$540 of MAC MAKEUP! Is It WORTH IT?! | MAC Advent Calendar Unboxing & Try On! 

Thanks Bright Cellars for sponsoring this video and for the limited-time offer! Click here bit.ly/BrightCellarsAlexandriaDec to get your first 6-bottle box, a $150+ value, for just $55! Hey guys💖 Im so sorry this video is a little low energy and the edit might not be great, I am feeling MUCH worse today than I did when I filmed this so I'm sure I've made a few editing mistakes in my woozy state lol. Let me know what you guys think of this calendar! I think It was better than in years past but I would love to hear your thoughts! Love ya💖

You know why I love your videos? You are the opposite of 95% of influencers. Basically you stop me buying things I really don't need/ want. I don't need an advent calendar. Thank you

Never apologize for taking care of your babies, the advent calendar will wait. Thank you for filling the season with laughs and good vibes.

this series legitimately brings me so much joy. everything else sucks massively in my life but this helps a little. I hope tater feels better :”( poor baby

The peach paintpot makes sense to me actually as with it being an eyeshadow primer it can help cancel out bluish tones like veins or dark circles. I actually really like the mac paint pots for primer. It stops your eyelids from being oily and dries a bit tacky.

This advent calendar is definitely worth it. Nearly everything is full size and valued more than selling price.

Girl… we do not care what day they go up, we just love watching them!! Never feel bad for them not posting them on an exact day! We were all still excited and then incredibly said when they were done in like maybe Feb earlier this year… I’d watch Advents all year personally!! lol

You could be posting these in June and I’d press play immediately. So glad that Tater is doing better now, poor baby.

MAC was founded in Toronto, Canada and that's why many shades have French names. Some of them are as old as the company itself and have become a staple. 🖤

Other than the cheap throwaway mirror, this actually seems decent, especially for someone who really likes Mac products. I like that they included a pretty wide variety of lip shades, not just 10 slightly different shades of red like the "luxury" calendars like to do🙄😅

Honestly, I wouldn't mind if you uploaded these year round. That also means that taking care of your family is 100% priority and if you're uploading these into January then that's wonderful. We love you, take your time!

Alexandria, I'm an artist and am crafting a 1/12th scale (dollhouse size) advent calendar!!! ❤ I'm half done!! It was your beautiful self who introduced me to ADVENT CALENDARS, I previously didn't know they were a thing.

The paint pot goes on clean eyelids before you do your eyeshadow. It prevents the oils of your skin breaking down your eyeshadow, eyeliner, etc. Plus it makes it blendable, vibrant, and stays on longer! Plus it evens out the color of your eyelids!

Me when I get a notification that Alex posted a new advent video: 🏃🏻‍♀️💨

Never apologize for needing to prioritize the pups. We need them healthy and happy to cohost

you know we love when the advent calendar season creeps into the new year! So please take your time and we will be here past Christmas to watch the amazing (and not so amazing) calendars! :)

I barely even wear makeup anymore, and I definitely am never going to buy an advent calendar, but I watch every single one of your videos because your energy is genuinely so precious and uplifting. Hope you feel better soon!!

I'm finally early!!! Just to let you know you are the only beauty RU-vidr I, a nearly 40 year old gal, still watch, you are adorable and we can feel your gentle soul through your videos. Keep it up, Alexandria!! :)

You're a chaotic queen ETA: seriously though taking care of your pups is more important and I will happily watch you open advent calendars in February

This calendar was great. As for the purple lips they look great on darker skin tones. Another young woman i watch (im horrible with names) compares different colours to see if they are "brown girl friendly" and warm purples always look so good ❤

I LOVE MAC paint pots. Jeffree taught me about the paint pot in "painterly". The difference they make in your eye look is awesome. Holy grail.

I could live with you doing this series all year long. Lol. I love that we got an extended season last year so, if you want to go well into January or February, go for it! I'll be here for all of it. Praying Tater feels better soon and you as well.

Honestly your reviews are so good. The fact that you go into all the undertones of the colours is a massive help to me as someone that is colour blind. ❤

The Paint Pots make great color correctors for under the eyes!

I love this advent calendar because they actually add full size products more than the mini and the product is actually good

I thought this was a really good calendar! A lot of full size lip products, and most of them very wearable shades. I'm glad you tried out the brown over pink trick some people have been suggesting, it worked so well 💕 Thank you for the video, I hope you are feeling better soon, and I hope Tater is too! Xx

@0:28 Ik wut u are going thru! Sending positive vibes to you ❤ 3 years ago I adopted a blind & deaf senior dog from a kill shelter in Brooklyn, NY. The first time he had seizures, I rushed him to the 24hr emergency hospital here, but then u get used to it. You need to stay calm and keep Tater calm as well. HugsfromNYC 🍎

I love how you smell every. darn. thing! You bring so much joy to people even when you may not feel like doing it and we appreciate it. Just know if you need to take care of your babies and yourself we can wait and will still be here.❤

I'd love to see Alexandria show us her favorite Lip clours. It is a rare occassion that one pops up that gets her excited. I can relate as Im always on the hunt for the perfect nude. When I find it i will truly buy a case as when I finally find the perfect shade it is always dicontiued.

Fingers and toes all crossed that your little tater starts feeling/doing better! Advent calendars can wait! Plus I can tell by the comments that there are so many animal lovers on your threads so since he’s got tons of people sending good vibes y’all’s way I’ll just add mine to the pile! 💜❤️‍🩹💜

As someone who's kitties are their actual children & LOVES all animals, I sympathize with u & I just hate hearing what you're going thru. That poor baby shouldn't have to go thru that... 😔 Thank u for keeping so positive. You've become my fav person to watch ☺️☺️

Omg. I am so sorry bout lil Tater. I always keep him in my thoughts and prayers. He’s such a good lil boy and he’s got great parents! ❤️‍🩹

"This upper lip line, i dont know where that came from, thats not mine" got me so good😂😂😂😂

Hope you and Tater are feeling better 🥺 poor pup. I know you worry about him. Thanks for sharing these even tho you weren’t feeling the best.

I loved the first lipstick with that brownish lipglass. It was sooo pretty

Listen, we understand when things happen in your life and it’s unnecessary to say but we love Tater and we understand when things go wrong.

You should make ornaments out of all the compact mirrors you get

It's really admirable how you keep us updated on the dogs. It shows how open you are as a person and is a great reminder of the difficult things everyone around us may be going through. I really wish you only the best edit: purple eyebrows headass

I hope you and tater feel better soon. Take care of yourself, I know that ADHD life. This series has helped me through some rough days :)

Ok Alexandria, we need words, you need to stop apologising, we love you and love the furbabies more, 99.999% of us would rather you and your loved ones be ok and wait for a video. Im happy to wait as it extends the advent season! Still want the puppy advent calendar thou ❤

Always take care of yourself and your pups. We'll be here. 😊

I'd never spend this much on an advent calendar (have given up even getting cheap chocolate ones as all I do is forget to open it 😄) but this one seems far more worth it than most of the others. Everything except the mirror is a proper item and most seem a proper size too and the colours have a pretty wide appeal. One of the ones where it feels like the company put some thought and effort in.

Poor baby. I had a dog that had seizures and found out that he had Addison’s disease. He then took a pill once a day, and lived for 10 more years! I understand how hard it is to watch your dog in pain and having seizures! Thank goodness he has loving parents like you! We love our baby dogs❤

Sorry to hear about tater hope he is doing better much love and. Prayers being sent to you and yours

Thank you for the video

Awww poor little Tater, I hope he feels better soon. It's so hard when fur babies are unwell. Xxx

That was a lot for MAC! Definitely $250+ worth. Hope you and wee Tater are feeling better each day! You looked amazing for not feeling well. I’m in my pj’s, dressing gown, hair flopped on top of my head, non-hot mess on my bad days! I need to up my game, I’ll change into clean nightwear! 😂

I’m so glad to know that I’m not the only person who would want to keep the tiny Dunkin’ bag lol 😂

So sorry about your pup, I can’t imagine the emotional toll it’s taking on you and your husband. Loving this series this year and you’ve been doing an amazing job getting all these videos out during this stressful time of year!

I love that you have 2 Bostons!🥰 When my hubby and I first got together 16 years ago we got 2 Boston Terriers, a boy and then a girl. They have now both passed😢 We now have 3 kids and one on the way , so haven't got any new pets but we will be getting another Boston someday ❤ it brings me so much joy to see your babies in your videos!

We will be here for every video whenever you post, and I totally understand the cycle of disappointment when you WANT to do a thing but life gets in the way & then you feel guilty for feeling like you let people (us) down - but please rest assured that we will still be here. Side note: as someone who also got their world rocked with seizures this year & got my official diagnosis on wed, and my cat passed in between them, I feel for you soooooo much with your furbabies. Please make sure you give yourself grace!!! Family comes first and furbabies ARE family. Also we all gotta keep trying to manage our stress levels cause the world be crazy out there 😂 Sending love from Aus 💖💖💖

that mini Dunkin' bag can totally be useful for stationery and stuff you can use to open boxes, a mini safety boxcutter, always kept easy to find!!

The purple lip glass will work well over some of the orange lip products you've gotten lately. Pretty sure you got some really orange lip products in P Louise.

Tater all curled up in his blanket with one eye peeping out is too cute

I'm (young) Gen X and I love MAC. I know I should move on but the heart wants what the heart wants.

Some of the lip colors you aren't loving still look really good on camera. Maybe you could save a couple just for filming.

Oh the puppy lump! ❤️ Poor baby. Hope he's ok and that you and the husband are looking after yourselves too xx

I hope you and the little guy are feeling better! I always think calendars like this with so many full sizes are a means of clearing out old stock.

That purple lip glass looks super pretty. On my screen, it looks a little more pink than grape but maybe that’s just the camera settings and possibly my bf’s colorblind settings since I’m using his phone rn. Ngl I’m confused about what the new shades are, they all seem like regular shades that Mac has put in their advent calendars for years but I don’t have an extensive knowledge of their shades and the names. The only Mac lipstick I have is Bated Breath which I wore the other day and it was really pretty. But this video did make me think I should use my Mac X Lisa palette and highlighter tomorrow since I got them for my birthday like 2 years ago and today is my birthday lol. I’ve only used the palette a couple times and haven’t even used the highlighter since I realized it might be a little dark for my skin so I’ll probably have to mix it with something else I haven’t finished the unboxing section yet but so far, I don’t think this calendar would be worth it for me personally. It does seem better than the calendars of years past but I’d rather just buy a shade or two of the products I’m actually interested in (and save money in the end which is always fun) Love the Holes reference though, that movie was one of my favorites when I was younger, I would watch it anytime it came on lol

I hope Tater gets better soon. My dog actually has had seizures for his entire life, and I've found that MCT oil actually helps with seizures. I hope this helps and thank you for the amazing content as usual!

Hope you’re feeling better soon. Poor Tater too. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻loved this unboxing…thank you for doing this one…hoping you feel better very soon.

Alexandria we will always wait. Of course the boys come first. Poor Tater is obviously really going through it at the moment. I don’t even wear makeup and I watch you. Its your personality that drew me in. Love to you, hubby and the boys xxxxx ❤

I commented on the last video that you should try mixing some of the "too brown" & "too pink/milky" lippies that you've swatched together to get your ideal shades!

The stuff you don't use you should do a massive giveaway after Xmas xxx Id definitely enter!!! I couldn't buy myself anything this Xmas or my family so something like this would make me smile xx

Girl, you are a QUEEN 👸 for doing this video for us feeling as lousy as you do! Nothing but respect sister. Stay well and hydrate! ❤

This is my kind of calendar since when I wear makeup, it is only lipstick and eyeshadow. I can't wait for the sephora UK calendar video. Who else is expecting a comparison to the US calendar and the rant that might come with it?

The paintpots are amazing! I've gone through so many in the shade ochre' - looks great on its own, but also a fab base for shadow ❤

For the paint pot -Peach is great at canceling out dark spots. Might be good as an under eye concealer.

If anyone gets upset at you for not uploading because you were taking care of your puppers then they don't deserve the joy of terrible, sometimes decent, and every once in a while good advent calendars!

I need a video of just lipsticks/glosses/etc that you do like because I feel like you’re never finding a lip color that you’d wear. 😂

Surprisingly a pretty descent calendar. Definitely a lot better than some of the more pricey ones.

Please, never apologize or feel bad for taking care of your kids. I hope Tater feels better. When my two kids got older, one had diabetes and went blind and the other lost his hearing….but we loved them both. Now we have a baby golden, 10 months old, severe hip dysplasia, which means she has no hip joints at all. She will probably have to have surgery to replace both hips. So I feel your pain and worry about your baby…. Especially since he has a long lifetime road stretching in front of him and you. Never feel bad- we are all here for you.😊

Don't apologize for taking care of you and your babies ❤

I did like the way you sing. Thank God i find a really honest, cute channel like you❤

Sending you healing thoughts of wellness 🎉 Hope you all feel better soon. ❤

I love it when you stare at us through the camera with another useless tiny mirror. I would love to see you upcycle them somehow into an advent tiny teeth-checking mirror Christmas tree or tree topper lol

I am SO SO SO sorry that your little baby is having seizures. I went through the same thing with my old doggo and it was literally the most heartbreaking thing to see. Poor Tater!!!

Just get well you and puppy matter the most!!

I would love for advent calendar season to cruise into the new year! Take all the time you need to take care of yourself and your boys. We will still be here, cause we love your content and your personality! ❤❤

The brown gloss works miracles.

Just to watch the cold open of no talking but disappointed face and hand mirror literally was so funny to me 😂😂😂

Get it Girl. I wasn't about to get any advent calendars for myself this yr.. all were gone. So im living vicariously through watching you open these beauty calendars Ty for sharing. Hugs to furr babies

MAC Lipglass are the most comfortable glosses I've ever had and worn.

I am so sorry Alexandria about your pup I can’t even imagine what your going through. I am glad he’s doing better today. Also I am sorry your sick. I know what that’s like I am a winter sick magnet I am usually sick most of winter. My poor dad though was sick 6 weeks I hope that you don’t end up that sick. Sending you good vibes to feel better soon and good vibes for puppy too. ❤️

QUEEN of keeping it pushing!!! feel better 😭 and take breaks if you need to!

I love this channel, Alexandria is just the sweetest lady. The accent, the delivery - it just wholesome and so watchable. A breath of fresh air in the current climate. Merry Christmas you love lady ❤

The fact everything was basically full size this year is a wine for Mac on my eyes

Your advent videos are my absolute favorite! ❤

I’m sorry to hear about Tater, that poor baby has had a rough time & I know it must be very worrisome for you! He looked so cute all snuggled in under the blanket. I sure hope you can get some rest or you’re going to make yourself sick. I wish they could hit upon a medication that work for him & keep him from having those awful seizures! The box was okay I guess but I wouldn’t be willing to pay that much money for it! Be careful & stay safe! Sending prayers, love & hugs! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🐾🐾❤️

Your fur babies are your family! Tater should always come first. Sending positive energy to him, and I hope he feels better soon! ❤❤❤

Feel better ❤️‍🩹

I hope you get to feeling better asap and that your Tater doesn’t have anymore seizures before the holidays. He’s a very lucky puppers to have you as his human! I adore your channel but stop apologizing for feeling sick. We got you 🥰

dont be sorry our fur babies are always number one priority, hope tatter feels better

oh my gosh everytime you say you don't like a shade of lip color i think it looks amazing on you! not just the ones in this video but every other one too! ☺️💖

Plz give ur fur babies extra hugs. On Dec 12th my Bambi passed away after 2 1/2 to 3 days of seizures. She did show signs of getting back to her "norm" self but I was wrong. She passed away while resting. Her body just gave out. 😢😢😢 She was also having seizures at least once a month too. U just never know. Bambi had just turned 13 yrs old on Halloween(72 in doggie yrs) Enjoy every day w Ren and Tatter❤❤❤. Have a great Christmas to u, hubby and fur babies🎄🎄🎄

The precious moments 24 day advent calendar made me think of you!

I really like that last lipstick shade. I bet it would look very nice (on my skin tone) with a clear lip gloss.

Not me stalking her channel for a new advent video and seeing this one posted 2 min ago

I iz Canadian and in Toronto Canada year 1984 MAC was founded and manufactured. Frank Toskan and Frank Angelo are the founders so they def use French Canadian Words :) I always see these every year and hope for more eye shadow and less lips and pencils but I might have to try to get my hands on one for 2024!!

I can't wait to see that Vogue Calendar. Gurl please unbox it finaly. I NEED IT. I beg youuu