I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

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.

have yet to get a mascara from them that I like (including the one I JUST GOT >:( )
other stuff seems a-ok

ooh la lift and eye bright pencil are ace

Hey E: monistat anti-chafing gel, applied to face, is apparently a thing. A thing I am going to try.

You mean the stuff that dries to a powder?

woah nuts. I found my Anastasia mascara sample and it's all dried and icky now :(

Apparently the Monistat gel has the same ingredients (silicone) as most primers - http://www.makeupalley.com/product/showreview.asp?ItemID=98437

It's not the stuff that dries to a powder. It's the stuff in a tube.

http://review-monistat-face-primer.uncensoredguides.com/Monistat-Monostat-Chafing-Relief-Gel-3-pack.jpg

I have used it on my face, btw, and it works better there than it does between my thighs.

Try stick deodorant, Jenny? That worked for my thighs..

The thighs are the first thing to go on my jeans. Oh, the heartbreak of chub rub...

That's exactly the stuff that I was talking about. (I used it a lot when I was about 20 pounds heavier.) And it does dry to a powder, IIRC.

Try stick deodorant, Jenny? That worked for my thighs..

I'm too fat and too sweaty and too active for anything other than the barrier method, I have learned (the hard way). I rely on silk bloomers and split slips and bike shorts to get me through the hot, damp months.

Yah, ditto. Some day I will have 2 doz pairs of silk tap-pants but until then I make do with cut-off tights. Have tried powders and lotions but when my walk to the subway in the AM is 6 blocks, it's gone before I get there. On days when I might be out in public for hours and hours, walking around doing stuff, forget it.

Eh, who knows. Mitchum works for me, thankfully. Can't bear to wear an extra layer in the middle of our summers. Plus it's fun because my thighs are all glidey, LOL.

lolll @ yr display name laurel hahaaaa :)
also lol "glidey thighs"

okay so agh, one minor thing i'm hating about the lipstain be it smashbox or revlon or whatevs is the packaging glitch with the balm side of the stick - the cap comes off way too easily! and then there is stupid balm all over my keys and whatever is in that pocket of my bag! how dumb! i actually just lopped the balm off the revlon ones because it wasn't great anyway, but i kind of like the smashbox one (and it is tinted). it seems like such a ridic little thing but srsly how did it happen this oversight.

:(

i tried the revlon one but i felt like the color was too bold for me to use on a regular basis :(

Cover Girl makes one w/out a balm on the end that is more purse friendly. In fact I opened up a purse i hadn't used in 18 months recently and one was still chilling in there and it still worked just fine. It & the Revlon & the Smashbox one all seem basically the same to me. I like them all. The psychological trick of feeling like drawing with markers really works for me, they're the only lip product I feel totally ok with. They don't spread everywhere and they look normal or even still good as they fade.

I really like the color of the Cover Girl one I have. In fact when I went to buy another one I picked it out again a second time. It's like a deeper shade of my regular lips.

lol I just checked what it's called and there's no name but the number is 420

to blab more about how great they are I rode to work in the rain Monday (mistake) and my scooter helmet does not cover my chin. I had just put on red lip stain (Revlon "gothic" also lol) and was worried I would look like some melting fuchsia nightmare when I arrived. BUT after 25 minutes of fucking cold rain on my lips it had faded only a little and was not messed up at all. It was a relief!

I always put lip gloss over it because I find that it makes my lips look a little dry. Or am I just not getting the point of what it's supposed to look like?

I don't lip lip stains like that at all because they've always seemed too drying for me.

i find them drying, and i feel like they exacerbate the lines in my lips, too.

Yeah. I love them in theory but have never found one that actually looked good on.

i find them drying, and i feel like they exacerbate the lines in my lips, too.

Anything with a matte finish will do that, just like it does with house paint.

which is why i usually wear sheer colors! if i do a lot of work and prep my lips w/ concealer and/or powder then apply lipstick w/ a brush matte colors look better. but it's way too much effort for every day.

I should note my lip color preferences derive solely from laziness. So
– hardly ever need to reapply it
– shouldn't make kissing feel too different (I've never been much of a lipstick wearer)
– doesn't go everywhere or get in my hair (lip gloss & regular lipstick right out)
– in fact shouldn't require lipliner at all (have never figured out how to do it w/out painting on some ridic hyperbolic Clara Bow thing which just feels weird if I'm not dressed equally costumey)
– should actually make me look like I have a mouth in photos and IRL (so tinted lip balm is out)
and the little markery lipstains fit the checklist for me ymmv obv

Have you ever tried using clear lip liner? Works just as well as the tinted kind, and you don't need any fine motor skills to use it (which is good for me, since mine are pretty bad).

I feel like I can't put on regular lipstick symmetrically at all
Like I seriously feel like these lip stains work for me mostly because I was raised by a pack of 8 Crayola markers

hahaaa i think this is prob true!
my reasons for wearing lipstain are very similar to yours - i find the smashbox and revlon ones don't dry out my lips, whereas so much other lip colour doesn't just dry my lips but causes an extreme-dryness allergic reaction of sorts - blargh!
that said, the lipstain colour doesn't last all that long for me. maybe i talk to much or subconsciously bite/lick my lips too much, but i don't think so. maybe my lips just wanna be free.

i would like to investigate this clear lip liner bizness

I am pro-lip stain for all the reasons Abbot listed, although I do need to reapply it. The Revlon kind doesn't really dry my lips out BUT I say this on the morning of the first truly cold and dry day we've had in Chicago so get back to me in a couple of weeks.

– doesn't go everywhere or get in my hair (lip gloss & regular lipstick right out)

This part about the hair, oh god, is so OTM. Standing at the bus stop while the wind blows my hair onto my lips and then it sticks because I'm wearing gloss or something... bleurgh. I also hate lipstick transfer onto my work coffee mug, because I generally wash it at the end of the day so I have to live with a lipstick lined rim which is skeevy.

Still lolling at normal eyed people <3 I love you guys

I have noticed that with the lipstain i have* i tend to underfill my lower lip and then stare in the mirror trying to work out why i look funny. and then once i've managed to actually follow the shape of my lips i feel like i have too much on and blot like a maniac.

but yeah, a world in which i have coloured my lips and it doesn't transfer onto stuff is a world of which i approve.

* just bitten, in 'twilight', because i had to (also it was the best colour)

i like the sephora brand lip stain
i cover with cherry chapstick and it's not glossy, but is moist

OK so apparently there is a new thing called BB cream and we all need it???

Will do more reasearch and follow up.

I am getting an "ancient chinese secret" vibe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BB_cream

haha did you just watch that sali hughes on primers? i'm fairly sure that's where i just heard about bb cream. but i couldn't face looking it up, given that i barely even wash my face every day.

"some newer ones will have functions of primer, foundation, moisturizer, sun block, pore minimization and skin refining together which can save time and money in make-up.[citation needed]"

hahahahahahahahahahaha hm no.

Yeah they're supposedly all-in-one miracle creams. There are a couple marketed in the US (Dr. Brandt and Clinique make them iirc) but most are Asian ones that people buy on Amazon. I've heard that ppl sometimes have a hard time matching the skin tones which are designed for Asian women but if they find one they like people tend to love them. One of the properties a lot of them claim to have is "skin lightening" which freaks me out. What the hell is that? Bleaching? Brightening? idk. I've obviously read up on them and thought about trying one but, tbh, they make me weirdly nervous for some reason. No one product should do that much! It's just not right. lol.

Oh, I think that Garnier makes on that's available in the UK but it hasn't been released here yet.