I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

also the sephora lip stain is my <3 <3 fave http://www.sephora.com/cream-lip-stain-P281411

i love ud! their electric eyeshadow pallette is my most prize possession in my makeup case :)

I've been using the NYX setting spray lately and it's pretty good! I think almost as good as UD tbh.

Also, can you link the NYX cream blush VG? I'm out of the MUFE and even though it's the greatest I need to save some $ for a big tattoo I am getting at the end of the month. I like NYX a lot in general.

I do, too. There's a lot of bang for your buck in there.

this is what i got;
http://www.nyxcosmetics.com/p-146-stick-blush.aspx

there's also rouge cream mineral blush in pots that is meant to be good

After several days of switching up which half of my face I am using the UD and the elf setting spray, I have concluded: 1. they are p much the same. 2. I touch the laft half of my face a lot more!

ulta had the ud ammo pallette half price recently and I was DAMN i better get THAT
sin is the best color, i have used it up 3x

i think i may have found a good oil-control powder to wear with foundation. i had been using MUFE hd finishing powder over my cc cream foundation, but it only works for 3 or 4 hrs, still shiny by lunchtime. i dont *mind* blotting but i would rather not have to

so i got this yesterday from ulta: palladio rice powder - comes in 3 tints, translucent, natural & warm beige & only costs $4.99 (!)

today is my first day using it, it's v light & the packaging is not suuuper practical...it seems to be working so far, a bit early to tell

i don't have an oil problem (i get the opposite - dryness/flakiness), but i use the rimmel stay matte translucent powder to take the shine off sunscreen (the elta md doesn't get shiny but i'm using the neutrogena stuff right now, and good god it is SHINY), and i know it gets a lot of beauty blog love for being really good. and cheap.

i also just bought the real techniques powder brush which is the best! so fluffy and big.

i just started using the real techniques eye/brow brush set, so good,!i may invest in their powder brush at some point

I got the two core sets ages ago, then tree expert face brush, and now the powder brush AND sponge. Got my eye on a couple others too. I don't even need them, I just like them *shrugs*.

They're super cheap on Amazon as "add on" items, too.

I'm taking a ton of drugstore makeup to nz for my mum, bc a maybelline mascara is over twenty bucks there.

It occurred to me recently that I never got into makeup till I moved to the US bc none of my friends were really into it... Because it was WAY too expensive! Like, to buy a bunch of drugstore basics fur a starter kit would probably cost $200!

otm, I'm experiencing the same thing

https://38.media.tumblr.com/767d31b88acbf570bb91de75488bd395/tumblr_nhvwrkUHKF1rsxqqio1_540.gif

Fp'd you for that

Apparently there's a thing called "the Goss method" where you apply loose powder first, then foundation. I was reading about it online while researching powders & oil control

I tried it today & two things I have noticed:
1 - it seems to conceal my redness better, and the foundation goes on more evenly somehow, there's v little show-through
2 - sets up flawlessly, like i feel like a makeup counter girl!

basically all i did was
- wash face (cerave facewash)
- moisturize (cervave lotion)
- primer (bare minerals primer)
- powder (palladio rice powder)
- foundation (peter thomas roth cc cream)
...then makeup as normal

i waited 10 to 15 min between each step so that everything set nicely (plus my face freaks out if i layer on too many things all at once) so timewise idk if i'd do this every day, but it seems like a good "going-out face" method

anyone else do this, or hear of it?

I heard of it on one of the blogs I read occasionally:
http://www.brightestbulbinthebox.com/2014/07/testing-goss-method-for-foundation.html

i need to buy some bb cream bc i need extra sunscreen on my beak bc it is always getting more sun than the rest of my face bc it sticks out
please tell me which one is best/most cost efficient
thank you in advance

NOT a BB cream but I love loreal silky sheer face lotion 50 spf for wearing under foundation...way better sun protection than any bb cream is offering

facial sunscreen seems to be a massive can of worms (chemical vs physical filters, ingredients to avoid, etc). I browse a beauty message board and this is always a hot topic and I end up more confused than ever and just smearing drugstore sunblock on my face.

I can point you to that thread though if you want, they are quite knowledgeable

xps i tried it with pressed powder, so i don't think it had the right effect. got some coty loose powder in my drugstore.com cart though!

my skin is really spotty right now, way more than usual so yesterday i decided to go full-on face, which i never do (primer, foundation, concealer, powder). i was in a clothing store, where the lighting always makes me look fucking awful, and i actually looked pretty good! not tired and washed out and unevenly toned.

(just1n3 you didn't include an email in your email to me re The Staircase but I want to respond! Also I'm drunk and on my phone and can't fine the correct thread to respond to you xoxo)

I need zinc oxide based physical sunscreen and I have a good basic one that is 46 SPF but my nose needs more. I'd like for it to be the same basic color as the rest of my face.

carl, it's my first name at chance press dot com ;)

ok i just added up how much i've spent on beauty stuff for my mum ($217) and then found the same products on a nz site that purports to be the cheapest and added the prices up ($888). there's a currency issue but it's def nowhere near enough to soften the blow of buying beauty stuff in nz.

cripes

i mean, NYX stuff is over $30!!! you can MUFE at that price!!!

*get

urban decay primer: $67
naked palette: $135

Jesus!

Ok, looks like that Loreal sunscreen does a BB version
http://www.amazon.com/LOreal-Paris-Advanced-Suncare-Sunshield/dp/B00GX9VJZC
**I** will give it a try & report back so you don't have to play guinea pig
my sister the cosmetologist swears by loreal true match, which i love as a foundation – it is 17 spf but not very sheer
http://www.lorealparisusa.com/en/products/makeup/face/foundation/true-match-super-blendable-makeup.aspx

kinda wish we all could do day makeup elaborate/showy as bjork or peter gabriel and not worry about the lifeguard nose look #desierto

http://cdn4.pitchfork.com/albums/730/homepage_large.508bf049.jpg

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/686/cover_4055163172009.jpg

otm

Benfit has a new gel liner called "Theyre Real" (rmde at these guys and their names for things)...but it works p well!

Has a v fine angled rubber tip, and you twist the bottom to push up the gel. I love using gel liner but I've never been happy with application via brushes etc. The tip hugs the lash line & even on my crumpled raggedy eyelids gave a really good precise line

Two thumbs up!

Also somehow agreed to a foundation makeover at Sephora. She used these pigment drops that you mix with primer/moisturizer, was v strange. Cover FX brand? Good coverage but it felt kinda like paint after a while and started to melt off my face. I was not a fan in the end

Best thing was the Ola Henriksen moisturizer that smelled like an orange creamsicle omggggg it was so nice

but I get bummed out bcz it's rare to find rosacea friendly product that works...so much of it is just new buzz marketed white noise

I@ve been looking at that liner! might give it a try.

do it!

I hated that liner :(

I wanted to love it because I thought maybe it would enable me to do a cat's eye but it came out all clumpy for me and I wound up returning it.

Bite's agave lip mask - A+

I have been purging makeup!!

This either belongs here or dirtbag style because I tossed some stuff from the 90s.

Damn girl.

RIP Street Wear

;_;

i'm looking for a new base - cc cream, bb cream, whatever - so i went to bareminerals and jesus christ i know they make women who work in makeup stores pile it on, but how does management think this is good for sales?????

the woman who helped me was clearly very beautiful - but it was hidden under the heaviest, most garish, unblended, cakey, awful makeup (including clumpy mascara). my first thought wasn't 'this person doesn't know how to apply makeup' but rather 'i would never buy this brand of makeup'. i see this in sephora and mac all the time. it's so bizarre to me! it makes no sense!

anyway i got a couple of samples so.

(oh and makeup store lighting is doing no one any favors, but particular not to anyone wearing super heavy unblended stuff - why haven't they come up with lighting that truly mimics daylight?)

well I tried that bb sunscreen aforementioned & it is good under foundation. provides so little tint it's basically a regular sunscreen. however it still stings like a thousand cut onions in your eye so there's that

i think makeup store lighting is like casino lighting, eg you forget what time it is and spend way more dozens of dollars than u planned, or at least that's my excuse

ok this bare minerals stuff is shit, i don't why ppl rave about it! i tried it a bunch of times, a bunch of ways, and it just made my skin look dry and flaky.

I got a makeover w that makeup and it was a complete horror show. I looked like Baby Jane.

you know the only thing i use it for? CONCEALER. with a small brush it is perfect for blemishes that are hard to cover up with liquid.

i have a couple of healing spots right now, and it onlyl served to emphasize the dry crinkly skin around them!