A couple of weeks ago I went on a little vacay to...
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My really good friend's sister was in the national cheerleading competition held there every year so we went to support her (and while we were there we figured we might as well check out the parks too ;P )
We also rented a car so we could go shopping and of course we stopped here...
:) :) :)
We don't have an very big outlet place here in hawaii, and I actually really wanted to go here for one reason: The Cosmetic Company Store...
Before going to Florida I searched online for one of these stores near where we were going to be. If you go on makeup websites they usually refer to these stores as a CCO or Cosmetic Company Outlet. It's a store that sells makeup at a discount and yes, they have MAC there :) They actually sell the limited edition items from older collections at a discounted price. I've always wanted to go check one of these stores out and I finally had the opportunity to.
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| A very happy me outside the store with my long receipt, hand full of swatches and my bag full of goodies :) |
The store was really small and they had all sorts of different brands there (at a discount as well) but I was mainly interested in the MAC items. There was one shelf full of just MAC but I also found MAC products randomly throughout the store.
I ended up making a pretty big haul, but I was saving for it and I figured that I probably won't be shopping at another store like this for a while so I might as well take advantage of it.
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| The goods |
here's individual pics of what I got..
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Eyeshadows: Sweetjoy, Vibrant Grape, Night Manoeuvres, Lucky Green Meet The Fleet, Give Me Liberty of London, Swell Baby, Aqua
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I was surprised to see that they had some things from some pretty old collections. I picked up the eyeshadows that caught my eye, some I've been wanting for ages and some I thought would be nice addition to my collection cause I didn't have anything similar. These were about $10 so they were cheaper than actually buying just the pro pan version of the eyeshadows. There's an eyeshadow from the MAC Venomous Villans collection, two from MAC Style Warriors collection, one from MAC Naughty Nauticals collection, two from MAC Surf Baby collection and two from MAC Fashion Flower collection.
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| Mega Metal Eyeshadow: Tweet Me |
I swatched this eyeshadow and loved it. It is from the MAC Mega Metal collection and so the shadow is bigger than the normal eyeshadows. It's a pretty peachy gold, the kind of color I love to wear on the lid. I have colors like this but everytime I see it I have this uncontrollable need to buy it :) It's very similar to MAC shadows like Gleam and Expensive Pink.
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| Paint Pot: Let Me Pop |
I have no idea when this paint pot came out in a collection but it's another one of those pretty peachy gold colors that I seem to always need. It's very similar to MAC's Rubenesque paint pot but this one pulls more on the peach side where as Rubenesque pulls more of the gold. This one also has chunky glitter in it and Rubenesque doesn't.
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| MAC #130 Brush |
This brush first came out a while ago but has since been re-released a couple more times. Every time I saw it I wanted to buy it but just couldn't bring myself to spend the amount on the price tag. I quickly grabbed it when I saw that this store had it and at a discounted price :)
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| MAC #187, MAC #130, Real Techniques Stippling Brush, Sigma F80 |
It's really tiny for a face brush so I took pics of it next to similar brushes just to show how small it actually is.
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| Kissable Lipcolour: Super |
I love my nude lip colors and when I saw this I figured I'd give it a try. I've never tried a Kissable Lipcolour before but I just couldn't pass up such a wonderful nude color. It's actually like a lipstick in a lipgloss form and goes on more like a cream.
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| MAC Lipglass, MAC Dazzleglass, MAC Kissable Lipcolour |
The shape and size of this lipcolour is longer and skinnier than the normal MAC glosses as you can tell by the picture.
This has been the most used item out of everything I got. I didn't anticipate how much I'd love this lipcolour. The color is a perfect nude for me and because it's not a glossy lipcolour it wears really nicely on my lips. Sometimes I actually add a little gloss over this to give my lips a little more shine.
I wish a bought a backup of this lipcolour :(
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| Nail Polish: Hangin' Loose |
This is just another nude nail polish to add to my collection. I swatched in on my nails in the store and fell in love with the pretty nude color it is. There is also a slight shimmer in it which adds to the pretty-ness :)
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| Perfume: Pinkaura |
This perfume was also released a few times and every time I smelt it I wanted it. So when i saw it on the shelf I grabbed it. It has more of a flowery smell to it which I like but nothing can beat my all-time favorite perfume: MAC Turquatic.
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| Eye Kohl: I Get No Kick, Chromagraphic Pencil: NW25/NC30 |
These two pencils I grabbed to wear on my waterline. They are supposed to open your eyes and make them appear bigger when you use it on your waterline. 'I Get No Kick' has shimmer in it and the chromagraphic pencil is a nice matte beige. I'm really liking 'I Get No Kick' lately and haven't really used the chromagraphic pencil.
That's pretty much everything!
I also picked up a couple of things for the makeup junkie bestie and for my mom but didn't get a chance to take pics of it.
I hope I can go back to another Cosmetic Company Store someday!
