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I was e-mailing a beauty obsessive friend of mine last week about my visit to the MAC counter and was surprised to hear that she hadn't been for a while - I remember her raving about their products and admiring her Barbie e/s when I visited her flat. I asked her whether she'd gone off them, and she said:
"[SIZE=medium]MAC is definitely a phase people go through. I went through it and came out the other side. It's like a rite of passage. I think they're stuck in time because they never seem to really innovate in terms of the products they offer. It's always basically the same formula lipsticks, lipglasses and powder eyeshadows with every collection. Also the colour payoff and quality really do vary."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]I don't own too many MAC products - I was more into Urban Decay and have enough shadow now to last me a very long time - but I do remember, when I was just earning enough and interested enough to make the leap from buying drugstore products in 2005 or so, there seemed to be two categories in my mind - the department store counters that seemed way too 'grown-up lady in pearls', and the MAC that everyone raved about. So I wondered how common a view this was. Is there another brand that has taken their place as the ubermensch, so to speak? I get the impression that Illamasqua are doing something similar to what they used to do, but in the UK at least they are very much a niche brand and I know nobody outside of blogs who uses their stuff.[/SIZE]
"[SIZE=medium]MAC is definitely a phase people go through. I went through it and came out the other side. It's like a rite of passage. I think they're stuck in time because they never seem to really innovate in terms of the products they offer. It's always basically the same formula lipsticks, lipglasses and powder eyeshadows with every collection. Also the colour payoff and quality really do vary."[/SIZE]
[SIZE=medium]I don't own too many MAC products - I was more into Urban Decay and have enough shadow now to last me a very long time - but I do remember, when I was just earning enough and interested enough to make the leap from buying drugstore products in 2005 or so, there seemed to be two categories in my mind - the department store counters that seemed way too 'grown-up lady in pearls', and the MAC that everyone raved about. So I wondered how common a view this was. Is there another brand that has taken their place as the ubermensch, so to speak? I get the impression that Illamasqua are doing something similar to what they used to do, but in the UK at least they are very much a niche brand and I know nobody outside of blogs who uses their stuff.[/SIZE]