I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

i've never heard of primer. must investigate.

Oh I use primer all the time too, yes

also xp to laurel's initial post -- i use gel liner on my upper lids and it's pretty great! (a recent discovery)

I love Lineur Intense! I use it even after years of using Laura Mercier liner (with their $24 brush dear god... it has like 3 bristles)

I just wish I could train my hands to *stay away from my face*
what is it with me and poking at my eyes all day long while I'm wearing makeup
I mean really

Me too. I'm trying to be more conscious of it. Now I tap my skin if itchy around the eye area; seems to work a bit.

Eyeshadow primer changed my life. I'm not kidding. My eye makeup stays perfect all day long without fail. Like I said both UDPP and the Smashbox one are great. My last tube of UDPP lasted over a year btw.

for me it's the bottom lining that ends up smudging all the time...

Oh, I don't line my bottom lids at all because it supposedly makes eyes look smaller. This probably isn't true but I read it somewhere years ago and it's stuck with me.

I just use regular foundation primer. There's eyeshadow primer too?

Hell yeah there is.

I also used to use the Lineur Intense but the felt tip one in Mineral Grey which was my favorite eyeliner color ever but I haven't been able to find it in months and think they discontinued it. So sad!

I clearly need to get on the eyeshadow primer train then

then again I only recently discovered wtf a crease brush is for so, what I don't know could fill a book haha

I've had good luck with the ELF eyeshadow primer, but it makes blending a little difficult. SO CHEAP though.

I know people say brushes are a game changer too and they probably are but I normally just use my fingers.

I bought some ELF stuff a few years back, blinded by the price and ugh such garbage

I have a couple of really soft nice Sonia Kashuk brushes for eyeshadow now and it's made a difference I think.

Yeah, I have a couple of those too and they are v nice but I just never remember to use them.

so it turns out there are like a gajillion vids on youtube showing you how to keep your liner from smudging. maybe i'll do some experimenting tmr morning...

And then let us know! :)

I really like the Urban Decay eyeshadow primer. I also have a handful of those cheap ass Eco Tools brushes that they sell in Walgreens and Ulta and I think they're great (although I've never owned brushes that cost any more than those do so I can't really compare).

I like brushes for eyeshadow, powder, and blush, but everything else I put on with my fingers. I think my fingers, which I wash a lot and specifically right before I put on makeup, are going to be a lot cleaner than a concealer brush, which I would probably wash once every couple, three of months (because I am apparently cheap and disgusting w/r/t makeup brushes).

yeah I'm bad at washing brushes

I did a foundation brush for a while but I prefer fingers too

Anything that's not powder just seems like a very messy proposition, brush-wise.

I switched to Bobbi Brown cream blush just so I could avoid using a brush. They say you can also use it for lips, but it doesn't seem to be v. moisturizing and I normally wash it off in frustration when I can see it sinking into my cracked lips.

Does anyone else reuse sponges for foundation until they're too gross? Brushes inevitably leave streaks on my face (so I just used them for powder), but using a new sponge every time for stippling wastes so much of my product.

Eyeshadow primer is the business and absolutely essential for my oilpit eyelids. I didn't wear any makeup except mascara yesterday and the mascara from the tips of my eyelids had blurred onto the non-primered oil magnet of my eyelids. Insane! The Urban Decay one is my favorite.

clearly I need this magic tool

i too have oilpit eyelids

seriously without it nearly everything has ended up in the crease in 2-3 hours; faster when it's hot

I got this cute little primer set from Sephora for $10, the Benefit one with a face primer and eyelid primer and pore balm thing. The eyelid primer is p cool but my eyeshadow still creases after a while.

Eyeshadow primer changed my life.

Me too!! I like the Eden colorway of UDPP. Sometimes I use the white NYX jumbo pencil as well. (Other colors of NYX seem to crease though.)

Sometimes I use a brush with foundation, sometimes not.

Apparently the NARS eye primer is really good; I'm going to try that out after I finish up the Kat von D primer recommended by roxy (where *is* roxy, anyway?).

Busy with school, I think.

I think I might like the Smashbox one that FFM gave me more than I like UDPP but they're both p good imo.

I liked the UDPP but it drove me nuts that I had all this primer trapped in the crevices of the weirdly shaped bottle! :*(

It drove everyone nuts. I used to saw the bottles in half and scoop out the product. I'd get at least another 5 months use out of it!

They've changed the packaging now.

Ahh, good. It made me so sad!

this may be a silly question but is eye primer used on both the lid and undereye area or just for the lid area?

Laurel, I use the super liquid eyeliner. Ive tried other but in the end Lineur Intense is all time <3

Liquid eyeliner I cant stand are the ones shaped like markers. Hey, makeup companies your marker steez makes liquid eyeliner HARDER to apply, not easier.

Those are the ones I like better! The felt tip ones. They're much easier for me to use.

I had a great Sephora-brand liquid eyeliner, great tiny brush it was awesome. I don't like marker-liners much either

Rayuela - I think generally they're meant for the upper eyelid area only but believe there are some (Benefit's Stay Don't Stray) that are also made for the under-eye area. I could be wrong about that though. I've never put them anywhere other than eyelid.

I love marker liners too! The liquid liners with just a few bristles to draw it on with always go floppy on me and create bumps. I do also like putting on cream liner with flat brushes - E, you got the cream liner but I think it came with a more traditional brush :( This is my most successful liner brush:

http://di1-3.shoppingshadow.com/images/pi/54/fe/2d/72016914-260x260-0-0_Smashbox+Smashbox+Precision+Cream+Eyeliner+Brush+2.jpg

Yeah, it did. That cream liner is good. I love the color.

smashbox and sephora seem to send me lid primer every time i order something so i may have a tube or two (never used, dudes)if veg or rayuela want to try it out. Ill have to double check though. My makeup drawers are a huge mess and im a certified chucker (someone who throws tons of useful or never used stuff for fear of becoming some kind of creepy horder, btw).

oh also Laurel Im a devotee of L'oreal Voluminous mascara too

Voluminous 4 eva. It is the best!

I have a bit of a makeup hoard too. Last week I depotted all my random eyeshadows and smaller pallettes and glued the discs to a few cardboard boards. So nice and compact now! I used to have lots of single-colour pots, which are so annoying for quick application. /too cheap to buy a blank MAC pallette

http://s3.amazonaws.com/imgly_production/4172769/large.jpg

it involved lots of me burning plastic and poking discs out :P

Hey guys I have a question: I've always had a fear of returning stuff to stores but I can remember a lot of you saying you've returned stuff to Sephora and they're fine with it so give me a yay or nay on this particular situation please.

I've used Smashbox halo powder before and i love it. I ran out and managed to get a free sample instore one day. Well i quickly ran out of that and went to buy some the other day. Thing is i couldn't remember if my shade was 'Fair' or 'Light'. So some middle aged lady comes up to ask if she can help me with anything. I explain my dilemma and she suggests we try both on and see which looks better. So she takes me to this weird little mirror that's in a gap between two aisles directly under a fluorescent light. She brushes a little of each way back on my jaw line near my ear. 'Oh it definitely the Light shade. See? Definitely!' Well no I cant really see with this crazy light, tiny mirror and having to turn my head away from the mirror to try to get a glimpse but okay she seems pretty confident so I go with the Light.
That was a week ago and its become very clear to me that 'Light' was definitely not the shade I had before because the mix of my skins pink undertones and the powder's browny-orange overtones i look like a freaking oompa loompa.

Will they exchange if I don't have neither the bag, box nor receipt? I can print out a proof of purchase since it is listed under my account on the Sephora site and it also shows where it was bought.
Also, if I can return it, can I take it to a diff Sephora or are they all independently owned or something?

Woah FFM!

hahaha yes, am crazy person! Now I have two pallettes stuffed with shadow which live in that cute blue box you can see in the picture. Yay!

Never purchased a thing at Sephora in my life so can't help you. But is halo the white powder? I ran out of my normal powder so broke into that and almost choked on a powder cloud that rose from it! Had to step outside the bathroom for a minute, hehe. I am a spaz.

haha yeah i was always an antipowder person until halo. its not white. comes in about 6 shades:

http://www.sephora.com/productimages/sku/s1087071-main-Lhero.jpg

i also highly recommend this to get rid of redness:

http://www.sephora.com/productimages/sku/s1262773-main-Lhero.jpg

smashbox and sephora seem to send me lid primer every time i order something so i may have a tube or two (never used, dudes)if veg or rayuela want to try it out. Ill have to double check though. My makeup drawers are a huge mess and im a certified chucker (someone who throws tons of useful or never used stuff for fear of becoming some kind of creepy horder, btw).

i am a creepy hoarder. i would love to try some! i feel like i'm learning so much about makeup in my thirties...haha.

ffm, that looks like it was a fun project!