Makeup Thread

Whoa. Urban Decay's "Naked" liquid makeup is amazing. This is the best makeup I have ever tried. My skin is ultra sensitive. I have a LOT of problems finding makeup that doesn't make my skin breakout. I finally figured out the skin care part. I no longer break out when NOT wearing makeup. I went through several tries with makeup.

Wow. I don't know if this stuff is worth $40 a bottle, but wow, it is great. Like.... it *might* be worth $40 a bottle. Very smooth, weightless, non-oily feel, perfect color match.

Holy shit, am I someone who spends $40 on makeup?

When I see women with really obvious pink splotches of blush on their cheeks, I get distracted by it. I am no makeup guru. I was in my 20s before I figured out eyeliner. But I don't think your blush should be that obvious.

Yeah, I always thought the point was to look like you had a bit of a natural flush, not "HEY BIG PINK STRIPES ON MY CHEEKS" ... I rarely wear blush but when I do, it's just a subtle highlight.

I'm all for doing your own makeup thing, for sure, I just ... is that really the look you're going for? This was prompted by a woman I saw this morning here at the office, who had, well, stripes on her cheeks.

Just bought this today. 3 guesses as to why.

I wear eyeshadow like, twice a year and I still want that. I would repurpose it as eyeliner or lipcolor or something.

And here I was thinking I was the only one who used funky eyeshadow colors on my lips.  

You're definitely not! A makeup artist told me about this once years ago. I never would have thought of doing that otherwise.

Minor gripe: ELF has great, inexpensive blotting sheets I keep in my purse. They are about 99c. Used to be 50 in a pack. Just bought a new one and there are only 30 in there.

Part of why I never learned how to do make-up properly is developing in my teens a nasty case of rosaceea. It made my skin so sensitive, it can't take most make-up without drying up and giving me these huge flare-ups. For years on end I spend incredible amounts of money on special moisturizers and such. But lately I've gone the oils route, and now I find using argan oil as a moisturizer and the oil cleaning method (I suppose some of you heard of it, it's just rubbing oil on your face and then wiping it off with a cotton towel) with tea tree to work wonders for me. It keeps my flare-ups under control and I don't feel any more facial discomfort. Maybe some of you struggle with this too, and I had to share it. It really was amazing for me.

Rad! I've had to restrain myself from taking advantage of their sales this weekend because I already have so much stuff.

BH Cosmetics is having their semi-annual sitewide sale

33% off the whole site, which means I don't feel guilty about buying the Solar Flare eyeshadow palette! I brought the Supernova one with me to California and my aunt loved it so much she bought it for herself. She sent me a text to tell me it came and was really excited. 

Also, the blacklight highlighter palette - swoon! I have the nude rose highlighter palette and it's very nice, but I want to be able to switch it up a little more.

Not to mention, Ulta has a liquid metallic lipstick trio set with the names of Zeus, Apollo, and Athena, so you know I had to get that. In my defense, Ulta brand stuff was buy two, get two free, and I really did need more primer.

So this isn't really makeup,but I wasn't sure where else to post this. My very first bath bombs! They’re a little dimpled, but they smell amazing. These are made with rose, lavender, and lemon essential oils, as well as dried rose petals and lavender flowers.

I hope to get good enough at making these to sell them in my eventual Etsy shop.

My hair's always been just...straight. Occasionally doing weird cow-licky things, but generally straight.

Except it's not, anymore.

I noticed a few years ago that when it was wet fresh out of the shower, it has some wave to it. While I still blowdry and straighten it most days, I played around with doing "beachy waves" and trying products to let it dry with some of that wave, without looking like a giant frizz bomb. It worked, mostly, but left my hair a little "crunchy" sometimes.

Now, like seriously in the last month or so, the right side of my head in particular has decided it doesn't want to straighten anymore, even with lots of help from the flatiron. My stylist can smooth it way out when she uses the blowdryer and a brush together, but I don't have that many hands/that much coordination.

I don't mind it a little wavy, it still mostly looks fine, but now my irritation is that ONE side of my head is wavy.

I wish I still had work at home days so I could fuck around with it and figure out what might work without risking looking like a salon disaster in public.


(I actually suspect this might be partially due to wearing a headset at work more often - to answer/talk on the phone - but then you'd think it would flatiron out )

My hair is fairly short - chin-length bob right now - so I can't do much with it in terms of putting it up/back. The crunchy factor I think is from using too much spray But I feel like some slight change in product or routine might help, I just don't know what.