what's your makeup routine?
 

I started this over on 7W and it's turned out to be highly popular so I thought I'd bring it to my Ledge bitches (and that includes flamboyant gentlemen).

ok, discuss. :wavey:

Not much. I use a little eyeliner, some mascara on my top lashes, and just a hint of shadow. I don't like to use foundation, because my face breaks out very easily, and, I get it all over.

mascara, a bit of concealer (if I need it that day) and I ALWAYS curl my eyelashes at least twice. My eyelashes are so long that it takes two times. Seriously.

Last I apply some "nudish" colored lipgloss and that's it! I hate wearing a lot of make-up. On the weekends I often go without it :shrug:.

Oil of Olay, some concealer under my eyes, eyeshadow in a copper or light brown color, black mascara, eye pencil on lower eye, a bronzer or a little bit of wine colored blush, lip gloss and tint of wine colored lipstick. No foundation since I have good skin.

Foundation, blush (mauve or brownish-red), lipstick (pink shimmer in summer), eyeshadow (color on lid, usually lavender or blue, brown in crease, white on brow bone), sometimes black eyeliner (definitely if going out), black mascara, concealer under eyes. I'm a girlie girl!

Well I used to use Clinique foundation/powder -but by the end of the day I looked as though I'd dipped my face in a pool of oil.

So I went back to non-department store foundation - found a revlon brand w/ oil control and it's AMAZING. I've been told by several co-workers that I look "soft" and they've been complimenting me daily since I started using it :D

It IS soft and makes my skin look wonderful AND my blemishes have started to clear up since using it!! WooHOo!!

Anyway - so Foundation, then some loose powder - very little eyeshadow - some mascara and lipstick or a gloss. I don't go overboard - I keep it simple....

Unless I'm going out and need to slut myself up a little ;)

Cool. You know, Clinique does have an oil free foundation. It is called stay-true makeup oil-free formula. I always use matte foundation because it really does give you a glow. I do have good skin anyway, but my skintone is uneven and I have a few broken capillaries that bug me (which no one ever notices, even if I mention it). So whoever sold you that crap foundation wasn't doing their job right!

I was using the oil-free one! I always check to make sure things are oil-free - no matter what I used from Clinique my skin would get SO oily. It's not just Clinique though - every foundation/powder combo does that me..well, everyone I've tried.

I didn't try any plain Clinique foundation because all this experimenting was making me poor - so I went back to the Target :laugh: Although for eye shadows and lip color I still go Clinique :nod:

I do get shiny so maybe I'll try the foundation you just got.

Here is a link to what I am using:

http://www.revlon.com/product.asp?pr...5&mode=catalog

I've only been using it for about a two weeks - but so far I just love it - it doesn't rub off all over my clothes, but it's easy to wash off at the end of the day - it is soft - and I don't feel like I have any makeup on at all - so far so good :D With my luck though they'll discontinue it...:p

ooookay-here we go.
Clinique 3 step skin care system

Never wear foundation unless I'm going to be highly photographed (happens all the time:lol: )
Clinique pressed powder. It has a little bit more coverage than regular powder though. Not sure what it's called.
Anyway-Eyeshadow-usually brown, with brown eyeliner. I use a flat brush and pressed eyeliner though.
Here is the brush:
http://www2.victoriassecret.com/comm...=2630&pn=false

LOVE it.....

mascara (only on top lashes...I'm weird about them on the bottom..:shrug: )

then just light blush and lipstick or gloss.

see, I like just a little shine. I can't stand to be completely matte. I think a little glow makes you look younger, imo.

I feel like such a ho, but whatever.

My everyday makeup routine:
- Foundation under my eyes (I rarely sleep, so I need a lot of it), and a bit around my mouth since there are a few discolorations that bother me
- Curl lashes, add a **** ton of Benefit's Bad Gal Lash mascara (loooove)
- Heavily line the bottom lids, the top waterline and right above the lashline in black pencil (think raccoon eyes - it works with the bangs)
- Occasionally, I'll use a bit of MAC Shadestick eyeshadow in white, as it goes on really sheer once you blend it, and just adds a bit of shine
- Chapstick, clear peach-y gloss and a high-shine clear gloss overtop of that

If I feel like looking somewhat like a girl, I'll wear the foundation, add a pink-ish blush (Flirt makes my favorite blush ever), line the top waterline with black pencil, then I'll use black liquid eyeliner on the top lashline and wing out the corners. I add even more of the Bad Gal Lash mascara, and either a matte cherry red lipstick or a burgundy-pink.

I used to do a serious "mod" look, like, with white eyeshadow, fake eyelashes, and painted on bottom lashes (like Twiggy), but it was such a pain in the ass that I just stopped with it. I'll occasionally break it out for parties and gigs, but it's too much for me right now.

Sigh. I love cosmetics.

I don't mind a little shine, myself - so I should add that the foundation I love so much does allow for a little shine - but unlike Clinique I don't look like I've just gone swimming in canola oil :p ew.

During the day for work:

Oil of Olay w/ 15 SPF and Vitamins C and E
Green tinted Almay concealer on the red spots (broken capillaries and the occasional zit)
Kiehl's abyssine eye cream (or the avocado one if I've got some)
Concealer under the eyes, if I need it (and MUST be applied immediately after eye cream)
L'Oreal true match C3 foundation, applied with a sponge
Loose powder
Blush
Curl the eyelashes
Line top eyelid with brown pencil eyeliner and blend
Maybelline mascara, top lashes only. I read somewhere that under fluorescent lighting, mascara on the bottom makes you look like you have dark circles under your eyes, so I stopped doing that.
Lip balm, applied several times a day

For night - full-on eyeshadow, I've been doing the smoky eye lately - liquid eyeliner on top lid and pencil on the inside of my lower eyelids. Which looks really cool, but you have to keep applying it all night to keep it fresh looking. And lipstick.

But let's talk about our receptionist for a moment: Lily Munster. Every day. I'm not kidding. HEAVY eye makeup, liquid eyeliner drawn all the way back to her temples - drawn on eyebrows (I think she plucked out all of her real ones), in a non-flattering orange-y colored pencil. I think she uses one of those stencil kits, 'cause the style changes a lot. But they are always too pointy, like an upside down "V." She's hideous. But she obviously thinks she looks good.

I'm not into sloppy seconds threads. :laugh:








Sunscreen, sometimes plain 50 spf, sometimes Nutrogena tinted moisturizer with SPF 30. Then, I usually don't have time for makeup. But, I put it on at work or before class.
I like to use this yellowtoned undereye concealer stuff I have, for dark circles or whatever.
Then (usually) some normal face makeup, lightly, mainly under my eyes, on my nose and cheeks under my eyes.
Powder, especially on my eyelids. My current powder is ever so slightly shimmerful. Some brand that is expensive...Physicians Formula Retro Glow - my last powder was from them and I loved it, it had a slight gold shimmer - but then it broke. this one has an even slighter silver shimmer. Well, expensive for me, I think it was like, $12.
Then some kind of eyelid color, sometimes. It's usually barely mauvey, or barely goldish, or slight green eyeliner.
Then, the most important thing, mascara, mascara, mascara.
Lip gloss.
I often don't wear makeup if I don't have class later.
I always wear sunscreen, though.
And if I had to choose just one makeup, it would be mascara. My eyelashes are pretty serious, and I look way better with mascara on, it makes the most dramatic difference.

:laugh: maybe you should give her some pointers, Liv, or get her on one of those makeover shows. There are several people I would LOVE to get on one of those shows.

^^

that woman sounds horrid. My mom is a makeup nightmare - my sister and I were calling her Mimi for a while :eek:

Luckily she didn't teach me a damn thing about makeup - one of my friends in college schooled me in makeup :laugh:

Yeah, younger, like when my skin was even more oily than it is now. :laugh:
My skin is always oily. Pretty much. The sunscreen I wear adds to that. I've just accepted it. My mom has aged well, so I'm hoping that will be my reward for having oily skin, too. :rolleyes:

I use Lancome Absolue as a moisturizer. Then I use Mac Studio Fix N4 as foundation. I use a Mac powder blush called Margin or sometimes I use a cream blush by Bobbi Brown called Desert Rose. I use a Lorac powder eye shadow called Spice. I curl my eyelashes with a curler by Tweezerman. I love their stuff. I use Lancome Definicils mascara in black. I have tons of lipstick but as of late I've been using Lorac Lotsa Lip in a color called Kissin.

:eek: Aren't you like 16!?! My mom NEVER let me wear makeup while living at home....and I didn't really care about it - I was lucky if I could keep hold of a stick of chapstick for more than an hour :laugh:

Of course - none of my friends wore makeup either - we were all band geeks :p

Have you tried Lancome foundation/moisturizer/sunscreen? My friend uses it, and I love it, I always hog it when I visit her. I haven't really tried any Mac products. I like Lancome mascara, too. Don't buy it, of course.:laugh: Also, when I met you you looked really natural, like you were hardly wearing any makeup. :woohoo: You must be an expert.

Also another question - I find that my eyelashes don't stay curled if I use a curler, but if I curl them just with the mascara, they do - has anyone else every noticed this? Or maybe it is because my eyelashes are long, but very fine?

HAHA Yes I am 16. My mom used to do my make up when I was younger and I just loved it so I got hooked....lol.....WHAT CHAPSTICK!....lol....Thats funny:p My freinds were make up....my freinds and I arent in the 'popular' group we have our own group.....but my freind Ally and I r the founders of our group....lol

I put in my teeth and go out.

You have teeth? I'm jealous! :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :thumbsup:

:lol: :lol: :lol: I've been laughing constantly for 8 minutes now ChiliD!:lol:

I'm stealing all this. so, thanks. :wavey:
of course you are dear. beggars can't be choosers. :p

since I'll probably be the only guy to respond:

Mac Studio Fix in CB4
Mac Vanilla over lid and brow bone
Mac Kid in crease
Mac Omega for brow
Rimmel 021 bronzer for all over and deeper on cheeks
Physician's Formula powder to set all this
Mac Subculture lip liner
Mac Ladygentle tinted lip conditioner

if going out:
add one coat of whatever mascara is around (sometimes since I have long lashes to begin with)
line the lower inside lid with Rimmel Azur 121

for performing:
I'll have to think about all that I use and edit

yeah, right...:laugh:

And this is one reason I hate guys :laugh: The AMAZING eye lashes...grrrr.

Ah - well I had my makeup done once when younger and thought I looked like a hooker - so I never wanted to wear it after that...and had my mom done my makeup I would have looked like a clown :laugh:

My life has consisted of women who can't put their own makeup on - I waited until college - the END of college.

I used to be a total make-up junkie but now the only thing that I wear is 'Cafe Au Lait" lipstick by Cover Girl. If the weather is not too bad this weekend I am going to do some cosmetic shopping.

The daily routine is a Medicated concealer stick (light beige) to cover up my acne which pops up here and there also a clear lip gloss with a nice vanilla scent to it.

If I am going somewhere special then I will add some mascara and a little liner & shadow in plums or browns. I also put on a lip color like Twig or Pecan, occasionally plum or berry hue.

I don't think I answered this over THERE, Jason.

Anyway- daily:

*Peppermint soap handmade from a really cool couple that has a booth at the Farmer's Market. Peppermint soap is cool for blemish prone skin (which I don't have anymore but those emotional scars run deep- heh)

*Velocity moisturizer by MK

*Undereye concealer. A MUST if I want to look human.

*Face Powder (Cover Girl, I think?) It's interesting (to me) that I don't wear foundation anymore.

*Eye liner on top lid

*Mascara

*Blush

*Burts Bees on lips

*At night I use some crazy expensive eye cream and I can't remember the name (too lazy to get up)

If I'm trying to dress up, I add full eyeshadow and a darker lipstick.

OMG. There's a lady at work (well, actually two now that I think about it, but let's start with the one) who looks like she ought to be riding an elephant with Ringling Brothers. She obviously draws on her eyebrows (someone told me they're actually tattooed on, but that may or may not be true), wears shiny bluish gray eyeshadow, and generally looks like she dipped her face in pancake batter. Also, she wears this heavy, sickenly sweet perfume that you can smell for several minutes before and after she's in the room.

There's another lady who looks even more clownish. Her face is several shades lighter than her neck, and the makeup cakes up and cracks around her eyes. The white white makeup also really makes her yellow teeth stand out.

Seriously, I don't get why some women slather on the makeup like that. I can't imagine what it feels like to wear that on your face all the time. :shrug:

I leave my face nude most of the time, although I try to wear sunscreen or throw a hat on outside. My skin and eyelashes seem to respond to makeup better when I haven't been wearing it every day.

Daytime:
I am using Obagi sunscreen/moisturizer (my mother gave me a bunch as a treat, and when it is gone, I am back to Alba Botanica 30 spf moisturizer)
Loreal age rewind undereye concealer, medium
Dr Hauschka brown mascara
Dr Hauschka translucent powder Finale
Burt's Bees lipstick, don't know the name, some sort of brownish-red sheer and minty.

Night, or day special event:
randome moisturizer
Lancome Photogenic bisque foundation (sometimes Dr Hauschka foudnation which is wonderful, and smells like roses)
Lancome Cedar Rose blush—I use it as a shader as well at the edges of my jaw
Lancome eyeliner, black or gray, top lid
Lancome Hypnose mascara, deep blue (this really looks better with my lashes than black or brown. I used to have my lashes tinted and they used a deep blue) I use a little metal eyelash comb
Benefit Brow Zing medium (an eyebrow cake you apply with an angled brush)
Eyeshadow—usually Lancome, grays, cream, brown, and I sometimes smudge a little under my lower lid at the corners.
lip pencil and lipstick—I usually make the color up to match ,my mood, mixing pencils and lipsticks, and lip balm, or gloss. I really like Mac lipstick, or Lancome, and tend to like rose, or deep blue-red.

*I use a lot of products, but wear very little makeup overall. My skin is fair, and my hair is light, and I think I look sort of awful with too much makeup. When I had dyed burgundy hair, I used Mac, and had very extreme 40's movie star makeup, gothy: pencilled brows, dark lipstick (Verushka, my fave) Mac foundation. It worked well with the dark hair, but it would look good on me now, unless I wore one of my wigs.

^^^
MAC does make some of the best makeup. you get more bang for your buck because there is so much pigment.

but I agree, you have fabulous skin and great hair...no need for the Elvira look.

spf moisturizer :lol:

oh you snot! :lol:

I get all of my makeup from the 99 cent store.