I don't have leave the house makeup.

I'll leave the house without makeup but I am reflexively putting on the MAC Del Rio lipstick before I am even to my car. Summer is nice because if I've tinted and waxed my brows, I can flick on powder, lipstick and sunglasses and feel actually put together.

I'm pretty much wearing sunscreen all of the time too. But if I am going to be in sun more than vaguely, I layer things on my face and apply it all over. And hands. Hands totally show age!

I have a little bottle of lotion with 15 sunscreen in my car and I've tried to get in the habit of getting in, buckling up, turning on my car and then applying lotion before I even back out. It's enough time to let the air con start and my music start and me to think about where I am driving. Sunscreened hands!

Hands totally show age!

And neck and decollete! I pretty much sunscreen/moisturize anything that shows.

You know you can perm your eyelashes.

I'm scared to have them dyed, never mind permed!

leave the house makeup

Everyday makeup is concealer, mauvey-rose tint on my eyelids (tones down the brown pigmentation), eyebrow pencil, and mascara. Going-out makeup adds foundation, powder on the nose, eyeliner, and Red Roses lip rouge. Even if I have nothing else on my face, I won't be seen by anyone without my eyebrows filled in.

Yesterday morning I got to see Wil Wheaton wearing a Cape of Dicks on stage with Paul & Storm, doing a dramatic reading of Wil's first encounter with William Fucking Shatner.

So Dragon*Con was pretty great.

I leave the house whateverthefuck I feel at the moment. For work, I do the full kit. After that?I don't even do my hair most weekends (but the cut lets me get away with that) and when do makeup then, it usually unnerves people. I've gotten where I'm comfy howeverdamn I please. I like it.

Also NARS Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Damned. Which sounds very Jilli.

I think I've looked at it and decided it wasn't dark enough for me. waves GothCard

leave the house makeup

There are two versions. The OH CRAP MUST GET READY FAST version: SPF100, eye cream, NYX concealer, OCC tinted moisturizer on my nose and chin, darken my eyebrows, Urban Decay "rockstar" liner on the lower lashline, NYX liquid liner for winged-out liner on the upper lids, Make-Up Forever Aqua Smokey Lash mascara, and W&W "Cherry Bomb" or Kat von D "Homegirl" oh G-d I hate the name lipstick.

The I have time to do proper makeup version is everything in the previous list, plus three colors of eye shadow: either Petunia, Apocalypse Pansy, and Star Bright by Aromaleigh, or Mylar, Sketch, and Sweetlust by MAC.

The NYX "Studio Effects" liquid liner is a dead-ringer for the MAC LiquidLast, but is half the price. It is insanely water - and crying - proof! And the MUFE mascara is the only thing that stayed on my eyelashes through the horrible first part of the year.

Anymore, I usually either do full-on make-up or no make-up, but always moisturizer, sunscreen product, eye cream.

Full-on is, heh, well, oil-control lotion (yes, over forty and still teenage levels of oil), primer, foundation (powder, creme-to-powder, or liquid depending), blush (glaze or powder, depending), eye-liner, eye shadow, mascara, brow pencil. Fifty percent of the time I use lip liner. Then, either lipstick or tinted lip balm with... yes, SPF. Colors vary. Usually takes five minutes. Ah, the benefit of years of practice.

I pretty much wear make-up unless I'm doing minimal human interaction. But there was a time in my life when I would not leave my dwelling for ANYTHING without full hair and make-up. Good lord, I'm so glad I'm past that. I mean, I love wearing make-up, and I do it. I just know now that I can go out without make-up and hair, and my world will not end and no one will point and laugh. Probably.

A vampire bunny for Jilli: [link]

I haven't worn makeup in 20 years.

The Latisse talk vaguely terrifies me. Because this is seriously the first time I have ever heard of this shit. In the couple of years since I stopped watching tv commercials, I've become some kind of hippie Rip van Winkle who a) is walking around with totally faily eyelashes and thus once again fucking up at being a girl and b) holy fuck the whole make billions on vanity drugs thing has gotten that bad?