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At
06:09 PM 8/28/2006, you wrote:
>Hi, Sandy & Pierre,
>
>I'll bet that by the time you get home and read
this, you'll be
>really pooped, and I don't expect a reply
right away. Certainly not
>until you've rested up, gotten a
life, etc.
Yeah - almost 1600 e-mail messages....and close
to 200 per day since
- thanks mostly to the SMOFS
list....
>However, when you've got a few free
moments, could you drop me a
>note with the proper names of
the various goodies we talked about
>that might be good to
add to my kit. There was the spray fixative
>that I believe
you said was Mehron, and the makeup was Ben Nye, but
>what
was the lotion stuff you had me put on first, Sandy? And I seem
>to recall that there were a couple of other products we
talked
>about, a lotion (?) that you said is sold in
drugstores, and there
>was Stay Dry (?) or something with a
similar name.
The first thing was the foundation primer.
It's a new product by
Cinema Secrets - Ultimate Foundation
Primer. Cat took us there on
Tuesday before the con, so I
could get the Mongolian base, etc., and
the associate there
told me about it - and it worked very
well. Their website is
www.cinemasecrets.com but I couldn't find any
way to order
on-line - you can probably call them though, and the
number is
on the site.
They carry their own brand in some things, and
also Mehron, Ben Nye,
and Kryolan among others.
The
fixative was "Barrier Spray" by Mehron, but Cinema
Secrets
carries their own brand also, Ben Nye probably has one
as well. I
talked about "No Sweat" - also by Mehron
- which is a liquid
anti-perspirant. It's good for under
appliances and facial hair if
the person sweats a lot, so they
don't come off as easily. It needs
to go on (dab with a cotton
ball) before anything else.
I used a lipstick fixative also
by Cinema Secrets. I had a different
brand in the past, but it
finally got so old it died. It really
keeps lipstick from
coming off. It's OK to use for multiple people,
because it's
alcohol based - should kill any germs that get on the
brush.
You could probably use a new Q-tip for each person also, and
not
double-dip. When it gets really cloudy, toss it.
Colorless
or transparent powder is a good thing to keep on hand -
every
company makes one. It disappears into any color makeup without
muting it. Much better for dark makeups than baby powder, even
though it looks white.
The remover cream is Albolene. I
got mine a bunch of years ago at
Osco Drug (big chain). It was
in the skin care section with cold
cream, etc. but on the
bottom shelf, as it's probably not too popular
anymore with
the general public (I think it's been around since the
'40's
or so). It does have a petrolatum base, but is more water
soluble
than Vaseline. I haven't run into anyone who's allergic to
it,
and (for me at least) it doesn't irritate my eyes - I find it's
the best thing to get off stubborn mascara.
>Anything
you'd like to share with me about neat products, I'd be
>delighted to hear more about. I'm going to start poking
around
>on-line for makeup info also. If there are any
particularly
>reasonably priced places you know of to shop,
please let me know.
>Makeup is expensive!
>
>It
was nice seeing you again, though too briefly. Once we've all
>recovered, let's talk some more about back-burnered
projects.
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