[Oh] Dear Mac…

Question Of The Day: So does the local MAC assistant reeeeaaally know best?

(Rant alert)

Last week, I trecked out of my way to go to this MAC counter in Debhenams  (which is in a tiny, non-exciting corner of the boringest department store I’ve ever been in – but it’s the only one in my region so I have no choice!) to top up my concealer stash.

Now, after much trial and error in the past, I have established my MAC shade is NW30/35 depending on the product. Currently my foundation is NW30, so when I went to the counter to pick up a Studio Finish; why OH why did the MAC lady decide to give me NW35? She basically just wouldn’t get me a NW30 out the draw because she was so adamant I needed NW35.

OK, now I understand she is a make-up artist, and she probably knows more about make-up than me, so I propped myself on that seat and let her test it out on me (I could tell she was dying to do this). She buffed it on around my eyes and showed me; it looked ok, it kind of just blended in with my skin, it covered the dark bits, but it just didn’t look flattering!

However, the time on my parking ticket was rapidly running out and I really needed a concealer so I decided to go with ‘the make-up artist knows best’ and bought it.

Unfortunately when I got to my car, and worse – when I got home, I managed to examine it in much better lighting and established it looked awful! My eye area was darker and orange-er than my face; definitely not flattering at all.

Lo and behold, I will have to take another trip to this MAC counter to swap it for a NW30…Grrr.

Moral of the story; sometimes you need to be more assertive if you know you’re probably right, even if you are up against a moody, unapproachable MAC lady.

Disclaimer: I honestly don’t have anything against MAC MUA’s, lol, I have lovely friends who work/have worked at the MAC counter so I'm sure this is just a one off rant. :) Thanks for reading!

Loves xoxo