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Beauty Blog (Archive)
Saturday, January 10, 2004
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
7:54 PM (Pacific)
Oh yes! Definitely play with the taupe. Brown or grey shades can be very boring and drab on their own but they work really well when combined with fun shades. Let me know how things work out...
I have lipsticks that are probably 5 years old and they're not dried out. How odd is that? As you've told me before, it might be the humidity here. It's not super humid so things don't go bad but it's humid enough to stay moist (hmmm, that reminds me of the way I put my bagels in a paper bag inside a plastic bag; the plastic keeps the bagels from going dry but the paper keeps the moisture away from the bagels so that they don't get mouldy).
On my end, I've finished up my gift certificate shopping. I went to Holt's and got some Bobbi Brown things: Raisin Shimmer shadow (gorgeous! like you would imagine, shimmery reddish-plummy colour; and no, I have nothing quite like it) and pink Shimmerbrick (5 stripes of shimmery shadow; one is a pinkish off white, two is light taupey pink, three is a medium pink brown, four is a lightish pink, and five is a rose). I went a little over the gift certificate but who cares. I saw a couple lovely green shadows too, Mint and another one (Moss? forget the name). I'm keeping them in mind for later.
It's really amazing how many colours I can accumulate. The worst is, I don't have duplicates (except for one colour in a Chanel quad that's pretty identical to MAC Shroom). I'll be trying to achieve a makeup look at home and can't get the colour quite right. So I go out and look for it. It may be a colour that's very close to another one but maybe not pink enough, or not warm enough, etc. Each and every shadow really has its very own place in my collection. I sometimes wish I could be the kind of person who sticks to a few staples (2-3 lipsticks sounds so great) but I can't. If I had only say, 3 lipsticks, they would be MAC Twig (or Nars Dolce Vita), MAC Craving, and MAC Lust (it's a gloss but who cares). But then, I'd have no red! And sometimes, these colours just don't cut it and I NEED MAC Acrylicka. Or Lancome Beach Plum... You get the drift.
All this rambling reminds me. I was wanting to try out those purple/green combos. I did an eye look with Benefit Me, Myself & I on browbones (shimmery champagne), Benefit Check's In The Mail on lids (light greyed green), and Bobbi Brown Raisin Shimmer in outer corners. I line my upper lashes with MAC Tarnish and went over the outer third of that line with the Raisin Shimmer. And I added a touch of Raisin Shimmer under the outer thirds of my lower lids. Topped it all off with MAC Twisted Tulip mascara. My eyes really really popped out! They looked golden green. Like a green olive :)
That made me want to try the opposite. A light purple like MAC Digit on lids and a darker green in the outer corners. But.... Sigh. I have a weird thing happening to my lids. Both lower and upper lids. They're flaking. And the lower lids have gone red a bit. So I went to see my esthetician (had a facial planned anyway). She says it's a dermatitis. She told me not to wear my shadows until it cleared up so that I wouldn't contaminate them (mascara is OK thank goodness). And, she sold me this balm thing to put on my poor flaky skin. And, I'm on a diet. No more sugar, refined carbs, red meats, dairy ('cept for plain yogurt), raw tomatoes, fruit, chocolate. That is, until my dermatitis is cleared up. The hardest is the fruit! I love fruit. My boyfriend finds it odd that I'm doing what an esthetician told me to do (well, she's studying naturopathy too...) but I figure I might as well give it a shot. Cutting out sugar and refined carbs is actually good for me. Really, I only miss the fruit and cheese. Sigh, broccoli just does not taste the same as tangerines...
Raphaelle
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