My eyeliner experience

My favorite eyeliners in order:

1. Clinique Cream Shaper
2. Estee Lauder Double Wear Stay-In-Place

I really love the Clinique Cream Shaper in Black Diamond, Starry Plum, and Chocolate Lustre.
The other colors I've tried from that line are Egyptian and Brown Sugar, however, those colors didn't look right on me and hardly use them.
I've also used the Clinique Quickliner for Eyes Intense in Intense Black, Intense Ebony, Intense Plum, and Intense Chocolate. I liked the Intense Chocolate but the other colors were too harsh for me.
There is a non-intense version too, but overall, I prefer the Cream Shaper from the Quickliner line. I also tried out the Clinique Brush-On Cream Liner in deep brown which I really liked. So much control for a liquid look.

For Estee Lauder, I only tried the Double Wear Stay-In-Place eyeliner in Coffee and Graphite. I love them, especially the Coffee one.

For Lancome, I tried out the Le Crayon Khol in dark brown and Artliner in black. The Artliner brush was all bent out of shape and it's ok if i want to go liquid, but the bent tip made it harder to line in a straight thin line. And the tip dried out fast. I didn't think it was worth the money. The Le Crayon Khol in brown was ok, I think it was more lighter or has some yellow in it. I didn't like it as much as the Estee Lauder Double Wear in the coffee color.

I did try out Shiseido Accentuating Cream Eyeliner in black, it was nice and also gave you so much control like the Clinique Brush-On Cream Liner but it bled after an hour of wear and smudged easily.

The only non-department store brand eyeliner frequently was Loreal Pencil Perfect. I liked it ok, but it would smudge to my bottom lid after 2-3 hours. When I upgraded to Clinique and beyond, I hardly had that problem.
What I could remember of using Cover Girl was that it was more like "play" make up. It never lasted or the color was never the color you thought you were buying. It always ended up lighter or took you over applying it to really show up. I thought the same with Avon.
I had bad reactions with Mary Kay and stayed away from it.
Maybelline was a step up from Cover Girl but their products never lasted long on me and their lipsticks gave me an allergic reaction so I stopped anything Maybelline.

Finding my complimentary colors

Lately, I been wanting to start wearing red lipstick again because why not?

So I forgot what it's like to go out and find the color that looks best without testing them all over your hands which in turns makes your hand red stained all over. Anyways...I wanted to pinpoint what range of colors I should look at.

So I started by figuring out exactly what my undertones are and all the stuff out there can be a little confusing. Eventually, I stumbled upon this website that describes if you're an Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer. I liked it a lot, I think it really explained a lot of things I have always been wondering. I have also been buying some shirts that sometimes look horrible on me because of all the new cool trendy colors (I really hate neon/80s colors, and pastels).
The Chic Fashionista really answered a lot of my questions and even had other articles about face shape, body shape, etc. The Chic Fashionista

My discovery was that I'm a Deep Winter and my sister is a Deep Autumn. It made a lot of sense how she can never wear my colors and make up and vice versa.

Examples:
True bright reds, black clothes, and bright jewel tone colors look good on me. My wedding dress was white, which complimented me better than the ivory ones. But if I wear white too much, I looked really washed out, so I tend to stay away from white. Silver jewelry looks better than gold on me. So I'm a cool undertone but you wouldn't really be able to tell reading up about undertones.

My sister can wear off-white, she tends to pull of shades of brown way better than black (hair, clothes, make-up). She can wear gold, but growing up, gold was "uncool" so she would wear silver anyways.

So thinking about this, I was able to then see what kind of make up I should throw out or give to my sister because now I can match them better for my skin tone type.

The only problem is that as I started getting older, certain things can age me. For example, black eyeliner can really make me look older, so I have to choose softer colored eyeliners...which now brings me to my eyeliner reviews.

Clinique Super Balanced Foundation.

One of my previous posts mentioned that I am a heavy Clinique user.

So this is a quick review of the Super Balanced and Even Better foundation line from Clinique.

Super Balanced - The color I use in Super Balanced is Cream and I used this for a very long time. Once in awhile, I would try out one of their new products but always reverted back to this. I was never a foundation wearer until I got older and needed some more coverage. My biggest thing that I look for in a foundation is long lasting, natural looking, and shine/oil control. So it is pretty hard to find a matte, natural look in my opinion. Anyways, Super Balanced was great. As I got older, my skin got drier and this started looking more cakey on me. (I am also playing around with a ton of moisturizers which I'll probably later review.) One thing I did love about it was that it control oil/shine really well. I just had to set it with powder in the morning and not touch up for the rest of the day. It is more drying I would say than most other foundations and I think that is the reason why it controlled shine/oil so well. I complimented it with Clinique's Dramatically Different Moisturizer in Gel during summers and Lotion in the winter. It also was one of the foundation that never broke me out (actually all of Clinique's foundations never really broke me out) where as before I would have random acne attacks from most of the non-department store brands.

Even Better - I used a color close to Cream but I forgot the exact name. It somehow ended up looking more dark brown on me and I didn't really like the texture of it. It also did not control shine well.I also didn't see the benefit of it evening out my skin tone, maybe I need to combine it with all the Even Better products for results. And I did not think it looked as natural on my skin, it definitely looked like I was wearing foundation. It felt heavier because the texture is creamier. So I eventually gave this to my sister, which she liked a lot but it was not for me.