[bunnyb]

mornington, I love urban decay's camouflage concealer.

[catsoup]

I was at Sephora over the weekend and got talked into buying an eyelash curler. And I'm having trouble using it. It's like my lashes are too short to be curled in it. Any hints?

[puppykitty]

mornington - I use Urban Decay eyeshadows and I find them to be awesome. They come in cool colors, have lots of pigment, and they stay on all day.

I have a UD liquid eyeliner in Speed (a light iridescent blue) which I thought would look super cool but turned out to be messy and difficult to apply. Sometimes it flakes off in spots, too.

I also have a metallic silver shadow which is really really cool looking, but it's loose powder in a tube and very messy to apply. I wet the applicator a little then apply it little by little. It still makes a mess, though.

What else....oh! I like their Lip Gunk, too.

[cellijenni]

tyger,

I noticed that I started to break out after about 2 months of using bare minerals. I found out that I just really needed to clean the brushes (duh, in retrospect).

Now every couple of weeks I wash them with a gentle shampoo...rinse them in the sink until the water runs clear (make sure that you hold the brush by the handle and the hairs facing down towards the sink so that the water doesn't go against the hair direction). Then gently blot them witha towel and place them over a ledge in the bathroom to dry with the hair hanging off.

I haven't really had any problems since.

[tyger]

has anyone else had bare minerals cause nasty breakouts after a few weeks' of use? i have the nastiest zits i've ever had (other than cystic acne caused by a food allergy) on my forehead and chin, which is where most of my makeup gets put. it could be a coincidence, so i'm gonna try laying off the bare minerals for a week or so and see if it clears up, and then try wearing it again to see if that was the cause, but i was just wondering if it had had that sort of effect for anyone else.

i don't want it to be the makeup! it made my skin look so perfect! it felt like nothing was there! it didn't rub off! whine whine snivel snivel

[octobersky]

mornington, I have the 24/7 glide on pencil in covet from Urban Decay and I quite like it. Goes on smooth, stays in place and wasn't terribly expensive. Not too glittery either, more shimmery than glittery.

[mornington]

Totally changing topic, but does anyone have any experience with urban decay? They have some cool-looking eye pencils and a nice red I want... but just curious to know if anyone's had major issues with thier stuff.

I use a brush for cream eyeshadows... a little thin paintbrush. I have a couple that come with a brush, and you can then go a-smudging with fingers.

[raisingirl]

haha! Give me a minute, will ya?!

I'll write to you when I get them myself.

And why on earth aren't you on LJ yet? I know you want to waste time like the rest of us over there!

[maimy]

Of course, to properly judge these photos, WE WILL HAVE TO SEE THEM ...

[raisingirl]

Well well well, the makeup faeries must have been on my side because I got some compliments on my makeup (I erred on the conservative side, i.e. no smoky dramatic eyes) at the wedding this weekend. I feel like I'm new to this all over again, so I just hope I don't look horrible in the photos. ::crossing fingers::

It's funny what wearing pounds and pounds of makeup in one's formative adolescence will do to a woman. I went off to college and stopped with the makeup cold turkey. Now, years later when I could benefit from using concealer on my undereye circles (but I don't do it on a daily basis, not yet), I do feel like I'm re-learning a whole bunch of stuff probably because I never really learned it right the first time.

BUT DAMN IT IS A LOT OF FUN!!! Maimy, I'm looking forward to that sleepover, whenever it ends up happening...

And Bunny, thanks for those tips. (I ended up returning the pink cream; it was too shiny for everyday use, and I wanted to buy other stuff.)

[dirtybunny]

raisingirl- I only got the hang of putting eyeshadow of any kind a few years ago and my first kind was the cream ones! I hope this helps.

I usually go for a smokey look or a light wash of color and use my fingers to apply too.
For a smokey look I start with the eyeliner first and make the line a bit wider than what I want when I'm done (it will be dulled a bit from the cream).
Next, I start with a small ammount of the cream (MAC ones are my favs) and put a small dabs accross my lid, using less on the inner corners. Before it dries smudge to your desire.
The best part of cream is that you can just wipe your finger across you lid to remove some if you find the color too heavy.
Pale pinks look flattering and natural on any eyecolor. The only way eyeshadow can veer toward weird is if you look like Mimi from Drew Carey or match your eyeshadow to your entire outfit!

Back on topic. After almost a year of no makeup (for work related reasons) I'm back in love! Birthday presents pour moi: Benefit "Dallas" a bronzy/blushy powder and Cargo "one base".

[maimy]

(It's a horror/sci-fi movie con. My first time I met Wilma Deering and half the cast of Buck Rodgers, Radar O'Reilly, and (*pant!sigh!*) Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood. More fun than a dance club fulla monkeys, I tellya.)

I am unversed in the ways of the Cream ... leaving that to others ...

[raisingirl]

Chiller? In October? Is that some sort of Halloween-type affair?

Okay, can one of you explain to me what I'm supposed to do with creamy eyeshadow that comes in a tube? I got a teeny tiny tube of Bourjois Survoltee, dabbed the tiniest amount I could on my pinky finger, and smudged it over my lids. I was only going to do a smallish sweep, but I quickly decided to go for the whole lid (NOT up to the browbone or anything like that). HA! A little went a very long way. I love the color (a very shimmery rose), but I don't think it's right for me (brown eyes). Is it? I looked kind of weird with it on. I just don't know what to do with it, but I like the idea of applying makeup with fingers and I loooooove anything that comes in a tube.

What do you think?

[maimy]

(Keep an eye peeled in October maybe. There's a convention called Chiller we're hoping to go to - fun, fun!)

In slightly-more-on-topic news, I just received a package of DML Facial Moisturizer. This was recommended to me by my dermatologist like two and a half years ago, and I finally eBayed me up some. I shall report on efficacy soon ...

[raisingirl]

Oh my sweetness, I wish we could do that, too! Or you come up here! Or we meet halfway-ish at WB's. It's got to happen SOMEtime...

[maimy]

Possum, I use Larenim minerals, and they have foundations, mineral silks, and also something called Porcelain Glow, which doesn't seem to have pigment in it. I am very pale, but olive skinned, which is an impossibly unusual combination. So I go with their 1C foundtion, which happens to be pretty yellow, and mix it with the Porcelain Glow, to lighten it significantly. Perhaps you can find a combo like that, if you want to try minerals?

(One of the things that drew me to Larenim, apart from the rec from someone here, was SAMPLES. I tried the whole new world of minerals for under $20, and actually - having bought the samples nearly a month ago, I have not run out of them YET.)

Raisin I so wish you would come visit so we can have a girly slumber party and play with makeup ... and then go out and dance and drink ...

http://www.larenim.com/

[raisingirl]

Well well well, after how many years of not wearing any makeup (too many, I tell ya!), I'm plunging back in. This should probably go in confessions considering my guilt, but I spent $28 I really don't have on Tarte cheekstain and, well, I think I'm in luuuuuuuuuuuuuve. I LOVE IT! It works well for my skin. It hasn't made my face break out as it did for some of you in the archives.

Has anyone had any luck with tinted moisturizers? Like maybe Neutrogena? Or some other drugstore brand? I'm of medium/olive-toned skin and I'm thinking of getting some tinted moisturizer with sunscreen, seeing that it's summer and I'm almost out of my regular moisturizer with sunscreen. I just want something with pretty sheer coverage, but I don't want to look like I'm wearing anything. What do you think?

[livelyupurself]

I love mineral foundation but I had the same problem with Bare Minerals possum. I like AromaLeigh and they have a wider range of shades. Jane Iredale's lightest shades are bisque or cool sand, they are ok.

[possum]

I think I am the only person who Bare Minerals doesn't work for. I wish it did! Maybe y'all can help?

I am whitewhitewhite. Like Rose McGowan white. Kinda blue white. I feel like the Bare Minerals stuff has a yellowy undertone to it so it looks goofy on on me, even in the lightest shade. Meh heh heh.

[pagangrrl]

Curious--I'm in St. Louis. I work at West County MAC.

In my experience, no Sephora is ever really that clean.