I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

I've never contoured before and I don't even have a blender sponge but it is on my list for this year for fun. And I really want 1-2 lace front wigs. This may also be because I never had a barbie makeup styling head which I always wanted.

went to sephora & bought myself some presents
- Urban Decay Heavy Metal eyeliner: Catcall
- Urban Decay Vice lipstick: Wrath, metallicized - must be like my 97th red lipstick lol
also snuck over to MAC
- Frost lipstick: Plum Dandy
The almondy flavor of Mac makes me v nostalgic. Mac was the first non-drugstore lipstick I ever bought <3

I am craving frosted metallic lipsticks rn, like the old Cutex line from the 80’s but it is slim pickings, everyone is matte matte matte.
I don’t mind a matte but they just feel so boring to me idk

i'm not into matte either but they look really good on some people (people who aren't me)
my favorite metallic iipstick is a coppery Urban Decay shade called CONSPIRACY and second favorite is a very weird iridescent light purple called PALLOR that really makes me look like a corpse...in a good way?

I think the only makeup person I follow these days is Katie Jane Huges on IG. She doesn't do tutorials but I've definitely gotten inspo from her and one of the reasons she's great is that she makes of point of saying often how skin should look like skin. https://www.instagram.com/katiejanehughes/?hl=en

(And by that I mean that she's into showing that skin has lines and pores and texture and never edits any of that out.)

I am slowly making my way through the other youtubers listed above but wow for the KJH ig. I love her style.

The first thing I thought of when I opened her ig page was "she looks like she gets enough sleep and drinks a lot of water."

:) I love her style too and want to be friends with her. She's who I meant a while back when I mentioned that I did a glossy purple eye thing inspired by her and tagged her in it and she wrote me back saying it was very pretty. A lot of the stuff she does is very editorial but yet her glossy/natural skin makes it seem wearable somehow. Most of her stuff is still way more makeup than I ever wear but she's definitely given me a lot of ideas. Also, her stories are full of good skin care info.

Her eyeshadows are beautiful. For some reason I assumed everyone was doing some version of kardashian and that seems fun to do once or twice but I think I would look really kabuki.

i've been using my foundation for around the eyes which i feel is not the best (it may even be terrible?)
gonna have to research undereye concealers for the first time soon weeee

I need to practice with eyeliner. I was watching some of these videos and I realize I have been doing my eyeliner all wrong. I do get now that as you get older the skin changes and you have to constantly upgrade your technique. I think I just get too impatient and want to pull on my eye instead of using shorter strokes to go over any folds.

omg i never pulled. the line always landed a millimeter above my lashes.

I think because my eyes are a bit hooded. And I need to get a mirror so I can look down while I do it. That seems to be key.

So I've always thought this too but according to KJH and others the key to lining hooded eyes well is to look straight ahead which is harder than it sounds.

I was trying to look straight ahead but then I was raising my eyebrows and tipping my head back. I was using a sephora pencil so maybe I would have more luck trying this out with liquid where I don't have to press as much. I usually use that Kat Von D tattoo liner for a winged look, but again I pull on my eye (now I feel bad about that). KJH was saying 10 minutes for a really good eyeliner. That is going to raise my maximum time by 5xs, but I should work on it.

oh man i always do the pull. its the only way i can get a good line.

That's how I feel too. But I guess it makes sense that you want the eyeliner to look good/not disappear when you are staring straight ahead and neutral and not while the skin is pulled.

and yours are good! i'm impressed xp

I've always used liquid liner, never pencil! Not a pencil fan for the cateye/wings although I appreciate the slightly softer smokey line it offers. Liquid is hard to get perfect, admittedly. My preference is for a really thin and long brush like https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBN2j22oZ3ZNX2yA3QTjuv0jWbRQA8V2qhW6GULDz4QdXkAq_VHQ

oh yeah i meant liquid when i said i pull my lids out to get a straight line

i rarely use pencil liner. if i want a softer look i use eyeshadow like its a liner if that makes sense

I rarely use liquid but did today and I'm loving it.

i need to start doing that^^ works well for guys.

in awe of anyone who can so much as hold a liquid pen. it's like the martini of makeup.

(doing that meaning shadow)

I've never had good luck with the brush (I like felt tip) but maybe I was using a bad formula. I think it was too wet, so it would travel to my upper lid when I blinked during application.

I use a soft pencil for the day/work, I used to use wet eyeshadow but I think I needed to go towards something waterproof.

I had suck good luck with the Kat Von D felt tip that I am leery to try another. But I like all those metallic liquid eyeliners now.

suck-such obv

Heading to Sephora tonight to take advantage of the VIB sale and i too like the felt tip kind so I'm going to maybe try the KVD.

Loooool I got my first Birchbox yesterday and one of the products was a liquid eyeliner- I had a go and OMG WHAT A MESS

I seriously look like a 4 yr old did my makeup whenever I attempt eyeliner. Doesn’t help that I have very hooded eyes

Actually, I think I have the ink liner and not the tattoo liner.

I was looking at the website and was disappointed that sephora doesn't have glossier or lorac.

Ulta has Lorac but I think Glossier is only available through their site.

xpost The hooded eye thing is a bitch. The below is the Alexa Chung video that finally had me get liquid eyeliner right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2D7RtPEVwI

Thanks!

The sot of crease part of my hood comes down past the corner of my eye so trying to wing eyeliner is just impossible. I’ve watched plenty of tutorials and still can’t make it work. Last night I ended up with massive messy triangles on my eyes.

doing my eyeliner is by far the most time-consuming part of my makeup! I use a soft ish pencil but the fine wrinkles make it impossible to get a smooth thin line. sometimes I go over it with a pen liner like Stila or Eyeko. Pen liner alone though still suffers from the same wrinkle problem.

I get the wrinkling problem too

mine are hooded too. and my lashes are quite fair so it looks weird if I don't get the eyeliner right up to the base of the lashes. maybe I should tint my lashes :/

I have a Stila felt-tip eyeliner that I love, I use it every day & it doesnt budge & is easy to control btw thin & thick lines etc

this is the one:
https://m.sephora.com/product/stay-all-day-waterproof-liquid-eye-liner-P253818

I have that, but it's a bit old and flakey so I should replace it!

This is pretty funny. That Kat Von D tattoo liner has a bunch of reviews of people who had serious accidents and the eyeliner looked fine (it is seriously really good). *warning some blood*

https://www.buzzfeed.com/remysmidt/eyeliner-review-car-accident-makeup-tattoo-kat-von-d?utm_term=.qn3gOqBD#.navxvWN8

And I now realize it's not a felt tip but a brush, which may be why it seems easier to work with.

yeah I have terrible trouble with felt-tips. Brushes all the way for me.

I keep looking at these pics of the Crayola make-up line. Who's ordering?

it looks super fun!

I think I am going to do one of the palettes, a highlighter, a mascara and one of the face crayons.

Oh these are so neat!

this may be slightly off topic but hoping for some advice on facial cream

I have dry skin in general and a couple of months ago bought some cream because my face was getting... very dry. I ended up with a very fancy (and very small) bottle of french cream which I believe contained water from some enchanted spring https://www.avene.co.uk/face/products-for-daily-use/face-essentials/hydrance-intense-serum

It worked very well but it was also quite costly (30 euros!)

bottle is now empty and I'm wondering if it's likely I'll find a product with similar effects for less money or if I'm better off shelling out for one of these again

any advice appreciated

Looks like their trademarked ingredient Cohederm does the same thing as hyaluronic acid (grabs water and keeps it there, making your skin plump and hydrated) so I’d look for something which contains that. I like Vichy Aqualia serum, don’t know how much it costs where you are.

thanks, I'll try that!

I'm in a permanent search for a mascara that I love ever since Fresh discontinued their Supernova mascara. All else is inferior.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31bVGoh1o3L.jpg

What else is very conditioning and goes on like silk but doesn't flake or rub off?