I've always had a thing for makeup. Even when I was younger I always had a drawer chock full of drugstore makeup. Ironically, my obsession is buying it and not actually wearing it. There is nothing more enjoyable to me then taking a good long time on the weekend to do my makeup perfectly while the baby is taking her nap...but quite honestly, I don't have time for that on weekdays. I barely have time to wash my face, and putting on just mascara or eyeliner in 2 seconds isn't worth it to me. It's all or nothing.
6 years ago I briefly (and I mean briefly...) worked at Nordstrom. On my lunch break I would go down to the MAC counter and get my makeup done by those *amazing* girls. I was way too poor on my $9/hour budget to buy anything, but so began my liking for MAC.
About 2 1/2 years ago around Christmas my boss was trying to buy his wife a gift online. He came into my office and asked me if I knew anything about Ebay because he was absolutely clueless. He was buying his wife a $300 "ice box" (basically a makeup organizer)...and even though I had always been one to stop in the makeup aisle for hours at CVS, I wasn't obsessed with makeup even to buy or care about this organizer. I walked him through the ebay process. He got the ice box delivered to work and when it came in the top had a crack in it. He started freaking out about it. I walked him through contacting the seller, and the seller told him to just keep it and they would send a new one since it would cost too much to send back. So he offered it to me for free for helping him!
I remember taking it home and wondering what I was possibly going to put in it since I probably had a whole whopping 5
$1 wet n wild eyeshadows. And this my friends is where the obsession began. I needed to fill this thing. How could I have a $300 organizer with cheap makeup in it?!? I was making much more money at this point, and started building my MAC collection.
I consider myself a "MAC snob". I really don't use many other makeup brands, but believe me I have tried and nothing beats MAC. Here is where my collection now stands:
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