I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

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)
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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!
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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.

I can't see "San Tropez" without automatically singing "Bain du Soliel for that San Tropez tan"!

Pardon my French.

so i think i've actually found that getting the 'your july birchbox has shipped' email helps me curb my desire to buy makeup! like... i was just thinking about browsing sephora for some new products but that $10 investment sort of kept me from spending $50.

lol me too! I'm really anxious for it to arrive now though. I have already checked the mail twice this morning. :/

robyn try smashbox halo in light. its a powder but not drying, not heavy, just perfection

i know, i'm so sad because mine is in the area but now it won't get here til monday. stupid no mail on sundays :( i hate knowing that it's so close but i can't have it!

lol T me too. It's so close and yet so far! lol @ us.

L-R no make-up (actually really light eyeshadow and mascara cause I didn't bother washing it off from this morning but nothing on my face/lips), make-up (eyeshadow, liner, mascara, foundation, blush, powder, lipstick)

http://i55.tinypic.com/5ebxty.jpg http://i54.tinypic.com/2en3w61.jpg

oh crap

http://i55.tinypic.com/5ebxty.jpghttp://i54.tinypic.com/2en3w61.jpg

So I am also one of those ppl who rarely leaves the house sans make-up even though i don't actually wear tons when I do. The make-up pic there is a "heavy" going out look for me. I have started to go out more and more without though because I had a day a couple months ago where I forgot eyeliner and felt self-consciously naked all day which sort of bothered me. IDK. I love make-up insofar as I think it's awesome and fun to play around with but I definitely would like to try the leaving the house without thing more often.

Horseshoe, you should know that the reason I can write shit like that publicly is thanks to an amazing email you sent me ~ four (holy shit four??!?) years ago in which you were basically like "I have been trying out this new thing called not hating myself and maybe you'll like it and here are some websites" (except longer and far more eloquent) which was pretty much like tossing me a life preserver. So a hero is you. For real.

btw I asked HS to send me these websites and I've been reading and enjoying the hell out of them this weekend. I guess that subject material isn't really about cosmetics though and could have its own thread altogether but yeah - they are great and so is HS in many many ways. :)

ENBB, you have fantastic eyebrows.

Aw, thanks Jenny :)

audrey horne for sure.

btw you look the pretty much the same in both photos to me. you'd be useless for a 'stars without makeup' issue of in touch or whatever.

haha totally

*dies from excitement, brought back to life by sheer awesomeness*

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-czFYdcxKs6E/TiBQg2xQmLI/AAAAAAAAAD4/ZAk49HNzbic/s720/photo.JPG

omg so jealous

By the way, if anyone wants to feel young, they should go to Primola restaurant on the Upper East Side. I was the youngest person there by about 30 years. I think it's where the Madoffs used to dine.

I wish there was a way I could ship products to y'all, you know, without depleting from my own greedy stockpile

~many liquied eyeliners~ I am going to be getting my Ericaurel on this weekend. It's my bachelorette tomorrow night, perfect timing!

wow that is way better than my birchbox! :(

I wasn't too thrilled with this month's!

me either! i was like ooh cynthia rowley and then i was like boo i don't want a fucking granola bar i want makeup!

the nail polish is a great color though!

Hahaha totally. The granola bar was p yummy though and you're right about the polish, I like it a lot.

yeah but i also remember seeing this brand of granola bar in a starbucks 2 weeks ago and saying to my friend that it looked way too sweet and she was like 'yes, it's too sticky/sweet' and then bam, it shows up at my door. i haven't eaten it yet but i'm just thinking hey, i did not sign up for monthly snacks delivery. if i wanted that i'd pursue a better curator like markers or something.