How vain are you?

Selena - I'm a huge Mac eye makeup fan. They have tons of colors and many are matte. Price is reasonable and their consultants are pretty good at helping pick colors. I use both matte and shimmery (is that a word?) shadows usually in shades of purple, brown, and plum. Those work best with my coloring. I'm very fair skinned, blonde, and blue eyed. The Mac mascara is great too. I use Lancôme foundation...I feel that works best to even out my skin color which can get red. Chanel makes a great brow pencil (taupe? Blonde?) but it's a little pricey.  The pencil adheres to your brow hairs so it looks more natural. I'm not interested in a brown stripe across my forehead!  Almost forgot one of my favorites....Mac bronzing powder. Keeps me from looking like a corpse!

Momine, tho we miss knowing what "larry" has to say.....

Eye color, interesting story....mine are kinda bluish gray with a LOT of "gold" I call it yellow around the pupil. YEARS ago, seeing a very good eye doctor in New York, he said to me, "You must've had very, very serious jaundice when you were born."  YIKES - how can ya tell?  I nearly died for the first months, until research docs at good teaching hospital nearby made a concoction of "powdered banana milk" ( as it was described to me later in my life) I could digest...pictures of me from those first months are GHASTLY.  Well, he said, the YELLOW around the pupils....

Hhhmmm...has me wondering if Selena had bad jaundice as an infant.

OK, Momine, I'm just being a wee bit stubborn, just a weeeeee bit, imagine if I started so many posts "Larry says..." just makes me smile! ;-)

OMG, Sunny!

I always wondered if Gary/Larry really exists or is just a figment of abigails very fertile imagination.

yorkie - me thinks there is a gary, but I prefer to "listen" to the larry of my imagination...he tells me to drink hot yummy dark chocolate cocoa with marshmallow fluff melting on top.  He also tells me not to fret about not being able to join the "eye shadow" discussion, cuz by now I have so many extra eyelids, I can paint a rainbow up there & no one would notice.

BTW - if evolution is functional, has anybody figured out the function of the extra eyelids, and the loss of jawline - I mean I guess the extra chins can add warmth, but  I use heavy cotton turtlenecks for that, also keeps sweaters from itching the folds, I won't start on the straggly suddenly appearing LONG, I mean LONG hairs suddenly appearing in odd places....that's just WEIRD!

I get my Mac products at Macy's, Nordstom, or Bloomingdales. 

no glittery eye stuff for "older woman" - yes, I read Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and even sometimes W.  The joys of being a Saturday Person, which is what a dear friend calls being retired ( every day is Saturday, with nada ya have to do!)  JOY, 

So Stilla - really like the cream cheek color - in the winter need something a bit heavier and then it's Bobbi Brown Pot(rouge/lip) cream, delicious, and sometimes Laura Mercier Cream cheek color, but think I'm back to really preferring the Bobbi Brown.  Also her BB Extra Tinted Moisturizer Balm - which I use in Medium tint, or Medium/dark.

My natural skin color is what I call "Have you been sick?" but they don't have that shade at the Cosmetic Counters...I get the stuff at Needless Markup, Nordstroms in Natick MA  on my way back from my yearly Dana Farber journey.

I would love it if believing or anecdotes would just make it so, but that is too much magical thinking for me. Also, despite how very liberal I am, anything and everything does not go.  Self diagnosis is one of those areas where I draw the line. I think I have bc, therefore I do? No, not okay.There has to be some evidence based research behind my medical treatments or at least compelling evidence of no harm for supplements and complimentary tx.

Yorkie, which begs the question, especially with imaginary BC, why not just 'magine it away?