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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Friday, April 29, 2005 1:37 AM (Eastern)
I suppose I'm more of an old school Dain Minimalist purist lol... I remember the old days when Dain introduced this exotic concept on LP...the minimal stash. (Not to mention skincare as the literal foundation of beauty, with color cosmetics mere icing on the cake.)
It's either that, or, I just went through a massive phase of cosmetic experimentation, acquisition and soul-searching. The phrase here would be "went through"; for me personally the journey is next to finished. I've tried it all and done it all and, it's finished for me.
I still love makeup, of course. Makeup is something that women do for themselves. They don't actually do it for men, most of whom would not know a MAC lipstick from a Mack truck...sure, men appreciate it, us looking good, but when a woman buys makeup or puts it on, it's a moment that's not for the house, the kids, the family, etc. It is a moment that belongs to her.
It's just that I no longer crave it. I've settled down with some tried-and-trues...brands, products, shades that I know will work for me.
The craving phase lasted some years for me. It was the "kid meets candy store" sort of thing.
Recently I started refining the concept of wearing shadows specifically to pop my green/hazel eyes...many shadows don't, even if they're nice shadows...and even that phase of operations is next to done.
Hence, my relatively small stash. I even used a lipstick up. It sounds silly, but lipsticks take about three or four months to use up, if you wear only one lipstick for that three to four months. Owning two lipsticks, somehow means that one of them takes months and months and months to wear down to the metal. A Use Everything Up purist would then bring out the lip brush and "UEU" the stub, but, to me it's good enough to get to the metal edge. Then it goes on the Back to MAC pile.
I've yet to UEU an eyeshadow...ever. Before I converted to beauty junkie-ism, I did not wear eyeshadow much.
On the other hand...I could use a few more of those MAC Eye Kohls.
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