I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

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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.

I tried Maybelline Great Lash but I had to switch it out bc it was making my eyes itch
Have gone back to Boots. I dunno that I love it.

Need a good hypoallergenic mascara that has some oomph

re 4. I only really think about it in terms of lotions that sink into my skin and things I put on my mouth that I might ingest and even then not too strictly. I was given the lotion I'm using now and I'm pretty sure it has all kinds of crap in it but I'm not gonna throw it out or anything.

I'm still all about the L'Oreal Voluminous. It's just the best drugstore brand by far imo.

hmm. i will try it

Yeah, now that you mention it, I'm still pretty vigilant about lotion and other skincare. And I've transferred my previous makeup vigilance to baby stuff (not that she requires much in the way of products at this point, but bets = hedged).

http://www.brightestbulbinthebox.com/

^ good beauty blog

I read that one fairly regularly. It's great.

she has amazing eyes! That she can sweep four shades of eyeshadow onto. I wish I could do that...

bought myself an Urban Decay palette of bright colors

my first try, not blender great but not too bad!

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/Mobile%20Uploads/5806ABB1-ECF7-4093-81E6-AA388186094A_zpswnxlnce0.jpg

tomorrow: pink & red

Wow cool!

I love the green! Now that is depth. Gorgeous.

I used the Electric Palette for the first time today. Did you look at any tutorials online? I did my eyes based on one I saw.

yeah I used this one: http://www.keikolynn.com/2014/04/makeup-monday-urban-decay-electric.html

I would have had no idea where to start otherwise

excellent job vg! i like bold eyeshadow -- I feel like it challenges the person who looks at your face more than it challenges the person wearing it. Like, "deal with my mermaid eyes, onlooker"

i like using one single color -- i bought some bright orange from a brand called makeup forever? it's supposed to be waterproof, and it's a nice bright highly pigmented orange, not shimmery just orange. it makes me look kinda alien bc my eyes are green. orange and purple are my colors of choice.

Clown School Day 2

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/Mobile%20Uploads/C5AD960D-2160-4BB3-9D5A-F090D5070A51_zps5ecwyuld.jpg

pink & orange

Tried loreal BB cream. I have no idea how it works but my god it works!!!!

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Tell more! What is it doing that is magical???

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well it comes out of the tube white and feels like it has little beads in it but when you put it on your face it somehow transforms to a perfect foundation. Perfect in color, coverage, lightness. It seems to blend itself. It doesn't look like heavy makeup at all but all imperfections just disappear. so freakin' crazy!

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seriously

it took me a while to figure this stuff out but while taking selfies of me and my dog i realized my skin looked waaaay better than normal - it def does some blurring shit. but it also doesn't really look like there's anything on your skin, unlike foundation. probably useless for covering up serious scarring or blemishes, but i have really splotchy uneven large-freckled skin from excessive sun damage in my childhood, also a lot of broken capillaries across my cheeks, and this stuff evens it all out. and the color matching thing really is magical, which is a nice change from annoying foundation colors. oh and it def seems to brighten my skin quite a bit.

ditto exactly. i smeared some on once just bc i didnt have sunscreen handy, for its SPF, and so many people complimented my skin that day. all i had on was BB cream! i realized that it was doing something even if i didnt understand exactly what

So I bought some "nude" lipstick yesterday, for some reason and 1) that was the wrong shade, I am pretty sure; and 2) how does a normal mortal human wear a nude lipstick and not look bizarre? Is that even possible?

I was prompted to by it because a local news anchor was wearing a nude lipstick and she looked amazing, and I am really cool and cutting edge and learn about make up trends from the local news personnel.

nude as in Caucasian skin-colour or as in lip-colour?

Skin color. Im white but the lipsticks came in a decent range of shades.

I'm good at matching my lip color. Just not the rest of my face.

The news anchor was a light skinned black woman. Her lipstick didn't match her face exactly but it was definitely what someone would call a "nude lip."

i've tried the nude lip and every time i've wound up looking like a corpse or a mannequin
i don't mind weird looks, but it was unflattering. i figure maybe it only works if one has beautifully shaped lips, which i do not.
lately i have been into my gold eyeliner - it's pearly but not glittery

I like the shape of my lips, but their actual color comes through around the inner and outer edges of the lipstick. It just looks really wrong.

you have nicely shaped lips, i agree -- maybe they're just too rosy for the nude look!

I have a hunch "nude" lip color isn't supposed to actually match your skin OR your natural lip colors...it's probably supposed to mimic something ineffable, like the light hitting moist lip skin in a certain way. I don't know, I just use sticky gloss and call it done.

There's probably also a "best" way to do the rest of your face to go with that nude lip, I'm guessing.

I think you're right about the ineffable goal of the nude lip. Oh well $7.99 down the drain.

since you're fair you might be better with a rose or peach shade on yr lips to give the same 'nude' effect but matching yr tones a bit more

i can def see how a beigey lip is gonna be kinda weird to pull off

Yeah I just looked at what I bought and it would be okay as concealer LOL.

yeah i'm never sure if nude lip means a beige-y shade or going with a color that is close to your natural lip color. i've seen models and makeup artists rocking the beige lip, but i can't imagine in a million years that it would look remotely ok on my lips. also: i think it only works with a face full of perfect makeup - it's not really a minimal-makeup look.

I used to put foundation on my lips at the edges (don't try this at home, it looked terrible, obviously) because I thought it made my face look less square and more oval. Maybe I could achieve that with nude lipstick. Maybe not. Wearing any other lipstick makes my naso-whateverthey're called lines look terrible and my eye circles look bad.

i like a nude lip with a priscilla presley eye

Me too. My nude lipstick is taupe-ish and very matte. It's really close to my natural lip color tbh

yeah a big fancy eye is so awesome with nude lip

My lips are pretty pink so anything like beige or flesh colored makes me look dead.

CAn you guys link to the BB cream? Thanks!

Is it this one?]

http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=409213&catid=316867&aid=338666&aparam=409213

yeah i think that's it. i got fair, and i'm pretty pale. it looks like you're oompaloompa when you first put it on though, so don't freak out.

i like TheBalm bronzer, blush and luminizer, but i picked up a stainiac lip/cheek stain in 'beauty queen' and it's not that good. the color is really pretty and close to my natural lip color but it has zero staining power, even doing two coats and dusting in btw with translucent powder. the worst part is that i paid full price at their store in SF but could've gotten it for half price on amazon :[

I caved and bought that BB cream yesterday. I have it on today but haven't looked in the mirror all day!

I bought it too, just for kicks. I like the cc cream I'm already using but it cost $50 smackers so kinda curious if this could do something similar.
if not, no biggie.