Today's outfit
- Express bootcut jeans, faded wash
- Tryst v-neck knit top with 3/4 sleeves, tie-dyed in cream and brown with a big pink heart at the neckline/center chest
- white leather Nike Airliners sneakers
- wedding set
- gold earrings with brown stone drops
- brown NW bag w/chrome rings
- red Mossimo raincoat
- black Clipper Mist collapsible umbrella with a print of martinis and olives
Today's makeup
- Covergirl Aquasmooth in Classic Ivory as concealer
- Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse in Porcelain Ivory
- Neutrogena Healthy Defense pressed powder in Fair
- Rimmel powder blush in Rose Pink
- Jane Eye Zing in Rock Star used to fill brows
- lashes curled with Shu Uemura lash curler
- L'Oreal Volume Perfect lipstick in Grande Latte
Today's fragrance
- Florence Gunnarson Wild Fern
Today's skincare
Last night:
- DHC Deep Cleansing Oil
- June Jacobs Cooling Cucumber Cleanser
- Liquidity Hydrating Toner
- Boscia Amino-AG eye treatment
- Neutrogena Advanced Solutions night cream
This morning:
- Clearasil Total Control Deep Pore Cream Cleanser
- Liquidity Hydrating Toner
- Boscia Amino-AG eye treatment
- Paula's Choice Antioxidant Concentrate
- Olay Complete Defense SPF 30 moisturizer for sensitive skin
Today's purchases
- just a huge bunch of Thanksgiving goodies
Today's mailbox goodies
- Newport News catalog. Ha! Fat chance I'm ordering from you again, assholes.
- The bill for my Shop, Etc. subscription.
- A coupon for a teacher supply store at the mall where I bought the kids a ton of Xmas gifts last year.
Today's obsession
Foundation. Here's what kind of idiot I am - I'll spend $100 on a pricey jar of miracle skin cream, and then slap a $6 drugstore foundation on top. I really don't know why it is, but I rarely ever wear anything other than drugstore foundation even though I have a really hard time finding shade matches for my pale, yellow-toned skin. I've had a bunch of favorites over the years, most of which have been discontinued (Olay Complete Radiance Compact Foundation, Neutrogena Healthy Defense Sheer Makeup, Covergirl Simply Summer, etc.). Whenever something new comes out, I try it, and I usually hate it and stick it in a drawer somewhere.
That was the case with
Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse. I didn't exactly hate it when I first tried it, but I was disappointed that the lightest shade was about half a shade too dark for me. Then a bunch of other new foundations came out on the market and I got distracted and stuck this one in a drawer.
Well. I pulled it out again a few days ago, because I'm running low on
Glominerals pressed base and don't want to have to order it again before the end of the year. And damn if the Maybelline isn't working just fine for me now! I think maybe when I tried it the first time, I didn't powder over it or something. But when I floof on a little Neutrogena Healthy Defense pressed powder in Fair, which is very very light, this stuff actually matches my skin! So it isn't crap after all! Yay!
Another drugstore foundation of which I'm very enamored is
Max Factor Colour Adapt. This stuff is almost identical to
Covergirl TruBlend, except the latter broke me out something awful, and the former doesn't. There's also a very good match for me in the Max Factor stuff - Creamy Ivory, which is a very pale yellow-toned ivory. This is a really nice foundation - it sort of fuzzes out all of my imperfections and just makes my skin all glowy. I've had a little trouble with the pump bottle refusing to dispense product, though. Shaking the bottle and spritzing the stuff onto a tissue instead of directly onto my foundation brush seems to work well.
There are some very nice liquid drugstore foundations on the market, too. I particularly like
Revlon Colorstay Stay Natural and
L'Oreal True Match. But while I like these fine, I rarely wear them because I find liquid foundations to be a pain in the ass. I can never get them blended the right way, and my fingers get all messy, and I'd really rather not bother. So I stick with powders and cream-to-powders for the most part.
The only non-drugstore foundations that I have and love are the aforementioned Glominerals pressed base and
Bloom compact powder foundation. The Glominerals is my go-to foundation most days. It's just so easy to sweep a brush over this stuff and floof it on in the morning when I'm half-asleep and in a hurry. The Bloom foundation is gorgeous - very smooth and creamy for a powder, and the Base One shade is nicely pale and yellowish. However, if I wear this more than two days in a row, I start to break out. I don't know if it's the lavender oil or what, but something in this doesn't agree with my skin. It's too bad, though, because this is the closest I've found to my late, lamented Olay Complete Radiance compact foundation (except the Bloom is a better color match for me).
