I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

FFM You are so cute. I know what you mean about defense -- I was the one with pretty skin for a long time, and now it's just...not as pretty. I can deal with it until I see someone with perfect pretty skin and I feel kinda crepey. (not creeeepy but like i am covered in filmy crepe)

here is a picture of me a couple of weeks ago in a happy outfit complete with purposeless headwrap and no makeup
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5315/5912405163_9e34e34730.jpg

ta-da

aw amanda <3 <3 <3

that skirt is pretty short btw
and no i do not live in a video production office, it just looks that way

haha tbh my skin is all porey and whatnot but the perks of my job = expensive foundation which lets me get back to porcelain skin. love that picture and outfit! <3 ohhh that skirt! I want it.

only pictures I can find without makeup are camping or brunch. I look fine, but my biggest problems are blonde eyelashes/brows, and general shinyness. for some reason I can't just do powder on skin - it feels 'wrong' if no foundation first!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/photos-ak-ash1/v308/224/57/516053577/n516053577_706576_829.jpg
cool temperature = no shine

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2672/152/50/807040359/n807040359_6119010_2441322.jpg
"mommy what is wrong with that woman?"

i don't wear makeup daily but when i do i always opt for a little foundation mixed in with moisturizer over powder. i guess i'm a little shinier than might be optimal but powder on my skin makes me look like i'm dying

i don't wear the foundation over powder i meant i eschew powder altogether lol

xp - any kid should know that sitting in small high spaces is totally fun
what's wrong with that kid more like

i have been using bobbi brown foundation btw it is v good

of course today., when I want to contribute to this thread so badly, is the day I get told off at work for too much internetting

:(

:(

hope it wasn't serious!

No just a warning really. Bah. They should give me more fucking work then! hmpf. On lunch break. It might be better for me not to contribute to this discussion because all these issues are really huge for me but you're all adorable and I'm enjoying reading.

oh no E! that is the worst. my old job was ruled by fear and I couldn't do any internetting for last 2 years :( this job? I met my boss online 5 years ago; when she hired me she was like 'yeah, do whatever, keep it on the down low' haha

high spaces ARE fun, it's true. I was in a castle, sitting in a window in a turret! (Casa Loma in Toronto.. not really a castle, but all we've got)

I went to Casa Loma once! The secret passages were closed for renovation or some shit, how renovated does a secret passage to the STABLES really have to be??!

hahaha weird! They're not terribly exciting; you didn't miss much. Basically long creepy hallway, leads to marginally interesting stables :)

Aw ENBB I've been hollered at in previous jobs for excessive internetting and it is a bad feeling. xoxo

My parents use to take us on vacations to Toronto, I have no idea why. Went to giant bookstore and Casa Loma and I don't remember anything else I don't think. Except the soda cans in the machines were smaller and cute! I saved that Sprite can for like 10 years.

Weird, when was this? I have never noticed larger pop [:)] cans while in the US!
World's Biggest Bookstore = awesome, a total lie in the age of big box stores however. I live about ten minutes from Casa Loma; an out of town friend came for brunch w/her two kids and we wandered Casa Loma with them. Fun times!

My last job banned using cell phones and personal electronics at work a few months before I left--but that was the fault of a few (well, a lot of) people who spent their entire shift talking on the phone. I just continued using my IPod Touch during the times that my client was asleep or otherwise occupied, just like I had been doing, and I never got in trouble.

jenny (from way upthread): http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml?id=P210587&categoryId=B70

Neutrogena had a similar lash dye that I used until it was discontinued.

Sunny! Have you used that? I saw it when I was browsing their website for ideas but the reviews were not great. But since I want abnormal things from a mascara maybe reviews are irrelevant?

Also I love the idea of a WDYOLL thread.

I think I remember the Neutrogena product, too.

If they banned smart phones at work there would be a riot. We had a free for all internet access policy until a guy spent much of his work time looking at porn (and did not lose his job mind you) so they put up filters. Smart phone ownership quadrupled overnight.

Shortly after I was told off at work a few years back, I got my iPhone and was all "hah I don't need you fuckers" and tweeted on my smoke breaks :D

see, lexy's makeup pic upthread is exactly the look i would like to go for, but i just don't get foundation... i always look like a 5 yr old has painted my face, it makes me feel super self-conscious. do i just need to invest in a primer?

(also: lexy you are NOT fat! like, not even close, you goof)

well I have a hell of a belly lately, and I've always been heavy set. but very selective in my photos and how I dress my body ;)

pffft don't believe you

and for the foundation, I mix it with some moisturizer and then rub it all over with my hands, I find it blends so that it doesn't create a 'mask' effect, then I dust it because I am always very shiny

okay fine here's me at the cottage in a less than flattering outfit, except the belly is bigger now and the boobs didn't change (jerks)
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/photos-ak-snc1/v4537/233/18/504140275/n504140275_6935322_1987779.jpg

imagine that, but then I am 6'1" so I look like a giant around other girls

that photo only proves my point!!

lol well i do feel pretty! but much more so with makeup. the girls at my ofice are all tiny!

yeah i am by far the fattest of all the ladies i work with, so i feel you

that's the thing. it's all perspective, but i'm 6'1" and 215 in a 5'6" and 110 world

many many xposts to Jenny, I will enjoy that blog - thanks!

I was actually later to work (though still a little early) than I intended this morning. Why? Because I started grooming my eyebrows and just couldn’t stop.

This has happened to me many times.

i love all of you.

here are some lessons i learned yesterday:

1. my makeup may be too dark? based on a few different shots, apparently my face matches my décolletage, but my neck is whiter? this is nagl. i don't know what to! last weekend my friend said my foundation was perfect! hmm.

2. i do not do *action shots* (aka 'stand here and pretend like you're talking about x) and every single photo makes me want to cringe.

3. i need a hair cut. although pleased to find that the top of my hair looked shiny and pretty in most shots, the ends are atrocious. i may need to chop off a few inches and start fresh with a better maintenance routine. making an appt for tomorrow.

4. i need to stop making ridiculous faces (i do this unintentionally all the time and my bf always laughs about it) because i look insane/moronic and it ruined a bunch of shots.

5. *smizing* doesn't seem to work. i will never be a model.

I think the neck/decolletage/face disparity is normal, especially in summer. Necks tan less.

I think so too! B0urj0is is just launching a spray-on tanner that the ladies around my office love/are fighting over! But I don't actually know if that's in America, or just Canada and Europe? But I'm lazy, so at best I might put a darker foundation on my neck but there's a 99% chance I just wouldn't bother. My legs are super pale this year though so I am hoping in a couple of weeks I'll get some of the BJS stuff when the next shipment comes in.

Got a D&G The One fragrance & lotion set today :D Ridiculous

Hey, don't go taking all the color out of your normal skin, here. Necks ARE lighter than faces and etc and that's what the eye is accustomed to -- it's weirder than you think to be all one color!

Fair point! Like I said, I'm too lazy for that. All I ever look at is my face. :D

also, photographs are not actually what we look like in real life!! cameras might be based on the human eye but they are not actually human

I think this camera is the devil maybe?

like, i did a photography session with a friend back in early springtime, for a course he's taking - he had to do portraits in natural light. i srsly only had some concealer and a bit of mascara on! and was getting over a cold and all that winter time had caused to my poor dry skin. some of the photos were pretty good, somehow, but a lot of them were like No. The light, natural or otherwise, plus the capturing of a mere 1/500th of a second of yr self in action, causes a lot of things to happen to faces! weird things! i make a lot of hilarious faces too, but this is a part of who we are! do not change that for the tyranny of photography!
xp
sometimes!

that said, now i know to wear a full face of "natural looking" make-up for any and all natural-light photography sessions that might occur in future, or at least when the natural light is that dull winter's day blue-tinged business

Yessssss, robyn has it. There are certain people that just don't look like THEMSELVES in photos because the thing that is "them" about their faces is the motion/expressions. I think this about ilxor bell labs all the time when I see pics, that she hardly ever looks the way I envision her. Have noticed it with someone else recently too. But anyway a small amount of that is always going to be in play, that we look a bit less "ourselves" when caught for that second unless we're caught in the middle of genuine emotion but still....

FFM, you look totally cute without make-up . . . I guess you just look cute in general.

She does!

At the very least, I now have a hair appt for tomorrow so something good may come of this experience!
And I will try my best not to cry at the thought of future googling that may yield my bio. I think my only stalker now lives with me anyway.

I had the most awful headshot taken for my work photo, and that went up in the office reception area so everyone who came into the office could see it. I looked like a fat 12-year-old-boy. I am the most un-photogenic person ever though, in that I always seem to get caught at a bad angle or making a dumb face.

xxxxp: It could be worse--there are agencies that don't allow their aides to watch TV or play video games with their clients.

I've been looking for a good self-tanner to use on my legs, but all of the ones I can find are made to turn skin much darker than I want. I want my legs to be the same color as my arms and face. Any suggestions?

i used the dove tanner before - it's okay. kind of yellow, though. st tropez is supposed to be amazing.