Posted by Ilene on May 24, 2004, at 17:23:17
In reply to Re: make-up challenged, posted by shadows721 on May 24, 2004, at 16:44:02
> Hi Ilene,
>
> Are you a spring or an autumn in the color me beautiful? A cool plum wouldn't work for this coloring at all as you mentioned. A plum would need a gold, brown, or green with it for the warm complexion type. It's just like pink's there are warm and cool pinks, so their are warm and cool plum colors too.
>I'm an autumn. Probably as autumn as a person can get.
I'm having a hard time imagining a warm plum.
> Is it that the green is too intense or dark for you coloring? Is that why you go over it with a wash of blush? I don't know if you do this already, but I would start with wash of a neutral color like a hint of beige or taupe all over your eyelid first before applying any color. Meringue in Perscriptives is a good wash color. Since you like your face to look very warm, I would then add a color of gold on your eye lid by Guerlain No.44 single eyeshadow. Then I would apply the green that you are using. The gold could be used as a wash too either before or after the color of green, but I would always start with a eyeshadow base neutral color. How does apricot and bronze colors look on your eyes? Have you tried the olive color in Prescriptives? Since you like the Color me Beautiful, you may find Prescriptives nice too. It is broken down into color families.
>The green I have is just too green. I like the way it looks with the blush. It's more of a warm olive.
I'm sure your recommendations are excellent, but I just don't wear that much make-up. For one thing, I'm not working and I hardly ever "dress". For another thing, at my advanced age, my eyelids are too crepey to wear that much shadow. I apply it just near the lashes.
I'll take a look at Prescriptives next time I'm in a dept. store. I don't shop much these days, either, partly because it's too much trouble to get to a store I like. It'll be easier once I move back to civilization (San Francisco).
I.
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