'Get It Done'
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I use Skin79 BB cream that I buy from Amazon, because it's pale enough for me. Or it WAS, but my indoor & nocturnal lifestyle has made me even paler (whoo! unobtainable vampire beauty standards; getting closer!), so I need to find something else.
Right now I'm either using a tiny bit of Kat von D LockIt foundation, or Aromaleigh powder.
But I totally recommend going to sephora, testing a couple to get a feel, and then get SAMPLES. They will give if you ask, and then you can take it home, see in other lights, test for a few days, etc.
Yes, always ask for samples. That's how I figured out which KvD foundation was the right shade of pale.
What they said. Samples are awesome, and Sephora is really good about giving them to you. I also combine two shades to match my skin tone better. I fluctuate between Light and Medium, and I can adjust as my coloring changes.
Maria, do you just go ahead and buy two shades of a thing? I may do that, but it's so dang expensive...
....also now I really want to take a sephora field trip today. No time, but maybe tomorrow...
Thanks everyone. Clearly a visit to Sephora is on my to-do list since I'm running out of the Laura Mercier anyway.
Now that I'm older, my formerly combo skin is dry, plus uber sensitive. I get eczema and rosacea, lucky me! Hence the need for something to smooth out the complexion a bit.
I want to go to an Inglot counter and look at all the new SUPER SPARKLY eye pigments.
Maria, do you just go ahead and buy two shades of a thing? I may do that, but it's so dang expensive...
I do, even if it's not by design. I buy the lighter color, which is fine for deep winter, and then as I get some color through the spring and summer, I look ghost-like. So I'll buy the darker color and blend as necessary. If I'm doing it on purpose, I will look to see if there are travel-sizes available. Cheaper, plus I don't have to check a bag when I'm traveling.
Yeah, I guess if I planned it well I would've gotten the color that DIDN"T have a travel size, since they don't usually have those in all the colors (the Tarte BB stuff is what I'm thinking of now...haven't checked the UD Naked to see if there's travel sizes now, but the Tarte I got in "light" rather than "fair" and "light" is what they have travel-size. Boo!)
what is the difference between "fair" and "light"? Asks the gal who doesn't need to change her make up shades in summer because she never gets much sun.