'Heart Of Gold'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
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.
Fair is the lightest, then light. Depending on brand, the undertones may be different as well. Take it all with a grain of salt and go with what looks good on your skin.
Fair is the lightest, usually with pink undertones. Light usually has yellow undertones, for some reason.
Yeah, definitely depends on the brand and the line. That's the particular Tarte BB cream names....but in general, whatever the lightest and next-lightest ones are...For instance, in the Urban Decay Naked foundation I use something that's like "3.5" because there's several colors between that and ".5" the lighest shade, but the colors between are not pink-undertones (and it's not like it's that dark--it's good for summers, for me)
I'm always looking for a brand with a color named something like porcelain because fair and light are usually too dark for me.
Oh! This discussion reminds me -- does anyone use Bare Minerals powder foundation? I use the matte formulation and accidentally bought the original formulation, and used it once before I realized the mistake (and the way I use it is by shaking a little power onto a plate and dipping the brush into that, so what's in the jar -- and the jar itself -- are basically untouched). The color is Fairly Light, original (not matte) formulation, 99% full.
If anyone wants it, holler, and I'll send it to you, because otherwise it'll go to waste.
meara, to bring a conversation over from LJ: the spa is Ladywell's, and it's three blocks from my house.