I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

I felt pretty ridiculous typing the words "lash," blast," and "fusion" in proximity to one another as if they meant something. So, otm.

xp LLLOOOOOLLL

xp phew, I was having trouble finding cinnamon kiss on google, hah! who knows how close I am depending on monitor settings etc but it loks not too dissimilar to SweetKiss #43, I have a few unused ones at home, maybe we'll get lucky and I'll have that shade!
http://alipstickeffect.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/bourjois-sweet-kiss-43-rose-pomponne.jpg

hueg sorry!

The naming dignity is a good point - but I also kind of like how ridiculous the names they can come up with are. My lipgloss today is called BLAZE. Sounds tough!

Hmmmm maybe! Does that have sparkle in it? It was definitely a flat color. Not matte as in dryed out matte but it didn't have any shimmer or sparkle. Probably worth a shot though. :)

I held my tongue for Lashblast Fusion, but Lipslicks sent me over the edge.

Honestly this is why I can stomach buying Sephora store brand over drugstore because I feel so gross after being in the cosmetics aisles at Target.

My lipcloss today is called Blistex original formula because the entire area from my upper lip line to the bottom of my nostrils is so chapped from being sick that my skin is cracked and bleeding. Yep, it looks just about as hawt as it sounds.

could have a slight shimmer, or I sit in a sunny part of the office. I rubbed it on my hand and it looks fairly matte! Will speak to the BJS marketing girl when she's back on Monday, she may have other ideas!

awww the blistex days. at least those chapped lips are probably red! haha

xxp Flat like in eggshell paint, not matte paint?

man I'm out of my element! I only wear lipgloss or lip markers.

Christine I know nothing about paint but that sounds like it might be a reasonable comparison.

i went into sephora last night and walked right back out - i can never deal with that place, idk why, it just feels like... too overwhelming?? TOO MUCH MAKEUP

I know! I went in once in my life, to see if I could find the stuff that covers tattooes for my sister's job hunt (as a surprise/gift: she was too broke to buy it). No dice, and caused me supreme anxiety. I am not a Sephora Girl.

that's why i just go to the store brand area!
i recently got one of those eyeshadow sampler thingies and it's a lot of fun

i guess i was embarrassed because it seems like foundation wearing has a pretty gross stigma and it was equivalent to stuffing my bra. this is the cult of natural perfection talking, not me or you guys or anything in partic aside from that.

yeah i understand that feeling - and usually only feel it when my skin is broken out and i feel like "can't" leave the house without foundation on - but i also understand the glowing bonus-pretty glory of make-up

that said, most foundations irritate my skin in some way or another, except for the mineral powder foundation i've been using for the past several months (mineral hygienics) - i like it! maybe sometimes it looks like i have powder on, like if i don't blend enough but hey. i think it looks better than most foundations i've tried.

I understand that feeling, too. Most of my foundation reluctance came from a combo of it never looking natural and always feeling heavy, but I think that stigma was part of it, too. But you know what? I think almost every woman I know well enough to discuss the subject with wears foundation.

Or from the women who put it on with a paint roller every morning?

(BTW, Cover Girl actually has a foundation that is put on with a small paint roller. I LOLed.)

haha yeah when i saw that i laughed too!

i think what might be at the heart of discomfort around foundation is the issue of real vs fake - does wearing foundation, and any make-up for that matter, present a false self or simply accentuate the real. we all have different comfort levels with it.

personally, i am all about accentuating

but i won't push it on anyone

Foundation with any sort of brush/paint roller (hah!) scares me. I just use my finger tips, rub it into my whole face. I don't love my pink complexion.

I have an embarassing red nose, so I've always used something to tone it down.

xp I grew up around women who treated makeup as a chore to put up with for special occasions. (My mother wasn't like that, but lots of my female relatives are.)

Maybe foundation gets a bad rep because when used correctly, it makes skin look nice without looking like it exists. Eye shadow is obviously eye shadow. Mascara is pretty obvious for the most part. Lipstick can go either way. But deftly applied foundation is not so obvious at all, so it's like we're lying to the world about our true appearance. Like stuffing your bra!

DORK ALERT There's a common plot device in Star Trek, especially the original series, of beautiful women seducing the male crew and then turning out to be old hags or disfigured women or freaky lady aliens (as opposed to hot green Orion slave girls). It's this betrayal that these gross ugly old women would trick the men into getting boners for them! Boner by subterfuge! Also the old trope of a man taking a woman home for sexy times only to have her strip off her wig and take the chicken cutlets out of her bra and take out her colored contacts, etc. etc.

So I think there's a collective unconscious process undercurrent in the patriarchy that makes these irreconcilable demands that women both meet an impossible beauty standard, but do so without illusions like demon foundation.

I will rep for B00ts mascara from Target - not too pricey. They have a long lash which is p good, and their lash-defining has a cool brush that has fat bristles on one side and narrow comb-y type bristles on the other side so you can get really feathery lashes if you want (also good for combing out clumps in other old mascaras)

I've been wearing powder lately but I think I'm going to go back to not using it. My skin has been so fucked up and weird lately, the powder just adds one more layer of irritation.

I think part of my skin sadness has honestly just been being out in the sun a lot. Any prolonged sun exposure combined with sunscreen and I end up with a week's worth of itchy face, even if I don't burn at all. hmph.

They have a long lash which is p good, and their lash-defining has a cool brush that has fat bristles on one side and narrow comb-y type bristles on the other side so you can get really feathery lashes if you want (also good for combing out clumps in other old mascaras

I will also rep for the brush on the dark green boots mascara. I don't use the mascara but I sometimes use the brush because the comb thing is that good.

Any prolonged sun exposure combined with sunscreen and I end up with a week's worth of itchy face, even if I don't burn at all.

I'm going to make a very controversial confession that I only wear sunscreen in July and August and only if I know I'm going to be out in the direct sunlight for more than ten minutes. As soon as the earth tilts enough that my morning bus stop is shaded during my morning commute, I stop using it.

i mean i don't feel like i am disguising the fact that i am a disgusting hag if i wear foundation -- i feel like i am preventing my skin from being dry and also protecting my skin from the elements, like sun damage, etc. no one even knows that i'm wearing it! how could it possibly matter to anyone but me.

xpost yeah carl I'm kind of the same. I pretty much work indoors for the entire 8 hours, I'm not a huge outdoorsy person anyway so sunscreen is camping, outside music festivals, hanging by the pool etc.

most sunscreen is awful shit

my chest is still recovering from two days of sunscreen on it two weekends ago. my shoulders and back seem okay, but my chest is more sensitive and broke out in several little red zit-like dots, grr. i put neutrogena ultrasheer on my body (never ever on my face omg no), but should've known better. the clinique city block is okay for days when I know I'm going to be outside all day but, yeah, combined with sweat and all-day wear, i mean, my skin just can't handle more than a day or two of that.

i wore clinque's almost make-up throughout my teens and 20s, which had spf 15 in it - i think they stopped making it though :/
i'm content with my mineral make-up's spf but i know it's hardly anything to guard against spending any real time in the sun. hats and big sunglasses are good though!

yeah I did Neutrogena baby sunscreen for 4-days of camping 2 weeks ago, and then 3 days of clinique city block last weekend...my face is such a mess I'm having to go sans makeup to work this week, it's too irritated. bleh.

not irritated so that anyone else but me could tell though...just kinda bumpy and flareup itchy and grrr

that news about the jar imprints on makeup was astounding. most of mine didnt have jars but i think its because they rubbed off from being old!! my chanel liquid eyeshadow said "6m" lol i've been using it for like 4 years

yeah i think the city block formula changed or my skin now hates it or something bc while i didn't break out, the skin on my face felt kind of rough and itchy, which never happens when i just wear my reg make-up + moisturizer. i do have another zinc+titanium-dioxide sunblock for face but it's not perfect either.

all in all, i think my face has fared pretty well this summer considering how much i've been out in the sun and how tan my body is!

I've been finding that out, because I started reacting to the Aveeno one, and I can still use the Almay PABA-free one but I can't put it around my eyes or lips, and the Burt's Bees chapstick with SPF just makes my mouth dry & cracked, so jesus christ, what's a girl supposed to do?

the skin on my face felt kind of rough and itchy

OMG THIS!!! My cheeks were like ALLIGATOR SCALES after two days of the Aveeno hypoallergenic, non-clogging, formulated-for-face, oil-free shit!

i feel like all sunscreens sting a tiny little bit when applied

(to the face)

Is it the alcohol? I think some of the chemicals that have the UV-protection properties are also alcohol-soluable.

i used to use a DDF zinc sunscreen for face - got it at sephora in nyc - it is pretty good actually. i'd forgotten about it.

what's a girl supposed to do?

Sun hats. Also I'm counting on Amanda to bring the parasol back into style.

it seems they don't make that particular sunblock anymore though
xp
yep, hats!

i have already begun to use my parasol and so far no one has laughed at me
i think it's rather attractive, really
my only complaint is that it requires a hand so if i have dog on a leash in one hand and parasol in other, i can't carry a cup of coffee

Did you get the one from Amazon? How is the quality? I would like one myself although Jeff has suggested that he won't go outside with me if I use it.

He goes outside with me when I wear my most ridiculous of floppy sunhats, so I am not sure why the parasol would be any more embarrassing.

honestly though, my mineral make-up does a pretty good job of warding off the sun!
xp
i had an idea for a parasol handle-extender when at the beach earlier this summer. like to make a regular umbrella seem more like a beach umbrella. maybe there should be an extender that fits on a purse or an armband or something, haha.

I always get moisturizer with SPF and have never had any probs with it but I don't add any additional SPF on top of it or anything. I think right now I have Cetaphil with SPF 30.

No, it's Cerave.

I might have to try that instead.

I've also abandoned the clinique BB cream...it was only good for a couple of days before I was breakout city, and in natural light my skin looks kinda grey and dead looking which creeped me out.

this has been a baaad month for my face in general, lol