I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

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?

Whyyyyyyy do they make the TUBES so CHUNKY? I don't have unlimited room in my make-up bag!

I agree, the chunky tubes are so annoying. I definitely used to use mascara for a year at a time - living life on the edge! Now I have too much so I don't need to anymore. Once I start needing to buy this stuff again I'll go back to my miserly ways.

What kind, Laurel? I still rep hard core for Voluminous. Bought one of those Maybaline the Falsies or something last week just to see and nope - Voluminous still wins.

Maybelline, rather

also, I read a trick last week about declumpifying mascara once applied with a clean toothbrush. I have been using this to moderate success, might buy a "straight across" toothbrush for further experimentation as the one I have now is the multi layered kind? I think the bristles don't all hit my lashes.

Covergirl Lashblast Fusion. It's...adequate, and the brush actually seems to cover and separate well, and the formula doesn't give me black spider clumps. So actually I should probably be more positive about it. I might just be really tired.

Wherever I read that women in their late 30s shouldn't wear powder anymore, I have really internalized that as a Truth, so I bought some Urban Decay Naked Skin foundation last night. I don't feel like I'm wearing foundation, so that's good, but I don't know if it's doing anything. I refused on principle to buy the expensive "buffing brush" recommended by the Sephora person. Also she sold me a shade that was a lot darker than I thought I needed. I need one of you to come look at my face outside in the direct sunlight.

Other than a couple of free samples of Benefit foundation, I haven't bought foundation since I can remember so I had to throw myself on the mercy of the Sephora woman who stood there telling me she hated the feeling of heavy foundation on her face while wearing so much foundation that it was visible from space.

Hah! Some of those Sephora people really scare me. I will never give up my powder; society can pry it from my dry, wrinkled hands. I have Shiny Nose Syndrome and even powder barely helps, but it makes me feel better.

I have recently noticed that powder makes my shiny nose shinier. If I wear that Tarte primer I was going on about a few weeks ago, or nothing, I might use blotting papers (I fucking love blotting papers) once if I'm going somewhere after work. If I wear powder, I use them two or three times throughout the day. My crackpot theory is that it dries my face out a little and makes it produce more oil.

Which isn't to say that is the case for you, I should add. It's just a thing I've noticed about myself lately.

jenny, do you think of me as a person who wears a lot of foundation?
(y is an ok answer, no feelings hurt)

the Sephora woman who stood there telling me she hated the feeling of heavy foundation on her face while wearing so much foundation that it was visible from space.

hahahaaa! i know, right!

the sephora mask, i call it

It's quite possible! I should give blotting papers a try. I always wear foundation though.. I load my face up with shit applied in such a way that, I hope, it looks like I barely wear nothing at all. :) Addictions..

xp

Someone is going to have to pry my Covergirl pressed powder from my cold dead hands one day. I"m weirdly obsessive about powdering my nose.

Amanda, I honestly had not about your foundation habits prior to this very moment, so I am going to say no. Also good job - whatever you're doing looks very natural! (What are you using? And also let's go to the costume store sometime soon and you can look at my face outside in the sunlight and evaluate my foundation.)

E - that's the stuff that hooked me! Love that little green disc.

oh, hilariously, I've been asked to put together my top 5 recs for one of our marketing department's FB pages. Luckily I love the brand (B0urj01s - not in the US afaik) but it's going to be weird seeing my smiling face pushing product!

I was wearing foundation for a while because I thought I had some red blotches but I think I'm going to stop. It was making me look too pale and the blotches have faded enough since using the Retin-A that I can use just concealer again now.

B0urj01s is sold at Sephora here but not in drugstores.

My favorite lipstick ever was a B0urj01s one called cinnamon kisses (but all fancy and french like) and I think they discontinued it because I couldn't find any in the UK last time I looked. It was a sad day.

oh wow, cool! I rec their foundation then. Beige tube, red lid, so creamy and covery and velvety. Will see what kind of substituion we have for cinnamon kisses! (tx for googleproofing with me :)

Amanda, I honestly had not about your foundation habits prior to this very moment, so I am going to say no. Also good job - whatever you're doing looks very natural! (What are you using? And also let's go to the costume store sometime soon and you can look at my face outside in the sunlight and evaluate my foundation.)

― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Friday, August 17, 2012 10:04 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

OK!! And yeah, I wear foundation almost all the time I am in public with people I know (out socially, at work). If I am going to the market, def not. If I am sitting around the house, no.
I use Clinique superbalanced, whatever that means.

for some reason i am finding this conversation really embarrassing but i can't quite figure out why

wait it wasn't cinnamon kiss it was cinnamon pink! I think this is it: http://www.amazon.com/Bourjois-Pour-Plumping-Lipstick-Cannelle/dp/B003O54OOG