Let me tell you, there are reasons why people spend eighteen dollars on bronzers and fifteen dollars on single eye shadows! I promise you, there is a reason!!!
I just started wearing makeup about two years ago when I decided to retire my bottle caps and buy some contacts. So naturally, when I looked in the mirror and saw dark circles under my eyes and an uneven skin tone, makeup became my best friend. I started off with Covergirl powder that was way too dark but I didn’t care. I had some L’Oreal eyeliner that I stole from my mom’s vanity and some old Mary-Kate and Ashley cream eye shadow from 2001 when my sister started wearing makeup. I thought I was good to go. I’m telling you I thought I was fly. Fast forward two years and hundreds of YouTube make up guru videos later, and Mary-Kate and Ashley were sold for twenty five cents at a garage sale.
I get lots of compliments on my makeup now, especially with my eye shadow. According to my sister, I spend 30 minutes putting on makeup but that’s a lie. I take like ten minutes, fifteen if I’m experimenting. I think that’s pretty normal. So anyway, I’m not rich and I know that. I still use L’Oreal liners and Revlon foundations but I'm beginning to rack up some sweet Sephora and MAC products that are stealing my heart away (even though the Asian sales associate at the MAC store has a stick up his a**)! Moving on, two years ago I would have been shocked with the prices… shoot, six months ago I would have been shocked with the prices, but now I completely understand. Here somes the story:
I was watching a video by DulceCandy and I love her because she’s short and brown like me and all the makeup gurus on YouTube are Asian. I also love her because she has a black Pomeranian that looks just like Milo J So I was watching her and she was using bronzer and I was like “WHAT?! Brown girls can use bronzer!!! I'm getting some!!” So before I went and spent twenty dollars on a bronzer I went over to good ol’ Wal-Mart and got a four dollar Maybelline one. That shit is CRAP!!! I'm sitting in front of the mirror all excited and packing this worthless crap on my face and it freaking sheer! I was thinking it was just the color of my skin tone but NO people it was sheer! As in no color whatsoever! I should have just dusted off my old Covergirl powder from two years ago and used THAT as a bronzer. That would have out this new one to shame! And the brush that came with it was more like sandpaper. This just pisses me off really. What a waste of my four dollars!
Moral of the story, don’t buy Maybelline Bronzers. If you are shopping on a budget by all means go to the drugstore but do NOT buy bronzers because they will either rub off within an hour or not appear at all! And if you are looking for a matte black eye shadow, just invest in MAC or Sephora because drugstore black eye shadows come out really chalky. Stick with drugstore mascaras and liners like L’Oreal’s Lineur Intense Liquid Liner with the felt tip (that one is AWESOME!). Or L’Oreal’s liquid pencils, it’s an oxymoron but no joke it’s great for the water line. Oh, and foundation wise, Revlon ColorStay and L’Oreal True Match products are the bomb. Okay I'm gonna stop because I'm starting to sound like a makeup guru which by all means I am not because no guru would waste four dollars on packaged shit and get excited about it. ;(
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