For anyone that’s still reading, has anyone tried mineral makeup? I’m feeling a little flush with cash right now, and considering going to a salon that does lessons and sells stuff. The place I get my hair cut sells Jane Iredale, and another place sells JI and Bare Escentuals. I feel like the mineral stuff, and a lesson from a mineral place, would be less clown-facey than going to the Clinique counter or something. And, let’s be fair, mineral makeup sounds way more my speed (earthy! dirt on my face!) than traditional stuff.
Separate from that, so, my cousin works for Apple and offered to hook me up with an iPod Touch at a nice discount. Only, he hasn’t done it yet, and I realllly want it for my trip to Florida. I’m tempted to just buy one and call it good, but I can also see one showing up from E before he tells me what I owe. I can afford to have two ipods come (and, quite honestly, I can see Dave being into it once he sees mine, and he’s already filled the 8gb nano I got him for our anniversary) and I can even afford to offload one if I need to (I do work on a college campus, afterall) but it feels a little…. weird to flirt with the possibility of being wealthy in iPods Touch. I’ve already pre-sold my current Nano to a friend (and Dave has a Shuffle that I can co-opt for gym use (which, egads, I need to get back to) and I don’t want to email E and be like “never mind,” because I think he’d actually be a little offended. (Hard to explain.)
Sooo, what should I do? I leave for FL on 4/1, and I have an Amazon Prime membership, so I can get it fairly quickly.
It’s just, I WANT IT NOW! I’m not an impulse shopper, really, I tend to research, obsess, decide and then NOT buy something, but after going to my conference where EVERYONE had an iPhone or a touch, and seeing what’s coming in June, and having a good chunk in savings now as WELL as a new stream of money from the paid blogger project, I WANT NOW.
What would you do? What should *I* do?
BLARGH, I tried Bare Escentuals and HATED it, it made my skin bumpy and mad and looked horrible. I’ve heard that some of the other brands are better, but I’m happy with pressed powder from Stila!
sadly, i have no advice to give on makeup of the sort. i am a fan of the “gentle bronzing powder fixes everything” school 🙂
I’ve used Almay’s version of mineral makeup and been happy with it, though I’m not really a foundation girl, generally, so I only use it every so often. My mom has been pleased with L’Oreal’s mineral makeup.
I have no advice on either topic, but your “For anyone that’s still reading” line made me want to pop in to tell you I’m here. :0)
My sister uses Neutrogena mineral makeup. I use some Clinique color correcting stuff – they won’t make you over unless you ask for it at the counters. I like it because it doesn’t make my face itch like regular foundation, but it makes my face much more even.
Using a lot of moisturizer seems to be key for me to get nice, even coverage – if there are dry spots or oily spots the powder won’t be even.
Anyway, way late to the party, blah blah blah.