Adventures in M - Day 1 - The Shopping

So, after signing up and finding out what GreenDude had ordered, I had to start shopping. While the Value Pack is super-cool there were still lots of products I wanted that would not be arriving in 2-3 days with his shipment.

Getting into our account on the website was easy - I went to the M website and just entered our customer information and, Boom!, a huge product store at my fingertips. I'll have one of everything, please.

Did I mention I love to shop?

First, there were the vitamins. I knew that the Value Pack had the 4-Pack of Vitamins but I didn't get what that was (and, to be honest, my attention was not on vitamins) so I ordered the V Multivitamin and Mineral supplement for women, which, in the 4-Pack of Vitamins comes with a Calcium supplement. Okay, that was a mouthful, but it sounded right so I added it to my list.

Serious stuff taken care of I moved directly on to the make-up. Ooooh! The prettiness. A high-end fashion designer has lent her name to M to create an eponymous line of skin care and makeup products.

Confession time: I love makeup and skin care but I rarely wear makeup and I do extremely little in the way of skin care. I tend to blame it on getting up at quarter to 5 in the morning. That early, I just don't care about looking pretty - functional is just great with me. Moving is an achievement. Putting my clothes on the right way is monumental. And my 6 a.m. clients just have to deal with it. And they do, very gracefully.

But, nevertheless, I love buying the pretty. And M has soooo much of it.

I spent hours on Monday trying to decide what to buy. Not only are there dozens of products - but they come in all sorts of configurations - this pack and that pack. It was all quite overwhelming. I gravitated towards the products that made it easier to choose colours. M has created a series of make-up kits called "MakeUp Made Easy Colour Collections" - hmm... sounded perfect. I chose the fair skinned option and I was on my way. I added the Skin Care Pack with Cleanser, Toner, and Moisturizer and I felt rather accomplished.

Then GreenDude leaned over and said, "By the way, make sure you check out the Cosmetics Value Pack - it might be cheaper than buying everything separately." Oh! That changed everything. I found the Value Pack and went to town. I chose all the options that made it as much like the Made Easy Collection as possible - the eye shadow shades, blush shades, and lip colour and then guessed on the foundation and powder. It ended up saving me around $100 over buying everything in dribs and drabs.

I'm sure it would be easier for someone who actually knows what their proper foundation colour is but I had to make an educated guess based on feedback I've received over the years that I am ghostly pale - my Mom used to call our skin colour 'transparent'. So, I chose the lightest foundation and powder. Having read the guarantee, I knew I could send them back if they were the wrong shade.

I got my order all together and then decided I had better sleep on it before making it official.

So, now I'm off to sleep.