I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

I got a drugstore gift card for Christmas and I can't wait to go pick up a few cheap pieces!

ooh fun!

I need a cheap lip marker. I love my Smashbox one and wear it daily but I can't afford it :P

omg you guys

read the first paragraph of this review. this is amazing/insane

O_o

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sinful colors

Tomorrow I'm going to find an excuse to say "I was tragically beautiful."

im a little bit in love with harmony tbh

that's fucking amazing tbh

that she's even checking her makeup in that sitch at all, I mean

Hey Ladies! I forgot to tell you I got my Pantone "skin IQ" at Sephora over the holidays. Took five minutes with some crazy digital skin reader but, woah, so many choices! Also, the Sephora lady6 did the rest of my face and cured my phobia of bronzers

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The LOL thing was I had bought the smashbox CC cream in that same shade a week or so before so don't think you're so smart super skin reader machine.

I was 2R06.

Why did I get matched for so many expensive foundations...

someone just posted this on twitter and it reminded me of that NYX review:
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lol wtf

hahahah otm

Manson millenials

still in love with my estee lauder doublewear, foundation wise.

i've been wearing makeup for the first time in weeks and it's like having a whole new face!

Haha yes! Man sometimes I feel so much "prettier" when I've only put foundation/concealer on, just evening out my redness or w/e feels like putting on a new face even though the lines are all the same as the old one.

I pretty much never wore makeup in Mexico because of heat/in-and-out-of water thing, but now that I am back in civilization, I find that the ritual of putting on makeup (my standard version is foundation/undereye concealer/blush/mascara/groom brows, what's yours?) is a soothing transitional activity between sleepytimes and "out in the world" times.

Also orbit OTM!

a good/pleasing foundation is one of life's small...hmm not pleasures...satisfactions? idk.

nyx primer reviewed by coma-girl upthread is actually pretty good. I have been using it instead of primer, even though it's technically 'base' not primer...it stays for the whole day and works great

how does anyone feel about eyeshadow pencils? I have been experimenting with them and I don't really get the appeal? I don't think I like creamy eyeshadow much anyway, my eyelids are such greasepits that nothing like that stays put, even with primer working overtime. I'm wondering if I should try a layer of powdered shadow over top to maybe set it? idk

I don't think I know how to use an eyeshadow pencil unless it's for high-drama eye creases like for stage makeup or super mod eyes. I have been really into dark brown pencils for lining my lower waterline though--I've been putting liner on the upper lid for ages but never the lower, and it makes a big diff to how much my eyes like have a place in my face.

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yeah lower eyeliner is good -- I like it for going-out. And as a person who wears glasses it feels like at least that way SOME of my eye-makeup efforts will be noticeable

nothing worse than doing my makeup and then realizing you can't see any of it b/c glasses

VG I find pencils hard to work with, whether as a liner or a shadow, except maybe as a bottom liner, which I find easier for some reason.

IO I have you found a liner that actual stays put on your waterline? Do tell!!!

I've worn make up once since late October. I do have an elaborate, layered moisturizing routine these days, though.

I have not worn eyeliner in forever; in honor of this thread I am going to put some on RIGHT NOW!

xpost hi carl!!! How are you and jeff and ivy doing???

Lol no it does not stay put, it migrates to my inner eye and I have to wipe it out after a few hours. But I'm using very soft $2 pencils from the low-cost beauty supply store so I'm probably getting what I pay for.

We're doing well! Ivy is a bottomless pit these days because she's growing so fast.

Girl after my own heart!

i wish some cosmetics came with a suggested serving size - like obv it varies from person to person, but it could show a range, like "10-15 servings per bottle". when i got BB cream it seemed like such a tiny bottle, and i realized i had no idea how much of it to use

no kidding! the first time i tried to use that stuff i wound up looking like i was wearing like stage paste makeup, like Baby Jane.

same!

yeah it's kinda hard to get off too, just water/hands isn't gonna do it.

nothing beats the time my friend won a raffle for free makeovers at this day spa in a newly tony section of town. for her bachelorette party, about 6 of us went there to have our lol chakras read and also get makeovers. it was a sunday morning. i got my chakra read, all i remember is something about the color orange, and then it was time to see what was going on in the makeup room. my friend's chair whirled around and it was…it was like someone had put a TON of joke makeup on her, like she looked about 15 years older and kind of crazy. the rest of us also realized that this was going to be our fate as well. she had not seen her face yet. so when she saw our reaction, i could tell she was trying to hide it for the sake of the makeup artists.

ffwd -- we all have heavy makeup on a sunday morning and guess what! it's time for brunch! so we had to go down the street and eat brunch without first stopping at the bathroom to scrub our faces. it was among the most cartoonishly embarrassing experiences i had had in a long time. after a while i just started to pretend it wasn't there and would note people's facial expressions when they saw me.

and no, there are no pictures. we are civilized people.

Good timing - I just bought bb cream for the first time (loreal) and I think it has great potential if I can just figure out application. The colour I got is too dark, but I really like that texture-wise it's basically invisible on the skin, but I used SO MUCH putting it on fir the first time because the consistency is so much like primer it doesn't really spread.

yeah me too! I cbf trying to find a pale enough shade though.

yeah I had trouble with the clinique bb cream -- I ended up putting a tiny dot on say, one cheek, spreading that, then a tiny dot on the next, and then forehead, then chin etc, becuase it would set before I could get it all over my face. SUCKED

i mixed it with moisturizer and it turned out ok

that's a good idea!

Ahhh yes I should try that! I got the second lightest colour and it still looked like I had fake tan on.

So I bought the Dior lip glow stuff Justine mentioned and good god it's the best lipstick I've ever used only it's not really lipstick it's . . . magic. It doesn't really look like you're wearing anything but it turns the most natural perfect pink and I love it. So much so that I've already bought a second tube and the first one isn't even done. It nearly is though and I think this is the first lipstick I ever use up.

!!!

yah i like to keep it in my handbag - can be applied without a mirror, which is awesome.

i still like my cheapie lipstains, and have discovered that with the stain-balms you gotta apply one layer, dust with a smidge of translucent face powder and then reapply so they last as long as regular stains.

and i recently figured out that i was doing the bb cream kinda wrong - it looked too dark on me bc i didn't realise you gotta wait for it to do its magical colour-matching thing on your skin.

yesterday my students asked me if i ever wear makeup! lol!

something i really did just google - "how to wear powder when you are old"

i have combo-ish skin, but pretty dry. i always wear moisturizer, and when i wear makeup, i do moisturizer, bb cream and liquid foundation. i iss powder and all the cool things it does to the face! but i feel like i can't wear it anymore bc of dryness/the way it settles on wrinkles (caveat: i have no beef with my wrinkles, i just don't feel the need to accentuate them and make them look like stripes). halp

*miss

I would love to help but I am in the exact same boat. For my entire life I just wore powder - no foundation or anything else. And now powder does not cut it. My forays into foundation are documented here, but I'm still not completely satisfied with what I've got.

me too! i used compact powder for like 10 years and it made my face look perfect! i miss that. i've gotten great at liquid foundation over the last 6 or so years though - it's just not the same. i want that super matte look. /90s

idk if this is helpful but since I've been using the Peter Thomas Adler CC cream, which kind of almost works like foundation in a way as well, I just put a bit of 'hd powder' aka silica over top.

It's not super powdery -- if you buff it in with a good short powder brush, it just kind of sets it without making you look dried out

it might be worth a try, if you can find something that will give you coverage that you like.
I use the Make Up Forever HD powder, it's kinda spendy but I think there are other versions of it around

I've had a few makeup epiphanies:

1. If I haven't managed to draw a straight line with liquid black eyeliner by now, I never will, not least of which because I practicing is not a priority and I can't think of anywhere I'd be comfortable sporting that look and even if I could, once I weigh in the hassle of taking it off, it's just not going to happen. I enjoyed throwing away all the various and sundry styles of black liquid eyeliner I have purchased over the years.

2. I have never in my life managed to finish a tube of mascara so there is no need to put much money or effort into finding one that's perfect so long as I find one that isn't more trouble than it's worth.

3. What I'm really looking for in a foundation is something that makes my skin look like I wish it did when I was 20. Having recognized my folly I can manage my expectations accordingly.

4. I apparently could not give two shits about parabens and the cosmetics database poisonous product ratings now that I am not pregnant or trying to become pregnant. That's going to save me some money. (It's not that I no longer care about my health and safety now that I've achieved my highest purpose of being a ~vessel for new life~. It's just that I was always pretty skeptical to begin with and was mostly just hedging my bets and now I have no bets to hedge.)

Of course the $2.50 sale tube of Wet and Wild mascara I bought to replace the like, year-old barely used expensive tube of mascara I threw out is labeled as paraben-free. It's probably got brown recluse venom in it instead or something.