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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Thursday, January 04, 2007 12:35 AM (Eastern)
About The MAC Cosmetics and Estee Lauder Co. Boycott
(link removed because the above page was hacked)
I'm a consumer, not a makeup artist...still I found it interesting and read it through.
As anyone who has been exposed to my complaints about MAC over the past two years would know...while going back on our "year in beauty" threads, I realized it has been two years...I've bought very little MAC lately. Not specifically because of the boycott, but for two reasons:
1.) MAC cheesed me off by cranking out so many "collections" of limited edition shades and products. It felt as if there were a new "collection" every two weeks, rather than creating a few, well-thought-out, mostly permanent collections every year.
The fact that the majority of the products were limited edition...what do you do with it? Buy a backup? How about three? What if the shade doesn't work out for you after you've used it more than two weeks? How much money and time do you want tied up in this?
2.) More subtly...I have to think there's something to what this guy is saying. I did notice that the original staff of my local MAC counter disappeared at one point. They were good; friendly, knowledgeable. The people that took over running the counter were not nearly as good, nor as friendly or knowledgeable. At one point, they were also out of basic products (I remember waiting weeks for a single item).
I felt at first it was just that counter, but have since read complaints about MAC counters across several other beauty boards.
I'm not sure about declining quality, because as I say, I haven't been buying much MAC. I'd hate to think if that were so.
MAC, by the way, was my personal introduction to department store makeup. I always bought drugstore makeup before. When I discovered beauty boards back in 1998, I read so much about MAC, how great it was, how it cost only a little bit more than drugstore (and in fact could be cheaper, ounce for ounce)...how they had Back to MAC, how they raised money for AIDS, how they had shades for virtually every skintone, how they had miracle products. MAC was so loved. The brilliant range of colors, the lipsticks (mind you, this was back when most lipsticks were still heavily perfumed--MAC's tasted wonderfully of vanilla), the sheer staying power of the eyeshadows, oh, the whole MAC-ness of it all.
In a way, it's hard for me to admit that things have changed. There are MAC products (Blot pressed powder, Powerpoint eyepencils, Lustre lipsticks) that are still good. But I'll have to concur that MAC is not the same company...literally...that it was before. Whether it will ever return to its former incandescence is not for me to say, but it doesn't feel likely at this point.
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