I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

and i used to like lash exact but it wasn't enough oomf.

I'm already using waterproof mascara.

Do you rub your eyes a lot? That used to cause the problem for me when I first started wearing makeup.

Never. That's why I can't figure out why this is happening.

I think I mentioned it, but I always get a little smudge of mascara under my left eye in the same place and I have no idea why. I just chalk it up to the quiddities and agonies of wearing mascara. (insert shrugging emoticon here)

Christine do you wear any eyeliner? If so, maybe that is transferring and not so much the mascara? This happens to me--I would like to tightline my top lash line in super-black eyeliner, but it ends up transferring to under my eyes :(

I wear white (or sometimes gold) eyeliner when I do wear it, so that's not it.

Oh - have you tried an eyeshadow primer? I read on a blog somewhere that there is a good, cheap one for sale at Target although I can't remember the brand. If your eyelids are kind of oily the primer will control that, and this might keep your mascara in place.

Maybe worth doing the experiemnt to see what happens if you just do the very tips of your lashes with the mascara, and not swipe it down closer to the roots? And then vice versa. Maybe it is a placement issue?

Oh and ime there are plenty of waterproof mascaras that give me raccoon eyes because they shed little specks down below my eyes :(

(just musing here but it's kind of bullshit that the potential solution to a make up product not working as promised is to buy yet another make up product. Ah capitalism/oppression through beauty standards/etc etc)

Maybe just get your eyelashes tinted?

Re the Naked palette: I just saw the greys in person. Granted they were on ENBB, who has lovely eyes, and I have not seen them on an ordinary-eyed person as a control. Nevertheless, off to find that voucher code...

Awwww, shhhh! :) Also, get it! I'm seriously in love with all the shadows.

The only color in that palette I have a hard time with is sidecar bcz of glitter all over my face.

it sheds
and then for the next 5 months
I am still finding all the glitter

Another problem is a couple times I tried too many dift of the colors at once and it looked like my eyelids had gone to a steampunk convention without me, but that was a problem with ME and not with the palette.

lol!

Yeah, glitter is tricky. I haven't worn that one yet because of it but, yeah, thanks Abs!

imo it's a really pretty shade and it looks great on my eyes but it thinks it looks great everywhere else too >:(

I have been watching Lisa Eldrige on the yootube and now I am thinking about primer. Is primer ridic or???

Um Eldridge, sorry Lisa, you are v pretty fyi

I like primer but I don't wear foundation so I kind of great primer like foundation that doesn't feel like foundation, if that makes any gd sense at all.

I love Benefit That Gal. Every other one I've tried has been no better than Monistat Anti-Chafing gel, incl the stupid expensive Arbonne stuff I posted about long ago.

That Gal is my go to makeup on "god I hate my face" days.

I shall investigate this product! Does it have any, er, "coverage" like a foundation does?

Not really? I think primer works by reflecting light or something making it the portable make-up equivalent of that soft focus filter they used on Joan Collins in Dynasty. But not that obvious. Or maybe it's a self esteem placebo?

I'm sorry, this Sephora review is cracking me up:

I feel like this product does absolutely nothing. I can see no difference. I even wore it on only half my face one day to see if anyone else would notice - and they did not.

That is serious dedication!

Ooh Sali the makeup guru just did a feature on primer: www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/nov/04/primers-sali-hughes-beauty

I am still dubious but I ordered a $10 Benefit primer sample set thing from Sephora just cos it was $10.

Although my skin can get oily in places so I looked at the Urban Decay one she recommends on the Sephora site (guess who just signed up for the 'beauty insider' account) and it had lots of reviews saying it made skin even oilier. Ppl seem to rave about the Smashbox ones though.

You can just wear a primer without anything over it? I've got this sweet sample of the Urban Decay Pore Perfecting Primer Potion that's been neglected in a drawer bcz I don't wear foundation/powder/etc.

OTOH the last thing I need help with is oilier skin, I really inherited my parents' Republican glands.

(this meaning my skin is oily and I don't want it to catch the extra oil kinder alleges will happen)

I don't allege! A small proportion of these people allege!

haha sorry

make sure to smooth it on, not massage it in, Sali says.

I've only ever used free samples and it's never wowed me enough to warrant buying any. I don't wear foundation either though - just concealer. I'm trying to put as little stuff on my face as possible and eventually want to convert to totally natural stuff as well. I need to use up what I have first though. Spent a lot of time reading about the ocm Jaq and Justine were talking about on the other thread but I just don't know.

I'm giving it a few weeks, but so far the ocm is not going great tbh

I use powder foundation (whatever's on sale that week), but I use it on the T-zone only.

I think I've solved the mascara problem--I stopped using eye cream and started using powder concealer instead. It worked! No raccoon eyes so far today.

x-pot Yeah, you said. I like the sound of it mainly because it's all natural. I don't know. My skin's pretty good and I think that's down to both genetics and the fact that I've been religiously using moisturizer/spf/eye cream since I was 18. I'm worried that if I touch the oil my luck will run out and it'll be disastrous. So many people swear by it though. It's tempting.

I think if you have pretty good skin, it'll probably work well for you. I have a new face oil from the same place I got the good hair oil - will send you the link when I get home

Oh cool - thanks Justine. :)

I have done like six minutes of research on makeupalley and am gonna give it a go massaging Monistat on my face.

Good luck q, etc.

Wait - WHAT? Monistat?? I think I missed something here.

Primer, IMO, is good for smoothing pores and for keeping foundation on your face, if you use it as I do. After using the urban decay eyeshadow primer, which I found really great, I started looking around and eventually bought the Smashbox face primer. It was the first and only Smashbox product ever bought, but as we all know I lucked out into a job with them so… anyway, it also feels really nice on its own too, in my opinion the Smashbox one works kind of like a blotter as opposed to making my skin oilier, but I've no experience with others.

always wanted to try primer

btw just to get this out there, my love affair with Benefit continues

i once had a nice shisheido primer that was a cream and had spf - not a full-on moisturizer but nice prep under makeup and i liked the spf aspect. i can't remember why i didn't buy more?

btw just to get this out there, my love affair with Benefit continues

High five!

Top five Benefit products?

That Gal primer
Bio-ing concealer
Ooh La Lift eye stuff
High Brow (which I use like the Eye Bright pencil, too)
Benetint lip and cheek stain

Runner up: Dandelion blush

Haha Boi-ing not Bio-ing.