I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

I suspect that the AC was not on in my train car this morning, either. Three days in the 60s/low 70s and everybody acts like it's fucking winter.

THANK YOU

i promptly put in a work request for it. i was like, it's 75 not 50. stop being fuckin cheap and put your AC back on.

anyway this has to do with my cosmetics bc i had a really good time with my makeup this morning and left the house feeling completely fresh-faced, til i was slapped with a no AC welcome to work

That is seriously the worst. I was just telling a coworker that I've turned into a eyelash tint addict because mascara just melts everywhere when it's hot.

totally. on hot hot days i use clear

Is eyelash tinting legal where you live? It's pretty amazing. I've already decided one of my posts for IFP-N: The Blog will be about eyelash tint because I am 100% certain my brow lady would be willing to take a picture of me with the dye on my lashes.

I'm just about to re-order my dye that I use for eyebrows but is good for lashes too.

http://www.1000hour.com.au/dyekit.html

Have you used it on your lashes before? Getting them dyed at the salon is kind of stressful and messy and I'm honestly afraid to do it at home by myself.

I have but it really stings if/when it gets in my eyes and I have not been that successful at keeping it out but that's partly because I try to do one eye at a time so I can open the other one and still do stuff during the boring-as-fuck 15 minutes. If you have one or more people with you, you can at least TALK to each other for amusement, do both eyes at once and keep them squeezed shut, and avoid the pain.

If you really squeeze your eyes shut, the lashes are going to get dye all over your under-eye area so you might want to put a bit of stationary tape or something under there to keep it off the skin? Tape is the first thing that occurred to me but I'm sure there are other options too.

At the salon, they smear Vaseline around your eyes and stick these contoured pieces of paper underneath to prevent that.

you guys this sounds awful!

Oh! Vaseline and a little tissue, that's perfect.

xp: Well, I only do my eyebrows for that reason. I don't find it awful, but it's noticeably inconvenient.

I mean these are my natural brows:

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/63445_10150150314849498_911371_n.jpg

they're light
use a pencil? that's what i do.

We definitely need a post(s) about dying of eyebrows and eyelashes!!! Laurel your expression in that pic is cracking me up!

I had what I thought was a good idea for a post, but then I forgot it. Hopefully it will come back to me. I can always default to my somewhat extensive dry shampoo experience.

they're light = they are pretty and fair, meaning i do not share your repulsion for your eyebrows :)

I was never any good at pencil, couldn't find the right color, never liked the look on me. Plus dye is there even when I'm swimming, even after a shower, even if it rains, even when I first wake up, and I only have to think about it once ever 2-3 mos. The brow dyeing is nothing, it's easier than a face mask! The lash thing is more complicated.

I have a colorless face. My lips aren't that red, my eyes are a muddy hazel, my brows are invisible, and my hair color isn't much different from my skin. That's just how it is. Luckily, cosmetics.

And I'm making that face because we are outside in a WHIPPING wind and sub-freezing temps wearing country maiden costumes w bare legs & arms, and performing on stage with feet so cold we haven't felt them in an hour.

you do not have a colorless face! you have a fair complexion! it's not the same thing! this is like my friend who has claimed for the 20 years that i've known her that she has a pointy head. the things people tell themselves about their appearance are always surprising to me!

as for the dyeing, you know i'm not opposed to suffering for beauty (korean spa) i guess i just hate having people anywhere near/touching my face

In a study published in Perception, Russell demonstrated the existence of a facial contrast difference between the two genders. By measuring photographs of men and women, he found that female faces have greater contrast between eyes, lips, and surrounding skin than do male faces. This difference in facial contrast was also found to influence our perception of the gender of a face.

accentuating beauty = i'll buy that
i just don't like hearing my friends talk about themselves in a negative way. it's a weird thing i have!

I'm a bit intrigued by the eyebrow dyeing too! Mine are not quite as light as Orbit's (you don't want your first name used anymore, right?) but I do fill them in with a 'darker' shade of brown everyday, which is actually the lightest of the brow shadows in this pallette I got.

Quasi related, just saw this picture on http://thebeautydepartment.com/ and it all made sense! I am no good with my bottom lashes. Wanted to share with anyone else as useless as I am at getting product on lower lashes (mine are teeny tiny on the bottom).

http://97.74.65.162/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/TBDBottomLashes.jpg

(I think that if I try this I will simply snag some off the edge of my mascara tube, no need to smear the brush anywhere to get at it!)

woah woah WOAH

i always wondered how that look was achieved!!!

I actually don't care if ppl use my name now and then, I just wanted things I said to be less google-able.

I like that bottom lash trick, it's more subtle than lining the bottom and it's not right in your eye like water-line products!

i just don't like hearing my friends talk about themselves in a negative way. it's a weird thing i have!

U smrt. But I don't hate my atonality, I just think it makes me look like a boy. A chubby boy. So I dye and line and try to get some sun. :)

xp I like that site because they often have some pretty great tips and tricks. I am going to rock those eyes and this hair tomorrow, I think: http://thebeautydepartment.com/2012/09/double-rope-braid-bun/

That's fair, L! It just feels so weird calling you Orbit all of a sudden, but I absolutely understand.

In Orbit, please. ;) (There used to be another poster named "orbit," something I didn't remember until after I'd registered.)

I have a colorless face. My lips aren't that red, my eyes are a muddy hazel, my brows are invisible, and my hair color isn't much different from my skin.

I didn't use to, but as I've gotten older, I've gotten more colorless. I blew a coworker's mind this morning by telling her that my natural hair/eyelash color is a sort of washed out light brown for the hair, and almost blond for my lashes (that's why I like the lash tint). I use a pencil for my brows because they aren't as light, but eyebrow pencil is one of those things I use every time I leave the house, even if I don't wear any other makeup.

was it here that I read the tip about putting pencil in the waterline on your upper lashes?

I tried that this morning--maybe I just did it too much, since i felt like you couldn't really see it, but it totally smudges underneath my eye every time i close them. haha. maybe my eyes are not cut out for this kind of detail work.

i'm more colorless than i used to be too if it makes you guys feel better
really though, fixating on it (or thinking about it at all) just makes me feel like i am slipping back into a familiar old way of thinking that, for me, was kind of harmful. (i'm this, not that. i should be ____, not ______, my ____ should be this way, not the way it is)

sorry for getting all emotional/tmi

xp - hah! No problem, In Orbit. :)

xp No, no, that's what you should do, if that's how you feel. In a way, since this kind of talk has a profound effect on you and you're sensitized to it, you're sort of a canary in a coal mine--an early alert system that the tone is going self-critical and off track. My tendency is to be really flippant about self-criticism but often that lets it in the door disguised as a joke, which it turns out not to be.

It's kind of a tough line in a thread about how to change the way you look!

rayuela: I have the same problem - striped black eyeballs! So pretty! :P I have not discovered a solution but I did read this today which may be something to try (or may be even MORE annoying and irritating!)

http://thebeautydepartment.com/2012/08/inner-liner-longevity/

I think that colorlessness is a common feature of getting older, especially for people with fair/light coloring to begin with. It used to really get to me as part of the larger set of issues about getting older as a woman in the patriarchy and how that impacts the value society places on me and all that crapola, but I'm dealing with it better now.

Arrggg "stamping" my waterline with black eyeliner seems like a HORRIBLE idea.

I do, however, like this technique on the top lid, which I think is v. similar to the mascara trick FFM posted - http://www.stuffiputonmyself.com/2012/08/lets-do-eyeliner.html.

Err, black eyeshadow, I meant.

i know, that's why i realized i should be careful
it's just about the way we talk about it, i think

i prefer to see myself this way, so i do this thing to alter my appearance
vs
my face is wrong and i need to fix it, so i do this thing to alter my appearance

i am totally 100% on board with the first, but alarms go off at the second

i prefer to see myself this way, so i do this thing to alter my appearance
vs
my face is wrong and i need to fix it, so i do this thing to alter my appearance

This is good. It's a thin line, but sometimes framing is everything.

i just don't like hearing my friends talk about themselves in a negative way. it's a weird thing i have!
it's a v good thing!

Sali Hughes did a blog about teeny bottom lash mascara, I think? Maybe Clinique? cbf to find it

you know what? i have never lined my waterline!
"waterline" also seems like a weird word for it. i feel like it would make my eyes look smaller?

Hello! I haven't caught up yet because I've been away all day but I just had a pretty awesome exchange with my trainee whose jaw literally dropped when I told her how old I am. She thought I was 25! Direct quote "You look amazing!". I mean, I mostly don't have a problem with aging and I am proud of my nearly 35 year old self but it was still pretty sweet to be mistaken as an entire decade younger than I am.

that's nice!

36 is when the shit really goes down, just sayin/warnin

In more topical err topics, I never line my bottom lash line because it always makes me feel like I'm wearing too much make-up. I actually rarely even use mascara on the bottom for the same reason. I will try it out the next time I do nighttime make-up.

x-post - Oh no! Don't say that! :(

btw if you're any indication then I beg to differ, lady