Beauty post
I while back I had a sort of wake up call at MAC. A brand and shop I had always associated with professional products and professional makeup artists is in fact a money making machine with a handful of assistants who couldn't find their own arses in the light of day.
Turns up the I had the wrong foundation AND concealer. I bought a new foundation (oh, yeah, because you know what? no returns obviously!) but left the concealer for later. I never felt like I need anything special for the eye area, besides something to make the skin uniform with the rest of the face, and it bugs me that they have to push the concealer automatically, regardless of whether you need it or not.
What I used to use on the eye contour was the Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat. For anybody less makeup minded, it is an iconic product, copied by every drugstore brand, that not just acts as a concealer but mainly as an illuminator, so not so much to cover your dark circles, but to give them less definition, so your eyes don't look so sunken in.
Even I who didn't wear foundation or a lick of makeup, had one, courtesy of my more beauty-minded sister. Of course I loved it. Three years ago when it finished mine I bought another, shade number 3. Easy peasy. Airport duty free.
Except, it was not the same. It was waaaaay too dark. I puzzled over it. My previous Touche Eclat had been a 3. What was up? I eventually gave up and gave it to my BFF, who really does have dark circle problems.
By now I was wearing a little bit more makeup and nothing quite filled the Touche Eclat space. I went out to buy another one. With the help of an assistant at Douglas (ah, last time I ask for help from a Douglas assistant, they are even more ignorant that at MAC!), I, again, bought a Touch Eclat 3. And guess what? It's too fricking dark!
Holy fricking Jesus!
Meanwhile, my sister (a previous 2) told me that they had a 1.5 Touche Eclat and that it was her new colour. Just now, checking the YSL site I discovered they extended the range quite a lot (probably 3 years ago when I bought my first mismatched Eclat) and I'm very likely now a 2.5 shade.
And in all these years and 2 wrong purchases later, and I have to find out for myself about it? Jesus, people, the quality of assistant service in makeup shops is truly appalling.
Turns up the I had the wrong foundation AND concealer. I bought a new foundation (oh, yeah, because you know what? no returns obviously!) but left the concealer for later. I never felt like I need anything special for the eye area, besides something to make the skin uniform with the rest of the face, and it bugs me that they have to push the concealer automatically, regardless of whether you need it or not.
What I used to use on the eye contour was the Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat. For anybody less makeup minded, it is an iconic product, copied by every drugstore brand, that not just acts as a concealer but mainly as an illuminator, so not so much to cover your dark circles, but to give them less definition, so your eyes don't look so sunken in.
Even I who didn't wear foundation or a lick of makeup, had one, courtesy of my more beauty-minded sister. Of course I loved it. Three years ago when it finished mine I bought another, shade number 3. Easy peasy. Airport duty free.
Except, it was not the same. It was waaaaay too dark. I puzzled over it. My previous Touche Eclat had been a 3. What was up? I eventually gave up and gave it to my BFF, who really does have dark circle problems.
By now I was wearing a little bit more makeup and nothing quite filled the Touche Eclat space. I went out to buy another one. With the help of an assistant at Douglas (ah, last time I ask for help from a Douglas assistant, they are even more ignorant that at MAC!), I, again, bought a Touch Eclat 3. And guess what? It's too fricking dark!
Holy fricking Jesus!
Meanwhile, my sister (a previous 2) told me that they had a 1.5 Touche Eclat and that it was her new colour. Just now, checking the YSL site I discovered they extended the range quite a lot (probably 3 years ago when I bought my first mismatched Eclat) and I'm very likely now a 2.5 shade.
And in all these years and 2 wrong purchases later, and I have to find out for myself about it? Jesus, people, the quality of assistant service in makeup shops is truly appalling.