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To think bronzer is out of date

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monkeynuts123 · 21/12/2013 20:08

I've noticed all the young trendies are getting paler and paler and I'm beginning to wonder about my penchant for bronzer. It is dated isn't it?

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gobbynorthernbird · 22/12/2013 00:12

Good matte bronzer can work wonders. Shimmery, too dark, orange toned stuff doesn't flatter anybody.

scottishmummy · 22/12/2013 00:13

I swear to god I apply make up to look natural,funny innit
I love perfume and make up,i recommend les senteurs

ashamedoverthinker · 22/12/2013 00:15

SM that last thing sounds like a Harry Potter characer to me..

K8Middleton · 22/12/2013 00:18

I apply makeup so as to avoid scaring small children and anyone with a weak stomach. Proper caring me.

I am a bit Shock at calling a blusher deep throat. Now I know why all the beauty writers refer to it as "The Nars blusher". They can't publish anything else!

scottishmummy · 22/12/2013 00:23

I like the ritual and process of make up
I want to hurl when I see folk with scabby make up bags,joylessly poking and applying make up in public

ashamedoverthinker · 22/12/2013 00:24

I know K8 I checked over my shoulder to see if Germain Geer wasnt sitting there herself when I read that - see bloody MN fems have got me!

ashamedoverthinker · 22/12/2013 00:25

ROAR @ 'joyless poking' jesus Ive never ever seen that...

Alisvolatpropiis · 22/12/2013 00:28

K8

Nars are gleeful in their naming products inappropriately.

The text I sent to my mum asking if she could pick me up the Multiple Orgasm Stick in duty free took some composing, let me tell you!

squoosh · 22/12/2013 00:29

Deep Throat could be called 'Nasty Attack of the Clap' and I'd still buy it, I love it so much.

ashamedoverthinker · 22/12/2013 00:37

I feel Ive just been educated a little bit and feel a littel bit old

K8Middleton · 22/12/2013 00:38

Ha! I put it the orgasm one on my Pinterest board and my mother found it (god knows how, they get the Yellow Pages out to find the name of a plumber to Google). Funnily enough she didn't get me that for Christmas Grin

K8Middleton · 22/12/2013 00:41

Now I'm thinking maybe I've got the wrong Nars blusher. Should I be wearing Deep Throat on my cheeks and not Orgasm?

Roll on the Space NK sale...

Alisvolatpropiis · 22/12/2013 00:47

I have an enduring love for Orgasm (don't we all) but use it more as a highlighter than a blusher. I've had the liquid and cream forms.

Super Orgasm is excellent as a powder blusher, works for summer and winter.

ashamedoverthinker · 22/12/2013 00:58

Im going to buy it and wear it excessively just so when im out n about I can say 'I have orgasm all over my cheeks darling' - like that big fat nude character off little Briton

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monkeynuts123 · 22/12/2013 06:20

I've just watched that clip and there's not enough space on my face for all that contouring!! Does anyone in rl do that? I have sort of olive/pale skin and I'm using this www.escentual.com/dior/diormakeup103/?gclid=CNfT7NuXw7sCFTDMtAodTyEAxQ

It's not shimmery and I use it fairly sparingly. I hate pink and can't bring myself to use 'blusher' if I can't do contouring or pink blusher then surely that only leaves something a bit er, well bronze.

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MammaTJ · 22/12/2013 06:49

there's not enough space on my face for all that contouring

That made me Grin

Coumarin · 23/12/2013 02:23

Yy to Bobbi Brown pale pink Scottishmummy Looks shockingly bright in the pot, but is perfect for us pale ones.

I would look beyond stupid with all that contouring marlarky. My face is too small for a start. Where would it all go. Confused

woodlandwanderwoman · 23/12/2013 02:53

Marking thread for a duty free trip Grin

Itwasntmeanttobelikethis · 23/12/2013 06:13

Thought this was AIBU not style and beauty Confused

Firstly Wtf is contouring?

Secondly, if I don't wear some kind of bronzer I'm see-through. I can't cope with makeup trends - at nearly 40 I've just perfected the foundation-without-looking like you've put your face into the makeup look along with mascara and tiny amount of bronzer.

TheDoctrineOfSanta · 23/12/2013 08:17

YANBU.

MincedMuffPies · 23/12/2013 08:35

I stopped wearing bronzed a few years ago, wear a pink blusher now. But then I'm not fake tanned anymore I'm pale and my colouring is like Nicole Kidmans.

WinterWinds · 23/12/2013 10:17

If I don't wear bronzer I look a deathly shade of grey!!

I am not naturally pale but my face for some reason is a totally different colour to the rest of me.
I just give myself a light dusting over my foundation to warm me up and match the rest of me.

My DD was with me once whilst I started to do my make up and asked " Why do you wear make up mum? You don't need it, you look fine without it."
She stayed with me until i'd finished and proclaimed at the end,
"Oh, I take that back, You do actually need make up don't you?" Grin

Bedtime1 · 23/12/2013 10:24

Try hoola bronzer by benefit that's fab particularly if you are paler. You can dust it on very lightly . Nars Lugana I have that too but it is a bit darker than hoola, I also have fake bake for if I'm going on big night out and dark, I have mac golden bronzer too that's More like nars laguna. Say a more medium ish coverage.

AlaskaNebraska · 23/12/2013 10:24

nars laguna

Bedtime1 · 23/12/2013 10:28

If you don't want to use bronzer. Mac natural skin finish is good dusted over foundation. Always apply your blusher though. The mac natural skin finish comes in light , medium, medium dark , dark . I think there might be others. I use medium.