CCO Haulage…I love love.

Last Friday I went to the CCO…I make it my business to get there at least every two weeks to purchase items to add to my collection. I love my CCO! I hear it’s a very good one so while it’s still new and nobody really knows about it then I’ll be getting all the goodies all the time. Yay!

OK so here is my haul…

- MAC Fix +
- MAC Brush Cleanser
- MAC Hello Kitty Dazzleglass in Kitty Kouture
-MAC Passionate Eyeshadow
- MAC Petticoat Mineralized Skinfinish (MSF)
- MAC 188 Brush
- NYX Suede (had to have it – not a fan of NYX shadows – but this one rocks! Thanks ColouredBeautiful)

Everything was new to the CCO except for Passionate, Petticoat and the 188 brush. I was happy to purchase my first bottle of Fix +. I have used it a couple times and I must say that it does wake my face it. Makes it feel fresh. I spray it on before my face and eye primer.

OK so I love Dazzleglasses now. Who would have thought? They are not too sticky and they give this wonderful, glittery shine. Love my Kitty Kouture Dazzleglass!

Passionate eyeshadow is just a very pretty pink (it’s more of a hot pink, but when put on the eye it has to be built up in order to get that hot pink to come out which is fine for me). I am wearing it lightly today and it looks great with MAC Tempting and NYX Suede eyeshadows. My NYX Suede eyeshadow a single eyeshadow (it’s a matte medium brown color with very little shimmer in it) and I love it because it is very close to my skin color, it doesn’t go on chalky like the shadows in the trios and it makes for a great blending color when I need to really blend out my lines.  I, of course, picked it up at the Fragrance Outlet because my local Ulta store didn’t have this color in so I paid full price.  Awww.  But I Love.

Petticoat MSF is just beautiful. It comes out on my cheeks as it does when I swatch it onto my hand. It’s shimmery like hell, but it’s so pretty. I love using it.

Love love love…what don’t I love? Love my 188 brush. It is hella small, but it picks up just the right amount of my NARS blush. NARS blushers are highly pigments and my Taj Mahal is very pigmented. I was using my Essence of Beauty Finishing brush to pick it up, but it would pick up too much. My 188 picks up the right amount. I just need to dip twice and I’m done! Love!

I have yet to use the brush cleanser and I should be ashamed of myself because all of my brushes are dirty and have been for a week.  Gross.  Yeah, I know.  Anyway!  Here are pics of my lovely CCO haul!

I really need to start reviewing some stuff since I am a NW45, NC45 and there are not many reviews out there for people with my skin color. I’ll do that soon.

Was Only Supposed to Pick Up Brunette MSF but…

…I came back with a couple more things in addition to it!  I’m not surprised.  Ha!

I visited my CCO today because since my last haul I’ve been a little annoyed at myself for not purchasing  a Mineralized Skinfinish in Brunette when I picked up Blond and Redhead.  I was able to get it today and I must say that I love it.  The women of color on Youtube who I watch that bought Brunette were right…it is definitely a great MSF for dark skin.

When I swatch it it doesn’t come out chalky like my MSF in Blonde.  I sort of regret buying both Blonde and Redhead and I’m thinking about swapping it for something else on MUA or wherever.  I have tried them both a few times trying to work with them, but they don’t do anything for me that my MSF in So Ceylon (which I love love love) cannot do so…I thin they have got to go, sadly.

Someone suggested that both MSFs in Blonde and Redhead works well as highlighters for dark skin. Well, I found that concealer under my eyes works well as a highlighter and that my neutral and ligt brown eyeshadows work well on my brow bone.  I won’t say that I’m disappointed with Blonde and Redhead,b but they are just not for me.  Brunette on the other hand works well as a overall face color, as a blusher and brow highlight.  If I want to highlight parts of my face then that works too.  It does not come out chalky when swatched or applied which is weird to me because none of them should come out chalky if they are all from the same collection.  I’m not expert, but it’s what I expected.  Price $19.75.

Also, I’ve been seeing that Mineralized Skinfish Natural/Shimmer at the CCO too on the last two visits and I’m still trying to make a decision as to purchase it or not or to just go to a MAC store and just get the Mineralized Skinfish Natural in Dark.  Still thinking…I really need a natural.

Moving on, since my best friend and I are big fans of MAC pre-made quads, we had to get the Stowaways quad right away.  That was something new that came to the CCO since the last time I was there (two weeks ago) – Yay!  I noticed that Crest the Wave eyeshadow is in that quad and that is the same eyeshadow that came out in a recent collection that was released by called, “Makeup Art” (I didn’t get anything from this collection, but I will get Off the Page eyeshadow sooner or later because I’m really into the color orange right now).  It is a very lovely quad so I am happy with my purchase with this one as well.  Price $24.50.

Lastly, I came across a new addition to my CCO.  I was able to pick up a Viva Glam VI lipglass.  This was the one I really wanted two weeks ago, but they didn’t have it so I had gotten Viva Glam V lipglass which I really love too.  So now, I have V and VI…I want the others and I will definitely look out for them. Price $10.00

Oh and before I end this I wanted to add that I picked up a few Breast Cancer Awareness cards and ribbons from my CCO.  Estee Lauder donates to and supports the Breast Cancer Campaign and so do I.  I will be sporting my ribbon everyday in the month of October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  The card is very informational.  It tells you things like get screened for lumps, to check yourself regulary, eat healthy foods, exercise, watch your weight, don’t smoke and drink less…which I apply all of these plus more to my life each and every day.  I registered to do participate in a walk coming up in mid-October 2009 in support of Breast Cancer Awareness…it will be my first walk for charity ever so I am very excited!!!!

And now…here are the pics of my haul!  Again, excuse my camera as it is acting really funky today.

OK so this is my last haul before MAC Black…really.

So, the day after I said that my next haul will be from the MAC Black collection I ended up back at the CCO…not my CCO, but the one in Tannersville, PA and I must say that I was sorely disappointed in it.  They are definitely MAC challenged and deprived.  The selection was very limited, but of course I found things to buy.  They had no MAC Matte…and I really need that!  Bleh!  They had more pigments than my CCO though.  They had Cocomotion which I thought was neat.  MSFs were limited.  All that could be found were the natural/shimmer ones  I was not happy at all.

Anyways, to make myself feel better about going on that long trip (1 hour and 35 minutes) to Tannersville I purchased these items:

Shadowy Lady Quad
Tempting Quad
Silverthorn e/s
Haunting e/s (Alexander McQueen packaging)
219 brush

I originally had two lipglasses in my hands, but I put those back for the 219. I think I had a lipglass from the Blonde Brunette Redhead collection and a lipglass from the Heatherette collection. I’m not a big fan of MAC lipglasses so it wasn’t hard to make that swap.

Hubby put his foot down and went Principal on me and said “No More!” So it’s no more until the MAC Black collection or maybe even Dsquared. Eeeeek! And on a happier note…here are pictures of my haul!

Last Haul Before MAC Black & Dsquared Launches

Yep! My BFF and I hit up the CCO again for the 2nd time in two weeks. We won’t be back for a minute so it’s OK. Really. OK so here is what I got from my CCO and Fragrance Outlet (pics to follow)…

CCO:
-Two Fafi figures (I had one of them so why not have them all?)
-MSF Blonde
-MSF Redhead
-Spiced Chocolate Quad
-HK Pink Fish (backup)
-Viva Glam V lipglass
-Fafi Squeeze It Lipglass
-224 brush

Fragrance Outlet:
-NYX e/s trio in Tropical/Yellow/Lime Green (TS10)
-NYX blush in Cinnamon

The funny thing is that today I was telling my BFF about wanting a Spiced Chocolate quad so bad and once we were at the CCO she spotted it and went bananas. We both got a quad…there was only one left after we bought ours. Woot!

Also, the CCO had the Blonde, Brunette, Redhead MSFs in as new items so I got lucky there. I think that the Fafi Lipglass was always there, but I just spotted it today. I almost picked up a 165 and 134 brushes today. I think I’m going to go back on Saturday and get them. The 134 is the most expensive brush MAC has and my CCO has a few. They also have a bunch of 165s too which is being repromoted in the MAC Black collection launching at the end of this month. Sweet!

I’m still thinking about going to the MAC store and buying that 131 brush, but if I decide to try MAC Studio Fix Fluid foundation then I’m going to need a 187 brush. Hmmm. I am so used to Bare Minerals foundation and Bisque so I don’t know. Choices!

Enough of my rambling…here are pics of today’s haulage:

My next, next haul will be a fragrance and clothing haul for sure.