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Beauty Blog (Archive)
Monday, September 29, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
10:12 PM (Pacific)
Hummm...there are things I like to do that don't involve spending money. But then there's a safety issue. I like walking around. I would feel much safer being a guy walking around alone, than I do walking around alone.
Oh well. Say, I am a little excited. I got "Samoa Silk" today and--an impulse buy, which normally I don't do--one of the Cream Colour Bases in Pearl.
I'm wearing the S.S. right now. Hummm... Of course it is not a substitute for the Babylon duo. The orange shade there is shimmery, right? S.S. is completely matte.
On the other hand...what I'd like to do is experiment some with that Pearl base. The S.A. showed me how to put some base down and layer the S.S. over it. Putting a lot of base and a lot of shadow, makes S.S. look vividly orange. That's not exactly what I'm after but I'd like modified form of it. i.e. a little base with a little S.S. rather than just plain S.S. (which is rather pretty but also subtle).
Or...? The closest thing I have to the purple shade of Babylon is my TBS Damson shadow. Damson, for all it looks intense in the pot, is really rather sheer on. You'd have to layer lots on to get much of an impact.
I could go MAC Trax...I have been meaning to try Trax for...years. On the other hand, I probably don't need to spend that much for purple shadow, because I never use lots and lots of it. i.e. the virtues of Trax might be completely lost on me (for $12.50!). I could try SK Plum shadow. Okay let me go look at Dain's Babylon pics:
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Aha. The orange is very different from S.S. In fact it is sort of champagne-y. Then again champagne was one of Dain's things more than mine.
The purple is pretty intense.
I'll give it some thought. Tomorrow I'll try the S.S./Damson combo, over the Pearl base. The base alone might well intensify the Damson.
Oooooh!!! I saw Nocturnelle. Now I wouldn't buy it. Well I wouldn't. :) I think it would look good on you though. Velvet Moss, that's the deep green one right? Hmmm... I dunno. Nocturnelle, definitely. V.M., maybe.
I'll guess Melton Mauve looks much less intense on. It reminds me some of Laven-dah! Perhaps a tad pinker. It's bright on yet sheer so it doesn't look Easter eggy. I couldn't buy M.M. because I already own Laven-dah! and they're too similar.
Heh heh...my makeup budget is gone anyway for a while. :) I'm looking forward to playing around with that base thing.
I'll report later on how S.S. works out and is it all that...
--J.
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