I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

re makeup remover: there's a kandee johnson vid that suggests mixing olive oil with witch hazel as an eye makeup remover (50/50)

hey is that girl on the makeup video youtubes on the kashi commercial? i swear she looks exactly like one of the 'customer reviews'.

I have v flaky skin, esp on my nose & forehead. Which, foundation just accentuates hugely.

My cheeks can get really flaky. Exfoliation and moisturizing helps a lot.

I've been using a bunch of things from philosophy, and they seem to be working.

What do you like from Philosphy?

Philosophy, that is.

I use their micropeel set thingie and it has helped A LOT with dry skin. Pretty serious stuff though, in strength and cost. Still cheaper than aesthetician prices when you consider how many peels you get from one purchase.

One thing I've never been able to understand: I was allowed to wear whatever type of makeup once I reached the age of 12...everything, that is, except powder. I was considered too young to wear powder all through my teens even though I was wearing everything else. I've never been able to understand that. Can anyone else figure this out?

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, March 21, 2011 11:00 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

for me it was black bikinis. apparently white bikinis that go semitransparent when wet were just fine.

I did the micropeel this morning, and it totally got rid of these persistent dry circles I've had all week. I bought it when I had a 20% off coupon from Ulta.

I like the stuff in the Makeup Optional Kit.

the microdelivery peel? i love that stuff! i gotta spring for the kit... i was just telling daria this last night!

can you guys link to this?

I can't link to the Make Up Optional kit bc I'm in my phone but I got a free mini version of that when I hit 500 Sephora points and I fell in love with the Purity cleanser and especially the "When Hope Is Not Enough" face goo. I mixed that w/ jojoba oil to make it more moisturizing and it was awesome.

This Supernatural Airbrush Canvas stuff looks fantastic...

philosophy Skin Care Essentials

When Hope is Not Enough

I have the microdelivery peel too. pretty great.

ljubljana, i have the supernatural airbrush canvas foundation but I only used it once. too bronzing for my liking but i like to be pale.

philosophy's 'the present' (no makeup makeup) was a big disappointment

I'm so so on that, too. I won't throw it out, but I won't buy it again.

how far down your nose, sunny?

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Sunday, March 20, 2011 9:53 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

roxy i believe concealer around the outer corners of your nose. illuminator/highlighter should go along cheekbones in an arch to your browbone and slightly above, down the ridge of your nose, a lil dot above your lips cupids bow, a dot on the inside corner of each eye and some say the chin but i dont really think it look so great on my chin. all of this is to highlight the bone structure. peeps who put illuminator all over their face (i noticed a lot of mac products have illuminators in their foundation (hyperreal?) and moisturizers but i think all this leads to is looking moon faced.

I've decided that the white-over-pale-pink eye makeup look is too pale, so I've gone back to my old makeup until I can get some extra money together to try something else out--a more vivid pink, maybe?

xpost to sunny - me too. I thought the palest shade looked pretty pale on the site, but IRL maybe not - that's often a problem for me.

Products that bronze should be kept all together in corner somewhere so we can avoid them IMHO.

Christine, what color eyes do you have?

Greenish hazel.

I, too, will rep for the philosophy microdelivery peel.

what's it good for? ie - how do I know if I need this peel?

i got it to try to smooth dry skin/exfoliate and also remove lol age spots (sun damage) on my cheeks
has mostly worked! i was pretty good about doing it every week for a while, but then i didn't want to buy it again so i stopped for a while and did it 1x/mo.
the lady at sephora sold me on it when she straight talked me and said that basically nothing is going to get rid of these spots, but acid will help. nothing short of acid will do anything.

give you tinier pores, too.

Oh interesting. I might check it out.

Christine - I think that very light colored eye make up (ie the white-over-pale-pink eye makeup) can be kinda garish on anyone out of their teens. It's pretty hard to pull off well imo. If you have hazel/green eyes then soft browns with some gold in them (Covergirl eye singles in taupe is a great drugstore shade) or some plums (purples supposedly bring out the green) might be easier to wear and look really nice.

Except my friend who is an Esthetician and gave me a facial a couple weeks ago was bitching that my pores were too small for her to do extractions so maybe I should stay away.

Will check out philosophy stuff in general tho cause ppl seem to really like it.

Reviews on When Hope Is Not Enough are pretty mixed on MUA, FYI. I probably liked it because I never ever buy anything assuming it will help with wrinkles so I am therefore never disappointed when it doesn't. I felt like it had a slightly more noticeable brightening/smoothing effect than my old standby Clinique Total Turnaround plus the packaging was more fun and I liked the smell.

Hope in a Jar stung my face and smelled a little too strongly, but I ended up using the whole sample bc I liked the result. Prob wouldn't buy it.

Agree with E on the purples for green/hazel for sure. I have the same eye color and LOVE Milani's 'Runways Eyes' in the purple shades:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3720/milanirunwaypurple.jpg

It even has a neat pointed kind of brush to use the shadow as eyeliner. Well, that's what I use it for anyways. I think it cost me about $7 from Walgreens.

thirded
sometimes it looks a little garish because my eyes are quite yellowy green (more than brown-green), so the purple is like PURPLE AND GREEN but good for nights
not so great for work unless i feel like being kinda garish. usually i stick with neutrals for work. (but i also have people staring at me for 3 hours at work, so i am slightly more conscious of looking crazy)

Amanda, I bought an Aveda purple eye shadow duo ($5 on clearance from the place where I get my haircut) and it does not do it for me. Would you like it? I've only used it once and I'm a clean person without pink eye.

Yeha Lech I'm the same. I have really yellowish green eyes and tend to save the purple for night and stick to the browns (like the CG Taupe or MAC Patina) for day. Gold can also look really nice sometimes but it has to be the right shade imo.

Jenny! Yes!

Erica - yes, gold is nice too! I like an orangey gold/bronze/copper too, but I have to be really well rested or I just look like a crazy person.

yes gold is like a green eyed miracle

I would try gold but purple and green look garish on my green/brown eyes. I LIKE pink and white eyeshadow.

I wear a LOT of red, white, & black and other primary colors and I think greens and browns would fight with that. Pink at least just looks like my skin, but better...or rosier or more shadowed, or whatever.

So, in conclusion, I believe there is a place for pink.

Oh I don't match my make-up to my clothes ever. Today I'm wearing black and white stripes but have on the Taupe mentioned above. It's not heavy or anything so I don't think anyone would be like OMG black and brown! I think it just looks sort of neutral.

I used to try to match it but realized I look pretty awful in grey shadow so a soft gold/brown has become my standard nuetral.

Laurel I can see pink looking good on you! It was just the way Christine described baby pink layered over white - it sounded sorta teen girl frosty and think that can be really hard to wear for a lot of people.

Oh taupey brown, yes. Skin colored. Sorry, I was imagining BROWN browns like the actual color of brown eyes.

My skin is rly rly pink btw. It makes other colors look a lot pinker, might as well skip the middleman and just go pink in the first place.

i always imagined this in color with white eye shadow
dnw http://www.catalogs.com/info/bestof/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/baby_jane.jpg

lol that is basically what my eyeliner looks like so! Minus the pencilled brows and the lipstick. And the beauty spot. Just the eyeliner. Not the crazy.

I'm assuming that only plastic surgery will get rid of these chickenpox scars on my forehead.

xp It was actually white over pale pink, and the problem was that it disappeared, not looked garish. The shadow I was using (Neutrogena's Shimmer Sheers in Pebble) is a brown-with-gold and a light clay-with-gold. I'll look into plum when I can.

re: scars - Look into microneedling. I'm thinking about it after checking into the research but don't know if I'm brave enough.

laser resurfacing would do the trick, too, but $$$

i have green hazel eyes (with a fair bit of gold and a ring of dark blue around the outside) and i LOVE plums, but only as liner or crease shade unless it's an evening/darkly lit occasion. i use very very light gold as my base shade most of the time (i can't do taupe or browns because my skin is too pale and it looks dirty on me), and sometimes use a pale pink, but i think v pale gold tends to compliment my eye color better and look less frosty.

The eyeliner I'm using now is the only gold eyeshadow I can find that isn't more yellow than anything else--I do not want yellow around my eyes.

I'm assuming that only plastic surgery will get rid of these chickenpox scars on my forehead.

This is why God invented bangs.