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Saturday, September 27, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at 11:14 AM (Pacific)

Hummm...I have been all about the base, for quite some time. It's the Dain influence.

You missed the Golden Age of Dain? It was a few years ago. I'll say I've never been obsessed about skincare though...to me it's only topical. You can affect the appearance of skin only so much, topically speaking.

The real skin issues...sunscreen obviously (I do let myself tan, I am evil :) ), what you eat, what sort of vitamins you take, what kind of lifestyle you have...

Mmm...well I don't buy makeup much either. Dain was right...LP used to be about philosophy much more than purchases. It has changed.

What I was obsessed about in those days was color, in fact. I'm next to color-blind so it's been harder for me. I was always better at the technical than the artistic. Skincare to me is engineering...you're taking what you have...in my case this weird midlife oily acne thing...and seeing what strings you can pull, internally, to make it its best.

Color has taken me years to perfect. It is really odd. I've been wearing my MAC Jubilee exclusively. Sometimes I think about my Maybelline Wet Shine "Sweet Sorbet." But it's like, who cares? I have a rose lipstick. I have a "red" one (Bonne Bell Gotta Date? it is red). I still have MAC Delish. That's really all I have. I can live without the Delish.

It's less of a one lipstick lifestyle and more of a wear one lipstick, own four lifestyle.

As far as shadows, either I'll cave and get Samoa Silk or else I'll wait and get that Babylon duo. S.S. is not the same as the orange shade in Babylon, at all. Babylon is needlessly expensive to me, yet that's also its attraction...that it's unique, that you can't quite piece it together from other brands.

Anyhoo...take a break! There are times when I don't even want to think about makeup.

--J.