I do! I think I use them more now than I did when I wasn’t a full-time blogger. This is because I tend to take a palette that I liked and recently reviewed with me for travel, although I have been taking a customized Make Up For Ever palette for longer trips.
Guerlain Parure Gold foundation (discontinued and now brought back, but I am referring to the original, as I haven’t tried the new one), MAC Espresso/Brun (brow colors), MAC 239 (I have six or so).
If I’m going to be doing an outdoor activity for a prolonged period of time, especially if it is warmer out, like hiking. If I’m really sick, then I would also skip!
I can’t recall that being true! If the packaging was actually faulty, I might avoid purchasing additional shades if it was going to cause issues (e.g. a cream eyeshadow prone to drying out).
Not exclusively, no! I definitely get the urge to wear darker shades on the lips during fall, but I think the seasons have more of an impact on my skin and what products I use there.
In my new place, I replaced the recessed light bulbs with daylight bulbs, so it is a whiter light (it was quite yellow before, like 2600K). The room gets some natural light, and I use a simplehuman magnifying mirror, which also gives off what’s supposed to be daylight, so I wanted to get fairly...
When I first started wearing makeup, I only wore eye makeup. Then I gradually started to wear blush and lipstick (but I owned one blush and maybe a few lipsticks), which moved into gloss and foundation. I became really dependent on foundation for a couple of years, so I eased back on it. Eventually,...
I buy everything with the intention of reviewing it (which is my version of wearing it), and generally, I’m not someone who will buy makeup just to look at – like I’ll buy a pretty limited edition compact and use it, even if it destroys an embossing, and I’m okay with that. The way I see it...
MAC 239s (or Chikuhodo GSN-09s) for initial application of color (although, I will just as readily use them for all placement, blending, including crease color and brow bone color!). For the crease, if I want something more diffused, I’ll use a larger, rounded crease brush like Wayne Goss #19 or...
If I’m unhappy with the version I have, and I think the dupe is better, that would generally be the way to go. There are shades that I just really like, and so I enjoy having different finishes (even when slightly different), undertones, lightness/darkness, but they’re shades I would be more...
