I think I have it narrowed down to these four shades

From most tame to not:

Master Plan – ColourPop

Tiger – ColourPop

Panda – ColourPop

Zipper – ColourPop

(There are a few others that I want but I'll wait until I'm working again)

woah o3o

I'm gonna have a million lipsticks at this rate

Contouring and highlighting is still a foreign world for me. I'm probably gonna go to ULTA and have them teach me

Or Sephora

nodnod

;;

I'm still learning makeup myself. My routine is stupid simple

Yes please all the recs most of my stuff is drugstore stuff rn because money but

I'm so jealous

colourpop is tricky to get in the uk

:<

omg ty for this entire plurk

I'm a complete UD junkie, but a lot of my favourite brands are american

ive just started getting into makeup....

so it's time to start collecting fun and versatile shades c:

TooFaced is amazing, and we have a small selection of their stuff in a UK department store. I LOVE Sugarpill, but it's pricey. A number of uk sellers import though so it's easier to get

-- I HIGHLY recommend Sugarpill for messing around with bright eyeshadows. They have the most colourful, most pigmented shades i've ever seen

I want to try makeupgeek, colourpop and Kat Von D's stuff... the latter is launching a flagship stall in the same department store than sells TooFaced and Urban Decay so that's good.

But the other two I'ma haveta grit my teeth and just buy it.

question re: makeup... would eyelid primer be good for making sure eyeliner doesn't like

rub off/smudge halfway thru the day

eyelid primer is best for eyeshadows.

or is that just the eyeliner being shitty...

if you want to keep your eyeliner on all day, I recommend a waterproof liner

but make sure you use an oil-based cleanser when removing make-up, that gets rid of waterproof stuff well.

Yup, or doubling up!

whoa so complex!! i will probably go with waterproof since I tear up when i yawn

i started with a brush pen liquid liner which i really like... since it's easier to apply (my hand shakes)

Yeah I would start with a pen when first starting out, liquid or gel can take some getting used to

I recommend, personally, pen style liquid liners. I find them easier to control

Also seconding the Stila suggestion I love their stuff it goes on really easy

yeah that seems to be the case!

but brush style gel ones are good when you get the hang of it.

notes this down...

I use the Sailor Moon eyeliner :E

omg

it's actually really good

pink....

like... I stopped using my favourite etude house one because hotdamn creere beauty

i wanna go baller and see if i can find a gold liner

I wish I had brown eyes so I could do a gold liner :<

do!

Coloured eye liner is the easiest way to spice up make up

I love eyeshadows but my skill with it is noooot the best

I have bright blue eyes so gold looks super weird

i've got super brown eyes and darker skin so

And I'm pale af

Like

I pretty much glow in the dark

so I like to go with a plain shade of eyeshadow and and then do wtf ever with my eyeliner to make it pop

omg rose gold my fav

All those good Swedish and welsh genes undoing all the nice olive/darker complexion I would get from my Italian/Brazilian heritage

and mehhhh. Do whatever you like with make up. People say "you shouldn't use this if you have xyz skin tone or eye tone"

*Welsh

i'm half filipino so i've got them dark genes

So jealous

but screw 'em

yeah honestly do whatever u want

I have to find the palest foundation colors and pray it's pale enough

lol

I befriended one of the woman at the Urban Decay stall and I said that and she was like 'SHH SHH SHHH NO. You do you.'

it's ok... i accidentally got one too dark

women*

omg so cute

blue eyeshadow tho

also I am pale AF and have blue/grey eyes and I do wtf ever I want

good choice

omg blue eyeshadow

-- also find out your skin tone

sometimes it doesn't matter how pale the foundation is

If you look for the lowest number

That's usually me lol

transparent white girl

it me

if that foundation is pale with yellow tone and you're pale with pink tone

that foundation is gonna look too dark on you

nah, I am an anaemic vampire

how do you find out your tone....

Use the under side of your arm

Near your wrist

but if I accidentally wear pale af foundation with yellow tone it's like a beacon going 'THIS WOMAN PICKED THE WRONG FOUNDATION. LAUGH AT HER, PLEASE.'

i have a pinkish tone?

im warm....

but actually Urban Decay's foundation is good. 0.5 is pale enough and it's a little yellow but not too much. it works for me.

I love UD stuff but it's so expensive ;;

I got some of their lipstick for half off when they were rebranding their packaging, I was so happy

oh crazy!!

i am cool toned then

I got a really nice vintage dark red that way

I spend too much their. I tell Saff she should be paying me, the amount I buy there and she laughed at me

they are rather purple

there*

I can spell I promise

but when it comes to foundation I kinda swear by you get what you pay for.

It's so true

But man I am so cheap rn

I tried MAC because everyone raved about it

but

eh

I need to go out and just

Oh ew no MAC

That shit clogs up my face so bad

I don't have bad skin

But man MAC makes me think I do

it was so drying and I was put off by "well you're so pale only two of our 750000 foundations actually suit your colour" and it was like '.... thanks obama'

But yeah I need to just hit up a beauty counter and be like

also yeah, they animal test.

"Here is $100-150 dollars get me started so I can look bomb on interviews."

I just need some good foundation and primer stuff. The rest I'm generally ok with

hilariously i am sat here cradling my new translucent matting powder from UD like it is my newborn child

Matting powder

That's one of those things that I'm always like "I need this, but God why so much"

because I need powder but most of them end up going 'LOOK AT HOW POWDERY THIS ASSHOLE'S FACE IS'

y e p

even when I refresh with spray during the day

I thankfully don't have the acne problem my mom does

But

I'm mostly dry skinned but occasionally my t zone is like 'SURPRISE'

My skin is so weird

Mostly my forehead and near my nose like

HELLO I WANT TO BE SWEATY AND OILY LOVE ME STILL

i've been using body shop combination products and it's not as oily as it was six months ago so that's good

body shop is the best, btw.

their combination skin range is

My forehead is the worst too cause like

i use the face wash and mattifying day cream

I have a scar on my hairline and I swear its impossible to hide

and it's worked nicely. I also use their exfoliating scrub once or twice a week

No amount of blending will fix it, and it basically looks like I missed a bunch of foundation right in that spot (I've had people tell me this constantly)

hmm.

do you use a primer?

Like had a friend reach up and try to smudge my scar

And I'm like "lol good luck tell me if you get rid of that"

I don't, but again my makeup budget up to this point has been near non-existent

But it's like

Literally right against my hair

So idk if I can actually blend it without getting product in my hair

It's not terrible, most of the time I part my hair to fall over it, but

recommend

in general, this stuff is really gentle on sensitive skin (I love UD but their primer made my face explode into spots), has SPF in it and kinda... photoshops the face? It's not too spendy either.

compared to some primers.

There are so companies that specialise in not-too expensive make up for covering scarring

Like so

Because yay for being a rough-and-tumble kid

also ack i came online to do my ac /runs

hahaha go go go

I'm gonna run to get a coffee anyway

i can talk make up for hours... one of the nurses where i work loves make up too and we're like 'AHHHHH' at each other at least three times a day

i didn't get into it until like... two years ago either

i went to korea in february and it was like... the pilgrimage to the holy land

of make up

and skin care

This is such a good plurk. Makeup

Belatedly, colourpop owns my soul because they have the perfect purplish-grey for my skintone.

Also I've decided, I'm getting Panda