Beauty Box

Since I was a teenager I started using makeup (at first behind my mother's back), and playing around with highlights and hair color. I used to use those plastic caps at home and pull strands of my brownish/auburn hair to highlight in blond....painful! :eek: Used to tweeze my eyebrows and use powder color on them, also black mascara and eye shadow in creme or powder, usually muted greens, browns, greys. Never really wore lipstick or nail polish.

Now I wear less than I did, and go a lot of days without makeup. I don't do anything with my eyebrows anymore but tweeze the lower strays, my brows and thin and light colored. No more mascara, will put a little on once in a blue moon if I go out somewhere, but very rarely. With seasonal allergies and itchy eyes, it's just a hassle to have on. When I do wear shadow, it's a light to medium brown now, and a light black/charcoal line under my lower lashes. Never liked to use blush.

I don't have a fancy routine for skin, will use Curel Ultra Healing on my hands, neck and body a lot. In the daytime I use Alba Hawaiian moisture cream aloe and green tea, at night I sometimes use Alba Jasmine and Vitamin E. Still touch up my hair as I always have, but now it's greying, I use an auburn color Naturtint Terracotta Blond, not too many harsh chemicals in it. I'd likely go grey if my hubby didn't prefer the auburn. My clothes are casual always, jeans or cargo pants with a tee shirt and hiking shoes or sneakers.
 

That’s interesting SeaBreeze, I used Naturtint for ten years, it gave great coverage and so easy to use then, after they changed the formula, it seemed to affect my skin, I had lots of problems (although I was never totally sure that is what caused it) for the whole of last summer, and decided to stop colouring my hair, it was mostly grey but still had a lot of dark hair as well, I hated it and grew more miserable as time went on then a friend suggested I use a Henna cream colourant with no chemicals, it’s not as nice as the Naturtint and needs to be applied more often but I’m much happier with it now I’m back to the auburn shade I love
 
B934F61A-E298-48A1-8237-6B234CFE4AFC.jpgI had coloured my hair with natural henna powder for over 35 years. I kept it light so my hair looked liked a natural redhead but then I got bold and started experimenting by tweaking my henna recipe. I added apple cider vinegar to help terp it and hibiscus to take the orangey colour out and add some pinkish / purple. I loved it. The only problem was that I was quickly going ALL grey so my roots were a total eye sore when they grew in and the contrast was stark.

Now that hibiscus red has toned done to a nice cherry cola and I have 1 and a half feet of natural root. Sooo much easier.

My eyebrows are all natural too. All I do is pluck the bottom ones to clean them up.
This year eyebrows are in the spotlight so you can see all the new gimmicky things out for eyebrow fashion. Geeez! Now you can actually buy an eyebrow STAMP!!
For that elegant stamped eyebrow look. :lofl:
 

A Volkswagen hat! :rofl:
I actually admire their spunk to wear whatever they want because ‘they can.’
If I were in their position I’d wear something outrageous too:hatlaugh1:
 


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