1. I ended up going to my mother's wedding and it wasn't so bad. Food was fine and I feel somewhat less tense now, as I had opportunity to talk to many people when I don't talk that much to people online because I have no time. I got a nice blush and lipstick by the way, going to bigger city after next week to grab two more for future as both Sephoras in this city have it. I love that lipstick so much, but seems it's getting discontinued.
I still feel so filled and sleepy, even after I came back home earlier but I was awaken at 2:00 when rest of my family came back. I recently eat mostly processed garbage (and my body is longing for real food now) so eating the cake for breakfast wasn't unusual given how I eat right now. I want to have time for myself soon, finally.
2. Since Internet Archive lost it's appeal (deserved at this point, if you know the full story, not their fearmongering to fish for donations which don't make site better) I ended up getting a script to get some books safe and they ended up locking my main account, which I never used for it... It sucks, I'll try to make new one from public computer. Glad I never gave them money.
Good that I got these knitting books I wanted and Kevyn Aucoin's Face Forward as I always wanted to try it, because I love his work and I love the look and it's mostly what I'm going for with my make up. Comparing to current internet tutorials it's way toned down with product use, I noticed it before while reading beauty sections in old magazines.
The base is a good moisturizer which was dethroned by these clogging, usually silicone based primers nowadays. Foundation if needed, more of concealer and powder combo which is the practical way. Aucoin did eyeshadow in this specific way I want to try more, especially with these dark browns or burgundy though in more toned down way. Also use of gold sparkle lipgloss over lipstick interested me, as I feel it would make some shades I'd try look different, especially deeper pinks and I'd be more eager to try them. Another fun thing was using two shades of blush for gentle shaping of cheek bones, I'd try to match something to my current blush to maybe try it? It would be fun. Curling eyelashes and mascara only feels so old school now, given falsies being so common now and extensions being extremely popular.
2.1 I feel that now consoomerism is so weird with having few foundations, powders, etc. like base cosmetics. I saw so many tiktok webms of entire drawers of foundation or bronzer which is like wtf. Why you need so much of it. Random people, not professional make up artists, hoarding so much of it is weird, I had friends with massive hoards of make up which scared me. The amount of palettes one of my friends had was insane, it was mostly Too Faced and other hype palettes of 2016 era, bough 2nd hand, usually barely used.
For me well one matched foundation, one powder. Concealer, I think, having two is fine if it's like one matched to foundation and color correction one for something that other one can't cover well. Myself I need something to color correct my under eye circles only and I want to swtich to something else now, also I find green concealer excessive as my foundation or even powder only cover all of my reddness well enough. One powder is enough. Bronzer too, like you need only one shade/set if you use it. Having two or three shades of blush is fine if you alternate though myself I can't find any different shade than this light brown-gold-rose color. Mascara there I find having two colors good base, as brown is good for more toned down looks and black is universal, though I find having only black limiting. You don't need multiple products to fill in your brows either, I don't like that look much but maybe I could benefit from good eyebrow pencil...
Eye shadow, eye pencils, lipliners and lipstick are stuff you have multiple of because of different shades and it's fine. Though it's easiest to over consoom but here it's important to know what suits you and go along it. I don't buy lipstick in colors different than some brownish pink/nudes in various shades or beige as I know I'll look horrible in bright colors. Eye shadow is different though but I do hate millennial hype palettes and I'll keep hating them, they honestly I think was what made zoomers hate eye shadow completely instead rejecting hype palette and going for duos/trios/quads. It's easier when you can use pans and make up own one as I did, I prefer it over using luxury brand small palettes. I love eye shadow from Clinique but it's too exepnsive for the size. I'd love to get the purple quad and some duos but in fact I have similar lilacs from Inglot... but not the blue violet violet shades unfortunately.
3. My classmate from the middle school is currently working part-time at my workplace and it was fun to talk to her after so many years. I met her once in a while after changing schools and after high school (she ended up staying in high school that was in same building as middle school we went too, I went to different one myself though I ended up with few people from my class anyway. Other classmate went to same HS too, but different class profile (physics/mathematics)) and then she went to uni so I just saw her once a year during the holidays.
I could talk with her about the Olympics, ahh feeling so normie now actually, and various other things. She told me she still talks to Em and she dropped studying Japanese because the capital was too much for her and she moved to smaller city and went to different uni to a different course and now she's working during summer break at some nail product stall in local shopping mall, guess I didn't notice her while passing next to it.
4. I managed to make my lips soft again. Sugar and honey scrub, then honey to make them soft (I've read about it in some Uroda issue, it did work) and then applied my lip balm. I wanted to make them look nice as I want to wear more lipstick now...