back ups, but I can't make myself get rid of them because they're all limited edition and I'm scared I'll run out and never be able to buy them again, but of of course that's never gonna happen, lol.
I still do make up even if I don't go anywhere, and I tend to wear casual clothes 99% of the time because I'm a stay at home mum, so I only go to school, Sainsbury's, etc. most times. I have some nice dresses for occasions, but I don't even remember when I last wore one. Haven't been to a wedding in 3 years.Hehe! I don't often buy clothes. Because I don't have a job and rarely socialise I live in sweat pants & t-shirts. (Not complaining) I have a ton of "going out" outfits for clubs - but I don't drink anymore and it's insanely boring to go to a club and drink water. It's amazing how annoying drunk people are when you're 100% sober and have nothing to cure the annoyance, lol. I do smoke, but I'm working on quitting. I always have it in my mind I want to, and then I get some hard ass news that stresses me to the point of no return and smoking seems like my only way out to calm me down and clear my head. :/
99% sure is superb. I thought it was odd that we'd get it the last week of the month, I saw another girl on a blog say that usually UK release dates are the first Thursday of every month so fingers crossed!
Haha - yes, bags are gorgeous but I see no need in paying a ton of money for them - I have kind of the perfect bag in mind, or I did but can't remember it now but I can't find what I'm looking for anywhere. I may just re-purchase the £8 one I got from Matalan. It's small but has 3 pockets and a good sized middle section with zipper and buckle. Only complaint is I wish it'd be possible to use it as a shoulder bag, too. But it packs a lot in there. When I *did* go out to clubs I'd manage to get in flats, my purse (which is big), my makeup bag with a mini hair brush, lipstick, powder, kabuki, eyeliner etc. my camera and other little bits and pieces in there. For a small bag it packs a LOT.
Random question for everyone though -- if you're in sweat pants & t-shirt or jeans & t-shirt, do you still do makeup? I think it's something I'm having a problem with. I really do live in them but feel like it'd be weird for me to go out with a full face of makeup & a pretty eye look etc on wearing them.
banana1234
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i feel like i spend too much on make up if it goes over one or two items a month, but then again, that all mounts up, and this month i had to buy a few essential items also... i duno, i just hve gone off things at the moment, i dont know if its because i have everything i want, or if it is because now i would rather buy a new brush, or a more expensive item from chanel or guerlain rather than three/four items from the newest collection
i dont think i will buy anything from semi precious now, i think i would rather get a couple new brushes at the airport
i still want budding beauty lipgelee and summer shower though!
anyone remember how much lipgelee's were last time?
i dont think i will buy anything from semi precious now, i think i would rather get a couple new brushes at the airport
i still want budding beauty lipgelee and summer shower though!
anyone remember how much lipgelee's were last time?
Sorry, I'm not sure how much the singles are :-( They only sell a limited range of eyeshadow singles in any case, and for the Freedom System, you cannot buy single pans - you can only buy palettes (though the smallest palette is a duo, so not that bad). If you want a 10 pan palette you can save a bit by getting the 10-pan Freedom palette with the smaller round eyeshadows instead of square pans, which was about 8 quid cheaper I think (sorry, my memory is rubbish - they cost somewhere around the 40-45 mark). The round pans fit MAC palettes too which is nice if you want to mix and match your Inglot and MAC shades. I only got the square pan palette because my other Inglot palettes are all square pans, the new mattes are only in squares, and I heard that the round pans would be discontinued soon. Overall I do still think the price is good compared to MAC, but I think this will be my last Inglot palette unless they come out with new shades.
wow! that is not good at how much inglot have raised the prices! how insane is that? although i guess that is what happens when a brand gets super popular like that.
i hope everybody is having a great day - are you all enjoying the weather? it's pretty hot and sunny here today!
i hope everybody is having a great day - are you all enjoying the weather? it's pretty hot and sunny here today!
PeachTwist
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To be honest, that's something I really hate about youtube. I, personally, had never heard of Inglot until the "gurus" did - and now everyone, their mother, sister, aunt, cousin, grandma & dog are obsessed with Inglot - which has caused them to jack up their prices. I really want to try Inglot, however I can't consider it until they have a website up & on top of that I think it's BS they've jacked up their prices. Money hungry assholes. They'd have still made a fortune leaving the prices as they were. -_-
Crappy weather here - but I've been complaining about that on twitter for the past 2 weeks now. We're coming into week 3 of grey skies and rain. To make it worse today it's hot, humid and looks ready to down pour. Superrrr. Lol.
