Fata Morgana
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I'll tell you what is brilliant for shine. Mally's Face Defender. Just dab on with the sponge over makeup if you like and it keeps you matte for ages. Love it. She does good mascara too.
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Your first photo in this thread made me hyperventilate. I just can't get a handle on makeup. I've gotten my makeup done at those department store counters twice, but they slathered on so much I instantly wiped all of it off. I'd love to look all glamorous, but it's just not within my capabilities.
So here is all of the makeup I own. I always wear Neutrogena Healthy Defense Daily Moisturizer with SPF50, and then I put Clinique pore refining solutions on my shiny forehead. Sometimes, if I'm feeling fancy, I'll swipe Physician's Formula Bronze Pearl on the apples of my cheeks. My skin is all freckly on my cheeks, but the amount of makeup I'd need to smooth that out is incompatible with Texas heat and/or my tolerance for makeup.
My lips are usually bare. Sometimes I'll swipe on some chapstick (my dentist gives out the best samples!), or a lip stain. In my av, I'm wearing Maybelline Super Stay Mauve Dream. I picked up Pixi Tinted Brilliance Balm in No. 8 Bitten Berry last summer in Sevilla, because I was feeling all Spanish and Bold, but I usually get alarmed at how bright it is and wipe it off.
I'm on my second tube of recommended mascara from the other makeup thread here, Rimmel VolumeFlash Scandal Eyes in black. It's good. And orange is my favorite color, so I like the tube. I usually wear a sweep of brown-black eyeliner (either Almay or Covergirl, whichever I see first); if I'm dramatic, I go for the all-black pencil. If I'm really feeling spunky, I opt for the Almay Intense i-Color in purple amethyst. That's the only part of my makeup that I've ever received a compliment on. The silver eyeliner is left over from a Halloween costume.
Eye shadow confounds me. I don't know how to apply it, despite multiple how-to videos, instruction pamphlets, and staring at people's eyelids. A trip to Bare Minerals left me with four tubs, in two shades of nude/peach, one brown, and one plum. I will probably still own these tubs, with the same quantity, next year at this time. I grabbed the shimmery Covergirl Bombshell Shineshadow in ooh la lilac a couple of months ago when I bought my mascara, thinking that if the purple eyeshadow gets compliments, maybe this is how I go for dramatic eyes. I think it just looks like someone popped me in the eye, so it sits ignored in my makeup bag.
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I'll tell you what is brilliant for shine. Mally's Face Defender. Just dab on with the sponge over makeup if you like and it keeps you matte for ages. Love it. She does good mascara too.
It goes on TOP of makeup? I'm going to have to look that stuff up!
Over, under or alone. When I've got my full slap on I dab my t zone with it and get no shine. I have a very greasy t zone, you see.

You had me at "greasy", love.![]()
Can at times look like I've been muff diving for a week. God bless Mally.
ACK! I laughed so hard....what a visual! What a visual..... *Smarmy wink*
Garnate, if all that stuff will make me look like you, I'll go shopping and spend the gazillion dollars immediately!
Also, there are all kinds of awesome posters in this thread.

Don't mind the fapping sounds coming from the the corner. You can go about your business.
Carry on.
I'm sorry if one of my pictures might've led you astray; you do NOT want that.
That said, let's go shopping anyway! I still need to get a few makeup-y things.
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I checked out your profile pic and nearly fapped myself to death.
I like shopping for nail polish and hair dye. Beyond that, I just buy a new compact of the same foundation I've been wearing for years when I can no longer scrape any out of the old one.
Oh! And I like lip gloss.
You dirty pervert!![]()
I haven't worn makeup since the middle of May.![]()

I end up wearing so much makeup now to get the look I want and the other day Smiley said "Your makeup always looks perfect. You make it look so natural" which leads me to believe the man is going blind. I just sat there staring at him through my dark lashes, deep eyeliner, and metallic eye shadows like "WHAT?"
In my defense, I also said "Even when you do dramatic, evening kinds of makeup, you never look painted up. You always look natural and you make it look easy." Which I know it's not.
And I DO wear glasses. But I'm far from blind.
I suppose that's a small difference but I still say your eyesight is going the way of my modelling career: nonexistent.
My eyesight is just fine, sir.

Ahahaha
I just scared Emmett again...
EPIC
And true...ROFLMAO - ok... shit just got real.
I'm so glad you texted me about this thread NN. The gang is all here!
*Hugs everyone!*
And - I love me some Ulta, too.
That looks brilliant. I'll never get it, but it looks perfect!I'll tell you what is brilliant for shine. Mally's Face Defender. Just dab on with the sponge over makeup if you like and it keeps you matte for ages. Love it. She does good mascara too.