Makeup Thread

John Frieda makes a great texturizing sea salt spray for beachy, loose waves. I don't think it cost me more than $10? And I definitely found it at a drugstore, so I know it isn't hard to get. I haven't had the chance to use a lot of it since I cut my hair off last year (it was past my shoulders in January 2015 and I had to get rid of it because it was so dry and damaged - I'm growing it back out again with much more attention to deep conditioners and heat protection) but I'm pleased with the results, as the spray doesn't make my hair sticky or heavy.

That stuff is amazing, seriously. 

And as others have recommended in this thread, the biggest help I've found for waves is just letting my hair dry naturally. Apparently my hair is naturally wavy, I just have to let it be instead of trying to comb it out immediately as it dries. 

Beauty Bakerie!





The top one is Cranberry Stiletto and the bottom one is Raspberry Tiramisu. I absolutely love the formula: not too thin or too thick, not streaky, easy to build layers on without it getting cakey, and the best part of all - when it dries, it’s virtually smudge-proof, with very little transfer onto cups and napkins and such. I had to fight to take it off last night after 13 hours of wear! Now, I did have to touch it up a smidge in the center after lunch yesterday, but that was all. No feathering, no caking, no dehydration.


This is yesterday - Cranberry Stiletto:




And this is today - Raspberry Tiramisu

Thank you! I'm wearing the Cranberry Stiletto again today and it barely rubbed off at all while I was demolishing a pizza from &pizza. (Single serving sizes. Delicious. Mmmm.) I am honestly impressed as hell.

That color is gorgeous! I had OCC lip tar about five or six years ago and I loved the concept of it, but I hated the consistency. It was like lip gloss, really heavy and sticky, and no matter what I did it never stopped feathering and bleeding until I looked like someone's gramma playing the nickel slots. How do you get it to work?

You are correct, they are the most annoying to work with. I went a little crazy last year (*looks at list* okay a LOT crazy) when Sephora was clearing out their OCC stuff because I still love the colors, so damn it I'm going to make them work.

milanicosmetics.com/Anti-Feathering-Lipliner.html

This lipliner has been a godsend for me. It's so cheap, too. Milani products go on sale all the time at the drugstore.

Besides that, use a lip brush (they include one with every tube), use a TINY bit of product, blot after each layer, and slowly build it up in opacity. Sometimes if they're not quite the matte consistency I want, I'll set them after with some powder. The blue lip lasted through some buttered toast, two cups of tea, and a can of Diet Coke. There were definitely blue smudges left on my teacup, but my lips still looked okay. Also the next morning I had to wear an opaque MLBB color because it looked like I had been punched in the mouth.

But also I've found that their metallic versions tend to stay put a bit better. Authentic and Manhunter I have found have good consistency if you can pull off bronzey or orangey colors. Role Play, also lovely.

So yeah, my favorite straight-out-of-the-tube colors are probably: Authentic, Role Play, Manhunter, Queen, Vintage... I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting some. I need to do more mixing, it's fun.

My least favorites: Lovecraft and Yaoi (gritty glitter, although I'll still sometimes wear Yaoi because it's hilariously named), Super NSFW (mine separated and I was never able to get the consistency back), Black Dahlia and Strumpet (such a pity, gorgeous colors but I was never able to contain them).

The one lip tar I'm still coveting (and which I was kind of attempting to recreate by mixing) is Technopagan. JESUS it's pretty.

Yes, I regularly have highlights put in. My stylist has told me to only wash my hair about 3 times per week. And yes, definitely yes to the UV protection.

Your comment about the ombre look really made me laugh. My hair holds color really well, and my stylist uses a very long lasting color. One time I just didn't have the money to get the highlights redone for a few months after when it needed to be redone. My roots started growing out, but the color was still pretty strong at the end of my hair. I was working retail at this time. A regular customer came in who hadn't been in for several months. She was a stylist. She complemented me on the perfect ombre look and told me to tell my stylist that it was very well done.

The Stuffingtacular She-Hulk Absolutely gorgeous pictures!! Is that a matte finish? I've been looking for a good matte finish lip cream or lipstick, I looked at a few on Sephora but really can't afford to spend over $20 on a single makeup item. Sephora has their own matte lipstain at around $14 and I've liked their brand in the past but I'll take suggestions.

They're not as matte as the Beauty Bakerie ones, but for bargain mattes I've actually had decent results with Wet n Wild Megalast. The packaging makes it easy to damage the product and they're cut stupidly—flat top instead of bullet. For me I have to use a lip brush to get the line right. They're a little drying, but for $1, I'll take it.

(I have them in Red Velvet and Cherry Picking.)

Thanks for the suggestions ladies! I think I'm going to try Colourpop first, since it's the cheapest and I don't have much of a makeup budget. They also have a LOT of colors to choose from. But I have all of these to refer back to should I find myself with a little more expendable income one of these months.

On another note, I miss Benefit's Georgia powder sooooo much. Something about that shade of peach made my skin glow. I used it all over my whole face and it always made me look alive and awake even after late nights with no sleep. It breaks my heart that they discontinued it. I'll never get over it.

Is there any way to save gloopy nail polish? Or am I doomed to never get the last third or so of my sparkly grey polish out?

Hm, will have to check Target or Sally. It's a small bottle so wouldn't take much.

Thanks for the info! I don't get too many marketing emails from them, which is probably both good and bad... but those are definitely good to have as backups!

Walgreens has a Wonder Woman makeup collection out! I bought the beauty book, an extra lipstick, and the liquid eyeliner. I almost never wear eye makeup, but I had to have them.