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If you could only use a single item of make up, it would have to be....

72 replies

AlisonWunderland · 05/02/2016 20:49

Eyeliner for me.
My eyes look like currants without it. I look tired and old. But with it... Less tired and merely getting on a bit.

What's your single item?
NO cheating with multi function things like using lipstick as blusher. It's a lipstick OR a blusher, not both!

OP posts:
Jmangel · 05/02/2016 21:25

Do you know I just added up how many items I NEED to get out the door and it is scary - 11! None are negotiable but if I had a gun to my head I would say lipstick. I could do with simplifying my regime but the older I get, the more definition I need as my face is sinking.

Clockstooticky · 05/02/2016 21:28

Blonde eyelashes = pig in a wig (or maybe an egg). So definitely mascara

JolseBaby · 05/02/2016 21:28

Powder. I already get my eyebrows tinted and if I was strictly limited to one product only, then I would go and get the LVL lashes done Grin

Powder to take the shine off and help even out my skin tone a wee bit.

toffeeboffin · 05/02/2016 21:31

Mascara..

Foundation a close second.

Jitterybug · 05/02/2016 21:33

Eyebrow powder, I have no eyebrows without it, even dc say how weird I look.

vichill · 05/02/2016 21:33

Foundation. I have that shit grey Anglo Saxon skin.

gingerboy1912 · 05/02/2016 21:34

Lipstick

Towardsthesun · 05/02/2016 21:35

Mascara

PurpleDaisies · 05/02/2016 21:37

Mascara

Or blusher.

PollyPerky · 05/02/2016 21:37

oh one is not enough!!!

I'd want mascara- no eyelashes at all
Concealer - purple under eyes
Lippie- double as blusher

CoolToned · 05/02/2016 21:38

Eyebrow pencil. I have naturally thick brows but very unruly. Now I have thick, shaped brows.

IHeartKingThistle · 05/02/2016 21:39

Blusher, else people ask me if I'm ill or a vampire

CointreauVersial · 05/02/2016 21:40

Mascara.

CoolToned - I've never even used an eyebrow pencil!

DramaAlpaca · 05/02/2016 21:41

Lipstick

MyBreadIsEggy · 05/02/2016 21:42

Am I still allowed to have my eyebrows shaped and tinted?? If so, my one and only product would be Lily Lolo mineral foundation

IHeartKingThistle · 05/02/2016 21:42

Ooh Cointreau - me neither until last week when I got my first eyebrow crayon and realised that I'd been WRONG all these years!

evenoldergregg · 05/02/2016 21:50

Concealer, even though I never normally use it. Can't choose foundation on it own though, as that makes me look like an extra from a Michael Jackson video!

CoolToned · 05/02/2016 22:12

CointreauVersial - me too, until last year! Then I never stopped. I use The Face Shop Design My Brows. I normally wear this, and the rest of the face is bare. Still makes a lot of difference!

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 05/02/2016 22:23

Eyeliner

Mandelinka · 05/02/2016 22:29

Foundation
If I can sneak in a blusher, I'm a happy camper

Original poster
AlisonWunderland · 05/02/2016 22:30

I'm interested that so many deem eyebrows most important.
I pluck my eyebrows, but have never used any sort of brow pencil or powder

OP posts:
mrslebon · 05/02/2016 22:31

NARS Orgasm blusher for me.

trixymalixy · 05/02/2016 22:34

Mascara

Madbengalmum · 05/02/2016 22:35

Mascara

CookieDoughKid · 05/02/2016 22:37

Colour corrector in salmon colour which neutralises my dark circles and eye bags. Really wakes up my eyes!