For any gentleman readers, let me first say how LUCKY you are that you don’t have to deal with the entire world of beauty products.

I, for the most part, have managed to find out the lines of beauty products that I enjoy. Neutrogena face wash, eye cream, and spf moisturizer. Bath and Body works lotion and shower gel. Sheer blonde volumizing spray and smoothing creme.

So yeah, I was off to Ulta to build my cosmetics supply. For the most part I stick to cheap-but-not-junky Cover girl, with the exception of mascara, which I use Maybelline. I actually brought the current costmetics I have to the store to make sure I get the right colors. So I’ve got the foundation, which I found was almost a little dark. I look at the products, and it turns out they have 2 sub-brands of that particular liquid Cover girl foundation (something like, one protects for SPF and the other protects against shine), neither of which is the one that I used, but in the same kind of bottle.

So, I decide to squirt a little on my wrist (bad Carrie! Luckily I didn’t get caught) of each of them. The shade lighter than my “Creamy Beige” that was too dark seemed completely too light. So, I decide to just go for Creamy Beige because it seemed to work okay before.

Next day: I put on my creamy beige foundation, and it’s a shade too light! Mind you, this is the SAME BRAND, just a shine-preventing formula instead of “smoothing” or whatever I had before. Don’t you think they’d just make “Creamy beige” the same for powder foundation, pressed foundation, liquid foundation in a squeeze bottle, and liquid foundation in a glass bottle? Apparently that is a bit too much for the cosmetics engineers to handle.

I think it would be very tricky if every cosmetics company just had a thing that would scan your face right in the store to tell you what colors to buy. Then again, that would ruin their entire profit margin of women buying the wrong color and then having to go out and buy another shade. Indeed.

I couldn’t help but wonder (pardon my Carrie Bradshaw expression), why do they discontinue beauty products that we get attached to?

Posted by Carrie on Friday, June 9, 2006
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