I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

OK, not need.

ohhhh try that mac one... penny? i forget. i have it somewhere. enbb recommended.

Penny lane blush was recommended upthread, didn't find a lippy... ENBB, please shout if you recall it!

ok i got up off the couch to go find it! it's syrup.

Thank you! That does look promising. OK, after math day next Wed, whatever the damn result, I'm going lippy shopping.

i have discovered my new favourite thing and it is putting matte effect topcoat over my nail polish. bright colours with a dull surface, really feels classic.

i also really really want this colour but i can't stomach the thought of spending eleven pounds on like 10ml of nail polish.

Ooh, Sephora carries that line.

the colours are fantastic, and the quality seem to be really good? but i think for the time being i might stick to wearing cheap nail polish with a luxury topcoat.

I like the colors and the names!

where can i get a matte topcoat?

OPI nail envy in matte is what I always used.

Essie makes one, too.

hey im wearing the nails inc special effects 3D glitter (the purple and blue one) right now! Also bought a plain ol purple which I love too.

this one : http://a248.g.akamai.net/7/248/8278/20110721091110/www.sephora.com/assets/dyn/sku/1354687/1354687_sw.jpg

oh and BTW WTF!?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqas6ym_BuU

is this nail polish going to fuck up my credit cards?

oh and this is my plain purple which i <3

http://a248.g.akamai.net/7/248/8278/20110721091109/www.sephora.com/assets/dyn/sku/1354448/1354448_sw.jpg

its actually darker than that but still muted

Well the magnetic effect isn't IN the polish, it's in the cap--right? Did I understand that correctly? The polish probably just has miniscule iron filings in it or something.

Yes correct. But nailpolish doesn't travel sans cap

Oh I see I have not understood the situation: my nail polish doesn't travel. it lives in my make-up bag until I throw it away after a few years, practically unused.

im chip-a-phobic so it travels

um.. this is now the third time i've received a hair oil in my birchbox.
are my preferences too narrow?

I would maybe try that. Also, if I were you I'd email them and ask not to receive a hair oil for a while. Just explain the situation and see what they say. Their customer service is supposed to be pretty great so it can't hurt. Right?

I after I review this month's box I'll have nearly $30 in bb points to spend. Can't decide whether to get a perfume or to get that crazy facial peel stuff. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

yeah i unchecked 'dry' from the hair prefs. how do you review? i can never find the place to review!

Oh man - T, you have to review! You get 10 points for every review and every 100 pts is $10 towards a purchase. You go to where it says "box" and your items for that month are displayed. If you click on the individual items it'll take you to another page where there's a description. There's a big pink "add to cart" button sort of near the top of the text (under the product name but before the description) beneath which it says "give feedback". If you click there a little survey will pop up. Unfortunately you can't review things retroactively - only for the current month. Let me know if that all makes sense.

grr! i tried to review something in current month (laura geller bronzer that is NOT for all skin tones! too dark for me!) but i couldn't find it.

sweet i can still review last month's stuff.

http://i56.tinypic.com/29nt7pw.png

Here's one from my box. I circled the feedback link. You definitely have to go through the "Box" page and then click on the individual item in order for the link to show up. I remember having trouble finding it at first? Does that help?

ahhhhhh ok cool - you found it!!!

I didn't get the spackle btw. I was worried it would be too dark so I'm kind of glad but sorry it didn't work for you. :( All skin types my ass.

no i'm talking about the laura geller baked bronzer compact i got over summer. i wanted to review it right away to say it did NOT work for all skin types as advertised and i did not see a link anywhere. oh well... so i've now gotten 2 bronzing products from laura geller! weird.

i tried out spackle on my hand and it migiht be ok used very lightly but i haven't seen how it works on face yet. i just wish they had an option for VERY FAIR DON'T GIVE ME BRONZING PRODUCTS, PLZ under skin tone.

yeah, the typical bronze-coloured bronzers and really fair people do not get along - i've tried bronzers and they do not make me look sun-kissed, they make me look like i have weird bronze make-up on my face!

they make me look dirty!!

Yeah, it didn't work for me either which is a shame because the powder itself is lovely. It just makes me look dirty rather than tan. I actually tried it again last week just to see and it was still awful. Wish we'd gotten one of the baked blushes instead. Oh well.

haha, yeah, like i have mud on my face! or fading bruises

i have some bronzer in my Halloween make-up kit for those purposes, should they arise, however

Oooh, good call on the Hallowe'en makeup kit - I have a few bronzers from work and they make me look dirty too :( Bourjois has a spray one that worked to create the mildest of glows, but powdered face bronzer - I just don't understand it!

Tried the Syrup Mac lipstick, love it in theory, but have decided that lipstick in general makes me look about 15 years older :-(

All through high school, I was the only girl who wore lipstick.

I did my nails last night AND THEY'RE ALREADY CHIPPED.

i ordered the laura mercier tightline activator fluid from sephora bc of 20% off code (ty enbb) but not the eyeliner because sephora doesn't have the shade i want! so lol now i have fluid and no eyeliner. but it's motivating...

also i think i left my jouer lip stuff from last month's birchbox in my hotel room in michigan and i am v v sad now.

I gave up on having long nails; I've gone back to cutting them down close to the quick like I was doing before. They still peel, but not as much as they were peeling. I'm assuming that there's some sort of genetic or environmental deficiency that makes my nails permanently fragile. I do paint them, but I'm worried that painting my ultra-short nails may make them look childish. What do you all think?

I love paint on short nails, really really glossy paint so they look like Chiclets.

I say paint them!

T I bought the full size of that stuff. I love it.

xp - I always keep my nails really short, close to the quick just like you, Christine. I type all day for a living so I can't stand having long nails. But I think nail polish looks just fine on short nails. I don't do it often, but when I do, I really like it.

You know what? I never told you all about Mascara Search 2011. Anyway, here are all the mascaras I tried:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-OKQvnxxb8bE/Tqd0vlcznSI/AAAAAAAAAkE/7MdfNbXtP-g/s640/photo.JPG

Most of the problems I had with the mascaras were that they were too clumpy, too huge, or they smeared all over my face by lunch time. In the end I went with Bobby Brown, which is a really natural looking mascara and just what I wanted to wear every day. However, I did buy some Voluminous waterproof to wear to a wedding (quincie's comment that it wears like iron kept running through my head) and I really like that for a special occasion mascara when I want big lashes.

That Nature Luxe mascara is complete shit, btw. That and Great Lash barely stayed on long enough for me to get to the train. My second favorite (and near winner) would have been Voluminous Million Lashes but it's scented! It's really off putting.

SCENTED? For when you really need your eyelashes to smell like...I can't even decide where to take this joke.

I'm married to various permutations of Voluminous. I bought waterproof mascara for the summertime and I'm still using it, but it's impossible to wash off and my make-up remover isn't cutting it.

It kind of smelled like honeysuckle. Seriously. I used it for a long time because every time I wasn't using it, I couldn't believe that it had a smell. Then I'd put it on and be like, "Yup. That mascara smells vaguely like honeysuckle."