My History with Chanel

When I first really became obsessed with makeup, I would spend my disposable income, earned after hours of straightening cards at Hallmark, at the Chanel counter in Macy's...our mall didn't have a MAC or Sephora yet...Macy's was my makeup Mecca.  I was drawn to it, the women behind the counter were so glamorous, I wanted to be like that.  I quickly became friends with one of them...listening to her describe the latest Chanel collections was intoxicating...beautiful French words, beautiful colors, beautiful packaging...and the iconic Chanel double C's...I'm getting chills just thinking about it.  What was wrong with me!?!?   Why didn't I start blogging back then...I was a connoisseur of Chanel in the 2000's.

My Chanel buddy would give me extra testers she had in the back of skincare products!  I had it so good...no, actually, I probably spent so much she had to figure out a way to keep me coming back!! If I bought Chanel elsewhere, I felt like I was cheating on her.  I was fiercely loyal...and she still remembers me more than 10 years later.  An achievement or embarassing??  At the counter's VIP events, I was always the youngest patron by at least a decade, and once I got a mortgage and my income wasn't so disposable, I began to understand why.  I had to limit my Chanel purchases to my Chance perfume or the occasional lip gloss or eye shadow...no more limited edition powders that I was hesitant to use, eye shadow quads, nail polishes, eye liners, mascaras in black, blue and purple, brushes, so many beautiful products!!!    

What's with the pink feather brush, Em?

 

So many eyeshadows...quads, duos and singles!!

I'm being dramatic, but I felt it was only fitting, poetic even, for my first beauty post to be about Chanel...it is the brand that started it all.  Eventually, I found the Benefit counter and others, but my heart always belonged to Chanel.  Slowly but surely, I'm rekindling my relationship with Chanel...a lip gloss here, an Illusion D'Ombre Long Wear Luminous Eyeshadow there...today actually, it arrived in the mail. Diapason.  And wow, is it beautiful...a smokey, plummy, browny, iridescenty deep purple.  How did I miss out on these eyeshadows until now...probably a good thing for my bank account.  If I wasn't feeling so lazy tonight, I would've started experimenting immediately, but I feel a cold coming on so it's time to rest.  But I'm definitely remembering this feeling...the jolt of excitement holding a brand new Chanel product.