A Very Much Needed CCO Haul

And I spent a little over $100 too.  It felt great.  I was in heaven.  I love my CCO (Jersey Shore)!  I did hear that the CCO in Phili has a great CCO too.  I may take a day trip down with my family for a day to check it out.  Maybe after my Rocky run I can swing by there.

I was too happy when I found that they  had Bright Future available!  I mixed that eyeshadow from the Style Warrior Collection when it had came out because it had been on my must have list for a while now.  I’m so glad that I have it now.  So that was the highlight of my CCO shopping experience.

I picked up a bottle of Prep & Prime (which I like better than Matte so far), a tube of MAC Matte (sorry I threw the box out because I can’t return it), two MAC blushes in Raizin (love love) and Well Dressed (which I’m taking back because it doesn’t show up on NC50 skin tone), two MAC eyeshadows in Bright Future (from Style Warrior collection) and Star by Night (from Starflash collection) and two MAC kohl power eye pencils which I cannot remember the name off (I’ll update later)… and a MAC 227 large eye brush.

Swatches!!

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From left to right:  Star by Night eyeshadow, Well Dressed blush, Raizin blush and Bright Future Eyeshadow

CCO & MAC Haul With My Best Friend!

My best friend Lisa dragged me (oh yeah I was really kicking and screaming LOL) to my CCO because 1.  she wanted quality makeup and 2. she had never been before so we had to go last Wednesday night.

We arrived at Jersey Shore Outlets around 6pm and we literally stayed there for close to two hours swatching and looking through everything.  The people at my CCO are wonderful always!  I’ve only been twice and both times the customer service was phenomenal.  Everyone was eager to help us out there despite our being loud and going back and forth throughout the store.

Earlier in the day we had called down to the CCO just to make sure that the Fascinating palette from the 2008 Christmas collection.  I have it and Lisa wanted one too so we got it.  She really adores the smokey look so why not just get it all in one palette and save than to spend lots on pans at the MAC store?  So, that was a go.

We get into the store and locate the Fascinating palette.  An employee told me on the phone earlier that they had So Ceylon MSF in so I went and grabbed that and she grabbed one as well.  My best friend and I were talking about Gorgeous Gold eyeshadow some time ago because we saw it at a counter in Macy’s and it was a color we wanted so we picked that up at the CCO.  We made our way over to the brushes because finally they were all back in stock so we picked up our first MAC brush ever which is the 217 and I truly adore it!

Over where the brush display is I noticed that they had Hello Kitty stuff plastered down too. EEEEEEEEEEEK!  The last time I was at the CCO an employee told me they were all sold out of Hello Kitty so when we saw it we went for Pink Fish immediately.  I was kind of bummed because two weeks before I hunted down a Hello Kitty Lip Conditioner in Popster at Bloomingdales and bought that.  Had I gone to the CCO I would have gotten both Popster and Pink Fish at the discounted price, but how could I know?  *shrugs*

My CCO also had one of the Hello Kitty quads and my best friend picked that up.  Both beauty powders were available as well, but I passed because the compact is not big like the Heatherette one so I didn’t like it and I love my Smooth Harmony so I may just go back and get another one.  They also had the Hello Kitty mystery powder, you know the one with the Swarovski crystals in the compact?  Yes, that.  They only had two available at $68 bucks and I didn’t have the money for it so I passed on that.  It was a very good deal though.  There are were no Dazzleglasses unfortunately or we would have gotten a few.

My best friend bought two of of the Christmas collection lipglasses – I forget what they are called.  So she got 6 lip glosses (all neutral colors) and 6 dazzelglasses for $28 bucks.  The sizes of the lipglasses were half the size of a regular lipglass.  Still a good deal because these will last her for a long while.  She also got a compact of 3 lipsticks and another compact with 6 eyeshadows in it from the Christmas collection as well.

We hit up the MAC store in Shrewsbury, NJ at the Shrewsbury Mall because she wanted the 226 brush.  We also picked up a 239 brush as well.  I didn’t get a contractable lip brush, but she did so she ended up with four MAC brushes.  Sweet!

To make things even better, everything I got that evening my best friend paid for as a gift to me.  She said that I’m always helping her out and stuff and that I deserved my goodies.  Because of her I was able to get my first MAC brushes.  Yay!  I’ve been giving my Essence of Beauty brushes the evil eye for a while now because I hate them despite all of the rave reviews.  I do LOVE LOVE LOVE MY ECO-TOOLS POWDER BRUSH THOUGH – so go figure!

Here are pics of my lovely CCO and MAC haul with the Viva Glam promo card with Fergie on it!!!

239, 226, 217 MAC brushes

MAC Gorgeous Gold Eyeshadow

Hello Kitty Tinted Lip Conditioner in Pink Fish

MSF in So Ceylon

Swatches: Pink Fish, Gorgeous Gold & So Ceylon