I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

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.

No. I wore bangs from the time I was an infant to about a year ago, and I'm not going to get them back now.

yeah God's bad at making up for things
rainbow, pff, I mean really

(The scars aren't the reason for the bangs, BTW. I didn't get chickenpox until I was 24. That was just the way my parents had my hair cut, and I didn't bother to change it until recently.)

Wait a second -- could i possibly be reading this right?! you have had the same haircut since you were a child and you're 40?! Never once strayed from the haircut your parents gave you? Tell me this is an exaggeration.

HEY ANYONE. Is there a makeup that will seriously cover a tattoo if you had to go to a formal event in a strapless dress and didn't want it showing? It's not for me, it's for...a friend. No seriously, I don't have any tattoos. But I would love to know if there is such a product.

There has to be if porn actresses are any indication.

Facebook supplied the answer: Dermablend.

there was a thing on the hairpin that mentioned using dermablend just last month! http://thehairpin.com/2011/02/put-makeup-on-your-legs

I've used dermablend to cover one of mine and it worked perfectly. That stuff is magic.

That link is helpful – I could have covered my tats up for my siblings' weddings rather than wearing cardigans & sweaters & hand-knit shawls in the summer.

Tehresa, I would like to check out a v v light gold eyeshadow base! What do you use?

that kat von d stuff at sephora is supposed to be good for tattoo coverage?? and i think maybe cover fx foundation

LOL at KVD making a tattoo cover-up makeup.
I told my sister I liked the eyeshadow base, and she said, "Kat Von D is a whore. ...you know she didn't come up with that makeup, right?"
Harsh!

right now i'm using mac nanogold, which i found at an outlet so i'm worried the shade is discontinued and i won't be able to get it when it runs out. stila also has some really nice pale golds, but i like the mac because it's a bit less "GOLD EYESHADOW" and more of a highlighter for my lids?

y'all inspired me and am rocking the pale gold (some Stilla shade) with purple liner combo today :)

that is my favorite combo :D

yeah I'm really into it!

ooh, good idea
i hardly ever wear eye shadow. i think i have teh same issue as you, tza, because i am very pale and have a pink undertone to my skin, so brown eyeshadow, and many colours really, kinda make my face look dirty/bruised o_O dnw

i just learned how to do my brows though! it is kind of a revelation. how often i will actually do them (properly or at all), i do not know, but still.

i think the importance of well-groomed eyebrows is under-appreciated. i have naturally pretty nicely shaped, tidy eyebrows, and even my face totally benefits from some careful plucking and shaping.

oh man my brain doesn't function right if my eyebrows are wild.

I always wanted an Audrey from Twin Peaks arch (more of a peak really) but my brows/browbones just don't roll that way.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_d7DcHsWww2I/Sasmq0KtiFI/AAAAAAAAACg/B2DiBilX4LQ/s400/audrey.jpg

haha i always just wanted to look like audrey from twin peaks!

Audrey is one of my eyebrow heroines. Also Kiera Knightly in The Duchess, which I have probably mentioned before.

I am all about my eyebrows. Even when I wear no other make up, which is pretty much any day I don't have to work, I will use a little eyebrow pencil.

i would venture that anyone who has seen audrey has wanted to look like audrey
i wanted to be her SO BAD in high school

Oh man I just figured out eyebrow pencil. Feels fucking crazy + awesome having visible eyebrows (except for my longy long bangs).

Just started using clear eyebrow gel
again, something I've been using off and on for a decade or two.

xp I didn't say I had the same haircut for 39 years, I said I wore bangs for 39 years.

I like those Milani things too.

jenny -- i meant to thank you for the purple eyeshadow duo. i've worn it two times now, and i gotta say -- it's like practically invisible? am i crazy? i had to apply apply apply before i could even see it. i guess maybe that's aveda "natural" makeup or something. maybe i'm accustomed to high pigment artificial shit or something. either way, it's good for work because it's pretty but not PURPLE like my sephora store brand eye crayon (which i love, but is a bit much for work)

also my eyes have been mad bloodshot lately, and it's like having bloodshot headlights -- just nagl.

Manson lamps.

I just worked that it's my moisturizer that leaves me red eyed most days too.

Also, I just got urban decays shadow pencil in morphine ( pale purple) and delinquent ( dark violet) and they look so bitchin' I'm in loves. I wish they made a green/gold one though.

I thought it was really light, too, Amanda! I had to put a ton on to even be able to see it, and since purple is not a great color for me (I've worn it successfully in the past, but it's kind of hit or miss whether it will look nice or make me look like somebody punched me in the eyes) it ended up looking... off. I'm glad it's a good, subtle work-appropriate purple for you!

hahaha manson lamps
that's what i got

kinda loving this new job! we just sold off our old stock to ourselves and I bought at least $1K worth of product (mostly foundation, concealer, brushes and some perfume) for $120. I bought lots of doubles, so that I can give to my sister. crazy! got 2x Sm@shb0x primer and a million By T3rry products (which makeup school-trained coworker urged me towards. $60 brushes for $2! jesus). so badass.

wow what is this job?

i'm just a sales analyst (Excel nerd) but we're a cosmetics wholesaler :D

oh man i want that job

Yeah, I'm in throwing out my covergirl stuff heaven!

ok so this is like the coolest eyeliner ever. played with it yesterday and it does NOT smudge but is super easy to work with.

i wanted to get it from sephora so i could get beauty insider points, but sephora does not carry the plum riche shade i want in-store or online. boo. have to wait til next pay period anyway.

also got my first ever chanel foundation! ooooh.

I am such a slave to Beauty Insider Points.

i mean, that eyeliner requires at least a $42 investment (activator plus the cake) and i'd probably want a new brush, too ,so..