After reading the book "Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without me" by Paula Begoun, I learned that expensive beauty products are not always better than drugstore-brand cosmetics. In fact, often the cheaper stuff is better. But even after learning this, sometimes I still feel like I want something expensive and something "nice." I wanted to try MAC, because I had read that their powders were rather amazing.
I visited the store at West Edmonton Mall. It can get kind of crazy here, and the store is small. I was looking at the powders and I chose one that I thought would suit my skin, which was NC 20. No one asked me if I needed any help, so I had to grab a girl. I asked her if she thought the colour would suit my skin. She said, "Oh yes, this would be a beautiful colour on you!" Then I asked her if warm shades were for pink undertones and if cool shades were for yellow understones. She told me yes. I was wrong, of course, but so was she, yet she's the expert.
Then she asked me if I wanted to try the powder. I always feel weird when people put makeup on me in the store, but I said okay. So she took a large brush and started powdering my face. I looked in the mirror, and I thought that maybe it was a little too pink on me, since I have a lot of red in my face that I do not want to accentuate, but she insisted that it looked amazing, so I bought it.
When I got home, I noticed the shade did look a little pink, but I thought it still looked pretty good. This powder was rather amazing--it almost looked like skin. But after a few hours, I noticed that my face started to look a bit orange, and I realized that the powder had oxidized! First, I wasn't happy because I had got a cool shade, when I should have a warm shade, but then it turns orange? I felt like I paid $27 for crap.
I still wouldn't mind getting another MAC powder someday, but I'm afraid that I might get matched to the wrong shade again. Besides, I found an amazing Maybelline powder for only $13 that's just as good or even better than MAC anyway. read more