Beauty Tips for Ministers

Super Eye/Lip Cream

I also tested this wonderful product, Hope In A Tube by Philosophy while on vacation and am rather disappointed that I have plenty of lip moisturizers and eye creams on hand already, or I’d love an excuse to buy it. It is incredibly emollient but sinks right into the skin without leaving a greasy residue. The scent is very, very subtle so this is something I would recommend to our fellas, too.

I suspect that this eye cream would be doing even better things for my crow’s feet than my current Roc product with retinoids in it, but I’m not about to spend $33 to switch now. I’ll wait until my Roc is finished, which should be in about four months. So far I’m not impressed with it, but you do need to use an eye cream for awhile to see real benefits. I use some kind of eye cream religiously and I think it’s paying off, since a Florida woman at the karaoke bar the other night said she thought that I was TWENTY THREE or so!! God bless her dear, overly-tanned heart!! Speaking of which, the sun does still shine in the winter months, northern people, so let’s not forego our SPF protection as an excuse. PeaceBang is watching!

Hil’s Eyeliner

Jezebel deconstructs Miz Clinton’s pretty eye make-up, and PeaceBang agrees with their conclusions (although she is generally fearful of blue eyeliner on women over 40).

Don’t Dare Me

To the reader who dared PeaceBang ten bucks to wear false eyelashes to the installation today, pony up the dough. I wore ‘em, the installee can confirm this, and you can just trot over to Paypal now, Pal (hint: there’s a link in the “Pass the Basket” button).

The trick is to trim them so they match your actual eyes. I won’t say that I didn’t look eccentic up close, but not so much so that anyone will be talking about it for more than, say, three or four decades. This is, after all, New England.

Ha ha, Smartypants!

Product Reviews: Liquid Eyeliner and Stick Make-Up

Suppose you don’t want to wear a whole face of make-up, but would like to even out red or blotchy spots before you head out the door. This is my own preference, as I tend to look way too pale with a whole face of any kind of make-up, especially Bare Escentuals (darn it, too, because I really like that stuff). I wear full make-up on Sundays and when my skin looks particularly dull and awful, but otherwise I try to keep it minimal.

I was therefore very pleased to find Mac Studio Stick SPF 15, a great product that I apply in four swipes across my face:
1. to even out red next to my nose
2. center of chin
3. between the eyebrows where it can get blotchy

I blend it out with a medium-sized make-up brush and I’m good to go.

This product comes in a whole slew of shades, so you’re bound to find one that matches you perfectly. And it stays on, making it worth the price in my book.
(Please remember, ladies and gents, that SPF 15 in your make-up hardly offers any protection from UVA/UVB rays, and wear an actual SPF product every day, typically as a moisturizer or however you work it.)

Second, we have Maybelline’s Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner…

…a great buy for less than $6. Liquid eyeliner is a dramatic look and not for everyone, but I rely on it for days I’ll be gone for many hours and won’t have time to reapply, blend and mess with regular pencil eyeliner.
I own liquid eyeliner in black, brown and blue, using brown on typical days (black can be too harsh, and you don’t want to wind up looking like Amy Winehouse). Blue is definitely not for beginners, as it can make you look like an 8th grader who just got her first amateur make-over for the Homecoming Dance (”ohmigod, Ginny, this blue eyeliner will make you look so totally hot and it will totally match your dress!!”).

The Maybelline waterproof liner has been a blessing these past humid summer Sundays when I would spend all day going from church service to church service, clapping, praying, singing my heart out, and sweating. I constantly feared a Tammy Faye Bakker (of blessed memory) situation, but this Maybelline stuff doesn’t budge no matter how damp I get. They apparently make an even MORE waterproof liquid eyeliner but unless you’re in Esther Williams’ line of work, I don’t think you need it.

And speaking of Miss Esther Williams (also of blessed memory), wouldn’t you just LOVE to know how the heck they kept her looking so gorgeous, take after take, underwater? How come she never looks all pruney and bedraggled? She just swims toward the camera with shiny red lipstick and a big beautiful smile. What a Hollywood goddess. Honestly. Now I want to go watch “Neptune’s Daughter.”

Cheap Undereye Cover-Up?

This just in, lovely ones:

Hi PB!
A query -I’m trying to replace my Clinique make-up products (expensive, and I usually can’t resist shopping at Macy’s afterwards, so more expensive). I’m loving my Cover Girl mascara and eye liner, Almay eyebrow pencil (with a tiny point that you twist out in Continue reading Cheap Undereye Cover-Up?…

Scary Huge Eyelashes

scary huge eyelashes
Originally uploaded by Peacebang.

I knew it. I just knew it. I knew that all the recent obsession with big, feathery eyelashes would lead to this. Oh Lord, I knew it.

If I can trust my old eyes, I believe Miss Tyra Banks is wearing enormous false eyelashes on her upper AND lower lid. How can she even blink?

God’s All-Stars, even if you are preaching to a stadium of 40,000 people and will be filmed on a Jumbotron, will you make sure not to overdo the lashes like this? Only Tammy Faye gets to do this look.