Theme Makeup with a Purpose

[Medgal07]

You really should send me your list and I can use it as my inspiration and current stock list. ;-)

Same here. I blame you and Katred No that's not true. I'm just unwiling to fight to make a lipstick work.

I'll send it to you if you're serious. You could just delete what you don't need and fill in what you have that I don't. I just set it up by category, initially in the order in which
I apply my makeup. Then I added brushes and nail polish and skin care products.

I hear you---Through the lipstick challenge I will have a ton of lippies to B2M!!!

 

[aradhana]

I might do the same. And restart my lippie challenge with Jay. ;-) LOL


Ladies don't forgot to post your blush tips, and fave videos!

i have to restart the lipstick challenge with you ladies too....i've lost track. but it will take me longer than a year to get through all my lipsticks - not because i have too many, but because i have to wear mostly nudes/natural tones to work. so i'll be making do with evenings and weekends!

for the first day of our blush challenge i wore modern mandarin with immortal flower. and cathedral lipstick (kat von d). love those two, and felt very spring appropriate! can't wait to hear what you all choose!

 

[Medgal07]

why did you get rid of red racer? i missed that one, and whenever i hear mention of it, i wish i hadn't!

i have to restart the lipstick challenge with you ladies too....i've lost track. but it will take me longer than a year to get through all my lipsticks - not because i have too many, but because i have to wear mostly nudes/natural tones to work. so i'll be making do with evenings and weekends!

for the first day of our blush challenge i wore modern mandarin with immortal flower. and cathedral lipstick (kat von d). love those two, and felt very spring appropriate! can't wait to hear what you all choose!

Hi there Aradhana. I hope your job is going well.
I like your choice for the first day of our blush challenge. I chose Chanel Le Blush Créme, Chamade, 67 (Deep Pink Coral) with Chanel Rouge Allure Velvet Luminous
Matte, L’ éclatante (Coral) 42. I'm hoping if my make up is bright and spring-like, the weather will follow suit!!!

 

[Jaymuhlee]

To close out March's palette challenge I wore four of my five palettes for the remaining 10 days: Stila The Natural Palette (x1), LORAC Unzipped (x1), LORAC GLOgetter (x2), and bareMinerals The Sexy Neutrals‎ (x2). I had big plans for Laura Mercier Artist’s Palette for Eyes that I swapped for a bit ago but I never dug in! And now that it's back up on Sephora (for an inflated price) I'm even happier I was able to swap for it. For the lipstick challenge, I ended the month with: 23. NARS Fanny - rich berry 24. NARS Leslie - cherrywood 25. NARS Anna - smokey rose 26. NARS Brigitte - nude rose 27. NARS Jane - terracotta rose 28. NARS Liv - deep aubergine 29. Givenchy Fuchsia Irresistible - vibrant fuchsia 30. 31. YSL Fuchsia Tourbillon (31) - fuchsia pink And, surprise, I forgot to wear blush yesterday!

 

[mkoparanova]

I didn't wear makeup yesterday, so I'm starting the challenge today:

Face:
D&G Perfect liquid luminous foundation 78
D&G Tan
Nars radiant creamy concealer Chantilly
MAC Light boost
MAC Summer Opal
Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick Nectar

Eyes:
UDPP
Dior Myriade
Zoeva Rose golden palette - Luster, Reflective elegance, Rusty petal, Wonder full
Too Faced Chocolate Bar - Marzipan
Chanel Le Volume

Lips:
MAC Prep+prime
D&G Seduction

 

[Anneri]

I tried to do all three challenges at once today!

I used the old old OLD Graphic Garden Palette by Mac in a spring-y look - I was quite tempted by Preening from the new Mac is Beauty collection and determined to shop my stash for it because let's stay honest - when do I wear aqua green e/s?!

Face: Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation, Chanel Les Beiges Powder, Meteorites Perles, Lightscapade as a highlighter und Pink Cult Blush.

Eyes: I used the aqua e/s from the palette (Straight Hedge) over the whole lid and smoked that out a bit with Kid. Espresso e/s in the outer v and Orb as highlight. Then I used a simple black liner on the upper lashline and a brown liner on the lower lashline. Clinique mascara.

Lips: I used Mac's Bust Out witha mauvey liner (Catrice Berry & Sally) and VG Rihanna 2 l/g over it.

 

[aradhana]

I tried to do all three challenges at once today!

I used the old old OLD Graphic Garden Palette by Mac in a spring-y look - I was quite tempted by Preening from the new Mac is Beauty collection and determined to shop my stash for it because let's stay honest - when do I wear aqua green e/s?!

Face: Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation, Chanel Les Beiges Powder, Meteorites Perles, Lightscapade as a highlighter und Pink Cult Blush.

Eyes: I used the aqua e/s from the palette (Straight Hedge) over the whole lid and smoked that out a bit with Kid. Espresso e/s in the outer v and Orb as highlight. Then I used a simple black liner on the upper lashline and a brown liner on the lower lashline. Clinique mascara.

Lips: I used Mac's Bust Out witha mauvey liner (Catrice Berry & Sally) and VG Rihanna 2 l/g over it.

that's pretty cool that you already had a aqua in your stash. i'm not sure if i have one, but those eyeshadows from mac is beauty are certainly tempting me too....
i like the combo of colours you put together...bust out is a personal fave.


my blushes today were super continental and style seeker. i dont think i'll necessarily pair two blushes every day this month, but it definitely would help me get through my collection!
for my eyes i wore a black greasepaint stick to do a thick cat eye, then blended tempting and honey lust over top. i then used free to be as a transition shade, and deepened the outer corner with noble spirit and carbon from the keepsakes smoky palette.

i might have to throw out my greasepaint stick soon....it might even be from style black, though i think i bought it at a cco much later. i might replace it with the LM stick...is the shade called tux?

 

[mkoparanova]

hello!!! the job is going well...but i find it takes a few months to really feel comfortable every time i start someplace new.

nice blush choice! the texture of the chanel cream blush looks like a dream to work with...

cool that you were able to get that LM palette in a swap! i was considering the re-release, but will probably wait out the impulse since the price is so inflated.

looks like you had a strong finish to the march challenges. those nars lipsticks are hard hitters!


sounds like a very pretty spring look. (i had to google the zoeva palette, since i did not know anything about the brand. it looks nice!)

that's pretty cool that you already had a aqua in your stash. i'm not sure if i have one, but those eyeshadows from mac is beauty are certainly tempting me too....
i like the combo of colours you put together...bust out is a personal fave.


my blushes today were super continental and style seeker. i dont think i'll necessarily pair two blushes every day this month, but it definitely would help me get through my collection!
for my eyes i wore a black greasepaint stick to do a thick cat eye, then blended tempting and honey lust over top. i then used free to be as a transition shade, and deepened the outer corner with noble spirit and carbon from the keepsakes smoky palette.

i might have to throw out my greasepaint stick soon....it might even be from style black, though i think i bought it at a cco much later. i might replace it with the LM stick...is the shade called tux?

Thanks! I love their brushes but this palette was my first (and only for now) makeup item from them - I'm quite impressed.

Your look sounds amazing! I googled the greasepaint sticks - I would've loved to have the green and the burgundy ones

 

[aradhana]

Thanks! I love their brushes but this palette was my first (and only for now) makeup item from them - I'm quite impressed.

Your look sounds amazing! I googled the greasepaint sticks - I would've loved to have the green and the burgundy ones

i googled them after reading your post too - i also would have liked the two you mentioned, but actually...i could easily have purchased all of them if i threw caution to the wind!

i had only gotten dirty and below ground from when they were released in their own greasepaint collection...i had a black one, dark blue and a purple one from the dsquared2 release. the blue and the purple are long gone, and the black is nearing it's end - it seems drier than before. i don't know what it i about the formula, but when they go bad, they smell really obviously bad. maybe that's a good thing because there's no mistaking it!

so yesterday's blushes were eversun and on a mission. lipstick was burmese kiss. later in the day though i switched to make me gorgeous. interestingly the two are very similar tonally, but mmg is distinctly coral while bk pink.

today i've got on hipness blush with glint highlighter from illamasqua. lips are reel sexy, with a l'oreal lipliner in nudes for life.

do you all have a long weekend where you are? how are your weekends going? i had yesterday off, so today feels like a sunday in some ways.

 

[mkoparanova]

i googled them after reading your post too - i also would have liked the two you mentioned, but actually...i could easily have purchased all of them if i threw caution to the wind!

i had only gotten dirty and below ground from when they were released in their own greasepaint collection...i had a black one, dark blue and a purple one from the dsquared2 release. the blue and the purple are long gone, and the black is nearing it's end - it seems drier than before. i don't know what it i about the formula, but when they go bad, they smell really obviously bad. maybe that's a good thing because there's no mistaking it!

so yesterday's blushes were eversun and on a mission. lipstick was burmese kiss. later in the day though i switched to make me gorgeous. interestingly the two are very similar tonally, but mmg is distinctly coral while bk pink.

today i've got on hipness blush with glint highlighter from illamasqua. lips are reel sexy, with a l'oreal lipliner in nudes for life.

do you all have a long weekend where you are? how are your weekends going? i had yesterday off, so today feels like a sunday in some ways.

I started buying MAC 2-3 years ago and I haven't seen them but they look interesting - I'll definitely check them out, if they repromote them! I recently bought two of the Charlotte Tilbury eyeshadow pencils and I really like them, I think they might be similar to the greasepaint sticks.

I haven't worn makeup in the last couple of days. The weather is horrible, it's dark all day long and it's raining almost 24/7 and I also have to study for my exams, so I go out for 5 min to grab a coffee from Costa and then go back to studying. I'm going to my home country next week for Easter (it's next Sunday for me) and I'll wear makeup then

 

[awickedshape]

Yes, [@]aradhana[/@], it's a four-day weekend here for the Easter season :-D Have a good weekend, everyone!

 

[mango13]

I don't know if this is the appropriate thread to post this in... but since this thread has challenges I thought I would post this here. Last year or 2013ish I read either here or somewhere else somebody mentioning a challenge to not buy mascara for a whole year (using remaining mascara or samples). Today is a whole year since I've bought mascara!!! I thought it would have been much harder than it actually was! I think I'm going to keep going and not buy any mascara for the foreseeable future. I have three unopened samples (two opened) as of now and it's still really early in the year so I will definitely have enough to get me through this year as of now, but I'm pretty sure I'll get more so if I have way more then I need I'll give away/donate the extras.

 

[mango13]

Well, this month just seemed to fly by. I managed to wear palettes both yesterday and today that I had never worn. Yesterday I wore a Burberry palette and today, the last day of the eyeshadow palette challenge I wore the following:

EYES:
UDPP Anti Aging Formula
MAC Paint Pot, Quite Natural as a base
Givenchy Prisme Quator, Impertinece 04
Silver to lid
Black to crease and lower lash line
Gold to blend and transition
Cream Shimmer to highlight brow and inner corners
MAC Blacktrack to line upper lash line

FACE:

Chanel, Soleil Tan De Chanel Bronzing Makeup Base
Guerlain Terracotta Joli Teint Healthy Glow Fluid Foundation, Meyon
YSL Touche Éclat’ Radiant Touch Luminous Pralinein small triangle below eyes, set w/Ben Nye Powder, Banana Visage
Tom Ford Shade & Illuminate Duo Intensity #2, shade portion only.
Estée Lauder Illum Shimmering Nudes Bronze Goddess 2015 (Pink stick) to facial high planes
Estée Lauder llum. Powder Gelée, Crystal Baby (pale white pink) to set stick highlighter
Tom Ford Frantic Pink 02 (Soft Golden Pink)

GuerlainTerracotta Bronzing Powder
Guerlain Terracotta Joli Teint Powder Duo, Brunette Natural 03
Skindinavia Makeup setting spray

LIPS:
Chanel Hydra Beauty Nourishing Lip Care
MAC Cork Lip Pencil
MAC Budding Love (Pale Lavender


NAILS:

Chanel(Pink Coral) 621

Your eyebrows are amazing!

 

[MrsBaine]

Hey ladies! I see we switched challenges! I was doing so well... till vacation and that was that! Looks like we're doing blushes. That's fun! I've bought a couple of new blushes recently. I may do something a tad different; and wear the same blush for a week. that is a challenge for me! Can't wait to see everyone's different blushes and continue to be enabled!

 

[aradhana]

i'm guessing everybody's having too much fun over the long weekend to post about their blush adventures...


today's blush was plum du bois, and yesterday's was laid cream blush by illamasqua. i also wore petulant intense gloss by illamasqua yesterday...but today i threw my lipstick in my bag and forgot to wear put it on when i got to work!

 

[Medgal07]

Hey ladies! I see we switched challenges! I was doing so well... till vacation and that was that! Looks like we're doing blushes. That's fun! I've bought a couple of new blushes recently. I may do something a tad different; and wear the same blush for a week. that is a challenge for me! Can't wait to see everyone's different blushes and continue to be enabled!

Yes we have MrsB. Its E/S palette was for a month. I once did what you're going to do---the same blush for a week. That was much harder for me because I have so
many blushes and I really wanted to switch it up to go with my lips. At any rate it's a good challenge and I hope you have fun with it.

Today I wore one that just arrived on Friday---Dior Blush Dior Tie Dye Blush Harmony, Coral Sunset o2. Today's lipstick is MAC Beach Sand (Peachy Tan)

 

[Medgal07]

i'm guessing everybody's having too much fun over the long weekend to post about their blush adventures...


today's blush was plum du bois, and yesterday's was laid cream blush by illamasqua. i also wore petulant intense gloss by illamasqua yesterday...but today i threw my lipstick in my bag and forgot to wear put it on when i got to work!

I hope you had a great weekend Aradhana. I was so exhausted----between Friday's Passover Seder and Sunday's Easter dinner

I cooked both dinners and
loved every minute of it. Yesterday I also wore a Dior blush that's only about three weeks old-----Dior Blush Cannage Edition, My Lady Palette Blush 007 (Peach).

 

[aradhana]

I hope you had a great weekend Aradhana. I was so exhausted----between Friday's Passover Seder and Sunday's Easter dinner

I cooked both dinners and
loved every minute of it. Yesterday I also wore a Dior blush that's only about three weeks old-----Dior Blush Cannage Edition, My Lady Palette Blush 007 (Peach).

wow a marathon of cooking!
hope you got to rest a little bit afterwards

 

[Medgal07]

pretty lady and pretty blush!

wow a marathon of cooking!
hope you got to rest a little bit afterwards

Thank you Aradhana. I did rest for most of the day on Monday.

 

[awickedshape]

Yes we have MrsB. Its E/S palette was for a month. I once did what you're going to do---the same blush for a week. That was much harder for me because I have so
many blushes and I really wanted to switch it up to go with my lips. At any rate it's a good challenge and I hope you have fun with it.

Today I wore one that just arrived on Friday---Dior Blush Dior Tie Dye Blush Harmony, Coral Sunset o2. Today's lipstick is MAC Beach Sand (Peachy Tan)

Love it! You look beautiful, as always