I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

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???

going nuts i guess. but maybe not...

i have this Bite lip stick/pencil stuff that you put on then blot the put on again and blot then put on again and that seems to stick for a while

blotting. it works.

Yeah it was meant to say going nuts

"Going butts" is pretty great, though.

totally

going butts!!!! also tehresa, i had like five of those loreal skinny lipsticks! they were kind of drying iirc, like painting your lips with a brown sharpie.

Yeah they were super drying

We are reshooting our staff photos today with a prof photographer. Last night I was frantically looking for new foundation and a sephora clerk assured me this looked good but I just went to the bathroom and I look yellow! I'm kind of freaking out! What do I do? Lots of powder?

I should have known she was crazy when she told me an even darker one looked good... And when she gave me eye makeup in the completely wrong color family with so much crease shadow I looked like a hooker. I didn't buy her eye look but I really needed foundation. I will return it but new I'm freaking out!

Maybe just tell photog you are concerned and ask that he/she double check it when doing photoshoppy stuff.

Maybe not so much on the powder so you don't look chalky.

You are v v pretty and the pic will be awesome, don't worry!

Thanks...I will alert her for retouching purposes. I'm also managing the shoot so by the time I have my session in gonna be so haggard!!

This is the only time I've ever had the opportunity for a pro photo and I wanted it to be perfect :(

Could you rub a little body lotion on your face to whiten the fdtn?

I had my staff picture taken and the lights were so bright I honestly look like i'm about to cry! I don't want to be all diva-esque so I didn't ask for a re-shoot but man that pic is awful

It turned out looking sort of ok, though sadly I and another of our staff had to reshoot indoors because the outside light was not complimentary to our fair complexions.

Ha, I have that same problem!