Anyway, husband and I went to Vegas April 3-8 and had a fabulous time! I got a tattoo from the awesome Robert Kidd at Club Tattoo that I love and will always remind me of the trip. In the past, I've collected coffee mugs to remember my travels, but we've run out of room in the cupboards so I'm starting to collect tattoos instead!
Anyway... on to the duping. As husband and I were walking along the Miracle Mile (a cool mall attached to Planet Hollywood, where we were staying), I was accosted by a rep of BellaPierre. Now, anyone who knows me knows I love makeup and I have been loyal to MAC for years (they have the ONLY eyeliner that will withstand a Buffalo winter!). And lately I've been looking for some eyeshadow with a high glitter factor. So I indicated to the rep that I wasn't interested (she was trying to sell me on foundation which I don't wear) but I somehow still got dragged over to look at the eyeshadow. She told me she used to work for MAC and that the BellaPierre eyeshadows were more pigmented than the MAC ones. I saw some glitters that I liked so I let her do some demonstrating of the colors on her hand. The coverage was unbelievable! And when she told me they were on sale for buy 2 get 2 free (which made them $10 ea. instead of the usual $20 - much cheaper than MAC's $18CAD) I was sold! So I bought 4... two glitters and two pigments. I didn't get to try the shadows until I got back to Toronto... not that it mattered. They have an exchange only policy. I started with the gold glitter first. It didn't want to stay on. So I tried applying it wet like the rep showed me. Didn't make any difference except for wasting glitter due to it being stuck on the applicator. I was frustrated. I waited a couple days and then tried one of the pigments. I put on layer after layer trying to get good coverage. Then I tried applying it wet. No difference. And the shadow didn't last very long. A few days later I tried the second pigment, both dry and wet, AND with Urban Decay's Eyeshadow Primer Potion (which I always use under dark MAC colors to keep them in place). Same disappointing story.
The conclusion: the shadows I was shown were much more pigmented than the shadows I purchased. I'm pretty pissed because I consider myself a smart person and I should have known better than to make an impulse purchase. But we live and we learn! Lesson learned: BellaPierre's got their last $$$ from me!
