Make-up hints

I rarely wear anything on my lips except gloss.  On the very rare day that I want to wear some insane dark lip color, I use liner, and lipstick, and I hate the fact that I'm constantly checking to re-apply it.

Having such dark eyes, my face looks better playing up eyes and sticking to a clear or shimmery gloss for my lips.

Dotti, I'll look for the remmel brand next time I'm at walgreens. The last ones I bought from Sephora and though I loved the colors, I can't find a sharpener to fit them!

Beth-IMO, the key to the lipliner as lipstick thing is to buy a very natural shade very close to your own. Your lips will look so sweet yet anyone looking will think you must be naturally lip blessed!

PS:  Still laughing at "lack of directional flow"

Regarding my lipliner ..... it's a must for me, don't have creases but it seems to "hold" the lipstick on my lips. I also color my whole lip with the lipliner and put lipstick over that. I don't use a lip brush and haven't figured out why I would except when the lipstick get real low!  Then I do use one cuz I am too cheap to throw a favorite color until its really all gone.

My hair salon glues eyelashes and you get fills every 6 weeks....a bummer if they fell off during a date though

I've used lip exfoilators and I like them..Body Shop makes one as does Benefit in Sephora - Benefit's is a kit - exfoliator and moisurizing lip stuff to put on after $28 - and it's in a cute box

I use Oil of Olay regenerist Thermal Skin Polisher - it's great!

Sorry about the awaxing..at least you don't have rips and bruises

Maybe I will get a magic carpet and ride around and wax people..lol

The Oil of Olay isn't 2 step...it's purplish with little beads and when you add water to it, it becomes warm...you use it everyday  and after a week your face is much smoother...I love it!

Thanks, bay. I don't wear t-shirts though...maybe they have sweatshirts, so I'll check. I much prefer calling ourselves "warriors" to "survivors" (sounds so bedraggled!) and there is a marked near-absence of pink. I like pink, but not on my bc attire (not that I really have any). Anyway..............

I'm still struggling with finding the right cover-up/concealer/highlighter for my under-eyes. I seriously look like a concentration camp survivor with the very dark circles under my eyes. Everything I've tried just clumps up and looks cakey, even when I mix it with moisturizer first.  Wish I could grow some new skin.....

~Marin

I like the neutrogena stick or the physicians formula sticks.  They are color correcting, depending on what color you need to even out.

It's not really a concealer, but someone recommended SmashBox photo finish, which I am going to order from Sephora. Supposedly, it fills in the fine lines so you can apply the foundation with the lines appearing more noticeable.

Also, someone (again too lazy to go back and read the posts) recommended sharpening the eyeliner pencil every two days, which I've been doing and what a huge difference - the result is more defined, natural lines.

thank you!

my mom is alllllll about the photo finish, so it must be a great product.  She's obsessed with looking 10 yrs younger than she is.

Avoids the sun at all costs, and has such nice skin... she raves about the photo finish.

Do you guys wax/tweeze your eyebrows at home, or do you get it done? Does anyone do threading?

I don't thread, but theres a ton of places that do it near me.

I wax cause tweezing hurts.  I don't have a lot of brows either, but I need to keep them shapely.

I just get sick of getting them waxed, b/c there's always that one freakin person, who messes up the shape, and makes them too thin, and then I have to try to grow them back, or they are too round, and I'm soooooo not into the golden arches look for eyebrows.

I know threading hurts more, but they say you get better shape.

Still haven't done anything about the wax situation down there, although I amazed myself in the shower with my razor as I contorted my body into never before twists to get those hard to reach areas.

lol.

Marin do you tan (fake or real sun)?  I know that's the key to looking young, unless you were blessed with amazing genetics. AVOID the sun.  Which is hard, b/c we all look better and thinner and Marin in your case, your freakin insane 6 pack abs are more defined with a tan. BUT, When I see my moms friends, and truthfully, I don't really think about it probably b/c I'm young, but once my mom points it out to me I notice.  You can see SO MUCH SUN damage on them. From facial wrinkles, which I think aren't that bad, too the brown spots all over their chests from baking in the sun.

My mom (who lives on the beach and walks on it every day) is always covered up, and always has on sun block, and has been doing this since probably her late 30's.  Her skin is so beautiful.  It's so soft and I love to hold her hand or kiss her face.  When she tells people she's 57 they never believe her.

After cancer I gave up tanning, and I was a tanning junky.  Now I go for the fake stuff, and wear sun block for my romps in the sun.

I also recently heard that women who are BRCA+ are more likely to get melanoma.