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[MissTT]

It balls up on application after my moisturizer: Paula's Choice Skin Balancing Ultra Sheer Daily Defense spf 30. I wait about 5-10 minutes before applying my primer. It's probably my moisturizer, but I don't know if I want to change that product.

That song was also the first time I'd heard of the mumps. Haha. Drainage is the worst. Maybe allergies?

 

[sagehen]

It balls up on application after my moisturizer: Paula's Choice Skin Balancing Ultra Sheer Daily Defense spf 30. I wait about 5-10 minutes before applying my primer. It's probably my moisturizer, but I don't know if I want to change that product. That song was also the first time I'd heard of the mumps. Haha. Drainage is the worst. Maybe allergies?

I am with you on that - I would not change skincare that worked for a $5-6 primer. I dunno about allergies. I am taking my meds faithfully and have no other symptoms other thatn this constant congestion. My eyes are not watering, no headache, nothing like that. All I know is, I need to get well soon because I already have my outfit and face planned for the first day of fall - I cannot miss this. I already missed Wear Teal Day with puffy eyes!

 

[MissTT]

I have a bunch of free skin care products and got a few blemishes right along with them. I'm really tempted to just stick to my Paula's Choice routine as it has worked well for me for a few years. I've got a box filled with Peter Thomas Roth, Ole Henriksen, Boscia, Philosophy, Fresh, Murad, Clinique, Kate Sommerville, Sephora, Caudalie, Josie Maran, Perricone and more. Of course when I got the big beautiful bottle of Dior Capture Total One Essential serum last week I couldn't resist. She had joined my routine.

Maybe you just need to take a day off and sleep. Your body's fighting off something and needs energy.

 

[sagehen]

I have a bunch of free skin care products and got a few blemishes right along with them. I'm really tempted to just stick to my Paula's Choice routine as it has worked well for me for a few years. I've got a box filled with Peter Thomas Roth, Ole Henriksen, Boscia, Philosophy, Fresh, Murad, Clinique, Kate Sommerville, Sephora, Caudalie, Josie Maran, Perricone and more. Of course when I got the big beautiful bottle of Dior Capture Total One Essential serum last week I couldn't resist. She had joined my routine. Maybe you just need to take a day off and sleep. Your body's fighting off something and needs energy.

Peter Thomas Roth?!? I swoon. I did take a day off, and rested all weekend. This stuff has got me good.

 

[aradhana]

All I know is, I need to get well soon because I already have my outfit and face planned for the first day of fall - I cannot miss this. I already missed Wear Teal Day with puffy eyes!

do tell...what's your first day of fall outfit/face gonna be?

i was wondering if you ladies could give me some suggestions for a makeup look for a date i have this weekend...(it's the same guy i went out with last weekend, and it's date #4...*squeal*)
i'm planning on wearing a navy blue strapless dress with white dots, gathers at the waist...

here's a pic from the web:


http://www.thefind.com/apparel/info-strapless-dot-dress

anyway...not sure what to do with my face...the last three dates i haven't worn much lipstick, and when i have i just smudged it a little and let it wear off during the course of the evening. should i do a red lipstick or something a little bold? i was kind of thinking maybe cockney or ruffian red... so bold yet soft at the same time.... not sure what to do with my eyes... any thoughts? we're going to a relatively casual place for dinner, but i'm not really one for slummin it...especially on a date!

 

[sagehen]

^^I was thinking bold, and I was going toward something glossy and fuschia, but then you said Ruffian Red and all bets were off. I. LOVE. that color. And I think it dresses up any outfit effortlessly. Happy Date!

 

[aradhana]

Happy Date!

thanks for the vote of confidence sagehen!

 

[glammy girl]

Sage, so sorry to hear that you're not feeling well, hope you get lots of rest and that you recover very soon. I miss reading all your makeup looks posts Aradhana, I love your dress of choice, sooooo pretty! I think you should do a pin up look, neutral eyes with winged liner and smoking red lips! It is the fourth date so might as well go all out since your lip color on the other dates were not too bold. Hope you have a great time

 

[MissTT]

aradhana since it's the fourth date I say go with a wow 'em red, too. You've been meek (lip-wise) up until this point. Your dress is neutral so I say punch it up! Glammy's eye suggestion is perfect since the place will be casual. Here's hoping for a love connection... Dating can be so fun.

sagehen - Should you be checking in w/ a doc or at list a quick care clinic? Don't suffer needlessly.
For PTR I have Camu Camu Power Cx30, Oilless Oil 100% Purified Squalene, and Neuroliquid Volufill Youth Eye Serum. Seems like I will never get to all these products. I feel like my skin is about as bright as it's gonna get so vitamin C treatments aren't doing it for me, my skin isn't really dehydrated or wrinkled so most moisturizers aren't calling to me, and I don't have bags/crows feet/dark circles so most eye treatments are lost on me. I have two fine lines under each eye that I've been trying to treat for at least a year with no change. I've decided they're probably just folds in my skin not wrinkles. Skincare-wise I think I'm in a strange place of not needing most of the benefits proposed by skincare targeted to my age. The stuff I want to fix (pigmentation issues) probably needs a derm and more harsh products/procedures.

 

[sagehen]

Thanks glammy girl and MissTT for your concern. I am slowly getting better by the day (today I have eye makeup on!), but if I don't feel dramatically like myself by tomorrow I am going to have to ask my doc to fit me in. I have a decent face on today: FACE: Fashion Fair CTP foundation, Tender It Cosmetics Bye Bye, Undereye in Deep Silica powder to set concealer MAC Richly Honed Contour Cream Clinique Superbalanced Powder foundation all over MAC Refined Deeper Bronze for cheek color Eyes: Maybelline Color Tattoo in Gold Rush MAC Bright Sunshine e/s on lid NYX e/s trio, Voodoo Love Spell, middle shade, in crease, blended with the brown shade with gold shimmer in the NYX Nude on Nude palette Voodoo Love Spells, black shadow, outer crease MAC Brown Down for brows black liquid liner on top only NYX Doll Eyes mascara, one coat of Long Length, one coat of Volume Lips: TBD, and yes I know the day is half over lol

 

[Prettypackages]

Sage you should go get that checked out if it's been most of hte Month. THat happened to me in July. I started getting sick the Monday before July 4th, but kinda ignored it, they were just headaches. But in general I felt run down. I had a bunch of plans, and didn't want to be "sick". I wasn't my usual self, I was tired quicker, and by Sunday, could barely function at the last even for that weekend. Monday, I started getting more sinus pressure headaches, it was draining, so my voice was hoarse and I was miserable.. Even my body hurt. I kept popping sudafed as normal. I finally went to Walgreens take care clinic and she said I had a sinus infection. I didn't realize it b/c I was used to the green/yellow mucous, fever, chills and everything else that goes with one.
Now I have jaw pain that I know is from sinus pressure. Before taking more meds the dentist gave me, I'm going back to my ENT. This will be the fourth one since Jan... WTF?

Anyway, wanted to give you my example so that you go and get yourself checked out.


Aradhana, I loved the look you posted in the other thread... but yes, yes, yes to the red lipstick. Have fun!!! Post the look if you can...

Oh the eyes... Usually red, I try to do a neutral and then a winged eye. So for me neutrals are brown. Did you get any of the Nudes from Nudes/Metallics?

 

[Prettypackages]

aradhana since it's the fourth date I say go with a wow 'em red, too. You've been meek (lip-wise) up until this point. Your dress is neutral so I say punch it up! Glammy's eye suggestion is perfect since the place will be casual. Here's hoping for a love connection... Dating can be so fun.

sagehen - Should you be checking in w/ a doc or at list a quick care clinic? Don't suffer needlessly.
For PTR I have Camu Camu Power Cx30, Oilless Oil 100% Purified Squalene, and Neuroliquid Volufill Youth Eye Serum. Seems like I will never get to all these products. I feel like my skin is about as bright as it's gonna get so vitamin C treatments aren't doing it for me, my skin isn't really dehydrated or wrinkled so most moisturizers aren't calling to me, and I don't have bags/crows feet/dark circles so most eye treatments are lost on me. I have two fine lines under each eye that I've been trying to treat for at least a year with no change. I've decided they're probably just folds in my skin not wrinkles. Skincare-wise I think I'm in a strange place of not needing most of the benefits proposed by skincare targeted to my age. The stuff I want to fix (pigmentation issues) probably needs a derm and more harsh products/procedures.

Dark circle queen over here, so you suck!! LOL
They probably are, look at one of your child hood pictures. I have folds and thought they were wrinkles but when I looked at a pic of me as a toddler, I had the same folds.
I thought we were supposed to use a vit c serum just b/c, but not just for hydration?

Skin care products are hard and take time to work... so it will take you forever to go through those, and I probably wouldn't bother either if I had something I love. Matter of fact, I have a box of samples, I'm not even thinking about. LOL

 

[sagehen]

Sage you should go get that checked out if it's been most of hte Month.  THat happened to me in July.  I started getting sick the Monday before July 4th, but kinda ignored it, they were just headaches. But in general I felt run down.   I had a bunch of plans, and didn't want to be "sick".  I wasn't my usual self, I was tired quicker, and by Sunday, could barely function at the last even for that weekend.  Monday, I started getting more sinus pressure headaches, it was draining, so my voice was hoarse and I was miserable.. Even my body hurt. I kept popping sudafed as normal.  I finally went to Walgreens take care clinic and she said I had a sinus infection.  I didn't realize it b/c I was used to the green/yellow mucous, fever, chills and everything else that goes with one.   Now I have jaw pain that I know is from sinus pressure.  Before taking more meds the dentist gave me, I'm going back to my ENT.  This will be the fourth one since Jan... WTF?   Anyway, wanted to give you my example so that you go and get yourself checked out.   Aradhana,  I loved the look you posted in the other thread... but yes, yes, yes to the red lipstick.  Have fun!!!   Post the look if you can...  Oh the eyes...   Usually red, I try to do a neutral and then a winged eye.  So for me neutrals are brown.  Did you get any of the Nudes from Nudes/Metallics? 

O. M. G. You just described my sympotoms to a "T". I am monitoring my tempterature daily to detect any rise which indicates infection. I think I am going to see my doc just to make sure, because I have not had a sinus infection in ages. The jaw pain - girl, this is the worst. I want to run to Macys at lunch to look at Steady Going lipstick - I did not buy that one online. Talk me out of this y'all!

 

[MissTT]

Now see, sagehen! Good thing you got sistas lookin' out for you.
eta: And Steady Going is perm. Waitttttttt until you find out if the formula is getting all chapped looking on people's lips with wear. Do you have Silly?

Vitamin C is an antioxidant. One of many so you don't need Vit C specifically. You just get which ever antioxidants works best for you. (There is no single antioxidant that gives your skin everything it needs.) It's powerful, but often not in it's most stable form due to packaging so you're not necessarily getting all the benefits being advertised. Vit C can brighten, promote collagen, reduce inflammation, and enhance peels/microderm and sunscreen.

And if I know these are folds under my eyes why do I keep trying to treat them? I keep trying new creams just in case they miraculously do something. Same with my undereye pigmentation. I was using the Benefit It's Potent eye cream just in case I had for real dark circles. Nada. LOL Should I send that product off to you, PP?

 

[sagehen]

I do have Silly, so I have not jumped at SG, but I think a little lipstick might make me feel better lol. Oh, wait - that was you talking me out of it...oh, I see what you did there...FINE!

 

[Prettypackages]

I want to run to Macys at lunch to look at Steady Going lipstick - I did not buy that one online. Talk me out of this y'all!

Girl, that jaw pain had the whole left side of my head hurting last week. It was so painful to chew, at one point I felt like I was gumming my food. So yes, go to the doctor, and don't let them give you that damn z-pack... it does nothing for me. LOL I started feeling about two days after taking the antibiotics, but I'm afraid I'm going to suffer from sinus issues forever...
Especially now that the jaw pain has kicked in. But there are sinus cavities above our gums and they can fill with fluid, so that pressure is pushing down on them.


Now as far as Steady Going... doesn't hurt to look at it, right??? LOL

I went to look tonight, and I think the lighter colors will work on us, but we might have to use a liner, but what else is new when it comes to the lighter colors... I swatched them all and love these...

 

[sagehen]

Girl, that jaw pain had the whole left side of my head hurting last week. It was so painful to chew, at one point I felt like I was gumming my food.  So yes, go to the doctor, and don't let them give you that damn z-pack...  it does nothing for me. LOL   I started feeling about two days after taking the antibiotics, but I'm afraid I'm going to suffer from sinus issues forever...  Especially now that the jaw pain has kicked in. But there are sinus cavities above our gums and they can fill with fluid, so that pressure is pushing down on them.  Now as far as Steady Going... doesn't hurt to look at it, right???  LOL   I went to look tonight, and I think the lighter colors will work on us, but we might have to use a liner, but what else is new when it comes to the lighter colors...  I swatched them all and love these...   

I did not get it. I think I want the nude from RiRi so I am going to sit on my hands (and my debit card) until then lol. Here's hoping there are no online glitches. I am not trying to fight her army in store.

 

[Prettypackages]

Now see, sagehen! Good thing you got sistas lookin' out for you.
eta: And Steady Going is perm. Waitttttttt until you find out if the formula is getting all chapped looking on people's lips with wear. Do you have Silly?

Vitamin C is an antioxidant. One of many so you don't need Vit C specifically. You just get which ever antioxidants works best for you. (There is no single antioxidant that gives your skin everything it needs.) It's powerful, but often not in it's most stable form due to packaging so you're not necessarily getting all the benefits being advertised. Vit C can brighten, promote collagen, reduce inflammation, and enhance peels/microderm and sunscreen.

And if I know these are folds under my eyes why do I keep trying to treat them? I keep trying new creams just in case they miraculously do something. Same with my undereye pigmentation. I was using the Benefit It's Potent eye cream just in case I had for real dark circles. Nada. LOL Should I send that product off to you, PP?

I don't remember if you do or not, but are you using a serum?
Do you have a vit c product rec?
Girl, I don't know what you are trying to do with the folds. LOL
Yes, I'll take it off your hands! LOL Although it might be futile with me as well, my circles get real dark and puffy when my sinuses flare up. But other than that, they are there.

 

[Prettypackages]

I did not get it. I think I want the nude from RiRi so I am going to sit on my hands (and my debit card) until then lol. Here's hoping there are no online glitches. I am not trying to fight her army in store.

I can't wait to see swatches. Someone said they think it is going to look like *cough* hot chocolate *cough* . I'm not looking forward to release of this and I'm convincing myself I'll be ok that I don't get anything. Plus it comes out when the car note is due... I still haven't gotten those Ben Nye powders. So Riri Fall might be a skip. (Man Eff MAC) Just gassing myself up. LOL

 

[sagehen]

OK wait - MissTT, I do have Silly. Are you saying Steady Going and Silly are very close?