Sad news to report, today is mac lovers D-day.

We knew it was coming, It hadn’t happened in a while.

Its the national “yearly” price increase day. Most things increased .50¢ - $1.00.

From what I have seen eyeshadows have gone up from 14.00 -14.50. I haven’t checked out anything else but I’m sure foundations, and lip products are on that list as well.

This new pricing is in place starting today at ALL mac locations. Freestanding stores, counters, website, .. if its official mac then the price has gone up.

Why do they do this yearly - bi yearly? To keep up with suply and demand. Gas for deliveries has gone up, and total cost of running a business has gone up as well.

I don’t think that .50¢ - $1.00 is going to deter a mac lover from getting her fix, but damn will I be cutting back!

Every girl remembers a specific first. Your first kiss, your first Barbie doll, your first boyfriend, and most importantly (at least to this site lol) your first M.A.C cosmetics products.

All my (make-up) life I’ve been a shadow junkie. I love eyeshadow. My very first M.A.C. cosmetics product was the 7 color pink pallet you see over to the left. It was a holiday 2003 LE pallet. This was back when we just got a mac freestanding store in Harlem,NY. My mom was driving me back from the doctor down town and said “hey, I need some lipstick. Lets stop at Mac” . Little did she know that day she would create a lifetime monster. As of today, I have way over $4,000 worth of cosmetics. Most of that is mac so thank you mother! Anyway, I still use some of the colors in that pallet. Mainly the darkest purple on the right, Beauty Marked. I love that shade for smokey, purple eyes.

So I want to know, what were your first MAC Products? Please share! If you have yet to own any mac products read on to get my recommendations on what your first shades should be in eyeshadow and lipglass (lipgloss).

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Mac has pushed up the release date of March’s most prized and talked about collection “Heatherette” from March 27th to March 20th.

Honestly, at first when the Heatherette collection was nothing more then a mere rumor I was exited. I mean, the speculated all pink packaging, the trashy-glam style of the Heatherette clothing line, everything about that screamed “Aaaalllyyyssooonnnnn”. However, for some reason now you couldn’t get me exited about it if Will Smith was at the release party naked serving chips and dip (alright, so maybe that MIGHT get me going, but as we know that’s not going to happen…). There is something to be said about a collection who’s lip products and eyeshadows come off as bland to me. Usually, those are the core products in a Mac cosmetics collection. Everything is centered around the lippies and the shadows, if those don’t strike me good then everything else is a waste. All of Heatherette’s shadows are a waste to me because I already own similar colors. I Just cant get into the shades of the lippies being suitable for WOC (except the brightest fuschia/pink ones). Now, this could be just me talking from seeing images and NOT playing with the collection yet, or it could be because I spent over $300 on my Fafi haul and I wasn’t too crazy about all the things In that collection either (but I love Fafi so I couldn’t help myself). Honestly, though the colors aren’t all that I wanted, I wish that you could just buy the shadow trio without the shadows and put your own in there. Its just so pretty. Im going to have a real hard time passing it up. If I do end up getting one im getting #2.

Now, with that all said about the main staples of the collection…. there are some things that I just can’t see myself passing up. Ok, so I may have gave you the impression that heatherette was going to suck major booty (and hey it might) but every booty suckin’ collection has its rare gems.

The image is courtesy of Specktra.net member Blueangel1023. See her color swatches here.

I’ve had my eyes on the duel sided eye pencils for some time now. Since I was in uber lust with the soft sparkle eye pencils from the 2007 holiday line these look like they are right up my ally. At $16.00 each I think I’ll curb my appetite to just two pencils, but which ones? Oh, and to give you guys a heads up, it looks like the pencils are not waterline safe, though that’s just the rummer now. (Your waterline is the part of your lid closest to your eyeball. It usually stays moist from your natural tears so sometimes its hard to get color there anyway without it smudging)

The image is courtesy of Specktra.net member Blueangel1023.

I’m also going to get the pigments and maybe one or both of the glitters. All of the pigments and glitters are re promotes from the pro line (except Jardin Aires, that was from Strange Hybrid) but since I don’t have any of them now is a good time to help my collection (as if my collection needs anymore help).

The last and only other thing that I MAY spring for in this collection are the new lashes. “She’s Bad” is a mid length crosshatch kinda false lash. “She’s Good” looks to me like Mac #7 lashes, but since I don’t have a pair of #7’s I may just scoop these up.

Click on the more link to get the complete list of the Heatherette products and prices courtesy of our good friend Mac_Whore over at Specktra.net!

Read my updated  heatherette haul information and what I really thought of the collection in the next post!

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