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Do you wear makeup?

79 replies

northerner · 30/06/2005 12:44

Just wondering really if you do or don't.

I wear it every day. Would not go out with out it.

Not that I'm a dog without it though
Just feel better with a bit of tinted moisturiser, bronzer, gloss and mascara and I can face the world.

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suzywong · 30/06/2005 12:59

surely not Tinker

Coddy=voice of reason

Tinker · 30/06/2005 12:59

I just look ill and pale and drawn without, featureless. With make-up, I have eyes and a mouth and don't look grey skinned.

Enid · 30/06/2005 12:59

would never dream of going bare faced at work.

Definitely makes you look more professional IMO.

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northerner · 30/06/2005 13:00

I was just going to say taht Olive. Make up is not a disguise, you don't use it to hide your face. YOu use it to eccenuate (sp?!) your best bits.

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throckenholt · 30/06/2005 13:02

never

oliveoil · 30/06/2005 13:02

obviously I don't need any whatsoever

wilbur · 30/06/2005 13:04

I definitely look a lot better with a bit of makeup, esp concealer and eyeshadow, lipstick not so much, so I do make an effort most of the time. Often forget tho and if I'm not doing anything in particular I don't bother. Forgot to put any one at a recent weekend away with in laws and got some pics back in which I looked almost dead!

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northerner · 30/06/2005 13:08

Of course not olive.

You can over do it though. You know orange tide marks, stained lips and stripes of blusher. We have one of these at work.

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soapbox · 30/06/2005 13:09

Always wear it. Don't feel dressed without it IYSWIM

oliveoil · 30/06/2005 13:11

lipliner outside your lips

suzywong · 30/06/2005 13:12

why oh why do people do that? have they no mirror

what was the last gig you went to OO?

Original poster
northerner · 30/06/2005 13:12

Over plucked eyebrows drawn back on

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oliveoil · 30/06/2005 13:13

Doves at Mcr Apollo. Turned down StatusQuo at the City Stadium tonight [wink}.

Is this makeup related?

oliveoil · 30/06/2005 13:14

eyes went funny

Listmaker · 30/06/2005 13:14

For me it's 2 reasons - 1 it's just part of my morning routine that I have done as long as I can remember. 2 I definitely look better with it on and even if I don't it makes me feel ready to face the world/confident etc.

I don't do it for anyone else.

I think that it's like dressing smartly for work it gives off a certain image that can do your career no harm. Makes you look professional etc.

suzywong · 30/06/2005 13:15

no not in the slightest
just interested

my last one was Feeder at the Garage in November 2002
Bloody hell fire!!!

I really really must get out more

oliveoil · 30/06/2005 13:17

I need to get out more too, but I go to bed at 10.30 and at The Doves I was yawning and wanting to sit down at 9.30pm.

suzywong · 30/06/2005 13:19

shocking isn't it

so back to makeup, do people still wear coloured eyeshadow these days, I mean grownup people like us?

Tinker · 30/06/2005 13:20
oliveoil · 30/06/2005 13:20

You do on the Mac counter in Kendals, but not normally no.

nailpolish · 30/06/2005 13:21

i do suzy - well, more coloured eyeliner, yves saint laurant have a new cool range out just now

suzywong · 30/06/2005 13:21

but not a colour right up to the eyebrow like in the olden days surely

Tinker · 30/06/2005 13:22

Phew. Yes, I do but not lurid colours.

Tinker · 30/06/2005 13:22

Just the eyelid bit

nailpolish · 30/06/2005 13:22

does anyone else have the pet hate of your hair sticking to your lipgloss, as soon as you walk in the tiniest little breath of air?

OHHHHH! i just hate it when that happens