M.A.C. Recycle Program.

For those of you who are unaware, I am a HUGE M.A.C Cosmetics fan. Excluding lipgosses, because I buy those everywhere, I only use MAC products - and I'm pretty strict about this for some strange reason. One of my favourite things about MAC is their recycle program - I think it's amazing, and I think it's enough of a reason to not buy department store make-up.

MAC recycles their make-up containers and re-uses them as to not create excessive waste from their products. If you save up 6 empty containers, you take them back to MAC and get a free something, usually a lip stick, or in some of the bigger stores they offer free eye shadows and lip glosses. Does it take a while to build up that 6 empty containers? Yeah, sometimes, but the way that I see it, you're buying make-up anyway, so you throw the empty ones in your drawer as you use them instead of in the garbage and then see how many you have in 6 months, or a year, or 2 years!

Yesterday, my mom and I went to MAC to recycle our empty containers. Between the two of us, we had 18 containers, or 3 lipsticks worth. We've been saving up for a while though mind you - 18 empty containers even for two people is quite a bit! Lipsticks from MAC are around $18 each, so 18 times 3... $54 worth of lipstick fell into the hands of my mother and I just for not throwing out our used compacts, eye shadows, eye liners and empty lipstick and lipgloss containers! This is pretty awesome if you ask me. My mom didn't really want any new lipsticks, so she picked one and I got two, and I like them quite a lot. I'm not really a lipstick person, but I really liked these ones, so I got them.

This one is called High Tea - It's more of a neutral tone, which I like a lot!

This is called Sweetie, and it's more of a pink tone (obviously) Something I'll wear less I know, but still nice!

 

 

 

My mom got this one, it's called Party Line. It's quite dark in person, but she likes it, so that's what matters!.

I love MAC products, and if I was going to tell you to go out and buy make-up, this is the ONLY place I would send you. I have an unhealthy addiction to it, and I can't change that. I have friends who try to convince me to shop make-up at Sephora, but it's not the same, and I can't let go of what I'm used to. I'm a MAC user for life! (The irony of this statement is that I am also a Macintosh (Apple) user for life too! My iPods, iPhone, MacBook, and iMac desktop computer should speak for themselves!)

So, if you find yourself buying MAC products, don't throw away your empty containers - save them up, and even if it takes you a while, you'll get a free gift for not filling our landfills with perfectly re-useable containers!

Blog, and be happy!

Kyleigh.