Clothes, makeup, hair, and other such things

coconut oil is an all around beauty hack
it makes dry hair healthy and shiny
it moisturizes the skin without artificial stuff or clogging up pores
you can mix eyeshadows and blushes with it to make liptint/liquid blush (! korean makeup techniques y'all)

 

chiming in w/ my knowledge: i have incredibly sensitive, dry-prone skin and i live in a desert, so i feel you. imo, skincare is the one place in makeupland where what you pay for is really what you get. i've had a lot of luck w/ the tsubaki line by boscia, it's really gentle, smells nice, comes in pink packaging, and really seems to work without being too heavy. i've used their cleanser and the face mask before, which i swear is magical.

oh also, re beautyblender: it seems to make foundation go on easier and you get a slightly better finish, but i don't think it's super necessary. i only use it for my cosplay makeup when i want that kind of look.

 

Unfortunately, 46 dollars is pretty rich for my blood. I'm really, REALLY poor. DX But thank you for your advice! I'll try to find the right balance between budget and quality.

 

oh yeah i understand!! me and my mom buy a lot of stuff together and share it which is why i can afford $28 cleanser. for moisturizer, cerave is actually really good and you can find it in drugstores/walmart. apparently they make a cleanser, i've noticed their products are really hydrating without being too heavy, you might have luck with that?

 

I'll try it! Honestly, it's finding a cleanser that doesn't make my skin worse that's the biggest battle, it seems...

 

Oh man oh dude. You sound exactly like I did a couple years back before I got my rosacea diagnosis. I was all 'wtf is wrong with my skin' and it was rosacea - combination of subtypes 1,2 & 3. I avoid cleansing my face with water now which sounds frankly minging lol, but gentle oil cleansing seems to suit it better and I take nothing warmer than a lukewarm shower. Plus restricted diet plus Rosex gel (metronidazole) on prescription.

If I'm having a really bad rosacea day then I find that Lush colour pot foundation is the best for not caking or irritating personally, and I set it with Fyrinnae Finishing Powder/Fluff (or Hollywood Sorcery in summer for a glow).

 

People keep telling me I have rosacea! I should probably get it official diagnosed. Can I ask how you oil cleanse, and what you've restricted from your diet?

 

@Ruevian Sure! I'm actually kind of lazy about oil cleansing, so I don't mix oils to draw impurities or such. I just slap on coconut oil or thick moisturizer (like a cold cream) and then wipe it off with a cotton pad soaked in toner. If I do wash my face, I use cold bottled mineral water which sounds really spoiled, but tap water does a number on my skin.

As fot diet, I don't eat wheat, tomato, citrus, caffeine and grapes/grape product. Plus I cut down sugar and alcohol. I've found recently I can tolerate a small amount of caffeine per week, but added beetroot to my no-eat list, and I can only have small quantities of apple, passion fruit and banana. Everyone seems to have different trigger foods, so it's a process of elimination.

 

Bought a handful of Wicked colors~ not many since things are tight but those colors <3

 

Ooooh which ones?

 

Sinful, Betrayal, and Risque. (Plus a makeup bag because my tiny-ass basket is overflowing)

 

I have a bunch of make up that I don't use but don't want to get rid of XD nail polish too. Most of my make up is cheap and the rest is from drug stores except for a few things my dad buys me for birthdays and christmas. He's actually really good at make-up but refuses to buy himself flavored or scented chopstick because it's not manly and it amuses the heck out of me.

I don't use foundation anymore because I always have zits/gross healing zits but finally after 5 or more years of torture I'm at the don't give a fuck point. Don't like my complexion? Sucks for you. I was actually good at concealing and finding the right shade (my favorite is one of those true-match with those little beads that blend into your skin) but I didn't like the way I could still see the bumps and stuff under the make-up so now I go bare.

I layer on eyeshadow on my birthday and halloween thought I want to get some primer so the colors can be brighter. Um. Other than that I wear lip gloss and mascara for special occasions or if I feel like it. Everyday stuff is chapstick. I really like everything made by Burt's Bees (the face wipes are magical) so my current chapsticks are that brand. If I feel fancy I wear my tinted chapstick which looks really nice but rubs off on everything XD I don't mind it too much though.

And having anything on my nails drives me crazy but I don't mind my toes. Only problem is doing your own nails is hard and I'm lazy o.o so I need to remember to take my color with me when I get a pedicure since I have so many pretty colors. Purples and greens and a light blue and a really neat dark bluish metallic color which looks hells of bitching.

I wear lipstick on halloween and I like a dark red or to layer red over black until I get the color I like. I would go with straight black but my black lipstick isn't very opaque so it ends up a weird dark browny purple black which is why I liven it up with red. And sticky lip glosses annoy me so I try to go with the smoother ones. And sparkles are always wonderful. In everything.

 

My hair is a gorgeous kind of brown auburn color (I'm going to post some selfies in one of the self thread at some point when I feel like messing with my phone) and thick and long. I've been growing it for years and the only thing that bothers me are these dumb bangs in the awkward growing out process XD the rest is one length and at my mid back I think? I want to grow it until it's almost at butt length because I think it's symbolic or something. And it's one of my favorite attributes, so the more hair the merrier in my opinion.

I don't curl it because I prefer not to use heat on it. It air dries and I make sure to wash and condition it well right at the point where it's just starting to get oily because the natural oils are supposed to be good for it. I brush it once or twice daily (and ogle at it lovingly) because tangles are too cruel to subject my hair to, and it's either loose or in a low ponytail. Braids are less often, and then something I've been doing lately is using a scrunchie to almost make a ponytail, but right before pulling it through the last time I only pull it through three quarters of the way so the hair is in a sort of loop-knot. I think it looks good and it makes a nice change from ponytails. For halloween or just when I want to dress it up I pull the very top layer (an inch or two from the front) back in a half pony. It pulls it away from my face and since some weight is off of the stuff hanging down my back you get to see it's natural wave! For some reason my hair is wavier underneath. Then at halloween I clip in a feather hair clip to hang down and be pretty, or some black ribbon, and cover the hair tie with a pretty little gold rose :3

 

How in the hell do you sleep with long hair and not wake up with a rat's nest hanging directly over your forehead?!

I've had long hair as a kid but was never taught how to care for it. Now I have shoulder-length healthy hair (seconding the glory that is coconut oil BTW) but oh my stars it is everywhere when I wake up and it's starting to be long enough to tangle. Pls halp.

 

Braid it before bed. It's a godsend, honestly. You still get tangles, but they won't eat your face.

 

can you make a french braid? I never had BIG trouble with sleeping with my hair open when it was long (But I have the straightest hair imagineable so it wasn't very prone to tangling anyway), but when I had, then a tight french braid (or two for shorter hair, to either side of the head) and a scarf wrap can help keep hair from tangling horribly all over the place. placement of the braids and the knots of the scarf wrap will vary depending on how you sleep, but the basics are the same.
Bonus: you can sleep on wet or moist hair this way and have soft waves in the morning that will hold in for a day or two even on stubborn hair, without product. Braids are better breakage wise for the hair than ponytails or buns. but I do most of my waving with buns and a scarf wrap rn because of the relative shortness of my hair)

 

Alas, I cannot French braid and it is too short yet for regular braids. Might as well learn!

 

luckily it's not very hard to learn, there is definitly more complicated fancy braid things.

 

I know the theory, I've had it done to me more times than I can count (because you can't beat a french braid for packing tons of stick-straight wispy hair under a softball helmet or swim cap) and I've done it to people. It's just a matter of applying it to my own head.