I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

I just bought some Tarte amazonian clay pressed finishing powder bcz hey why not

I am not an enormous fan of the finishing powder tbh. I bought it for the first time maybe a month or so ago and I wish I'd returned it. You might have a diff experience but I felt like it made my face white and chalky.

yeah i am gonna return it - cakey & makes my face feel tight, not a fan

Well I just bought the concealer. Also learned from the Smashbox sales rep at Macy's that the 24-hour concealer is coming on July 22.

I hope you like it - I know everyone is different. You really do only need the littlest bit. I'd say start with what seems like hardly any and if you need more then add it. I use my ring finger to apply but I'm sure a brush would be great too.

returned the tarte powder & got the clinique redness solutions powder. it's yellow! but hasnt irritated my face so far, seems v mild & ok

weird to be back on the clinique train again, but hey whatever works

First, ENBB, I love that concealer so far. It's sufficiently moisturizing that I don't end up with dry skin but not so greasy that it settles into the fine lines. good stuff so far.

Second, I need to talk about how these people are putting on undereye concealer way the hell down their faces:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7FAPDGkhK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR3-4iCAof8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5fvip5ii6s (I'm talking about the undereye concealer there, not whatever she's doing with the contouring or highlighting, which is some next level shit)

Also it's amazing how the last woman looks at least ten, maybe 15 years older after she's done with her makeup.

Also I'm definitely having some mom-ish "Oh honey you look so much prettier without all that stuff on your face" reactions that I am trying really hard to keep in check.

Haha me too tbh but mostly I'm like "that looks like it takes so much time!" But I have never had that much makeup on my face so who knows. I've never worn contouring or bronzer-as-contouring either! Cheekbone city! It is likely I will never go there though.

Yeah, same with the whole "summer daytime look" involving about six times more foundation than I have ever worn at once ever in my life, including my own wedding and like, having professional photos taken. But I'm assuming you don't get a major youtube following for a "get ready with me" video that involves slapping on sunscreen, under eye concealer, chapstick, and sticking a barrette in your hair to get your bangs out of your damn face (speaking of I need to make a hair appointment stat).

That last one has so much make up on it makes me sad. She looks like a drag queen.

And an entirely different person than the first shots sans makeup. That's just so strange to me. I'd feel really uncomfortable walking around like that. It does, however, make me wonder what I'd look like if a really good MUA went the whole 9 yards on me just once for shits and giggles.

And Carl YAY! Oh, I'm so glad. I was worried you wouldn't and then I'd have felt bad.

Are they doing the concealer in triangles down their cheeks? That's apparently a thing now because putting it in the circles somehow highlights them. Idk. Again, I think I'd feel like I had too much on my face.

Did you see the thing with the lady who used red lipstick to camouflage her circles? That was wild.

Oh no, I wouldn't have wanted you to feel bad. We must take recommendations at our own risk.

I'd be interested to see what I looked like with that much makeup/contouring on but judging from my response to having bridesmaid makeup done a few times, it would probably not last more than ten minutes before I had to take it off. Wearing that much makeup would make me feel like I had clothes on my face.

https://thedhw.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/245246345_22e04daa1a.jpg

xp I started to watch a video on that but the person was really annoying and didn't finish. I'll go dig one up though. I think there are like 1,000,000 on youtube rn.

haha yes!

I feel like irl that much makeup MAYBE looks ok from far away but it must be really gross up close.

Also . . .

http://gigionthat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Dark-Circles.png

Well that's something.

I bought fancy hand cream at a store this weekend and the whole experience was so ridiculous. The saleslady immediately came running up to me with a cup of tea and kept telling me how happy she was to be able to consult with me about my needs. She kept doing this little bow thing and the whole experience made me SO uncomfortable. When I bought my handcream she packaged it in a reusable drawstring cloth bag (ok that part was cool) and then sprayed it with some kind of essential oil! lol. I extended my hand to grab the bag and she jerked it back and instead it would be her pleasure to end my experience by walking me to the door. The whole thing was just so fucking awful and pretentious and phony. I know there must be people who fall for this shit but I can't imagine how insufferable they must be. In the plus side, my hands are the softest and smell divine.

xpost - It looks impressive in pics but I just can't imagine that looks ok and not caked on irl. I can't imagine applying a layer of lipstick and then a layer of full coverage concealer under my eyes.

Yeah, the up close thing! Like in that last video the woman said she was going out to lunch (that's her summer lunch date look...) and like, honestly, I would find it very distracting to sit across a table with someone wearing so much makeup.

Oh I feel like a judgey bitch. I'm sorry, youtube vloggers! You do you with your concealer triangles and two different foundations at the same time

xo holy shit what store was this??? I like a little obsequious customer service now and then, but I'm talking like, how they always wrapped my $10 clearance rack shirts at tissue paper in Marshall Field's, not misting my purchases with essential oil.

I would totally think that was distracting. Also, how does that not melt right off her face? I think my face just sweats more than other people's.

Oh man - I just checked the paula's choice thing and the pretentious place gets horrible ratings on there but this stuff smells so good and I am a sucker for nice packaging/design. http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/12/best-bet-aesop-resurrection-aromatique-hand-balm.html I may reorder it online one day but I honestly don't think you could pay me to go back into an actual store. I'm also not above that kind of customer service (why I love Nordstroms even though I can hardly afford anything there) but this was way too OTT.

I saw that red lipstick thing a while ago. I mean, I wear green primer and foundation to cut the redness so I guess that might work? But yeah, it must feel gross. red tinted under eye concealer?

The day I put red lipstick under my eyes you will know that the real me is gone

i don't get how that stuff doesn't all melt off or just crack or whatever. when i got my wedding makeup done, i was horrified - in the mirror it looked so heavy and awful and blah, but in photos it looked like i had hardly any on, so i would like to see some of these women in person and see how these makeup looks translate to IRL.

i bought nars sheer glow foundation this weekend, kinda on a whim and bc the bloomingdales saleswoman was really nice. it is def not sheer though - i used two pumps (which is about a quarter of pea) and it was way too much for my face. this stuff is really pigmented. when she put it on me, it looked really glowy and sheer but i guess i'm just not doing it right??

it is also BULLSHIT that this foundation costs 45$ and then you have to pay an extra 6$ for the pump.

The day I put red lipstick under my eyes you will know that the real me is gone

Hahahaaa yes

That sales experience is crazy, ENBB. I can barely deal with it when the salesperson comes out from behind the counter to hand me my bag.

Haha but like carl I do get some pleasure in having my 70%-off plain cotton underwear or super sale tshirt tissue-paper wrapped and placed in a bag even though I usually refuse bags.

I'm curious about the Nars foundation now! I like super pigmented stuff but yeah it's totally about the application - did she use a brush or a sponge? I actually own a foundation brush. I just use tinted moisturizer now because I've (temporarily?) given up figuring the whole thing out.

The day I put red lipstick under my eyes you will know that the real me is gone

― La Lechera, Monday, July 6, 2015 6:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I just watched the guerriero vid and I don't know why I bother being shocked but I'm shocked that she looks like a very pretty girl going to third period English class and it took all that to look "well-kempt and pretty" and she STARTED with perfect skin and conventionally beautiful features.

enbb I had a lowlevel similar thing happen at L'Occitane

bought some perfume & soap, not a gift just for me in ended up being like rowan atkinson in Love Actually
dude literally *flourished* a piece of red tissue paper, walked out from behind the counter over to the perfume section, sprayed a tester of the perfume i bought onto the tissue paper while waving it in the air like a ribbon dancer, then flourished again before putting it *just so* into a tiny bag smaller than my hand

i was like oh that's not really... um...necessary? O_o

l kinda wish he had crushed some dried lavender between his wrists tho

xp to robyn: i'm gonna play with it and see what works best. the lady just used her fingers, since it's supposed to be warmed up in your hands. i tried it today, mixed with my sunscreen, and applied with a fake beauty blender and it was okay - took the white cast out of this stuff i'm currently using. tomorrow i'll try mixed with moisturizer. i don't want a heavy base, or to even use it all over my face, really just around my cheek area where i have a lot of redness and sunspots that give my skin a really uneven look and drag down my face (which is already on the long side).

i asked ytth how it looked and he said 'good but a bit shiny' and i replied 'shiny-oily or shiny-glowy bc there is a difference' which i then had to explain and he decided that it looked shiny-glowy.

"bought some perfume & soap, not a gift just for me in ended up being like rowan atkinson in Love Actually"

VG this is exactly what I thought of when she sprayed the bag! lol.

At one point she asked me what my desired "skin feel" was and I was like "Um, uh, what are my options?". It turned out she was asking if I preferred a matte or dewy finish. Why couldn't she have just said that?!

Skin feel! Oh my lol.

I honestly would have answered "Not gross?"

skin feel? slimy plz

umm, gimme bumpy, a little flaky?

My first thought was honestly ". . . Uh, skin? I want it to feel like skin?".

Like the finest silk, please.

I got the Tarte maracula concealer and it is fabulous :)

The saleswoman was like "only use it under your eyes because the colour is slightly too light for blemishes" and I was thinking a) agh ok I'll do that bc I don't want to buy two tubes just bc I'm slightly tan right now, and b) nah I'm going to use it sparingly on my face like I saw in a YouTube vid about the "no makeup makeup look"
which I have tried and it looks good! Requires proper blending and a bit of powder but good.

I don't want to admit this out in public on fb but I totally tried cleavage contouring a few weeks ago, inspired by drag race. I am too pale to even use bronzer though so it didn't look right. Plus in general it isn't right.. ;) but I thought it might be fun for a "sext" to my husband. I will probably try again

(RE: ENBB's facebook post - http://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/makeup/how-to/a11439/how-to-contour-your-cleavage/)

ilu

i tried contouring my cheeks but i looked like i had just finished working under a car

oh yeah my cheek contour game is super weak too. I use highlighter for neutral eyeshadow, so..

<3

Cleavage is something I've literally never given a thought to. My boobs are sorta far apart so it's not something I've ever had or ever will. I've never contoured anything and I'm def not starting with my tits but I think it's amazing that you have, L. <3

heh. What can I say? :D I love boobs, mine especially!

That didn't look right in the article about it so I think it would have been tough to pull off irl.