Este Lauder double wear foundation...

[HumptyDumpty1]

Does anyone wear this? I've recently bought it and it is AMAZING!! only...how the f*ck do you get it off?!

I use 3 step clinique plus scrub and prewash and the cotton wool pad after the toner is still orange!

[GetOrfMoiLand]

I agree aitch, they are crap. make you look like Emma Samms in the Colbys.

Mine cost twenty bastard quid and was made to buy it by Estee Lauder gorgon.

[HouseOfBamboo]

I am sucked in and want to try it. Do they do samples online does anyone know?

[ggirl]

I like foundation brushes, hardly ever use it though.
Tried EL dw and hated it , def cake face on me.
I like EL sheer tint summat, bloody fab that.

[AitchTwoOh]

i KNOW. the girl at the counter was extolling the virtues of the brush 'ohoho you hardly use ANY etc etc' and all i could think was that she was putting on ten times as much as i would use. and cos of the sodding brush every hair on my face was sitting out and proud.

however, i asked for a tissue, wiped most of it off and nevertheless declare DWlight a HUGE success.

(i got her to do one side in DW and the other in DWL and even she said that the DW was too 'masky'. although apparently what some people do is dilute with moisturiser, she said.)

[GetOrfMoiLand]

You could see the brush hairs when she put my DW on.

I still smile brightly and bought the stuff AND the brush.

Why? Why can you not say 'jesus christ that looks fricking awful' to these people?

[AitchTwoOh]

I can. [smug]

[ggirl]

oh I can say it
have had my face done so many times in shops..it's like an addiction. I can't say no when htey offer.
Told the geurlain clown that I looked like an 80's throwback and asked her to remove the eyeshadow..she hated me .
another time mac bitch put eyeliner on me, looked like a 3 yr old had done it. I laughed and said ..you are joking aren't you. Got her to remove that as well.
Dd despairs when she's out with me.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

The strongest I have ever been is to smile slightly scoffingly at the benefit topsy and say 'urm, no, benefit is NOT for me'

lol at mac bitch and guerlain clown

[MrsSchadenfreude]

I got hijacked by the orange laydee at the Bare Escentuals counter last year. She brushed the stuff on me, looked at me expectantly, and said, well? Doesn't that look better? I said, Jesus, it is settling in wrinkles I never knew I had. I look about a hundred. She snapped back, well most of my older ladies like you really like it. I snatched the free mascara she was proffering and ran.

[AitchTwoOh]

the bobbi brown woman once INSISTED that she should put masses of eyeshadow on me, despite my having what she herself said are 'rather large eyelids' (i prefer to call them rather large eyes, myself) and glasses.

of course i looked like deirdre rachid off corrie, and demanded a moist tissue forthwith.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

I refuse to try Bare Escentuals becasue LOOK at the spelling. I mean really. Plus I know someone who wears mineral make up and she smugly thinks she is IT. She looks like she has put a fine layer of yardley talc on her face.

I don't do Bobbi Brown (I don't like the 90s old fashioned look and the smug bastards in the posters) and avoid Guerlain make up (residual guilt from wrenching from display stealing les Meteroites tester from Gatwick airport in early 90s.

I actually really dislike most dept store counters (apart from Lancome because their foundation, eyeshadiws and lipglosses are the best) and prefer space NK. The women are lovely in there, and don't terrify annoy me like Jenny and Naomi in Year 11 like the ratbags in Debenhams and House of Fraser.

[AitchTwoOh]

yes, this was yonks ago with teh bobbi brown woman. actually at a press event, ffs... so it would have been in her interests not to make me look like a 50 year old smoker.

[AitchTwoOh]

mineral make up imo good IF your skin tends to greasy and you use a massive Nars Kabuki brush to apply it.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

My skin is as dry as Ramses III's mummified corpse. I don't think mineral is for me

Why is bobbi Brown so meh? It is like they designed it for the Pretty Woman era and never moved on.

[AitchTwoOh]

i think of it as linked with DKNY for the same reason. both the time in the owners' lives when they felt hottest. never moved on thereafter.

no, minerals absolutely not for you, nor the DW tbh, as it's oil-free. deffo need a bit of grease under those kinds of foundations to make you look like a living person, imo.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

lol at look like a living person. that would be a bonus!

Calvin Klein is so 90s as well. That Escape perfume shit.

Revlon do really good make up products but need a complete marketing overhaul. It looks like 90s crap as well.

[AitchTwoOh]

revlon actually looked dated IN the 90s, iirc. some fab lipsticks, though.

[GetOrfMoiLand]

Revlon was v sophisticated to me in 90s, I was all about the Constance Carroll from the market

[AitchTwoOh]

i feel veh old now, thanks.

[IWouldNotCouldNotWithAGoat]

Bobbi Brown is NOT meh it is fabulous!

I feel like you have just gravely insulted a close family member!

[AitchTwoOh]

oops. i don't rate it, it makes me look like an extra off the early Friends episodes. all i need is a Rachel haircut and i am good to go.