Ladies!

[Crop]

Sometimes I'll let the girls at the office try their new nail varnish on me if that counts. Always hilarious when they don't have remover and I get called into an important meeting.

[Jessweeee♪]

I don't usually wear it, for me it just isn't worth the effort. Occasionally I'll put on a bit of mascara and lipstick that's the same exact shade as my lips.

[Shlup]

Etude House CC cream smells wonderful, fyi.

[Hollycat]

Just lipstick and lip gloss at the moment. Britts did put the full face on me today though, so that was a first.

The lilac frost lipstick I have is pretty damned awesome.

[fire_of_avalon]

I very rarely wear make-make-up because lazy but I use Urban Decay's Naked BBQ cream on my face just to even things out and protect me from the sun. I refuse to pay 50 bucks for their eyeshadow palettes (even though you really do get a lot) so I use a drugstore knock off by Physician's Formula that's around $13.00. I use rose, bronze, browns, golds - basically a lot of neutrals and browns because my eyes are blue and I have kind of pinky skin with light freckles and other colors look silly on me.

I have a really hard time finding lip colors that don't make me look like a clown but I use a peach color and a pink by Neutrogena I think that are light on pigment but heavy on moisturizers. I don't use blush because again, clown, but I do use bronzer if I'm really dressing up in the summertime. I do not highlight and contour at all unless it's like. ... I mean I have to be doing something really fancy if I am going to restructure my face basically.

I like to experiment with make up on myself and others. I'm branching out into more costume like things too, so we'll see where it goes.

[noxious.sunshine]

I just binged on a bunch of E.L.F. stuff. I got new foundation, an eyelid prep stuff for eye makeup, and a sheer makeup mist set thing.

I already had the face primer and a concealer.

I think I'm going to look at getting a bronzer and powder next. And maybe contouring sticks or whatever cuz I wanna learn how to do that.

I'll probably look like a 2 year old that got into some trout.

[fire_of_avalon]

Hahahahahaha bbq cream! Omg leaving.that typo forever.

Does anyone have a recommendation for good, affordable brushes? I like ecotools but they don't have a variety like like I like I want like I want and I am not willing to spend half my electric bill on pro brushes.

[noxious.sunshine]

Yeah ELF is defo the way to go.

They're a really good quality cheap brand. I think I've spent max $20 on what all I bought yesterday makeup wise and I got quite a few things.

[Night Fury]

I have a couple of ELF brushes and one I can really say is worth the money is the studio stipple brush for applying foundation, but I also use it to blend in cream blush, concealer, and sometimes to blend out my countouring. It's pretty versatile and waaaaaay better than an actual foundation brush which I've always found is just like a paintbrush /shrug.

I do like the mineral lipsticks from ELF, but that's about it. I had a few of their eyeshadows and they just didn't take to my skin at all. This was about 2 years ago though so maybe they're better now!