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Old 12-24-2007, 01:59 PM   #1
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Skin Discoloration? Think: Christmas, Easter, Howard Johnson...

Since, for those who celebrate, it's Xmas Eve, here's another tidbit that I like to share and would love feedback and other experiences on it as well...

Hide mild skin discolorations, under eye circles, and sallowness with these three words:
Christmas
Easter
Howard Johnson

WTF is she talking about?!

I'm talking about basic colour theory and neutralizing tones...
Christmas: Red/Green
Easter: Yellow/Violet
Howard Johnson: Blue/Orange

Red discolorations on the skin, such as rosacea, acne, burst blood vessels, general redness can be neutralized by green.

Yellow or sallow complexions can be neutralized by violet.

Blue discolorations (such as spider veins, under eye circles, bruises) can be neutralized by orange.

Many pro makeup lines carry neutralizers with these tones (green, violet, orange). Smashbox has a line of mattefying primers in these colours, as does Makeup Forever. Makeup Forever also has concealer palettes with these colours.

You can even cover tattoos by neutralizing the colors but you would need opaque coverage. Kryolan, (not the makers of spraypaint!) a theatrical line of makeup makes Dermablend, which is opaque concealer. Try it for tattooes.

Which reminds me, my cosmetic airbrush is calling to me to try this on myself!!!

Damn, if I could only do virtual airbrush...I'd offer it to everybody!
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Old 12-24-2007, 07:06 PM   #2
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Re: Skin Discoloration? Think: Christmas, Easter, Howard Johnson...

Yup.

Green concealer is my best friend :) My nose is Rosacea City...

I use Lise Watier's Portfolio (which is a wheel that contains 5 choices of concealers: green, lilac, golden, medium and dark beige) under my foundation when I need to have particularly even skin.
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Old 12-25-2007, 10:58 AM   #3
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Re: Skin Discoloration? Think: Christmas, Easter, Howard Johnson...

I really like the mnemonic device for remembering which color fixes each problem!
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Re: Skin Discoloration? Think: Christmas, Easter, Howard Johnson...

This is really helpful. Thanks.
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Re: Skin Discoloration? Think: Christmas, Easter, Howard Johnson...

Mireille,
WHY OH WHY did you direct me to another website for makeup????
My bane! Ohh noooo.... Now I must buy.... hihihi....
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Originally Posted by Azhiadancer View Post
Mireille,
WHY OH WHY did you direct me to another website for makeup????
My bane! Ohh noooo.... Now I must buy.... hihihi....

Well, if you MUST...


Forget the website, just go downtown MTL to one of the stores (or to any big malls, really. Lots of outlets).
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