Theme Makeup with a Purpose

[aradhana]

SMHM looks rosier to me? and PM is more of a brick red. Which I didn't like on me, and since these are the same tonally (exactly what does that mean in terms of color)LOL, it explains why I'm not really feeling SMHM, but I love SAS. It is a nice fleshy pink. Reminds me of Stylishly Me.


I was disappointed in delphic. It is a shade darker than me, and it is leaning red/orange. I don't know why I do not like red toned anything on my cheeks. To me it accents the pigmentation,a nd I sometimes have bouts with rosaeca or it could be that maybe it just clashes with me (do red and yellow/golden tones clash?), or I'm not ready for it b/c my undertones do pull red in the Summer. I don't know. I'll try it with a full face before I rule it out

you are making me want SaS. i might have to run away screaming.

that said, i do really like smhm. and delphic is good too, but i could see how it might be better with more red leaning tones than peachy ones. i wonder if you would have preferred aphrodite's shell? but it might not have showed up much if you are slightly deeper skin tone than me, because on me it's more of a subtle glow than anything.

also - i wonder if you can cancel out redness first with a green corrector...or maybe just by using a different base, that already has some of that green in it? or yeah, as you say, maybe later in the summer the green will just go away. i'm pretty certain i'm more red in the summer, green in the winter. hence i guess i should wear my orange lipsticks in the summer rather than the winter....

 

[Medgal07]

sooo...i decided to kick off the brights a little early. i wore lickable creme sheen lipstick (bright blue pink) with trimmed in pink lipliner and clear water gloss. it was a nice way to ease into the brights with a sheerish formula. i'll be more prepared when we really get started!

i tried to do a neutral eye with the trip 5 neutral eyes palette, but i gotta work on that, LOL. the palette contains bisque, say yeah, sable, mineralism and bateau. very pretty shades but...somehow whenever i use it, things kinda look off. not sure why. individually the colours are great. i'm going to need to throw something else into the mix....

Awwww Lickable is so pretty!!! I'm familiar with two of the shades that you mentioned in the trip 5 palette. Sometimes just putting a different color as the main lid color
can completely change the look. I'm a tad concerned about what to do with my eyes during our month of brights too. I decided I'd do the reverse smokey eye that Pix
shared with us and/or I'll use Naked, Naked Dark or Naked Deep Dark pigments. I like using one of those pigments for a neutral look, putting a pop of color in the
transition area that matches my lippie. I also love using any one of those naked pigments all over the eye and wearing winged liner with it. Lastly I'll rely on some of my
neutral palettes. I'm looking forward to starting.

 

[Medgal07]

is this the one? If so how are you wearing it? I'd probably do something really basic (basic for me b/c I lack skills LOL) and do the pink on the lid and brown in the crease. Like do the two with the sheen/lustre finish on my lid, dark brown in the crease, the other brown as a transition, and the lightest as a highlight...

That's a VERY nice palette!!! I'd put that peach/orange e/s in the transition area and use a lippie in that same color family.

 

[Prettypackages]

yep, tis that very one...except that in real life the middle shade (sable) is a frost, the fourth shade (mineralism) has much lighter, cooler reflects and the darkest (bateau) is much darker and less red. i will take a pic in the morning because right now it's just way to dark in here... i tried second and third on lid, fifth as a liner, and first to highlight. bleh. it's not the worst in the whole world, but it's not making my eyes sing either...
you know i wish the palette looked more like the picture you posted. LOL.
anyway, i'm going to try your idea tomorrow. my goal this week coming up will be to make this palette work, and pay with the lip colours. i think show orchid is happening tomorrow...

you are making me want SaS. i might have to run away screaming.

that said, i do really like smhm. and delphic is good too, but i could see how it might be better with more red leaning tones than peachy ones. i wonder if you would have preferred aphrodite's shell? but it might not have showed up much if you are slightly deeper skin tone than me, because on me it's more of a subtle glow than anything.

also - i wonder if you can cancel out redness first with a green corrector...or maybe just by using a different base, that already has some of that green in it? or yeah, as you say, maybe later in the summer the green will just go away. i'm pretty certain i'm more red in the summer, green in the winter. hence i guess i should wear my orange lipsticks in the summer rather than the winter....

hmmm you're making a whole lot of sense... b/c this winter, in February was when I noticed a slight green tint to my skin. I hadn't really noticed it before.



ok this is clinique ginger, sas, stylish me and the last one is bad girl gone good. (2nd pic)


Seduced at Sea. (1st picture)


delphic... I kinda do wish I played with AS a little more. I could be tripping. tell me what you all think.

 

[aradhana]

hmmm you're making a whole lot of sense... b/c this winter, in February was when I noticed a slight green tint to my skin. I hadn't really noticed it before.



ok this is clinique ginger, sas, stylish me and the last one is bad girl gone good. (2nd pic)


Seduced at Sea. (1st picture)


delphic... I kinda do wish I played with AS a little more. I could be tripping. tell me what you all think.

ok so i'm seeing the green in the SaS picture. but i'm assuming that's just because it's your arm and not your face.
i'm not really seeing a lot of red in delphic. are both swatches in that pic delphic? it looks pretty golden brown to me...
maybe tomorrow morning i can take a pic of delphic and AS on my arm together. if i can get AS to show up in a photo that is!!

 

[aradhana]

Awwww Lickable is so pretty!!! I'm familiar with two of the shades that you mentioned in the trip 5 palette. Sometimes just putting a different color as the main lid color
can completely change the look. I'm a tad concerned about what to do with my eyes during our month of brights too. I decided I'd do the reverse smokey eye that Pix
shared with us and/or I'll use Naked, Naked Dark or Naked Deep Dark pigments. I like using one of those pigments for a neutral look, putting a pop of color in the
transition area that matches my lippie. I also love using any one of those naked pigments all over the eye and wearing winged liner with it. Lastly I'll rely on some of my
neutral palettes. I'm looking forward to starting.

oh yes! that's a great idea!
i was also just watching another lisa eldridge video where she uses only three products...food for thought. so i might postpone my experiments and do this tomorrow instead:

 

[Dolly Snow]

Yeah you are.  Then I shouldn't even be talking to you *flips hair over the shoulder*  Ok, don't mind me, I just rewatched Heathers. LOL   Anyway, I was thinking I bet brights go great with your eyes and skin tone. 

lmao

 

[aradhana]

so many options!

ok ladies i'm going to bed before i confuse myself with all the possibilities under the sun!

 

[Prettypackages]

ok so i'm seeing the green in the SaS picture. but i'm assuming that's just because it's your arm and not your face.
i'm not really seeing a lot of red in delphic. are both swatches in that pic delphic? it looks pretty golden brown to me...
maybe tomorrow morning i can take a pic of delphic and AS on my arm together. if i can get AS to show up in a photo that is!!

I could be wrong on what Delphic is pulling, maybe it's leaning orange? that's why I had to post it. B/c I swatched it again, and it didn't pull the same. Yes both are of delphic.
I never really noticed the green in my skin before. I don't have a makeup free pic at the moment, and that, I'd have to pm to you. LOL But I did notice it in my face as well.
AS is on Macy's site... So are the blushes BTW. LOL

 

[Prettypackages]

oh yes! that's a great idea!
i was also just watching another lisa eldridge video where she uses only three products...food for thought. so i might postpone my experiments and do this tomorrow instead:

let us know how it works.

 

[Medgal07]

hmmm you're making a whole lot of sense... b/c this winter, in February was when I noticed a slight green tint to my skin. I hadn't really noticed it before.



ok this is clinique ginger, sas, stylish me and the last one is bad girl gone good. (2nd pic)


Seduced at Sea. (1st picture)


delphic... I kinda do wish I played with AS a little more. I could be tripping. tell me what you all think.

They all show up so I'm not sure what your question is. Are you bronzing and/or contouring or both? Did you want a darker shade? Your coloring is very warm, like me. In fact we look the same
don't you think? Are you concerned that one or the other is too warm? BTW, I don't have any of these.

 

[Medgal07]

I'm still just a newbie! I'm sure making up for lost time, though! LOL

Look at you two love birds!!! I love your Avi, Mandy!

 

[Medgal07]

Yeah you are. Then I shouldn't even be talking to you *flips hair over the shoulder* Ok, don't mind me, I just rewatched Heathers. LOL

Anyway, I was thinking I bet brights go great with your eyes and skin tone.

 

[Medgal07]

ok ladies i have bookmarked medal's post delineating our weekly schedule and i'm about to program it into my calendar...

i might kick off on the first with embrace me rather than CYY, only because we're supposed to be going for dinner with my boyfriend's sister and in case i can't pull off neon pink, i need a safety net!

oh i didn't post a couple of my looks this past week but there were some nice ones with alluring aquatic items...i should note that fathoms deep looks lovely with imaginary paint pot underneath.

i also did an interesting look yesterday with phone number eye kohl and the teal antonio lopez palette. (i mostly used the two silver/pewter shades on the lid and a mix of the blue/greens in the inner corner). i recently received that palette, and i'm not 100% sure how to use it best. the colours are all lovely but i'm not sure how best to use them together...especially beauty marked...doesn't seem like an obvious choice! if any of you have tried and liked this palette...do tell!

Whoa Aradhana----this is sounding serious yes????

I should have gotten the teal AL palette. I got the one that has carbonized e/s because I LOVE that e/s.
Carbonized was limited edition and I went through two of them---that's how much I liked it. So, when I saw it in
the palette, I had to have it.

 

[Prettypackages]

They all show up so I'm not sure what your question is. Are you bronzing and/or contouring or both? Did you want a darker shade? Your coloring is very warm, like me. In fact we look the same
don't you think? Are you concerned that one or the other is too warm? BTW, I don't have any of these.

Honestly Megal, lately I haven't been able to tell what my color is. LOL I'd see folks who I thought I looked like and they could wear lighter shades that I couldn't. I think color wise I'm the same as many, but that golden/green thing throws things off. Like that new Chanel foundation everyone loved. The darkest color looked decent, but even the MUA agreed I needed a more golden tone foundation.

I was really asking about delphic and if you guys see that it leans towards orange maybe even red on me. I'm only using it as a bronzer, but other WOC were able to get a barely there, sheen on their cheeks, and that's what I wanted. I just put it on my cheeks and it is leaning orange...

Both colors in that swatch are Delphic, the one on the right is just swatched heavier.

 

[Medgal07]

oh yes! that's a great idea!
i was also just watching another lisa eldridge video where she uses only three products...food for thought. so i might postpone my experiments and do this tomorrow instead:

That was really nice Aradhana. I could see doing that in a pinch, but I'd never use up my huge stash of products that way. I want to try this though because I've been
a bit obsessed with the eye shadow matching the lipstick look like the one that I shared earlier this week. I've also gone cray over the YSL Baby Doll Kiss & Blushes---I
got 5 of them. I could take it one step further and use them on my eyes.

 

[Medgal07]

Honestly Megal, lately I haven't been able to tell what my color is. LOL I'd see folks who I thought I looked like and they could wear lighter shades that I couldn't. I think color wise I'm the same as many, but that golden/green thing throws things off. Like that new Chanel foundation everyone loved. The darkest color looked decent, but even the MUA agreed I needed a more golden tone foundation.

I was really asking about delphic and if you guys see that it leans towards orange maybe even red on me. I'm only using it as a bronzer, but other WOC were able to get a barely there, sheen on their cheeks, and that's what I wanted. I just put it on my cheeks and it is leaning orange...

Both colors in that swatch are Delphic, the one on the right is just swatched heavier.

Oh yes, the Chanel Perfection Lumière Velvet ---70 beige is the darkest, and the one that both Shontay and I have. I never realized how much our undertones affect
how products work, or not on us! Clearly you're warm-toned, and your veins appear green just like mine. Did the SA try one shade lighter of the PLV on you? Maybe
because of your undertones, it would work. It appears that you're lighter than the people you were comparing Delphic with, especially if you can wear it as a bronzer and
even a blush and they were wearing it as an overall powder or highlighter.

 

[Medgal07]

Meka, all the talk about chemical peels made me pull one of mine out-----Naturopathica Sweet Cherry Brightening Enzyme Peel.
It smells absolutely amazing! My puppy kept trying to lick my face. I feel no tingling or anything when I use this particular one,
and frankly I don't know if it alone is doing anything. You're supposed to do it twice/week but I do it when I remember to. I
guess because I use so many facial products, I can only hope that the sum total of all of this stuff is what's keeping my skin in
good shape.

 

[aradhana]

That was really nice Aradhana. I could see doing that in a pinch, but I'd never use up my huge stash of products that way. I want to try this though because I've been
a bit obsessed with the eye shadow matching the lipstick look like the one that I shared earlier this week. I've also gone cray over the YSL Baby Doll Kiss & Blushes---I
got 5 of them. I could take it one step further and use them on my eyes.

LOL you are right, same here. i was just thinking it would get me out the door quicker and might be a nice thing for summer. i'm a little hesitant about lipstick on the eyes. i've tried it once or twice but i have some pretty oily lids to i guess it'd have to be really just a hint.

ok so here's the pic of the actual palette:



i feel like the 2nd and 3rd (say yeah! and sable) should just go in another palette. but i'm trying.

p.s. i really want SaS blush!

 

[Anneri]

Like aradhana, I started a bit early with the bright lippie challenge and wore SS Full Speed today. That was mainly to try my only Sheen Supreme again and to determine if I've started to like them during the time it sat in my drawer - but nope, still don't like the formula. Color was ok, though. I paired it with a simple light smokey eye (Burberry Pale Barley with Legendary Lure), EL black liner and lots of mascara. My blush was Clinique Peach Pop and foundation was Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum mixed with Mac Prolongwear. I wore a light blue linen shirt with big pink flowers and blue skinny jeans with it and thought it complemented the MU nicely and was nice on such a sunny day as we had today!