It really has been hard to drudge up the will to blog about this. Or beauty in general. I'm on a self-imposed no buy. October I bought te UD Smoked Palette, mostly because it was on sale and came with a full sized Perversion liner. It's wonderful.
December I used Ulta points and bought the UD Full Frontal Lipstick thing. It's nice, but I haven't been wearing much lipstick lately. My new job is a little too fast paced to check that my lipstick is in place. Instead I have just been using my homemade tinted lip balm. It does the trick.
January I purchased te Bare Minerals complexion rescue. With that I am satisfied. All my foundations have slowly descended into cake zone, starting with the BareSkin serum. Finally it was too much to even wear my favorite BM Ready Foundation. Their new tinted moisturizer does not offer the most coverage by any stretch of the imagination, but on a whole it makes my skin look great. Add the moisturizing properties and my skin is finally healing. Plop concealer where you need it.
Additionally, most of the blogs I follow have either ceased posting or I am just taken aback by how pointless they are. Why the hell would anyone run a beauty blog and only swatch on their arm? While the reviews may feed me enough, it's pretty fecking pointless to read a blog for an eyeshadow and only see it in a stripe on your damn arm. Why even bother.
That on the whole has discouraged me. I am thankful for the handful of folk who actually wear makeup and blog about it, but the growing number of individuals I see who don't is beyond me.**
**while this may seem precise, it's not. I can name you at least ten blogs that I have saved to my bookmarks with this problem. It's not one or two I am singling out.
My lack of useful content has decreased my own care. Beauty blogging in part has lost its appeal. Not for lack of feedback, as I could talk to myself easily. It's just the community seems to just receive samples and then eventually they are paid to promote car insurance and ziplock bags. The hell, people follow you because you wear matte lipstick and do that cool thing with your eyeliner (made up scenario). Or wow. That eyeshadow pairs so nicely with your arm hair.
I want to type the expletives in my head right now. It's makes so effing sense. What is the point?
This turned into a heated rant. Please tell me I am not alone in these thoughts? That your arm alone should not wear the mascara and blush a company wants you to peddle?
The lackluster February ipsy review can be saved for when I don't look like a garbage truck.
