Natural's Not In It

[happiestsadist]

This one's been floating around for a long, long time. But, as these posts often do, it takes a specific thing to make me point out, once again, that the game is fucking fixed.

So yeah. Makeup. And this damn thing. Ten "scary celebrity closeups" *cue spooky theremin*. All I'm seeing are nine women who adhere to the standards of beauty and Iggy Pop

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[onesteptwo]

I'm in school for aesthetics, done my makeup portion so technically ... I could take my licensing exam and be a makeup artist right now.

We get our makeup kits and what pisses me off the most? SO MANY NEUTRAL, NATURAL COLORS. Fuck that shit! I wear makeup to play with color! I wear browns that look good with my skin tone sometimes, but it's got some glitter in it. ;)

Every time we did a full face application on each other at school, I was five minutes later, scrubbing it the hell off. (And still getting foundation the next day, ugh!) I don't understand this need to cover my face with a ton of makeup and heaven forbid I touch and ruin that effect! No, damnit. I use foundation just because I don't have eye primer to keep my eye shadow looking good. And my eye shadows? Blues, silvers, golds, purples and greens mostly. White and blue and black eye liner. I want that shit to look obvious.

I also scorn my concealer. I have three zits right now. I continue to scorn the concealer. I am not ugly because I have a zit, thank you very much.

[happiestsadist]

I am also a big fan of makeup of the "hey check out how this unnatural pigment works with my features!" school of thought.

My concealer uses: that weird patch on my chin that sometimes darkens and makes people ask me if I have a bruise; when Gatsby woke me last week by scratching my face (thanks jerk); and occasional hickies. Not just regular skin stuff.

[onesteptwo]

Good reasons to cover up with concealer then! I hate when people cover up every single last blemish which usually means THEIR WHOLE FACE. Yeesh. Everyone is beautiful the way they are, people. :(

[deadlyrhythm]

I use concealer to try to cover my massive, constant black eye circles because I hate how tired I look with them. I would have no need for it if I could just stop looking tired!

[happiestsadist]

I've got them too, but I stopped covering them a while back. Damn, they are annoying, though. No matter how much sleep I get and how excellent I feel, they're there.

I share your annoyance with them.

[deadlyrhythm]

They're not as bad as they were when I was still in college but they're still there and my face just looks so "bleh" with them uncovered.

I'm so happy dating a guy who doesn't care about the makeup I wear. I love how I'm not being balked at for wearing what my definition of full makeup is if I feel like it.

I really hate when men share their opinion on makeup. If I wanna not wear makeup one day, I don't. If I want to have bright red lips or obnoxiously colored eyeshadow another day, fuck you I'm gonna do it and I'm not trying to impress anyone. Women doing what makes them happy? Oh, the horror!

[happiestsadist]

I agree so hard with all of this comment.

(Though I do love that g026r is supportive/sartorially obsessed enough to understand my need for a perfect red lipstick, and that he was willing to tear apart a Sephora with me to find it. (NARS Pure Matte in Vesuvio, incidentally)

[deadlyrhythm]

If my boy will trot through sephora with me, I'm proposing to him after I try out everything I bought.

So sad that my perfect lipstick is a LE MAC shade :(

[happiestsadist]

He won't do it often, but he understood my burning need for the perfect red lipstick. And understands my swatching up my arm and yelling at the tester "You're pink! Why you gotta lie like that?! You think I won't notice?"

Which shade?

[deadlyrhythm]

Lol I hate when they're deceptive like that.

Viva Glam Cyndi. It perks up my lips perfectly.

[happiestsadist]

Hmm, according to the Temptalia Dupe List, MAC's See Sheer is an exact duplicate.

I also hate surprise shimmer in lipstick (or nail polish). It's fine if I know it's there, but I hate thinking it's a cream finish and it's all "Surprise, fucker! Now you glitter like a Twi-vamp!"

[deadlyrhythm]

I have both and See Sheer looks different on me, IIRC. I'll have to compare since it's been a while since I've worn See Sheer.

Surprise Shimmer in lip products drives me crazy. I rarely want sparkly lips >:|

[happiestsadist]

Surprise Shimmer in lip products drives me crazy. I rarely want sparkly lips >:|

Agreed. I usually go for matte red, Benetint or Viva Glam Gaga (the first one) if there's going to be colour. Otherwise, lip balm. I have like one sparkly lip thing that I actually wear by Burt's Bees, but it's pretty sheer (Radiance Lip Shimmer).

[deadlyrhythm]

I usually do a lipstick + gloss combination. If I want sparkle, I'll add a MAC dazzleglass on top. I have a lip obsession lately but I still mostly wear chapstick just because getting lipstick on straws and the like drives me insane.

[happiestsadist]

I cannot handle lip gloss, at all.

[deadlyrhythm]

Nyx has a matte lip cream, which I love. It's in a tube like gloss but it dries like a lipstick.

I'm a gloss fiend :D