I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

hah, e i seriously wanted to attend school to be a theatrical makeup/wig person after i finished undergrad. sometimes i wonder why i listened to my parents and didn't do it, because if i had i'd be getting union wages now and probably have a lot more $, pension and benefits!

or i'd be totally broke. but you know, not that far from where i am now!

lol, right? I know a girl here who freelances and a couple years ago she threw a make-up party thing and brought her apprentice and I wanted me be like, "Me! Train me!". She brought in her enormous train case of supplies and was like - "Go ahead, play." It was great.

I think theatrical stuff would be especially fun though.

and i was just realizing that it would have been like 1/3 the cost of grad school. sigh.

Oh God don't even get me started on that.

i love style is the 99%

i have a cream blush from mac, but i find it really hard to apply evenly - it always looks a bit clownish. i was at nordstrom rack picking up a bunch of tights and they had a some cheapo brand of blush - it's like 4 colors and you sweep a blush brush round it. i really like it, quite peachy which i think suits me better than the pink-toned mac one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OCes9Eubxs

Lipstick as blush!

I watched a tutorial where cream or stain blush was used to set powder blush. It was pretty! I have been experimenting with browns in the mix to sculp my face. Laugh all you want, but on Rupaul's Drag Race there are a lot of half made up shots and I figured out contouring from there 0_0

The access to makeup at this job has changed my life. I am so better at cream eyeliner + brush than I ever was with a pencil. And I find Bourjois' mascara to be extremely resilient and pretty thick too.

And I no longer leave my house without filling in eyebrows!

I fill in my eyebrows sometimes but just v v v lightly. The inner curve always looks funny. Do I need some kind of blending tool fancypants item or should I be able to achieve the same effect with my finger?

Something like this is the business for blending eyebrow powder/pencil:

http://www.runningwithheels.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/deluxe-spoolie-brush.jpg

It also combs your brows and, in conjunction with whatever you're using to fill them in, keeps them in place.

Re: blush, I really like gel blush in the summer when I tend to be bare faced except for moisturizer (since it's so shitting humid in Chicago) and powder blush just gets all slimy when my face sweats. In the winter, I'm all about powder so I can kind of put it all over (strategically) and not look so wintry pale.

I put on eyeshadow/eyeliner yesterday and today. I like the effect, but do not like that I end up late to work.

Lipstick is so much more time-efficient than eye makeup! I don't ever do both unless it is for fancy evening out--too much for the office imo.

Yeah, agreed. I don't really wear colored lipsticks anymore though because my lips are sort of big and I think it looks strange. I tend to stick with nudes or balm and focus on the eyes.

Jenny, I will look into this intriguing contraption, thanks.

ENBB, what good nude lipsticks are there that don't look like you've put foundation on your lips? (which I used to do aged about 16-18). My lips are also big and I have a square face - anything dark makes my under-eye bags look terrible and my face look more square.

I am posting at work! I never do this! I am fed up today.

i like this rebellious streak in you, ljub!

Woo! 5pm and I went online for like, 7 minutes! Then I processed my expense claim :-(

ljub, i think you should find a lipstick that is just a shade darker than your real lip colour, or even the same colour! i know that seems weird, but i have lipstick/stain that is almost my lip colour and it just makes me look slightly more put together without looking like whoa lipstick.

Interesting! I will try this out on Saturday - will march into a makeup emporium and see if they can match the colour. Btw, having now met you in person I must tell you that you have the most amazing eyes. (Not attributable to cosmetics).

I do the same thing w/ lip color.

aw thanks! as i tentatively enter the online-dating world, that is a good thing for me to hear! :)

funny too because now that my skin is clearing up so much and properly moisturized, i'm starting to care more about eye make-up - but i'm pale and pink-toned, so any heavier eye make still makes my eyes look bruised. so i may just stick with the top-lid eyeliner in dif colours and a lighter shadow on the rest of the lid and play up my lip colour instead.

These last few weeks, I've been playing with ever so faint contouring- used to just throw a sweep of beige eyeshadow on, but now I blend four different browns together for a similarly subtle but IMO very flattering look. I just can't work in colour eyeshadows - I blame the hair colour!

Makeup <3 I wish I didn't sleep in every day, so I'd have time to do it up right. This is, again, a RuPaul's Drag Race influence. Half of the episode is them sitting around, doing complicated makeup. Hah.

i don't know how to do gel blush. doesn't it clog ur pores

I guess it might, but clean n clear has my back. Have you tried? Gel rubs and blends nicely.

The Perfect gel blush is quite nice but i think too $$ for what it is, when there are other less expensive alternatives. When I was in highschool I used bonne belle gel blush - do they still make it? I do not know. But it didn't clog my pores.

Haha I would choose sleep over makeup-doing any day too! In fact, this is why I've been getting facials lately and using specialty sensitive skin products - so I don't have to deal with makeup in the morning!

i love the creme blush looks for sure. that glow! maybe i should get some today.

seemed appropriate for this thread:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69446994@N07/6315586332/in/photostream/

wait wtf why didn't that work

oh wait here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69446994@N07/6315586332/in/photostream/

oh never mind

http://flickr.com/photo.gne?id=6315586332

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6230/6315586332_ed057d45d7_m.jpg

VICTORY! Kinda small tho. I was quite pleased with my eyeliner and wanted to show it off :(

lol

We can still see it by following the link! You/your make-up looked fantastic. Is that your house in these pics - the turquoise one? I LOVE it.

Thanks! Best eyeliner I've ever done--they cake eyeliner gods were with me that day. And yes, that is our 100-yr-old house! It turned out to be kind of a pain in the ass to host a (albeit small) wedding at home, but I'm really glad we did. The house is kind our kid. We love it but it is needy as all get-out.

Nice cat! How old is s/he?

That's my old lady, the real Quincie, who is round about 19 years old! Not shown is the section of counter completely devoted to the geriatric kitty apothecary, complete with mortar and pestle, syringes, and more Rx bottles than your average octogenarian.

You are vvvv pretty, q!

Aw thanks! I'm glad I did my own makeup because I felt like a polished-up version of me rather than "GAH so not me!"

I even put on false eyelashes! But not the uber-dramatic type; just demi lashes on the outer half.

just1n3 otm
so pretty!

Aww, sweet old cat. I've got a 16 or 17 year old tabby who's starting to look bedraggled in a similar way. So far, she hasn't needed a lot of home health interventions, which is good because she's the nicest cat on the planet until you try to make her do something (like take a pill), at which point she attempts to eat your face.

But back to the topic - that is great eyeliner. What did you end up doing with your hair? I guess that goes in the hair thread.

So I've had the Naked palette for about a week now and I LOVE IT!!!! It's so amazing. I realized tonight that I'd used every color except the greys so I tried out a sorta smokey eye and then went to the supermarket feeling very tarted up. lol. Anyway - this was the result: http://i54.tinypic.com/k46m4o.jpg Thank you so much to those who recommended that palette. I am so glad I got it!

gorgeous makeup, gorgeous q, gorgeous home! looks like a lovely day :)

Ooh I haven't looked here forever. I'll also rep for voluminous mascara.
Have we talked about the new smash box palette?? I think it's exclusive to QVC
http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx/view.2/app.detail/params.CM_SCID.coll.item.A217751.desc.smashbox-Photo-Op-Mega-Palette

Want!

Switched to that Voluminous mascara stuff a day ago. Got raccoon eyes yesterday, but not today.

Do you wear concealer? I think it was Quincy who mentioned having problems with mascara smearing when she wears concealed.

I wear eye cream, something from Dove.