Comments on: MAC Love Lace Collection for Winter 2009 + Added Photos

By: Nicola

Nicola — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:19:07 +0000

I loved this collection, but the eyebrow remind me of a slug.

By: KC

KC — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:52:28 +0000

I saw this collection a couple of days ago in store. The blue eyeshadows actually are the stand out colours. They are really pretty and pigmented.

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:20:20 +0000

Aww, thanks, Rosa! I’m so glad you enjoy the reviews!

By: Rosa Napoleon

Rosa Napoleon — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:15:28 +0000

YOU ROCK!! This is why I subscribe to your beauty blog. I trust you to give me and other readers of your blog your honest opinion and not a sales rep pitch. The economy is hard right now and if you know of a cost effective way to purchase makeup and still look fabulous why not share with fellow beauty bloggers.

Keep up the good work Christine.

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:13:51 +0000

Hi TS,

Do you work for MAC? You’re just very specific about what MAC does, so I’m curious if you do!

MAC is still a business, so even though creativity is very much part of MAC’s identity, it’s still important for them to listen to their customers. MAC has put out some subpar products (e.g. Suite Array) that even I couldn’t fathom how they got through testing. They’re not a perfect brand, but they certainly have many good products and shades – but inevitably, not every product can be amazing and we should all be allowed to hold our own opinions.

It would be difficult to say that there wasn’t hard work put into just about any and all products and services put into the marketplace… MAC is no exception. But I am also a paying customer and know and understand that I do pay a substantial markup on products I purchase from MAC. I love and will always be a MAC fan, but they’re not some altruistic company purely in it for creativity.

Figuring out dupes is also part of a process of budgeting – not everyone can afford to purchase every single blue eyeshadow MAC puts out (and nobody should be expected to or thought lesser of for trying to dupe new shades with previous shades).

By: ts

ts — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:51:59 +0000

It’s sad that a lot of people are referring to some shades as “dupable”. MAC wouldn’t be such a successful company if they did a hundred of exactly the same shade with different names. Sure, you may have already picked up a SIMILAR blue shadow in the past (espesh if you guys are all MAC addicts like me!) or may already have a black liner, but if it wasn’t different enough to create, they wouldn’t be selling it! For all those Feline fans out there – imagine if people kept saying that Feline was just a dupe for Smolder. Sure, in some ways, but if that was the case then nobody would buy Feline when it came out!
A lot of you may not realise that MAC actually creates these collections about 2 years in advance, and don’t just copy and crank out the units like some companies do. Also, every new product is tested by a worldwide panel of MAC experts – senior artists, brand managers, resident trainers, and the like – who use the product over a period of at least 6 months, then fill out strict reviews on the product, and if it doesn’t get 75% or more of the panel saying that they couldn’t live without it (and remember, the people in the panel probably have entire rooms filled with MAC!), it gets pulled and reworked, or dropped completely.
So guys, spare a thought for those MAC newbies, and for all the hard work that MAC does to create amazing collections!