OliveOilMom
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02 Feb 2012, 8:27 am
mv wrote:
OliveOilMom wrote:
If you can find it, look for a light pink under foundation toner. I have very reddish skin so I use a light green one. The toner I use is a cream and it's actually light lipstick colored pink. You put it all over your face with a sponge, lightly. Yes, you will look ridiculous. I look like my face is covered in avacado with just the toner on. Your's will make you look sunburned. Get eyelids and lips as well with it. Blend it VERY GOOD. It's more important to blend toner than it is to blend foundation really. Then put your foundation over it. Use a foundation from the same line, made to use over toner.
Thanks for this, OliveOilMom! I have no idea what toner is
, guess that's my next Google! I thought toner was astringent-like so I don't get how it would have color. Interesting new thing for me to learn!
I always wanted to have that tawny kind of tan like you get, but I get the olive-y tan. It looks right on me, though, so no complaints.
Toner is an astringent, but this is also caled a toner. I'm trying to think of what else it could be called. Where do you live? If you are in the US, call a Mary Kay or Avon lady and ask them about their products. Avon has gotten a LOT better than it used to be when I was young. Also look on youtube for some videos. Makeup foundation tutorial, etc.
As to the tan, it's the same as hair, isn't it? People with curly hair want straight hair, people with straight hair want curly hair, etc. I have very fine, thin straight hair. I would kill to have the thick, wavy hair my girls have, and they get theirs thinned and they straighten it every morning, etc.
I wish I could think of what else that stuff is called! Look under primer or concealor too. In the US, Wal Mart and drugstores have that stuff. It's near the foundations and it's either green or pink. You can also get a cover up concealor liquid in a wand that is a double wand. One end is the green, the other end is the light, medium or dark, skin color. It comes in the pink too, although if you have a zit that you need to cover up, even if you are olive toned, you need the green to dab on it to block out the redness of it before you put on the regular concealor.
I know they make bronzers for tanning, not the self tanners, but ones that help you actualy tan bronze, so why can't/don't they make one for people who want he olive tan? I'm not the only one who would want that. I know lots of other ladies who would buy it. Chemists, we need chemists!
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jojobean
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03 Feb 2012, 12:09 am
29 Feb 2012, 12:05 pm
justalouise wrote:
lostonearth35 wrote:
So anyway, what I want to know is this... why do women's pantyhose, bras and underwear that come in the color "nude" still look Caucasian? Why wouldn't they change the name to make it not sound racist? Whoever "they" are? 
Probably because they don't care, or no one's ever called them out on it.
