I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

no shame. i wear purple velour pants to hang out in the mornings.

i'm actually pretty excited about wearing heels and a new dress tomorrow. less excited about seeing the movie for the umpteenth time, but that's ok. i'll be wearing a new dress!

yea no shame, every girl's gotta have her lounge pants. mine are stripey.

kelly green is a crazy good color

wait what is this movie?? u get to go to a premiere!! so nice. work those heels

it's a documentary series at the siskel film center. there's a q&a and everything, but mostly i just want to wear sparkly eyeshadow, heels, and maybe do something different with my hair. ooh, or dangly earrings. funny, my parents went to israel in 1984 and i got that pink tshirt and these earrings that i still love to wear. gotta send a photo to moms.

yay new dress! it seems like a pain to have to buy new dresses and stuff for work things but actually the fact that i get to do events and play dress up sometimes yet NOT be in devo is really exciting to me (sorry, surm!).

girl, you better work tomorrow! i am psyched for you! maybe it's your husband's moment, but i would totally use it as an excuse to be belle of the ball.

^^was gonna say, sounds like the perfect excuse for some high-level glamorizing

oh also i forgot: after pedi i went in ross and got some pretty awesome sandals for 11.99!

oh, i will work, don't worry. he's not really into these events; fortunately, i am here to do it up right.
now for some vino and beauty sleep. FRIDAY NITE.

Give husband some cucumber slices, chilled, over his eyes. Make him join beauty regimen, with manliness concessions. Tell him it's required now that he Is Important. :)

Was looking for blush to match my old run-out no-longer-avail Prescriptives one for ages. Finally tried Orgasm, which looked like the wrong colour completely - but it worked! And not very sparkly once on.

Just realized that I never posted about Penny Lane. I actually wound up returning it. It was way too brown on me and made me look dirty rather than flushed. Wound up getting a Tarte stick blush thing but I'm undecided yet as to whether I really like it so am back to using Orgasm again in the meantime.

sorry :(

credibility: destroyed

Aw, no! It was really nice and I liked the texture, staying power etc. but it was just the wrong color for me.

you can return make up??

i finally got orgasm too when I went into sephora to pick up my birthday freebies. first time its actually been in stock. And yeah, its pretty fantastic.

Sephora has an amazing return policy. You can return anything you buy (in store or online) for pretty much any reason with a receipt and yeah, "the color just wasn't right" counts as one of those reasons. You can even return things that you don't have the receipt for but just as an exchange. They won't refund your money without one.

they even exchanged a lip gloss for me that was months old because the seal on the tube came open (and got all over my coat pocket ew).

wow that's really nice

is orgasm like this color but a little pinker?

http://www.overstockdrugstore.com/product_images/b/022700093915.jpg

and do u use it as an all around powder, or blush?

sorry, i know we've talked about this but i don't feel like scrolling up tbh

You definitely use it as a blush and it's not really very much like that color. The closet drugstore brand dupe for Orgasm - and it's actually really really close - is Milani blush in "luminous".

kind of embarrassed that i was wearing zero makeup when i met enbb tbh

enbb is so cuet that I'd probably be done up like a drag queen if we ever met.

haha that's what im saying

lololol

So who wears make-up every day? The only time I won't wear make-up is if I'm staying in all day or going only as far as the launderette on my block, or for a run round the block. For anything else, the basics are

-YLS Touche Eclat for dark rings in eye sockets
-Clinique liquid foundation to blend out any red areas, maybe some concealer to cover zits
-Givenchy perfect kohl liner on upper lid
-Mascara of some kind (Chanel Inimitable at the moment)
-quick swipe of powder to hide shininess caused by moisturiser
-maybe some natural ish eye shadow
- dark eyebrow pencil when I was dying my hair dark

Never really use blush even tho I'm pale, and lipstick feels weird on.
When I was at uni I was amazed that most other girls on my course didn't seem to wear make-up every day - maybe they just wore really natural looking shades, although I don't think I look 'made-up' particularly. But I look *really* washed out without it, esp in the eyes.

oh i keep meaning to try that touche eclat. so many people swear by it.
i usually wear makeup unless i am just running errands or doing something athletic. if i show up to work/social things without makeup, people tell me i look "tired" (aka, like shit).

every day unless i'm running rly late and then i feel naked

i have to tell u that blush can show up really nicely in photographs. like yeah in the mirror ur like ohhh i look nice this ivory complexion thing is working for me, but when u have that moment when u actually put on the right amount of blush and then take this amazing picture in which u look like u just had sex and are glowing from ear to ear, u are grateful for blush. u love blush.

Touche Eclat doesn't completely eradicate my dark circles in the inner eye sockets - mine are freakishly dark though, to the extent that I've had people tell me I've smudged eyeshadow there. Once I tried completely covering them with foundation and I looked like Michael Jackson, though, so maybe it's good to have some shadow there...
For what it is, it's pretty good and non-make-uppy, and it lasts aaaaages.

my skin has been so awful lately that i am ready to start wearing makeup every day as soon as i find a foundation that doesn't look awful

Every day: face base thing, no idea if it does anything; Prescriptives foundation; Chanel under-eye lightener (huge dark circles issues, not sure if this product does a damn thing to help); small amount of blush (just got Orgasm); Mac dark brown eyeliner on top lid and a little bit on the bottom; Maybelline brownish-black mascara. Eyebrow pencil is for special occasions. Can't do lipstick, makes my face square.

I only wear make up to work/professional things and for certain social things (parties, concerts, drinks - yes, but matinee movies or brunch or just hanging at a pal's house watching a movie - no).

My regular slap includes: zit concealer PRN, under eye concealer/brightener, brow highlighter pencil, blush (all Benefit), brow powder (I forget the brand - it's a woman's name, I think), lip gloss. I'll wear eyeshadow/mascara for suer special occasions like a job interview or wedding but otherwise I absolutely hate it.

A had my brows done at the Benefit counter a few weeks ago and the lady and I were chatting and having a good old time and she started putting a little concealer on and i didn't think anything of it, and then some brow powder but we had talked about that so I let it go and then she was like "look up!" so I did because i thought she had some more brow stuff to do but she put black eyeliner on me! So i figured, fuck it and let her finish up with eye shadow and mascara and then just like that, I had a mid-afternoon, government employee smoky eye. My coworkers LOLed at me but good when i got back to the office.

i used to wear a dash of bronzer, a smudge of brown eyeliner on my lower lid and mascara, then i stopped bothering with mascara, then i ran out of bronzer, then i started working in a workshop with no customer contact so i gave up makeup all together. BUT i bought a whole bunch of stuff for the wedding thing and got all excited to be girly, but that's pretty much lost its novelty. the foundation thing... i just can't do it. maybe i need a really expensive super high quality one or something, but the mac stuff just looks so ~obvious~ to me, which i hate. blush has been an amazing discovery for me, tbh. i never ever used to wear lipstick, but the mac 'syrup' is really natural and pretty.

OMG Roxy - that's so silly!!

Every day = concealer because I have awful hereditary dark circles (I use Touche Ecalt among a number of other things on a rotating basis), mascara (L'oreal Voluminous), and blush (usually Orgasam), pressed powder. I used to wear a lot of lipstick but have been using just balm as of late.

(also rox - xo)

What else do you recommend trying for circles ENBB?

i wonder how safe it is to go to sephora and just ask them for help w/r/t to specific products? do they know what they're doing? i will point them in the right direction w/r/t to some of the things i already have that i just want better versions of, but other than that i'm kind of ignorant

i really like the new sunblock i got. the sephora employee was very helpful and i told her what i wanted (high SPF, no scent, no more than $30) and she got me something i wound up really liking. atm i can't remember what it's called, but i am hoping it will help me avoid sunspots this summer.

When you remember what it's called, will you post it? Is it just for your face or for all over?

i want a tinted moisturizer

I use a tinted moisturizer from MAC. I like it.

elta MD does a good one, too.

question: is it possible to use bronzer AND blush at the same time

cuz i don't want to fall into the trap of looking brown. my friend the other day she was like OMG look at what my bronzer does to my face isn't it amazing and i was like no it takes all the natural flush out of your face.

(except i didn't say that)

I love the idea of tinted moisturizer, since it seems like it would save time and not feel like foundation, but a good one is hard to find. I've tried the Covergirl kind and the Aveda kind and they both suuuuuuuck. I did have good luck with the free samples I got of Benefit You Rebel (SURPRISE I ENJOYED A PRODUCT FROM BENEFIT) - http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml?id=P200309.

I always used bronzer in lieu of blush.

the foundation thing... i just can't do it. maybe i need a really expensive super high quality one or something, but the mac stuff just looks so ~obvious~ to me, which i hate.

yeah :( the foundation i've been using on occasion is mac studio fix and it does look super-obvious.

totally. that's why I like their tinted moisturizer

i've never understood foundation it just seems so heavy. that's why i want tinted moisturizer too, i will take a look at some soon :)

What is your coloring like, surm? I sweartogod I don't work for Benefit but they have a primer called That Gal that I use basically as foundation for fancy occasions. It evens out skin tone and keeps my face from being shiny and kind of brightens things up. It's pink, but I don't use much and it blends in with my coloring perfectly (nb: that's why I am such a Benefit person - their neutrals are all ideal for my coloring. The person they used as the make-up equivalent of a "fit model" must have had my exact same skin tone). It doesn't feel or look at all like foundation.

The reviews on Make Up Alley (you should sign up if you have not already! It's a pretty good resource) are mixed - I think for a lot of people with different coloring or skin texture than I have find it to be useless or way too pink. They sell it at Sephora, so when you are making your educational Sephora trip, you should ask about it!

When you remember what it's called, will you post it? Is it just for your face or for all over?
Yes, I'll post it this afternoon. It's just for face.