what's your makeup routine?

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Originally Posted by ragandbone

I think it is really good, but I didn't buy it. If I were spending my money, I would get some Renova, instead, or just use Porcelana (with all that lard, or vaseline in it) which has the same base ingredient (hydroquinone) as the Obagi lightener does.

True. But there were a whole line of products to use in tandem at my estheticians. I didn't really need all that, though, I guess. Like you said, a bit of hydroquinone...

Originally Posted by ragandbone

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They use really good ingredients, and there are so many weird cancer-causing agents, and toxins in makeup, usually. I like the powder and the foundation and the mascara. The stuff is pricey, though. I use makeup so sparingly, that it seems ok to spend the money. I have a basket of makeup with items from a decade ago. The only things that I don't keep are lipstick (goes rancid) and mascara, and of course I toss things that just look like they have gone wrong.
Burt's bees lipstick doesn't have very saturated hues, but that might be because they are avoiding the questionable pigments—don't know.

Dr. Hauschka's is cool! There are three treatment centers right near me, and the products are sold in my Whole Foods. Now I remember seeing the name. I think the products are out of my price range, but I might try some. Yeah, Burts Bees wasn't very pigmented, but the darkest one was still too light.

My eyes are deep blue, sort of in the grey range. I don't think the corals and oranges look so good with my skin tone, though they look nice with my hair color. I don't always use dark lip colors, sometimes I use a sort of tawny color, almost nude. I like that too.


The cool thing about olive skin is that you really don't need makeup. It isn't that I can look really good without makeup, in fact, I am sure I often look washed-out, esp. my eyes. It is just that I can't be bothered, and I sometimes like to be invisible. I just put sunglasses on. I have ash-blond eyebrows, and a little scar on one that makes the brow incomplete, and also I overplucked in high school, and now my brows are too thin, so if I want to have a complete look, I need a little pencil or cake and brush.

I didn't know you had Olive skin! I see what you are saying. I often don't wear it either. I look plain then, but not so bad.

I really like dark raisin, and maroon, and those are colors I have worn on my lips too. I think I can pull it off, but not as easily as when I had dark hair. I am about to get some layers cut in my hair, and some of the darker parts will show through, so maybe that will change my makeup choices.
I am getting more into brown, but more in my dress.

Those colors look good on most people's lips. I guess better with dark.
Yes, blondes in brown clothing is awesome.