This review is for MAC Cosmetics (counter) at Nordstrom. Please save it about it being horrible for your skin unless you have solid clinically based studies for me to review.
I had been looking for a new foundation forever (really only a week and a few days but if you read my reviews for Merle Norman and Sephora you will know why it seemed like forever) and I finally decided to go back to my trusty MAC Studio Fix powder foundation.
I went to the MAC counter and to my surprise wasn't totally ignored! The girl said she'd be right with me! After a minute or two another very pretty lady offered to help me. I was interested in the Mineral foundation. She tried the pressed powder version on me but it was definitely not my color - although she thought it was - it was too red (again read other reviews).
So she tried the loose MIneral powder on me - again too red and dark. I asked to try the lighter shade, the next one down from the one she just tried, and she said, "Thats gonna be too light for you." OK?
So I guess the customer is never right anymore because that's the second time that's happened in my quest to find a friggin foundation!
ANYHOODLE... at that point I was too tired of looking and trying to tell people that they don't know how to pick colors for SHIT, so I just asked her for Studio Fix in C4 (YELLOW BASED!!!).
She goes "Oh, is that what you have on now?"
I say "Yeah."
She says "OH! I would've thought that was too light for you but it matches perfectly."
"oh yeah!?" I said, in mock surprise.
DUH!
Anyway, I am going to stop asking these supposed makeup artists to match me. I LOVE MAC and I wish I remembered the chicks name that found C4 for me like 4 years ago, she's the only one who knew what she was doing. She actually looked at my skin and saw that I have Yellow based skin tones and not friggin PINK! JESUS EFFIN H MAN!
Seriously.
Oh... 4 stars for the makeup itself. The pretty girl with no eyesight gets 1 star for helping me, maybe a 1/2 star for being something nice to look at while I was annoyed.