I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

Carl, I might just hire you to interpret me from now on, you're good at it! :)

I belong to a nail art community on Reddit because I am a crazy person and apparently these nail polishes are on sale for $0.99 each at Walgreens. There aren't any in Canada, so you guys should buy it all out and let me live vicariously through your haul - girl in California says this cost her ~$30: http://imgur.com/A9m58

Oh man I love natalie d's blog!! Thanks for linking that. I would want ours to be like that but sadly maybe with less "fuck"s because they might hinder the master goal of getting stuff? Idk. I could be wrong about that.

Also, we're all in our 30s, right? Maybe we could use that somehow too. As an angle, I mean.

I'm almost in my 40s so I can be the "mature skin" correspondent. We also have different career trajectories and styles, which I think will be good, since a lot of makeup blogs seem to be run by young twee women. Are we all white ladies? I'm not going to focus too hard on the "diverse perspective" angle if that's the case.

Yeah, I think we're all white. I agree that different styles will be good too.

I would love to make a banner image to insert into standard blogger template or something if you guys are interested! I don't think I have the time/patience to re-teach myself Blogger coding or anything but I feel like a lot of templates nowadays are pretty customizeable in terms of colours and swapping our header images. At least that's the legacy *I* tried to leave with the design world! Bringing it back to the early days when I first met E by doing a design for her! <3

I am very much into flat colors for nails, no glitter. Unless it's FULL-ON GLITTER like chunks of it.

I am down with a banner! I can probably resurrect my HTML/CSS skills enough to tinker with a template.

x-post Oh yes, you will have to do that. I still remember how much I loved the star themed one you did for my first dland one. That would have been in (i believe)2001.

Blogspot is as good a site as any, right?

Still thinking of names.

I am very much into flat colors for nails, no glitter. Unless it's FULL-ON GLITTER like chunks of it.

― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Friday, September 7, 2012 10:57 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I am feeling this.

I did mine plain old deep red the other day and I'm loving it. I'm excited for fall colors.

BTW I JUST ORDERED POLKA DOT TIGHTS. I know those aren't make-up related but we're talking here and I'm excited about them. They're these: http://www.hue.com/Legwear/Tights/HUE-Polka-Dot-Control-Top-Tights.aspx?kw={keyword}&adtype=pla&gclid=CKbvkIreo7ICFUsb6wodBikAww

I love a good shiny nail but the flat stuff has been catching my eye - I think it was Sunny who posted an instagram picture a couple of weeks black of her flat black nails with a shiny nail french tip? FABULOUS. Is there a 'flat' topcoat?

Yep. Essie makes one that will turn any nail polish matte.

http://www.amazon.com/Essie-Matte-About-You-0-5-Ounce/dp/B002G3K1TY

those ARE super cute and exciting, E! I miss the star design; wish I still had it kicking about but I'm 99% sure it's long gone. It might exist on a burned disc somewhere (lol small hard drives of the early 2000s!) Man I would love to find that. It was so colourful!

Woah woah a topcoat that will make my polish flat? Even better!

When I say "flat" I mean, still glossy. But with no shimmer. I did struggle with how to say that for a second and now I see I could have been clearer!

There are matte coatings but iirc Lauren used one and it was disappoint?

Yeah - I knew that's how you meant it but FFM was talking about a pic sunny had posted where the nails where matte black with a shiny black tip so that's what I was talking about.

Ah, gotcha. I guess in my head matte=flat but I know what you mean. I've only recently come around to glitter, I have a very fine black one (black liquid, silver sparkles) that is fun. But since I finally kicked the nailbiting habit I have been going nuts experimenting with different styles - may try my hand at a gradient soon.

I have never liked shimmery or frosted nail polish. I don't even think I own any. I have just glossy straight colors or full out glitter no shimmery frosty stuff. It's never been my thing.

We could call it "I feel pretty--NOT!" Although that's really surm's intellectual property so we should probably check w/ him.

I am sort of the same about lipstick too tbh. I don't like shimmer or frosty ones. Glossy is fine but flat colors not frosty ones if that makes sense.

He should be a contributor tbh.

Or wait, no, quincie started this thread. Why did I think it was surm? Anyway, we could call it "I feel pretty--NOT!" but we should ask quincie if it's okay.

xp yes he should!

So should quincie!

And sunny with her awesome hand-drawn tutorials.

The more people who contribute, the less work we have to do individually.

omg

that's so funny cuz i just saw this thread title and thought to myself, "i can't believe i don't contribute to this thread"

hi!

these are the nails FFM meant btw:

http://www.bangstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/0805342512d591177f3d146aa6d693af.jpg

lol HI!!! :D

Hi! Want to contribute to a beauty blog?

xp OMG those black nails are amazing!

They ARE.

They are bad-ass nails.

How do I do that????

I would just have that be what my nails looked like all the time, I think.

Right?! I don'g know - I just GISd it. Let me look to see if I can find a tutorial.

xp lol damn you I just spent five minutes looking for that (couldn't remember her username and the interface is shit for that!)

instead I offer mine, which look OTT here but caught the light in a nice and subtle way IRL

http://distilleryimage5.s3.amazonaws.com/879ac92ef13911e1974722000a1c24bc_7.jpg

those black tipped nails are totally amazing, and yes who WOULDN'T want to contribute to a beauty blog

Wow - I think this would actually be super easy.

http://www.bangstyle.com/2012/04/diy-matte-french-manicure/

I'm so glad we invoked surm <3 haha

I think it should be I feel pretty-NOT or some variation thereof btw. Let's wait for Quincie to weigh in.

lol summoned by the spirits

oh those weren't sunny's actual nails! She posted the same photo. I see now the caption says 'for so&so' so I suppose she was just sharing the image. Bummer! But yay - tutorial! Seems pretty simple too.

I've done that reverse-French mani with gloss black and bronze metallic tips. It was fun.

omg I walk away from this thread and ! things! happening!

I would totes contribute to the I Feel Pretty NOT blog. Though maybe more in the joeks category than reviews bc I don't wear a ton of makeup and am not rlly a glamazon like u ladies/gents :)

those black nails are badass, I don't even get manicures or wear nail polish and I WANT THAT TO HAPPEN TO MY NAILS

Yeah I've done one that was a sand color with turquoise tips. I don't like regular french but I love the different plays on it.

FFM - no, they weren't he nails. I think that she pinned it not grammed it which is maybe why you couldn't find it.

OK wait - now we have a lot of people. Just to keep track.

me
carl
rosemary
homo
in orbit (?)
surm
VG

"I think that she pinned it not grammed it"

lol @ me and internet in general btw

I uh...I guess I could do this? I can review liquid eyeliners.

It's on instagram - I did find it! I just came over with the URL to post and found you'd beaten me. Tsk tsk! :) I am excited to follow along!