I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

Speaking of BALM STAIN, Wet n Wild MegaSlicks Balm Stain Moisturizing Lip Color is pretty good stuff. IIRC the last BALM STAIN I tried failed as both BALM and STAIN but this one manages to do a good job at both. Also: cheap. The lid will come off if you look at it funny, though, so watch your purse if you carry it around.

i just love brushes can i be honest

i haven't tried ww balm stains, but i got one for makeup stash i'm giving my mum.

surm have you tried real techniques brushes? they're my FAV - cheap, excellent quality.

cosign real techniques...new fave

i already have both core collections (eyes and face) + the powder brush + the expert face brush and i still want more!

OT but i recently got a sample of the new laneige cushion bb cream - it's pretty nice! very sheer, and i like the cushion/puff application.

i have been using clinique redness solutions foundation for the past 2 weeks & I am pretty happy with the results! coverage with dermalogica green primer is A+

starts to look a bit ragged at the end of an 8 hr day but rice powder keeps the shine to a minmum

no breakouts, and I barely notice it's on which is like yaaaay

i don't know if i'm just noticing it more or if has actually gotten worse, but the redness on my cheeks has become quite a bit of eyesore to me. combined with sunspots/freckles/whatever the f they are, it just makes my cheeks look darker than the rest of skin and really drags my face down.

real techniques! mental note made

xpost - the peter thomas roth line has good non chemical sunscreen spf 25, and hasnt given me a reaction yet

― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 14, 2015 3:01 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Even sunscreens that use zinc and titanium make my skin peel and break out. :(

i've been going full force at it with the benzoyl peroxide this summer, i just can't help it, i'm middle eastern

that shit is like streganona's miracle cream

I'll try the Peter Thomas Roth--maybe cutting out zinc will help? Please god because I'm biking to work a few days a week and I have to use SOMEthing.

i got one of those rimmel apocalips liquid lip things - the lasting power is really good but all the colors are really old-ladyish. i got the one that looked most like a nude pink but it's just nana-pink. it looks shit at full coverage but if i use it like a stain it comes out a nicer color.

io, these are about as dorky as it gets but they DO keep the sun off
http://www.dabrim.com/

The shaving thing we talked about - holy shit make up looks SO much better now!

i always think because i am middle eastern i won't burn in the sun - i am wrong.

omg da brim hat thing, putting two extremely dorky yet very useful things together to create dork levels not see before, and yet, the functionality!

It reminds me that i do need to get a new brimmed hat/cap - also on the dork metre for me because most hats don't suit me well. Better that then a burnt nose though.

No. No hats. And definitely not that hat.

I shaved off my mustache. My lip feels so cool! Haven't put on makeup yet, but I'm optimistic. It made a huge difference visually!

i am listening to pretty hurts by Beyonce. she's right.

How are you all shaving? Dry shaving? Shaving cream? What kind of razor?

I'm in the same blond but bountiful camp as FFM, and I've been noticing my upper lip and chin hairs more and more recently (I'm 100% sure nobody else notices and I keep telling myself this but it's not working). I've been thinking about getting it waxed or threaded but now I'm intrigued by the idea of shaving it.

Plus although once when I was getting my brows waxed, the aesthetician made an unsolicited offer to wax the mustache that I don't think anybody else can see, I'm pretty sure if I ask the woman who does threading to thread my upper lip she will LOL at my fine blonde hair and tell me to GTFO.

Dry shave with a dollar store razor because I am basically the worst! If you look around online you will get suggestions that you should buy yourself a proper $100 barber's blade but.. fuck that! I was impressed with how easily it came off tbh.. so much better than working up the courage to pluck them all, which hurt so much!

I read that shaving is a great exfoliator & is sometimes attributed to men's skin aging better? So I shaved my entire beard area, cheeks, under chin and all. Heh. But the upper lip was the real kicker.

i shaved yesterday (as a man) and can testify that shaving is the most rejuvenating thing a man can do for his face every once in a while.

"(as a man)"
<3 <3

Carl, it depends how sensitive your skin is. You might need to use a new razor every time, do it wet/with a cream. I'd say patch test first.

I just do it in the shower on wet skin, using whatever razor is in there, and I haven't had any problems.

Like I said, my fuzz is not at all visible when my face is bare, it's just makeup that makes it look weird.

lol xp

I've got too many dark more whiskery hairs now to be satisfied with the results of shaving (though it is great for peach fuzz!) so I've been trying different waxing approaches. The Veet cold wax strips broke me out like crazy. The microwave hard wax is good, but sometimes a pain to get a grip on. Also tough to keep at exactly the right temperature to do my whole lower face and under chin. So I got a wax warmer and non-woven cloth strips and a can of honey wax with espresso in it that smells SO GOOD. It did a fine job, but made me crave Nutella all day.

did i tell u guys about that one time i used an epillator (spl) to remove all of my chest hair?

i wanted to go "twink"

ugh i knew it was one "l", i should have gone with my gut

OMG ow! I got one of those things back in the 80s, hurt so bad!

let me tell you something. i have never hurt so bad in a bathroom. ever. i think the people across the street heard me screaming. on the plus side, i looked like an extra from Baywatch for about fifteen minutes.

LOL! You poor thing. Tne other thing I tried once - these little mitts of fine sandpaper. Ingrown hairs galore from that experiment.

epilady was the most traumatic hair removal i've tried, and that was just my legs

jfc surm your CHEST? :(

it was a rite of passage. now that nyc is hip to scruffy guys again it's not an issue. :)

:)

nyc otm

:) glad to hear

omg i finally got my benefit highlighter back

i swear i saw a picture once without it and i didn't recognize myself

― surm, Monday, May 4, 2015 5:47 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so essential

i've never fked w highlighter

i only just started using blush ffs

Blush has usurped mascara as my must-wear make-up - it's like instant awake face

I finally got a new tube of tinted moisturizer w spf at aveda yesterday (20% off day!) and got a bright light pink lipgloss (minty!) too because it's actually fun make-up from aveda - who knew! Lol such earth tones, cannot deal. But they're changing their make-up line to include fun colours, the salesperson told me!

Then I went to sephora and felt kinda old but hey. Got a First Aid Beauty "spring skin savers" kit because i wanted to splurge and try their serum and the kit was only $20 more but included like $60+ more worth in products. We shall see what my face thinks.

(I did all this with a baby on me, which was kind of part of the I feel old feeling. But whatever! As if I ever wore a tonne of fancy make-up or went to sephora all the time before having a baby anyway! There were just a lot of 20-something's there wearing a lot of makeup on their smooth clear skin)

The cashier at Ulta was rocking a lavender ombre lipstick look and... it looked fantastic. Granted, this was Ulta so the baseline is different but somehow it didn't look out of place on her at all. Pretty impressive.

which way did the ombre go?

oh dark outside light inside. got it. i must admit i'm all about this:

http://lifepopper.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ombre-lips-lipstick-trend-how-to-do-it-tutorial-12.jpg