Do you wear makeup/favorite brands?

[tomatospooks666]

nope! i hate the idea of having daily routines or just putting much effort into beauty stuff in general, so while my inner goth sometimes wants to put some undereye shadow on and such, on a day to day basis i'll just throw on some chapstick and be done.

 

[TillyGoesMeow]

I wear a full face most of the time lol. I just really enjoy it and feel like it's "me time" in the morning before work/school (otherwise i'd wake up the last possible second tbh lmao). It's also just fun, and I love getting creative with my eyeshadow. I use a lot of 'drugstore' products bc im cheap and makeup is expensive. I'll talk about some of them, but preface it with the fact that I have more dehydrated/normal skin naturally, and these just work super well for me.

I love colourpop's eyeshadows, and lip 'crayons' for their range! I also really have been enjoying wet n wild's photofocus for foundation, and it seems to do incredibly with texture. It's pretty intense for such a cheap foundation. I use NYX for my winged eyeliner, and go over it with black shadow to make sure it's matte (just preference). Nyx also makes super awesome eyebrow pencils, and contour kits, imo. I also enjoy essence for tightlining using their pencil liners and their princess mascara! Elf has some nice brushes I use (not my main set) and their concealer is super powerful (the 16 hour camo).

 

[Cirice]

I don't wear makeup outside but like to play with it in front of my mirror at home, my favorite brand is Shop Miss A because it's cheap and super good quality, for the use I make of it I couldn't ask for any better !

 

[Xara]

i do, though i honestly haven’t worn a full face of makeup since before the pandemic, and usually just put on some mascara and fill in my eyebrows nowadays. i’ve really been wanting to get back into doing my makeup and creating eye looks, though, as that used to be one of my favourite things to do and i honestly miss it a lot. :’)

in terms of brands, i tend to stick with drugstore ones as i don’t really have the means to buy anything high-end, but my current favourites are colourpop, wet n wild, milani and e.l.f cosmetics!

 

[amemome]

Very rarely, since it's such a hassle to remove properly. But when I do (for daily wear), I put on eyeliner, brows, sunscreen and some spf-pact powder, and a bit of highlighter.

I don't stick to one brand for all products -- some brands do some things better than other brands do! So I like to mix and match. That being said, I don't really have any brand recommendations, my apologies!

For how I do my makeup:
I like the "natural" look so I use a brown eyeliner that is a bit lighter than my hair color (I have dark hair) and keep it close to my lash line and don't extend it that far beyond my lash line. This seems to look the best on my face. I use a small amount of lip tint to accentuate my regular lip color. And I use a powder-based highlighter to hit my nonexistent nose bridge as well as the center of my lids. I think it helps give my face some dimension like that.

 

[Bulbadragon]

I love makeup, but for a while I've only been wearing it sometimes. I would really like to get back into wearing a full face daily because it feels very relaxing to spend that time on myself.

As far as favorite products go, I usually use drugstore/drugstore priced brands. My favorites are ColourPop and elf. Personally, I think there are very few products worth it to me to buy high end. Basically, any powder product (eyeshadow, blush, bronzer, highlighter) I will buy high end because it takes so long for me to go through it and I'm buying those maybe once a year. The exception to that is the Urban Decay primer potion eyeshadow primer - nothing else works as well for me. Everything else that I go through quickly, like other eye products and concealer and foundation, I buy drugstore. I will buy high end lipsticks, but I don't use lipstick daily, so those last me a while.

Usually, my day-to-day makeup is the same base (anti-redness primer, foundation, concealer, face powder, bronzer, blush, highlight). Then I do either eyeliner or eyeshadow; I typically don't wear both at the same time unless I'm more dressed up. For everyday use, I wear lip gloss or lip oil. Lately, I've been loving the Ulta brand (non-tinted) lip oil in the peach scent. Lip gloss is always some shade of nude pink. I usually only do lipstick if I am dressed up - I just have a pinky nude lipstick and a red lipstick.

 

[jiny]

i do! although when covid was at its prime i almost never wore makeup due to never going out but i do enjoy putting on makeup bc its fun. my favorite makeup brand is probably nyx! i've used their products since my freshman year of hs. i love their tame&frame brow pomade, and brow pencil. i also have an eyeliner from nyx but i rarely use it haha

 

[Alyx]

Older people in my life tell me that I should wear makeup to add some color to my face (as I am quite pale). I do not have the motivation to apply makeup every morning, so I never learned how to do it properly. The most I'll wear is lip gloss.

 

[DaisyFan]

I like makeup, but I vote for sometimes because I use it for special occasions only. I don't have a favorite brand at this moment.

 

[Stella-Io]

I would like to but I don't want to do the whole thing, contour and concealer and all that work. I just want pretty eyes and lips. Like, I do not want to coat my entire face in makeup. That's too much effort for me, not to mention my skin would hate me for it. I already have really bad cystic acne, I don't need a reason to make it worse.

 

[AppleBitterCrumble]

I only wear a full face of makeup if I am doing something with friends (i.e. going to dinner, going out, walking downtown). Other than that, I normally do mascara + some concealer depending on how my skin looks that day. Below are some of my current favorites:

Mascara: Bad Girl Bang by Benefit
Concealer: Shape Tape (tarte) or NARS radiant creamy concealer
Blush: Milani Baked Blush - all time favorite!
Contour: Charlotte Tilbury Liquid Contour - highly recommend!
Highlight: Charlotte Tilbury Liquid Highlight
Bronzer: Hoola Bronzer by Benefit
Setting powder: Maybelline Fit Me Powder

 

[skarmoury]

Yeah, I wear makeup sometimes but I'm not too picky about brands. I don't know a lot about each brand and I can't care enough; I just make do with what I have (aka makeup my mom has hoarded during her younger years). I wear rather light makeup: eyeliner and eyeshadow, blush, and lipstick. I know a lot of beauty gurus have additional steps like shadowing on the jaws and stuff, maybe blending a lot more colors wherever they want. I'm comfortable with my own simple style of makeup. :]

 

[TheSillyPuppy]

I don't really wear makeup. My mom was super into applying makeup when she was younger and tried to impose it on me. It just didn't vibe with me in terms of how much time application took and how much the costs of products add up. I appreciate it on other people, though, and for everyday admiration, I find it amazing how people can make their makeup look so natural—it's like they're not wearing any makeup at all!

However, I wear a tinted lip balm and apply BB cushion occasionally when I'm supposed to make a presentation to my executive team at work. Does that count as makeup? I don't even know.

For artsy applications, it's so cool what skilled makeup artists can do with mimicking other people, transforming themselves into mythical fictional characters, etc.

If I was to ever try to get back into makeup, I would probably aim for a minimalistic look that's more popular in Asia.

 

[nightglow]

I don't. I have oily skin so the makeup usually "disappears" or melts off. To to me it feels like a waste of time. I did wear eyeshadow and eyeliner as a kid but didn't really go beyond that because I also didn't care for the idea of covering my face.
There are a few reasons for myself. But it's cool how talented people can get with make up and it actually lasts.

 

[cornimer]

No, I never wear makeup. I had to wear it for dance recitals when I was little and I hated the process/feeling of putting it on so much that it turned me off for life.

 

[Xeleron]

I used to do my makeup everyday. When I did, I would gravitate more towards a natural makeup look (because I'm terrible at doing anything else). Over time my makeup motto has become "the simpler, the better", to the point I rarely wear makeup.

When I do put on makeup I use primer, a concealer (elf), pressed powder foundation (Neutrogena), brown eyeliner that I get by getting my eyeliner brush damp and using brown eyeshadow from a target pallet, and my all time favorite black mascara from Pacifica.

I used to buy Tarte Cosmetics makeup, and it's great. If I were to go back to buying more expensive makeup, I wold definitely go back to buying Tarte products. Personally, I just can't justify paying that much money for a product that's gonna end up in the drain or in the trashcan when I take it off at night.

 

[Snowesque]

Yep, all the time. I've mostly e.l.f. cosmetics.

 

[SinnerTheCat]

I used to wear a lot of makeup, like a literal full face of makeup, in high school, but now I've shifted over to more like having fun with it?
I put much more attention into coordinating the colors of my eyeshadow with my outfit and I stopped stressing over how my actual skin looks. I don't even use foundation or concealer anymore - only face creams and spf in that matter, it really makes me accept myself more and how my imperfections look, and it also made my skin clear up a lot!! I basically only use powder, brow gel, cream blush, colorful eyeshadow, eyeliner and mascara nowdays ☺
But overall I like makeup a lot, it's something I do for fun and honestly one of those things that I would never throw away!!

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

I don't wear as much make up as I used to. Back then, I would have a full face of make up - foundation, powder, eyebrows, eyeliner, eye shadow, lipstick etc. But that took way too much time. Then I gave up the foundation and was just concealer, eyeshadow, eyeliner, eyebrows, and lipstick.

Then just concealer, eyebrows and lipstick. That's my go to now. Well, because of covid, I actually can't wear lipstick anymore, which is actually my favourite makeup in general. My favourite brands are Fenty and Nars for lipstick. For eyebrows, I use Anastasia. And for concealer, I use Kat Von D. I keep it as simple as possible now, mostly because I am laaaazy. Secondly, because wearing a lot of make up made me hate how I looked without it. Seeing such a difference made me so unhappy to just be myself. It was toxic to my self esteem so I only let myself wear enough make up to still recognize myself with it on, if that makes sense. For special occasions, I'm ok to make exceptions.

 

[Plume]

I don't wear makeup that often, but if I'm going somewhere special, I'll usually put on eyeliner, a bit of concealer, and maybe some blush and glimmer on my cheeks. My favorite brand is Glossier because their products are so easy to use and have a more casual appearance.

I honestly wish I could wear lipsticks and glosses, but I have an allergy that is usually irritated by lip products.