Some of the drugstore brands now have primers, but I haven't tried them.

O Rilly? Which ones?

I don't remember, but looking at drugstore.com it looks like Revlon, Loreal, CG, Maybelline and Rimmel have some version of them, at a start.

Thank you, ND. I get having the 2 ten out of twelves, because we have to stop and do things, but having to do all costume/hair makeup before and after my twelve hour days is beginning to annoy me. Since we advertise that our advantage is that we have new young proffessional deisners and director each show, I might be able to convince them that this way is too much like theatre school. Most of tech seems to be about making design decisions- is that normal?

I just repaired a vacuum cleaner while watching football. Today I am the queen of multi-tasking. Next up, folding clothes or knitting?

Sephora has (or maybe it's already gone?) their own brand of primer, which I got as a sample, or a gift with purchase, or something. It worked for me about as well as Smashbox did -- which is to say, neither one made that much of a difference. People have said I have good skin, so maybe that's why the primers didn't seem to have much effect. (I, of course, as the wearer of the alleged "good skin," can quickly point out the myriad flaws. But so it goes.)

ION, I fixed my car today by pulling an air sensor and cleaning it. I did it all by researching on the Interpipes. I AM A GOD.

Rimmel seems to be polling ahead in the sites I looked at.

I vote folding, msbelle.

David, sometimes it's fads, sometimes new competition (IIRC, the concealer I was bitching about was discontinued around the time Touche Eclat came out, and all of the new light-diffusing concealers in other lines) sometimes it's new info from the FDA, sometimes it's just because they don't pay attention to their customer base.

ETA: Steph, I have good skin, too, and I mainly use them primer when I want my makeup to stick longer, like for my wedding, or interviews. It certainly FEELS smoother, but other than longevity, there's not much of a diff for me, either. But it certainly helps shadow and such stay on me much longer.

Cosmetics is an EXTREMELY trend driven marker, maybe even more so than tech. If you follow it closely, hundreds of new products come out with giant ad campaigns each year, and maybe 3 or 4 of them have a 10 year life cycle. And that's just product lines, I'm not even counting individual colors.

Most of tech seems to be about making design decisions- is that normal?

Not in an organized professional theatre. Tech should be mainly time for implementing decisions that have already been made. When I'm working in a LORT house as a sound designer I walk into my quiet time, before tech, with all my cues ready. If the houses have staff that can support it, I have emailed my design ahead of time and uploaded my cues to an FTP site so that when I get to my quiet time the show is already programmed and we are just using the time to check levels and assignments. For first tech I have hopefully already given the stage managers all the cues, which that have entered into the prompt book in advance of the rehearsal. Lighting has done the same. So tech time is the stage manager calling cues through the show and we stop when something doesn't work either technically or creatively. Depending upon time required for the fix we may stop and fix it at that moment, or the specific design area may just take a note to fix during a break.

Would a primer help with the lines I get with powder under my eyes? I feel like it is the one thing on my face that shows my age.

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Ah, there's a great story in here. Makes me want to research it more.

And yes, msbelle.

I don`t think I need a primer. My skin is pretty good from years of not wearing anything. I think I inherited it from my grandmother. I once asked her (in her eighties) how she still had such beautiful skin, expecting some Japanese answer, eating fish or something. Her answer? Pond`s cold cream. Hee. So that`s what I use.
 
I was looking at smashbox the other day. Maybe that`s the way I`ll go. But first, I`ll need to buy coffee. And the birdfeeding supplies. And the nail polish kit from Zoya. So that`s a lot of pay periods of spending money before I get around to makeup. And that`s all while still saving for my kayak.