I'm in the middle of yet another one of my periodic and ultimately-doomed-to-failure experiments with makeup, and once again I'm kind of baffled by the whole thing
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I don't go for the whole foundation/powder shebang because I hate having my skin coated in stuff.
However, I DO like messing about with eyeshadow and so on. Of late, I've been using cream eyeshadows, which are really easy. I love eyeliner. Liquid liner, if it has a good brush, is dead easy to apply on the top lid and stays well - can be very dramatic, too. Mascara isn't hard to apply. I recommend a waterproof and made-for-sensitive-eyes version if you tend to get itchy eyes. After that, just try your best to not touch your eyes at all.
I hate lipstick, but when I wear it, I go for a shiny pink/neutral, as I have almost nonexistent lips.
The mascara advice sounds like a plan - maybe that will cut down on the itchiness. I went through a cream eyeshadow a while back and am now sort of in a minerals zone, but I do remember the cream stuff working pretty well.
Heh, it's good to know that someone else grew up with the same delayed makeup curve.
I like eyeshadow, but didn't bother with it for ages because I wore glasses and figured nobody could see it anyway. But with the style I have now, it's a little more visible.
You might find that all you need is a tinted moisturizer. I also now use a cheek stain for blush and it looks more natural and stays put longer. You can swipe a bit of that on eyelids for a tiny bit of color. I only use lip gloss and then, rarely. Burt's Bees has a new tinted moisturizer for lips that acts like a stain, so it wouldn't taste bad or leave marks. Jess
I think this is a good plan - I've just trawled the web and came up with a few possibilities. I think I just spotted the Burt's Bees stuff in the student union store, so I may give it a try.
I've started using mascara regularly and I don't even know why, except that I always feel vaguely unpolished compared to my friends and co-workers and I am starting to noticeably look like a woman in her 30s. I used to not leave the house without lipstick, and in the last 10 years, I have done away with it except for special occasion. I put some on today b/c I just got my hair done and thought it might be a nice effect. One that I likely won't maintain very well
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For foundation, go with the color on the inside (palm side) of your wrist. If you are in a place with testers, that's where you test to see how well it goes with your skin tone. And if you're wearing foundation, you want to make sure you go over your jaw line, blending down to your neck so you don't look like you're wearing a mask.
I never liked the feel of wearing foundation but I have worn it in the past. Doing plays in school, they taught us how to apply make-up.
Oh my god, all these years I've been doing it wrong. I've put my arm up against the strip with all the colors and tried to judge it on that.
I do try to blend downwards, thanks to observing a coworker who was never taught that trick and was, if possible, even worse about picking the right tint of foundation. She was two steps away from Kabuki.
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I don't go for the whole foundation/powder shebang because I hate having my skin coated in stuff.
However, I DO like messing about with eyeshadow and so on. Of late, I've been using cream eyeshadows, which are really easy. I love eyeliner. Liquid liner, if it has a good brush, is dead easy to apply on the top lid and stays well - can be very dramatic, too. Mascara isn't hard to apply. I recommend a waterproof and made-for-sensitive-eyes version if you tend to get itchy eyes. After that, just try your best to not touch your eyes at all.
I hate lipstick, but when I wear it, I go for a shiny pink/neutral, as I have almost nonexistent lips.
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I like eyeshadow, but didn't bother with it for ages because I wore glasses and figured nobody could see it anyway. But with the style I have now, it's a little more visible.
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I never liked the feel of wearing foundation but I have worn it in the past. Doing plays in school, they taught us how to apply make-up.
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I do try to blend downwards, thanks to observing a coworker who was never taught that trick and was, if possible, even worse about picking the right tint of foundation. She was two steps away from Kabuki.
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