I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

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!

I was a little sad bc I wanted my shot to be by the trees. I like trees.

look what i found while visiting the parents
sadly, it was empty so there was nothing to sniff/laugh at inside :(

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8149/7371930494_63ee2d0730_z.jpg

Totally had the exact same one.

I had the weirdest memory the other day that's not cosmetics related but does anyone remember little gym kits that came with equipment and sweatbands and was called "Get in Shape Girl"?

Don't remember those but I want a caboodle!

http://www.tias.com/stores/rrt/pictures/reg7745a.jpg

They still make Caboodle's btw. I have two. Target.

http://cdn.retrojunk.com/media/image/images/05a_3fd149edeb.jpg

We don't have Target yet (2013 launch)! I have an elaborate system of storing shit in a tiny three-drawer plastic shelf thing from the dollar store :)

lol at these get in shape things!

My Caboodle was a different color.

ENBB: yes!!!

i remember the "get in shape...girl" song, even
i didn't have it though

Get in shape girl!
You'll love the feeling!
Get in shape girl!
It's so appealing!

I didn't have it either. I sure did the Jane Fonda workout record a lot, though. Make it burn!

hahah I don't remember the song!

we did jane fonda workout in gym class

Also remember going to an aerobics class with my mom and doing a routine to All She Wants to Do Is Dance.

AWESOME

I used a black...something to keep my cosmetics in high school. (It might have been a real small toolbox, I don't remember.)

she wants to party
ooooo
she wants to get down
ooooo

Pony front left, step touch
Pony front right, step touch
And pony rear

Sometimes we did aerobics in gym class. I remember one tape our teacher fast forwarded past one exercise because it was pelvic thrusting. I guess that was inappropriate for 12 and 13 year olds. Or at least Mrs. Davis thought so.

lol. I feel like there was a lot of pelvic thrusting in aerobics.

I did a lot of aerobics in the 80s thanks to being a tubby kid with a skinny mom who was sad and confused at how she could have produced a tubby kid, and the kind of pelvic thrusts that require you to lay on your back, then lift your butt into the air and thrust were very popular. Also the dog-peeing-on-the-fire-hydrant move.

I've never been coordinated enough for aerobics--I get out of sync and fall over very quickly. (It's one reason why I was in special ed PE until I got enough credits to get out of PE altogether.)

The hips in the air thrusts were kind of racy, especially when you consider that people really did wear leotards to aerobics classes.

xp Christine, my mom was notoriously goofy in these classes. We were always in the back row and usually spent half the class just dancing around because neither one of us could figure out all of the intricate footwork.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gvq292tFYE