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dragonlady7) wrote2017-05-07 10:27 am
dragonlady7) wrote2017-05-07 10:27 am
Have woken up like 2 hrs early for the plane, bah, but
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Have woken up like 2 hrs early for the plane, bah, but on the upside that means i’ve now done the rest of the dishes so we can leave the kitchen actually clean and dry and hopefully with nothing for ants to find while we’re gone, so. victory, except I’ve cleaned and put away the coffeemaker and so now there’s no way to get coffee before we go. I figured we’d get it on the other side of security anyway…
krytella replied to your photoset “I feel like i was Cute for Date Night but now I still have to go pack….”
For making weird colors work: lip liner! NYX makes a huge color range of lip liners for around $4 each. Pick a lip liner that’s close in color to your lipstick. Draw a line around the edges of your lips, and then fill in your entire lips with the lip liner pencil. It’s actually way easier than the lipstick part, it’s like using colored pencils. Then do the lipstick on top of that. This will make the color cover better and also help it stay, since the liner is drier.
Lip liner is the ONE thing I DO do. And in this case, it’s actually waterproof eyeliner pencil, because I have a lot of blue eyeshadow, because I compulsively buy it when faced with a large array of choices, the same way I always buy the reddest lipstick, and so I get home and realize that I have fifteen of nearly the same thing… Anyway. Usually I have real actual lip liner. I get lipliner, I’m pretty good at it, but no matter how good I am at it, I still get the dip in my upper lip filled in basically instantly.
krytella replied to your photoset “I feel like i was Cute for Date Night but now I still have to go pack….”
First, for long-lasting “normal” colors, try liquid lipsticks that dry on like Revlon Colorstay or Maybelline SuperStay. These go on liquid and then you let them dry fully before putting on the shiny topcoat side. They should be around $8-12 at a regular drugstore.
I think Revlon ColorStay was the one I had that balled up and came off in weird chunks, but, in its defense, I suppose, I was rollerskating strenuously at the time. Maybe I just asked too much of it.
eveiya replied to your photoset “I feel like i was Cute for Date Night but now I still have to go pack….”
Looking fab! As a sometime wearer of black, blue & v dark purple lipstick in my full on goth days, I never could get it to survive smoking or eating, though I tried all the tips like putting foundation on your lips first etc. I’ve no qualms about frequent reapplication anywhere and everywhere, though, LOL. Anyway, today I’m especially envious of your nice dark blonde hair - sadly I’ve just managed to dye mine bright orange while aiming for something like your colour!
I had a suspicion that it wasn’t true that other people weren’t reapplying lipstick, it’s just that I don’t notice it and it’s basically invisible to me. Clearly I must have seen people put it on before, or I wouldn’t know how to do it; I just could never tell if they were doing it anywhere public, they just always looked really good. This is a con, I think, of being sort of gay, because mostly I see pretty girls and get distracted by how pretty they are and forget that I’m supposed to be taking notes so I also can be pretty.
Oh man, any attempts i’ve made to dye my hair have been bad. That’s just my hair color. You can’t see the ends, where I ombre-dyed it blue like three years ago and it’s still greenish and floofy. I was born tow-headed and have darkened a bit, but every other adult in my family for generations had their hair darken through their teens into their twenties until they’re medium- to very-dark brunette (my father was a white-blond kid, and was even still sandy-haired when he was in Vietnam, but by the time he was about 28 his hair was almost black, where it’s been ever since), and so in my mid-20s I decided I’d better start studying how to dye hair, but I never did and it never changed, and now I’m scared to experiment with anything beyond the last six inches or so because What If I Fuck It Up And It Doesn’t Go Back Like That. I did just cut off another inch of the leftover green last night in the bathroom sink though…
meanderings0ul replied to your photoset “I feel like i was Cute for Date Night but now I still have to go pack….”
I like revlon’s 16 hours liquid/gloss combo for most-of-day wear. It’ll even make it through the pool. Kinda sticky, but i think vaseline takes it right off. The 16 hour kinds are often better than the 24 hours kind as far as look and comfort. I usually wear the typical stick kind, revlon or nyx mostly, and I reapply whenever the fuck I feel like it because fuck em ;) People are always smearing chapstick on, so I don’t worry about it.
16 hours. I’ll look for that.
I always see the ones– Lime Crimes and the knockoffs– that look like… they look so delicious, like, really thick, really bright, some are matte and some are glossy and I just think they look like they’d be amazing, but they’re like, $25.
Anyway, harpers_child over on Dreamwidth suggested lip primers, so I might also try one of those. Mind, I wear lipstick like, once in three months, but still. I’d wear it more if I was more confident I was doing it right!
Have woken up like 2 hrs early for the plane, bah, but on the upside that means i’ve now done the rest of the dishes so we can leave the kitchen actually clean and dry and hopefully with nothing for ants to find while we’re gone, so. victory, except I’ve cleaned and put away the coffeemaker and so now there’s no way to get coffee before we go. I figured we’d get it on the other side of security anyway…
krytella replied to your photoset “I feel like i was Cute for Date Night but now I still have to go pack….”
For making weird colors work: lip liner! NYX makes a huge color range of lip liners for around $4 each. Pick a lip liner that’s close in color to your lipstick. Draw a line around the edges of your lips, and then fill in your entire lips with the lip liner pencil. It’s actually way easier than the lipstick part, it’s like using colored pencils. Then do the lipstick on top of that. This will make the color cover better and also help it stay, since the liner is drier.
Lip liner is the ONE thing I DO do. And in this case, it’s actually waterproof eyeliner pencil, because I have a lot of blue eyeshadow, because I compulsively buy it when faced with a large array of choices, the same way I always buy the reddest lipstick, and so I get home and realize that I have fifteen of nearly the same thing… Anyway. Usually I have real actual lip liner. I get lipliner, I’m pretty good at it, but no matter how good I am at it, I still get the dip in my upper lip filled in basically instantly.
krytella replied to your photoset “I feel like i was Cute for Date Night but now I still have to go pack….”
First, for long-lasting “normal” colors, try liquid lipsticks that dry on like Revlon Colorstay or Maybelline SuperStay. These go on liquid and then you let them dry fully before putting on the shiny topcoat side. They should be around $8-12 at a regular drugstore.
I think Revlon ColorStay was the one I had that balled up and came off in weird chunks, but, in its defense, I suppose, I was rollerskating strenuously at the time. Maybe I just asked too much of it.
eveiya replied to your photoset “I feel like i was Cute for Date Night but now I still have to go pack….”
Looking fab! As a sometime wearer of black, blue & v dark purple lipstick in my full on goth days, I never could get it to survive smoking or eating, though I tried all the tips like putting foundation on your lips first etc. I’ve no qualms about frequent reapplication anywhere and everywhere, though, LOL. Anyway, today I’m especially envious of your nice dark blonde hair - sadly I’ve just managed to dye mine bright orange while aiming for something like your colour!
I had a suspicion that it wasn’t true that other people weren’t reapplying lipstick, it’s just that I don’t notice it and it’s basically invisible to me. Clearly I must have seen people put it on before, or I wouldn’t know how to do it; I just could never tell if they were doing it anywhere public, they just always looked really good. This is a con, I think, of being sort of gay, because mostly I see pretty girls and get distracted by how pretty they are and forget that I’m supposed to be taking notes so I also can be pretty.
Oh man, any attempts i’ve made to dye my hair have been bad. That’s just my hair color. You can’t see the ends, where I ombre-dyed it blue like three years ago and it’s still greenish and floofy. I was born tow-headed and have darkened a bit, but every other adult in my family for generations had their hair darken through their teens into their twenties until they’re medium- to very-dark brunette (my father was a white-blond kid, and was even still sandy-haired when he was in Vietnam, but by the time he was about 28 his hair was almost black, where it’s been ever since), and so in my mid-20s I decided I’d better start studying how to dye hair, but I never did and it never changed, and now I’m scared to experiment with anything beyond the last six inches or so because What If I Fuck It Up And It Doesn’t Go Back Like That. I did just cut off another inch of the leftover green last night in the bathroom sink though…
meanderings0ul replied to your photoset “I feel like i was Cute for Date Night but now I still have to go pack….”
I like revlon’s 16 hours liquid/gloss combo for most-of-day wear. It’ll even make it through the pool. Kinda sticky, but i think vaseline takes it right off. The 16 hour kinds are often better than the 24 hours kind as far as look and comfort. I usually wear the typical stick kind, revlon or nyx mostly, and I reapply whenever the fuck I feel like it because fuck em ;) People are always smearing chapstick on, so I don’t worry about it.
16 hours. I’ll look for that.
I always see the ones– Lime Crimes and the knockoffs– that look like… they look so delicious, like, really thick, really bright, some are matte and some are glossy and I just think they look like they’d be amazing, but they’re like, $25.
Anyway, harpers_child over on Dreamwidth suggested lip primers, so I might also try one of those. Mind, I wear lipstick like, once in three months, but still. I’d wear it more if I was more confident I was doing it right!