Mac cosmetics don't want MUMS to buy their stuff apprently

[FluffyMummy123]

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i find SpaceNK assistants really very pippy and pseuso-superior. Clinique counter at boots or frasers for me

I agree with doggies. Stuff that's marketed towards mothers would be, well, mumsy and matronly and bosomy. And that's hardly asprirational for any woman is it? Surely we all want to be rock chicks/sex goddesses/supermodels? Non?

betya mossy doesn't use mac

No she probably doesn't.
Was just an e.g.

Kate Moss wears rimmel, doesn't she?

As if.

god no i wouldnt were make up for mums-it makes me think mumsy, sensible shoes, no need for that sort of thing mentality it is the slippy slope to Big Pants and american tan tights

i paln to grow old disgracefully with more slap than pat butcher more hair colur than dale winton

TBH, I wouldn't have a clue which range markets to which age anyway.

Yes but thats the point. You dont want to be marketed to as a Mum, you want to be marketed to as a cool, fashionable woman and not ignored because you are also a mum, iyswim.

Nars and Laura Mercier. Ooh, and Stila. And Bobbi Brown.

bobbi brown owned by estee lauder

iCod, what a load of rubbish. MAC massively advertise to 'Moms' over the Mother's day period in the USA and here. Where do you think these things up? Besides the Mother's day why would anyone advertise to a 'mum' specifically they're hardly selling nipple cream, I want to be treated as a woman irrespective of whether I've had a child or not.
Most of your posts seem to come from a place where sour lollipops grow on trees.

posie
what are you on.

I just think iCod is talking out of her backside, no pr company would say 'we don't want to sell to mums'. Maybe they said the members of Mumsnet are not our target market or that Mumsnet is not the right place for them to advertise, but to sell they don't want to sell to women on the basis that they have given birth I find really unbelievable.

posieparker:

not a load of rubbish I'm afraid. I made the call to MAC for cod, to round up samples for forthcoming codpieces. This is how the conversation went, more or less verbatim.

I pitch the MAC PR (inhouse) with the basic info as to what mumsnet is and what cod is doing with her column.

Immediately she says they wouldn't be interested because MAC are very fashion focused.

Rather put out at the implication that mums couldn't be classed as fashion focused I ask "Would you not like to see the demographics for the site?"

She says, "no, a parenting site wouldn't really be our sort of market."

"So you're not interested in selling to mums?" I say (I used this exact phrase, sure that she was going to realise any second what a ridiculous position she was taking)

she says "No, no we're not"

SO there you have it. MAC - fashion focused therefore not interested in selling to mums according to their PR.

I thought about phoning her back and explaining that being a mum didnt mean you couldn't be fashionable, and that actually quite a lot of women were, in fact, mums so who did they think was buying their stuff if not mums? And more along these lines.

But then I realised that life is way too short to argue with snippy PRs, and moaned at Cod about it instead. Who posted it on here, and the rest is history as you see. So, no sour lollipops, no backsides talking, just one PR whose brain wasn't quite in gear..

Blimey, how stupid of them.

Nah, cos it's for trannies anyway isn't it?

au contraire, i like it, talilac it is!

I take it back I just can't belive they would say something like that. I cannot boycott as I just love it, it was my first real make up and I cannot quit.
iCod.....apologies I've been reading another board, tut tut!!

no prob.
i dont often lie.

yeah but although it was very annoying at the time, i doubt its the company's stance, just that of a pr who didnt quite think through what she was saying..

so as cod says, no boycott required, we'll just love them all the more for not loving us..

[holds on to her peacock blue liquid liner for dear life] i'm not giving it back i tell you, feminist credentials be damned, i'm going to be wearing this all summer you hear me?