Heh. I am pale and white like a fishbelly, and I’ve had good success finding foundations in Shisedo, MAC, Biotherm, Elizabeth Arden (vanilla is OK in summer, a tad to dark in winter) and Lise Watier.
I also have and love Black Opal lipsticks and eyeshadows - as a matter of interest, with the exception of the foundations, the entire line is great for any skin tone, assuming you buy cool/warm colors as appropriate. Dito for Iman which is also a line marketed for “Women of Color.” Incidentally, in cosmetic terms, “women of color” refers to anyone who’s not fishbelly white, as opposed to only black.
Black Opal is priced about the same as Revlon/Loreal, etc - at least in my drugstore.
Finally, if you’re going to wear foundation, it’s good to splurge and get the best quality one you can afford, and have someone help you match the color - it’s really hard to color match on yourself (I can’t do it on myself). Then you can get inexpensive eyeshadows, blushes, etc in colors you like.
Anyhow, I guess I better shut up now, because apparently when I post about cosmetic stuff, it pisses some people off.
lexi, the ancestors of the Magyars originated in the Ural Mountains, on the border of Europe and Asia. They lived on the steppes of Kazakhstan, associating with Turkic tribes for centuries before moving to Hungary. You can still see many Magyars with yellow complexions and Asiatic faces, almost looking like Kazakhs. Your coloration sounds uniquely beautiful and I’m happy for you that you found the right makeup combination to bring out your beauty. I’m still trying to figure out my medium-olive Sicilian complexion that can’t make up its mind if it wants to be North African Arab or southern European. The shading of pink, olive, and light brown skin tones gets more subtle and complex the more I investigate it.
Damn, how many super-white chicks do we have here? Maybe it’s just that we’re the ones with the worst makeup issues, so we all responded to the thread, and there’s plenty of easy-tan Cali girls on the board that are just ignoring us.
Or maybe it’s just us pale girls who shun the sun that have the time inside for message boards. Who knows!?
The season thing really is important, IMHO. My mom got my sister’s & mine “read” by a pro when we were in middle school or so and it has probably kept me from tons of mortal errors. (Not that it’s foolproof. I know I’m a Winter and I still bought a golden eyeshadow a couple summers ago when it was all the rage. Used it once. Didn’t even make it out of the house with it on, it looked so bad!) But it does make me feel totally righteous telling the counter chick “Duh I’m a blonde, but obviously you haven’t a clue. Fu@k the brown eyeliner. Gimme the black. No, the really black black! And the dark burgandy lipstick too!”
Johanna - I wish it was a nice color - part celt & part hungarian makes me feel like I look more enemic than a healthy person should. My cousins have a beautiful golden skin color much darker than mine that looks like they are tanned even in the dark Calgary winters.
I’ve had more or less the same very sparse look for about 10 years so I’ve gone for a free makeover a couple times - trying to see if the more expensive lines are nicer, especially for foundation. I’ve tried MAC, Clinique, and Chanel but I always go back to Marcelle because they have a color called Ivory Beige which has a yellow tint but does not turn orange like so many other Ivory colors, and the True Radiance line is a nice light sheer makeup that doesn’t look cakey.
Well, one of my girlfriends told me that she puts on her foundation makeup, and then puts moisturizer on top of it, and can’t understand why she doesn’t get very good coverage.
Trust me, no matter how goofy you think your question is, there are WAY goofier ones out there.
I should probably clairify, just in case anyone doesn’t know, as my GF obviously didn’t, this is sort of like putting your bra on top of your sweater, and wondering why the sweater looks bunchy.
White Hispanic female from Spain here. 36 yo but people guess me at about 25, including the saleswomen in makeup stores, who get completely depressed when I inform them that I’m looking for a 35yo-cream and not a 25-yo cream: I usually have to show ID.
In Spain, I’m supposed to wear soft shades, so that I look better than without makeup but you can’t really tell where the makeup is.
In America, I’m supposed to wear bright red lipstick and eyeliner thicker than my own lashes.
So, excuse me if I just wear whatever I feel like wearing, whenever I do feel like wearing makeup and wherever I happen to be. It’s not very often, so when I want it I just wear what I wanna, fashionistas be damned.
I’m probably going to get smacked for this, but why would you buy cream that wasn’t for your skin type? If you have 25 year old type skin, I’d save the extra $$ and buy the younger age skin cream (it’s always cheaper than the older skin type creams), and go to town. If you don’t have the typical skin of a 35 year old, a cream for a typical 35 year old skin isn’t gonna do much for you (for instance, if you have no wrinkles, using a wrinkle cream doesn’t really make sense.)
One of the reasons my skin looks young is that I am very careful about how I care for it. Another is that in my family we get juvenile acne until menopause. For most of my face I need the 25-yo creams, but for the neck it’s 35 already. But the saleswomen don’t look at the neck until I say “pst, it’s for this area”.
I’ve had my DHC deep cleansing oil for about a month now.
Plus Factor: leaves my skin soft and supple, no breakouts and has a nice very faint smell too it of rosemary ( my favoritist herb.)
Minus Factor: I am not noticing any immediate improvement overall, my skin texture still looks the same. But it does claim that in this particular product. It is pricey, but I use sparingly.
After you place your first order, you get a coupon in the mail for $10 off your next order over $50. I am going to try some other products ( makeup) next.
