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Beauty Blog (Archive)
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
11:08 PM (Pacific)
Not to worry!!!!! I know what you mean about the "right" purple, Carol...I went to Longs Drugs today to snoop around.
The Revlon PowderLiners were gone, completely. No rack, no...nothing. Likewise, there were only five L'Oreal Wear Infinite Colors...there's a chart with only the five on it. No purple, only a sort of lighter, lavendery shade.
phhhhhht!
I checked the Styli-Styles. They had both, the regular pencils and those odd oval-shaped ones (yes, you do need to purchase a special, funky looking sharpener for them). One of the oval Styli-Style's was a sort of brightish, bluish purple-lavender (I do believe there is a MAC pencil of a similar shade). Attractive but not what I was looking for.
Revlon--lots of other pencils though. Wet/Dry pencils, the old Time Liners, etc. A couple of raisins but impossible to tell by the packaging what they looked like.
I checked Maybelline. NO KOHLS! Remember, forever they had Maybelline Eye Kohls? Now there's something else there. The cooling stuff and something else.
I lucked out with L'Oreal though. I got a Le Grand Kohl (something I've been meaning to try for a very long time) in "Raisin."
It's a good raisin--not too red, not too brown. It's quite dark but not colorless-dark. I really like it actually. I think it's better than the blue-purple I was looking for originally.
I tried taking a pic with "Raisin" on but it didn't show enough...I need to put on all this stuff properly and take a proper pic of it all.
Nope! My eyes are definitely not that blue. They are not blue much at all. I believe it's the orange shadow.
The "color wheel" theory does work, it's just tricky to implement. For example, the "opposite" of blue-green is rose. The "opposite" of blue is orange. The opposite of green is red. It's tricky because you don't want to look as if someone knocked you in the eye.
Ooooooh! I don't know how I ever lived without a digital camera. It's good because you can "develop" whichever shots you want and discard the rest. It's also good because you can print your pics at home or you can take them to some photo places and get them printed (I don't think it costs that much). i.e. you have the choice as to what you want to do with them.
Mine has been pretty low maintenance too. All I need to do is keep it charged. I bought an extra "film" at Costco for like $60. You can put literally more than a hundred top-quality pics on it. i.e. you never need to buy any more "film." It's the same concept as a floppy disk...you take the pics, they're saved on the film, you transfer the pics from the film to the PC, then you reuse the film.
The only thing I would have to invest in, is a new computer. :) And I'm going to have to do that anyway sometime. I can easily process the pics on this computer (333 MHz, Pentium II, 64 MB's RAM, Win 98...it's a tad old)...the issue is space. Digital pics of a high quality are around 1 MB each.
What I'm shooting for is a computer that burns CD's (I want one that burns DVD's actually). Then space will never be an issue; just stash the pics on your CD's.
Back to the subject at hand...I feel a little out of my shadow rut. :) I have a bunch of pink, lavender, purple type shadows. Then a couple of neutrals but I am not so much into neutrals. I am really not too adventurous. I mean I was eyeing some of the Veluxe's and the Femme Noir. Cool and funky stuff, but for me...I think I'll stick with just a few colors that work for me.
(I can admit that I never in a million years thought of trying orange with purple. A perfect Dain/Carol moment.)
--J.
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