Pondering makeup. (random)

[elainegrey]

Phase one: My niece is wearing super glam eyeliner these days and i have vague memories of enjoying wearing makeup once upon a time.

Phase two: "window" shopping. Ooh, pretty mineral powders appropriate for skin use: https://lotioncrafter.com/search?page=1&q=mica%2A&type=product Oh, plastic free makeup vendors https://www.etsy.com/shop/CleanFacedCosmetics

So, i can probably play with makeup and avoid all the packaging.

Phase three: before spending money, fiddle with what i have. So, i have some theoretically beneficial "eye serum" which i think is translucent spackle for wrinkles. I bought the current eye serum i'm using in a weak moment when i read some convincing articles about the effectiveness of modern eye stuff and thought that well, yes, i can lose money, but a little bit of care about my appearance isn't .... a betrayal of all i hold dear: https://www.thebodyshop.com/en-us/face/eye-care/oils-of-life-eye-cream-gel/p/p002013 I have that under my eyes, and i dust very pale powder (i dunno how old that compact of Physicians Formula Mineral powder is) over it. This makes a some difference in the deep sagging dark under eye circles. But by the end of the day, it seems the wrinkles are really really obvious.

Phase four: Ask the internet what to do with "deep set eyes." Internet proscribes a number of expensive solutions, in plastic, and also inexpensive Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circles Treatment Multi-Use Concealer, in plastic. Much raving about the Maybelline solution. Maybelline contains Haloxyl (https://www.ulprospector.com/en/na/PersonalCare/Detail/1240/420567/Haloxyl & https://dietsinreview.com/diet_column/09/haloxyl-review/ ). So theoretically more effective than merely pigment.

Phase five: OK, it might be fun to play with pretty eye shadows but as long as these navy shopping bags are dragging under my eyes, i don't see any point in drawing attention?

Current competing thoughts:

* Time taken to apply cuts into my morning schedule, so if this is a regular thing i either need to give up something or start earlier. Sigh. It's also spending money. And it's added more clutter to the counter. Why am i doing this?

* Stick to plastic free. Buy powders, so what if there are wrinkles. No one really is looking at your face anyhow.

* OK, the under eye thing is a special condition. Get a good product meant to deal with it. It will be faster and more satisfying. Then stick with plastic free vendors for pigmented fun mascara and eyeshadows and maybe someday i'll bother with lipstick again but meh.


There's still plenty of powder and serum to go through so i don't know which competing thought might win.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Covid left me not wearing makeup for over two years and I still haven't really got back into the way of it.

I use a range called 'bare minerals' which are 100% natural.

[elainegrey]

I quit in the 90s, probably because of my long depression or possibly because i was in a physics graduate program with women issues. Not that i wore much in college, either. The mica based shimmer is quite fun! How is bare minerals packaged?

[cmcmck]

Pretty much like other products although they originally came in loose powder form until they realised they could do compacts using a seaweed based agent as a setting compound.

[amaebi]

I didn't think makeup was fun after I was about eight, but I raise a thermomug to your joy!

[elainegrey]

I had a few years during the 80's enjoying the over the top, bright pink and teal, heavily dramatized eyes. That i did find fun. I can't imagine i would really do the dramatic eyes again, but ....

[amaebi]

I dutifully had a go at makeup in the 1970s, though I didn't really ever do anything but blush. I never understood how people could eyeliner their eyes without crippling terror of poking mascara into an eyeball.