MAC Iris Apfel Adventure

 If you guys don't already know, I am kinda, a little bit makeup obsessed. Especially with the MAC cosmetics collections!

So last week I had already had marked on my calendar the date of the release of the MAC Iris Apfel Collection. As usual I set money aside for the products I was going to buy and in the morning at work was ready to call and reserve the products I wanted.....

I clearly UNDERESTIMATED how many people were anticipating this collection!!!

So instead of calling imidately when the MAC store opened I called at 2pm, 2 hrs before I had to leave work... and of course when I call I get the terrible news that 3 of the 4 lipsticks I wanted were sold out...and the one they did have that I wanted, they couldn't put on hold because the collection had sold out so fast! After he said that he proceded to tell me that the collection had practically sold out 30 mins after their opening -______________-

Clearly no one in NYC works, and has time to go early in the morning!!!!!!

So of course I was super frustrated, i'm telling you all of last year I had been waiting to buy these lipsticks.. I thought it was going to be simple, but instead it turned into an adventure.... or a better word a scavenger hunter for 4 lipsticks, LOL! 

I'm crazy I know!

(Please excuse the spelling mistake in Flamingo I forgot to put the "n" in both pictures!!)

So after I received this awful news I proceded to freak out, and start frantically searching all of the the MAC cosmetic stores numbers around me! But of course I call a MAC counter first, and they tell me that they aren't holding that collection at any MAC counters.... UGH!!!! really aggravated at that point!

Then I call all of the other 15 out of 30 MAC store (because the other 15 were MAC counters!) and they all tell me the same thing...SOLD OUT!!!!!

I swore it was impossible!!!! that had never happen to me! I've never seen a collection sell out that fast, it was sold out online too!

AT THIS POINT I WAS ON MY KNEES BEGGING TO FIND THESE LIPSTICKS!!!

So I do an even crazier thing.... I start to call MAC stores out of state! LOL, so I call NJ and ta-daaaaaaaaaahhh!!! Wishes DO Come True!!!!!

I find my 4 lipsticks, including my most awaited shade, Party Parrot! 

The next day I proceded to drive an hour to New Jersey with my best friend Stefano to buy these heavenly shades of lipstick! 

I get there and another problem, the lipsticks I reserved which were 4 had miraculously turned into 3 

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PARTY PARROT was missing!!!! I trecked it to NJ and wasn't getting my most anticipated shade!

But ohh wells I lived with it, and got Flamingo, Pink Pigeon, and Scarlet Ibis which are very pretty too! I had already own Morange which is a permanent  MAC lipstick and was the only one not selling out because all of the other lipsticks were limited edition!

Anyways here are the picture of the amazing lipstick:

Pink Pigeon and Scarlet Ibis are matte shades, but I would say they are more semi-matte because they aren't as dry as MAC shade like : Ruby Woo, or Smoke Purple

Flamingo is a lustre finish, which makes it sheerer and more moisturizing.

Morange is permeant so don't go rushing out to buy it; is an amplified finish, which makes it highly pigmented and has a shiny finish! 

(from left to right: Flamingo, Pink Pigeon, Scarlet Ibis, Morange)

(embrace me lipliner & swatch on lips)

This collection also came out with lipliners, and eye shadows! I didn't get any but they re-release this lipliner that I already had from a previous collection called Embrace Me lip pencil.

Picture from our Scavenger Hunter to NJ for lipsticks LOL!
love my best friend <3


The heavenly mall where my lipsticked resided in!

Our Reward for going to NJ to buy lipsticks!!! <3 YUMMMM Love Checkers Cheese Fries!

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xoxo,
paintedREDD