What Would You Do IF You Had To Start All Over....

[onlythebest4me]

I thought it would be interesting to see what we would choose (knowing what we know now) if we somehow lost all of our makeup and had to start all over. What items (not more than 20) would you have to have to rebuild a collection that is functional for a variety of different looks? Try to list items in each category lips, eyes, foundation, etc... Please also include your coloring (i.e. NW 45, NW50 etc...) I'm NW 45 and I would choose:

NW 45 Studio Tech
NW 40 Concealer
Cushy Creamstick
Cork Lip Pencil
Chestnut (I know I know) Lip Pencil
Beaux Lip Lustre Glass
Instant Gold Lustre Glass
Pinkarat Lustreglass
Chanel Giggle
Honeyflower Lipstick
Spice It Up Lipstick
Vanilla Pigment
Embark Eye Shadow
Goldmine Eyeshadow
Amber Lights Eyeshadow
Hoodwinked Eyeshadow
TechniKhol eyeliner in graphblack
Pro Long Lash Mascara Pitch Black
Raizin Blush
Would have been Lovecrush but sadly discontinued....so Ambering Rose Blush
I could go on and on...but the point is to edit your list to the must haves that provide the most versatile range....Your turn!

 

[AfricanaEyes]

First of all, if I lost everything.....

I'd be too hurt.
Only 20 items to start back over? Dag....

Gotta get the NW45 StudioTech
UDPP
Woodwinked e/s
Sketch e/s
Humid e/s
Carbon e/s
266 brush
Blitz & Glitz Fluidline
Revlon Colorstay Eyeliner
NARS Outlaw
Bare Truth Lipglass
Plush Lash Mascara
MAC in 3D's Wondershine
Vanilla pigment
Fix +
....and I think that's it. I keep it pretty simple.

 

[mekaboo]

NW43 Fix Powder
NW45 Studiofix Fluid
Blot Powder Deep Dark
Format Blush
Spite Lipglass
Viva Glam V lipglass
Cthru lipglass
Chestnut lipliner (yeah....and????LOL)
Era
Girlie
Sketch
Handwritten
Amber Lights
129
224
239
266
217
Blacktrack
Zoomblack

 

[onlythebest4me]

I just realized that I did not put any brushes on my list...I Don't know what I was thinking I can't go without my 190, 194,212, 213, 217 and 129 at a minimum!

I hope I never actually have to start from scratch...

 

[Ninjette]

Unfortunately i actually have to do that. lol. I brought all my makeup to school (not a very big collection, but pretty good size) because i was doing makeup for my school fashion show. I turned around for one second and it was all gone! needless to say i was VERY pissed lol. But really, the cosmetology students at my school steal so i should have known to keep a better eye on it anyway >.<

But what i plan on buying on my next visit is:
Mutiny Pigment
Quickfrost Pigment
Fuschia Pigment
Stars N rockets eyeshadow
Satellite dreams eyeshadow
Electric eel eyeshadow
Tempting eyeshadow
Carbon eyeshadow
The fafi eye pallet #2
The Heatherette Trio pallet
Blacktrack fluidline
209 brush
217 brush
231 brush
and a eye primer.

 

[allThingsGirl]

Ninjette, I'm so sorry to hear that!

If I had to start all over, with 20 items, it would be this:

1) Blacktrack
2) Dipdown
3) Soft Ochre
4) Quite Natural
5) Laura Mercier Foundation
6) any face powder
7) any mascara
8) MAC Trip Warm Eyes palette or something similar
9) NARS Alhambra
10) Shu Uemura blush in Amber 29
11) Joyous Beauty Beauty Powder Blush or similar
12) Shooting Star MSF (or similar bronzer)
13) any NARS red lipstick
14) an everyday NARS velvet matte pencil
15) Sinful clear lipgloss
16) Femme Fi
17) Magnetic Fields
18) Urban Decay Ammo Palette
19) NARS Rated R
20) Shu Uemura Brass Gold e/s or similar

 

[cocodivatime]

OMG if i lost all of makeup.

I am a NC44 but I don't really wear MAC foundation, although I have it. I wear my bare escentuals more for light coverage

Anyway--I would buy

1. Bare escentuals bare minerals in dark
2. Bobbi Brown concealer
3. MAC Coconutty lipstick
4. MAC Gel lipstick
5. MAC Mystique lipstick.....but wait. That's discontinued. Oh no.
   
   . Do I have to pretend that I lost my backups too??? BAH!
6. Urban Decay Primer Potion
7. Some type of nude or clear lipgloss.
8. MAscara. Not particular about brand
9. Black eyeliner
10. my beloved 224 brush
11. MAC Saddle eyeshadow
    1. Oh and a brown lipliner like MAC Cork or BBQ

I think this would get me by for starters then I would slowly build up my collection again with color and other fun stuff.

 

[M.A.C. head.]

OMG WHY WOULD YOU PUT SUCH A NIGHTMARISH IDEA IN MY HEAD?!

Well, anyway:

Studio Fix NW45
Fix+
UDPP
Style Blush
Love Rush Blush
Prep and Prime Lash
Zoom Lash Zoom Black
Spiked Brow Pencil
Big Baby Plush Glass
Swiss Chocolate e/s
Espresso e/s
Arena e/s
Carbon e/s
Black Track f/l
Fig 1 e/s
Humid e/s
Twinks e/s
Expensive Pink e/s
Comet Blue d/g
Odyssey l/s

 

[red]

good topic

Mac e/s: Satin Taupe, Suspicion, Shale, Phloof!
Mac e/s duo: Mi'Lady
Mac piggies: Your Ladyship, Quick Frost, Entremauve, Green (frost), Blue Brown, SunPepper, Blue Storm
Mac Solar Bits: Black Ore & Bronzescape
Mac khol: Feline
Jane e/s: Browny Points
Nars blush: Sin
Mac 239
Mascara Covergirl VolumeExact
Chanel Lipstick: Baby Gold

 

[KellyBean]

This is a great thread, although I'm not WOC (sorry!)

- Studio Fix powder- nw20
- Fix +
- Blush in Springsheen
- Painterly
- Naked Lunch
- Vanilla eyeshadow
- Soba
- Love Nectar
- Blacktrack
- Clear Brow Set
- Lash Curler
- 168
- 109
- 239
- 217
- 208
- Brush cleanser

 

[anita22]

Wow, this is a tough one!! (Apart from the fact that I'd be bawling if I lost my stash...!)
This is what I'd get (NC30-35, Asian/European):

1. UDPP
2. Studio Fix Fluid
3. Blot powder
4. Black eyeliner pencil
5. Shroom e/s
6. Brun e/s
7. Charcoal brown e/s
8. Romp e/s
9. Satin Taupe e/s
10. Naked Lunch e/s
11. Print e/s
12. Gingerly blush
13. Dame blush
14. Diorshow mascara
15. Syrup l/s
16. Jubilee l/s
17. Viva Glam V l/g
18. Bare slimshine
19. Poetique l/g
20. Sculpting powder in Shadester

 

[xxManBeaterxx]

1. UDPP
2. Studio Fix Fluid
3. Fix+
4. Blacktrack fluidline
5. Dollymix blush
6. Hipness blush
7. Woodwinked e/s
8. Embark e/s
9. Satin Taupe e/s
10. Vanilla pigment
11. Golden Bronze loose powder
12. Missy slimshine (my nude)
13. Lustering l/s (my vibrant pink)
14. Blot Powder
(Last 5 dedicated to brushes)
15. 239
16. 187
17. 182
18. 168
19. 217
20. 208

 

[doniad101]

This is an awesome thread, b/c I really need to pair down what I already have so here are the items that I would pick to rebuild my collection and...no more than 20? whoo! lol.

Here goes:
NW42
~Face~
1. Skunk Brush (Sephora Brand or MAC 187)
2. Sonia Kashuk Powder Brush
3. Prescriptives Flawless Foundation (can use as spot concealer or foundation!)
4. MAC Blot Powder (probably loose)
5. NARS Mounia Blush
6. MAC Cheery Cream Blush

~Eyes~
7. Loe Cornell Maxine Mop brush (239 dupe)
8. MAC Cocomotion Piggie
9. Avon Brown Eyeshadow (forgot the actual name, haha it rubbed off)
10. MAC 217 brush
11. Vanilla Pigment (so versitile! can use it as highlighter for face and brow bone!!)
12. Sonia Kashuk Blending brush
13. L'Oreal HiP cream liner in Black
14. Angeled Liner Brush
15. The Body Shop Eyebrow Powder Duo (comes w/ brush, haha)
16. E.L.F. eyelash curler
17. MAC Prep and Prime Lashes
18. Maybelline Great Lash in Black
19. UDPP
~Lips~
20. MAC clear lipglass


You know, I've realized that the look I put together was pretty neutral! Well I guess i didnt have a hard time writing this stuff down b/c thats what I mainly use!!!

 

[MiCHiE]

Let's see.....

UDPP or Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Too Faced First Base
NARS Lovejoy Blush
NARS Outlaw Blush
Spiked Brow Pencil
Falling Star
Sable
Sketch
Ricepaper
Viva Glam V L/S
Lila Crush Lipgelee
Deep Dark MSF
Dark MSF
MUFE Super Matte
Mixing Medium
Benefit Babe Cake or MUFE Cake Eyeliner
Woodwinked
182
239
224

 

[couturesista]

I'm surprised about how few bright e/s made the "gotta" have list.

NC50
1. Moistureblend Foundation
2. Moisture Lush Moisturecream
3. Select Cover concealor
4. NYC Brow kit
5. LashBlast Mascara
6. Belle Azzure e/s
7. Patina e/s
8. Black Tied e/s
9. woodwinked e/s
10. forgery e/s
11. amber lights e/s
12. Mineralized Powder in Deep Dark
13. Deep Refined Bronzed powder
14. NYX natural lipgloss
15. Raizin blush
16. Honour blush
17. stars n rockets e/s
18. Humid e/s
19. aquadisiac e/s
20. my ole' cheapy Sinful brand eyeshadow brush

 

[JustDivine]

NW45

1.MSF Deep Dark
2.MAC Blot Powder Deep Dark
3.Prescriptives Custom Blend Concealer
4.187 brush
5.217 brush
6.ZARA 239 dupe
7.Indianwood Paint Pot
8.Bobbi Brown Cranberry Blush
9.Sweet as Cocoa Blush
10.Hush Hush Tendertone
11.Touch l/s
12.Cushy White Plushglass
13.A Juicy Tube
14.Paula Dorf b.cause l/s
15.Chestnut lip liner
16. Pop Mode l/g
17. Black Tied
18. Sable
19. Black eyeliner
20. Mascara

 

[NicksWifey]

Ok here's mine. I'm an NC37 for ref.

1. Mineralize Satinfinish foundation
2. Mineralize Skinfinish Natural in Medium-Dark
3. Mineralize Skinfinish Natural in Deep-Dark (because it's just plain awesome for contouring, if used lightly)
4. Phloof! e/s
5. Bronze e/s
6. Honeylust e/s
7. Black Tied e/s
8. Woodwinked e/s
9. Knight Divine e/s
10. Lychee Luxe l/g
11. Viva Glam V l/s
12. Hug Me l/s
13. Blacktrack f/l
14. Blitz 'N Glitz f/l
15. 190 brush
16. 187 brush
17. 213 brush
18. 219 brush
19. 224 brush
20. 266 brush

 

[dominichulinda]

face:
p&p spf 50
nmsf medium dark
fix+
182
sculpt duo

blush:
gingerly
margin
plum foolrey

lips:
1n l/s, 1n l/g, 3n l/2, 2n l/g, cb96 l/s, oh no l/g

mascara: plush lash

eyes: time and space, femme-fi & saddle, blacktrack

217, 239, 249, 252,

 

[jin1022000]

If I get to start over again... I'll stick to these:

Eyes:
01) MAC Smolder eyeliner
02) Too Faced Shadow Insurance
03) MAC e/s Femme Fi
04) MAC e/s Blue Flame
05) Shiseido hydro powder e/s Violet Vision
06) MAC e/s Moonflower
07) Too faced galaxy e/s Shooting Star
08) Bare escentuals liner sealer Weather Everything
09) BeneFit Bad Gal mascara (black)

Lips:
10) Dior Addict l/g #127

Face:
11) Benefit Georgia
12) MUFE Face & Body Foundation
13) Laura Mercier foundation primer

Blush:
14) MAC Prism
15) MAC Fleurry
16) NARS Deep Throat

Brush:
17) Sasa #E02
18) MAC #213
19) MAC #219
20) Sephora smudging brush

I'm Asian, NC 20.

 

[Simply Elegant]

1. CoverFX primer
2. MUFE mat velvet + foundation
3. CoverFX powder foundation
4. CoverFX cream foundation
5. Well dressed blush
6. MUFE star powder in the light pink colour
7. Some Clinique quad
8. Smoking eyes quad
9. Mulch eyeshadow
10. By jupiter mineralized eyeshadow
11. Gold mode pigment
12. E-z baby tendertone
13. Benefit lovely lip shaping kit
14. 182
15. Quo foundation brush
16. Underage lipglass
17. Stila CC in lillium
18. Annabelle blush duo in bijou
19. CoverFX matte fx powder
20. NYC browser kit