I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

was starting to have a lot of breakouts again and my face was feeling really rough...but I didn't want to shell out for more products so i've started using a facecloth each night to remove my makeup and wash my face and voila! no breakouts

feels like a 'well duh' thing to write I know but I was feeling v proud of myself

That's what I think when ppl go on about the 'hot cloth method'
I'm like IT'S CALLED WASHING YOUR FACE!
but good on yer!

Anyone tried the new Nars Cream Compact Foundation? I just got it and love it. The texture is smooth, it's buildable, and it doesn't crumble when I use a foundation brush.

p.s. hardcore devotée of Nars orgasm blush here. A++

I have not but that look interesting. I think that cream/stick foundation is where it's at for me.

I bought a tube of that Maybelline Fit Me foundation stick on a whim and I am surprised at how much I like it. The coverage is really light, so ymmv.

It's one of the most lightweight cream foundations I've tried.

Carl, I've become a devotee of covergirl's simply ageless which is the same sort of thing I guess. Used sparingly its seriously awesome coverage and I don't even need to used concealer with it.

Ah I will check that out. Thanks!

Picked up Simply Ageless at Target the other day. I'm not positive I bought the right color (I swear I am beige color blind because all of the different shades look the same to me and when I elicit help from the pros, they always pick a color that I never would have considered) and when I first put it on, I did not like it. But then I went to teach my class and while I was washing my hands during break I looked in the mirror and was like holy shit! My face looks amazing! Like, I didn't believe it was my face for a second.

I'm still not totally convinced the color is right, but I'm preliminarily sold on the product. I'm maybe going into the office tomorrow, and definitely on Thursday so I'll get to test it out under sunlight and gross, sallow florescents.

Anyway, on that topic, how the hell do you decide what color foundation/powder to buy in drug store makeup?

I just always buy the palest & trick friends into thinking I have "porcelain" skin. Tbh I am pretty pale so usually even the lightest seems dark on me - except in the middle of summer when I can get away with the second shade up!

I caved on my cheapness and paid for a MUA for my cousin's wedding because I didn't want to be the drag doing her own makeup while everyone else was pampered.. then 3/4 bridesmaids did their own! The MUA's makeup was not as good as my own (which I had left at home) and I could've done a better job on my own. All smudged and vanished by the end of the night. Bah!

See, I always thought I was not the lightest but maybe second lightest and the last couple times I've bought face makeup in a store with sales people, they've gone three or four shades from the lightest. I think the lady who sold me the Urban Decay foundation that I liked and then hated (as chronicled in this very thread) went too dark, but otherwise they seem to look okay? Maybe I have been wandering around looking ridiculous all these years.

xp There's no way a MUA could have done better than you could have! You're an expert.

I am no expert, but I had temporary access to the good stuff. Glad I hoarded it while I was there!

Crazy that they took you so many shades from lightest because I would think that your skin tone isn't very far from mine!

I am always the lightest shade, and last year the Estee Lauder counter woman gave me the entire bottle of their supply of my color of Double Wear because they were out of it for purchase (as in the BIG plastic JUG that is probably 8 full ounces). I am still going through it, and I am fearful of when it finally ENDS.

Anyone got any recs for foundation that's sort of in the organic/natural range that is matte and provides good coverage? I am at a loss.

It is this very problem (picking a shade without being able to try it) that sent me to the cosmetics counters at Nordstrom. But that was back in my whorporate career; as an unemployed social work student, I'm gonna have to stick to the drug store stuff for the foreseeable future. Gonna miss that Chanel Vita Aquiluminere in Rose Beige :(

hII are you thinking mineral makeup? I don't any experience with it, but Bare Escentuals seems to be popular.

I did some research on Bare Minerals and they are kinda high on the EWG rating. If I am going to go that high, I'll stay with my toxic Estee Lauder.

Ah gotcha. What about that Dr. Haruska (sp?) brand that you can find at Whole Foods?

Anyway, on that topic, how the hell do you decide what color foundation/powder to buy in drug store makeup?

― carl agatha, Tuesday, September 17, 2013 11:19 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

carl, you know how every foundation has a product/shade number. You can go into Sephora and get them to do a 5 minute analysis of your skin and they will give you a list of your perfect product/shade number for EVERY MAKEUP BRAND AND LINE EVER.

EVER!!!!!

I've been meaning to do this myself. I might see if I can @ lunch tomorrow.

Trip to Sephora going on my to-do list. Hope this works in Canada.

I'm going to Sephora today to get the Pantone color match thingy done.

Fancy!

What??? You can???

Mind = blown

WAHT?

I will be in the States next week (Oakland/San Fran)--totally going to hit up a Sephora!

you know whats crazy...

in 1999 my friend and I wanted to start a makeup line and partner with Pantone for custom color matching. We thought we were fucking geniuses.

I wanted to create an app that matches skin tones to foundations.. but I won't know how to code apps for another two years :( But once I can, I'm coding ALL the beauty apps!

we're counting on you FFM

Will pay for all these apps.

<3 first I gotta learn this HTML stuff

*cracks whip* HURRY

I'm trying, I'm trying!

Maybe I'll make a pink ZingForHer too lmao

hahaha ZingForHer yessss do it

Just no one write on the screen with their pink BicForHer pens, I know our little lady brains get confused.

Hahaha ZingForHer would be awesome; I have a top 5 banned list 4 u.

Maybe it should just automatically killfile all dudes (except mods)? :) That would make the threads amazingly confusing, heh..

i have to say, after years of make-up counter people wanting to put dark brown eyebrow pencil on me and me so not being into that, this soft-brunette laura mercier eyebrow pencil i bought a couple of weeks ago has changed my life in a highly satisfying if minor way

Oh rrrobyn I have missed you! I mean maybe you weren't gone from ilx, but it seemed like it to me.

Laura Mercier has been working some kind of brand magic on me. It's all just so. . . tasteful.

Filling in my eyebrows changed my life.

yes! Eyebrows are the true windows to the soul.

I have surely spoken about Keira Knightley in The Duchess and her fabulous amazing eyebrows? I saw that movie and had an eyebrow revelation, bought some Anatasia of Beverly Hills brow powder and never looked back.

I will go out with no makeup without thinking twice, except for my brows which I almost always put a little pencil/powder on.

YUP
only discovered powder a year or so ago, it's effortless and great

Brows are now my #1; can't leave the house without them done.

Finally bought Lineur Intense brush version in brown when recently in the US (couldn't find it here). Love it, but now need serious tutoring on liquid liner. Searched this thread, found many tutorials linked and am gonna try a different one every day. Well, on days I'm not running out the door.

1. I don't have lineur intense, I have something called Infallible
2. I don't know how far into the inner corner of my eye to start
3. Q-tip technique, which I had high hopes for, did not work. Maybe it doesn't work on gel liner, which is what mine is?
4. Hand-resting-on-cheek very counterintuitive! Sort of made it work but liner ended up too far above lashline and I had to go along and fill it in with dots.

My faaaaavorite!

xp Oh. Is that one like a pen?