Thanks Sparklepink for the website. I never realized that it was a serious pro product. Wonderful to see. And how weird, just today one of the BR's in the salon got a package and it was .......MAC makeup..
Hey Jayne :green:
Just to set the record straight - serious pro product was correct as of a few years ago, as pro makeup artists got MAC off the ground with their brand loyalty. Recently though, MAC has been boycotted (more so in the US than the UK) by professional MUAs, as it started offering MAC "makeup artists" (read sales staff) to NY fashion week and other big events for peanuts or for free, taking many professional and experienced makeup artists' regular big jobs off them.
It happened with London Fashion Week last year, so I know a few Brit MUAs who have decided to boycott MAC also.
They also annoyed me after I recommended them like crazy in a beauty article I was asked to write by a Cheshire lifestyle magazine, and then told me they only offered gratis to people who would be writing articles regularly
. On the other hand, Stila gave me £200 worth of gratis.
I still recommend certain MAC products, as I simply can't find a product from a different range that does a better job (as yet!). And as I have made clear in the 'Pro Recommendations' thread, I will always go for quality of product over whether I like the company or not. Other MUAs, though, will not set foot in a MAC store, and have blacked out the MAC name on any existing makeup they have. They also say the quality of certain MAC products has declined since Estee Lauder's take-over.
I think MAC's selling point is they are "the professional makeup artists choice" and this is what keeps every day consumers think they are getting a look in on products that otherwise wouldn't be available to them. I think this is still true to some extent, but perhaps not to the extent that MAC would have us believe, especially not in the US.
