A couple of days ago I caught myself thinking I miss colourful highlighters and lips from mid-late 2010s. I still wear blue and green highlighter, but I wish I could buy blue and green (and other colors) lipsticks where I live.

I also enjoy copying blush placement from the old paintings. Well, in the paintings it supposed to be natural, I guess. They are different, but not as high on the cheekbones as I usually see online, and I found that placing blush lower on the cheeks looks much more flattering on my face shape. It's not really about bringing back a specific era, more wanting cheekbone blush to go

What about you?

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After an excellent recent post from /u/5Gs-Plz , you guys wanted to have a regular space for, as the OP put it, maintaining a sense of realism about makeup. In their post they asked:

We never see end of day photos of makeup and it is very difficult to feel positive about how makeup breaks down during the course of a day. I was thinking maybe we could dedicate this post to photographs of how our makeup looks at the end of a long day? I would be curious to see how it wears.
Does your mascara flake? Does your foundation disappear around your nose? Or does your eyeliner smudge?

You can certainly share photos and talk about your end of day faces, and it'd also be cool to talk about other aspects of cosmetics and beauty in general that we don't see/hear a lot about, which is when things aren't perfect.

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Hey all,

I’ve been using Roamler to do online food reviews for Morrisons etc, but have noticed on Superdrug etc that people are doing similar reviews for beauty products, with the tell tale ‘asked to share my thoughts’ type message. Anybody know how people are doing this? I am wondering if there’s some Roamler equivalent for this type of product.

Thanks!

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IMPORTANT NOTE: I have ADHD, and everything bores me at some point...

Hi everyone,

Thought I'd shout into the void (and maybe have a few of you shout back?) and get some advice here. I'd describe makeup as something I treat as a hobby rather than something that's a routine part of my day or week. With all my hobbies (see above, I have ADHD) I cycle between a mix of them being intense hyperfixations, things I regularly enjoy, and things where one random day I wake up and they seem "meh" and it takes me a while to enjoy them again. Before anyone suggests depression, I do suffer from that too, but I'd consider myself in a pretty good place right now.

So... if you're bored of makeup, what do you do? I've been trying:

- Project Pans (fun up until the point makeup as a category becomes meh)

- Trying new looks (I've taken up drawing again, so kinda feel I'm getting an artistic hit that way)

- Watching beauty YouTube for inspo

What I'm trying NOT to do is buy new makeup to see if it fixes the boredom. I don't want to be stuck with a blush I'll take 5 years to pan because I'm a bit bored *right now*...

Help an enby out please!

Edited to add a couple of days later: I took your advice and told myself to take a break from makeup for a week or two... well, three days later I got frustrated with the whole enforced "take a break!!" and did my makeup out of... rebelliousness?? I hate my brain.

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• Venting about a trend in one of the skincare subs.
• Sharing research or information on products or ingredients.
• Asking for or giving advice on products, routines, or non medical skin issues.
• Ranting and raving about skincare items you've been experimenting with.
• Shouting "Fuck this" or "Hallelujah" about the current state of your skin.

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Could be about products, trends, techniques, etc. Ask! Answer!

Found your new HG lipstick formula? Tried a moisturizer that broke you out? Rant and rave about your best and worst products of the week!

Hi :)

Thinking of splurging on a new product but not sure how it performs? Having trouble finding reliable reviews on Youtube?

Ask others who may have the product to write a quick review for you!

If you'd like to provide a review, please reply to the requester's comment with your thoughts!

Tell us what's on your wish list and why.

Tell us what you're not gonna buy... and why.

Ask for a TMO/TMI (talk me out/talk me into) things on your wish list if you need some outside opinions. Be sure to give us reference information to help us help you!

Request opinions, reviews, swatches, on wish list items to help you do your research.

Discuss upcoming releases - purchase or pass?

Anything else that's related!

Post all the rants here!