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The older MAC Pearlglides. What was I thinking not getting them?
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I regret not buying a backup of Petals and Peacocks from the Liberty of London collection. I mean I bought one, but I ended up loving it way to much.
I got a second one of Ever Hip through a swap (really lucky there). It was so flattering on my fair olive skin I wish they make it permanent.
Urban Decay Naked Palette
I regret not buying 2 of them since I want to give one to a friend.
You know its permanent right?
I regret not buying 2 Ripe Peach blush ombres from MAC. I only bought one.
The Urban Decay 15th anniversary 24/7 eyeliner set during those like four minutes when they offered them this month! The INSTANT they are available next month, they will be miiiiiiine!
mac to the beach’s marine life high light powder
The Naked Palette. It’s not limited edition, thank goodness, it’s just super hard to get my hands on now 🙁 I saw it at Sephora and was telling myself I don’t need it but who am I kidding? I do need it D:
Yup, me too! I put it back telling myself I didn’t need anymore nude shadows. Turns out I do need more though too!
I have one, and I always check the shelves in Ulta and Sephora for a backup. I’ve used it constantly since it’s release, and you can barely see a dent in any of the shadows (because they’re full size, and like all UD eyeshadows, incredibly pigmented)… it’s such a great value for such a fun product!! Grab one the next time you see one – it’s sooooo worth it!! 🙂
Totally agree with u!
Chanel Jade nailpolish and a Fafi medium makeup bag! boo hoo 🙁
On the plus side, there are quite some (cheaper) dupes of Chanel Jade.
I’ve seen these at CCOs, even recently.
The Fafi makeup bags, that is.
Hipness! I’m hoping for it to be released again in normal packaging — I’m really not crazy about MAC’s LE cases most of the time :s
I find Fleur Power to be incredibly simmilar as I own both.
Thanks! I’ll check it out 🙂
the naked palette! :/
MAC Marine Life, and all of the Blush Ombres. 🙁
Oh yes! I would love to have Azalea Blossom and Ripe Peach…
Stereo rose msf from mac
Probably the Volcanic Ash stuff by MAC. Still hope it will be repromoted soon!
I see the Volcanic Ash stuff all the time at Cosmetic Company Outlet, do you have one near you?
MAC’s magically cool liquid powder, from the venomous villans collection.
There is talk about that powder becoming a permanent item soon
sleek the one powder is a dupe
except it doesnt have a colour to it, but it does have the same feeling x
MACs bad fairy nail laquer 🙁 The colour is incredible..
UD 24/7 liners. I didn’t know they were that great when i was still in the States; now, I don’t have Urban Decay around where I live!
MAC Freckletone =( MAC Peachstock too when Liberty of London came out.
You know that they’re both pernament, right? 🙂
The azalea blush ombré by Mac. I have lusted after it since!
My latest regret was Briar Rose BP. I tested it on my cheeks, but I didn’t buy it because I bought so many other things from VV. It was soon gone of course.
But then, a few weeks ago I bought it from eBay. They have hefty prices, but I hardly paid much extra, because our normal price for a BP is almost 40 USD anyways.
the MAC liquid eyeliners from the feline collection, i heard they were going to be permanent..but wheeeennnn!!??!? ahhhh! i need them in my life!
Ive seen them at my mac counter. Im sure you can see them online too. 🙂
http://www.maccosmetics.com/product/shaded/151/10160/Superslick-Liquid-Eye-Liner/index.tmpl
I`m with you Christine…. the pearlglides, oh gosh, I get mad to myself…….
UD alice in wonderland palette.
i cant believe I let my brother talk me out of buying it, lol.
OPI Alice in Wonderlands Mad as a Hatter.
Ive even thought of stealing it from my local nail salon….
i havent of course…but ive thought about it!
hahahaha that’s so funny, jessika! I cant say there’s anything i regret not buying. i have so much already, i’ll never use it all!
I regret not getting Mac Young Punk from the Style Black collection because I thought it had too much glitter but ending up buying the My Dark Magic shadow and love it which has about the same amount of glitter.
I haven’t really thought over a product and not buying it, I move on and wait for the next fun thing 🙂
but the Pearlglides, they are fab + amazing eyeliners! I have two and they work like a dreamm. Shame you didn’t get them 🙁
Some of the MAC Hello Kitty products. I only bought two things.
MAC hipness blush, and a few of the glosses from the spring colour forecast collection, especially purple rage or whatever it was called!
I regret not buying Estee Sea Turtle Solid Perfume.
I couldn’t justify paying that big amount of money, plus, it would be a complicated transaction since the item was not sold here.
> < Would've grabbed it!
i’ve seen that one in my local cco (concord, NC) so maybe check yours out!
Well I’ll be next to say that I regret not buying the UD Naked Palette when I saw it at Sephora in the city. I thought I could get it later, but now that’s impossible unless I’m willing to pay $70 on eBay! No way!
The 226 brush from the colour craft collection. Omg. i so need it. I hope they re-release one sooooon.
ditto!
MAC Stereo Rose MSF and MAC Peach Blush Ombre. The worst part is the MUA at MAC told me he had one Stereo Rose left and did I want it? I bought Petticoat that day and told him no, that I didn’t think the stereo rose would be flattering on my skintone. What was I thinking?
MAC Blush Ombres, NARS Mounia Blush, MAC Mattene “Night Violet,” MAC Blooming Lovely Lipstick…..
>_> This is making me sad…
the Bobbi Brown University concealer palette!
MAC 226 brush
I regret not buying a Ripe Peach Blush from MAC.
Of course “MAC”‘s limited editions, they bring to Israel just a few of evrey product from the limited editions, sometimes I’m not sure about a lipstick or a blush and when I come back after a few days to buy it, it already “sold out”. It happened with “Prim and proper” powder in “Liberty of London”, and with the “Triumphant blush kit” from “Tartan Tale” and many others. When I bought the “black swan” eye pencil, they didn’t even put it on the counter of products, she took out the last one from the box.
Urban Decay’s NAKED palette and the stuff I missed from MAC’s Venomous Villians collection that I missed this year……
MAC’s English Accents lipglass, I mean I bought two but it’s my favorite lipglass ever and i always get compliments when I’m wearing it. Hope MAC repromote it ASAP lol
I am sooo bummed I wasn’t that much into MAC during the Heatherette and Barbie collection : (
Omg me too! Big bummer
I regretted not jumping onto the MAC wagon when MAC Fafi came out. I only jumped into when Cult of Cherry collection was out. Fafi’s collection had a lot of things I would have bought such as the paintpots, eye palette and l/s and l/g. Sigh.
i feel the same way…i would have loved the paintpots! the packaging was too cute!
The infamous Mac 226 brush.
MAC Ripe Peach blush!! Although I brough the seahorse highlighter powder afterwards but it couldn’t ease my pain of not having ripe reach!
I regret not buying and even knowing about the Lanvin for H&M lipsticks that were only in the store. Ugh, they were so pretty!
UD Vegan Palette.
This is available on Sephora.com .
I can’t believe during my MAC hiatus, I missed Venemous Vilians…I was only able to get 3 items. Every time I see a swatch/pic of VV products, my heart aches…lol!
I wish I were more into Mac last year. I regret not buying anything from the spring color forecast collection. Also I regret not get marine life or the peach ombre
the rest of the Neo Sci Fi and Cool Heat collections. Those are still my two very favourite collections and to this day there are products I wish I had from them.
me too!! i lost my high 90’s slimshine and i miss it!
Oh, I totally agree with you, Christine! I only have 2! I guess whenever they come out, I start feeling stingy and feel like I can only pick 1.
about 5 more Black Swan pearlglide liners
oh ditto, didn’t know I was going to love the eyeliner so much, I hope they repromote it
haha…yeah, when the Tartan Tales collection came out, I bought Undercurrent (missed it last time) and Black Swan. I had no clue that I would think BS was the “most beautiful eyeliner evaaaaahhh”.
I am very sad that I missed out on the Chanel Tentation Cuivre e/s quad. I can’t believe I let it slip by!
I regret not saving more money for IMATS and not getting 2 Yaby palettes … I’ll be good and aim for next year.
Stereo Rose MSF! Grrrr.
Well… I usually have NO willpower, and buy everything I want on the spot, but last night I was in Sephora, and they had several BOS III on the shelf..I already have one, so I left it there for some other pretty lady..and I have a feeling I’ll be kicking myself later for not buying a backup.
Dupes of Guerlain Rouge G Gems. Im kicking myself as we speak!
I mean *backups*
All of the Starflash eyeshadows from MAC!
Ripe Peach Blush Ombre
Urban Decay’s Naked palette
The MAC Fabulous Felines LE! Anything, I don’t care… especially the Schemer Lipglass, the Liquid Lurex Lipstick and the Smoky Heir Liner!
MAC Ripe Peach blush ombre
MAC 226 brush. Now I am on the hunt. Hope they release in an upcoming collection. Maybe the Cosmetic Company Store has it. Cross my fingers.
Queen’s Sin lipstick. I have Port Red but it’s just not the same.
Me too. Queen’s Sin came out just as I was getting into MAC. Didn’t get QS because I already had a red lipstick. Whyever would I need two? *facepalm*
yes agreed i want queen’s sin. Not quite a dupe but if you are the UK/Ireland Barry M lip laquer in no 1 scarlet – its a red that gives you christmas bauble lips!
UD Alice Palette
Every Starflash finish eye shadow, and after that a back up of Smoke and Diamonds which was the only one I did get.
I regret not getting the first or even the second Urban Decay Book Of Shadows. The third one doesn’t grab me like the others did and I wish I got the first when I had the chance.
Book of Shadows’ Alice in Wonderland and the Alice OPI (I love alice in wonderland)
i regret not buying another MAC purple eyeshadow when i was in the uk instead of that black one…
Ohhh, how I wish I’d gotten the Urban Decay Book of Shadows I.
(Gaahhh!!!)
Also, the Tarte palette from fall-ish 2009 . . . I forget the name of it, but it was a purple palette with square gold ‘studs’ on it.
I was too late. 🙁
(And Chicca, the UD Vegan Palette is STILL AVAILABLE online at Sephora – – I just saw it today. $34.00)
That tarte palette that you’re talking about is the femme fatale one. I used mine up and have been searching for a backup for months. No where to be found!!
The Thrills pipstick from to the beach collection
NARS Best Palette
MAC Stereo Rose
Ripe Peach by MAC 🙁
And the naked palette Which I will eventually buy
This is an oldie, but: MAC Spanish Fly lipstick. Brick red with green shimmer? Weird! I wish I had one.
UDPP, despite all the hype this eyehshadow primer actually made my eyeshadows crease faster then when I wear eyeshadows alone on my oily lids.
MAC Blue Storm Pigment and Pinked Mauve Pigment from the CCo., Lipmix Compact, another 180 brush, and any of their pigments in the old jars.
UD’s Book of Shadows Vol. II. And it would have been nice if I’d been into UD in time to get the first.
I also very much wish I hadn’t taken a break from polish–there were some great China Glaze polishes I totally missed out on. Like the OMG collection–I’m glad Tronica’s coming up, and will hopefully satisfy my longing for it, but I still wish I’d been in a position to take advantage of it. And, do I ever wish I had had a shot at some old Urban Decay polishes.
Also, I really should’ve snagged a shadow or two from MAC’s Dare to Wear collection–they were beautiful.
UD had re-released bos II about 2 weeks ago on website..
Yeah, I didn’t have the money then. It was around the end of my pay period, and I had to make a payment on my student loan, and I do occasionally make sensible financial decisions…
So I’ve bought Urban Decay since the 90’s, including the np which were a huge deal then because NO ONE made those colors but them and I recall Shirley Manson was a huge fan at the time and I was way into Garbage… but I digress anyhow I bought a bunch of the OG nail polishes when they last
had them and the formula was horrid. Made me so sad. I still have my original mildew, smog, shattered, roach, snow, ABC Gum, asphyxia etc… So glad the original e/s are still mostly around.
Chanel beiges de chanel quad! also starflash shadows, and i totally regret not buying about 3 or 4 backups of femme-fi e/s, as i use it all the time.
OH and the NARS Rajasthan ES duo
a backup of MAC Straw Harvest or Evening Aura, such a gorgeous daily e/s! I already hit pan on SH waaaah… Also Lancome Voile de Rose lipstick and Chanel Dragon Rouge Allure 🙁
Actually I have tons of products I regret NOT not buying. I have wasted so much $ on stuff I don’t use but purchased just because it was LE. UWVC donation truck is stopping by next week and they are accepting cosmetics. Some lady out there is gonna be receiving almost the entire Dare To Wear collection and maybe even some Chanel goodies.
Blush of Youth and Feelin Good. Why didnt I buy them.
urban decay naked pallet
pretty much everything from the style black collection last fall (especially the lip glosses)
MAC blush ombre in Ripe Peach (it looked so nice on..why did I not get it?!), a backup for Liberty of London lipglass in Frankly Fresh (gorgeous!), Birds and Berries e/s, and Nice Vice paint pot
Bobbi Brown Beach Shimmer brick 🙁
Mac ripe peach blush ombré 🙁
Mac 226 brush 🙁
Mac 165 brush 🙁
Nars Rajhastan eyeshadow 🙁
MAC Bird and Berries e/s
I am so wishing that I bought Urban Decay’s Naked palette when I saw it in Sephora. Now it can’t be found anywhere! I know they are supposed to be making more, but I really wish I had it NOW. 🙂
Mac utterly discreet lip glass. Love this color, I could kick myself
everything i didn’t get for the mac alexander mcqueen line.
I wish I got at least one thing from the MAC Hello Kitty collection, and the 226 blush
Tartan Tale’s pigments set (the neutral brown ones…)It’s sold out at my nearby MAC store…. i might be still able to get it if i travel 2 hrs…
Most of the Orly Cosmic nail lacquers. The Sally Beauty near me only got in a few and they were gone before I could get anything but Galaxy Girl. I really, really wanted Space Cadet. The MAC near me also ran out of their Space Cadet dupe before I could get there. 🙁
Mac tartan tale my blooming cheeks
I can’t remember, I ever regreted not buying a product. I’m not into limited editions and I don’t believe in too much hype. I feel satisfied with all the stuff I own. Some products don’t get the attention they deserve. Right now I’m doing a make-up diet. I’m sick, I know, but I’m looking foreward to the Cham Pale collection.
For some reason I still havent’ got the naked palette.
I regret not buying a mascara that’s GOOD for your eyelashes (natural ingredients or lash-growth, etc.) I now, feel weary when I put on regular mascara!
Christine, did you mean you wanted them and the opportunity when passed you or you didn’t want them?
MAC Penny Shadestick. Need it!
OH SO Fair Beauty Powder,Bite of an apple blush and Strange Potion Lipglass
I’m so dumb for not buying things from the MAC for Alexander Queen line or the MAC Style Black collection!!!! 🙁
i regret not buying Make Up For Ever Face and Body sooner. This is my go to water based foundation for all skin types. It blends, is super sheer, i can contour and give a bronzed glow with it and best of all its a body foundation so looks amazing on arms and lets when doing bridal work. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT.