I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

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!

sunny I would love to try some out if you have any to spare - super cool of you to offer!!!

Sunny, you can pretty much return anything at any Sephora. I once returned a The Balm concealor and later realized I didn't even buy it at Sephora in the first place. WHOOPS! No receipt or bag needed but you can print out the proof of purchase if it makes you feel better. I return stuff there all the time. Most recently a Laura Mercier lipstick because I decided I hated it. I'd hate it at least 6 months but only used it a couple times. No questions asked.

Ahh - Sunny, that's the powder I ran out of. We get our biannual orders soon so I'll grab a few. Yay! I'd offer to pick things up for people but shipping would negate my discount :(

Rayuela: it was! I recommend it. Used YouTube tutorials to learn how to de-pot.

Well i went in on my lunch break and tried to swap them out. AT first the woman was all 'hey you bought this at a JCPenney sephora and our sephora is the real sephora'. I explained that I had read on the website that JCPenney items could be exchanged but not returned for $$$ and since I just wanted to exchange... "oh I need to ask someone now!" she says. Then she came back and said it was fine and was super nice after that. Made me feel like I lost $60 on the street and found it again a couple of days later. phew!

hooray!

One of these days I will depot my eyeshadows.

What is the benefit of depotting? Similarly, what does that actually mean?

you know how when you buy single eyeshadows they come in a little metal tray inside a larger container? Depotting them means removing them from that larger container and putting them into a big palette, so they are all together and not floating round in a jumble.

Ah. That makes sense.

if you ever want to do it, there are a billion youtubes on how to (it involves heating up the container iirc).

Yay Sunny! That's good news.

Here are my new depotted Pallettes: http://instagr.am/p/KQJzQljbCB/

You use an old fork to hold the plastic bit over a candle flame til disgusting smoke chokes you/melts the glue holding the disc to the plastic, then pop the disc off with the fork. It was messy but now I can see many of my colours all at once. Success!

wowsers!
that also makes me realize that i really haven't explored the wonderful world of eye shadow and i def don't have lighter colours even tho they are prob best for me + eyeliner - dark colours make me look like i've been punched in the eye, imo!
which also has something to do with my skin's fairness + pink undertones. i've tried yellow or green powders and they don't do much for my skintone! but i haven't really explored too many options. also i don't like wearing layers of makeup, primer, etc. the only thing i'm wearing these days is a powder foundation from Mineral Hygienics, which doesn't make my skin break out - this is also bc my skin has gotten a lot more even-toned and breaks out waaay less if at all because rx topical drugz yaaay

I've seen tutorials that use a flat iron to melt the glue or heating the shadows in the oven.

Another reason to depot is that some palettes, like the Urban Decay ones for example, take up so much space with all the packaging.

I love Urban Decay eye potion primer... works a treat.

For Christmas this past year I also got a HUGE Sephora makeup palette/box/etc. I love it. The shadows are really pretty great. The only problem I am facing is what I'll do if I ever travel.

I really like the UD pencil liner in perversion. Dark-ass matte black. Looks 95% like a liquid on, which is great for me because I am absolutely incompetent at applying liquid eyeliner. Nice fatty black line.

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I was just reading some article about beauty products that remind us of times/places/people and someone mentioned a lipgloss that my friends and I were obsessed with in HS. It was called Naturistics and looked like this:

http://n.b5z.net/i/u/10067583/i/lipgloss_apricot.jpg

I think I had one in every flavor. We'd compare and trade and stuff. It was a bit strange.

http://tinyurl.com/cr9n9l9

I remember that stuff!!

we were obsessed with a cutex lipstick and nail polish called 'blue opal'. it was pink with a blue sheen. seriously need to revive this line

omg cutex was my obsession too. frosted hot pink, frosted magenta, frosted plum.

oh I don't think mine was cutex but I've just been reminded of the frosted light pink lipstick I would rock at 14 that I thought was the height of fashion.. :D

I don't think we had Cutex lipsticks in America - at least not since I was a kid. Huh.

As far as lipsticks went we were really into reddish browns and dark dark plums like Loreal Toast and Revlon Black Cherry.

http://pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/72866/300.JPG
http://pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/196981/300.jpg

Because I have lolhuge lips I tend to stick to neutrals. I can't imagine ever wearing either of those colors now. LOL 90s.

There was also a dark purple almost black lipstick by Wet n' Wild that I coveted and I had a full on primary purple lipstick that I was obsessed with at 18. I also had violet streaks in my hair that year. I guess I really really liked purple.

omg i remember how popular those brownish lipstick shades were in the 90s! there is photographic evidence of me in such a color iirc. so so terrible.

I had a comb (Sweet Georgia Brown?) with purple wax on it that you could brush against your hair to create 'streaks.' It mostly made my blondeish hair kind of a poop brown, and waxy. Yay!
Those dark purple/auburn lipsticks of the 90s will forever haunt me. Reds and pinks all the way!

Woah FFM Sweet Georgia Brown was the maker of the purple lipstick I was talking about.

It looked like this but without glitter:

http://www.fiebargain.com/imageslarge/M%20SGB%20lipstick%20funky99)1.JPG

Pretty sure I had the green one too. Dear God.

Hair mascara! That stuff was disgusting, I wore it all the time for a couple of months. Rimmel black cherries lipstick had something of a cult status, even thanked in the Kenickie album inlay iirc.

aw i loved 90s brown lipstick sometimes i still wear it so there!

i have started wearing lipstick again. (i also prefer the darker shades!) it wears off by 10 am, but it's fun to do as i'm getting ready in the mornings. maybe i need to find more expensive lipstick.

I have nothing against dark lipstick for those who can pull it off! I'm just not one of those people though sadly I didn't realize that when it was at its most popular.

i mean, i think brown in particular looks really dated, but i still love it. and i am sort of dated!

Ooh man there was a series of l'oreal shades that came in these long skinny tubes... I'm going butts trying to remember the shades I wore. They were dark matte red-brown, I think there was definitely a black cherry shade in there. Also clinique moon violet was my jam.

I totally remember those long skinny Loreal tubes!

Omg lmao at going butts! Autocomplete fail!!!!!!

I figured as much and lold on the inside. :)

90s Makeup: Revlon Street Wear.

I think I had the Wet and Wild version of Vamp.

what is going butts???