Nosy Beauty Vol. 37: Rae

For today’s Nosy Beauty, I’ve got Rae from Scatterbraintures! She is one of the most discerning and critical beauty reviewers, in my opinion. She’s more specific and particular than I am, for sure.

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From my teens to my twenties, I’ve always only been just a skin care girl.

​I started using ‘real’ makeup since 2 years ago (i.e., when I worked for Watsons). I wasn’t in marketing or sales. I worked behind the scenes, inside a cubicle. I already left the company, but I took my new found love for makeup along with me. I started using makeup because it was kind of required. Now, I think I’m starting to enjoy the whole makeup application process where I’m forced to focus and be mindful. I think it’s even better than yoga in the sense that I don’t hurry to get to the next step.

Someday, I want to end up with a carefully curated makeup collection containing just a few products that I really like. Right now, my makeup shopping habits are not aligned with that goal. I used to feel really guilty about this but I realized ~baby steps.

My current ‘makeup bag’ is either the front pocket of my everyday tote bag or a mesh bag that was once the packaging of a microfiber towel. The contents of my makeup bag is ever-changing and do not represent my makeup collection and/or the whole look I go for.

Anyway, here’s what I mean by ‘ever-changing makeup bag contents':

My Monday bag only contains my staples: an oil-control film, my lipstick for the day, and any powder compact that has a mirror. On most Mondays, these are the only stuff I use on mondays. My Monday brain can’t handle any more than that.

On a typical day, I don’t re-apply any other makeup product aside from lipstick.

Come succeeding days, I’ll add in whatever other lipstick I feel like wearing and any other additional makeup product that I think I would need to reapply. Usually, there is no ‘other additional makeup product’, but lately I’ve been bringing Rouge Bunny Rouge Blush in Gracilis — it’s a powder blush but it can be applied with fingers. Yes, you read that right.

This is, more or less, the contents of my makeup bag by the end of the week:

As you can tell, I don’t bring a lot of stuff.

There are 5 lipsticks because I seldom repeat lip colors. I usually wear bold colors because I technically don’t wear any other makeup product.

If I wore eyeliner on any day during the week, you’d see a makeup remover (or a face cleanser) and sunblock thrown in. I always anticipate that I might need to correct or erase the liner (or all of my makeup) by midday. Hehehe.

On rare occasions, when I get an angry pimple, I bring a concealer with me. My current favorite is Kevyn Aucoin Sensual Skin Enhancer.

I leave everything else at home (e.g., foundation, bronzer, finishing powders, etc.) I also don’t tend to think about my face from the time I step out the door until I need to go to a restroom (and pee).

On Sundays, I put everything back in their designated storage spaces, then the whole cycle repeats.

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