tips and suggestions.
I LOVE makeup! It's funny...I don't wear it often these days now that I'm not going to work every day but once every couple of years, in the "good ole days", I'd collect all the gift certificates I'd received over the year for my birthday, Christmas, etc. and I'd go to Nordstrom to the make up counter and have a SPLURGE!
I LOVE buying new make up. I don't buy much now since I don't use it that often there's little need but I do have a beautiful set of make up brushes I bought one time with several gift certificates I had accumulated. Many many years ago...in another time, in another world (I was married to a fairly wealthy man and lived in Malibu) far, far, far away, I could spend a small fortune on make up.
I don't like a lot of it but I like a few things that I really like. I try to stick to one or two lipsticks, a blush, a bronzer, simple eye shadows and liner. Actually my drawer is too full right now because I haven't cleaned it out this year so things have accumulated. I think it's because we've been so broke I'm afraid I won't have something again so I don't want to give it up. I'm actually much more of a "hoarder" now that we don't have money. I agree with you on the mascara though. Not good to hang onto that for very long. Or foundations.
I am using the mineral kind now and like it. My problem is I'm "old" and still have very oily skin so almost any foundation makes me break out. I've tried about everything imaginable from inexpensive to ridiculously expensive, powder to liquid; you name it I've tried it but it just doesn't seem to work well for me. Anything that covers well makes me break out. I worry about the powder getting into the fine lines now forming on my face. I also have trouble finding an eye liner that doesn't end up making me look like a raccoon by the end of the day!!
