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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Tuesday, June 07, 2005 3:39 PM (Eastern)
Mmmm...an entirely different approach from mine.
I always think of price first. i.e. I'm cheap. I will always try the cheapest option first. If it works, I stop. That's it.
If it doesn't, I go up the next level in cost. If that works, that's it. And so on.
I seldom crave the spendier levels of the same product, as long as what I have works.
Then again, it's a balance. You can spend much less time if you start at the top. Time is money. So, I've had some extra time. I prefer not to spend the money.
It's partly that...and partly that I'm not artistic, at all. I think almost purely in terms of performance. The product has to feel good going on, it has to last (I refuse to touch up, save lipstick), it has to do something for me, it has to be quick and easy to put on...or else I won't wear it.
Hence: MAC lipsticks. They're not the pinnacle of lipstick perfection, by any means, but for me they are perfect. The tube...has been engineered. Someone actually put the tube inside a lipstick holder and took it out again. You can practically do the entire operation with one hand. There is nothing extra about the tube, but for me there should be nothing extra. It's like a keyboard. Your fingers know where everything should be.
MAC was kind enough to flavor these lipsticks faintly with vanilla. Great; goes with everything.
I've used up exactly one lipstick since discovering the beauty boards--it was MAC. ("Jubilee," Lustre formula.) And I'm half-way through another--MAC Viva Glam V.
So here I am with my $14 lipstick. I own two lipsticks now, the aforementioned VGV and MAC Sophisto.
This is someone who used to own more than 60 lipsticks. I've tried various ones. For me, MAC works (the Lustre formula).
Then there are eyepencils...I gravitate toward MAC Powerpoints. Yes, the Eye Kohls have better colors, but I don't gravitate. The Powerpoints last better. Much better.
I've been wearing the same base face since forever. It's sunscreen, TerraSport SPF 45+, mixed with a little foundation--Zia liquid in "Mica." It's perfect. You get sunscreen, you get foundation... And MAC Blot pressed powder, the queen of oily-skin powders.
Blush...not a big blush person. I don't actually need blush. I have a couple on hand for when I want to look better, occasions, etc. These have to be good; again with the performance (most drugstore blushes in my experience fade too quickly so I don't bother). I have MAC Blushbaby blush and Cargo Catalina that I got in a swap with Arabella. They're both fantastic.
The most difficult place to narrow down, for me, was eyeshadow. I decided early this year to pinpoint the right colors for my green/hazel eyes...and get rid of whatever didn't wow me.
So...there is a range of colors that work for green eyes (albeit a much smaller range than for brown or hazel). You just need to veer toward the warm end of the range if your coloring is warm; toward the cool end if your coloring is cool (see earlier posts).
So...I have 8 shadows in the cheap-to-less-cheap range...4 Milani's, 1 Annabelle, 1 Sonia Kashuk duo, and 2 MAC's.
Then there's 1 UD shadow, a black|Up quad, and 3 Nars duos... Eh, I don't need shadows. I'm not buying any new ones until at least one of them I currently own bites the dust.
Hence I don't really need to look at shadows for a while. I have a few in mind, but...shrugs
The thing is, I like what I have. It's good stuff. I look forward to putting it on, when I have time to put it on. I'm never stuck without the "right" makeup, and I don't have to keep checking on my makeup. If I look like crap, there's always the blush, etc., etc.
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