I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

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

i reallllllly want to invest in some serious-ass foundation - i have mac which sucks, and i have loreal true match which also sucks. i feel like they do the exact opposite of evening out my skin, they highlight all the bumps and spots. and i've noticed that even after i've just moisturized, when i put on foundation suddenly i notice all these horrible flaky patches curdling with the makeup and looking just horrible.

but i'm lazy so i never get round to going to a high-end beauty counter at macy's or whatever.

Foundation does point up dry/broken skin, I don't know any way around that except to let skin heal. I exfoliate reg and then moisturize richly (in winter--lightly in summer), and when I put the foundation on, it's better to pat than to rub. Rubbing pushes the pigment under the edges of layers of skin and makes flaking look worse. If there's still flaking, I get some tape and press it to my face and pull it off, which seems like the gentlest sway (better than scratching/scraping it) and then remoisturize.

I also really like my Smashbox "Camera-ready" BB cream a lot lot.

Which Chanel is that (can't see pics at work)? I don't wear foundation every day but bought got my mom to buy me some Chanel one as part of my birthday present to wear on special occasions and I don't really like it! :(

Also I bought a Carisonic. It arrives tonight. Will report back.

Like roxy, I am also a stan for Chanel foundation--the Vitalumiere aqua, in my case. Pricey, but a bottle lasts me a very long time and the formulation is amazing--srsly, there is magic optical chemistry in this stuff ime. I use a cheap foundation brush from CVS, then do a little extra smoothing with my fingers. I would give up all other makeups for this (though I would miss mascara a lot).

I think I got the PERFECTION LUMIÈRE. It's just . . . idk - I think I like the Revlon one I have better. This bums me out a lot tbh.

the one roxy posted is mat lumiere

yah i exfoliate, moisturize, check my skin, yep it's smooth, put on the foundation... and there it is! fucking flaky skin! and i can never get it to not look like i have literally painted my face - it just sits there, all texture-y and fake-looking and OBVIOUS.

i think 75% of my problem is my habitual half-assedness, though.

Oh good, we're talking foundation. Remember forever ago when I bought the Urban Decay Naked foundation? I liked it a lot for awhile, and then I stopped liking it. I think it's a combination of it oxidizing because I don't use it often enough to use it up and it being a little too dark and it looks, like just1n3 said, curdled.

Anyway so I went to Ulta (because I'm closer to Ulta than I am to Sephora now) and put myself in the hands of a sales person who somehow talked me into buying stick foundation, specifically Napoleon Perdis Foundation Stick. I hated it at first, but now I've got the hang of it a little more and I think I like it a lot. It's a lot more coverage than I would have guessed I would want, but I somehow look less made up. And it definitely doesn't curdle - stays looking pretty fresh actually.

It doesn't feel heavy at all, either. Like I forget I'm wearing it, whereas IRONICALLY with UD Naked I would feel very aware of having foundation on all day.

also re: Clarisonic, I bought the Olay spin brush per ENBB's suggestion and I love that fucking thing and am waiting for the batteries to die so I can have an excuse to spring for the Clarisonic.

I definitely, definitely need to switch up my foundation game. I've never tried stick. Sounds interesting though!

Have been Clinique Superbalanced for years upon years, but now I'm just kind of over it. Was looking into Laura Mercier or Lancome or something but I haven't actually taken the leap of buying anything new.

I just need whatever I put on my face not to be THICK. And pleeeaase don't make me wear powder.

My favorite was when clinique had a matte superbalanced available as a compact, omg it was the best. but it was discontinued and the city crap they have in it's place is terrible.

YAY! I was using mine the other day and remembered you'd mentioned getting one and wondered if you ever did. Pretty psyched for the Clarisonic. I got the mini one because it's cheaper and p much the same as the regular and I had a discount code so it was 20% off. But, yes, exciting!

yeah i don't like feeling anything too heavy on my face. and i've put that clarisonic on my birthday list for this year (it would annoy me spending that much on something that feels 'boring' but i'm ok with my MIL buying it for me).

E, I think I bought that brush the day we talked about it. I am particularly interested in your opinions re: comparison of the two. I would get the mini, too, for all the same reasons.

Yeah, I mean, I don't want to be a stick foundation evangelist because it definitely isn't going to work for everybody, but it's not thick (although I imagine you could make it thick, if you want). The Ulta lady told me to always use primer with it, so I have been. I don't know how much of a difference primer v. no primer would make as far as it staying nice looking.

I also jumped on the Olay brush bandwagon that very day. I like it and had not thought about the battery issue--I figured there were just some AAs in there for me to change, but perhaps I am wrong? Carl, please get the Clarisonic and compare the two!

FF, I also do not like anything thicky-feeling on my face, which makes sunscreen, in particular, a problem. The Chanel vitaluminere aqua is a very thin fluid, not thick or pasty at all, but somehow accomplish pretty good coverage of my redness and age spots. And it does not get orangey on me as the day wears on, which is a problem I've had with some other foundations.

I bought a nonelectric face brush at Sephora and my arm powers it -- seems to work ok. It was like $5? I've been able to go without foundation more frequently without feeling gross.