I figure if Dolly Parton can go to bed wearing a full of makeup, I can curl my lashes with a lash curler before and after I’ve coated them with mascara. Mind you, I’m always very careful! I purposefully use slow movements when I clamp down and release the curler, and I try my very best to gently ease it out so I don’t lose any lashes.
What about you? What’s your most controversial beauty opinion?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
I wash my hair with a bar of goat milk soap. I used to spend $$$ on salon products. It took a few days for my scalp to adjust (the first couple of days my hair felt oily) but now it’s soft and full and my stylists even commented how much fuller my hair was (I’d been losing a lot of hair post-menopause). Plus I don’t have to use a conditioner too. My husband still eyes the bar with suspicion and uses his shampoo.
Girlfriend! Share the name of this wondrous soap, please!
The soap I use for my hair is from a family-run business in Oregon. Bend Soap Company. I love their milk bath as well and orange body lotion. The first 3 days my hair was a bit sticky then wow. Even my husband noticed. https://www.bendsoap.com/blogs/sudsy-scoop/how-to-use-goat-milk-soap-as-shampoo
I love this one! Good for you for going natural and simple!
I wash my hair with gram flour and water mixed into a paste as people have been doing in India for hundreds of years. Gram flour is sometimes sold as ‘chickpea flour’.
It does not strip the scalp of oils the way that shampoo does so it does not send it into overdrive to make more. At the same time, it makes hair clean and gives it more body. If you have dry hair this is maybe not for you, but if you have fine, limp, greasy hair you will love it!!You can find YouTube videos about it.
I don’t use SPF everyday…I don’t feel a need to do it being cooped up in the house so much. I also don’t wash my face everyday — I just do what feels right when it feels right 😬
I pat a few drops of Aragon oil on my face after putting on my makeup. It sets it and avoids any cakey look.
I don’t use a sponge/beauty blender. I use brushes or my fingers for foundation & concealer, fingers for cream blush & highlight. Maybe it’s because I learned to do makeup using my hands and brushes only? But I’ve tried a beauty blender, tried it damp and dry and I just… don’t like it.
I would say not using an SPF everyday on my face as well. I work in an office so when I know I am not getting sun exposure, why bother.
I think full coverage foundation is terrible. It never looks like skin and you can never truly find a true color match.
I hope everyone is aware of the hearings going on in Washington DC about the harm that Instagram is doing to young people; especially to impressionable girls and young women. I think photoshopped images and filters should be banned as they promote unrealistic and unattainable standards of beauty which hammer the viewer’s self-esteem like a sledge hammer. Add to that the manipulated product images and gushing false reviews and Instagram (and You Tube, too) can be a cesspool.
I need people to realize that just because certain makeup looks work on models or social media influencers or in professional makeup tutorials, it doesn’t mean it’s going to look good on you. And more important, it’s rarely appropriate for real life. The other parents are going to start asking questions and possibly stage an intervention if you’re wearing regularly wearing a heavy smoky eye in the elementary school pickup line. Unless you’re Karen and *it’s your literal job*.
A while back, I saw two young women in Target at 2:00 in the afternoon, both with a full face of ‘2:00 am in the Club’ makeup to go along with their pajama pants and t-shirts. Straight Outta YouTube, baby. False eyelashes so heavy they could hardly see. Dark brown matte lipstick so thick the entire 1990’s were giving them the side-eye. Winged liner so thick they could’ve flown to the islands for the weekend. (Where were they actually going? They were buying Tide so that they could do laundry back at their apartment building. Then I overheard one of them say on the phone that they were going to order pizza and binge watch The OC, because they “had totally been getting into old TV shows lately”. How. Dare. You.)
The colors they’d obviously copied off some tutorial did not compliment either girl and the heavy-handed application aged them unnecessarily. They would’ve been beautiful without any makeup at all and stunning with simple, no-makeup makeup.
All this to say: Wear what looks good on you personally and fits your circumstances, ladies, not what looks good on someone being paid to put specific things on their face.
What if they just wanted to wear what felt fun to them and didn’t care about what other people thought looked good, because feeling good is a lot better than trying to cater to the subjective opinions of people you don’t know or do know but don’t need to care about (as judging how other people look – naturally or how they choose to look, whether you know them or not is kinda mean and shallow)?
Having fun is fine. Experimentation is fine. Herd mentality is not fine. The intense, pervasive pressure women feel to subjugate their own personalities and needs to rigid societal expectations about what beauty is, expectations based solely on monetary gain, is not fine. The fact that many people, of all ages and gender identities, can no longer fully separate their real lives from social media, etc, is not fine.
Those were the points I was making. But I guess you missed the bigger picture in your own rush to judge me.
I don’t wash my face in the morning with cleanser, just lukewarm water. I don’t know if that’s very controversial? I figure if I wash it properly at night before going to bed, it can’t have got too dirty during the night. I also found that the more I used handcream, the drier my hands seemed to get. I only use it at night now and my skin seems to have improved a lot!
I use a powder puff, one of the ones from the CoverGirl Makeup Masters 3-packs, to apply my foundation. It seems to give me good results!
I think center parts and artificially straightened hair ugly on most people. Thanks for the chance to say this out loud!!
After reading through all of the comments, I am not sure I have any…
Karen, you made me gasp (and probably knew you would). You know how I worry about lash loss. HAHA! I won’t lecture you because you’re far more knowledgeable and experienced than me, but please be careful. And I’m going to pretend I never read this. 😉 I don’t think I have any controversial opinions. I notice that a lot of products that are universally beloved don’t really work for me (I’m looking at you, darned Vitamin C), but I think lots of people probably find that with different cult classics or holy grail products. So, probably not very controversial. But I’m so thankful for all the reviews and recs that people take the time to put out there. It really is super valuable. 🙂
Eyebrows are being too heavily emphasized (for the last several years). If the first thing a person notices about you is your eyebrows, you’ve done too much to them. I’ll be glad when the more natural look in eyebrows comes back into fashion,