I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

oh - and my husband and I are going to whip up lazy Lucy & Ricky Ricardo costumes for Halloween so tonight I am going to experiment with Youtube tutorials for doing her hair (mine is way too long so will be wonky) and makeup. Eyebrows and lips ahoy!

omg that sounds awesome

I experimented with this eyebrow wax I'd never used in a Smashb0x pallette I have - pretty easy to manipulate! I hope I can master victory rolls with my thin, lame hair. Ah well. Hairspray and hair rats FTW!

omg victory rolls yay!

eyebrow wax? pls to explain more?

It's clear wax.. I have this huge pallette that comes with six different browns for eyebrows, and I use that every day to fill mine in.. but I used the wax last night to 'extend' the brows, which was kind of neat (eyeshadow on top of the wax.) My brows are sparse and I always felt like it could use just a couple more millimeters in the center of my face, but I simply can't get more than a couple of random hairs to grow there!

I'm going to try to blank out my own eyebrows then paint a new brow shape with the wax for 'Lucy' brows, get that fun exagerrated arch.

cool! I never knew of such a thing. I can't wait to see/hear how they turn out!

And I don't know what I am doing so I am also excited! heh.

FFM you can use an elmer's glue stick to get your eyebrows sealed up. thats an old drag trick.

use the one that is purple but then turns clear. then put concealer over it.

Nice, thanks!

learning all kinds of tricks!

who above said they needed occasion foundation? ENBB? Don't bother buying something as expensive as EL - buy Graftobian or Ben Nye HD foundation at a makeup artist supply store. Like $9 and its wonderful for night + photos. Not at all ideal for everyday as its thick as shit. I was reminded of this tidbit as I hauled out my Graftobian HD foundation for halloween tonight.

5 hours into halloween makeup and I *don't* want to tear my face off!!

discovering that I could set each section of makeup with talc-free babypowder was a gamechanger (also priming helped quite a bit too, I think). but somehow setting it with the powder has made the makeup way less itchy, and it still feels very light on my face. I'm really stoked, becuase I was worried that I would be miserable and/or have a bad reaction to the facepaint. (I even packced my makeup remover just in case I had to emergency scrub).

Bit of a feather in my cap too - a group of coworkers did Day of the Dead makeup (pic on the Halloween costume thread, check it out they look awesome) A friend of mine did all 6 faces. She did an AMAZING job but now they;re all having a hard time keeping it, because it wasn't set and it's starting to smear and itch. She asked me how come mine wasn't cracked or smeared and I told her the babypowder secret. Space Ace to the rescue!

Give it up for space ace!

:D

i have unlimited makeup and a bright orange shift dress to make into some kind of halloween look tonight

the world is yr oyster

(or pumpkin, lol)

andy thinks i should put black felt triangles on my boobs and be a jackolantern. i do not want to invite the comparison tbh

That would be pretty hilarious though. The boob triangles, I mean.

lol my coworker made himself into a jack o lantern -- but he ended up putting a small face on his pot belly. he tried a big face but said he felt weird with big triangles on his man boobs, lol.

Roxy be the google maps man!!

who?!

the little orange man you drag onto maps to see StreetView :) Sorry I am the geekiest and lamest of Them All. I've got nothing for orange dress! Crayon? Pylon? Velma from Scooby Doo if you can pin your hair into a bob?

I guess I had something

Haha, feeling' the google maps man idea, but the dress is poss a little too hoochie for that. I think I'm just going to wear my orange dress with black tights and do a really dark smoky eye and just be Halloweenish.

vamp it up!

Excellent choice!

I'm at trivia dressed vaguely like a male teammate - we have the same glasses so I wore his shirt/tie/sweater usual and pulled my hair back. Our waitress is Enid from Ghost World and said she had only been recognized once before me, hah

Cher is tweeting about makeup. I use the same mascara as she does.

Today at work one of our regular customers told me "tokyo rosemary!! You're wearing makeup today! I've never seen you wear it, it looks good."

I have seen her 50 to 100 times in the past year, and 90-95% of the time I was wearing makeup.

maybe she got new glasses

I watched a bunch of PJ Harvey stuff today and listened to the Amps and decided I wanted to look like a rock star and put a ton of black eyeliner on and went out to meet friends in the suburbs and they told me I looked awesome :)

Now THAT'S how you do makeup!!

Why has Maybelline suddenly made its brown-black mascara smell like honey? It's entirely the wrong smell for a mascara.

I'm just glad I'm not the only person who uses brown-black. Samples are always black, the default color is black. I'm practically given up trying to find brown versions of every formula.

I know. If you have any tips for other acceptable brown-blacks (not those weird mid-browns), please reveal them.

I watched a bunch of PJ Harvey stuff today and listened to the Amps and decided I wanted to look like a rock star and put a ton of black eyeliner on and went out to meet friends in the suburbs and they told me I looked awesome :)

― quincie, Saturday, 2 February 2013 04:47 (Yesterday) Permalink

love this in every way possible

once again in my life i am all about covergirl's classic pink blush

i vary, i stray, i go northward. but i always come back to covergirl. classic pink.

those sort of cosmetic classics totally qualify for Irrational Happiness.

Mine: l'oreal voluminous carbon black mascara, clinique angel red lipstick, mac dubonnet lipstick, burt's bees beeswax lip balm. And I blanch at the price, but Chanel's Vitaluminere Aqua foundation is the best I've ever used, and a bottle seems to last me for at least 8 months, if not longer.

Oh and bobbi brown pale pink blush!

Bobbi Brown has discontinued its lilac cream blush :-(

I am in my pajamas for the rest of the day but very tempted to put on falsh eyelashes because I just found some while cleaning that I didn't know I had from ages ago.

Pajamas and false eyelashes seem like a good combo to me.

i say do it up

in orbit, do you use brown-black eyeliner as well as mascara? If so, which one? I'm bored with Mac Coffee.

I'm devoted to the brush-tip version of L'Oreal's Lineur Intense. Apparently there's a felt-tip version as well; never tried it.

I don't know how to use pencils, though. Liquid all the way, the only kind of eyeliner I know anything about. I have powdered liner/shadow too and sometimes put it on with brushes, but halfway through the day it's smudged, and liquid liner isn't.

Thanks, will check that out.

anyone used Hourglass lipsstick? It's really quite wonderful

just coming here to post that this

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b319/yukierotacobell/chanel%20mat%20lumiere/IMG_5270.jpg

is without doubt the best foundation i have ever used

also my chanel representative looked at my face from a distance of like 10 feet and said "you're not cameo. you're clair." she was otm