I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

That is a very sweet deal.

well, i think i didn't use illuminators because i thought they'd cause shine and sparkle and i didn't want that look. but brightening! is a good look

wow super good deal
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How do you use an illuminator? Innarested.

I got some tinted moisturizer – closest I have ever come to foundation or anything. I can't tell if I like how it looks or not. It does even out my skin tone but it highlights all the scars on my face I think, and skin flakes. I can't really tell which is better.

I got the Mayebline BB cream. It's OK but I think maybe I liked the Garnier better. It's SPF 30 though which is good.

i was sort of a fan of tinted moisturizer with SPF when i was in my teens and early 20s and my skin was young and constantly glowy anyway. but i still preferred moisturizer + a sheer foundation with SPF in it (i used Clinique Almost Makeup for so many years - I don't think they even make it anymore? i didn't see it at sephora anyway, though i looked). I think with separate products you have more of a chance of getting something suits your skin best. even though the double-duty thing is appealing. but to me a moisturizer needs to sink in, whereas a foundation shouldn't so much.

I think foundation just makes me neurotic! I walk around worrying my face is melting off or something. I had a dream the other night I was wearing it and I looked in a mirror and it looked like I was wearing crackle paint.

I'm finding since I switched to the Cerave face cleanser/moisturiser that I break out for a few days after I've worn makeup

wondering if I need to switch makeups, but idk what to switch to.
using smashbox primer and clinique super-balanced (clinique has a nice green tint to their cream chamois that counters my flushed face)

I hate foundation. I can't even cope w/ tinted moisturizer. I feel like as I get older I'm going to have to dealwithit.gif since I'm going to be too dried out for powder but it's hard to imagine not feeling like I have... stuff on my face.

I did find a face primer that I think is the best face primer ever (when it's hot I use primer instead of powder, which somehow doesn't make me feel gross and face-suffocated? I don't know it's weird): Tarte 12 hour pore something clean slate primer whatever - http://www.sephora.com/clean-slate-poreless-12-hr-perfecting-primer-P310018. Even as hot as it's been, I use it in the morning and I don't have to blot! All day! I keep blotting papers in my junk bowl on my desk (the usual - blotting papers, gum, post-it notes, bobby pins, tape flags, rubber finger) and normally blot once, sometimes twice if I'm going somewhere after work. It's so great. And it feels goooood.

How long have you been using the smashbox primer? That breaks some people out, IIRC.

yeah i can't use primer at all

I only just started using it again within the last month or so

hmm maybe that's my problem

I feel like silicone is a bad thing to put on one's face, but man it does exactly what I want makeup to do, which is even my face out without making me look like I'm wearing makeup. It's hard to give up.

I also FINALLY found a red lipstick I like. I think we talked about this before? True reds tend to look fuchsia on me (LL witnessed the iconic Cherries in the Snow turn into some weird pink purple on my lips a few Halloweens ago) but I picked up Revlon's Lip Butter in Cherry Tart and it's really perfect. I think the secret for me was going for something on the berry end of red since "berry" colors tend to look pretty good on me.

or at least i can't wear it for very long or my pores get clogged
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hurm maybe I'll try sans primer for a while

i'm totally going to sephora tomorrow for my annual binge. i've been looking forward to this for MONTHS!
going to get some fun stuff, some stuff to make going to work tolerable

Ooo will you tell us what you get?

loreal's color riche in true red (I *think*) is the best red I've come across so far, personally.

indeed i will. am thinking of some more interesting lipwear since it has been a few years since i bought actual lipstick. that and something new for the eyebrows?

my skin has also been a real mess lately, so i gotta do something about that :(

The last red that even came close was a Loreal of that make, but on the orange end of things. I had to go orange red to avoid the bizarre fuchsia effect, and it looked okay, but not what I wanted out of a red lipstick, you know?

Oh wow look at the first Makeup Alley review on True Red:

Wow! True Red is........truly red! Red lipstick usually turns out to be a dark shade of pink/purple on my lips so I am VERY pleased! I also love the smell of L'oreal lipsticks and find they leave a nice stain behind even after the lipstick has rubbed off. Will definitely re-buy!

I am not alone!!!

Wow, a lot of reviews are saying the same thing. brb going to the drug store

Wow I am full of Wow about lipstick WOW Wowwowowowowow

I bought it for my halloween silent movie person costume and was like WHOA this is really red and then started using the 'put it on with yr finger' technique and voila me and my kissable red lips wee

I wish I could wear red. :/

why can you not?

or can't you, or w/e

prob for the same reason I can't wear foundation

It draws attention to my big bottom lip which becomes comical and I wind up looking like a tarted up cartoon.

ENBB don't you dare spend another $50 on bb ever! We distribute BB cream & my coworkers are all still ordering $15 bottles of the original Korean stuff on eBay. :) I have the name at work so I can find that out tomorrow.. I mean to order some when the freebie I got from work runs out.

I wear primer, foundation and powder all the time, heh. But I am a junkie.

Also fyi I get a 50% disc on s4mshb0x (lol google proofing) so if anyone had a big ticket item I could help. :)

chanel lipstick smells like cucumbers

true!

i have a very pale pink chanel lippy -- I bought it online and thought it would be much darker so I don't wear it much, but it's gorgeously hefty like my grandma's old lipsticks, I love it.

I love cucumbers. I just ate one for breakfast.

I have fallen in love with pricey but fabulous Chanel Vitaluminaire foundation. Bastards better not discontinue it! Srsly stuff is magical imo.

this is the BB cream I mentioned upthread that my (imo, knowledgeable) coworkers swear by, fyi.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1311&_nkw=skin+79+bb+cream&_sacat=0

in case link borks: "skin 79 bb cream"

FFM the ones I am buying are ~ $10 not $50 just FYI. :)

I've looked at that one in particular but am worried about purchasing on shade unseen. I think Laurel got one and the color was all wrong. Hmmmm maybe I'll try it anyway.

ah, well it comes out of the pump slightly light greyish but works into skin well - I tried it on my hands and it was a perfect fit (I was already wearing makeup so didn't throw it on my face..) and the coworkers who wear it go from pale Canadian to tanned Korean :) The one we sell is $~50 so I figured comparable brands might also be! Good to know. The one I tried is the Super BB 40g pump in the cylindrical container.

I got some Clinique BB cream while I was at Macy's picking up my drrrrrrrrresses.

Trying it out tonight. So far so good! skin feels a bit tight but we'll see

first full day of bb cream -- kinda am in love with it! I can be all pale-faced like the normies, it's pretty frikkin good.

still figuring out how to apply it properly though

i was just looking for something on this thread and came across these posts and lolled for real:

I've never waxed or tweezed my eyebrows. Never seen the need to do so. Is it still common nowadays?

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:50 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes!!!! 1000 x yes!!!

― just1n3, Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:50 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey Veg and Rayuela....finally cleaned out my makeup drawer and found those smashbox lid primers!! If you still want em hit me up at imkamb at gmail

A girl at work was asking what my favorite stores were and when I mentioned Sephora, she said "oh I don't see you wearing a lot of makeup and being into it."

Um.

woot! thanks sunny successor! i emailed you.

I got the email rayuela. Ill send asap.

Veg are you still in for this???

oops yes! emailing now

I just learned this -almost all makeup has a little jar logo on it and a figure representing the number of months it's safe to use a product - I have a blush that's 36M, mascara that is 6M, etc. Not that I really pay attention to these things (I used my Mom's blush from the 70s in the 90s) but it's still cool & boggles me that I've never noticed.

You're blowing my mind.

Haha I'm afraid to look.

I just bought another drugstore mascara. It sucks less than my last drugstore mascara?