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Beauty Blog (Archive)
Saturday, August 23, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
5:38 AM (Pacific)
I am NOT a minimalist. To be fair, I'm not the type to have 20 lipsticks in almost the same shade of pink either. I'm somewhere in between. Perhaps leaning more towards excess. Grin. I love colour. Looking at it, playing with it... I paint a bit but not enough because it takes forever to set up and oil paints take forever to dry so I have to leave the painting out for quite a while. That means losing my workout room. So instead, I paint my face. It's fun!
I usually focus on my eyes. Why? One: more colours for eyes (I just do NOT wear green lipstick). Two: I can't really focus on my lips because I have a small mouth with rather thin lips. Three: My eyes are hazel so I can wear a LOT of colours. Four: My eyes are pretty big (not huge, but big) and very easy to work with. I have over 50 eyeshadows. Seriously. I would love to do over the top things with my eye makeup but I don't work for MAC. I'm already the only person at work who wears blue eyeshadow. Of course, there are mostly guys at work...
I have quite a few lipsticks too but no more than 20. And no more than 10 glosses. I'm just really an eyeshadow freak. I have one concealer, one pressed powder, and one tinted moisturizer even though I should have two of each (because my skin is lighter in Winter). No foundation. And I only use one mascara at a time. Blushes, I have 3 full size and 5 smaller ones. I don't need more. In fact, there's one or two I might have gotten rid of if they weren't in palettes.
Just for the fun of it, let me try to reduce my stash to what I need. Note that I don't buy the "you only need 3 eyeshadows" theory. I love and crave a variety of colour. If I had to wear the same shades everyday, I'd stop wearing makeup because the fun would be gone. I really don't do it to make myself prettier. I wore no makeup during my whole trip in Peru and I thought I looked pretty good :) Anyhow, here's the list.
-Benefit Boi-ing concealor in Medium; I should get the Light too or else the Mac one in W20
-MAC Select Sheer Pressed Powder in NC30; and I need one for Winter too
-MAC Select Tinted Moisturizer with SPF15 in NC30; + one for Winter, I love that this is sheer and has SPF15
Blush
-Benefit Dandelion
-Nars Sin
Lipliner
-MAC Cedar
Lipstick
-MAC Spice It Up, Craving, Twig, Redwood, Acrylicka
-Helena Rubinstein Starshell
-Lancome Sugar Rose
Lipgloss
-MAC Clear, Lust, Prrr, Lovechild
-Chanel Pin Up
-Lancome Juicy Tube in Beach Plum
Eye liner
-MAC Rosemary & Thyme, Teddy, Tarnish
-Nars Istanbul
-Lancome Black Coffee
Eyeshadow (this is hard)
-MAC paints in Bare Canvas, Stillife, and Mauvism
-MAC shadows in Yogurt, Digit, Hush, Malt, Shroom, Vapour, Shale, Trax, Petalescent, Bitter, Fiction, Contrast, Sketch, Patina, Haux, Mystery, Parfait Amour, Overtint Green, Print
-Nars Himalayas, Night Fairy, Notorious
-Stila Bohemian Cafe trio
-Christian Dior Miss Dior duo
So how did I do with eyeshadow? Hey! I cut it down to roughly half my collection! Pretty good, doncha think? But forget it, I'm not giving away the other half of my collection!
Raphaelle
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