Makeup! Clothes! "Girly stuff" thread

[wifflypuff]

Thanks a bunch!!!
What brand would you personally recommend? I've got combo skin, if that helps any.

Haven't the slightest. Haha! I'm actually looking to switch to powder or cream-to-powder myself so hopefully someone will jump in with recommendations soon.

 

[Broken Pussy]

I'm new to this one. Knew of its existence, but I was too skittish.
But screw it! Here we go:
Can anybody recommend a good foundation for a person who isn't quite used to having stuff on their face? Like, my skin is actually pretty good, but whenever I put anything more than mascara, brow filler, or BB cream, I (I think it might actually mostly be psychological, but) I feel like I'm itchy constantly, that I'm greasy, etc.
I really want to try playing around with some makeup. Anything helps! Thanks.

If money is not an issue, I like Tarte Rainforest of the Sea foundation. It's what I wear when I want more coverage than I'll get from a BB cream, but I don't want to go full spackle.

 

[GRANDnumberofMULTIPLES]

Echoing the powder rec. I used Bare Minerals for a few years until I found myself wanting more coverage. I also couldn't stand the greasy/worried about clogging pores feeling with liquid foundation (at the time, at least) and liked how mineral foundations felt. Loose were easier for me to use than a pressed powder and I found it easier to blend out.

I totally understand that feeling. I hated the sensation of liquid foundations and associated them with classmates slathering on MAC to hide breakouts or had the wrong shade and it was always incredibly obvious.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

I wanted to ask a question, although I am not a fan of traditional girlie things like nail polish and makeup, I love fragrances.
My love of fragrances grew from my mother who would always by an extra scent of the various Chanel fragrances to gift to me as I got older. I have quite a few discontinued Chanel scents that I could never part with, but I don't use them too often just because taking them out of a slightly more controlled environment could ruin them. The few fragrances that I have in heavy rotation are Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle, Allure, No 5, No 22, Gardenia. From Tom Ford, I have the Velvet Orchids as well a Black Orchid, Cafe Rose, and Santal Blush.
What does everyone here enjoy wearing?
The thing that I love about the Chanel EDPs, Parfums, and Extraits is that you can baithe and scrub vigorously, and they won't come out for days.

 

[Broken Pussy]

My favorite perfume is Givenchy Ange ou Demon Le Secret Elixir. Generally I only wear it during the winter because it's a really strong scent and it reminds me of sugared fruit, so it seems like it fits in that season. During the summer I like to wear Marc Jacobs Daisy, which smells like fresh strawberries, or Maison Margiela Replica Beach Walk, which smells, naturally, like the beach. In general, I really love Michael Kors perfumes. I adore big white flowers, and apparently so does whoever is the perfumier for MK. I also really like rose perfumes. My favorite is Stella, which is a more youthful, less fussy rose, but Roses de Chloe and Nirvana Rose are also high up in my estimation. My favorite guilty pleasure scents are Couture Couture and Viva La Juicy La Fleur by Juicy Couture. I also own almost every bottle of Gwen Stefani's Harajuku Lovers perfume because the bottles are adorable and I regret nothing. Oh, if I want to feel sexy, Gucci Guilty, all the way.

 

[wifflypuff]

I'm also a Chanel lover. I prefer Coco or Coco Noir as my go-to "grown up" perfumes to pair with a vivid red lip.

I recently discovered Maison Margiela's Replica Lazy Sunday Morning. It's a great alternative to Clean's Warm Cotton which I also love but is a little too strong for what I want it to be. It just smells fresh, clean, and feminine without being super perfume-y. Pairs nicely with neutral or no-makeup makeup.

Guerlain has been kind of hit or miss for me. I loved Samsara, but Mitsuoko is like Miss Havisham in a bottle. Blech. I wasn't a fan of Jardins de Bagatelle either, but I'm not a hugely floral person- if you like more floral scents it's a great choice.

Guilty pleasure: Serpentine from Roberto Cavalli, worn with a leopard print scarf and a bright fuschia lip.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

I also really like rose perfumes.

I also love rose scents, and I sampled a few rose perfumes. The problem is that so many perfumes only use rose as a top or middle note instead of using it as a linear with other scents like tuberose and other white or spicy florals.

 

[fire_fly]

Thanks a bunch!!!
What brand would you personally recommend? I've got combo skin, if that helps any.

I like the Kat Von D pressed powder, and the Sephora Matte Perfection is really good, too. KVD has better coverage but the Matte Perfection stays on my face a little better, I find. Plus, they both come in shades pale enough that they actually match my neon-white face!

 

[FatFuckingClown]

I like the Kat Von D pressed powder, and the Sephora Matte Perfection is really good, too. KVD has better coverage but the Matte Perfection stays on my face a little better, I find. Plus, they both come in shades pale enough that they actually match my neon-white face!

B U E N O
I, too, am of the translucent persuasion.

 

[GRANDnumberofMULTIPLES]

I love rose and lilac (but not together urgh urgh urgh)

Pacifica has a great Persian Rose as well as French Lilac with nothing but in each rollerball. Have you tried Pacifica, @Mariposa Electrique?

My day to day scents:

• Juicy Couture: I think this might be discontinued because I've had my rollerball for a bit and it says "Love G&P" on it. It's on the stronger side and has a good lasting power.
• Marc Jacobs: I love Daisy, Honey, Lola, and Dot. I'm a little over Lola now but I use Dot rather often still.
• Dior: I have Miss Dior (unf so light and pretty) and a bottle of Poison that my mom had bought in the 80s and never used. Poison surprisingly smells still good after so long and the box was even still sealed. It took me a little growing into and perhaps a little dissociating from the 80s to start liking it.
• Lady Gaga Fame is like the best celebrity perfume, hands down.
• Balenciaga Florabotanica is one of my go-to first date scents.
• Chanel: Chance is a favorite fragrance of theirs that I like.

Scents that did not work:

• Chanel no. 5. For so long I dreamed of this being ~the~ fragrance. My grandmother had a little tiny empty bottle on a cut-glass dish that I would occasionally smell and dream of the day that I would wear mine. Cut to years in the future and I try some on at the perfume counter before the store opens. It comes off as a very mature fragrance for me and reminded me of trying to clean vintage clothes/accessories of their Chanel no. 5/cigarette potpurri.
• Gucci Flora. I wish I knew where my hate for this shit came from. I never liked it, I never claimed to like it, and any news of me ever liking it was fake news. Somehow my mom still got me some for Christmas one year after she had asked me multiple times if I liked it. I ended up returning it. Come to think of it, I did pick up a damaged bottle at work that proceeded to cover me in the stuff. It makes me sneeze uncontrollably in any amount.
• Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb. I loved this until a refill fell off my bathroom counter and hit my glass scale and smashed, sending perfume everywhere. My bathroom smelled fabulous but the damage was done. It was so strong and so all over everything .

 

[wifflypuff]

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• Dior: I have Miss Dior (unf so light and pretty) and a bottle of Poison that my mom had bought in the 80s and never used. Poison surprisingly smells still good after so long and the box was even still sealed. It took me a little growing into and perhaps a little dissociating from the 80s to start liking it.

Ooh, I'll have to try Poison then. I kinda have a thing for 80s perfumes. La Perla is a good retro one too.

 

[MistressCaridad]

I love light, clean florals, light fruity or citrusy scents for myself: Donna Karan Be Delicious, Clinique Happy, and Armani Acqua di Gioia are some of my favorites.

Now for a question: eyebrows. I've always had pretty good eyebrows in terms of shape and arch and all that, but... recently my thyroid crashed and burned and my eyebrows... well, they started falling out so now I have to practically draw them in. What do you guys recommend for brow products? I've tried the Anastasia brow pomade because I saw so many beauty gurus using it but it's easy to get too much on my eyebrows and I end up looking like a clown.

 

[fire_fly]

• Lady Gaga Fame is like the best celebrity perfume, hands down.

What does that even smell like? I've always been curious but perfume makes me barf (no, really) and even if it didn't, my skin is too sensitive for it.

 

[FatFuckingClown]

If you're sensitive to perfume, you'll want to steer as faaaaaaaar from Vince Camuto as you possibly can.

 

[Broken Pussy]

I love rose and lilac (but not together urgh urgh urgh)

Pacifica has a great Persian Rose as well as French Lilac with nothing but in each rollerball. Have you tried Pacifica, @Mariposa Electrique?

My day to day scents:

• Juicy Couture: I think this might be discontinued because I've had my rollerball for a bit and it says "Love G&P" on it. It's on the stronger side and has a good lasting power.
• Marc Jacobs: I love Daisy, Honey, Lola, and Dot. I'm a little over Lola now but I use Dot rather often still.
• Dior: I have Miss Dior (unf so light and pretty) and a bottle of Poison that my mom had bought in the 80s and never used. Poison surprisingly smells still good after so long and the box was even still sealed. It took me a little growing into and perhaps a little dissociating from the 80s to start liking it.
• Lady Gaga Fame is like the best celebrity perfume, hands down.
• Balenciaga Florabotanica is one of my go-to first date scents.
• Chanel: Chance is a favorite fragrance of theirs that I like.

Scents that did not work:

• Chanel no. 5. For so long I dreamed of this being ~the~ fragrance. My grandmother had a little tiny empty bottle on a cut-glass dish that I would occasionally smell and dream of the day that I would wear mine. Cut to years in the future and I try some on at the perfume counter before the store opens. It comes off as a very mature fragrance for me and reminded me of trying to clean vintage clothes/accessories of their Chanel no. 5/cigarette potpurri.
• Gucci Flora. I wish I knew where my hate for this shit came from. I never liked it, I never claimed to like it, and any news of me ever liking it was fake news. Somehow my mom still got me some for Christmas one year after she had asked me multiple times if I liked it. I ended up returning it. Come to think of it, I did pick up a damaged bottle at work that proceeded to cover me in the stuff. It makes me sneeze uncontrollably in any amount.
• Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb. I loved this until a refill fell off my bathroom counter and hit my glass scale and smashed, sending perfume everywhere. My bathroom smelled fabulous but the damage was done. It was so strong and so all over everything .

I want to like Flowerbomb, because the bottle is so pretty, but it gives me asthma attacks, so I never wear it.

I have Lola and Dot. I love Lola, but Dot smells a little too sweet for me to want to wear it a lot. I mostly bought it because, again, the bottle is cute. I'm a sucker for a cute bottle.

Have you tried any of the Daisy flankers? I have Eau So Fresh and Daisy Dream, and they're more citrus-y versions of Daisy. Again, the Daisy Dream bottle is super cute.

 

[Oracle]

I love light, clean florals, light fruity or citrusy scents for myself: Donna Karan Be Delicious, Clinique Happy, and Armani Acqua di Gioia are some of my favorites.

Now for a question: eyebrows. I've always had pretty good eyebrows in terms of shape and arch and all that, but... recently my thyroid crashed and burned and my eyebrows... well, they started falling out so now I have to practically draw them in. What do you guys recommend for brow products? I've tried the Anastasia brow pomade because I saw so many beauty gurus using it but it's easy to get too much on my eyebrows and I end up looking like a clown.

I prefer the Benefit brow products. I alternate depending on my mood between the pomade, the pencil, and the "Gimme Brow" which is sort of like a thickening mascara but for eyebrows? Sounds gross but if your brows are sparse, it helps them look more substantial and it adds texture if you've penciled your brows in, so you don't have that super flat, dusty looking Instagram brow. The pencil and the Gimme Brow would probably work for you if you didn't like the pomade from ABH!

 

[Broken Pussy]

Now for a question: eyebrows. I've always had pretty good eyebrows in terms of shape and arch and all that, but... recently my thyroid crashed and burned and my eyebrows... well, they started falling out so now I have to practically draw them in. What do you guys recommend for brow products? I've tried the Anastasia brow pomade because I saw so many beauty gurus using it but it's easy to get too much on my eyebrows and I end up looking like a clown.

Thyroid brows are no joke. I have thyroid disease and I have blonde brows so my eyebrows are probably my greatest makeup struggle. Lately, I've been just trying to keep them well-groomed and when I wear makeup, I use ABH's clear brow gel, because it doesn't add any color, but it makes them neater looking. I like colored brow powder or gel, but even the blonde shades don't really match my color, and added to sparse brows, they telegraph fakeness. I'm never going to have those perfectly drawn in brows, I just have to make the best of what I have.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

Dior: I have Miss Dior (unf so light and pretty) and a bottle of Poison that my mom had bought in the 80s and never used. Poison surprisingly smells still good after so long and the box was even still sealed. It took me a little growing into and perhaps a little dissociating from the 80s to start liking it.

The last time I visited my grandma (before she moved into a retirement home), she had a huge tray of all kinds of perfume. Poison was one of them. My brother and I smelled all the different perfumes, and that one and Philosophy Amazing Grace were the only two I liked. I haven't thought about that in years, wow!

 

[Broken Pussy]

The last time I visited my grandma (before she moved into a retirement home), she had a huge tray of all kinds of perfume. Poison was one of them. My brother and I smelled all the different perfumes, and that one and Philosophy Amazing Grace were the only two I liked. I haven't thought about that in years, wow!

I have perfume nostalgia about three perfumes:

Sand and Sable, which my mother used to wear.
Love's Baby Soft, which I used to wear in high school because it was cheap and it smelled good.
Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth, which I never actually owned or wore, but tiny kid me coveted fiercely because Debbie Gibson was my idol. I wanted to be Debbie Gibson.

 

[MistressCaridad]

I prefer the Benefit brow products. I alternate depending on my mood between the pomade, the pencil, and the "Gimme Brow" which is sort of like a thickening mascara but for eyebrows? Sounds gross but if your brows are sparse, it helps them look more substantial and it adds texture if you've penciled your brows in, so you don't have that super flat, dusty looking Instagram brow. The pencil and the Gimme Brow would probably work for you if you didn't like the pomade from ABH!

Thyroid brows are no joke. I have thyroid disease and I have blonde brows so my eyebrows are probably my greatest makeup struggle. Lately, I've been just trying to keep them well-groomed and when I wear makeup, I use ABH's clear brow gel, because it doesn't add any color, but it makes them neater looking. I like colored brow powder or gel, but even the blonde shades don't really match my color, and added to sparse brows, they telegraph fakeness. I'm never going to have those perfectly drawn in brows, I just have to make the best of what I have.

Thank you both so much! Now I have some other options to try.