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).

All of my picks are from personal preference and from seeing how often these colors are used in tutorials online. Every color I picked is from the permanent line (no L/E colors) and can be found at a counter or freestanding mac store (no pro colors).

First eyeshadow recommendations

Hover over for names and description.

*if you are running firefox and can’t see the alternate text by hovering, right click the images and select “properties” to view the shade name and description. Sorry about that.

First lipglass recommendations

*mac needs to seriously get some new perm. line lipglass asap. Most of the lipglasses I own are L/E.