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Sat, January 14

All made up and...

I must be anxious about something because I spent a good portion of last night and nearly the entire day scouring makeup counters for THE PERFECT FOUNDATION. Like, if I found that perfect foundation, maybe my life would be perfect too. Maybe I wouldn't have to worry about credit card bills. Or my next Inner Monologues show (pssst! February 23rd!) which will be at Mo Pitkins. Or my "book" that I'm trying to finish editing the first half of. Oy.

You see, I've reached the end of my Bobbi Brown Foundation. That's where this really started. But before purchasing a new Bobbi I decided to sit down at the Sephora counter and try something new. I picked the makeup artist's brain for information about the best this and the best that, and learned, to my dismay that the Bobbi color I'd been wearing for months was "too yellow." Two more of the Sephora girls clucked their tongues and agreed. Bobbi Brown was all wrong for me. "How about Lorac?" Asked Laura to Jessica. "Oh yes, certainly. Lorac, oh yes." We tried Lorac. I wore it to dinner with H and Rebs at Bread (see below entry). Went home and didn't find myself any more gorgeous than I did before, with the Bobbi. But of course, I did convince myself that the Lorac was less "yellow" if indeed Bobbi was ever yellowish in the first place.

So today I went for an appointment at Haven, where Salina told me that Bare Essentials is the way to go. "It's like a thin veil. Think of it...like a cloud.A cloud won't clog your pores, will it?" I ran right back to Sephora and asked about Bare Essentials. Laura wasn't there this morning, so someone else took care of my skin's fate. Nicole piled on the Bare Essentials, and as she did it I realized that perhaps if you pile on too much "cloud" it can turn into more of a soot-like black cloud. Right on cue, a fresh-faced redhead who used to work at Saks walked in and swore up and down to me that Bare Essentials is the best there is...That is, next to Armani. "If you want a liquid foundation with more coverage, Armani's your best bet."

I didn't even know Armani did makeup.

Off I went to Bloomies, where Kathy at Armani pointed out that my Bare Essentials was flaking near my nose. She put on the Armani and noted that one must buy the Armani makeup brush with the foundation for really perfect application. "Sponges just waste your makeup."

This was getting too complicated! And too expensive.

Back to Laura Mercier. The makeup guy put on some of that gunk and pointed out that the Armani was way too dark for my skin.

Still foundationless, I went to Rebecca Taylor to look for a dress to wear in my bridesmaid role at K's July wedding. I unleashed my frustration on the shopgirls there and wouldn't shut up about my foundation hunt. Surprisingly, this is an inexhaustible topic of interesting conversation among women because we carried on for fifteen minutes sharing beauty secrets, while I waited for K to come by and check out the dress (phew! A winner. I bought it.)

A new shop girl entered the store as I was paying for my dress. Again, somehow, the topic of makeup came on. "Oh you have beautiful skin," she told me. "What are you wearing?"

"Armani."

Oh man. I guess I have to shell out the $$$ for the new foundation. But was she really just sealing the deal on my dress buying? Hm...

Back to square one.

Posted by lexzog at January 14, 2006 11:35 PM

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