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MAC Eyeshadow Pans: Now $6
MAC has dropped the price on their eyeshadow pans from $10 to $6. This is listed as a new price (not a sale price), on their website.
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Is this in store too?
I would expect it to be the new pricing wherever the pans are sold.
Yes, it is. I just called my local MAC store (in Canada – these are now $8 here but still…) and the SA said that, yes, it’s in store too and that it’s permanent, so far as they’ve been told. I am so excited…I’m heading up there tomorrow to buy a few of the shades I’d sort of hem’d and haw’d about for years (Era, Ricepaper and a few others).
That’s awesome!
This seems odd, though. Why would they drop the price that much?
My guess: competition. The internet has made for much savvier consumers and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve seen a drop outside of their die-hard fanbase
Personally, I haven’t bought a MAC shadow in years, but at that price, it could change!
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I agree. The jig is up especially when they were raising prices.
Yeah they are basically trying to undercut Inglots single pan prices. But really they have not upgraded their formula so I’m wondering if that’s in the works.
Peer pressure from make up geek..?
They look similar, weight similar and a lot of the shades dupe each other.
It’s ironic that they set the price at $6, which is the same as the makeup geek ones.
(I get this feeling that.. this is their satire way of showing..the owner of makeup geek actually copied the inspiration from mac shadows)
I think Marlena would like to think so… but this is more about MAC’s prices going out of style with customers than what MUG offers. From the early 90’s to around 2009 it was all about MAC with most makeup enthusiasts and artists, and in recent years they’ve fallen out of favor with constant price increases without changing for the better. Someone leading the company is finally making sense and good decisions!
Omg, this makes them the same price as MUG eyeshadows.. Hopefully they will drop the price in the Netherlands soon too!
Me too, waiting for the price drop in Holland now. I wonder what the European prices would be? €13.50 for a refill pan is quite a lot compared to MUG’s €6.40, not that I haven’t bought more MACs than MUG in the past though.
Wow, whatta great info, thanks! 🙂
I’m new to MAC eyeshadows. I have ordered 15x cool tone palette, waiting to arive this week.
What individual shadows should I get me? I’m thinking about Nylon! And other 3 colors could be, lol? As I have 4x empty pan, lol 🙂
And I’m not able to swatch them “live” 🙁 I can only order them online.
What colors are MUST HAVES??
Are there any super glitter ones to have in a small collection? 🙂
Would apreciate any help!! 🙂
My favorite colors are:
If I were to build a 4 pan palette, I’d choose:
All that Glitters (shimmer)
Woodwinked (shimmer)
Saddle (matte)
Brun (matte) or Mulch (shimmer)
Ooh good choices! I’d agree those would be 4 necessary additions!
My all time favorite MAC shadow is patina. Check that one out.
I ordered the warm and cool palettes around the holidays and I returned the warm. I am around an NC20 fair skin and blue eyes. I hope you love the cool palette. The purples are very good for my skin tone. I was surprised that it worked so great for me.
I love Cranberry, Rule and Mulch for my fun colors.
My favorite ones are All that Glitters, Club, Bronze, Cranberry and Soft Brown (best crease shade ever), but I think it depends a lot on whether you have warm or cool undertones (I’m a warm undertone girl myself, so I tend to stay away from cooler shades) and on the type of eye look you like to make.
Good luck on your shopping! I still remember my first eyeshadow purchase at MAC, so exciting!
Since you seem to have a good list of recs from everyone else, I’ll say that generally they have a good eyeshadow formula, but their Lustre finishes are the driest. The mattes can have a tendency to be too hard which makes it difficult to pick up color, while the matte squared are softer and are generally well liked.
Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, but I hope this helps. Good luck!
Must haves for me:
All That Glitters and/or Naked Lunch
Mulch
Brun
Phloof
Dazzlelight
Sumptuous Olive
and, of course, Satin Taupe
oops – I should have included Typographic (get it instead of Carbon, if you’re looking for a dark/almost black shadow) and Blanc Type.
I love Nylon. My EVERYDAY colours are: Nylon (inner corner), Shroom (brow bone), All That Glitters (all over lid), and Woodwinked (outer lid).
Ooooh. This gives me renewed interest, I may have to check them out!
Hell… Yes…
This is like mid-2000s pricing. I love it, keep it comin’, MAC!
Now that is a pleasant surprise. And the amount is still the same?
The refill pans cost $16 where I live. Not worth it, considering there are so many better options on the market.
Same here. They’re so expensive that it’s ridiculous.
Same here… I calculated; its 15 dollars per pan. 🙁
I got the email and I’m thinking of placing an order for my favorite shades with the idea of putting together an ideal travel palette! I have 9 million palettes, so the necessity of this choice is questionable.
lol!
Are they going to drop the price of their blush pans…….. 🙂
I’m thinking of getting a 4-pan. Any suggestions for mostly matte/satin, neutral shades for everyday? Thanks! 🙂
For matte and satin I love Soft Brown (best crease shade ever), Haux and Era.
Get Soba!!! It’s a beautiful medium yellow-toned brown with a slight golden sheen that turns it into a satin. It’s my favorite everyday eyeshadow!!
I highly recommend Copperplate. A beautiful almost pinkish deep grey.
I personally recon this is to push out stock. But im not complaining if it happeneds here in the uk too 🙂
I hope this doesn’t mean my favorites are at risk of being reformulated! All that Glitters and Espresso are some of my go-tos!
I am thrilled. Living in small town Canada, I don’t have reasonable access to Makeup Geek, Colorpop, and many other single shadows. MAC I can order for free or pick up from time to time when I am in a department store an hour from my town.
I agree! Especially with our dollar being low shipping rates and everything can be brutal. I will definitely be buying some shadows. Expensive pink will be mine haha
Nice! I guess the drug store and indie market must really be cutting into their profits.
This could not have come at a better time. I really want to finish my final MAC palette, but I also wanted to try to get the premade Nordstrom palette. At this price, and the palette price dropping, it looks like l can actually afford both!
Wow! This is a really nice surprise, given how many other brands keep jacking up their prices. Due to hit-or-miss quality, I haven’t bought a regular MAC shadow in decades. I’ve only bought their better LE ones (Extra Dimension, Boogie Nights, Faerie Whisper ), but this could be a game- changer. I’m going to have to look into their regular line. Christine, I think you did an Intro to MAC a few months ago, but do you think it makes sense to do an Intro to Regular MAC shadows?
I hope this will affect the swediah price too 🙂 a regular eyeshadow costs about $25… Not sure you can buy them in pan though, but pretty sure they’d be crazy expensive still :/
Wow, speak of the devil. It might be time for me to splurge on Quarry and maybe a couple of others as well. Thanks for the info!
Whew!!! What a relief! I knew about this for a few months, but had to keep my big mouth shut! The MUA’s who let me in on it were originally told an earlier date and a $6.90 price, then MAC told them “no, not March 1st, but later this year, we don’t have a set date”. But it’s finally out in the open. Keeping this secret was all but impossible!!!?
I snatched up a couple that have been on my wishlist! Bottle green, humid, and deep damson. <3 can't wait to get them and try doing a nice green smoky eye!
Wow! So I guess the new premade palette prices are permanent too? Nice!
This is the positive result for the consumer of strong competition, not only in pricing, but in quality most importantly. If other companies can make as good a product for this price, maybe MAC can focus more on upping their quality vs. heavily marketing a less-than-perfect product. And, if they want to make it seem like more of a deal without changing the product itself, the price drop makes sense.
WHAT?! That’s shocking! You never see a company lowering their prices.
Uh-oh, Makeup Geek is in trouble!
I’m kind of glad haha
I haven’t bought MAC shadows in a long time and I saw they dropped the prices earlier today on DupeThat’s IG page. I bought a few. I haven’t shopped at MAC hardcore in a long time. I thought this was a nice time to revisit. Lol…
*buys 15 shadws*
OMG IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL. I can’t believe my eyes
Just in the US or worldwide? 🙂
After year upon year of people clawing for their products regardless of quality, I find this post very satisfying. Don’t get me wrong: I have a huge nostalgic fondness for MAC, but competition is a great thing for the consumer.
I have never ordered MAC. I have never been able to find their ingredients lists. I have severe allergies, so until I can easily access an ingredients list, they are off limits.
Copied from the back of the eyeshadow packaging (I bought a few), here are their ingredients! Again, for the eyeshadows:
Talc, Zinc, Stearate, Octyldodecyl, Stearoyl Stearate, Isostearyl Neopentanoate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Caprylyl Glycol, Hexylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol [+/- (meaning some have these some don’t), Silica, Mica, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), Bismuth Oxychloride (CI 77163), Blue 1 Lake (CI 42090), Carmine (CI 75470), Chromium Hydroxide Green (CI 77289), Chromium Oxide Greens (CI 77288), Ferric Ferrocyanide (CI 77510), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Red 40 Lake (CI 16035), Ultramarines (CI 77007), Yellow 5 Lake (CI 19140)]
I agree, they really should post the ingredients on their website instead of only on the packaging.
YES! This morn when their email arrived with this news, this girl was busy making a list and trying to order. The MAC website got slower and slower as I placed my order, but success was at hand! If you use the code MACEXP you will get free 2 day shipping, although you may need to sign up for their frequent buyer plan.
Here are my favorite MAC shadows:
LIGHTS
Blanc type – matte ivory
Phloof! –
Brule
TRANSITION
Haux
Omega
Wedge
Quarry
Satin Taupe
Patina
DARKS
FIG. 1
Blackberry
Chocolate Brown
Plus lots more…you may want to avoid the ones that have a “lustre” finish, they do not perform well on the lid.
Happy shopping!
Thank you! Exactly the help I need!
Happy to help!
Great news! Now I wish they’d drop the price of the Paint Pots a little too 🙂
?? Yay! I don’t know what to buy yet, I’m so excited, but yay! YAY.
I guess Colour Pop, MUG and a few others were getting too much of their business . . .
Wow! That really makes mac quite affordable. We had already seen a decrease I’m prices of their pre made palettes. I do hope this decrease in prices ends up extending to more of their products. And if you are lucky enough to have a mac pro discount that could bring your cost down to $3.60 a pan! Unfortunately I do not have a mac pro discount.
Hopefully NZ M.A.C will also update the price. We also have to pay more for the same product in NZ. ?
…and PRO discount is eligible on the $6, so the eyeshadows are even cheaper that way! Love this!!! I know MAC sales have taken a huge hit due to these up-and-coming makeup brands. *cough* Makeup Geek *cough* Anastasia Beverly Hills *cough*
Omg yes! I hope they drop the blush pan prices too.
Do you have any idea if they will be dropping the prices of the refill blushes? That would be incredible! Also, what happened to the Pro Longwear Eyeshadows??
OMG! These are still £10 in the UK (about $14).
I’m getting married in the US next year and something tells me a visit to MAC will be involved!
The refill pans cost 15 dollars in Belgium which is a crazy price. I was so happy when I saw that they were 10 dollars and I think that I am going to buy all of the ones I want now since they are 6 dollars (way cheaper). I can’t justify spending 15 dollars on a mac shadow. I am gonna wait till the summer of 2017 to do some damage.
Refill pans are 26 AUD (19.40 USD) in Australia. I wanna cry.
It’s about time. There is no way they can continue with these high prices when you have more affordable and better quality options. Now I’m just waiting for the blush prices to drop. 😉
Hoping it’s worldwide. Not likely they’d lower the price of anything here though 🙂
Umm… great and all…but why? I really hope this doesn’t mean the quality is also going to go down. All of my eye shadows are Mac, and I’ll be pretty upset if the quality is no longer the same.
hmmmm just checked australia’s website and still $26 for the refill
So far I’ve bought Sketch, Saddle, and Aqua! I also want Haux and Woodwinked, but honestly I have dupes for all of their super popular neutrals because I’ve never had any interest in Mac and have so many other shadows at this point. So far I’ve used Saddle and Sketch and I don’t think they’re nearly as soft or as pigmented as Makeup Geek eyeshadows, to me that’s worth ordering from Makeup Geek online. What Mac really needs is a reformulation to catch up with all the other brands.
Does anyone know if the new prices will reach Europe (Netherlands) as well?
I hope that MAC will be dropping the price of their eyeshadow pans in the uk too.
£10 a pop when you are aware that they are $6 now in USA feels like us UK girls are being ripped off. Beauty bay stocks make up geek starting at £5 a pan also has zoeva palettes at £18 which are as good as if not better than MAC.
This might be a dumb question (I don’t use MAC products that much) but are these pans magnetized so they can go into any Z palette?
They haven’t dropped the UK yet, I wonder why that is??
MAC eyeshadows are now listed as $16. I was on the website yesterday and they were $6 but not anymore! Any idea what has happened? For the first time I thought I could afford to buy their shadows and today I was going to place an order. I am so disappointed.
The price on pan eyeshadows is $6, not compact eyeshadows. http://www.maccosmetics.com/product/13840/907/Products/Makeup/Eyes/Shadow/Eye-Shadow-Pro-Palette-Refill-Pan