When I started wearing makeup in the belatedly '80s and early '90s, at that place were no beauty blogs or YouTube gurus dorsum then (I KNOW!!).
If you were a teenager of limited financial resources and didn't take access to a motorcar (or someone with a commuter'southward license), dazzler research usually involved a 20-infinitesimal walk to the nearest drugstore to wait around, or begging your mom to accept you to Macy'south, or asking your friend what lipstick she was wearing that mean solar day.
Recommendations from friends was how I plant out nigh most of the makeup I wore in my teens. Like my friend Jen, with her beautiful total lips. She was a fan-freaking-tastic walking advertizing for any lipstick she happened to exist wearing on any given solar day. She also happens to be the person who got me hooked on MAC Paramount Lipstick, my first MAC lipstick love (thanks, Jen!). 🙂
Still lovin' ya, MAC Paramount!
Cindy, my other high school BFF, used to wear a quad of shimmering bronzy colors from Moisture 'n' Wild, and information technology was considering of her that I ended upward going to the drugstore and buying the aforementioned thing.
Now that I call back about it…the style I found out virtually makeup by seeing my friends wear information technology was kind of like how blogs, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook work today, only in person, haha!
Following limited edition collections wasn't a big matter, either, at to the lowest degree for me and my friends, probably because of our limited admission to beauty information.
We really didn't care if a lipstick was an LE shade from the late fall collection, or whether it was from and so-and-then brand. Everything seemed to move more slowly dorsum then.
Speaking of limited edition launches, MAC Attracting Aquatic Collection is available now at maccosmetics.com, woo hoo!
More MAC Alluring Aquatic collection coverage…
We besides loved reading glossy magazines. They were great sources of beauty information.
I was all almost Seventeen, merely the funny this is, whenever I would spot a lipstick or something in the magazine that I wanted, I could never notice information technology in the existent world, LOL!
I don't know why… Maybe the mall by my firm never got the trendy stuff.
There were also far fewer beauty buying options when I was a teen, like, I can't think seeing vegan products or cruelty-free. Things like that but weren't a part of the beauty buying lexicon yet.
Beauty shopping was generally tougher. In fact, I remember foundation shopping beingness a very stressful thing. Forget about finding something at the Rite Assist or Thrifty that was other than a subtle variation on beige. Basically, you had to get to a department store — probably a Clinique or Prescriptives counter — to discover a foundation if you had tan skin or deeper.
Oh! And we didn't have any big beauty stores like Sephora or Ulta in my neck of the forest.
No way. I wasn't even able to imagine what a shop like that would accept been like.
My 16-year-old cocky would've gone freaking basics! I never would have left the store. I would've been that kid who asked the makeup artists to paint her face with everything and the kitchen sink. 🙂
'Kay, buddy. Spill them beans. How is makeup shopping different today than it was when you were offset getting interested in makeup?
Your friendly neighborhood dazzler aficionado,
Karen
P.S. Sending y'all a sun-shiny hello from Northern California today. It already feels like summer here in Marin County. Yesterday I went for an afternoon walk and had to cut it short considering it was and then darned hot that I couldn't handle it.
Might take to striking upward the neighborhood pool today for the first time the season, woo-hoo!
On my lunch break today I'chiliad hoping to brand an Onetime Navy pit stop. They take shorts on sale at present, and I need this pair of white twill shorts in my life (on sale for $15!).
I still dear the mint green shorts with the pink flamingos I got terminal year for $x (I'm wearing them right now, really). 🙂
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