I feel pretty--NOT! THE COSMETICS THREAD

I've never been able to apply gel eyeliner well.

i really don't get the love for great lash. i actually have a tube at the moment, given to me by my mother who mistakenly bought some in a buy one, get one offer. it SUCKS.

let me count the ways that it sucks:

1) runs/transfers with the blink of an eye
2) thin, short brush
3) kinda clumpy
4) doesn't lengthen
5) any volumizing effect comes from aforementioned clumping
6) staying power is poor

maybelline must have made a deal with the devil to promote this stuff, because it's still the standard industry line that GL is not only good, but better than anything else.

I can't seem to find a drugstore mascara that I <3. Bad Gal and Diorshow are current favorites, but damn $$$.

maybelline's define-a-lash is okay.

I've been more satisfied with Great Lash than any other mascara I've ever used! For me, the brush doesn't clump up, it doesn't clump on my eyelashes, and it goes on thickly and looks striking *shrug*

I agree re:Great Lash. I like Rimmel's mascaras.

i tried a rimmel mascara, based on a rec on an earlier beauty thread, and i loved it. by far the best budget mascara that i've tried, but... after about a week of use, i started getting itchier and itchier around the upper/lower eyelids, culminating in the morning i woke up with red, puffed-out, scaly patches around my entire eye area. so that was that for rimmel and me.

i've switched to rimmel (glam lash is my choice). easily the best i've used in a long time.

I bought an obscene amount of make-up this morning. It's going to be like Christmas for 4 years running, when the mail arrives.

hee.

i'll share the info: http://www.eyeslipsface.com/ is selling almost everything for $1 since nordstrom has bought them (to be the new house brand, i think). no idea if it's good stuff, but you can't get much cheaper than that.

unfortunately they're just a $1 company all the time, it's not nordstrom stuff.. common email viral hoax :P

though I do keep meaning to buy a whack of brushes from them since brushes are so expensive and I keep hearing they are the true secret of makeup success! if you google E.L.F. promo codes you can usually find free shipping/$5 off/etc

I buy a lot of Sonia Kuscak (?) brushes at Target. They're great.

huh! good to know. came via a friend of a friend (they always do).

haha yeah I heard it when I first heard of them too! I think we were talking E.L.F. in that massive thread that birthed ILS

Ahhh oh well! I still have loads of lip-gloss which if it provides an alternative to Stila at $24 apiece I'll be ecstatic; and some pressed powder which I mostly need for stage performances and sweat absorption, so a light and transparent texture is not a priority if it turns out to be cheap-O. And blotting papers. :) I will enjoy my bounty v much.

arrr, makey!

...terrible, sorry.

have to chime in here for big <3 on rimmel mascara - the one in the pink tube that comes with a comb instead of a brush is A+++++

btw I did my friend's hair and makeup for her wedding this weekend, i will post pics, but i think I did an awesome job!!!

oh yes pics please!

Well isn't that timely... E.L.F. must lurk here, I just got the three-day offer that the code EGBRUSHAK gets you 50% off brushes, limit 5 per customer.

hey quincie, i recently found out benefit's high beam is almost as good as the sugarbaby and red earth stuff.

close ehough to not feel the need to chase sb and re all over england and australia.

re: mascara im still pro-lash dye. i dont know why youd bother with anything else.

i want to try it, but i'm afraid of blinding myself.

As a natural sort-of-blond I am v v intrigued by lash dye.

its hard to blind yrself but it def hurts when you get impatient with it. before i started using it i never put mascara on my bottom lashes and now i realize that although i am naturally brunette my bottom lashes are 1/4 dark and 3/4 blonde. so when the dye goes on its like spiders legs or something. looks good though!

benefit-cool I am near a Sephora and can definitely pull that one off. Thanks sunny! Tho "high beam" sounds kind of intense, like I am bound to fuck up and end up looking like i dunno some raver kid.

noooo....id never recommend anything glittery unless it was some kind of ltd ed mac pigment. its a sheen. a beautiful glowing dewy sheen.

how often do you dye them, sunny? I'm intrigued, mostly because I am lazy and have medium blonde lashes

im lazy about it. i guess you could do it every six weeks? i think thats the lifecycle of an eyelash. When I do do it i always do it twice in the same sitting to really kick in the effect.

i still have not opened my deluxe sample vial of stila shimmer. i am irrationally afraid of it.

do it! remember crescent moon from just above cheekbones to just above eyebrows

then take a photo of yrself because that stuff up your photogenic factor by about a gazillion

BuyMeBeauty.com was recently written up as the cheapest beauty site on the web.

ooo...im going to check it out. i dropped $270 at sephora a few weeks ago on god know what.

and while im bitching about sephora id like to say fuck you to dr brandts pores no more.

wow $270! I don't spend that in a year on makeup hahaha. but I look it. I may look into this eyelash tint stuff, I had no idea what the lifecycle of an eyelash is :D

there was an unintentionally funny profile of dr. brandt (he really exists) in elle earlier this year. he splits his time between a florida and a new york practice and seems to exist on egg whites and fake tanner.

sunny, i started using your lash dye on my brows/lashes at your recommendation like a year ago. definitely a+. i still wear mascara when i'm going out usually because it's more dramatic but you really do see a definite difference. and yeah, it's easy to use guys, i've done it drunk.

What brand of dye are we talking about?

i've done it drunk

haha. youre gold, schef

Is there anything the schef hasn't done drunk? We should have a poll. I can personally vouch for "made bacon", "cleaned house", and several others. A witness may be required.

this is what i use:
http://www.1000hour.com.au/images/1000hr-07-dye-kits-codes.gif

i think this stuff is illegal to sell in the USA?

and I should point out that mixing the blue/black dye with the natural black dye results in some impressive effect

even for green eyed girls like me

it is illegal in the united states but i just went on the internet and ordered it from an australian website. they sent it in a package labeled "CHEMICALS"! it upset my boyfriend for days that he had to sign for a mysterious foreign package labeled "CHEMICALS", so it's like a little bonus.

ha

my mom actually lives about 10 minutes from where they make the 1000hr lash stuff so shes got some order coming at her before her xmas visit.

They really are exceptionally good. I think most luxury makeup is overrated but those stupid eyeliners really are that good.

I feel like such a sucker for every kind of lip oil that’s released especially if they’re tinted because I just want to find one of those products that’s the perfect mix of hydrating with colour and they usually never really deliver on the first part.

ELF lip oils in Rose Envy & Red Delicious (awful names btw) - 9/10 for Rose Envy, 3/10 for Red Delicious

https://media.superdrug.com//medias/sys_master/prd-images/h99/h97/10390019997726/prd-ls3-837501_600x600/prd-ls3-837501-600x600.jpg

Rose Envy is a really nice pink that reminds me of this Stila lip colour they used to do in a kind of peony pink? It’s not red looking as per that swatch photo, more kind of an old rose? Very nice.

Red Delicious is a sheer red, but like, so sheer that I’m like, did they put a clear one in this package by mistake? The problem is with lip oils is that you’re not going to build it, it’s just kind of there? Anyway, what a waste of money. On second thoughts, going 2/10 for the name being especially terrible.

Burts Bees Hydrating Lip Oil with Sweet Almond Oil - 0/10

There’s a part in Kyoko Okazaki’s Pink that I always think of fondly:
https://i.postimg.cc/cJxqfRKL/IMG-6621.jpg

I woke up the morning after applying this and I was like, wait, did I forget or something? But I’d left the newly opened package by the bed so I hadn’t. Sandpaper city. Genuinely a waste of money.

^^^valuable info, ty

Honestly may favorite balm is bog standard chapstick or burt's bees OG

I need to retract my Heroine Make mascara bashing upthread.

Once my lash lift grew out of the wonky stage, and I could use a lash curler without bizarro results, I really like the mascara and would buy again!

I love a lash lift for like two weeks, and then my new lashes start growing in and shit looks wonky for a month.

There is only one lipstick thing that's ever looked good on my lips, it was in an m&s advent calendar and then the bastards stopped making it

I started using that CG lip balm a little bit ago when I ran out of the lipstick I was using and couldn't afford to buy any more--I had some already (I thought it was too bright and stopped using it) and started using it again. It looks good.

_I love a lash lift for like two weeks, and then my new lashes start growing in and shit looks wonky for a month._
This never really happened to me until this time, it did. I swear the new ones are growing back pointing down.

My best ever was my first one, I'm still chasing that high!

VB has free shipping atm and you lot are tempting me with the eyeliners...

i've been shellacking all sorts of Clinique black mascara on my lashes and honestly, i'm obsessed

i don't even comb it through literally just let it clump and define

Kinder - the only reason not to is because all other eyeliners will pale in comparison. Honestly.

^^^ this

I got the VB eyeliner and you were all right, it's perfect! went on so easily I was sure it was going to slide right off again, but nope.

The Soap & Glory Smoulder Kohl is one of the best "basic" ones imo so that's my everyday.

Oooh ok, I will try that one! Someone else recommended the Kiko ones so they're on my radar too.