Calluna, congrats on your NSV of being able to paint your toenails! I do my toes year-round even in the winter when nobody sees them but me. Just because it makes me feel good.

I too lurve make-up! I am especially loving eyeliner now. Cake eyeliner (brown) with a super thin brush from Sephora. I love that store too. At 47, I've found that powders and pencils just don't last anymore. Slow and steady, with lots of practice will do the trick and voila--cat eyes!

Thanks for replying, everyone! :) Glad to know I'm not the only one that thinks makeup is fun! Love the story about the professor, that's so cool!

I read once that the secret to perfect eyeliner is stretching the skin out on your eyes as you apply it to make the skin really smooth. :)

I'm a makeup fan too. The only thing that I just don't get along with is foundation. It always feels like I have paint on. I went to MAC a few years ago, told them my problem and they sold me what they said was light and still, uck. I've tried mineral powdered foundation as well and still yucko.

Originally Posted by HealthierLori:
I used to love coloring as a little girl. I loved getting the biggest box of crayons and looking at all the pretty colors, and I would spend hours and hours with my crayons, coloring.

Makeup, for me, is an extension of that happiness I had as a child. It's like fingerpainting almost, to me.

Over the years, I've had one or two people tell me that I wasn't a proper feminist because I didn't eschew makeup, and how could I be expected to be taken seriously with makeup on?

But I didn't care. I loved makeup anyway. I love playing with eyeshadow and blusher and highlight and contour and creating a smooth canvas with foundation...I love playing up my best features and playing down my worst ones.

I like collecting makeup. Whenever I feel like treating myself to something, I pick up an eyeshadow at the grocery or drug store, so I've amassed a good-sized collection. Probably bigger than average. And I love looking through it, sorting it by colors and textures, and experimenting with it each day. It just feels like fun to me, and self-pampering! :)

Anybody else like makeup?

Yes, I do too!! and I'm so glad that you posted your age also (I'm 49) and sometimes I wonder 'am I too old to be wearing this?' but then I think what I see is pretty (believe me, it isn't till I put the makeup on :rofl: )

She definitely was a wise woman because that is exactly what i do too! when im feeling down, i go and make myself look pretty! I LOVE MAKEUP!

I mostly wear MAC. I love MAC shadows. I experiment with different foundations but mostly wear a tinted moisturizer and that is it... I play up the eyes, add mascara, eyeliner, blush and my favorite lipstick or lipgloss.

I have been buying more and more organic makeup as i started thinking that my skin is always covered in the stuff... i now have organic shampoo, conditioner, lotion, lipgloss, lipstick, facial moisturizer, deodorant.... skin is the largest organ in/on our bodies... im 33 and need to have beautiful skin and not age. my grandmother had BEAUTIFUL and looked so young.

Originally Posted by HealthierLori:
Over the years, I've had one or two people tell me that I wasn't a proper feminist because I didn't eschew makeup, and how could I be expected to be taken seriously with makeup on?

Beingable to wear makeup withou being judged a whore is a feminist movement...when max factor came out for the public, women's husband were upset to the point of divorce.

Now that the history blurb is over, I love makeup too, although I don't where them that often. I do buy high quality makeup like estee lauder and chanel.

That's an interesting point, eroica. It used to be that a woman who wore makeup was branded a hussy. But now, it seems, a woman almost *has* to wear makeup to be considered well-groomed. It makes a difference in job interviews, etc. I know when I was assessed for a job-readiness program through Vocational Rehabilitation, I was judged low on personal appearance, and when I asked about it, I was told it was because I wasn't wearing makeup!

Miss Manners once wondered, in her column, exactly when society made the shift from "a lady may paint" to "a lady must paint."

Until recently I'd forgotten how much I love wearing makeup. I've always tended to at least use a little foundation to mask the acne that never entirely went away, but for whatever reason I stopped paying up my features a long time ago. I think part of it was that I started wearing glasses again instead of contacts . . . thick, black frames that I liked to hide behind. It seemed there was no point in using eyeliner and mascara anymore when you couldn't really see it. And I think the other part was that it just felt pointless and almost ridiculous . . . I felt huge and no amount of makeup was going to make me look or feel better. I feel differently now though. ;)

I just started wearing eyeliner and mascara again (I've always been happy with my eyes at least) and I just started painting my nails again too, something I haven't done in years (a bright, garish color at that, lol). I think it's a great way to feel you're taking care of yourself. :)

Originally Posted by Windchime:
ve blue eyes and fair skin, so a thick line of black liner is too harsh for me. So this is the eyeliner that I use:

http://www.lorealparisusa.com/eyelin...ing-Bronze.htm

I just bought this today! in "Eggplant" shade. I think I'll go play with it soon :D Oh and I got it at Rite Aid.

*EDIT* - hey! I thought i had bought that product...what I bought was a HIP (High Intensity Pigment) cream eyeliner, with a similar sharp edged little brush. Oh well :D

Well, thanks a lot ya'll. I just went and spent too much money at Sephora :)

My mother in law sells Mary Kay how can I not love make up? I make about a $400 order with her every 4 months and my husband is about ready to cut me off. telling me I don't need that much make up. I have to buy the new stuff when it comes out. What if they come out with a color and I don't get it and find a shirt that I love that it would match?

Originally Posted by losermom:
Calluna, congrats on your NSV of being able to paint your toenails! I do my toes year-round even in the winter when nobody sees them but me. Just because it makes me feel good.

I too lurve make-up! I am especially loving eyeliner now. Cake eyeliner (brown) with a super thin brush from Sephora. I love that store too. At 47, I've found that powders and pencils just don't last anymore. Slow and steady, with lots of practice will do the trick and voila--cat eyes!

What's cake eyeliner, and what brand do you use? And what does the brush look like? Is it a thin angled brush or one of those pointy-ish thin brushes?

I've been looking for a new kind of eyeliner.... Pencils smudge off me, and I have this Loreal HIP powder eyeliner in brown, but it sort of disappears towards the end of the day. I'm not sure where it goes but it's not on my eyes lol. =\

My makeup addiction is bad. I'm actually glad I no longer live near a sephora. That store is death to me. I remember I once called my mother from the mall crying because I had just dropped $160 at sephora without even thinking.

And it's really just makeup and skincare with me. I can have ratty old sweatpants and shirts with holes in them but I must have my NARS.

Originally Posted by oodlesofnoodles:
What's cake eyeliner, and what brand do you use? And what does the brush look like? Is it a thin angled brush or one of those pointy-ish thin brushes?

I've been looking for a new kind of eyeliner.... Pencils smudge off me, and I have this Loreal HIP powder eyeliner in brown, but it sort of disappears towards the end of the day. I'm not sure where it goes but it's not on my eyes lol. =\

I have the same problem with pencils, they tend to disappear over the course of the day. I thought it was my age, but maybe it's my oilier skin. I use a really thin (the thinnest I can find) pointy brush from Sephora. I wash it after every use and replace the plastic endpiece on it so that it keeps it form. There are lots of cake eyeliners around and you could even use any eye shadow by adding water with your brush to it and swirling it around until it creates a paste. You don't need much water, I only add 3 pencil's full by running my brush under the water faucet. I use the Ben Nye cake eyeliner in brown. There are lots of videos on youtube that demonstrate how to create cat eyes. Have fun with it!