Bare Escentuals: THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK

[JodieHarsh]

I must post about this. I have just spunked nearly ninety quid on some Bare Escentuals starter kit things.

I arrived at the counter in Stratford Westfield with a hideous bright red, sore, scarred, spotty, sweaty face, and some WITCH managed to take a decade off me with POWDER. Just powder! I mean - WT actual F?! A tube ride and a 20 minute walk home and it's still there. SURELY that's not right. I've used all sorts of super-max coverage matte stuff and it didn't cover ANYTHING like this well. O and I have the glowing rosy cheeks of a teen

I promise I've not been giver a tenner to post this stuff. It's just I've spent so much I feel slightly sick. Does anyone else use this stuff? it's not going to last is it. i'm an idiot. What have I done

I'll be boring telling you aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall about it when I get home from work, no fear

So - The big Hair thing is basically just a hairdryer, right? Is it easy to use??

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I feel certain Father Christmas, of all people, understands the nigh-magical powers of adequate uplift at the roots.

Noooooo, not just a hairdrier! It's a rotating brush which is like the hairdressed doing the drier and brushing at the same time but you do it on your own. It's genuis. Yes it is easy to use once you get the hang of knowing which button turns it one way and which turns it 'tother. There is a bit of a knack. I have very thick hair so I have to do it in three layers which takes quite a long time but if you have finer hair, it's probably a bit faster.

Grapes - that's very disappointing :( Can you not tell the gifter and see if they still have the receipt?

This thread has me really wanting to try BE! S&B is so bad for my purse good for my skin :o

I have OK skin, just the odd blemish, an oily t-zone and some under eye circles (thanks to my 9 month-old DS!) Do you think my skin would benefit from BE? It really just needs evening out of some hyperpigmentation marks from pregnancy, and a little bit of matifying and perfecting. I also have the odd milia spot, would it help hide these? What do you BE lovers think? Thanks :)

Oh wow, I getcha. Hmmm. I have hair slightly like <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=strawbear&um=1&hl=en&sa=N&biw=1440&bih=683&tbm=isch&tbnid=Lyo3jX03RTQhpM:&imgrefurl=www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/features/annual_whittlesey_festival_straw_bear_necesseties_1_2285561&docid=MKpDRHMeBlcHpM&w=595&h=840&ei=2RaMTpfSHomZ8QOk_ZHSBg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=78&page=1&tbnh=143&tbnw=99&start=0&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:18,s:0&tx=48&ty=89" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this though - i wonder if it'd get all tangled up....

Wow Jodie!
Wonder what youve got?!
I've been wondering about the BBH too. Got my birthday coming up so that's on my list now.

The BBH is great - you have to use it though when you have blow dried your hair 90% dry imo. If you do it from wet you will look like a regional newsreader from the 80s - all bouffant and frizz.

Foof I know I am in danger of sounding like a frothing BE evangelist but I would honestly say it would be perfect for you. I thnk the people it wouldn't suit are those with very dry skin and very visible pores, though even then the right application might sort it....

You'd be amazed what a tiny dot of powder on a flat brush can do for odd patches of discolouration/spots etc.

Go and get done by an Orange Lady!

Ooh I really want to try it now! Think I'll drag the boys have a family day trip into town at the weekend, so I can pop into John Lewis in the passing :o

Oh, well, if we are going to boast, I have been refused alcohol in shops 3 times in the last month. And when I have said 'don't be bloody silly' they have still not changed their mind.

This botox shit is goooood

These small victories don't alf cheer a girl...

Foof tell us how it goes!

I'm afraid I have to report that a friend told me I looked tired yesterday . I don't have big pores, but I do have lines and I think BE doesn't do them any favours. I'm still a fan, but I'm going for comfort and longevity rather than anti-ageing.

(To be fair, I have had 14 hours sleep over the last 3 days, which even I know isn't quite enough.)

Oh arse hester

In my swivel-eyed BE fundamentalist way I'm going to say it was the lack of sleep that dunnit (poor you, btw, that would kill me stone dead).

I got ID'd last year. I assumed he was flirting with me. He wasn't. Now THAT, ladies and gents, is embarrassing.

I've just seen that we're approaching 800 posts on this thread. Who would have thought it, we haven't even talked about SAHMS, BF, bastard husbands or P&T car parking spaces yet...

hester - are you using primer first? Yesterday I didn't put any on and the BE definitely made my lines look worse but with primer, they don't. Not sure I look especially well and youthful but it really does even out my rubbish complexion

Jodie, I've started another thread to ask if anyone has tried the new Nanoblur stuff from Boots, which I think is a turbo-charged light diffusing primer. I'm hoping someone will tell me it's marvellous, I will pant along like a hungry sheep, credit card in hand, and then find it is the perfect stuff to use under BE so I can be line-free AND glowy for at least 14 hours.

Crikey. Watching your thread with interest...32 (nearly) is an odd age, I think. You're still fairly young (right? RIGHT?!) but the first signs of ageing are REALLLLLY kicking in.

Haha Reality - I have had that before, asked for ID, said 'don't be daft, take a closer look', leant towards shop assistant in manner of a loon, who then back away and says 'oh yeah' and sells me the wine

Youthful and beautiful. Pah. I put that down to pregnancy making you go half blind

Ok. To recap: you spent a zillion pounds on some ground up mineral, it makes you feel a million dollars and look about 12. Plus you have to spend valuable hours of your life watching dull dvds on how to use it.
And it stains your sofa.

no, really, you're really selling it to me!

So, if, IF, IF I were to be suckered in by such a product, would it work on a dry, wrinkly 40 something? With no money? So IF I were to get suckered in, what would be the bare (ha!, see what i did there?) minimum one could get away with buying?

hester I thinl perhaps if you have only had that much sleep perhaps your friend did just mean that you looked weary, and not based on your lines

Mind you I think like that. if someone says I look tired I think 'they think I am ugly and haggard and old'. If someone says 'ooh you look like you have lost weight' my internal voice says 'they thought you were a fat bastard last time they saw you'

at 32, people were still ID-ing me, and asking me if i wanted info on teen mum groups.....

at 42, people are giving up their seats on buses to me and taslking louder.